US09801191B2
One embodiment of the present specification provides a method for resource allocation by a serving cell base station, for supporting interference removal. The resource allocation method may comprise the steps of: determining whether or not UE has an interference removal function; and if the UE has the interference removal function, allocating resource blocks (RB) to the UE through a negotiation with an interfering cell with respect to the allocation of the resource blocks (RB). Herein the resource blocks (RB) of the interfering cell, which are co-located with the resource blocks (RB) according to the negotiation, may be allocated to another UE by the interfering cell without being divided.
US09801177B2
A communications device configured to transmit/receive data via a wireless access interface in a mobile communications network. First resource allocation messages are transmitted to communications devices to allocate one or more of plural communications resource elements of a host frequency range of a host carrier. Second resource allocation messages are transmitted to reduced capability devices to allocate one or more of a first section of the communications resources within the first frequency range for preferable allocation to the reduced capability devices of a first virtual carrier, the first resource allocation messages identifying one or more of the communications resource of the host carrier allocated to the communications devices with reference to a first reference frequency and the second resource allocation messages identifying one or more communications resources of the first virtual carrier allocated to the reduced capability devices with reference to a second reference frequency within the first virtual carrier.
US09801175B2
A method and apparatus provide for low latency transmissions. A first control channel can be transmitted in a first temporal portion of a subframe. The subframe can include a plurality of OFDM symbols in a time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain. The first control channel can occupy a first portion of subcarriers less than the plurality of subcarriers. The first control channel can assign first data resources only in the first temporal portion of the subframe. A second control channel can be transmitted in a second temporal portion of a subframe. The first temporal portion can occupy at least one different first OFDM symbol in the subframe from the second temporal portion. The second temporal portion can occupy at least one different second OFDM symbol in the subframe from the first temporal portion. The second control channel can occupy a second portion of subcarriers that is less than the plurality of subcarriers. The second control channel can assign second data resources only in the second temporal portion of the subframe.
US09801158B1
A device may obtain information. The information may represent a distance between a first user device and a second user device. The first user device and the second user device may share a destination address. The device may receive a first message associated with a call. The first message may be received based on the call having been made to the destination address. The device may determine, based on the information, whether to provide a second message associated with the call or a notification associated with the call. The device may selectively provide the second message or the notification based on determining whether to provide the second message or the notification.
US09801157B2
Systems, methods, and devices for communicating data in a wireless communications network are described herein. In some aspects, a station includes a first receiver and a low power circuit including a second receiver. The second receiver may be configured to consume less power than the first receiver. The second receiver receives short paging messages from another wireless device, such as an access point. The paging messages may trigger transitions of the first receiver from inactive doze or sleep states to active awake states based on Traffic Information Maps. Once in the awake state, the first receiver receives messages. This enables the first receiver to reduce the time spent awake, thereby reducing power consumption. A system and method for identifying and managing paging modes is described herein.
US09801154B1
A method for correcting a positioning location is provided. The method includes: receiving current positioning information; comparing a current Mobile Country Code (MCC) comprised in the current positioning information with a previous MCC comprised in previous positioning information; determining whether a moving speed of a mobile device is greater than a speed threshold according the current positioning information and the previous positioning information when the current MCC is the same as the previous MCC; determining whether the mobile device has moved after determining that the moving speed is not greater than the speed threshold; and identifying a final positioning location according to a determination result indicating whether the mobile device has moved.
US09801138B2
A method is provided for performing power control by a first base station in a wireless communication system. The first base station acquires a parameter value related with signal strength of a second base station, determines an upper power limit of the first base station in consideration of the signal strength of the second base station and performs signal transmission in consideration of the upper power limit of the first base station. If a first condition including that the parameter value is equal to or more than a first threshold value is satisfied, the upper power limit of the first base station is an intermediate value. If a second condition including that the parameter value is less than the first threshold value is satisfied, the upper power limit of the first base station is a pre-determined value related with the transmit power of the first base station.
US09801136B2
A wireless communication device including an integrated processing circuit, a first memory and a testing circuit is provided. The integrated processing circuit includes a processing unit capable of processing a wireless communication signal and a radio frequency (RF) unit capable of performing a conversion between a radio frequency (RF) signal and a baseband signal, wherein the wireless communication signal is one of the RF signal and the baseband signal. The first memory is coupled to the integrated processing circuit. The first memory is capable of storing data used by the processing unit. The testing circuit is coupled to the first memory, and is capable of testing the first memory for determining if the first memory is an effective memory. The RF unit is put in a first package, the first memory is put in a second package, and the first package and the second package are packaged in a single device.
US09801128B2
In an embodiment, triplets of network-enabled FCIs operate to monitor the three phases of a power distribution system. In being network-enabled, the FCIs also operate as nodes of an RF mesh network. In an embodiment, upon the detection of a power failure, the triplet of network FCIs is serially operated so as to extend their networking capabilities by approximately three times.
US09801123B2
The present disclosure is directed generally to systems and methods for scheduling dynamic frequency selection channel availability checks. The systems and methods may include detecting lull times in between servicing clients, and scanning for channel availability during the lull times.
US09801118B2
A wireless local area network (WLAN) management procedure for a telecommunication device is disclosed. A WLAN management entity is operable to detect a communication event associated with a voice call, a video call, or a data transfer session, and then determine a current state of a cellular network. When the current state of the cellular network is deemed problematic, is otherwise unavailable, and/or when an alternative, higher-throughput WLAN is available, the WLAN management entity identifies available WLANs for enabling the corresponding communication. Subsequently, the WLAN management entity generates a notification, presenting an option for selecting an available WLAN, based in part on the current state of the cellular network.
US09801104B2
A mobility parameter adjustment method and apparatus for use in a wireless communication system is provided. The mobility parameter adjustment method of a base station includes receiving connection failure information from a terminal, and adjusting a mobility adjustment parameter based on the connection failure information. The mobility parameter adjustment method and apparatus of the present disclosure is capable of adjusting mobility parameter efficiently so as to improve the mobility robustness of the wireless communication system and User Equipment (UE).
US09801098B2
The present invention provides a handover method. An access node obtains mobility management entity pool MME pool information which is sent by a donor station of the access node and is used for identifying a mobility management entity MME to which a user equipment UE is attached. The access node initiates handover for the UE according to the MME pool information used for identifying the MME to which the UE is attached. The present invention further provides a communication device and a communication system.
US09801083B2
A mesh network topology assessment mechanism is provided. The mechanism includes a wireless router, coupled to other wireless routers over a multi-hop mesh network, responsive to a message having a link assessment mode, configured to introduce a unique delay into forwarding of the message to a next one of the other wireless routers in route to a destination device. The router has a store-and-forward controller, having a unique delay time corresponding to the unique delay, where the unique delay time is substantial and thus provides for creation of measurable latency in the message sent between an origination device and the destination device.
US09801082B2
A vectorial network analyzer (VNA) having at least one signal generator generating a particular RF output signal, and having n measuring ports, wherein an RF coupler is assigned to each measuring port and couples out an RF signal by running into the particular port from the outside, wherein the at least one signal generator is arranged and designed in such a manner that the latter supplies a particular RF output signal to at least one measuring port as an RF signal running out to the outside. Provision is made for an amplitude and/or a phase to be stored for the RF output signal for at least one signal generator in a retrievable manner on the basis of at least one parameter in a parameter field, wherein the RF signal generator is designed in such a manner that the latter generates the amplitude and/or phase of the RF output signal in a reproducible manner on the basis of at least this one parameter.
US09801076B2
An embodiment of a mobile communication system includes a plurality of mobile units operating within a defined operating area, each of the mobile units having a processor, a memory for storing a mobile unit file structure, an application running on the processor for operating on the mobile unit file structure, and a receiver for receiving on a common receive communication channel data. The mobile communication system further includes a plurality of geolocation markers disposed within the defined operating area, each having a memory for storing geolocation information to define a relative position within the defined operating area, and a geolocation transmitter for transmitting the defined geolocation information on the common receive communication channel, the geolocation transmitter having a geolocation transmit range less than the defined operating area.
US09801075B2
A processor includes a memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The instructions include determining a capacity of a plurality of satellite beams based at least in part on a beam traffic density associated with each of the plurality of satellite beams and transmitting, to a communication satellite, a control signal that commands the communication satellite to transmit the plurality of satellite beams in accordance with the beam traffic density determined by the processor. The processor may be incorporated into a telecommunications system that includes a communication satellite programmed to transmit signals in accordance with a plurality of beams.
US09801069B2
A communication apparatus may receive a first wireless profile and a second wireless profile from an access point after a wireless connecting operation for establishing a wireless connection in accordance with a predetermined wireless connection scheme has been performed, the first wireless profile being used in a first wireless network, and the second wireless profile being used in a second wireless network; may select a particular wireless profile from among the first wireless profile and the second wireless profile, the particular wireless profile being used in a wireless network having a relatively high security level among the first wireless network and the second wireless network; and may try to establish the wireless connection with the access point using the particular wireless profile. The particular wireless connection scheme may be a scheme for establishing the wireless connection without an identifier for authentication for establishing the wireless connection being inputted.
US09801064B2
Some implementations may provide a method to have a user authenticated at a point of service. The method includes: accessing, by a target system, a multi-dimensional symbol rendered on a display of a mobile computing device of the user, the multi-dimensional symbol encoding endpoints and actions for the target system to perform in order to request and authenticate an identity of a user; decoding data in the multi-dimensional symbol to retrieve an identity token plus information about the authentication actions and the user's identity system; requesting the corresponding authentication actions of the user's identity system to include specific authentication measures for the user to perform as well as data for the user to release; and performing the authentication actions as requested and encoded in the multi-dimensional symbol such that the physical identity of the user of the mobile computing device is verified and the user consents to release the requested identity information at the point of service.
US09801060B2
Systems and techniques for secure wireless low-power wake-up are described herein. A low-power wake-up receiver (LP-WUR) of a wireless device may receive a wake-up signal. The LP-WUR may extract a receiver ID token from the wake-up signal. The LP-WUR may then verify the receiver ID token and enable a main transceiver, different than the LP-WUR, when the verification passes to engage in wireless communications.
US09801056B1
A wireless communication system to secure data communications between APIs. The wireless communication system includes a first API for a first sensor in a first wireless communication device and a second API for a second sensor in a second wireless communication device. In the first wireless communication device, identifying an API request to externally share sensor data, and in response, performing a security challenge to verify the first API. If the first API is verified, then the API request is transferred to the second wireless communication device. In the second wireless communication device, performing a security challenge to verify the second API. If the second API is verified, then the API share request is transferred to the second API in the second wireless communication device.
US09801054B2
Technology for distributing presence information by a presence server in an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) based dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) (DASH) service is disclosed. In an example, a user equipment (UE) can be operable to act as a presentity and include computer circuitry configured to: Generate a trigger event during a DASH session; and publish presence information including content being consumed to a presence server. The published content can include DASH content.
US09801053B1
A user of a mobile device is authenticated in a manner that enables the user access to a credential that has been issued by a credential-issuing organization. One or more keys are identified that are associated with the credential and that enable access to one or more physical resources associated with the credential-issuing organization. A physical orientation of the user's mobile device is determined. A display arrangement of one or more control icons that enable usage of the one or more keys is determined based on a physical orientation of the one or more physical resources relative to the determined physical orientation of the mobile device. The one or more control icons are displayed in accordance with the determined display arrangement.
US09801052B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for securing data packets and control messages in a mobile broadband network environment. In one embodiment, a mobile station and a data gateway are peers for securing data packets. That is, security context for data packets is maintained at the mobile station and the data gateway. Further, security processing for data packets is performed by the mobile station and the data gateway. In another embodiment, the mobile station and a base station are peers for securing control messages. That is, security context for control messages is maintained at the mobile station and the base station(s). Further, security processing for control messages is performed by the mobile station and the base station(s).
US09801045B2
A system for providing multiple services over mobile network using multiple IMSIs is disclosed. The system includes a mobile device and an IMSI providing server. By the operation of switching from the first IMSI to the second IMSI which are installed in the mobile device, the mobile network operators can change their role from an ISP to an ASP. Thus, data traffic, speed of the mobile network and billing system of delivering mobile internet services can be manipulated in order to meet the expectation of the OTT partners without violating the guideline of Net Neutrality of being an ISP.
US09801044B2
A method of using subscriber identification information stored in mobile user equipment (UE) to connect to a communication service over a public wireless network in the UE, establishing a communication link between the UE and a device, generating network access information (NAI) associated with the communication service in the UE, and sending the NAI from the UE to the device via the communication link. The method further comprises connecting the communication service in the device using the NAI and terminating the connection of the communication service in the UE.
US09801043B2
In an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network in which multiple subscriber data servers are deployed with partitioned subscription data for users, a subscriber location function (SLF) is used to proxy queries to a subscriber data server (such as an HSS) in which subscription data for a user can be found. The SLF receives a query for the subscriber data server, looks up the address of appropriate subscriber data server and proxies the query to the appropriate subscriber data server. Preferably, the SLF is co-located with a subscriber data server.
US09801041B2
An AP information management entity of a cellular system transmits a request for information on an AP to an AP server, and receives a response, which includes a result code of the request, from the AP server. The AP information management entity of the cellular system may be one of an eNodeB (eNB), mobility management entity (MME), or a new entity of the cellular system.
US09801039B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating data between awareness networking devices. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a first wireless device to transmit a service discovery frame in a Discovery Window (DW), the service discovery frame including an information element (IE) and availability information, the IE including one or more identifiers to identify one or more second wireless devices, and the availability information indicating at least one channel and at least one time slot after the DW; and to transmit data to the one or more second wireless devices over the channel and during the time slot.
US09801032B2
In one embodiment, device status information is received from a mobile device of a first user. The device status information may include: information related to power for the device, information related to network connectivity of the device, or a notification mode of the device. Outgoing messages may be identified to be sent to the first user. A value may be computed for each of the outgoing messages. The computed value may be based on an affinity score determined with respect to an originator of the message and the first user. Based on the computed value, at least one of the outgoing messages may be selected for placement into an outgoing message queue. Upon the detection of a triggering condition, the selected messages may be sent to the mobile device. The triggering condition may be based on the device status information and the respective values of the outgoing messages.
US09801025B1
A method, system and apparatus for wireless device communication. A wireless device may be engaged in a wireless data communication session within a local geographic region. The wireless device may be tracked within the local geographic region. The targeted information may be provided to the wireless device regarding the local geographic region based on the tracking of the wireless device.
US09801014B2
Example implementations described herein are directed to reducing the MME signaling overhead associated with paging and tracking area update procedures and also conserves UE battery life. This can be realized by using non-network data and applying predictive analytics algorithms to track the most probable locations of an IDLE UE, which may increase the overall efficiency of the network. In example implementations, MME signaling overhead associated with paging and TA update procedures may also be reduced, which can also conserve UE battery life.
US09801009B2
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes receiving operational status information of an external device, via a wireless communication unit of the mobile terminal, from the external device in response to the mobile terminal being located within a predetermined distance range from the external device; displaying an icon on a display of the mobile terminal representing a type of the external device; and displaying the operational status information of the external device and recommended user notification information for performing a recommended operation on the external device in response to a selection of the displayed icon.
US09801007B2
A communication apparatus includes a first communication unit that receives data via a first communication from a recording area of an external apparatus configured to record data in the recording area readable by another device via the first communication, a second communication unit that connects with the external apparatus via a second communication different from the first communication, a determination unit that determines whether to rewrite data recorded in the recording area of the external apparatus based on information, acquired from the external apparatus via the second communication unit, about the data recorded in the recording area, and a notification unit that provides notification that the data recorded in the recording area is to be rewritten based on a result of the determination by the determination unit.
US09800999B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for modifying a machine-to-machine (M2M) service setting in an M2M system, comprising the steps of: transmitting at least one policy information to at least one device, wherein each of the at least one policy information comprises scope information and condition information; and if the state of an M2M gateway corresponds to a state of which the condition information is indicative, transmitting a first notification indicative of a state change of the M2M gateway to a device of which the scope information is indicative.
US09800997B2
A perturbation is made to contents and/or locations in time and frequency of Reference Signals (RS) transmitted by a cell, such that the perturbation implies information regarding a capability or configuration of the cell as regards availability or configuration of a network functionality, for example facility to offer a narrowband virtual carrier operation. The contents and/or locations in time and frequency of the reference signals used are typically based on the physical cell identity (PCI). In certain embodiments the PCI carried by some identifiable RS resources is changed: in others, the RS is transmitted in unexpected resources. The network functionality configuration information is inferred from the various relationships between these transmissions and the cell's actual PCI and/or expected RS transmission resources.
US09800995B2
Providing a distributed application on a plurality of personal devices of a user includes providing a first portion of the distributed application on a first personal device and providing a second portion of the application on a second personal device different from the first personal device, where the second personal device is wearable by the user and where the second portion of the distributed application operates on data that is inaccessible to the first personal device to provide a result thereof to the first portion of the distributed application. The first personal device may be a mobile phone, a tablet, or a personal computer. The second personal device may be a smart glasses, a wearable camera, a smart watch, a wristband, smart earwear, gloves, a necktie, a smart carrying bag, a smart backpack, a smart clothing or smart shoes. The second personal device may be a wearable activity tracking monitor.
US09800991B2
Embodiments are described for an adaptive audio system that processes audio data comprising a number of independent monophonic audio streams. One or more of the streams has associated with it metadata that specifies whether the stream is a channel-based or object-based stream. Channel-based streams have rendering information encoded by means of channel name; and the object-based streams have location information encoded through location expressions encoded in the associated metadata. A codec packages the independent audio streams into a single serial bitstream that contains all of the audio data. This configuration allows for the sound to be rendered according to an allocentric frame of reference, in which the rendering location of a sound is based on the characteristics of the playback environment (e.g., room size, shape, etc.) to correspond to the mixer's intent. The object position metadata contains the appropriate allocentric frame of reference information required to play the sound correctly using the available speaker positions in a room that is set up to play the adaptive audio content.
US09800988B2
A device which produces the necessary directional audio signals for a 3-dimensional audio playback and which in that case uses as input signals the available channels of an audio recording intended for 2-dimensional audio playback. By taking psychoacoustic effects into account the desired spatial 3D audio effect is produced by a targeted use of signal delays, frequency-dependent amplitude matchings and a limited use of reverberation effects in conjunction with a targetedly asymmetric processing.
US09800977B2
A headphone set can enable the substantially simultaneous output of two or more audio sources to a user. The audio from the multiple sources may be mixed so that a listener can hear and understand audio received from multiple audio sources. Thus, in certain embodiments, a user can consume media and also engage in conversation with other users or listen to ambient sounds, such as a telephone ringing or an alarm. Further, a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, can mix audio from multiple sources enabling a user to consume audio from the device while also listening to ambient sound or audio received from a source other than the device, using currently-available headphones.
US09800973B1
An implementation operable by a device coupled to a sound sensor array including a plurality of sound sensors in a particular arrangement is provided. The implementation involves obtaining a plurality of simulated responses mapping respective simulated physical arrangements of one or more simulated sound sources to respective expected outputs from the sound sensor array. The implementation also involves receiving a response based on output from the sound sensor array. The response may indicate detection of sounds from a plurality of sound sources in an environment of the sound sensor array. The implementation also involves comparing the received response with at least one of the plurality of simulated responses. The implementation also involves estimating locations of the plurality of sound sources relative to the sound sensor array based on the comparison. The implementation also involves operating the device based on the estimated locations of the plurality of sound sources.
US09800972B2
Various embodiments manage a distributed audio system is disclosed. In one embodiment, an audio stream is received from each electronic device in a plurality of electronic devices. The audio stream is captured by at least one audio input module of the electronic device. Two or more of the audio streams are aggregated into a single audio stream. The single audio stream is outputted via at least one audio output module.
US09800966B2
A system, method, and smart case for managing wireless earpieces. The wireless earpieces are detected proximate the smart case. The power utilized by the wireless earpieces is lowered in response to detecting the wireless earpieces proximate the smart case. The wireless earpieces are charged utilizing a battery of the smart case in response to determining the wireless earpieces require charging.
US09800951B1
The playback of video content upon a display is enhanced through the unobtrusive presentation of extrinsic data upon the same display. A video content feature is rendered on a display. It is determined whether to present extrinsic data relevant to a current time in the video content feature based at least in part on appearance control metadata. A graphical element presenting at least a portion of the extrinsic data is rendered on the display while the video content feature is also being rendered on the display in response to determining to present the extrinsic data.
US09800950B2
Techniques are provided for capturing audio containing speech at an endpoint device, converting the audio into corresponding text, identifying one or more keywords from the corresponding text and determining geolocation information associated with the endpoint device. Both the one or more keywords and the geolocation information are supplied as input to a geo-targeting advertisement service so as to cause the geo-targeting advertisement service to identify relevant content based on both the geolocation information and the one or more keywords. The geo-targeting advertisement service provides one or more advertisements to an endpoint device for display, wherein the advertisements are based on the one or more keywords and the geolocation information.
US09800949B2
A computer readable medium is disclosed containing instructions that when executed by a computer perform a method for presenting advertising data, the method including but not limited to placing scene start marker data in video data stream at a scene start data; receiving end user trick play command data during presentation of the video data stream at the end user device; and moving to the scene start marker data in the video data in response to the end user trick play command data. A system is disclosed for executing the method. A data structure is disclosed for containing data used by the system and method.
US09800946B2
This invention describes a cloud-based architecture that orchestrates the detection and dissemination of highly-dynamic, real-time, and fine-grained TV white space information to improve spectrum information used for White Space Devices (WSDs). Wasted spectrum opportunities were first identified, both temporal and spatial, due to the current approach of white spaces detection. This invention introduces a next generation of geo-location databases capable of tracking the state of the relatively static TV transmitters and the highly dynamic TV receivers. A quantitative evaluation of the potential gain in white space availability for large scale deployments of this novel architecture demonstrated significant improvement in the availability of white spaces.
US09800942B2
A computer-implemented method is provided in which a satellite uplink device is positioned to distribute an event. Data is collected from one or more automatic sensor device associated with the satellite uplink device. An optimal position of the satellite uplink device is calculated based on at least the data collected from the one or more sensor devices. The location of one or more satellites in orbit is determined and one or more satellites are selected as a preferred satellite. The satellite uplink device is automatically positioned in the calculated optimal position to connect with the preferred satellite without user intervention. However, a user at a remote location may communicate instructions to change the position the satellite uplink device. User instructions are converted into one or more actuator commands and are wirelessly transmitted to the satellite uplink device for changing its position.
US09800941B2
The invention relates to deploying a synchronization index and associated multimedia, for manipulations to the synchronization index, for navigation between the synchronization index and associated multimedia, and for synchronous playback of the multimedia and associated text, using a computing device. The system may use multimedia with a synchronized text transcription, or a synchronization index, on a computing device for viewing and manipulating the multimedia, using the synchronized text transcription. The computing device may be used to navigate the multimedia, annotate the text transcription, achieve synchronous play of the multimedia, and communicate to another computer manipulations performed on the text or multimedia.
US09800939B2
Methods and apparatus are described for providing access to arbitrary applications via an interactive television service using a pool of remote virtual desktops.
US09800938B2
Systems and methods for tagging media content may include detecting a distraction event during presentation of a media content via a display device, creating a digital bookmark for the media content, whereby the digital bookmark corresponds to the detected distraction event, and outputting a user interface for presenting the digital bookmark through the display device.
US09800931B1
Adaptively adjusting the layout of a video conference includes receiving, at a first video conference endpoint, a video stream from a second video conference endpoint. Activity in an environment of the first video conference endpoint or an environment of the second video conference endpoint is detected with at least one physical activity sensor. Based on the detected activity, a presentation of the video stream at the first video conference endpoint is dynamically adjusted.
US09800924B2
An image display device including a display; a first external interface configured to receive a first image signal input from a first external device connected to the image display device; a second external interface configured to receive a second image signal input from a second external device connected to the image display device; and a controller coupled with the display, the first external interface and the second external interface. The controller is configured to display a plurality of external device icons on the display, wherein the plurality of external device icons include a first external device icon corresponding to the first external device and a second external device icon corresponding the second external device, wherein a first default image is displayed on the first external device icon and a second default image is displayed on the second external device icon, display the first default image if the first external device is not connected to the image display device, change the first default image to a first image based on the first image signal in response to the first external device icon being selected if the first external device is connected to the image display device, display the second default image if the second external device is not connected to the image display device, and change the second default image to a second image based on the second image signal in response to the second external device icon being selected if the second external device is connected to the image display device.
US09800920B2
A display device, which includes a mobile display which is paired and connected with a main display, receives and stores main image information transmitted from the main display, and when its own motion is detected, continuously displays an image being displayed on the main display based on the main image information.
US09800909B2
As additional channels are added to a communication system for applications, such as standard density (SD) and eventually high density (HD) Video on Demand (VOD), additional capacity can be realized by reducing the time required to transmit content. A reduction of transmission time (or an increase of the transmission rate) can be achieved by bonding chancels of the communication system. The bonded channels typically provide a statistical multiplexing gain because the additional bandwidth is treated as a large single channel for the download. Bonding channels of the communication system can provide high speed downloading of content, such as video content, far in excess of the playback rate. Using bonded channels can relax the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of a data stream, such as a video stream, over an internet protocol (IP) network.
US09800905B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, digitally encoded audio may be sent by a computing system to a user system over a network. The user system may receive the digitally encoded audio, may produce a sound encoded within the digitally encoded audio, and may record a sample of the sound as produced by the user system. The sample may be analyzed, a format of digitally encoded audio may be selected based on the analysis, and audio digitally encoded in accordance with the selected format may be sent by the computing system to the user system over the network.
US09800902B2
This invention discloses a digital TV broadcast system coordinated with a broadband communication network, an information transmission network in which the broadcast system is applied, a digital TV heterogeneous network architecture, and a client terminal used in each of the above network systems. The various broadcast system architectures of the invention adopt the design concept of heterogeneous network which integrates a broadcast network with other networks, for example, a communication network, the Internet and the like, to form a heterogeneous network architecture coordinating various networks. Meanwhile, the usage in bad conditions are taken into account, and a broadcast TV system which enables uplink transmission by using a broadcast link is designed. The terminal of the invention is a terminal applicable in these heterogeneous network architectures, is capable of receiving signals transmitted from various networks, and can enable flexible receiving and access modes with a series of control means. The network system and client terminal of the invention can achieve an optimized allocation of network resources, save spectrum resources, and enable optimized transmission and management of information resources.
US09800898B2
Syntax structures that indicate the completion of coded regions of pictures are described. For example, a syntax structure in an elementary bitstream indicates the completion of a coded region of a picture. The syntax structure can be a type of network abstraction layer unit, a type of supplemental enhancement information message or another syntax structure. For example, a media processing tool such as an encoder can detect completion of a coded region of a picture, then output, in a predefined order in an elementary bitstream, syntax structure(s) that contain the coded region as well as a different syntax structure that indicates the completion of the coded region. Another media processing tool such as a decoder can receive, in a predefined order in an elementary bitstream, syntax structure(s) that contain a coded region of a picture as well as a different syntax structure that indicates the completion of the coded region.
US09800897B2
A method and a device for forming a common transport datastream from several mobile-digital television signal datastreams and a common stationary-digital television signal datastream. A constant number of data units of respectively-constant size in every successive time interval with constant cycle duration for the transmission of every individual datastream is determined. A data structure is specified for the common datastream with successive sequences in each case of a constant number of data units with respectively-identical positions for data units of the stationary-digital television signal and respectively-identical positions for data units of the mobile-digital television signal. Data units of each of the datastreams of the mobile-digital television signal are transmitted in each case in associated, identical positions of at least one successive sequence, and define the individual positions of the data structure of the common datastream with data units of the respectively associated datastreams.
US09800896B2
A method and apparatus for depth lookup table (DLT) signaling in a three-dimensional and multi-view coding system are disclosed. According to the present invention, if the pictures contain only texture data, no DLT information is incorporated in the picture parameter set (PPS) corresponding to the pictures. On the other hand, if the pictures contain depth data, the DLT associated with the pictures is determined. If a previous DLT required for predicting the DLT exists, the DLT will be predicted based on the previous DLT. Syntax related to the DLT is included in the PPS. Furthermore, first bit-depth information related to first depth samples of the DLT is also included in the PPS and the first bit-depth information is consistent with second bit-depth information signaled in a sequence level data for second depth samples of a sequence containing the pictures.
US09800888B2
According to the present invention, an inter-prediction method includes: receiving mode information on the inter-prediction of a current block; decoding the received mode information; and performing inter-prediction using the decoded mode information. According to the present invention, image compression efficiency may be improved.
US09800874B2
For a decoding apparatus based on H.265/HEVC with single-core or single-threaded hardware not parallelized, which executes decoding a plurality of tiles and filtering around a tile boundary, the disclosed invention is intended to reduce the frequency of access to decoded data around the boundaries between tiles stored in a frame memory for filtering such data or reduce the circuit size of a buffer that retains decoded data around the boundaries between tiles. The image decoding apparatus disclosed herein executes decoding and filtering in raster scan order across a screen independently of the sizes and positional relations of tiles. At a tile boundary, decoding proceeds to a right adjacent tile on the same row, rather than decoding coding blocks on one row down in the same tile, and filtering is also executed using decoded data of row-wise adjacent coding blocks.
US09800870B2
A video coder, such as a video encoder or a video decoder, identifies an entropy coding context in a set of one or more entropy coding contexts. The video coder identifies the entropy coding context without reference to a neighboring coding unit that is above a current coding unit in a current picture. The video coder then entropy codes a short distance intra-prediction (SDIP) syntax element of a coding unit (CU) using the identified entropy coding context. The SDIP syntax element at least partially defines a mode by which the CU is partitioned into a set of one or more transform units.
US09800869B2
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for encoding or decoding a sequence comprising a plurality of pictures, each of the plurality of pictures partitionable into one or more slices, each of the one or more slices processed at least in part according to a slice header. In one embodiment, all the relative syntax and function calls under the condition of slice type equal to P or B are grouped together, and syntax describing the initial value for a quantization parameter to be used in coding blocks of data and deblocking related syntax are separately grouped.
US09800860B2
A dimensioning system that analyzes a distance map for null-data pixels to provide feedback is disclosed. Null-data pixels correspond to missing range data and having too many in a distance map may lead to dimensioning errors. Providing feedback based on the number of null-data pixels helps a user understand and adapt to different dimensioning conditions, promotes accuracy, and facilitates handheld applications.
US09800857B2
A video coder scales a motion vector of a current prediction unit (PU) of a current picture in order to compensate for a difference in temporal distance. In addition, the video coder determines a predictive block for the current PU, determines a disparity reference block based on samples of the disparity reference picture at a location indicated by a disparity vector of the current PU, and determines, based on samples of the fixed reference picture at a location indicated by the scaled motion vector, a temporal-disparity reference block for the current PU. The video coder then determines a residual predictor for the current PU. Each sample of the residual predictor for the current PU indicates a difference between a sample of the temporal-disparity reference block for the current PU and a corresponding sample of the disparity reference block.
US09800856B2
Systems and methods are described for generating restricted depth of field depth maps. In one embodiment, an image processing pipeline application configures a processor to: determine a desired focal plane distance and a range of distances corresponding to a restricted depth of field for an image rendered from a reference viewpoint; generate a restricted depth of field depth map from the reference viewpoint using the set of images captured from different viewpoints, where depth estimation precision is higher for pixels with depth estimates within the range of distances corresponding to the restricted depth of field and lower for pixels with depth estimates outside of the range of distances corresponding to the restricted depth of field; and render a restricted depth of field image from the reference viewpoint using the set of images captured from different viewpoints and the restricted depth of field depth map.
US09800853B2
A method for color correction in a camera system having a camera, a light source and a controller, the method comprising: setting a first light source drive current level; performing a first white balance operation and obtaining at least one of red gain, blue gain and green gain values corresponding to the first light source drive current level; setting a second light source drive current level different than the first light source drive current level; performing a second white balance operation and obtaining at least one of red gain, blue gain and green gain values corresponding to the second light source drive current level; and determining a relationship between light source current levels and at least one of red gain, blue gain and green gain values using the obtained at least one of red gain, blue gain and green gain values corresponding to the first and second light source drive current levels.
US09800847B2
A light source unit includes a laser diode and a collimator lens having an entrance portion and an exit portion, with light emitted from the laser diode being incident light which is caused to enter the collimator lens. The laser diode is disposed so that a direction of a major axis of an elliptic cross section which intersects an axis of the incident light at right angles is defined as a direction of a first axis, and the entrance portion includes an elongated recess portion which is formed into a recess shape which is curved inwards towards a direction in which the incident light exits. In addition, a recessed edge of the elongated recess portion in a cross section, which intersects the first axis at right angles, is formed into an arc shape, and the incident light which enters the entrance portion is caused to exit from the exit portion.
US09800837B2
A method for controlling multiple devices using a virtual device that may be displayed on a screen. The method may include providing the information for the virtual device from a set-top box to the screen. The method may also include using a control device to scroll around the virtual device and make a selection fro the options provided by the virtual device. Additionally, the buttons on the control device may not correspond to the functionality associated with the virtual buttons on the virtual device.
US09800836B2
An apparatus, a system, a method and a computer program product are provided. The system includes a controller configured to broadcast a web-based meeting between a first user and a second user. The system further includes a graphical user interface configured to display the broadcasted web-based meeting. The controller is configured to receive a request from the first user through the graphical user interface. The request includes one of a text question, a recorded video question and a request from the first user to present a live video question to the second user. The controller is further configured to broadcast the request through the graphical user interface as a real time video feed of the first user, so that the first user can ask the question in real time and the second user can respond to the first user's question in real time.
US09800835B2
An automatic process for producing professional, directed, production crew quality, video for videoconferencing is described. Rule based logic is integrated into an automatic process for producing director quality video for videoconferencing. The automatic process uses sensor data to process video streams for video conferencing. A method and system for automatically processing sensor data on room activity into general room analytics for further processing by application of rules based logic to produce production quality video for videoconferencing is described. Sensory devices and equipment, for example motion, infrared, audio, sound source localization (SSL) and video are used to detect room activity or room stimulus. The room activity is analyzed (for example, to determine whether individuals are in the subject room, speaker identification and movement within the room) and processed to produce room analytics. Speaker identification and relative placement information are used to logically depict speakers conversing with one another.
US09800821B2
An image processing system in which an image display apparatus and a peripheral device perform bidirectional communication through a single communication line, including a peripheral device connected to a first side of the communication line, the peripheral device being configured to provide a first signal to the communication line; and an image display apparatus connected to a second side of the communication line, the image display apparatus being configured to provide a second signal to the communication line, and to selectively allow the communication line to conduct electricity based on a state of at least one from among the first signal and the second signal in order to perform the bidirectional communication.
US09800818B2
A device receives a request from a controlling device, such as a remote control, smart phone, or the like, where the request is intended to have one or more target devices perform one or more functional operations. The device responds to the request by applying the optimum methodology to propagate one or more commands to each intended target appliance to cause each intended target appliance to perform the intended one or more functional operations.
US09800817B2
A method for transmitting an image and an electronic device thereof are provided. An image transmission method of an electronic device includes displaying a message transmission/reception history with at least one other electronic device, sensing a selection of a camera execution menu, displaying a preview screen of a camera within a screen in which the message transmission/reception history is displayed, detecting a touch on the displayed preview screen, if the displayed preview screen is touched, capturing an image of a subject, detecting a gesture for the captured image, and, if the gesture for the captured image is detected, transmitting the captured image to the at least one other electronic device according to the detected gesture.
US09800815B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of comparators, each of the comparators including a switch for controlling an operation, a signal line which is provided commonly to the switches of the plurality of comparators and through which a control signal for controlling the switches of the plurality of comparators is supplied, a control signal generation unit, and a signal line control unit configured to control an electric potential of the signal line to be set as a fixed electric potential.
US09800807B2
An image sensor is operated for shutter modulation and high dynamic range, suitable for use with a local lamp. In one example, charge is collected at a photodetector of a photodetector circuit for a first duration for a first mini-exposure. The photodetector charge is transferred to a charge collection node of the photodetector circuit. A portion of the transferred charge is spilled from the charge collection node. Charge is collected at the photodetector for a second duration for a second mini-exposure. The second mini-exposure photodetector charge is transferred to the charge collection node after spilling the portion. The collected charge is read after transferring the second mini-exposure photodetector charge and the spilled portion of the charge is estimated and the spilled portion is added to the collected charge reading to obtain a total charge value for the combined exposures.
US09800802B2
A night vision system and method for imaging an object at or near room temperature and in the wavelength region up to 2.5 microns is described. The includes a photodetector having a cut-off wavelength of 2.5 microns under the room temperature, an optical system configured for collecting light and focusing the collected light onto the photodetector, and a spectral filter located in an optical path of light propagating toward the photodetector. The spectral filter is configured and operable to selectively filter out light of wavelength shorter than a predetermined value, thereby gradually shifting operation of the night vision system from mostly reflection mode to a combined reflection and thermal mode, to allow the night vision system to detect light reflected from and emitted by the object being imaged.
US09800798B2
Systems, methods, and devices for power optimization in imaging devices having dual cameras are contained herein. In one aspect, a method for power optimization for a dual camera imaging device is disclosed. The method includes determining a zoom factor selection, determining whether the zoom factor selection falls within a first zoom factor range, a second zoom factor range, or a third zoom factor range, and sending a series of frames of an image captured by a first sensor or a series of frames of an image captured by a second sensor or both to a camera application based on the determined zoom factor section.
US09800791B2
Systems and methods for optical narrowcasting are provided for transmitting various types of content. Optical narrowcasting content indicative of the presence of additional information along with identifying information may be transmitted. The additional information (which may include meaningful amounts of advertising information, media, or any other content) may also be transmitted as optical narrowcasting content. Elements of an optical narrowcasting system may include optical transmitters and optical receivers which can be configured to be operative at distances ranging from, e.g., 400 meters to 1200 meters. Moreover, the elements can be implemented on a miniaturized scale in conjunction with small, user devices such as smartphones, thereby also realizing optical ad-hoc networking, as well as interoperability with other types of data networks. Optically narrowcast content can be used to augment a real-world experience, enhance and/or spawn new forms of social-media and media content.
US09800790B2
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject and output an image signal; a control unit configured to control a current supplied to the image capturing unit; and an azimuth direction acquisition unit configured to detect geomagnetism, and acquire azimuth direction information indicating a direction in which the image capturing apparatus is oriented, based on the detected geomagnetism, wherein the azimuth direction acquisition unit detects the geomagnetism while a current is supplied to the image capturing unit, and acquires azimuth direction information in which an influence on the detected geomagnetism, the influence being caused by the supplied current, has been corrected.
US09800789B2
In a camera system that includes a lens unit and a camera body, the camera body includes: an image blur detecting unit that detects image blur in a plurality of directions; an image blur correcting unit that performs image blur correction in the plurality of directions; a determining unit that determines whether a mounted lens unit is a lens unit that performs the image blur correction; and an image blur correction control unit that performs control in such a way that, when a determination result of the determining unit is true (Yes), the image blur correcting unit performs the image blur correction only in specific directions from among the plurality of directions, and that performs control in such a way that, when the determination result of the determining unit is false (No), the image blur correcting unit performs the image blur correction in the plurality of directions.
US09800787B2
The effect of camera shake in digital video is corrected using signal processing techniques. The digital video is a sequence of digital images. When the sequence of digital images are being captured, movement of the imaging device causes the images to shift on the image sensor of the imaging device and affects the quality of the eventual video. Movement of the imaging device is detected while the video is being captured, and a motion information representing the motion is recorded. A processor determines a correcting filter based on the motion information and user input. The processor modifies the sequence of images captured according to the correcting filter and obtains a final corrected video. Corrected video is displayed in a viewfinder.
US09800785B2
An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a flick operation in at least first and second directions substantially opposite to each other. The image pickup device has at least a first, second and third imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the second direction in the third imaging mode.
US09800777B2
An image processing apparatus for processing images captured by an image capturing apparatus includes an image input unit to receive a plurality of image frames of a subject captured by the image capturing apparatus along the time line; a tracking area setting unit to set a target tracking area on the plurality of image frames; a tracking unit to track the target tracking area on the plurality image frames; a subject condition prediction unit to predict a condition of the subject at a time point delayed from a time point when the most recent image frame of the plurality of image frames is captured based on a tracking result of the target tracking area; and a parameter setting unit to set a parameter to be used for an image capturing of the subject based on the predicted condition of the subject to the image capturing apparatus.
US09800771B2
A server apparatus is configured to communicate with a photographing apparatus. Image date is recorded in a database. An evaluation acquisition unit acquires evaluation information and evaluated image data. A first feature amount extraction unit extracts a first feature amount from at least one of the evaluation information and the evaluated image data. A reception unit receives temporarily photographed image data from the photographing apparatus. A second feature amount extraction unit extracts a second feature amount from the temporarily photographed image data. A retrieval unit detects image data based on the first feature amount and the second feature amount. A parameter acquisition unit acquires a photographing parameter from the image data detected by the retrieval unit. A transmission unit transmits the photographing parameter to the photographing apparatus.
US09800769B2
System and methods for pointing a device, such as a camera, at a remote target wherein the pointing of the device is controlled by a combination of location information obtained by global positioning technology and image recognition of the target.
US09800768B2
An electronic device having a camera module. The electronic device comprises: a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) located on a surface of the camera module; a lens module mounted on a first area of the PCB; fixing maintaining components mounted on a second area of the PCB; and a third area located between the first area and the second area, and having at least one opening.
US09800767B2
An inner cover supported to be rotatable in a panning direction is urged by an elastic member in a direction approaching a dome. When a shock is applied to a dome cover, the inner cover is pressed in a direction away from the dome and touches a supporting member of a fixing portion. As a result deformation of the dome can be suppressed, and a lens unit and a panning rotation unit can be protected. In addition, since the dome cover is suppressed, it is not required to provide a retraction mechanism in the lens unit. Moreover, since no rigidity of the dome cover is required, the dome cover can be reduced in wall thickness and increased in diameter, so that priority is given to optical performance of the lens unit.
US09800746B2
Generally, a job management apparatus of the present embodiment which sends a print job to an image forming apparatus comprises a communication section and a controller. The communication section communicates with the image forming apparatus and a delivery apparatus configured to deliver a sheet printed by the image forming apparatus to a delivery destination. The controller calculates printing time relating to completion of execution of the print job by the image forming apparatus and first arrival time when the delivery apparatus reaches the image forming apparatus and enables the image forming apparatus to execute the print job at a timing when the image forming apparatus can complete the execution of the print job by the first arrival time.
US09800745B2
A camera system including a camera and a gateway connected to the gateway through a channel is provided. The camera includes: a radio frequency (RF) module connected to the gateway through the channel, and configured to receive a beacon periodically sent from the gateway, the beacon including channel information about a next channel to which the channel is to be changed for connecting the camera and the gateway; and a controller configured to determine whether the beacon is received at the RF module, and change the channel to another channel based on at least one of: a predetermined order of a plurality of channels including the other channel; a status of receiving the beacon at the RF module; and a channel check response received from the gateway in response to a channel check request sent from the radio frequency module, the channel check response comprising channel information about one of the plurality of channels.
US09800729B2
A voicemail receptionist system includes a memory and a processor. The memory can store data relating to one or more users. An incoming communication can be handled by the voicemail receptionist system and provided with functionality based upon a user's preferences, for example. The data stored by the voicemail receptionist system can be updated at any time, or automatically updated upon updating of the data, or upon occurrence of a trigger event. Voicemail receptionist functionality can include standard voicemail system functionality as well as functionality relating to email, text messaging, MMS messaging, calendar features, schedule announcements, location data, as well as other features.
US09800728B2
A method for providing content via a computer network and computing device, which may include: storing data associated with and indicative of a plurality of presentations; receiving a request to host an audio presentation; receiving and storing data associated with the requested audio presentation; initiating and recording one or more telephone calls; and, presenting at least a portion of the stored data for selection by the computing device; wherein, selection causes the stored data indicative of the selected audio/visual or audio presentation to be provided to the computing device for playback thereby via the computer network. The method may include storing data associated with and indicative of a first plurality of presentations; storing data associated with a plurality of second presentation feeds: automatically and periodically accessing each of the feeds; and aggregating each of the presentations for delivery via the computer network.
US09800719B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing power for a mobile device. In one embodiment, an example mobile device may include at least one memory, at least one processor, a first rechargeable battery, a second rechargeable battery, and one or more solid state relays. The at least one memory may store computer-executable instructions, and the at least one processor may be configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions. The first rechargeable battery may be configured to power the at least one processor, and the second rechargeable battery may be configured to power the at least one processor. The one or more solid state relays may be electrically coupled to the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery and configured to transition between a first state in which the one or more solid state relays form a series connection between the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery and a second state in which the one or more solid state relays form a parallel connection between the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery.
US09800703B2
A handling apparatus for a mobile electronic device, such as a handheld smart phone. The handling apparatus includes a base, a first wing body and a second wing body. The base defines a length and a width. The first and second wing bodies each define a fixed end connected to the base and a free end opposite the fixed end. The free end is spaced from the base in a deployed state of the corresponding wing body. The first and second wing bodies are arranged to extend from the corresponding fixed end to the corresponding free end in an identical direction relative to a length of the base.
US09800698B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with ordering packets into a transmission order within a queue are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes shaper logic configured to (i) respectively determine launch times for packets received from a host bus, and (ii) order the packets into a transmission order according to the launch times. The launch times are expected transmission times for the packets that are provided according to one or more attributes associated with each respective one of the packets. The apparatus includes a queue configured to store the packets in the transmission order for transmission onto a network in a single stream. The shaper logic is configured to merge the packets from multiple streams into the transmission order when providing the packets to the queue.
US09800696B2
A method of operating a wireless ad hoc network includes configuring an intermediate device with a first linear network code corresponding to a first source device and a second linear network code corresponding to a second source device. The intermediate device is on communication paths from the first source device and the second source device to a plurality of destination devices. The intermediate device receives packet data from either the first source device or from the second source device, and determines whether to apply the first linear network code or the second linear network code to the packet data. The intermediate device generates outgoing packet data and sends the packet data to at least one destination device of the plurality of destination devices using either the first linear network code or the second linear network code.
US09800692B2
Expression based declarative data service execution chaining is disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received that a first data service has returned a result indicating the first data service has been invoked successfully. An expression is evaluated, based at least in part on the result. A second data service is invoked based at least in part on an outcome of the evaluation of the expression.
US09800687B2
In a method for improving the transmission efficiency in a communication system with a layered protocol stack, data packets are processed on an upper protocol layer. Data packets are forwarded to a lower protocol layer for transmission and the transmission is performed with variable channel access delays. The upper protocol layer is notified by the lower protocol layer when a transmission is started to allow a synchronization of timers in the upper protocol layer. If a layer performs a scheduling of data packets for the transmission, a rescheduling is performed alternatively or in addition during a channel access delay. Devices and software programs embodying the invention are also described.
US09800684B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for statistical caching. Inputs are captured via an appropriate network protocol. The input includes statistical data and a corresponding cache key. The values for each cache key within a cache are compacted using the input. The compacting involves determining if the corresponding cache key is already set within the cache, and if the cache key is present, aggregating the statistical data with the value stored within the cache to generate an updated value. The updated cache may be periodically synchronized with a final data store. Additionally, each operation performed by the statistical cache may be recorded in a transaction log for fault tolerance.
US09800682B2
Provided is a node and a communication method of the node in a content oriented network (CON) in which the communication method of the node included in the CON may include receiving, at a receiver, a content request packet having a content name comprising hierarchical name components and flat name components, extracting the hierarchical name components and the flat name components from the content request packet, and processing the content request packet using the hierarchical name components and the flat name components.
US09800678B2
In a first aspect of the present invention, provided are an information processing apparatus including a behavior-history acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior histories of first users identified by first-user identification information, a transmission-history acquisition unit configured to acquire information transmission histories of second users identified by second-user identification information, and a determination unit configured to determine identity between the first users and the second users on the basis of behavior details included in the behavior histories and transmission details included in the transmission histories; a method for processing information with the information processing apparatus; and a program using the information processing apparatus.
US09800664B2
Embodiments are disclosed for managing wireless communication requests in a communication system. An example in-vehicle computing system comprises a wireless communication interface including a soft wireless access point/group owner coupled to a physical network interface to provide access to a network, a processor, and a storage device storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a first request from a first device to initiate communication via a first wireless client of the first device, during communication via the first wireless client, receive a second request to initiate communication via a second wireless client, and identify a unique identifier of the second wireless client. The instructions are further executable to disconnect a connection to one or more devices via one or more associated wireless clients including the first wireless client, initiate communication via the second wireless client, and selectively re-establish communication via the one or more associated wireless clients.
US09800661B2
A method for data storage includes, in a system that includes one or more storage controllers, multiple servers and multiple multi-queue storage devices, assigning in each storage device server-specific queues for queuing data-path storage commands exchanged with the respective servers. At least some of the data-path storage commands are exchanged directly between the servers and the storage devices, not via the storage controllers, to be queued and executed in accordance with the corresponding server-specific queues.
US09800660B2
A communication device according to the present invention aims to restart data transmission/reception between communication devices in a short amount of time, without performing key sharing again, even when a communication device of a transmitting side is rebooted. The communication device includes a volatile memory storing a count value, a generator generating data including a count value, a communicator transmitting data to another communication device, a storage instructor, each time the communicator transmits data, updating the volatile memory with a count value, and a nonvolatile memory. A count value is incremented each time the communicator transmits data, the storage instructor causes the nonvolatile memory to store a count value at certain intervals, and the generator, when the communication device is rebooted, includes in data a sum of a certain value and a count value stored in the nonvolatile memory.
US09800656B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for speedily upgrading (e.g., via service packs) components of a storage management system, such as media agents and data agents, which may number in the thousands. The disclosed methods and systems provide a lightweight and flexible approach. Executable files such as service packs are deployed to a network-shared file system and are served on demand to each targeted host computing device to launch a data agent and/or media agent component. New service packs (e.g., upgrades) are installed on another shared drive and the connection thereto is refreshed by each targeted storage management component to begin executing the new version on demand. The resultant overall upgrade process across the storage management system may be substantially shortened, and the network burden greatly reduced.
US09800655B2
Techniques for policy and identity-based workload provisioning are presented. Identities for requestors or workloads and identities for workloads are tied to specific policies. The specific policies are evaluated based on a stage of readiness for resources within a resource pool and based on resource identities for the resources within the resource pool. Resources are then dynamically provisioned based on the identity-based policy evaluation to handle workloads from the resource pool.
US09800652B2
In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a method of loading a definition of a synthetic application is disclosed. The method includes identifying a synthetic application definition for use by synthetic applications in nodes in a computing system. The method further includes identifying sets of node properties for the synthetic applications. The sets of node properties specify consumption of quantities of resources in the nodes. The sets of node properties are to cause the synthetic applications to consume resources in the computing system equivalent to consumption by a candidate application.
US09800638B2
A system for providing downstream bandwidth aware adaptive bit rate selection is disclosed. The system may determine a fixed bandwidth available to transmit content to a client on a second network. The system may connect to a first network, which may be configured to have no specific bandwidth constraints, to obtain the content. Once the system is connected to the first network, the system may receive, from the first network, a content segment of the content that is encoded at a first bandwidth. The first bandwidth may be less than or equal to the lesser of the fixed bandwidth available to transmit the content to the client on the second network and a first adaptive bit rate that is selected based on a congestion condition experienced on the first network. The system may then transmit the content segment at the first bandwidth to the client on the second network.
US09800629B2
A system stores, in a memory, first service identification information for identifying a service to be used by a first communication terminal that requests for content data, second service identification information for identifying a service to be used by a second communication terminal that transmits content data, and content data information indicating property of content data that can be transmitted to the first communication terminal, in association with one another. After a session for transmitting content data is established between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal, the system controls transmission of content data from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal, so as to transmit content data having a property indicated by the content data information that is stored in association with the first service identification information and the second service identification information.
US09800625B2
VoLTE based video calling method and device and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving a request for VoLTE video calling from a user at a first UE; sending a session request message which carries a first video parameter supported by the first UE to a second UE through an EPS network; receiving a video QoS parameter sent by the EPS network; receiving a session response message sent through the EPS network by the second UE, the session response message carrying a second video parameter provided by the second UE which is determined based on the video QoS parameter and the first video parameter; determining a third video parameter for the first UE based on the video QoS parameter and the second video parameter; and initiating a VoLTE video calling using the third video parameter. Relatively good video calling quality may be obtained in different VoLTE networks.
US09800622B2
In general, techniques of the present disclosure are directed to a system for virtual socializing between electronic devices. In one example, the method includes joining, by a first computing device, a communication session enabling communication between the first computing device and a second computing device. The method includes outputting, multimedia content that is output at the second computing device. The method also includes receiving and outputting, by the first computing device, data from the second computing device using the communication session, while the multimedia content is outputting at the first output device, where the data comprises data captured by an input device of the second computing device. The method further includes sending a configuration request that sets a control model mode of the communication session, where the control model mode controls which computing devices communicatively coupled via the communication session has permission to modify at least the multimedia content.
US09800618B1
A client-side user agent operates in conjunction with an identity selector to institute and exercise privacy control management over user identities managed by the identity selector. The user agent includes the combination of a privacy enforcement engine, a storage of rulesets expressing user privacy preferences, and a preference editor. The editor enables the user to direct the composition of privacy preferences relative to user identities. The preferences can be applied to individual cards and to categorized groups of attributes. The engine evaluates the proper rulesets against the privacy policy of a service provider. The privacy preferences used by the engine are determined on the basis of specifications in a security policy indicating the attribute requirements for claims that purport to satisfy the security policy.
US09800616B2
Described herein are embodiments for managing policies of a mobile device. In embodiments, a mobile device receives policy containers from a plurality of disparate management agents. Each policy container has one or more policies. Each policy corresponds to a particular category that governs various aspects of the device. The policies described herein may be device wide policies corresponding to various features on the device. The policies may also be data specific policies which dictate how data is stored on and transferred to and from the device. Once the policies are received, a determination is made as to which policy in each category is the most secure policy. The most secure policy for each category is merged to create a global policy that is applied to the mobile device.
US09800614B2
A method carried out at a point of contact (e.g., reverse proxy, a web server plug-in, or the like) that serves as an intermediary between a client browser and one or more back-end applications (or application component), wherein each back-end application has the capability to set its own server-side session management data with respect to the point of contact that is independent of any client-side session management data set by the point of contact and used by the point of contact to manage a user session. The method begins as a given back-end application returns a response to a first request that has been issued from the client browser (the first request having been received at the point of contact and passed to a back end application or component for processing). The point of contact intercepts the out-going response, augments server-side session management data associated therewith with a “stamp,” and forwards to the client browser the response together with the server-side session management data as augmented to include the stamp. The stamp provides a way for the point of contact to later determine whether the server-side session management data, if received with another user request, is valid for that request. Later, upon receipt at the point of contact of a new user request that includes the server-side session management data (and stamp), the point of contact uses the stamp to determine whether the new request is valid. If so, the point of contact removes the stamp from the server-side session management data and forwards the new request (and the management data) to the back-end application for handling.
US09800604B2
A method includes identifying multiple devices or groups of devices in an industrial process control and automation system. The method also includes, for each device or group of devices, (i) obtaining impact values identifying potential effects of a failure or compromise of the device or group of devices due to one or more cyber-security risks and (ii) identifying a consequence value using the impact values. Multiple impact values associated with different categories of potential effects are obtained, and the consequence value identifies an overall effect of the failure or compromise of the device or group of devices.
US09800595B2
The subject matter described herein relates to method, systems, and computer readable media for detecting physical link intrusions. A method for detecting physical link intrusions includes monitoring a link delay signature associated with a physical link based on one-way link delay measurements obtained using at least one network tap. The method also includes determining whether a change in the link delay signature has met or exceeded a threshold value. The method further includes in response to determining that the change in the link delay signature has met or exceeded the threshold value, determining that a physical link intrusion has occurred.
US09800592B2
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to identification of inbound and outbound network and application attacks with respect to a data center. Commodity servers are used to monitor ingress and egress traffic flows, and anomalies are detected in the traffic flows. Responsive to detecting an anomaly, a mitigation strategy is executed to mitigate damage caused by a cyber-attack.
US09800589B1
Methods and apparatus for detecting VOIP spoofing attacks in systems that provide communication services over IP networks, for gathering information that can be used for preventing or mitigating future malicious attacks, are described. The methods and apparatus send various signals and check for expected responses. Actual responses and/or lack of responses to signals, e.g., messages, are detected, logged and used for making decisions as well as generating a record for informational purposes and analysis which can facilitate identification of common features of malicious packets and/or messages. The methods are well suited for use in a session border controller.
US09800583B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing a secure domain name system (DNS) for machine to machine communications. In one embodiment, the method includes storing policy information for machine to machine communications in a global DNS registry database server. The method further includes communicating the policy information for machine to machine communications from the global DNS registry database server to a machine DNS registry server located in an Internet service provider (ISP) network, wherein a control signaling gateway located in the ISP network is configured to utilize the policy information for machine to machine communications to allow only registered controllers associated with a machine to communicate with the machine.
US09800582B2
The disclosure comprises a method, an apparatus, and instructions for controlling a computer to implement a security labeling service (SLS) to tag an electronic record or data stream with security labels to ensure compliance with access restriction requirements. The SLS tags a record or data stream with security labels according to constraints including jurisdictional (government regulation), organizational policy, and authorization of a subject of record (e.g. patient consent). The SLS consumes a vocabulary dictionary to interpret the record and the constraints to generate rules for tagging the data. The original record or data stream is then tagged according to the rules. The tagged output is used to ensure compliance with the security labels.
US09800581B2
Automated provisioning and/or authentication of a device to a wireless access point is contemplated. The automated provisioning may be performed in a manner that enables the device to receive provisioning instructions in accordance with HotSpot 2.0, Passpoint or other Wi-Fi related protocols and standards without having to input identification or other user-specific information like a username and password combination. The authentication may be performed in a manner sufficient to enable service-level differentiation for the provisioned devices and/or other devices desiring wireless access, such as but not necessary limited to facilitating assigning different bandwidth speed/priorities according to a service agreement.
US09800574B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for generating and verifying one time passwords in connection with a risk assessment are disclosed. The risk assessment may comprise a client-side risk assessment. The risk assessment may also comprise a server-side risk assessment.
US09800572B2
A system and computer-implemented method for providing access to data of a first party including receiving information for identifying the first party, authenticating the first party using the received information for identifying the first party and generating a first read-only personal identification number (PIN). The first read-only PIN is associated with a first set of access rights for the data of the first party and provided to a second party. The first read-only PIN is stored with the first set of access rights in a computer database. A third party receives the first read-only PIN from the second party, authenticates the received first read-only PIN using the stored first read-only PIN and provides the second party with access to at least a portion of the data of the first party using the first set of access rights associated with the first read-only PIN if the received first read-only PIN is authenticated.
US09800567B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods of network nodes authentication are described herein. In one aspect, a provisioning of an application in a specified computing environment is requested, where the application is operable of providing at least one kind of services to online clients. One or more servers are instantiated to deploy the application, where at least one of the servers may be a virtual machine. A globally unique identifier (GUID) for the application is generated and embedded in a security certificate associated with the deployed application. A correspondence between the GUID and the network address or the host name of the server is stored. In another aspect, a server request is forwarded for processing by the application or canceled based on a comparison between the network address or the host name of the server deploying the application, and the network address or the host name corresponding to the GUID.
US09800552B2
Methods are disclosed for incorporating a security gateway within a wireless mesh network. In one embodiment, the wireless mesh network is a heterogeneous mesh network. In one embodiment, a gateway node, which is part of the wireless mesh network, requests a connection to the core network through a security gateway. The security gateway responds by creating an IPSec tunnel and a GRE tunnel within the IPSec tunnel from itself to the gateway node. Once the gateway node is communicatively coupled to the security gateway via secure tunneling, the gateway node sends a mesh routing protocol to the security gateway.
US09800548B2
A device, system, and method for defending a computer network are described, network communications are received by a traffic filter, which dynamically determines whether the communications include an anomaly (i.e., are “anomalous” communications), or whether the communications are normal, and do not include an anomaly. The traffic filter routes normal communications to the correct device within its network for servicing he service requested by the communications. The traffic filter routes any anomalous communications to a virtual space engine, which is configured to fake a requested service (e.g., to entice deployment of a malicious payload). Anomalous communications are analyzed using an analytical engine, which can dynamically develop rules for handling anomalous communications in-line, and the rules developed by the analytical engine can be employed by the traffic filter against future received communications.
US09800545B2
Configuration of firewall functionality and/or determining positioning for routers operating within a multi-router network is contemplated. The firewall functionality configured for one or more of the routers may be based router positioning within the multi-router network. The firewall functionality may be automatically selected according to the router positioning in order to facilitate dynamic and/or adaptive router configuring.
US09800539B2
Systems and methods for managing requesting routing functionality associated with resource requests for one or more resources associated with a content provider are provided. A content delivery network (“CDN”) service provider, on behalf of a content provider, can process domain name service (“DNS”) requests for resources by computing devices and resolve the DNS requests by the identification of a network address of a computing device that will provide the requested resources. Based on the processing of DNS queries initiated by a client computing device, the CDN service provider can measure CDN service provider latencies associated with the generation of DNS requests by network components associated with the client computing devices. Examples of the network components can include DNS resolvers associated with the client computing device.
US09800538B2
A wireless multimedia messaging method includes receiving by a messaging server content including a streamable media component and information describing the streamable media component, sending information describing the streamable media component from the messaging server to a recipient wireless terminal, and forming a streaming session between the messaging server and the recipient wireless terminal, using the information describing the streamable media component.
US09800535B2
A social networking system selects a set of contacts for presentation to a user of the social networking system. A contact is an additional user or a group of users maintained by the social networking system. To select the set of contacts, the social networking system generates scores associated with additional users of the social networking system and groups of users based on interactions between the user and various additional users and between the user and groups of users. Based on the scores associated with additional users and with groups of users, the social networking system selects a set of contacts from the additional users and the groups of users. Information identifying the set of contacts is communicated from the social networking system to a client device for presentation to the user.
US09800534B2
The present disclosure is directed towards having media assets that come from different social publication services be communicated to a user based on different conditions. Specifically, a determination is made from metadata associated with a media asset whether the media asset is of a particular type (315), is published from a specified party (320), and whether the media asset comes from an approved social publication service (310). If the determination is affirmative (325), the media asset is communicated to a user, otherwise the communication is prevented (325).
US09800533B2
A method for generating an application for sharing with users of a social network includes identifying a community for sharing community content related to a topic of interest. The community is associated with a social network accessed over a network. A request is received for defining a mobile application for the community. A plurality of content options are defined for the mobile application. The content options for including the content are obtained directly from the community and from content for the mobile application. The mobile application is produced with the plurality of content options and associated with a sharing link that is accessible by mobile device for download over the network. Community content is sent to the mobile application in response to requests for updates from the community received from the mobile application. The community content is customized for a user profile when accessed by the mobile application.
US09800529B2
A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.
US09800525B1
Some examples enable profile-based management of multiple communication channels and associated communication services on an electronic device. For example, role-based profiles may be used to manage and filter communications from various contacts. A profile may be set on the electronic device, such as in response to a user input, or automatically based on a determined context of the electronic device. For instance, the context may be determined from one or more of a physical location of the electronic device, a time of day, a day of the week, or a detected activity of the user. Further, some examples include a unified communication interface that may enable a user to select a contact to receive a communication, and the electronic device may select a communication channel for communicating with the selected contact based at least in part on the profile currently set for the electronic device.
US09800521B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for effectuating control-plane changes at increased speeds to protect a network in which switching operations are performed. Operations to effectuate control-plane changes in the network can be divided between software and more-rapid, dedicated hardware within a line card. Examples of operations reserved to hardware implementation can include blocking and unblocking of ports, flushing of learned entries from switch tables, and coordination of control-plane changes through the generation of messages sent between nodes, and also between line cards of a node. Determinations about the need for hardware-driven, control-plane changes may be made based on events occurring in the network in accordance with any of a number of different network protection protocols. The protocol may be implemented in a state machine and the software may determine the state of the hardware through a master/slave relationship.
US09800503B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for control plane protection for various tables using storm prevention entries. Specifically, the disclosed system receives a first packet, and creates an inactive entry in a table. The system then forwards the first packet from a first processor to a second processor for processing. Also, the system associates the inactive entry with a timestamp indicating when the first packet is forwarded to the second processor, and determines a configured interval (CI) associated with the table. Further, the system compares a difference between a current timestamp and the timestamp associated with the inactive entry against the CI upon receiving a second packet. If the difference is longer than the CI, the system associates the inactive entry with the current timestamp, and forwards the second packet to the second processor for processing. Otherwise, the system discards the second packet.
US09800501B2
Methods and apparatus for multiple user uplink are provided. In one aspect, a method for wireless communication is provided. The method includes transmitting a clear to transmit (CTX) message to two or more stations, the CTX indicating an uplink transmission opportunity, the CTX message further comprising a request that the two or more stations concurrently transmit uplink data at a specific time. The method further includes receiving a plurality of uplink data from at least two stations at the specific time.
US09800485B2
A method and apparatus of a device that determines a cause and effect of congestion in this device is described. The device determines an effect of congestion in the device. The device measures a queue group occupancy of a queue group for a port in the device, where the queue group stores a plurality of packets to be communicated through that port. The device further determines if congestion exists on that queue group using the measurement, where the congestion prevents a packet of the plurality of packets from being communicated within a time period. If the congestion exists on that queue group, the device additionally gathers information regarding packets to be transmitted through that port. For example, the device can gather statistics packets that are stored in the queue group and/or new enqueue packets.
US09800483B2
An apparatus is configured to receive at a time a datum associated with use of a network by a set of compute devices using the network. The apparatus is also configured to calculate at least one threshold value based, at least in part, on the datum and a bandwidth capacity of the network at the time. The apparatus is also configured to receive a usage value associated with bandwidth use of a compute device from the set of compute devices and associated with a time period immediately preceding the time. The apparatus is further configured to compare the usage value with the at least one threshold value to determine a usage category associated with the compute device. The apparatus is configured to limit bandwidth use of the network for the compute device based on the usage category.
US09800482B2
Signature-based latency extraction systems and related methods are disclosed for network packet communications. Disclosed embodiments generate packet signatures (e.g., hash values) for packets received with respect to points within a network packet communication system. For each received packet, its packet signature is compared to packet signatures stored for previously received packets. If no match is found, the packet signature and a timestamp associated with the newly received packet are stored within one or more packet data tables. If a match is found, then the difference between the timestamp associated with the newly received packet and a timestamp stored with the matching packet signature are used to determine a latency value. The latency values can then be used to determine a variety of latency-related parameters for the network infrastructure being measured, and classification information can also be used to generate latency-related histograms. A variety of embodiments can be implemented.
US09800477B2
A service cost model for services offered in a cloud-computing environment is generated by discovering cost-related attributes in a service catalog of provisioned virtual machines and applications provisioned thereon. The set of cost-related attributes includes at least one of the following: outage frequency, time to repair, cost of repair information, and time claimed by each resource type to fix past outages. The generated service cost model is tracked and adjusted against actuals periodically to reflect the true cost of offered services. Further by federating with other cloud service providers, the costs of a same service are compared between the different providers, and accordingly a recommendation for a provider based on the costs is proposed.
US09800475B2
A selection of graphical message flow primitives defined within the message flow builder that each graphically represent and define message-oriented logic of an operation for the Web service are graphically assembled. Each graphical message flow primitive is defined within the message flow builder as a representation of a unit of work usable to define message flow patterns of Web service operation flow types and each includes a Web service operational processing logic definition of the representation of the respective unit of work usable to generate executable Web service logic. Selected ones of the graphical message flow primitives are graphically interconnected to represent a flow of messages to create a message-oriented Web service definition. The executable Web service logic defined within the message flow builder by each one of the interconnected selected graphical message flow primitives within the created message-oriented Web service definition is generated to construct the Web service.
US09800469B2
A capability is provided for predicting the performance of a communications network, such as a multi-stage communications network. The predicted performance includes, in one aspect, predicting the amount of bandwidth that a server of the communications network could deliver with a full load on the network. In one aspect, the predictive capability includes determining an aggregate load for each server of the network being analyzed; performing normalization on the loads of the links used by the servers to obtain updated link and/or server bandwidths; and determining for each server, a minimum bandwidth over the links in the server's route.
US09800463B2
A system includes a network device installed at a site, the network device including an operating condition configured to be altered by an input initiated external to the site. The system also includes at least one multi-user configurable geographical boundary capable of being established about the site to alter the operating condition in response to a location based information of a user relative to the site and the geographical boundary. A method of managing a site includes detecting a network device installed at a site, the network device having an operating condition configured to be altered by an input initiated external to the site. The method also includes enabling configuration of at least one multi-user configurable geographical boundary capable of being established about the site to alter the operating condition in response to a location based information of a user relative to the site and the geographical boundary.
US09800460B2
Disclosed is an interoperability gateway system that provides backup connection between a dispatch center and a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system in the event the dispatch center is disconnected from the LMR system. In general, this may be accomplished by providing an RF link between the disconnected site and the interoperability gateway via a controller, or interoperability site network interface (ISNI), that is activated when the dispatch center is disconnected from the LMR system. The interoperability gateway provides the backup connection by allocating a control station for each channel available at the disconnected LMR system. When compared to conventional dispatch console backup schemes, the disclosed interoperability gateway system greatly reduces the equipment needed to provide dispatch console backup, thereby decreasing equipment and operation costs, and simplifying operation by providing a solution that is virtually transparent to the dispatcher.
US09800458B1
A system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: generate a dynamic object having rich content, interactive code and multiple platform operability logic that allows the interactive code to operate on a plurality of platforms; send the dynamic object to one of the plurality of platforms; process the dynamic object on the one of the plurality of platforms; and provide one or more interfaces for user engagement to perform an interaction specified by the dynamic object.
US09800455B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for a log monitoring system to monitor the health of server log files. The log monitoring system may comprise at least one computing device and at least one application executable in the at least one computing device, where the at least one application being configured to generate at least one log health signal based on an analysis of the server log content generated by at least one host application. Furthermore, the application may generate a system integrity record based the at least one log health signal and an external signal, wherein the external signal embodies a system health metric of the at least one host application.
US09800452B2
A digital quadrature modulator holds local oscillator circuitry configured to provide local oscillator signals, and local oscillator polarity logic circuitry configured to select an In-phase and a Quadrature local oscillator signal according to a sign bit of an In-phase control word and a sign bit of a Quadrature control word, respectively. The modulator holds a number of local oscillator control logic circuits, each configured to generate a conditioned signal by gating one or both of the selected local oscillator signals according to values of the In-phase control word and/or values of the Quadrature control word. The modulator has one or more sets of switched-capacitor units, where each unit has an output provided by an output capacitor, and where a signal at the input side of the output capacitor is controlled by a conditioned signal. The outputs of at least two of the switched-capacitor units are combined in a common node.
US09800443B2
A multi-mode wireless terminal, which includes a path of a first wireless communications standard and a path of a second wireless communications standard; the path of the first wireless communications standard includes a first antenna module, a first transceiver module and a first baseband module, where the first antenna module connects to the first transceiver module, and the first transceiver module connects to the first baseband module; the path of the second wireless communications standard includes a second antenna module, a second transceiver module and a second baseband module, where the second antenna module connects to the second transceiver module, and the second transceiver module connects to the second baseband module; the second transceiver module connects to the first baseband module; the second antenna module and the second transceiver module serve as a diversity receive path of the first wireless communications standard when at an idle timeslot.
US09800438B1
An example method of performing an eye-scan in a receiver includes: generating digital samples from an analog signal input to the receiver based on a sampling clock, the sampling clock phase-shifted with respect to a reference clock based on a phase interpolator (PI) code; equalizing the digital samples based on first equalization parameters of a plurality of equalization parameters of the receiver; adapting the plurality of equalization parameters and performing clock recovery based on the digital samples to generate the PI code; and performing a plurality of cycles of locking the plurality of equalization parameters, suspending phase detection in the clock recovery, offsetting the PI code, collecting an output of the receiver, resuming the phase detection in the clock recovery, and unlocking the equalization parameters to perform the eye scan.
US09800435B1
Circuits, devices, methods for decision feedback equalization are described. A decision feedback circuit can include L N-tap decision feedback equalizer (DFE) branch input lines and an unfolding multiplexer array network. The network is configured to generate at least one unfolded output based on inputs from a subset of the branch input lines and includes a plurality of multiplexer arrays wherein outputs from a first multiplexer array in the plurality of multiplexer arrays are connected to selection lines of a second multiplexer array in the plurality of multiplexer arrays.
US09800430B2
The present invention relates to a home appliance which can communicate with an outside of the home appliance and an online system including the same. According to embodiments of the present invention, an online system may be provided, including a server, a home appliance provided with remote control activation input means and connected to the server to enable communication therewith, and an external terminal having application for remote control of the home appliance through the server, wherein the home appliance is remotely controlled through the external terminal only if the remote control activation input means is selected.
US09800427B2
A system for enterprise distribution of electronic and paper documents for multiple insurance products is disclosed. The system including a memory device to store policy information for multiple insurance products associated with each of a plurality of clients. The memory device stores document delivery settings, including contact information and notification/alert preferences. The system includes a processor to generate document delivery questions relating to the preferred medium for notification and alert documents. The system includes a receiver to receive responses to the document delivery questions. The processor generates consent questions and updates the document delivery settings based on the response to the document delivery questions and the consent questions. The system may also include a transmitter to transmit a message to the clients notifying them of the change in the document delivery settings and to transmit a message notifying a source system of the change in document delivery settings.
US09800424B2
A method, computer program product, and system of managing multicast groups for distribution of multicast content to a plurality of targets are provided. Managing multicast groups includes receiving a plurality of requests to join a multicast group sent by the plurality of targets and evaluating from the plurality of requests a resource utilization required for each of the plurality of targets. Managing multicast groups further includes generating the multicast group by accepting targets of the plurality of targets; accumulating each resource utilization corresponding to each accepted target into an accumulated resource utilization; and closing, by the processor, the multicast group when the accumulated resource utilization of the accepted targets exceeds a group resource utilization limit.
US09800420B2
There is provided an LTE device configured to connect to an LTE network, connect to or provide a LAN, and to provide eMBMS services over the LAN.
US09800412B2
An approach is provided for securing data in a technical environment. In one embodiment, a processor obtains a first file, which when executed installs a first portion of a second file and an assembly key to assemble the second file. The processor executes this first file and then obtains the second portion of the second file. The processor assembles the second file using the first portion, the second portion, and the assembly key.
US09800409B2
Embodiments of an invention for cryptographic key generation using a stored input value and a stored count value have been described. In one embodiment, a processor includes non-volatile storage storing an input value and a count value, and logic to generate a cryptographic key based on the stored input value and the stored count value.
US09800408B2
A method of and system for generating secure tokens and transmission based on (TRNG) generated tokens split into shares includes steps of: generating keys by a hardware based True Random number Generator (TRNG); sieving/filtering the generated keys using statistical tests suite; selecting the random numbers of required width as tokens; applying number to image transformation for the tokens; applying steganography methods of injecting into an image carrier to the selected tokens; and splitting the steganographic contents into at least two shares using Share Generation Appliance (SGA), which is based on visual cryptographic methods. The generated secure tokens are well suited for seamless secured shopping including product verification.
US09800404B2
There is provided mechanisms for configuration of liveness check using Internet key exchange messages. A method is performed by a user equipment. The method comprises transmitting, to a core network node, a first Internet key exchange message comprising a configuration attribute indicating support of receiving a timeout period for liveness check. The method comprises receiving, from the core network node, a second Internet key exchange message comprising a configuration attribute indicating a timeout period for said liveness check.
US09800399B2
A device and a method for synchronizing entanglement sources with optical pump in a quantum communication network are disclosed. The device includes a pulsed optical source allowing emission of telecom wavelength optical clock pulses distributed in parallel to the entanglement sources to ensure synchronization of the entanglement sources; and for each of the entanglement sources, a frequency conversion device, allowing frequency conversion of the distributed telecom wavelength optical clock pulses to a wavelength adapted to optically pump the entanglement source. The method includes emitting and distributing in parallel, to the entanglement sources, telecom wavelength optical clock pulses; and locally, at each of the entanglement sources, frequency converting the telecom wavelength optical clock pulses to a wavelength adapted to optically pump the entanglement source.
US09800395B2
Systems and methods for signaling in an increased carrier monitoring wireless communication environment are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may include control circuitry to configure the UE for increased carrier monitoring; determine, based on a first signal received from a network apparatus, whether a reduced performance group carrier is configured; determine, based on a second signal received from the network apparatus, whether a scaling factor is configured; and in response to a determination that no reduced performance group carrier is configured and a determination that no scaling factor is configured, allow the UE to monitor fewer carriers than required by increased carrier monitoring. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US09800376B1
A high capacity communication system and method, and a high capacity communications configuration system are provided. The high capacity communication system includes a transmitter. The transmitter includes a signal generator to generate a signal including, wherein for a first frame portion extending from zero to τ time the signal is generated per a first color reuse plan of a frequency spectrum and one or more polarizations, and for a second frame portion extending from τ to T the signal is generated per a second color reuse plan of the frequency spectrum and the one or more polarizations; and an RF system to beam the signal concurrently to a first geographic area and a second geographic area. In the high capacity communication system, τ is less than T, the first frame portion is intended for a first VSAT population disposed in the first geographic coverage area and the second frame portion is intended for a second VSAT population disposed in the second geographic coverage area, and the first color reuse plan maps the frequency spectrum and the one or more polarizations into fewer colors than the second color reuse plan.
US09800371B2
A method by which a signal transmission device transmits packets in a communication system is provided. The method includes the operations of, generating a source symbol block including one or more source symbols having the same length by using a source packet block including one or more source packets; generating a restoration symbol block generated using one or more restoration symbols by performing a forward error correction (FEC) coding operation on the source symbol block; generating an FEC source packet including the source packets and an FEC payload identifier (ID) and transmitting the FEC source packet to a lower protocol; generating an FEC restoration packet including one or more of the restoration symbols and the FEC payload ID and transmitting the FEC restoration packet to the lower protocol; and transmitting FEC configuration information including information on the source symbol block generation operation to a receiver.
US09800368B2
A method for adaptively adjusting a modulation coding scheme and a reference signal pattern. The method includes: determining a Modulation Coding and Reference Signal Pattern Scheme (MCPS) index according to channel status information, the MCPS being used for indicating a reference signal pattern, a modulation scheme and/or a modulation order and TBS; performing communication according to the reference signal pattern, modulation scheme and/or modulation order and TBS corresponding to the MCPS index. Another example of the present disclosure further provides a corresponding eNB, terminal and system. With examples of the present disclosure, the reference signal pattern and modulation coding scheme may be adaptively and jointly adjusted according to requirements to obtain the optimal transmission efficiency.
US09800362B2
A method and a communication device are described for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation. At least one of a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) indicating downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release or physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) is received in a plurality of downlink subframes according to an uplink (UL)- downlink (DL) configuration for time division duplex (TDD);. A PDCCH with a downlink control information (DCI) format for UL scheduling including a 2-bit field is received. Acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information corresponding to the at least one PDCCH indicating downlink SPS release or the PDSCHs is transmitted through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the received PDCCH with the DCI format for UL scheduling.
US09800352B2
A quantum communication system, comprising: a quantum transmitter optically coupled to a first waveguide; a first communication device optically coupled to a second waveguide; a multi-core optical fiber comprising a first core and a second core; a spatial multiplexing unit, configured to optically couple the first waveguide to the first core and the second waveguide to the second core.
US09800332B2
An acquisition, pointing, and tracking (ATP) apparatus for free space optical (FSO) communications systems incorporates a multi-element detector array positioned at a focal plane of an optical telescope. An optical communications element lies at the center of the detector array. In lieu of traditional beam steering, the apparatus performs pointing and tracking functions internally by first calculating a position of an optical maximum on the detector array, and then translating the detector array within the focal plane of the telescope such that the optical communications element lies at the optical maximum for transmitting and/or receiving optical communications signals.
US09800331B2
An optical transmission apparatus includes: a wavelength selecting switch, including an input port and an output port having more ports than the input port, configured to perform an adjustment of a level of an optical signal from the input port to the output port; a first monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the input port unit; a second monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the output port unit; and a controller configured to control the wavelength selecting switch wherein the controller: calculates a virtual output value for the output port unit based on a first monitor result from the first monitoring unit, a second monitor result from the second monitoring unit, and a current adjustment value for the adjustment function; calculates a new adjustment value based on the virtual output value; and sets the new adjustment value to the adjustment.
US09800312B2
A method and terminal for feeding back channel state information are applied to a 4-antenna system. The method includes: a terminal acquiring channel state information, the terminal performing joint encoding on PMI1 information and RI information into a 4-bit or 5-bit feedback report, or, performing joint encoding on PMI1 information and PMI2 information into a 4-bit feedback report, or, the PMI2 information using 2-bit feedback; and the terminal feeding back the feedback report in a physical uplink control channel.
US09800307B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, encoding Data Pipe, DP, data according to a code rate, wherein the encoding further includes Low-Density Parity-Check, LDPC, encoding the DP data, Bit interleaving the LDPC encoded DP data, and mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations; building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded DP data; and modulating data in the built signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US09800303B2
An apparatus in a user equipment node (UE) is configured to perform a method for channel feedback. The method includes determining, based on a common reference signal received from a base station and one or more channel conditions, a plurality of values for a receiver table. The method also includes determining a plurality of values for a decision table based on corresponding values in the receiver table and a predetermined interference table. The method further includes selecting a value from the decision table. In addition, the method includes transmitting, to the base station, at least one of a rank indicator (RI) value and a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) value associated with the selected value in the decision table.
US09800301B2
The present invention relates to a device for sharing the antennas of wireless access node systems in a wireless communication network comprising a wireless access node system A and a wireless access node system B, each of which comprises at least one transmission/reception unit for processing transmission/reception signals in at least one frequency band, the device comprising: an MIMO coupler A for coupling a signal in a first transmission/reception route among multiple input multiple output (MIMO) routes for said at least one transmission/reception unit of the wireless access node system A, and a signal in a second transmission/reception route among MIMO routes for said at least one transmission/reception unit of the wireless access node system B, to the antenna of the wireless access node system A; and an MIMO coupler B for coupling a signal in a first transmission/reception route among the MIMO routes for said at least one transmission/reception unit of the wireless access node system B, and a signal in a second transmission/reception route among the MIMO routes for said at least one transmission/reception unit of the wireless access node system A, to the antenna of the wireless access node system B.
US09800292B2
There is provided a capacitive communication system including an object and a capacitive touch panel. The object includes a plurality of induction conductors configured to have different potential distributions at different time intervals by modulating respective potentials thereof. The capacitive touch panel includes a plurality of sensing electrodes configured to form a coupling electric field with the induction conductors to detect the different potential distributions at the different time intervals. When the different potential distributions match a predetermined agreement between the object and the capacitive touch panel, a near field communication is formed between the object and the capacitive touch panel.
US09800288B2
A wireless communication method in a network comprising one or several beacons and a plurality of end-points, comprising: sending by a beacon a timing message modulated according to a chirp spread spectrum format, receiving said timing message in one or several end-nodes a receiver, detecting said timing message aligning a local frequency reference and/or time reference of the end-node to the time reference of the transmitter by means of said timing message.
US09800287B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to interference cancellation. A method for performing interference cancellation in a wireless communications device having a transmitter, a receiver, a coefficient controller, an analog interference cancellation (AIC) circuit and a receive local oscillator (LO) includes utilizing a receive local oscillator (LO) to generate a transmit pilot; injecting the transmit pilot into a transmit chain for transmission; utilizing a receiver to receive a signal, wherein the signal includes the transmit pilot and an interference signal; and determining a set of coefficients for the interference cancellation based on an output signal from the receiver.
US09800284B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for relative calibration of transceivers in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method comprises transmitting multiple pilots from units in the first group; receiving, in response to the multiple pilots, a first set of pilot observations at each unit in the second group; transmitting a single pilot simultaneously from at least two units in the second group; in response to the single pilot, receiving a second set of pilot observations at each unit in the first group; and using the first and second sets of pilot observations to calibrate each of at least two units in the second group based on a reference array of transceivers in the first group of transceivers.
US09800283B2
A two-piece mobile device holder having a case assembly and a mounting assembly is disclosed. The case assembly is configured to receive and secure a mobile device such as a smart phone. The mounting assembly is configured to be detachably coupled to other objects. Sets of permanent magnets are arranged in a circular pattern in the case assembly and the mounting assembly. The magnets in both the first and second set of magnets are arranged with alternating magnetic polarity. As the case assembly is placed on top of the mounting assembly, the magnets in the mounting assembly will attract magnets with opposite polarities in the case assembly. A user may detach the case assembly from the mounting assembly by rotating the case assembly such that the magnets in the case assembly are now adjacent to magnets in the mounting assembly of the same polarity.
US09800264B2
Disclosed is a transmission device capable of reducing quantization errors in nonlinear quantization of IQ signals. In the device, a standard deviation measuring unit measures a standard deviation σ of the amplitude distribution of input signals. A kurtosis measuring unit measures the kurtosis of the amplitude distribution of the input signals. A correction coefficient determining unit determines a correction coefficient α corresponding to the kurtosis of the amplitude distribution of the input signals. A quantization unit quantizes the input signals using the correction coefficient α and calculates quantization data. A multiplexing unit multiplexes the quantization data and quantization control information with each other.
US09800258B2
The disclosure relates to a circuit for stabilizing a digital-to-analog converter reference voltage. One example embodiment is a circuit for stabilizing a voltage on a reference node. The circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter that includes an array of capacitors and arranged for: receiving an input voltage via an input node, receiving a voltage via a reference node and a digital-to-analog code via a controller node, and outputting a digital-to-analog output voltage. The circuit also includes a capacitive network on the reference node comprising a fixed capacitor arranged to be pre-charged to an external reference voltage and a variable capacitor arranged to be pre-charged to an external auxiliary voltage. Further, the circuit includes a measurement block. In addition, the circuit includes a calibration block arranged for determining an updated setting of the variable capacitor based on the digital-to-analog code and the measured voltage on the reference node.
US09800257B2
In a first sensitivity level, an AD converter performs AD conversion selectively using, in accordance with the level of the analog signal, any one of a first reference signal and a second reference signal that have mutually different slopes, and in a second sensitivity level that is different from the first sensitivity level, the AD converter performs AD conversion only using a third reference signal.
US09800252B2
Methods and devices are provided in which a first parameter partial value (p1) is stored in a first memory (12) and a second parameter partial value (p2) is stored in a second memory (13). A parameter value (p) of a parameter can then be obtained by combining the first parameter partial value (p1) with the second parameter partial value (p2).
US09800249B2
The present disclosure describes current steering phase control for current-mode logic (CML) circuits. In some aspects, a circuit for frequency division comprises a current sink connected to a ground rail. The circuit also includes first and second current-carrying branches of frequency-dividing circuitry operably connected to respective load resistors, which are connected to a power rail. A first switch element of the circuit is connected between the current sink and the first current-carrying branch and a second switch element of the circuit is connected between the current sink and the second current-carrying branch. The first and second switch elements may steer current sank by the current sink between the first and second current-carrying branches effective to alter a phase of a signal provided by the frequency division circuit.
US09800246B2
A level shifter includes a latch circuit having a first FET and a second FET; an input circuit having a third FET and a fourth FET, the gates of the first and second FETs being coupled to the drains of the fourth and third FETs, respectively; a first resistive device (resistor, diode-connected FET) coupled between and in series with the first and third FETs between a first voltage rail and a second voltage rail; and a second resistive device (resistor, diode-connected FET) coupled between and in series with the second and fourth FETs between the first and second voltage rails. The gates of the third and fourth FETs are configured to receive a first set of complementary voltages, and a second set of complementary voltages are configured to be generated at the gates of the first and second FETs, respectively. The second set of complementary voltages are based on the first set of complementary voltages.
US09800244B2
An inverter circuit includes a pull-up control circuit and a pull-up drive circuit. The pull-up control circuit generates a drive signal which is enabled during a first time period in response to an input signal and an output signal. The pull-up drive circuit drives the output signal to a power supply voltage in response to the input signal and the drive signal. The pull-up drive unit drives the output signal with a first drivability during the first time period and drives the output signal with a second drivability during a second time period.
US09800242B1
An operation switch includes: a capacitance sensor that generates three or more detection signals in response to approach or contact of an object to respective three or more electrodes; a determination circuit that determines whether or not the object is a living body based on one or more detection signals selected from the three or more detection signals, the one or more detection signals excluding a detection signal having a maximum intensity among the three or more detection signals; and a controller that, when the object is determined to be a living body, generates an operation signal for operating a predetermined device.
US09800236B2
A pulse width modulation (PWM) system comprises an analog component and a digital component. The analog component introduces an offset (i.e., a time delay) to analog signals being received at an input with a tuning operation that fine tunes in the analog signals in the analog (continuous time) domain. The analog component comprises an analog delay line comprising a plurality of analog delay components configured to introduce the time delay to the analog signals based on a model of a transmission line.
US09800222B2
A continuous or distributed resonator geometry is defined such that the fabrication process used to form a spring mechanism also forms an effective mass of the resonator structure. Proportional design of the spring mechanism and/or mass element geometries in relation to the fabrication process allows for compensation of process-tolerance-induced fabrication variances. As a result, a resonator having increased frequency accuracy is achieved.
US09800220B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for an audio device with noise interference mitigation capability. The audio device may include an interference detection module to detect an interfering voice audio signal received from an interfering audio source. The device may also include an interference identification module to identify the interfering audio source. The device may further include an impact estimation module to estimate an impact of the interfering voice audio signal on a user of the audio device and a communication module to transmit a volume correction request to the interfering audio source. The volume correction request may be based on the identification and the estimated impact. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09800212B2
A FBDDA amplifier comprising: a first differential input stage, which receives an input voltage; a second differential input stage, which receives a common-mode voltage; a first resistive-degeneration group coupled to the first differential input; a second resistive-degeneration group coupled to the second differential input; a differential output stage, generating an output voltage; a first switch coupled in parallel to the first resistive-degeneration group; and a second switch coupled in parallel to the second resistive-degeneration group. The first and second switches are driven into the closed state when the voltage input assumes a first value such that said first input stage operates in the linear region, and are driven into the open state when the voltage input assumes a second value, higher than the first value, such that the first input stage operates in a non-linear region.
US09800203B2
An apparatus comprises a mechanical resonator-based oscillator module generating a local oscillator signal with a frequency of more than 700 MHz. Further, the apparatus comprises a digital-to-time converter module generating a frequency adapted signal based on the local oscillator signal.
US09800201B1
A photovoltaic module mounting system may include a right-hand support runner and a left-hand support runner. The support runners collectively define a rooftop contacting plane and a photovoltaic module support plane oriented at a predetermined angle relative to the rooftop contacting plane. The support runners may be interconnected with each other, and with additional support runners, to form an interconnected support structure that can be used to mount an array of photovoltaic modules upon a planar surface such as a building rooftop.
US09800198B2
An automatic intelligent hybrid electricity generating device designed to get maximum electrical energy from renewable energy resources i.e., wind and sunlight and works intelligently and moves automatically to get maximum available energy resources i.e., sunlight or wind, thereby eliminating separate installation of solar panels and wind turbine and increases efficiency.
US09800196B2
A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine includes voltage application units 3, 4 for applying voltages respectively to two sets of three-phase windings of AC rotary machine 1, control unit 5 that controls the voltage application units 3, 4, and fault detection units 6, 7 that output fault detection signals to control unit 5 varying in accordance with the ground short fault and the power short fault. When detecting, control unit 5 outputs a voltage command to faulty voltage application unit 3, 4 to set voltages of respective phases of the three-phase windings at a negative electrode side potential V− of DC power supply 2, and when detecting a power short fault, control unit 5 outputs a voltage command to set the voltages of the respective phases of the three-phase windings at a positive electrode side potential V+ of DC power supply 2.
US09800195B2
A system and method of predicting motor failure based on relationships of motor pair characteristics, such as temperatures. One method includes receiving, by a controller, a parameter of a first motor on a mining machine from a first parameter sensor on a mining machine. The method also includes receiving, by the controller, a parameter of a second motor on the mining machine from a second parameter sensor on the mining machine. The method also includes outputting an alarm signal, by the controller, upon (1) determining that at least one of the parameters of the first motor and the second motor exceeds a parameter threshold and (2) determining that the parameter of the first motor differed from the parameter of the second motor by at least a difference threshold for a predetermined amount of time.
US09800194B2
The invention relates to a power supply unit for supplying multiple conductor portions (3) of a stator winding of an electric machine which are inserted in respective slots (2), wherein the power supply unit is configured to supply a first conductor portion and a second conductor portion with at least one different operating parameter of a respective current function and/or the power supply unit is configured to supply a conductor portion with at least two superimposed current functions, which in each case have at least one different operating parameter. Furthermore, the invention relates to an electric machine having such a power supply unit.
US09800189B2
An inverter controller is provided. The controller according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure generates a compensation voltage to compensate an inverter command voltage using motor torque current and motor information, and apply the compensation voltage to the command voltage.
US09800182B2
An electric drive system includes an energy storage system (ESS), a power conversion system, and an alternating current (AC) traction system. The ESS provides or receives electric power. The ESS includes a first energy storage unit and a second energy storage unit. The power conversion system is electrically coupled to the ESS for converting an input power to an output power. The AC traction system is electrically coupled to the power conversion system for converting the output power of the power conversion system to mechanical torques. The AC traction system includes a first AC drive device and a second AC drive device. An energy management system (EMS) is in electrical communication with the ESS, the AC traction system, and the power conversion system for providing control signals.
US09800174B2
Power supply for an inverter and method for operating power supply. Power supply includes a throttle arranged to connect an output end of the inverter to an electric power supply network; a secondary-side auxiliary winding that is arranged on the throttle to transmit an output voltage (UA) of the inverter to a secondary side of the throttle; and a comparator unit. The comparator unit compares a voltage (U1) of the electric supply network with the voltage (U2) of the secondary side of the throttle, to supply, depending upon a result of the comparison of the electric supply network voltage (U1) to the secondary side voltage (U2) of the throttle, electric power to the power supply either from the electric supply network or via the secondary-side auxiliary winding.
US09800171B2
An AC circuit breaker is provided between an AC system and an AC-DC converter, and a DC circuit breaker is provided between a DC line and the AC-DC converter. A bypass switch capable of short-circuiting a converter cell included in the AC-DC converter is connected to the AC-DC converter. At the time of a fault in the DC line, the bypass switch is turned on to interrupt the supply of DC power from the AC system to the DC line.
US09800169B2
A DC power supply device includes a rectifier circuit, a conversion circuit and a control circuit. Conversion circuit includes a first capacitor, a first series circuit, a second series circuit, a third series circuit, a second diode and a Zener diode. First series circuit includes a first inductor and a switching element connected in series with each other. Second series circuit includes a second capacitor and a second inductor connected in series with each other. Third series circuit includes a first diode and a third capacitor connected in series with each other. First series circuit is electrically connected between both ends of first capacitor. Second series circuit is electrically connected in parallel with switching element. A cathode of Zener diode is connected with a connection point of first inductor and second capacitor. Zener diode has a Zener voltage larger than an output voltage of conversion circuit.
US09800167B2
A step-down AC/AC converter for use in an electric distribution system includes at least one chopper circuit for each one of a plurality of phases of the AC power, each chopper circuit including a four-quadrant switch coupled in series between primary and secondary sides of the chopper circuit and a current-bidirectional two-quadrant switch coupled between the secondary side of the chopper circuit and a common node. Each current-bidirectional two-quadrant switch is oriented in the same direction, with respect to the secondary side of the corresponding chopper circuit and the common node. The converter further includes a control circuit configured to pulse-width-modulate control inputs of the switches, to convert a first multiphase AC voltage at the primary sides of the chopper circuits to a second multiphase AC voltage at the secondary sides of the chopper circuits, the second multiphase AC voltage being lower in voltage than the first multiphase AC voltage.
US09800154B2
A voltage supply unit includes a regulator unit, a current mirror, and a cascode unit. The regulator unit is configured to receive first and second voltage signals and generate a third voltage signal. The current mirror is configured to generate first and second current signals based on the third voltage signal. The cascode unit includes a first terminal configured to receive the first current signal, a second terminal configured to receive a first bias voltage signal, a third terminal configured to receive a second bias voltage signal, and a fourth terminal electrically connected to the regulator unit. An output voltage supply signal is controlled by the second current signal.
US09800143B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a charge pump stage having multiple charge storage elements arranged to provide multiple sets of voltages in alternating phases. The integrated circuit may include a voltage multiplexing stage having multiple multiplexers arranged to receive the multiple sets of voltages in the alternating phases. Each multiplexer may provide a selected voltage from the multiple sets of voltages based on a conversion ratio. The integrated circuit may include a voltage summing stage having multiple sampling charge storage elements arranged to receive the selected voltages from each multiplexer and provide an output voltage as a sum of the selected voltages received from each multiplexer.
US09800142B2
A switching element driving circuit includes a charge pump circuit and a drive voltage generating circuit. The charge pump circuit generates a boosted voltage. The drive voltage generating circuit generates a drive voltage for driving a switching element from the boosted voltage. The drive voltage generating circuit applies a current to a control terminal of the switching element through a resistor at least in an initial stage and an end stage of an output period during which a signal instructing the switching element to be turned on is outputted, and alleviates a rising and a falling of the drive voltage. A switching frequency of the charge pump circuit is set from 2 MHz to 30 MHz. As a result, generation of radio noise can be restricted in both of the drive voltage generating circuit and the charge pump circuit.
US09800134B2
Power conversion systems, filter circuits and integrated filter resistor and inductor apparatus are presented, in which a damping resistor is integrated with a filter inductor by winding joined resistor winding portions proximate to one another at least partially around a filter inductor core leg to form an integrated filter resistor and inductor apparatus for interconnection with filter capacitors to provide an input filter or an output filter for a motor drive or other power conversion system.
US09800117B2
A self-cooled motor includes a rotor holder including a cylindrical portion and a bottom plate portion, and configured to rotate with a shaft; a housing supporting a bearing and a stator; and at least one blade rotating together with the shaft to generate an air current traveling radially outward, at least a portion of each blade being located axially below the bottom plate portion of the rotor holder. The housing includes a base portion axially above the rotor holder and an outlet edge portion in the housing and between adjacent ones of the attachment portions, and configured to define a main air outlet axially below, the main air outlet connecting a space radially inside the housing and a space radially outside the housing with each other. The bottom plate portion of the rotor holder includes a rotor vent hole passing therethrough in an axial direction.
US09800115B2
A vibration motor includes an eccentric weight whose center of gravity is positioned outside a shaft and a holder made of resin and holding a ring-shaped back yoke and the eccentric weight. The back yoke includes an overhang portion which extends farther inward in a radial direction than an inner side edge of the opening of a rotor magnet. The holder includes a penetrated portion which is a tube-shaped portion positioned at an axially inner side of the rotor magnet and extends in the axial direction surrounding the shaft, an upper surface portion which expands radially outwardly from an upper side of the penetrated portion to cover an upper surface of the eccentric weight, and a lower surface portion which expands radially outwardly from the lower side of the penetrated portion to cover a lower surface of the overhang portion.
US09800112B2
An electrical collecting and distributing member holding structure is composed of a stator including a multiplicity of cores arranged annularly, windings wound around the multiplicity of cores respectively, and an insulator for electrical insulation between the cores and the windings, a plurality of annular electrical collecting and distributing members held around the stator to collect and distribute electric current to the windings, and a holding portion formed on the insulator. The plurality of electrical collecting and distributing members are being held in the holding portion.
US09800110B2
A system and method for enhanced magnet wire insulation is described. The system of the invention provides an enhanced insulation for magnet wire that is capable of withstanding high temperatures and provides a seal against water that is needed in electric submersible pump (ESP) applications. The enhanced insulation of the system of the invention provides the dielectric advantages of polyimide tape, such as Kapton tape, while also including the advantages of organic polymer thermoplastic insulation that prevents the delaminating at high temperatures that may occur in pumping applications using a variety of electrical submersible motors.
US09800105B2
A rotor core includes a plurality of first electromagnetic steel plates that are stacked in an axial direction and a plurality of second electromagnetic steel plates that are stacked in an axial direction at both ends of the electromagnetic steel plate group thereof. The first electromagnetic steel plates are provided therein with magnet insertion holes and first flux barriers. The second electromagnetic steel plates are provided therein with the magnet insertion holes, second flux barriers, and projections that regulate the positions of the magnets. The second electromagnetic steel plates are stacked at at least one of the axial direction ends of the electromagnetic steel plate group including the plurality of first electromagnetic steel plates and are provided at a position overhanging the axial direction end of a stator core.
US09800092B2
A wireless power-supplying system of the present invention includes a ground-based power-supplying device having a power-supplying coil and a vehicle having a power-receiving coil, and performs power supply from the power-supplying coil to the power-receiving coil in a wireless power supply manner. Further, this wireless power-supplying system includes a foreign matter intrusion prevention unit formed of a flexible material transparent to a magnetic field and having flexibility, and provided on the power-supplying coil to fill a space between the power-supplying coil and the power-receiving coil.
US09800086B2
An electric storage device management system includes a voltage sensor configured to detect a voltage across an electric storage device having a correlation between an open circuit voltage (OCV) and a state of charge (SOC), the correlation including a slight change region and a sharp change region, the slight change region being a region in which a variation in OCV relative to the SOC is equal to or smaller than a reference value, and the sharp change region being a region in which the variation is larger than the reference value.
US09800085B2
Disclosed are solar charging control apparatuses and methods for the same. An apparatus for controlling solar power charging includes a main controller controlling charge/discharge of a battery storing power generated in a solar cell in order to protect overcharge and overdischarge of the battery; and a secondary controller maintaining a sleep mode when a terminal voltage of the battery is not less than a threshold voltage and reviving the main controller by using power generated in the solar cell when the terminal voltage of the battery is less than the threshold voltage. Therefore, even when the main controller of the solar charging control apparatus is downed, the solar charging control apparatus can be ordinarily operated by using power generated by solar cells. Also, costs demanded for managing a solar charging system which is installed in a remote place can be saved.
US09800066B2
An electricity distribution device is connected to a system power supply and a battery pack, and includes: a primary power converter circuit converting DC electric power discharged from the battery pack into electric power supplied to the load; a first switch switching conducting and non-conducting states between the primary power converter circuit and the load; and a control circuitry controlling the first switch to switch the conducting and non-conducting states between the primary power converter circuit and the load. The primary power convertor circuit consumes DC electric power discharged from the battery pack, in a state where the first switch switches the non-conducting state between the primary power convertor circuit and the load, and a current value is acquired when discharging from the fully-charged state to an empty state. The fully-charged capacity of the battery pack is measured using the acquired current value.
US09800062B2
Primary and secondary resonance circuits and include primary and secondary resonance coils and primary and secondary capacitors, respectively. Non-contact power supply is conducted by electromagnetic resonance of the primary and secondary resonance circuits and. A changeover circuit changes over connection of the secondary resonance coil and the secondary capacitor to a series connection or a parallel connection. A detection circuit detects impedance on a power receipt side. A changeover control circuit controls changeover conducted by the changeover circuit, depending upon the impedance detected by the detection circuit.
US09800053B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar cell panel that includes a front-side cover, a back-side cover, a number of solar cells situated between the front-side cover and the back-side cover, and a number of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) devices situated between the front-side cover and the back-side cover.
US09800052B2
Embodiments relate to a method and system for power demand shaping (PDS) so as to manage power generation and use. Specific embodiments relate to data center power demand shaping to achieve high-performance low-overhead data center operation. Specific embodiments can incorporate standard (utility power) energy sources, renewable energy sources, or a combination of standard (utility power) energy sources and renewable energy sources. Embodiments of the subject PDS techniques can incorporate trimming the data center load power so as to allow DG systems to follow the power demand efficiently and/or incorporate two adaptive load tuning schemes that can boost data center performance and enable near-oracle operation during power demand trimming process. To implement a cross-layer power optimization scheme, embodiments of the subject invention relate to a power management module that can reside between front-end distributed generation and back-end computing facilities to provide a coordinated tuning between the supply and load.
US09800048B2
An integrated circuit is provided with interface circuitry used to provide an interface between functional circuitry of the integrated circuit and components external to the integrated circuit. The functional circuitry is configured to operate from a first power supply and has a power supply distribution network associated therewith providing the first power supply to the functional components of the functional circuitry. The interface comprises a plurality of interface cells that have interface components operating from a second power supply different to the first power supply. A power supply line structure is shared by the plurality of interface cells, and arranged to provide the second power supply to the interface components. In addition, at least a subset of the interface cells include additional interface components that operate from the first power supply. Each such interface cell is arranged to have independent connection to the power supply distribution network in order to receive the first power supply. This avoids the need to incorporate any lines within the power supply line structure for provision of the first power supply to such additional interface components.
US09800047B2
A supply module for insertion into a module chain of functional modules mounted side by side along a concatenation axis and electrically connected to one another in a Z-linkage includes a first coupling surface having a plurality of electric input terminals, and a second coupling surface having a plurality of electric output terminals, wherein a specifiable assignment of the input terminals to the output terminals is provided, and wherein at least one input terminal is designed as a supply input for feeding in a supply voltage from an upstream functional module and at least one output terminal is designed as a supply output for transferring the supply voltage to a downstream functional module. An additional input for feeding in an additional supply voltage and an output terminal are provided for transferring the additional supply voltage to at least one functional module arranged downstream along the concatenation axis.
US09800039B2
An asymmetric Stockbridge damper including a clamp and two weights of unequal mass connected to the damper. The damper may further include one or two messenger strands connecting the weights to the clamp. The weights may be situated so that they are an unequal distance from the clamp. The damper may further include a base connected to the clamp, and the weights may be connected to the base. The weights may be bell-shaped. The weights may have smooth contours. The clamp may use a breakaway bolt. The clamp may be designed for high temperature conductor applications. The messenger strands may be made of a 19-strand cable. The messenger strands may be attached to end of the weights and flushed to those ends.
US09800037B2
An access module for providing access to an opening in a table, includes a grommet mounted to the table within the opening and including a top flange spaced apart from a work surface of the table, such that a flange space of the opening is defined from the work surface of the table to the top flange of the grommet; and a bezel mounted to the grommet and including a flange that is only located in the flange space.
US09800033B1
Technologies are described for an outlet cover system. The systems may include a cover, base and coupling system. The base and cover of the outlet cover system may be joined using the coupling system. The coupling system may include a bottom half and a top half. The bottom half and top half may be joined using an anchor. The anchor may include an anchor head, anchor shaft and anchor lid. The anchor head includes flares which can compress and expand to prevent its removal from the coupling system. The joining of the bottom and top half of the coupling system allows the outlet cover system to move between open and closed positions.
US09800021B2
A semiconductor laser device having a diffraction grating is disclosed. The semiconductor laser device comprises a first diffraction grating provided on a substrate, a second diffraction grating continuous to one end of the first diffraction grating along an optical waveguide direction, and an active layer provided above the first diffraction grating. The second diffraction grating has a pitch 1.05 times or greater, or 0.95 times or smaller of the pitch of the first diffraction grating.
US09800019B2
An optical coherence analysis system uses a laser swept source that is constrained to operate in a stable mode locked condition by modulating a drive current to the semiconductor optical amplifier as function of wavelength or synchronously with the drive voltage of the laser's tunable element based on stability map for the laser.
US09800018B2
A chip scale ultra violet laser source includes a plurality of laser elements on a substrate each including a back cavity mirror, a tapered gain medium, an outcoupler, a nonlinear crystal coupled to the outcoupler with a front facet that has a first coating that is anti-reflectivity (AR) to a fundamental wavelength of the laser element and high reflectivity (HR) to ultra violet wavelengths, and has an exit facet that has a second coating that has HR to a fundamental wavelength of the laser element and AR to the ultra violet wavelengths, a photodetector coupled to the outcoupler, a phase modulator coupled to the photodetector and coupled to the back cavity mirror, and a master laser diode on the substrate coupled to the phase modulator of each laser element. Each laser element emits an ultra violet beamlet and is frequency and phase locked to the master laser diode.
US09800017B1
A laser illumination or dazzler device and method. More specifically, examples of the present invention provide laser illumination or dazzling devices power by one or more violet, blue, or green laser diodes characterized by a wavelength from about 390 nm to about 550 nm. In some examples the laser illumination or dazzling devices include a laser pumped phosphor wherein a laser beam with a first wavelength excites a phosphor member to emit electromagnetic at a second wavelength. In various examples, laser illumination or dazzling devices according to the present invention include polar, non-polar, or semi-polar laser diodes. In a specific example, a single laser illumination or dazzling device includes a plurality of violet, blue, or green laser diodes. There are other examples as well.
US09800008B2
A terminal crimping machine includes a termination tool having crimp tooling defining a crimping zone that receives the terminal and the wire. The crimp tooling is actuated during a crimp stroke to crimp the terminal to the wire. The terminal crimping machine includes a wire clamp holding the wire near the crimping zone. The wire clamp releases the wire prior to completion of the crimp to allow extrusion of the wire during the crimping process. Optionally, the wire clamp may release the wire prior to bottom dead center of the crimp stroke. The wire clamp may release the wire after the terminal partially retains the wire.
US09800004B1
A busbar connector assembly that includes a housing having two portions facing one another that each have an attachment section and a guide section. A first receiving area of the housing receives a first busbar. A second receiving area of the housing receives a second busbar. First and second contact members are coupled to the housing portions. The first and second contact members each have a fixed end and a flexible end having a busbar contact surface. The housing has first and second open ends leading into the receiving areas. The first open end has a continuous width. The second open end includes lead-in surfaces formed in the housing guide sections. The lead-in surfaces define a largest width of the second open end converging to a smallest width thereof. The smallest width of the second open end is substantially the same as the width of the first open end.
US09799999B1
An electrical receptacle connector has an insulated housing. A first terminal set and a second terminal set are held in the insulated housing. The first terminal set has two first grounding terminals, two first power terminals and multiple signal terminals. Each one of the terminals of the first terminal set has a first soldering section. The second terminal set has two second grounding terminals, two second power terminals and multiple signal terminals. Each one of the terminals of the second terminal set has a second soldering section. The second soldering sections of the second grounding terminals are located next to the first soldering sections of the first grounding terminals. The second soldering sections of the second power terminals are located next to the first soldering sections of the first power terminals. A soldering process of the connecter is improved by clustering the grounding terminals and the power terminals.
US09799997B2
An electrical connector includes a housing and a conductive contact member disposed in the housing. A first contact portion of the conductive contact member receives a blade contact of an electrical device and a second contact portion electrically engages an inserted electrical wire. A spring member is disposed in the housing and is connected to the contact member. A rotatable member is movable between first and second positions. When the rotatable member is in the second position the spring member secures an inserted wire in electrical engagement with the conductive contact member and prevents removal of the inserted wire. When the rotatable member is in the first position the spring member allows for removal of an inserted wire and allows for insertion of a wire in the housing.
US09799995B1
Combined connector receptacles, examples of which provide an upper housing having openings for tongues on each of two lower housings to simplify alignment of the tongues to a device enclosure, and inner shields around the lower housings and an outer shield around the upper housing and lower housings to provide isolation.
US09799994B2
A high speed socket connector is disclosed in this invention, including a case, a terminal mold, an upper shield and a lower shield. The terminal mold includes an insulative body, a row of upper terminals and a row of lower terminals. The insulative body forms multiple first openings and second openings. The upper terminals and the lower terminals both include multiple differential pairs of signal terminals and multiple grounding terminals. Each signal terminal has a serpentine retaining section exposed in the corresponding first opening. Each grounding terminal has a straight retaining section exposed in the corresponding second opening. The upper shield and the lower shield are respectively mounted on the top and the bottom of the terminal mold. The high speed socket connector can realize a good shielding effect by the connection of the upper and lower shields and the grounding terminals.
US09799989B1
Present disclosure relates to a power connector assembly. The power connector assembly includes a vaporizer connector portion and a power module connector portion. The vaporizer connector portion includes a vaporizer connector body forming a negative terminal of the vaporizer connector portion and a locking mechanism. The power module connector portion includes a power module connector body forming a negative terminal of the power module connector portion and the locking mechanism. When locking mechanism of power module connector portion is engaged in a locking position with the locking mechanism of the vaporizer connector portion, a positive terminal of the power module connector portion is electrically coupled to a positive terminal of the vaporizer connector portion, and a negative terminal of the power module connector portion is electrically coupled to a negative terminal of the vaporizer connector portion, respectively, to provide electric power to the vaporizer connector portion from a power module.
US09799983B2
A connector assembly includes an electrical contact subassembly and an outer housing. The contact subassembly is terminated to an electrical cable. The outer housing defines a cavity and holds the contact subassembly in the cavity. A mating segment of the outer housing defines a socket of the cavity that is configured to receive a plug end of a mating connector assembly. The outer housing further includes an interface seal within the cavity. The interface seal is configured to engage the plug end of the mating connector assembly during a mating operation to seal an interface between the connector assembly and the mating connector assembly. The seal may be formed by in-situ molding in the outer housing.
US09799980B2
A contact for electrical connectors including a contact member, a box-shaped hood extending along a longitudinal axis and enclosing at least partially the contact member, the sheet-metal part having a first connection portion with a first abutment edge and a second connection portion with a second abutment edge wherein the first and second abutment edges abut each other, wherein the first connection portion is provided with a first connection element at the front side, and the second connection portion is provided with a second connection element at the front side, and the first connection element and the second connection element engage each other so as to lock the first connection portion and the second connection portion against detaching the first and second connection portions away from each other.
US09799977B1
An electrical connector includes an insulation kit having an accommodating groove and a separation portion disposed in the accommodating groove, and the separation portion having a penetration hole penetrating the insulation kit; a conductive assembly sheathing the separation portion and disposed in the accommodating groove, and having a conductive kit and a conductive retainer and a flexible member disposed in the conductive kit; and an electrical conductive member disposed in the penetration hole of which one end is exposed outside one end of the conductive retainer. When a part of the conductive retainer which is exposed outside the conductive kit is electrically connected to another electrical connector, the conductive retainer is compressed to compress the flexible member to enable the flexible member to produce a restoring force, and then the conductive retainer is electrically connected to another electrical connector more stably through the restoring force.
US09799964B2
A built-in antenna device for an electronic device for communication used in a multi-band is provided. The built-in antenna device includes a PCB, a first antenna radiator disposed on the PCB, and a second antenna radiator which has the same power feeding point as the first antenna radiator and is disposed at a housing of the electronic device, wherein the first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator are configured to operate at different frequency bands.
US09799963B2
An antenna system includes a system ground plane, a first antenna array, and a second antenna array. The first antenna array includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a third antenna element, and a fourth antenna element. The second antenna array includes a fifth antenna element, a sixth antenna element, a seventh antenna element, and an eighth antenna element. The second antenna array is disposed between the first antenna array and the system ground plane. The first antenna array has a first polarization direction. The second antenna array has a second polarization direction. The first polarization direction and the second polarization direction are orthogonal to each other.
US09799962B2
Provided is a dual-polarized dipole antenna. The dual-polarized dipole antenna includes a substrate etched as first and second microstrip lines and provided in a cube, first to fourth feeding lines etched as third microstrip lines and disposed in a square type in a vertical direction to the substrate, and first to fourth radiation patches disposed in a square type in the vertical direction to the first to fourth feeding unit, wherein the first to fourth feeding units are respectively disposed on adjacent pairs of the first to fourth radiation patches. According to the present invention, a miniature dual-polarized dipole antenna having a wide bandwidth, high isolation characteristics, and a high gain can be provided.
US09799954B2
An apparatus for reducing interference and improving communication quality for RF communications over mm-wave frequency bands between wireless communications devices. In one embodiment, for example, the apparatus comprises a plurality of high-gain directional antenna elements each configured to maximally radiate in different directions relative to the apparatus. The apparatus also includes a RFIC chip electrically coupled to the plurality of antenna elements and configured to switch from driving any one of the directional antenna elements to driving another of the directional antenna elements thereby providing a multi-directional or near omni-directional radiation capability for a wireless communications device.
US09799951B2
An antenna unit includes a base having a base-side fitting portion, antenna elements disposed on the base, an inner case fixed to the base and covering the antenna elements, and an outer case mounted on the base covering the inner case. The outer case 50 has an outer-case-side fitting portion fitted to the base-side fitting portion.
US09799945B2
There is provided a folding antenna device including a first case to which a first antenna is attached, a second case to which a second antenna is attached, and a hinge section configured to openably and closably support the first case and the second case.
US09799939B2
A filtering device includes at least one dielectric resonant element, which includes a dielectric block, an outer conductor, and an inner conductor, a terminal disposed in a through hole of the dielectric resonant element from a front surface, a plate-shaped circuit element electrically coupled with the at least one dielectric resonant element via the terminal, and a substrate on which the at last one dielectric resonant element and the plate-shaped circuit element are mounted. The outer conductor is disposed so as to cover the back surface besides the peripheral surface of the dielectric block. The first end surface of the dielectric block includes a first electrode-free portion that electrically isolates the inner conductor from the outer conductor, and a second electrode-free portion that electrically isolates the inner conductor from the outer conductor.
US09799937B2
The present invention relates to a waveguide E-plane filter component comprising a first and second main part (2) with a corresponding first and second waveguide section part (3). The main parts (2) are mounted to each other, such that a waveguide arrangement is formed. The waveguide arrangement has a height and a width. The waveguide E-plane filter component further comprises at least one electrically conducting foil (10, 11) that is placed between the main parts (3), said foil comprising a filter part (25) with apertures (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d). Each pair of adjacent apertures is separated by a corresponding foil conductor (13a, 13b, 13c) of which at least one is constituted by a tuning foil conductor (13a) that has a first, second and third part (14, 16, 18) with a corresponding first, second and third width (15, 17, 19).
US09799933B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a solid-state battery system includes a first anode, a first cathode, a first solid-state electrolyte layer positioned between the first anode and the first cathode, a housing enclosing the first anode, the first cathode, and the first solid-state electrolyte layer, and at least one thermal control wire positioned within the housing and configured to modify a temperature within the housing.
US09799928B2
A battery pack includes a battery cell having an electrode tab and a protective circuit module electrically connected to the electrode tab. The protective circuit module has a first surface in an assembling direction of the electrode tab and a second surface opposite the first surface. The electrode tab is separated from the first surface. Therefore, the battery pack has an improved connection structure between the battery cell and the protective circuit module, and short circuits can be prevented or substantially prevented.
US09799924B2
An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery including a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a pyrrolidine derivative represented by Formula 1, wherein, in Formula 1, X is hydrogen, a formyl group or a salt thereof, a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, a C1-C20 alkyl group, a C1-C20 hydroxyalkyl group, a C1-C20 aminoalkyl group, a C1-C20 thioalkyl group, or a C1-C20 cyanoalkyl group, and R1 to R4 are each independently hydrogen, deuterium, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a thio group, a cyano group, a nitro group, an amino group, an amidino group, a hydrazine, a hydrazone, a formyl group or a salt thereof, a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, a sulfonic acid group or a salt thereof, a phosphoric acid or a salt thereof, a C1-C20 hydroxyalkyl group, a C2-C20 heteroaryl group, or a C6-C20 aryl group.
US09799919B2
A method for production of a magnesium battery with low impedance is provided. A cell is constructed comprising an uncoated current collector anode, an electrolyte system comprising a non-aqueous solvent and a magnesium salt soluble in the non-aqueous solvent, and a cathode. The cell is charged to electrodeposit magnesium metal unto the uncoated current collector to obtain an anode having magnesium metal as the active material. Also provided are rechargeable magnesium batteries obtained by the method.
US09799916B2
A lithium ion battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. In an example, a positive electrode for the lithium ion battery includes a lithium transition metal oxide-based active material and a high surface area carbon. The positive electrode further includes a reactive binder having a macrocycle bonded thereto.
US09799912B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly including a first electrode and a second electrode. The electrode assembly is spirally-wound. The rechargeable battery also include a case has an opening into which the electrode assembly is inserted, a cover coupled to the case at the opening, and a terminal electrically connected to the second electrode. The terminal extends to the outside of the case. The electrode assembly includes two side surfaces facing opposite directions and two curved surfaces that connect the two side surfaces. A surface of the cover faces a first side surface of the two side surfaces.
US09799899B2
A power generator includes a hydrogen producing fuel and a hydrogen storage element. A fuel cell having a proton exchange membrane separates the hydrogen producing fuel from ambient. A valve is positioned between the hydrogen storage element and the hydrogen producing fuel and the fuel cell. Hydrogen is provided to the fuel cell from the hydrogen storage element if demand for electricity exceeds the hydrogen producing capacity of the hydrogen producing fuel.
US09799881B2
A Li-air battery is provided. The battery contains: an anode compartment containing lithium or a lithium alloy as active metal; a cathode compartment supplied with an O2 source; and a lithium ion conductive membrane separating the anode compartment from the cathode compartment. The cathode compartment contains an air electrode with a skin alloy platinum or palladium catalyst.
US09799878B2
Disclosed are a cathode active material for high voltage and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, a cathode active material including spinel-type compound particles having a composition represented by Formula 1 below; Li1+aMxMn2−xO4−zAz (1) where a, x and z are defined in a specification of the present invention, and metal oxides or metal hydroxides present on surfaces of the spinel-type compound particles, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US09799873B2
A battery assembly includes at least one first cell unit of a first cell type and a first connection which is connected to a pole of the at least one first cell unit. The battery assembly also includes at least one second cell unit of a second cell type. The at least one second cell unit is different from the at least one first cell unit. The battery assembly also includes a second connection which is connected to a pole of the at least one second cell unit.
US09799869B2
The following disclosure relates to a microporous polyolefin composite film having excellent heat resistance and thermal stability, and a method for manufacturing the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a microporous polyolefin composite film capable of improving stability and reliability of a battery by heat sealing an edge of a microporous film provided with a coating layer that includes a polymer binder and inorganic particles, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US09799867B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a laminated porous film excellent in handling ability. A laminated porous film having a layer containing a polymer other than a polyolefin laminated on at least one surface of a polyolefin porous film, wherein the uplift quantity of a side perpendicular to the machine direction, when allowed to stand still for 1 hour under an environment of a temperature of 23° C. and a humidity of 50%, is 15 mm or less.
US09799864B2
A battery is provided. The battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a separator; wherein the separator comprises a base which is formed from a non-woven fabric, and a surface layer which is formed on at least one of the surfaces of the base and includes a resin material and inorganic particles, and the separator is formed by a pressurizing process being carried out on at least one of the surfaces of the surface layer, a thickness of the base is 12 μm or more and 30 μm or less, an average particle diameter of primary particles of the inorganic particles is 0.3 μm or more and 0.8 μm or less, a thickness of the surface layer is 1 μm or more and 10 μm or less.
US09799862B2
Provided is a battery pack. The battery pack includes: a case including a cavity; a core pack that inserts into the cavity and comprising a plurality of batteries; a first cover coupled to a side of the case; and a second cover coupled to the other side of the case. The case further includes a plurality of guide grooves formed in inner corners of the case and extending in a length direction of the case, and the core pack further includes a plurality of ridges that respectively slide into the guide grooves in the length direction of the case.
US09799858B2
A button cell includes a housing consisting of two metal housing halves, an electrode separator assembly in the form of a preferably spiral-shaped winding inside the housing, and metal conductors which electrically connect the electrodes of the assembly to the housing halves, wherein at least one of the conductors is connected to the respective housing half by welding.
US09799855B2
The present invention discloses a diode and a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus. The diode comprises a composite anode, a transparent metal oxide layer, a basic stack layer, and a composite cathode. The composite anode comprises a transparent anode layer and a first transparent metal layer. The first transparent metal layer is formed on the transparent anode layer. The transparent metal oxide layer is formed on the first transparent metal layer. The basic stack layer is formed on the transparent metal oxide layer. The composite cathode comprises two second transparent metal layers. The two second transparent metal layers are formed on the basic stack layer. Both transmittance and efficiency of the diode are significantly improved. The reliability of the diode is improved to elongate the lifetime of the diode.
US09799848B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescent display device, including a substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the substrate, and an encapsulation layer formed on the organic light-emitting device and the substrate. The encapsulation layer includes an inorganic layer and a polymer organic layer alternatingly stacked with an intermediate layer formed of a first organic monomer between the inorganic layer and the polymer organic layer, and one surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the inorganic layer through bonding sites on a surface of the inorganic layer and another surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the organic layer by polymerization.
US09799838B2
Novel ligands for metal complex compounds that are useful as a phosphorescent emitter in organic light emitting devices that incorporate fluorinated side chains in the ligands are disclosed. Such metal complex has at least one substituent R selected from the group consisting of partially fluorinated alkyl, partially fluorinated cycloalkyl, and combinations thereof, wherein R is directly bonded to an aromatic ring, In the compound, C having an F attached thereto is separated by at least one carbon atom from the aromatic ring.
US09799835B2
The present invention provides a novel compound capable of improving light emitting efficiency, stability, and lifespan of the element, an organic electric element using the same, and an electronic device for the same.
US09799832B2
An organic thin-film transistor including: a gate electrode, an organic semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on a substrate, in which the organic semiconductor layer includes an organic semiconductor and a resin (C) having one or more groups selected from the group consisting of a group having fluorine atoms, a group having silicon atoms, an alkyl group having one or more carbon atoms or having two or more carbon atoms in a case of forming an alkoxycarbonyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an aromatic ring group substituted with at least one alkyl group, and an aromatic ring group substituted with at least one cycloalkyl group; and a method for manufacturing an organic thin-film transistor including: applying a coating solution which contains the organic semiconductor and the resin (C) and causing the resin (C) to be unevenly distributed.
US09799829B2
A method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes: forming a separation layer of a metal over a substrate; treating the separation layer with plasma under an atmosphere containing nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, and hydrogen; forming a layer over the plasma-treated separation layer, the layer being capable of supplying hydrogen and nitrogen to the separation layer; forming a functional layer over the separation layer; performing heat treatment to promote the release of hydrogen and nitrogen from the layer; and separating the substrate at the separation layer. The method allows the formation of an extremely thin oxide layer over the separation layer, which facilitates the separation, reduces the probability that the oxide layer remains under the layer, and contributes to the increase in efficiency of a device included in the functional layer.
US09799825B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for tuning a functional property of a device. The device (210) includes a layer of a dielectric material (214) disposed over and forming an interface (216) with a layer of an electrically conductive target material (222). The dielectric material layer includes at least one ionic species having a high ion mobility. The target material is configured such that a potential difference applied to the device can cause the at least one ionic species to migrate reversibly across the interface into or out of the target material layer. The mobility of the at least one ionic species can be tuned by exposing the device to electromagnetic radiation and/or a temperature change.
US09799824B2
A memory cell includes an elongated first electrode coupled to a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure and an elongated second electrode aligned with the elongated first electrode coupled to the MTJ structure. The elongated electrodes are configured to direct mutually additive portions of a switching current induced magnetic field through the MTJ. The mutually additive portions enhance switching of the MTJ in response to application of the switching current.
US09799823B1
Techniques relate to forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). A magnetic reference layer is formed adjacent to a tunnel barrier layer. The magnetic reference layer includes a pinned layer, a spacer layer adjacent to the pinned layer, and a polarizing enhancement layer adjacent to the spacer layer. A magnetic free layer is formed adjacent to the tunnel barrier layer so as to be opposite the magnetic reference layer.
US09799818B2
There is provided an ultrasound probe capable of efficiently discharging heat generated in a plurality of piezoelectric elements to the outside. A heat collecting portion that includes at least one heat conducting path and is formed of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than a backing member collects heat from a plurality of piezoelectric elements, and a heat exhausting portion connected to the heat collecting portion discharges the heat collected in the heat collecting portion to the outside. The heat conducting path extends in a thickness direction within the backing member and has a distal end exposed from the top surface of the backing member facing the bottom surface of each of the plurality of piezoelectric elements.
US09799807B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element and a sealing resin member. The substrate includes a flexible base, a plurality of wiring portions and a groove portion. The groove portion is formed between the plurality of wiring portions spaced apart from each other, and includes a first groove portion, a second groove portion, and a third groove portion extending in a direction intersecting the first and second groove portions. The first and third groove portions are connected to each other with a curve. The second and third groove portions are connected to each other with a curve. The sealing resin member seals the light emitting element and the substrate. The sealing resin member is arranged on the third groove portion and spaced apart from the first groove portion and the second groove portion.
US09799801B2
A method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprises the following steps: providing a substrate, depositing a sacrificial layer, depositing a functional semiconductor layer sequence, laterally patterning the functional semiconductor layer sequence, and oxidizing the sacrificial layer in a wet thermal oxidation process.
US09799792B2
A method for thermal exfoliation includes providing a target layer on a substrate to form a structure. A stressor layer is deposited on the target layer. The structure is placed in a temperature controlled environment to induce differential thermal expansion between the target layer and the substrate. The target layer is exfoliated from the substrate when a critical temperature is achieved such that the target layer is separated from the substrate to produce a standalone, thin film device.
US09799779B2
A system and method includes a circuit for protecting a photovoltaic string. A bypass switch connects in parallel to the photovoltaic string and a hot spot protection switch connects in series with the photovoltaic string. A first control signal controls opening and closing of the bypass switch and a second control signal controls opening and closing of the hot spot protection switch. Upon detection of a hot spot condition the first control signal closes the bypass switch and after the bypass switch is closed the second control signal opens the hot spot protection switch.
US09799776B2
A semi-floating gate transistor is implemented as a vertical FET built on a silicon substrate, wherein the source, drain, and channel are vertically aligned, on top of one another. Current flow between the source and the drain is influenced by a control gate and a semi-floating gate. Front side contacts can be made to each one of the source, drain, and control gate terminals of the vertical semi-floating gate transistor. The vertical semi-floating gate FET further includes a vertical tunneling FET and a vertical diode. Fabrication of the vertical semi-floating gate FET is compatible with conventional CMOS manufacturing processes, including a replacement metal gate process. Low-power operation allows the vertical semi-floating gate FET to provide a high current density compared with conventional planar devices.
US09799774B2
A switch circuit that can control an electrical connection state without additionally providing a control circuit is provided. The switch circuit includes a transistor, a first switch which control an electrical connection state between a gate of the transistor and a wiring, a second switch, a first diode including an anode and a cathode, a third switch, and a second diode including an anode and a cathode. An electrical connection state between the anode of the first diode and the gate of the transistor is controlled by the second switch, and the cathode of the first diode is electrically connected to a source of the transistor. An electrical connection state between the anode of the second diode and the gate of the transistor is controlled by the third switch, and the cathode of the second diode is electrically connected to a drain of the transistor.
US09799768B2
A semiconductor device includes: a sidewall insulating film; a gate electrode; source and drain regions; a first stress film; and a second stress film.
US09799766B2
A high voltage transistor structure comprises a first double diffused region and a second double diffused region formed in a first well of a substrate, wherein the first and second double diffused regions are of the same conductivity as the substrate, a first drain/source region formed in the first double diffused region, a first gate electrode formed over the first well and a second drain/source region formed in the second double diffused region. The high voltage transistor structure further comprises a first spacer formed on a first side of the first gate electrode, wherein the first spacer is between the first drain/source region and the first gate electrode, a second spacer formed on a second side of the first gate electrode and a first oxide protection layer formed between the second drain/source region and the second spacer.
US09799765B1
In an embodiment, this invention relates to a vertical field-effect transistor component including a bottom source-drain layer and a method of creating the same. The method of forming a bottom source-drain layer of a vertical field-effect transistor component can comprise forming an anchor structure on a substrate. A sacrificial layer can be deposited on a middle region of the substrate and a channel layer can be deposited on the sacrificial layer. A plurality of vertical fins can be formed on the substrate and the sacrificial layer can be removed such that the plurality of vertical fins in the middle region form a plurality of floating fins having a gap located between the plurality of floating fins and the substrate. The bottom source-drain layer can then be formed such that the bottom source-drain layer fills in the gap.
US09799756B1
Semiconductor structure including germanium-on-insulator lateral bipolar junction transistors and methods of fabricating the same generally include formation of a silicon passivation layer at an interface between the insulator layer and a germanium layer.
US09799746B2
Techniques for preventing leakage of contact material into air-gap spacers during contact formation. For example, a method comprises forming a contact trench on a semiconductor structure over an air-gap spacer and depositing a liner in the contact trench. The liner deposition material fills a portion of the air-gap spacer pinching off the contact trench to the air-gap spacer.
US09799744B2
A method of manufacturing the TFT array substrate includes steps of: forming a first electrically conductive layer on the substrate, the first electrically conductive layer including a first electrically conductive pattern and a first signal line connected electrically to the first electrically conductive pattern located in a pixel region, and a first lead wire connected electrically to the first signal line; forming an insulation layer on the substrate formed with the first electrically conductive layer, the insulation layer including a first via-hole through which the first lead wire is exposed; and forming a second electrically conductive film on the substrate formed with the insulation layer, the second electrically conductive film being connected electrically to the first lead wire through the first via-hole in the insulation layer.
US09799738B2
A semiconductor device includes a field electrode structure with a field electrode and a field dielectric surrounding the field electrode. A semiconductor body includes a transistor section surrounding the field electrode structure and including a source zone, a first drift zone section and a body zone separating the source zone and the first drift zone section. The body zone forms a first pn junction with the source zone and a second pn junction with the first drift zone section. A gate structure surrounds the field electrode structure and includes a gate electrode and a gate dielectric separating the gate electrode and the body zone. A contact structure directly adjoins the source and body zones and surrounds the field electrode structure equably with respect to the field electrode structure.
US09799736B1
A gallium-doped sacrificial epitaxial or polycrystalline germanium layer is formed on a silicon germanium substrate having a high percentage of germanium followed by annealing to diffuse the gallium into the silicon germanium substrate. The germanium layer is selectively removed to expose the surface of a gallium-doped silicon germanium region within the silicon germanium substrate. The process has application to the formation of electrically conductive regions within integrated circuits such as source/drain regions and junctions without the introduction of carbon into such regions.
US09799733B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a first conductive-type SiC semiconductor layer, and a Schottky metal, comprising molybdenum and having a thickness of 10 nm to 150 nm, that contacts the surface of the SiC semiconductor layer. The junction of the SiC semiconductor layer to the Schottky metal has a planar structure, or a structure with recesses and protrusions of equal to or less than 5 nm. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a step of forming a Schottky metal, comprising molybdenum and having a thickness of 10 nm to 150 nm, on the surface of a first conductive-type SiC semiconductor layer; and a step for heat treating the Schottky metal while the surface thereof is exposed, and structuring the junction of the SiC semiconductor layer to the Schottky metal to be planar, or to have recesses and protrusions of equal to or less than 5 nm.
US09799725B2
There are disclosed herein various implementations of an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) having a deep superjunction structure. Such an IGBT includes a drift region having a first conductivity type situated over a collector having a second conductivity type. The IGBT also includes a gate trench extending through a base having the second conductivity type into the drift region. In addition, the IGBT includes a deep superjunction structure situated under the gate trench. The deep superjunction structure includes one or more first conductivity regions having the first conductivity type and two or more second conductivity region having the second conductivity type, the one or more first conductivity regions and the two or more second conductivity regions configured to substantially charge-balance the deep superjunction structure.
US09799718B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels disposed over a substrate. Each pixel includes a scan line extending along a first direction, a data line extending along a second direction which is different from the first direction. Each pixel includes a switching thin film transistor connected to the scan line and the data line and including a switching gate electrode, a switching source electrode, and a switching drain electrode, a driving thin film transistor connected to the switching thin film transistor and including a driving gate electrode, a driving source electrode, and a driving drain electrode, and a storage capacitor connected to the driving thin film transistor and including a first capacitor electrode, a dielectric layer, and a second capacitor electrode which are sequentially stacked. Each of the first capacitor electrode and the second capacitor electrode is disposed on a different layer from those of the scan line and the data line.
US09799717B2
An organic light emitting diode display is disclosed that includes a shield layer on a substrate; a semiconductor layer on the shield layer; a gate insulating layer on the semiconductor layer; a first gate electrode on the gate insulating layer; a first interlayer dielectric layer on the first gate electrode; a second gate electrode and a connection electrode on the first interlayer dielectric layer, the connection electrode electrically connected to the shield layer and passing through the semiconductor layer; a second interlayer dielectric layer on the second gate electrode and the connection electrode; a source electrode and a drain electrode on the second interlayer dielectric layer, the drain electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and the source electrode electrically connected to the connection electrode; an insulating layer on the drain electrode and the source electrode; and a first electrode on the insulating layer and electrically connected to the source electrode.
US09799712B2
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting display device, the method including forming a first electrode on a substrate for each pixel of a plurality of pixels; forming a pixel defining film on the first electrode such that the pixel defining film includes an opening exposing the first electrode; and forming an organic layer on the first electrode, wherein forming the organic layer includes providing an organic solution into the opening of the pixel defining film, and drying the organic solution by performing an exhaust process in a state where an air current is provided by using a drying gas such that the air current is sequentially composed of a position facing the organic solution, a position to which the organic solution is discharged, and a position facing the organic solution.
US09799709B2
The present invention discloses a pixel unit, a method of manufacturing the same and a display device. The pixel unit comprises an anode layer, a pixel definition layer, an organic light-emitting layer and a cathode layer, wherein the anode layer includes a plurality of pixel anodes in an array arrangement, and the pixel definition layer is disposed on the anode layer and includes a plurality of spaced pixel definition units, wherein the pixel definition units correspond to the pixel anodes one by one, and each pixel definition unit delimits a light-emitting region on the corresponding pixel anode, and the organic light-emitting layer is provided within the light-emitting regions, and the cathode layer is provided on the organic light-emitting layer. The present invention remarkably increases light extraction efficiency by improving the structure of the pixel unit.
US09799705B1
The present invention provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a contact structure disposed in a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer and having an opening disposed therein, a spacer disposed in the opening and partially covering the contact structure, and a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) disposed on the contact structure and directly contacting the spacer, wherein the RRAM includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a switching resistance layer disposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode.
US09799701B2
Disclosed is an image sensor, which is characterized by increased strength of adhesion between a photoconductive layer and a substrate, and which includes a protective film formed on the surface of a substrate having a pad electrode, a buffer layer formed on the protective film and composed of a precious metal material or an oxide material, a photoconductive layer formed on the buffer layer, and an upper electrode formed on the photoconductive layer.
US09799698B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels composed of a photoelectric conversion section and a pixel transistor is arranged; an on-chip color filter; an on-chip microlens; and a multilayer interconnection layer in which a plurality of layers of interconnections is formed through an interlayer insulating film. The solid-state imaging device further includes a light-shielding film formed through an insulating layer in a pixel boundary of a light receiving surface in which the photoelectric conversion section is arranged.
US09799696B1
An image sensor includes a semiconductor material with a photodiode disposed in the semiconductor material. The image sensor also includes a transfer gate electrically coupled to the photodiode to extract image charge from the photodiode in response to a transfer signal. A floating diffusion is electrically coupled to the transfer gate to receive the image charge from the photodiode. At least one isolation structure is disposed in the photodiode, and the at least one isolation structure extends from a surface of the semiconductor material into the photodiode.
US09799693B2
Disclosed are structures and methods of forming the structures so as to have a photodetector isolated from a substrate by stacked trench isolation regions. In one structure, a first trench isolation region is in and at the top surface of a substrate and a second trench isolation region is in the substrate below the first. A photodetector is on the substrate aligned above the first and second trench isolation regions. In another structure, a semiconductor layer is on an insulator layer and laterally surrounded by a first trench isolation region. A second trench isolation region is in and at the top surface of a substrate below the insulator layer and first trench isolation region. A photodetector is on the semiconductor layer and extends laterally onto the first trench isolation region. The stacked trench isolation regions provide sufficient isolation below the photodetector to allow for direct coupling with an off-chip optical fiber.
US09799692B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device photoelectrically converting light taken by a lens; and a light shielding member shielding part of light incident on the solid-state imaging device from the lens, wherein an angle made between an edge surface of the light shielding member and an optical axis direction of the lens is larger than an incident angle of light to be incident on an edge portion of the light shielding member.
US09799691B2
Channel stop sections formed by multiple times of impurity ion implanting processes. Four-layer impurity regions are formed across the depth of a semiconductor substrate (across the depth of the bulk), so that a P-type impurity region is formed deep in the semiconductor substrate; thus, incorrect movement of electric charges is prevented. Other four-layer impurity regions of another channel stop section are decreased in width step by step across the depth of the substrate, so that the reduction of a charge storage region of a light receiving section due to the dispersion of P-type impurity in the channel stop section is prevented in the depth of the substrate.
US09799687B2
Manufacturing method including forming, over substrate, TFT layer, planarization layer, and display element in this order. Forming of TFT layer involves forming passivation layer to cover TFT layer electrode, such as upper electrode, and to come in contact with planarizing layer. Forming of display element involves forming bottom electrode to come in contact with planarizing layer. TFT layer electrode and bottom electrode are connected by: first forming, in planarizing layer, first contact hole exposing passivation layer at bottom thereof; then forming second contact hole exposing TFT layer electrode at bottom thereof through dry-etching passivation layer exposed at bottom of first contact hole using fluorine-containing gas; then forming liquid repellent film containing fluorine on passivation layer inner surface facing second contact hole; and forming bottom electrode along planarizing layer inner surface and passivation layer inner surface respectively facing first contact hole and second contact hole.
US09799682B2
An object is to provide a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device in which a defect in characteristics due to a crack occurring in a semiconductor device is reduced. Provision of a crack suppression layer formed of a metal film in the periphery of a semiconductor element makes it possible to suppress a crack occurring from the outer periphery of a substrate and reduce damage to the semiconductor element. In addition, even if the semiconductor device is subjected to physical forces from the outer periphery in separation and transposition steps, progression (growth) of a crack to the semiconductor device can be suppressed by the crack suppression layer.
US09799680B2
A TFT array substrate includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of date lines, a plurality of pixels, a first TFT, and a second TFT. The number of scan lines includes a first scan line. The date lines are insulated with the scan lines include a first date line and a second date line. The first date line is insulated and at least partly covering the second date line. The pixels are defined by two adjacent scan lines and two adjacent date lines. The first TFT is configured to drive a first pixel at the first side of the first scan line and being coupled with the first scan line and the first date line. The second TFT is configured to drive a second pixel at the second side of the first scan line and being coupled with the first scan line and the second date line.
US09799674B2
A semiconductor device includes a first device isolation layer defining active regions spaced apart from each other along a first direction on a substrate, second device isolation layers defining a plurality of active patterns protruding from the substrate, the second device isolation layers extending in the first direction to be spaced apart from each other in a second direction and connected to the first device isolation layer, a gate structure extending in the second direction on the first device isolation layer between the active regions, a top surface of the second device isolation layer being lower than a top surface of the active pattern, a top surface of the first device isolation layer being higher than the top surface of the active pattern, and at least part of a bottom surface of the gate structure being higher than the top surface of the active pattern.
US09799670B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of electrically conductive layers and insulating layers located over a substrate, an array of memory stack structures, each memory stack structure extending through the alternating stack and including a memory film and a semiconductor channel laterally surrounded by the memory film, and an array of dielectric pillars located between the alternating stack and the substrate.
US09799667B2
A control gate electrode and a memory gate electrode of a memory cell of a non-volatile memory are formed in a memory cell region of a semiconductor substrate, and a dummy gate electrode is formed in a peripheral circuit region. Then, n+-type semiconductor regions for a source or a drain of the memory cell are formed in the memory cell region and n+-type semiconductor regions for a source or a drain of MISFET are formed in the peripheral circuit region. Then, a metal silicide layer is formed over the n+-type semiconductor regions but the metal silicide layer is not formed over the control gate electrode, the memory gate electrode, and the gate electrode. Subsequently, the gate electrode is removed and replaced with the gate electrode for MISFET. Then, after removing the gate electrode and replacing it with a gate electrode for MISFET, a metal silicide layer is formed over the memory gate electrode and the control gate electrode.
US09799666B2
At least one of a plurality of transistors which are highly integrated in an element is provided with a back gate without increasing the number of manufacturing steps. In an element including a plurality of transistors which are longitudinally stacked, at least a transistor in an upper portion includes a metal oxide having semiconductor characteristics, a same layer as a gate electrode of a transistor in a lower portion is provided to overlap with a channel formation region of the transistor in an upper portion, and part of the same layer as the gate electrode functions as a back gate of the transistor in an upper portion. The transistor in a lower portion which is covered with an insulating layer is subjected to planarization treatment, whereby the gate electrode is exposed and connected to a layer functioning as source and drain electrodes of the transistor in an upper portion.
US09799664B2
The present application provides a flash memory device. The flash memory device includes a semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of tunnel oxide layers formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The flash memory device also includes a floating gate having a first portion with a width smaller than a width of the tunnel oxide layer and a second portion with a width greater than the width of the first portion formed on the first portion formed on each of the floating silicon oxide layers. Further, the flash memory device includes a plurality of shallow trench isolation structures formed in the surface of the semiconductor substrate between adjacent floating gates and the tunnel oxide layers; and liner oxide layers formed on side surfaces of the first portion of the floating gates.
US09799655B1
Various embodiments disclose a method for fabricating vertical transistors. In one embodiment, a structure is formed comprising at least a first substrate, an insulator layer on the substrate, a first doped layer on the insulator layer, at least one fin structure in contact with the doped layer, a dielectric layer surrounding a portion of the fin structure, a gate layer on the dielectric layer, a second doped layer in contact with the fin structure, a first contact area in contact with the second doped layer, and at least a first interconnect in contact with the first contact area. The structure is flipped bonded to a second substrate. The first substrate and the insulator layer are removed to expose the first doped layer. A second contact area is formed in contact with the first doped layer. At least a second interconnect is formed in contact with the second contact area.
US09799648B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes: an IGBT including an emitter layer on a first main surface side of a semiconductor substrate and a collector layer on a second main surface side of the semiconductor substrate; a freewheeling diode including an anode layer on the first main surface side of the semiconductor substrate and a cathode layer on the second main surface side of the semiconductor substrate; a well region that is located in a boundary between the IGBT and the freewheeling diode and separates the IGBT and the freewheeling diode; a first electrode located on the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate so as to be connected to the emitter layer, the anode layer, and the well region; a resistance element located between the well region and the first electrode.
US09799646B2
In accordance with an embodiment, semiconductor component includes a compound semiconductor material based semiconductor device coupled to a silicon based semiconductor device and a protection element, wherein the silicon based semiconductor device is a transistor. The protection element is coupled in parallel across the silicon based semiconductor device and may be a resistor, a diode, or a transistor. In accordance with another embodiment, the silicon based semiconductor device is a diode. The compound semiconductor material may be shorted to a source of potential such as, for example, ground, with a shorting element.
US09799640B1
An IC includes first and second designs of experiments (DOES), each comprised of at least two fill cells. The fill cells contain structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). The first DOE contains fill cells configured to enable non-contact (NC) detection of chamfer shorts, and the second DOE contains fill cells configured to enable NC detection of corner shorts.
US09799637B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package with a lid that includes a lid conductive structure. The semiconductor package includes a substrate with a top surface, a lid over the top surface of the substrate, and at least one substrate-mounted component mounted on the top surface of the substrate. Herein, a cavity is defined within the lid and over the top surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a metal pad over the top surface of the substrate. The lid includes a lid conductive structure, a lid body, and a perimeter wall that extends from a perimeter of the lid body toward the top surface of the substrate. The lid conductive structure includes a body conductor that extends through a portion of the lid body and a wall conductor that is coupled to the body conductor, extends through the perimeter wall, and is electronically coupled to the metal pad.
US09799633B2
A semiconductor light source comprising first and second light-emitting diode chips; and a conversion element containing a first phosphor and a second phosphor, wherein the conversion element is disposed downstream of the first and second light-emitting diode chips. The first light-emitting diode chip emits electromagnetic radiation with a first emission maximum. The second light-emitting diode chip emits electromagnetic radiation with a second emission maximum. The first phosphor has a first absorption maximum and a first radiating maximum. The second phosphor has a second absorption maximum, which differs from the first absorption maximum, and a second radiating maximum, which differs from the first radiating maximum. The degree of conversion of the first phosphor for the electromagnetic radiation of the first light-emitting diode chip is greater than the degree of conversion of the second phosphor for the electromagnetic radiation of the first light-emitting diode chip.
US09799630B2
An embodiment of an integrated electronic device having a body, made at least partially of semiconductor material and having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface, and a first antenna, which is integrated in the body and enables magnetic or electromagnetic coupling of the integrated electronic device with a further antenna. The integrated electronic device moreover has a coupling region made of magnetic material, which provides, in use, a communication channel between the first antenna and the further antenna.
US09799629B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to integrated circuit dies and their manufacture. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a plurality of integrated circuit dies are provided in a semiconductor wafer, with each integrated circuit die having: an integrated circuit within the die, a via extending from a first surface to a second surface that opposes the first surface, and first and second electrical contacts at the first surface respectively coupled to the via and to the integrated circuit. Lanes are created in a front side of the wafer between the dies, and a portion of the back side of the wafer is removed to expose the lanes. A further contact and/or via is also exposed at the backside, with the via providing an electrical signal path for coupling electrical signals through the integrated circuit die (e.g., bypassing circuitry therein).
US09799626B2
Integrated circuits (ICs 110) are attached to a wafer (120W). A stabilization layer (404) is formed over the wafer to strengthen the structure for further processing. Unlike a conventional mold compound, the stabilization layer is separated from at least some wafer areas around the ICs by one or more gap regions (450) to reduce the thermo-mechanical stress on the wafer and hence the wafer warpage. Alternatively or in addition, the stabilization layer can be a porous material having a low horizontal elastic modulus to reduce the wafer warpage, but having a high flexural modulus to reduce warpage and otherwise strengthen the structure for further processing. Other features and advantages are also provided.
US09799623B2
A semiconductor package that includes a conductive can, a power semiconductor device electrically and mechanically attached to the inside surface of the can, and an IC semiconductor device copackaged with the power semiconductor device inside the can.
US09799618B1
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor chip package and resulting structures having a mixed under-bump metallization (UBM) size and pitch on a single die. A first set of UBMs having a first total plateable surface area is formed on a first region of a die. A second set of UBMs having an equal total plateable surface area is formed on a second region of the die. A solder bump having a calculated solder height is applied to a plateable surface of each UBM. The solder height is calculated such that a volume of solder in the first region is equal to a volume of solder in the second region.
US09799615B1
Package structures and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A package structure includes a die, a molding member and a redistribution circuit structure. The die includes a semiconductor substrate, a connector and a passivation layer. The semiconductor substrate has a top surface. The connector is disposed over the top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The passivation layer is disposed over the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and exposes a portion of the connector. The molding member laterally surrounds the semiconductor substrate, wherein a top surface of the molding member is higher than the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and the molding member forms a hooking structure that embraces over an edge portion of the semiconductor substrate. The redistribution circuit structure extends over the passivation layer and the molding member, and is electrically connected to the connector.
US09799613B1
A lead frame device includes a metallic outer frame member, a lead frame package preform, and an encapsulant. The metallic outer frame member includes a pair of spaced apart longitudinal and transverse sections. The lead frame package preform includes at least one die pad surrounded by the metallic outer frame member such that a gap is formed around the die pad within the metallic, and a plurality of spaced apart leads. Each of the spaced apart leads has a first portion connected to the metallic outer frame member, a second portion proximal to and spaced apart from the die pad, a top surface, and a recess indented from the top surface. The encapsulant is filled in the recess. The disclosure also provides a lead frame device assembly.
US09799609B2
To provide a technique capable of positioning of a semiconductor chip and a mounting substrate with high precision by improving visibility of an alignment mark. In a semiconductor chip constituting an LCD driver, a mark is formed in an alignment mark formation region over a semiconductor substrate. The mark is formed in the same layer as that of an uppermost layer wiring (third layer wiring) in an integrated circuit formation region. Then, in the lower layer of the mark and a background region surrounding the mark, patterns are formed. At this time, the pattern P1a is formed in the same layer as that of a second layer wiring and the pattern P1b is formed in the same layer as that of a first layer wiring. Further, the pattern P2 is formed in the same layer as that of a gate electrode, and the pattern P3 is formed in the same layer as that of an element isolation region.
US09799606B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductive pattern on a substrate, an insulating diffusion barrier layer conformally covering a surface of the first conductive pattern, the insulation diffusion barrier layer exposed by an air gap region adjacent to a sidewall of the first conductive pattern, and a second conductive pattern on the first conductive pattern, the second conductive pattern penetrating the insulating diffusion barrier layer so as to be in contact with the first conductive pattern.
US09799598B2
Method for producing at least one electronic chip support, from a plate that includes a first face intended to be in contact with a chip reader, a second face, covered with a first layer of electrically conductive material and intended to be linked to a radio antenna, and a core made from an electrically insulating material separating the first face from the second face. This method includes steps of drilling at least one through hole through the plate, depositing a layer of electrically conductive material on the first face and chemically etching a first electric circuit and a second electric circuit on the first face and the second face respectively. Prior to the chemical etching step, a step of depositing a third layer of electrically conductive material in the hole or holes, which covers the electrically insulating material in the corresponding hole or holes.
US09799594B2
The present invention is to provide a microstructure capable of improving the withstand voltage of an insulating substrate while securing fine conductive paths, a multilayer wiring board, a semiconductor package, and a microstructure manufacturing method. The microstructure of the present invention has an insulating substrate having a plurality of through holes, and conductive paths consisting of a conductive material containing metal filling the plurality of through holes, in which an average opening diameter of the plurality of through holes is 5 nm to 500 nm, an average value of the shortest distances connecting the through holes adjacent to each other is 10 nm to 300 nm, and a moisture content is 0.005% or less with respect to the total mass of the microstructure.
US09799590B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of first semiconductor die. An opening is formed partially through the semiconductor wafer. A plurality of second semiconductor die is disposed over a first surface of the semiconductor wafer. An encapsulant is disposed over the semiconductor wafer and into the opening leaving a second surface of the semiconductor wafer exposed. A portion of the second surface of the semiconductor wafer is removed to separate the first semiconductor die. An interconnect structure is formed over the second semiconductor die and encapsulant. A thermal interface material is deposited over the second surface of the first semiconductor die. A heat spreader is disposed over the thermal interface material. An insulating layer is formed over the first surface of the semiconductor wafer. A vertical interconnect structure is formed around the first semiconductor die. Conductive vias are formed through the first semiconductor die.
US09799586B2
A dual power converter package is disclosed. The package includes a leadframe having a first control FET paddle configured to support a drain of a first control FET, and a second control FET paddle configured to support a drain of a second control FET. The leadframe further includes a sync FET paddle configured to support a source of a first sync FET and a source of a second sync FET, and a first plurality of contacts configured to receive control signals for each of the control FETs and each of the sync FETs from a driver integrated circuit (IC) external to the leadframe. The leadframe may additionally include first and second switched nodes, configured for electrical connection to the first control FET and the first sync FET via a first clip, and to the second control FET and the second sync FET via a second clip, respectively.
US09799580B2
A method of manufacturing a packaged semiconductor device includes forming an assembly by placing a semiconductor die over a substrate with a die attach material between the semiconductor die and the substrate. A conformal structure which includes a pressure transmissive material contacts at least a portion of a top surface of the semiconductor die. A pressure is applied to the conformal structure and in turn, the pressure is transmitted to the top surface of the semiconductor die by the pressure transmissive material. While the pressure is applied, concurrently encapsulating the assembly with a molding compound and exposing the assembly to a temperature that is sufficient to cause the die attach material to sinter.
US09799567B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a gate structure over a substrate. The gate structure includes a first hard mask layer. The method also includes forming a source/drain (S/D) feature in the substrate adjacent to the gate structure, forming a sidewall spacer along sidewalls of the gate structure. The sidewall spacer has an outer edge at its upper portion facing away from the gate structure. The method also includes forming a second spacer along sidewalls of the gate structure and along the outer edge of the sidewall spacer, forming dielectric layers over the gate structure, forming a trench extending through the dielectric layers to expose the source/drain feature while the gate structure is protected by the first hard mask layer and the sidewall spacer with the second spacer. The method also includes forming a contact feature in the trench.
US09799566B1
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor channel, a second semiconductor channel, a first gate stack and a second gate stack. The first gate stack is present on the first semiconductor channel. The first gate stack includes a first work function layer and a first interposing layer present between the first semiconductor channel and the first work function layer. The second gate stack is present on the second semiconductor channel. The second gate stack includes a second work function layer and a second interposing layer present between the second semiconductor channel and the second work function layer. The first interposing layer and the second interposing layer are different at least in tantalum nitride amount.
US09799565B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a dielectric layer over a substrate. The substrate has a fin structure, and the dielectric layer has a trench exposing a portion of the fin structure. The method includes forming a gate material layer in the trench. The method includes forming a planarization layer over the gate material layer. The planarization layer includes a first material that is different from a second material of the gate material layer and a third material of the dielectric layer. The method includes performing an etching process to remove the planarization layer and a first upper portion of the gate material layer so as to form a gate in the trench.
US09799561B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a first interlayer insulating layer including a first trench that is defined by a first gate spacer and a second trench that is defined by a second gate spacer on a substrate, forming a first gate electrode that fills a part of the first trench and a second gate electrode that fills a part of the second trench, forming a first capping pattern that fills the remainder of the first trench on the first gate electrode, forming a second capping pattern that fills the remainder of the second trench on the second gate electrode, forming a second interlayer insulating layer that covers the first gate spacer and the second gate spacer on the first interlayer insulating layer, forming a third interlayer insulating layer on the second interlayer insulating layer and forming a contact hole that penetrates the third interlayer insulating layer and the second interlayer insulating layer between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode.
US09799552B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a contact to interface with an interconnect in a semiconductor device are described. The device includes a dielectric layer formed on a semiconductor layer, and a contact fabricated in a via formed within the dielectric layer. An interconnect formed above the contact interfaces with an exposed surface of the contact opposite a surface closest to the semiconductor layer. The contact includes a contact material in a first portion of the contact and an interface metal in a second portion of the contact.
US09799549B2
The disclosure relates to a process for manufacturing a composite structure, the process comprising the following steps: a) providing a donor substrate and a carrier substrate; b) forming a dielectric layer; c) forming a covering layer; d) forming a weakened zone in the donor substrate; e) joining the carrier substrate and the donor substrate via a contact surface having an outline; f) fracturing the donor substrate via the weakened zone, steps b) and e) being executed so that the outline is inscribed in the outline, and step c) being executed so that the covering layer covers the peripheral surface of the dielectric layer.
US09799539B2
In an apparatus for treating a wafer-shaped article, a spin chuck is provided for holding and rotating a wafer-shaped article. A liquid dispenser comprises a check valve positioned so as to prevent process liquid from dripping out of a discharge nozzle of the liquid dispenser. A valve seat of the check valve is at a distance in a range of 20 mm to 100 mm from an outlet opening of said discharge nozzle.
US09799534B1
An organic planarization layer (OPL) is formed above a functional layer located on a substrate. A titanium-oxide layer is formed above the OPL, wherein forming the titanium-oxide layer comprises titanium, oxide, carbon, and nitrogen. A photoresist layer is patterned above a first portion of the titanium-oxide layer. A second portion of the titanium-oxide layer is removed using a wet stripping technique. The photoresist layer and the OPL are removed using a dry etch technique, wherein the first portion of the titanium-oxide layer remains over a remaining portion of the OPL. The first portion of the titanium-oxide layer and the functional layer are removed using the wet stripping technique. The remaining portion of the OPL is removed using a dry stripping technique.
US09799532B2
The CMP polishing liquid of the invention comprises a metal salt containing at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of metals of Groups 8, 11, 12 and 13, 1,2,4-triazole, a phosphorus acid, an oxidizing agent and abrasive grains. The polishing method of the invention comprises a step of polishing at least a palladium layer with an abrasive cloth while supplying a CMP polishing liquid between the palladium layer of a substrate having the palladium layer and the abrasive cloth, wherein the CMP polishing liquid comprises a metal salt containing at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of metals of Groups 8, 11, 12 and 13, 1,2,4-triazole, a phosphorus acid, an oxidizing agent and abrasive grains.
US09799530B2
A method of selectively removing silicon nitride is provided. The method includes: providing a wafer having silicon nitride on a surface of the wafer; supplying a mixture of phosphoric acid and a silicon-containing material into a process tank, in which the mixture has a predetermined silicon concentration; and submerging the wafer into the mixture within the process tank to remove the silicon nitride. An etching apparatus of selectively removing silicon nitride is also provided.
US09799529B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a first flowable-material (FM) layer over a substrate. A top surface of the first FM layer in a first region is higher than a top surface of the first FM layer in a second region. The method also includes forming a sacrificial plug to cover the first FM layer in the first region, forming a second FM layer over the sacrificial plug in the first region and over the first FM layer in the second region, performing a first recessing process such that the second FM layer is removed in the first region and performing a second recessing process on the second FM layer in the second region while the first FM layer is protected by the sacrificial plug in the first region.
US09799527B2
Isolation is provided by forming a first trench, depositing a cover layer on the bottom and sidewalls of the first trench, selectively removing the cover layer from the bottom and forming a second trench extending from the bottom of the first trench. The second trench is then substantially filled by thermal oxide formed by oxidation and the first trench is subsequently filled with a deposited dielectric.
US09799521B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of first doping regions of a first doping structure arranged at a main surface of the semiconductor substrate and a plurality of second doping regions of the first doping structure arranged at the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first doping regions of the plurality of first doping regions of the first doping structure include dopants of a first conductivity type with different doping concentrations. Further, the second doping regions of the plurality of second doping regions of the first doping structure include dopants of a second conductivity type with different doping concentrations. At least one first doping region of the plurality of first doping regions of the first doping structure partly overlaps at least one second doping region of the plurality of second doping regions of the first doping structure causing an overlap region arranged at the main surface.
US09799512B1
A semiconductor substrate structure includes a seed layer on a substrate, a first gallium nitride layer on the seed layer, and a patterned first hard mask layer on the first gallium nitride layer, wherein the patterned first hard mask layer includes a first opening. The semiconductor substrate structure also includes a second gallium nitride layer in the first opening and on the patterned first hard mask layer, a patterned second hard mask layer on the second gallium nitride layer, wherein the patterned second hard mask layer includes a second opening, and at least a portion of a projection on the substrate of the first opening and a projection on the substrate of the second opening are non-overlapped. The semiconductor substrate structure further includes a third gallium nitride layer in the second opening and on the patterned second hard mask layer.
US09799506B2
A breakdown voltage measuring method includes the steps of measuring a breakdown voltage of a semiconductor element in a state where a surface of the semiconductor element formed in a semiconductor substrate is covered with a high boiling point fluorine fluid having a boiling point of 90° C. or higher, and cleaning the semiconductor substrate, including the semiconductor element for which the breakdown voltage is measured, with a low boiling point fluorine inert fluid having a boiling point of 80° C. or lower. Accordingly, a breakdown voltage measuring method capable of suppressing generation of an electric discharge during the measurement of the breakdown voltage and suppressing a residue of a foreign object on the cleaned semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor device to which the breakdown voltage measuring method is implemented are provided.
US09799491B2
The disclosure concerns a method of operating a plasma reactor having an electron beam plasma source for independently adjusting electron beam energy, plasma ion energy and radical population. The disclosure further concerns an electron beam source for a plasma reactor having an RF-driven electrode for producing the electron beam.
US09799487B2
To irradiate a target with a beam of energetic electrically charged particles, the beam is formed and imaged onto a target, where it generates a pattern image composed of pixels. The pattern image is moved along a path on the target over a region to be exposed, and this movement defines a number of stripes covering said region in sequential exposures and having respective widths. The number of stripes is written in at least two sweeps which each have a respective general direction, but the general direction is different for different sweeps, e.g. perpendicular to each other. Each stripe belongs to exactly one sweep and runs substantially parallel to the other stripes of the same sweep, namely, along the respective general direction. For each sweep the widths, as measured across said main direction, of the stripes of one sweep combine into a cover of the total width of the region.
US09799482B2
A device manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method of a magnetic device. The device manufacturing apparatus can include a substrate holding portion configured to hold a substrate, an ion source, an anode disposed in a housing of the ion source, and a cathode disposed outside the housing of the ion source. A first opening can be disposed in a portion of the housing such the anode is exposed to a region between the anode and the substrate holding portion. The ion source can be configured to generate an ion beam with which the substrate is irradiated. A first structure can be disposed between the ion source and the substrate holding portion. The first structure can have a first through hole through which the ion beam can pass. The first structure can include a conductor, and an opening dimension of the first through hole can be equal to or larger than an opening dimension of the first opening.
US09799479B2
The present invention relates to a method, a system, and a light source for penetrating radiation imaging, and more particularly, to a method, a system, and a light source for X-ray imaging. The system for X-ray phase contrast and high resolution imaging of the present invention comprises an X-ray source comprising a plurality of X-ray micro-light sources, an X-ray sensor configured to receive X-rays penetrating an object, and a computer configured to receive and compute raw image data from the X-ray sensor so as to obtain a clear image of the object.
US09799478B2
A fusible link having a high-rated terminal group and a low-rated fuse box are provided. The low-rated fuse box has a power-source-side terminal connected to an auxiliary terminal of the fusible link, a load-side connection terminal to be connected to a load side, a holder configured to hold the power-source-side terminal and the load-side connection terminals, and a low-current fuse configured to electrically connect, when attached to the holder in a detachable manner, the power-source-side terminal and the load-side connection terminals to each other.
US09799471B2
Disclosed is multipolar power contactor with an electromagnetic drive having an armature, and at least two movable contacts arranged next to one another and connected to the armature. The armature is movable from an open position, where the movable contacts and the fixed contacts are not in contact with one another, into a closed position where the movable contacts come into contact with the fixed contacts. Each movable contact and a corresponding fixed contact, is assigned an arc quenching device, and a plasma barrier having a first and a second barrier is provided between the two movable contacts, whereby one of the two barriers is connected to the armature and the other of the two barriers to a stationary part of the power contactor. The first and the second barrier overlap with one another at least partially in each position of the armature between the open and the closed positions.
US09799468B2
A support-assembly suitable for a micro-switch of a switching device, including bracket-support-means suitable for being connected, in a stationary position, to a frame portion of the switching-device, coupling-protrusion-component shaped for being provided at an end of an operating-shaft of the micro-switch and for movably engaging with the bracket-support-component. The coupling-protrusion-component and the bracket-support-component being configured for enabling a rotation of the operating-shaft around a rotation-axis and for preventing a movement of the operating-shaft transversely to the rotation-axis.
US09799465B2
A key structure includes a base, a triggering element, a keycap and a scissors-type connecting element. The keycap is disposed over the triggering element. When an external force is applied to the keycap, the triggering element is pushed by the keycap. The scissors-type connecting element is connected with the keycap and the base. The scissors-type connecting element includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame includes a keycap post, a base post and a bulge. The bulge is externally extended from a first end of the first frame and located at a side of the keycap post, and the bulge is protruded from a sidewall of the first frame. Due to the bulge, the structured strength of the keycap post is enhanced.
US09799458B2
A capacitor electrode includes a collector, and an electrode layer disposed in contact with the collector and capable of inserting and releasing cations. The electrode layer includes first carbon material particles capable of inserting and releasing cations and second carbon material particles capable of inserting and releasing cations. The average particle diameter of primary particles of the second carbon material particles is smaller than the average particle diameter of primary particles of the first carbon material particles. In the electrode layer, the content amount of the second carbon material particles is smaller than the content amount of the first carbon material particles.
US09799457B2
Electrode comprising a conductive substrate on which a uniform layer of aggregates A, having an average diameter ranging from 40 to 100 nm, is deposited, on which a non-homogeneous distribution of aggregates B, having an average diameter ranging from 300 nm to 1,200 nm, is superimposed, both of said aggregates being composed of particles containing one or more metals Me selected from platinum, palladium and gold, having an average diameter ranging from 8 to 10 nm. The use of said electrode, as cathode, for DSSC devices produces a marked improvement in the performances of the cell with respect to the results that can be obtained with known cathodes.
US09799454B1
An AC capacitor including a first electrode with an electrically conductive rod protruding from surface of the first electrode, a second electrode including an opening, a bobbin located between the first and the second electrode the bobbin includes a hollow central section. The axis of the electrically conductive rod protruding from surface of the first electrode is coaxial with axis of the hollow bobbin and the electrically conductive rod passes through the hollow central section of the bobbin and through the opening in the second electrode allowing current flow.
US09799450B2
A ceramic green sheet where the proportion of a Si-containing constituent coating the surface of barium titanate-based ceramic particles is 95% or higher, and the proportion of a rare-earth element-containing constituent coating the surface of the barium titanate-based ceramic particle is 85% or higher.
US09799446B2
A production method for an anisotropic bonded magnet includes: filling the annular cavity with a magnet raw material including one or more types of rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder and a binder resin; applying aligning magnetic fields to the magnet raw material being aligned in the softened or molten binder resin, the aligning magnetic fields are applied from an even number of aligning magnetic pole bodies arranged around outer periphery of the annular cavity such that directions of magnetic fields are alternated; subjecting the magnet raw material to a molding to form a compact; rotating the aligning magnetic pole bodies in circumferential direction for a predetermined angle; and applying demagnetization magnetic fields to the compact from the aligning magnetic pole bodies during the alignment step. The demagnetization magnetic fields are in directions for cancelling magnetization of the compact caused by the aligning magnetic fields.
US09799444B2
This disclosure relates generally to directional couplers. In one embodiment, a directional coupler includes a first port, a second port, a third port, a first inductive element, a second inductive element, a first switchable path, and a second switchable path. The first inductive element is coupled between the first port and the second port, while the second inductive element is mutually coupled to the first inductive element. The first switchable path is configured to be opened and closed, wherein the first switchable path is coupled between a first location of the second inductive element and the third port. The second switchable path is configured to be opened and closed, wherein the second switchable path is coupled between a second location of the second inductive element and the third port. In this manner, a directivity of the directional coupler can be switched between a forward direction and a reverse direction.
US09799441B2
A transformer includes: a first winding; a second winding provided to maintain a first distance to the first winding; and a shell that seals the first winding and the second winding.
US09799436B2
A magnetic attraction-fixing assembly and a rotating support structure for a portable device are provided. The magnetic attraction-fixing assembly includes two magnetic units, the two magnetic units stacked with and attracting each other; wherein each of the magnetic units respectively comprises a circular magnetic component and at least one annular magnetic component around the circular magnetic component, a magnetic pole of the circular plane of the circular magnetic component is an unlike pole to a magnetic pole of an annular plane of the annular magnetic component that is adjacent to the circular magnetic component. The rotating support structure comprises two magnetic units and a body. Magnetic attractions in both radial and axial directions are enhanced.
US09799431B2
The present invention provides an artificial electromagnetic material, comprising at least one material sheet layer; wherein each material sheet layer is provided with a first substrate and a second substrate which are oppositely arranged; and a plurality of artificial microstructures are attached on a surface, facing the second substrate, of the first substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate on both sides of the artificial microstructure are in such tight contact therewith that the number of electric field lines passing through the substrates is increased and the equivalent permittivity of the artificial electromagnetic material is effectively improved.
US09799430B2
A method for heat treatment of an electric power cable, the electric power cable including a polymer-based electrical insulation system with a polymer composition. The method steps include placing the electric power cable having the polymer-based electrical insulation system into a heating chamber and exposing the polymer-based electrical insulation system to a heat treatment procedure when the electric power cable is located in the heating chamber. The step of placing the electric power cable into the heating chamber includes winding the electric power cable about a substantially vertical center axis to form a substantially horizontal first layer of a plurality of substantially horizontal turns of the electric power cable, winding the electric power cable about the center axis to form a plurality of substantially horizontal second layers, each second layer being formed by a plurality of substantially horizontal turns of the electric power cable and stacking the plurality of horizontal second layers above the first layer. An apparatus is provided for performing the method.
US09799425B2
The present invention relates to a high speed transmission cable that includes a first conductor set, a dielectric film at least partially concentrically disposed around the first conductor set and a pinched portion forming an insulating envelope around the first conductor set. The dielectric film includes a base layer having a plurality of first protrusions formed on a first major surface of the base layer, wherein the dielectric film is disposed such that the base layer is partially concentric with the conductor set and wherein a portion of the first protrusions is disposed between the first conductor set and the base layer in a region where the base layer is concentric with the first conductor set.
US09799419B2
Tritium direct conversion semiconductor device for use with gallium arsenide or germanium substrates
A device for producing electricity. In one embodiment the device comprises a germanium substrate doped a first dopant type and a plurality of stacked material layers above the substrate. These stacked material layers further comprise an InGaP base layer doped the first dopant type, an InGaP emitter layer doped the second dopant type, a window layer having a lattice structure matched to the lattice structure of the emitter layer and doped the second dopant type and a beta particle source for generating beta particles.
US09799417B2
A method and system for the thermoelectric conversion of nuclear reactor generated heat including upon a nuclear reactor system shutdown event, thermoelectrically converting nuclear reactor generated heat to electrical energy and supplying the electrical energy to a mechanical pump of the nuclear reactor system.
US09799407B2
A storage device includes a flash memory and a memory controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of memory blocks. The memory controller is configured to determine a fast cycle weight corresponding to a reuse period of a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks, and to manage wear leveling of the selected memory block using the fast cycle weight.
US09799404B2
A memory device is provided as follows. A memory cell region includes a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of NAND strings. A control logic divides the plurality of blocks into a plurality of block regions based on a smaller distance of a first distance with respect to a first edge of the memory cell region and a second distance with respect to a second edge of the memory cell region and controls an operation performed on the memory cell region using a plurality of bias sets of operation parameters for the operation. Each bias set is associated with one of the block regions.
US09799396B2
A semiconductor device with a memory unit of which the variations in the operation timing are reduced is provided. For example, the semiconductor device is provided with dummy bit lines which are arranged collaterally with a proper bit line, and column direction load circuits which are sequentially coupled to the dummy bit lines. Each column direction load circuit is provided with plural NMOS transistors fixed to an off state, predetermined ones of which have the source and the drain suitably coupled to any of the dummy bit lines. Load capacitance accompanying diffusion layer capacitance of the predetermined NMOS transistors is added to the dummy bit lines, and corresponding to the load capacitance, the delay time from a decode activation signal to a dummy bit line signal is set up. The dummy bit line signal is employed when setting the start-up timing of a sense amplifier.
US09799389B2
A method of operating a memory circuit (FIGS. 8A and 8B) is disclosed. The method includes writing true data (01) to a plurality of bits (B0, B1). A first data state (0) is written to a signal bit (Bi) indicating the true data. The true data is read and complementary data (10) is written to the plurality of bits. A second data state (1) is written to the signal bit indicating the complementary data.
US09799382B2
A method for providing a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device and a magnetic junction are described. A reference layer, a crystalline MgO tunneling barrier layer and a free layer are provided. The crystalline MgO tunneling barrier layer is continuous, has a (001) orientation and has a thickness of not more than eleven Angstroms and not less than two Angstroms. The crystalline MgO tunneling barrier layer is between the free layer and the reference layer. The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction.
US09799374B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for new analytic pathways for collecting information regarding video playback by human (and automated) users. This is achieved in part by placing certain elements (Vixels) within the code of a video file prior to it being uploaded by a user who shares the video. Whenever and wherever the video is played, whether it is streamed once, downloaded and played several times thereafter, or played for a mass audience, the analytic pathway is triggered each and every time the video file is played because the elements triggering the collection of analytics exist in the video file itself. By embedding Vixels into video files at or before upload, the analytics mechanisms are triggered by the embedded Vixel regardless of how, where, when, and by whom the video is played back, forming the framework for a simpler and more accurate analytics network.
US09799369B2
A magnetic recording system for preventing data loss resulting magnetic oscillator current. The magnetic recording system includes a magnetic write head with a magnetic write pole, a magnetic oscillator near the magnetic write pole, and a write coil for magnetizing the write pole. Circuitry is connected with the magnetic write coil to supply a current to the write coil and connected with the magnetic oscillator to supply a current to the magnetic oscillator. The circuitry is configured to ensure that the current to the magnetic oscillator does not inadvertently magnetize the write pole after the magnetic write pole has demagnetized.
US09799367B1
A multiple disk loader apparatus includes a plurality of rods. Each rod has a pair of pins extending radially from a side of the rod. The pair of pins are spaced circumferentially around the rod with respect to each other. Each pin has a top surface wherein the top surface of a first pin is longitudinally separated from the top surface of a second pin by a predetermined gap. A rotation device is coupled to the plurality of rods. The rotation device rotates the plurality of rods individually through a respective predetermined arc and in a respective rotational direction in order to extract a disk stack from storage and to separate a disk from the stack to load into a drive.
US09799363B2
A magnetic stack includes a substrate and a magnetic recording layer disposed over the substrate. The magnetic recording layer comprises magnetic crystalline grains and a segregant disposed between grain boundaries of the crystalline grains. One or both of the magnetic crystalline grains and the segregant are doped with a rare earth or transition metal dopant in an amount that provides the magnetic recording layer with a magnetic damping value, α, between about 0.1 to about 1.
US09799361B1
An apparatus comprises a slider and an optical waveguide formed in the slider and configured to receive light from a laser source. A near-field transducer (NFT) is formed on the slider at or near an air bearing surface (ABS) of the slider and optically coupled to the waveguide. A bolometric sensor is positioned proximate the NFT and exposed to at least some of the light. The bolometric sensor is configured to detect changes in output optical power of the laser source and contact between the slider and a magnetic recording medium.
US09799343B2
A method and an apparatus for processing a temporal envelope of an audio signal, and an encoder are disclosed. When multiple temporal envelopes are solved, continuity of signal energy can be well maintained, and in addition, complexity of calculating a temporal envelope is reduced. The method includes: obtaining a high-band signal of the current frame audio signal according to the received current frame audio signal; dividing the high-band signal of the current frame signal into M subframes according to a predetermined temporal envelope quantity M, where M is an integer, M is greater than or equal to 2; calculating a temporal envelope of each of the subframes; performing windowing on the first subframe of the M subframes and the last subframe of the M subframes by using an asymmetric window function; and performing windowing on a subframe except the first subframe and the last subframe of the M subframes.
US09799338B2
Systems and methods providing for secure voice print authentication over a network are disclosed herein. During an enrollment stage, a client's voice is recorded and characteristics of the recording are used to create and store a voice print. When an enrolled client seeks access to secure information over a network, a sample voice recording is created. The sample voice recording is compared to at least one voice print. If a match is found, the client is authenticated and granted access to secure information.Systems and methods providing for a dual use voice analysis system are disclosed herein. Speech recognition is achieved by comparing characteristics of words spoken by a speaker to one or more templates of human language words. Speaker identification is achieved by comparing characteristics of a speaker's speech to one or more templates, or voice prints. The system is adapted to increase or decrease matching constraints depending on whether speaker identification or speaker recognition is desired.
US09799333B2
A system and method are provided for performing speech processing. A system includes an audio detection system configured to receive a signal including speech and a memory having stored therein a database of keyword models forming an ensemble of filters associated with each keyword in the database. A processor is configured to receive the signal including speech from the audio detection system, decompose the signal including speech into a sparse set of phonetic impulses, and access the database of keywords and convolve the sparse set of phonetic impulses with the ensemble of filters. The processor is further configured to identify keywords within the signal including speech based a result of the convolution and control operation the electronic system based on the keywords identified.
US09799323B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for reducing latency in web-browsing TTS systems without the use of a plug-in or Flash® module. A system configured according to the disclosed methods allows the browser to send prosodically meaningful sections of text to a web server. A TTS server then converts intonational phrases of the text into audio and responds to the browser with the audio file. The system saves the audio file in a cache, with the file indexed by a unique identifier. As the system continues converting text into speech, when identical text appears the system uses the cached audio corresponding to the identical text without the need for re-synthesis via the TTS server.
US09799319B1
A headset includes a microphone that detects an acoustic signal, and converts the acoustic signal into a microphone signal, an audio processor that receives the microphone signal, and a twisted pair conductor element coupling the microphone and the audio processor. The twisted pair conductor element self-cancels a radio frequency (RF) field to prevent the RF field from entering the microphone.
US09799317B2
An acoustic chamber with low frequency outer wall transmissivity is provided. According to one aspect, an acoustic chamber has an inner wall encompassing an interior of the acoustic chamber and configured to allow acoustic energy to penetrate the inner wall. The acoustic chamber also has an outer wall configured to allow low frequency acoustic energy that penetrates the inner wall to penetrate the outer wall and leave the acoustic chamber.
US09799308B2
Disclosed is a fingerboard protector for stringed musical instruments which demonstrates a novel solution to the problem of fingerboard wear caused by the players fingers making contact with the fingerboard. This physical contact in addition to the natural acidity of the players fingers can wear down the fingerboard creating indentations as well as contaminating the fingerboard with tarnish and grime. In the case of a fretless instrument, the strings are pushed directly into the fingerboard causing wear to occur at a much faster rate. My present invention sets out to solve this problem by creating a fingerboard protector safeguarding it from undesirable wear during normal playing of the instrument. The ease of installation and removal will appeal to musicians who want to protect their instrument as well as give it a new and unique look.
US09799303B2
An object of the invention is to convert input RGB data to R′G′B′W data without suffering loss of gradations of the input RGB data. A display panel 12 is configured having unit pixels made up of subpixels of RGBW (red, green, blue, white). In an RGB→R′G′B′W conversion section 10, conversion is carried out under conditions that usage rate of W is less than 100%, and a bit width of input RGB data us larger than a bit width of R′G′B′W data after conversion. In the RGB→R′G′B′W conversion section 10, R1G1B1values and W values are determined so that an absolute value of a sum of values obtained by multiplying differences between respective RGB data input and respective RGB components in R′G′B′W data after conversion by a weight, becomes minimum.
US09799302B2
In some embodiments, systems, devices, and methods are provided that allow a host device to communicate video information, network information, and USB information over USB via a USB host controller. The video information and the network information are encapsulated within USB and communicated by the USB host controller. In some embodiments, the USB information communicated by the USB host controller is further communicated over a non-USB extension medium by an upstream facing port device and one or more downstream facing port devices.
US09799290B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device that includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, which can display a high-definition image and can be manufactured with a high yield. The semiconductor device includes a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels, a gate signal line driver circuit portion, and a source signal line driver circuit portion including a first circuit that controls timing of sampling video signals and a second circuit that samples the video signals in accordance with the timing and then inputs the sampled video signals to the pixels. The second circuit includes a plurality of transistors in each of which an oxide semiconductor stacked layer is used as a channel formation region, the first circuit and the second circuit are electrically connected to each other by a wiring, and the wiring is electrically connected to gates of at least two transistors of the plurality of transistors.
US09799288B2
The present invention discloses a driving circuit and a liquid crystal display device. An anode of a first diode is employed for inputting a voltage, and a cathode of the first diode is coupled to an anode of a second diode, and a cathode of the second diode is coupled to an anode of a third diode, and a cathode of the third diode is coupled to an anode of a fourth diode, and a cathode of the fourth diode is employed for outputting the voltage.
US09799287B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit comprises a latch module and a latch output module. Switching on and off of the transmission gates is controlled by using an intermediate signal generated based on a clock signal and an inputted signal, instead of by using the clock signal, such that the shift register unit will not be influenced by frequent flips of the clock signal in a non-operational state, thus avoiding a great deal of useless power consumption.
US09799284B1
A driving device includes a first driving circuit, coupled to a first voltage source and a second voltage source having a voltage level lower than the first voltage source, for driving a positive output voltage to a first output end according to a first display voltage and charging the first output end with the second voltage source according to a control signal indicating whether the driving device performs a polarity inversion; and a second driving circuit, coupled to the second voltage source and a third voltage source having a voltage level lower than the second voltage source, for driving a negative output voltage to a second output end according to a second display voltage and discharging the second output end with the second voltage source according to the control signal.
US09799283B2
The present disclosure discloses a HSD liquid crystal display panel, a display device and a driving method thereof. Said display panel comprises a plurality of sub pixel unit groups connected with data lines and scanning lines, wherein each data line comprises a plurality of winding parts; and wherein the sub pixel unit groups that are spaced from each other by k rows and connected to data line i and the sub pixel unit groups that are spaced from each other by k rows and connected to data line i+m are located in the same column group, so that during display driving the polarity of a sub pixel unit group is opposite to that of its adjacent sub pixel unit group in the same row, and the polarity of a sub pixel unit group is the same as that of the sub pixel unit group which is spaced from said sub pixel unit group by k rows in the same column group, i and k being positive integers and m being odd number.
US09799281B2
A liquid crystal panel and a driving method are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: receiving a picture information; analyzing and obtaining an original grayscale of each color of multiple pixel units; generating a first display grayscale and a second display grayscale according to the original grayscale of each color, wherein, a display brightness corresponding to the first display grayscale is greater than a display brightness corresponding to the second display grayscale; and using the first display grayscale and the second display grayscale of each color of the multiple pixel units to drive sub-pixel units which is corresponding to the each color in two adjacent pixel units corresponding to each pixel unit to respectively perform a dark display and a bright display. Through above way, the present invention can increase the transmittance of the liquid crystal panel.
US09799268B2
A pixel driving circuit, an array substrate and a display apparatus, the pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor and an organic light-emitting diode, it further comprises: a charging compensation module, for receiving a data voltage signal, charging the driving transistor and compensating for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, under the control of a scan voltage signal; and a light-emitting control module, for receiving a reference voltage and a power supply voltage, and controlling the organic light-emitting diode to emit lights, under the control of a light-emitting control signal. The problem of the non-uniformity of threshold voltages is eliminated by compensating for the threshold voltages of driving transistors thereby enhancing the display effect of the display apparatus.
US09799255B2
A display device includes a signal receiver, a signal generator, and a signal corrector. The signal receiver receives an image signal. The signal generator generates a data signal for each of a first color pixel and a second color pixel based on the image signal. The signal corrector generates corrected data for the first color pixel based on the data signal for the second color pixel in a single driving mode. The first color pixel and the second color pixel emit light of different grayscale values of a same color. The first color pixel is driven and the second color pixel is not driven in the single driving mode.
US09799254B2
A method of driving a display device includes displaying both a natural image and a color vision test image on the display unit. The color vision test image is an image used to determine whether a person has a color vision impairment. A color adjustment user interface for adjusting color of the display unit is displayed on the display unit. A color adjustment instruction that instructs to adjust color of the display unit is received via an input unit. Supply image data supplied to the display unit is adjusted based on the color adjustment instruction by using a controller.
US09799250B2
A data driver includes first through n-th shift register units, first through n-th latch units, and first through n-th output buffer units. The first through n-th shift register units shift and store a plurality of image output from a timing controller. The first shift register unit includes first through m-th shift registers. The first through m-th shift registers shift and store first through m-th image data among the plurality of image data. The first through n-th latch units are connected to the first through n-th shift register units, respectively. The first latch unit includes first through m-th latches. The first through n-th output buffer units are connected to the first through n-th latch units, respectively. The first output buffer unit includes first through m-th output buffers. The first through n-th latch units sequentially latch the plurality of image data stored in the first through n-th shift register units.
US09799249B2
An optical device includes a glass plate, a movable unit that supports the glass plate, axis portions that swingably support the movable unit around a swing axis, a support unit that supports the axis portions and, a permanent magnet that is provided in the movable unit, and coils that are disposed to face the permanent magnet and generate a magnetic field to be applied to the permanent magnet. The movable unit includes a through hole that the permanent magnet is inserted into and a protrusion portion that protrudes inside the through hole to support the permanent magnet.
US09799247B2
The present invention provides a display panel, which includes a plurality of scanning lines extending along a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending along a second direction and intersecting with the scanning lines, common electrode lines are disposed between two adjacent scanning lines and being parallel to the scanning lines, a wiring area covers the scanning lines, the data lines and the common electrode lines and a plurality of test pins for testing, pixel electrodes connected to corresponding data lines being disposed in each pixel cell, the pixel electrodes of the display pixels and the common electrode lines are separated and insulated, the pixel electrode of the virtual pixels being connected with the common electrode line by a connecting hole, the scanning lines, the data lines and the common electrode lines being connected respectively with a corresponding test pin by a connecting line in the wring area.
US09799245B2
A system for displaying visually sensible patterns onto a surface of a vehicle including a display control subsystem responsive to an operational state of the vehicle, and a display device, operative in response to an input from the display control subsystem, to display a visually sensible pattern onto the surface. Preferably, the visually sensible pattern is visible from the exterior of the vehicle.
US09799236B2
A lockout tag having an elongate flag; a fastener proximate one end of the elongate flag; a seam proximate an end opposite the fastener; a warning indicia between the fastener end and the seam end of the elongate flag; and the elongate flag formed of a reflective and fluorescent material. The flag further comprising a pouch for additional information regarding the owner and purpose of the flag.
US09799228B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for scoring content of a spoken response to a prompt. A scoring model is generated for a prompt, where generating the scoring model includes generating a transcript for each of a plurality of training responses to the prompt, dividing the plurality of training responses into clusters based on the transcripts of the training responses, selecting a subset of the training responses in each cluster for scoring, scoring the selected subset of training responses for each cluster, and generating content training vectors using the transcripts from the scored subset. A transcript is generated for a received spoken response to be scored, and a similarity metric is computed between the transcript of the spoken response to be scored and the content training vectors. A score is assigned to the spoken response based on the determined similarity metric.
US09799227B2
A progression collector may collect, in conjunction with displayed learning context provided by a learning management system (LMS), first learner progression data of a first learner, and second learner progression data of a second learner. A team aggregator may aggregate the first learner progression data and the second learner progression data into team progression data, and may provide the team progression data to the LMS as virtual learner progression data. A rendering engine may receive progression results processed by the LMS for each of the first learner progression data, the second learner progression data, and the virtual learner progression data representing team progression results.
US09799223B2
Methods and systems for a subject vehicle to alert a driver of a secondary vehicle that the secondary vehicle has encroached a safety zone of the subject vehicle or another secondary vehicle. Sensors are configured to identify the location of the secondary vehicle. A controller is in receipt of inputs from the sensors and is configured to determine whether the secondary vehicle has encroached the safety zone of the subject vehicle or another secondary vehicle. A warning system is configured to warn the driver of the secondary vehicle that the secondary vehicle has encroached the safety zone of the subject vehicle or another secondary vehicle. The controller activates the warning system when the controller determines that the secondary vehicle has encroached the safety zone of the subject vehicle or another secondary vehicle.
US09799221B2
Approaches for managing transit vehicle schedules. The method includes determining a current location and current heading of a transit vehicle by a global positioning system (GPS) module aboard the transit vehicle and communicating the current location and current heading to a computer processor. The computer processor determines a current time and current day, and a trip schedule is selected from a plurality of trip schedules in a database. The selected trip schedule has attributes consistent with the current location, current heading, current time, and current day. The method determines whether the transit vehicle is ahead of the selected trip schedule or behind the selected trip schedule. An output signal indicates whether the transit vehicle is ahead of or behind schedule.
US09799218B1
The automated lane management assist method, data structure and system receive unprocessed lane-specific limited-access highway information, including lane use and speed limits, from traffic detectors in the roadway or from other sources, process and develop predicted information from these sources and substitute the predicted information for the current information where appropriate, thus improving the timeliness of the information in a form that assists in the selection of driving lanes and target speeds for vehicles, including in partially and fully automated vehicles, and communicate the processed predicted information to the vehicles by suitable means.
US09799214B2
Systems, devices and methods are provided for multi-device interactions. For example, a transmitting device detects a media content control command input by a user for operation of a first application client, wherein the media content control command includes media content identification; the transmitting device encodes the media content control command into an audio identifier string; and the transmitting device transmits the audio identifier string through first sound waves. A receiving device is configured to detect the first sound waves using a second application client, extract the audio identifier string from the first sound waves, decode the audio identifier string to acquire the media content control command, and operate on first media content corresponding to the media content identification included in the media content control command.
US09799212B2
A terminal device, network system and controlling method thereof are provided. The present invention includes an input unit configured to receive an input of a command, a controller recognizing the inputted command and detecting state information, and a communication unit transmitting the detected state information by broadcasting and receiving state information of an external device from the external device by the broadcasting, the controller comparing the detected state information to the received state information of the external device such that if a priority of the detected state information is high, the controller executes the recognized command, and if the priority of the detected state information is low, the controller does not execute the recognized command.
US09799206B1
A method for automating emergency distress signals from a networked peripheral device to enable automated emergency distress signal activation from a networked peripheral device when a code word is sensed spoken proximal said peripheral device and when position of said peripheral device is sensed outside an established pattern of movement of said peripheral device coordinated in space and time. The present method for automating emergency distress signals from a networked peripheral device further enables a user to receive an apparent call from another person and thus affect action by a user, as desired, such as, for example, leave a situation promptly having a social pretext, as supplied by the receipt of the apparent call, for so leaving.
US09799204B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for an infrastructure monitoring system. The infrastructure monitoring system may include an operations center; a monitoring device, the monitoring device may be coupled to a component of the infrastructure, include at least one sensor sensing at least one condition within the infrastructure, a data storage device storing data sensed by the at least one sensor, a transceiver device adapted to transmit and receive data, and a processor communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the data storage device, and the transceiver device, the processor may be configured to receive the data sensed by the at least one sensor, determine, based on the data sensed by the at least one sensor, if there is a problem with the at least one condition within the infrastructure that the at least one sensor sensed, upon determining that there is a problem with the at least one condition within the infrastructure that the at least one sensor sensed, transmitting a message to the operations center via the transceiver device, and periodically compiling sensing data stored in the data storage device and transmitting the compiled sensing data to the operations center via the transceiver device; and a control device, the control device may be communicatively coupled to at least one of the operations center and the monitoring device, and the control device may be configured to operate at least one output device when signaled by at least one of the operations center and the monitoring device, and the control device may be positioned within a fire hydrant.
US09799202B2
Aspects include a system for providing feedback to a user with a wearable device. The system including a wearable device and a feedback mechanism disposed within the wearable device. The feedback mechanism configured to vibrate the wearable device. A memory is provided having computer readable instructions. One or more processors are provided for executing the computer readable instructions, the one or more processors being coupled to communicate with the feedback mechanism. The computer readable instructions include defining at least one prompt point that is associated with a first time parameter. The instructions further include determining when the current time is equal to the first time parameter. The instructions provide for actuating the feedback mechanism in response to the current time being equal to the first time period.
US09799200B2
Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to a system effective to monitor an amount of a material, the system includes a portable container, the material is within the portable container; a sensor operatively associated with the portable container, the sensor effective to detect a first level of the material in the portable container when the portable container is at a first location and to generate a first data signal based on the first level, and the sensor is also effective to detect a second level of the material in the portable container and to generate a second data signal based on the second level; a processor in communication with the sensor, the sensor is able to communicate the first data signal and the second data signal to the processor, and the processor is effective to receive the data signals, and effective to generate a report based on the first data signal and the second data signal.
US09799196B1
Systems and methods for detecting chemical substance levels in surrounding environments using an integrated system are provided. A vehicle is equipped with a system comprising a detector component, a vehicle telematics component, and mobile gateway component. The detector component monitors a level of one or more chemical substances and determines that a threshold level of the one or more chemical substances has been detected. The vehicle telematics component generates an alert signaling detection of the threshold level of the one or more chemical substances. The alert may be communicated to one or more recipients including a command center. The alert may include, among other things, the level of the one or more chemical substances and the location of the vehicle. Communication of the alert and additional communications with the one or more recipients is facilitated by a mobile gateway component that provides access to a wireless communications network.
US09799192B2
Disclosed is an intelligent shoe for the blind, which includes a sole and an upper. At least a portion of the sole is provided with multiple pressure sensors for generating pressure sensing signals when the sole is in contact with raised ground surface. The intelligent shoe further includes a storage chip, used to pre-store a signal characteristic of pressure sensing signals generated when the sole is in contact with a blind sidewalk, and a ata processing chip electrically connected to the multiple pressure sensors and the storage chip, used to compare a signal characteristic of pressure sensing signals from the pressure sensors with the pre-stored signal characteristic, and determine that the sole deviates from the blind sidewalk and send a prompt signal in the case that the signal characteristic of the pressure sensing signals from the pressure sensors is inconsistent with the pre-stored signal characteristic.
US09799189B2
A tracking device, a tracking system, and a tracking device control method with safe-zone demarcation based on the usually detected WiFi access points are provided. The tracking device includes a telecommunication transceiver, a WiFi receiver and a microcontroller. The microcontroller is configured to operate the telecommunication transceiver to transmit WiFi information to a server during a data-collection period for behavior analysis of a tracked object equipped with the tracking device and for safe-zone demarcation of the tracking device. The WiFi information indicates WiFi access points detected by the WiFi receiver. The safe-zone demarcation of the tracking device is adaptive to habitual behaviors, obtained from the behavior analysis, of the tracked object.
US09799186B2
A thermal event detection and notification system detects a thermal event, a control unit receives information from, the information being indicative of the detected thermal event. The control unit determines, based on the information received, a location of said thermal event.
US09799183B2
Delivery parcel detection systems can include a doorbell having a first wireless communication system and a floor covering configured for placement on an entryway floor. The doorbell can be communicatively coupled to the floor covering. The floor covering can comprise a sensor configured to detect a delivery parcel located on the floor covering. Systems can include a first communication sent from the floor covering to the doorbell in response to the floor covering detecting an arrival, a movement, or a removal of the delivery parcel. Systems can also include a second communication sent from the doorbell to a remote computing device in response to the doorbell receiving the first communication.
US09799180B1
A payment reader includes a tamper detection system for monitoring and protecting against attempts to tamper with the payment reader. The tamper detection system includes tamper detection devices such as tamper switches or tamper meshes, and tamper detection circuitry to control and interface with the tamper detection devices. Pulses are selectively provided from each of a plurality of tamper signal pins of the tamper detection circuitry to an associated tamper detection device, the outputs of the tamper detection devices are multiplexed, the multiplexed signal is received at a tamper detection pin, and a tamper attempt is identified if a pulse was not received within the multiplexed signal. While not transmitting, each of the tamper signal pins is switched to an input state, and a tamper attempt is also identified if any aberrant signal is received at the tamper signal pins while in the input state.
US09799172B2
System and method of allowing a player to play gaming machines having dual symbol game functionality
The game machine comprising a display and a controller is provided. The display is configured to display a plurality of symbol cells displayed in a grid. The grid defines a plurality of columns, each with an associated reel, an associated reel strip, a plurality of symbol positions, and each symbol position populated by a game symbol. The controller is configured to initiate a game and detect a trigger condition. In response the trigger condition the control then establishes a number of symbols in a set of symbols, selects a set of symbols based on the established number of symbols, with the set of symbols including a plurality of game symbols, and replaces each of the symbols in a plurality of symbol positions on at least one of the reel strips with the selected set of symbols. The controller then establishes a predetermined combination of symbols within the grid.
US09799167B2
A gaming system which maintains a progressive award that is associated with a plurality of different progressive award trigger values or progressive award hit values. In such embodiments, the displayed value of the progressive award does not reset to a reset value or reset amount until the displayed value of that progressive award has incremented to each of the plurality of progressive award hit values associated with that progressive award. In these embodiments, the gaming system provides a plurality of displayed incremented values of a progressive award a plurality of times before the displayed value of that progressive award is reset to the reset value.
US09799162B2
The present invention is directed to a computer network system that allows a user to register for games of chances throughout the country and in accordance with national, state and local laws and ordinances. This system analyses the geographical location and residency information of a user in relation to the geographical access and participation areas permitted, excluded, and restricted for a game of chance as governed by jurisdictional laws, statutes, rules, and regulations. If the user is not located within a permitted area or falls within an excluded or restricted area, the user will not be allowed to access or participate in the game of chance. The ability of the system to limit participation by geographical location is based on user input, data, and variable analysis, and the comparison between the areas where games of chance are permitted, excluded, restricted, and user location and residency, filters data to determine user accessibility to a game of chance, listings, and advertising. The methods and apparatus of this system have applications on the Internet for raffles as well as other conventional games of chance.
US09799158B2
A coin processing machine includes a coin support plate having a coin support surface defining a coin path extending from an intake location to a coin removal station. Depressions formed in the coin path reduce the likelihood of coins, particularly wet coins, from adhering to and stopping along the coin path.
US09799157B2
A sheet processing apparatus including a table to be loaded a first and a second banknote group partitioned by a header card recording the bar code number in the piling direction of the banknotes, a take-in portion to take in the banknotes of the first and second banknote groups loaded on the table and the header card, a discrimination portion to count the banknotes taken in by the take-in portion and discriminate the kind thereof, a plurality of stackers to sort and stack the banknotes discriminated by the discrimination portion on the basis of the kink thereof, and a sensor to detect the header card taken in by the take-in portion. The sheet processing apparatus additionally includes a controller to control so as to stop the taking-in of the second banknote group on the basis of detection of the header card by the sensor and after a lapse of a predetermined time, to start the taking-in of the second banknote group.
US09799152B2
A control device of the present disclosure includes a receiver configured to receive a function enabling signal transmitted from a portable machine used to manipulate a vehicle, a determination unit configured to measure a predetermined time since the receiver receives the function enabling signal and determine whether the predetermined time elapses, and an opening and closing body controller configured to control opening and closing of an opening and closing body of the vehicle. The opening and closing body controller controls an opening operation of the opening and closing body based on user's action detected by a sensor, which is provided in or around the opening and closing body to detect the user's action, before the determination unit determines that the predetermined time elapses and after the receiver receives the function enabling signal from the portable machine.
US09799151B2
A system for hindering the pilot from inadvertently turning off the fuel and/or engine when it is not safe is disclosed. In an embodiment, a fuel shutoff interlock is engaged if the aircraft is in the air and cross-side engine is not running. In an embodiment, a fuel shutoff interlock is not engaged if essential bus power is not present. In an embodiment, a fuel shutoff interlock is not engaged if the aircraft is on the ground. In an embodiment, a fuel shutoff interlock is not engaged if the cross-side engine is running.
US09799149B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management computer system configured for providing a fleet management user interface. According to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured for assessing operational data to determine a vehicle travel path and one or more operational characteristics indicated by the operational data. In addition, according to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured for generating a graphical user interface that includes an evaluation results display showing the operational characteristics and a geographical map showing the vehicle travel path.
US09799144B2
A head mounted display which allows a user to visually recognize a virtual image, includes an image display unit that enables the user to visually recognize the virtual image, a display processing unit that causes the image display unit to form the virtual image indicating a plurality of images used to operate the head mounted display and a background image, and a motion detection unit that detects a motion of the head of the user. The display processing unit changes the background image according to a motion of the head of the user.
US09799142B2
A system and method for spatial data collection are described. Sensor data related to a position and an orientation of a device are generated over time using sensors of the device. Augmented reality content is generated based on a physical object captured by the device. A path bundle data package identifying a user interaction of the device with the augmented reality content relative to the physical object is generated. The user interaction identifies a spatial path of an interaction with the augmented reality content. The path bundle data package is generated based on the sensor data using a data model comprising a data header and a data payload. The data header comprises a contextual header having data identifying the device and a user of the device. A path header includes data identifying the path of the interaction with the augmented reality content. A sensor header includes data identifying the sensors. The data payload comprises dynamically sized sampling data from the sensor data.
US09799131B1
Systems and methods of rendering webpage interaction statistics data over graphical user interfaces is provided herein. A computing device can transmit a request for an interaction statistics identifying an information resource. The computing device can receive the interaction dataset for the identified information resource. The computing device can calculate a similarity measure among the client devices based on the interaction dataset using a clustering algorithm. The computing device can identify a subset of client devices based on the similarity measure. The computing device can calculate the interaction sequence metrics for the client devices for each selected content element. The computing device can select the content elements based on the calculated interaction sequence metrics. The computing device can generate a graph element including nodes representing each selected content element and paths representing the interaction sequence metrics. The computing device can display the graph element.
US09799128B2
Adding new nodes to a graph diagram. A set of one or more new nodes is identified from a graph to be added to an existing graph diagram. A set of one or more anchor candidate nodes are identified in the graph that are coupled to the nodes in the set of one or more new nodes. One of the nodes in the set of one or more anchor candidate nodes is selected as an anchor node. An automatic graph diagram layout of the anchor node and new nodes that are to be coupled to the anchor node is performed to create a disjoint graph diagram. A spatial offset from the anchor node to each of the new nodes coupled to the anchor node in the disjoint graph diagram is identified. Each of the new nodes is added to the existing graph diagram while maintaining the identified spatial offsets.
US09799123B2
The present invention is to provide an information identification system, a method of identifying information, and a program for identifying information to efficiently identify information by considering information on an object existing in the imaged area when identifying information from an image. The information identification system 10 that identifies information on an object imaged in the image previously registers information on the object existing in a predetermined area, detects the location information of the image and identifies which area the location information belongs to, detects the feature amount of the object imaged in the image, and matches the identified area information and the detected feature amount to the database and identifies information on the object imaged in the image.
US09799120B1
In a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus and segmentation method, a region in an MR image, acquired from a scan of a patient with an MR scanner of the apparatus, is provided to a computer for segmentation of the region from the overall image dataset. The segmentation takes place based on a classification of image elements of the image dataset, and the classification is iteratively re-trained in a weakly supervised learning algorithm based on examination-specific information provided to the computer.
US09799109B2
A radiographic imaging control method includes combining a plurality of images by applying a first weight to the plurality of images, displaying a composite image, acquired by combining the plurality of images, newly receiving a second weight with respect to the composite image, recombining the plurality of images based on the received second weight, and displaying a recombined image, acquired by recombining the plurality of images.
US09799108B2
An image processing apparatus can correct the influence of contrast caused by a difference between a photopic vision and a scotopic vision to provide an image excellent in image quality. An averaged within-visual-field luminance calculation unit calculates a luminance value in the visual field based on at least one of environmental luminance in the visual field and luminance in a screen on which image data can be displayed. A reverse gamma conversion processing unit corrects the contrast of the image data based on the obtained luminance value in the visual field.
US09799105B2
Disclosed are an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and a program capable of acquiring a moving image with excellent image quality while maintaining continuity of a restoration process between frames even if there is a rapid change of a photographing environment in a moving image. An image processing device includes a restoration control processing unit 36 which subjects a moving image including a plurality of frames acquired by photographing using an optical system to a restoration process based on a point spread function of the optical system to acquire recovered image data. The restoration control processing unit 36 controls the restoration process for a frame to be processed among a plurality of frames based on imaging information of a reference frame including a frame after the frame to be processed in a time series.
US09799104B2
There are provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium capable of compatibly achieving a high-accuracy filtering process and reduction in a necessary storage capacity. An image processing apparatus includes a filtering process unit that performs an image filtering process including a plurality of filtering processes. The filtering process unit applies a filter to processing target data to acquire filter application process data, and applies a gain to the filter application process data to acquire gain application process data, in each filtering process. In each filtering process, the gain applied to the filter application process data is acquired based on a “target frequency characteristic of the image filtering process” specified based on an optical characteristic of an optical system used when the original image data is acquired, that is, the optical characteristic according to an imaging condition when the original image data is acquired.
US09799101B2
A restoration filter generation device that generates a restoration filter to perform restoration processing on luminance system image data that is image data related to luminance, which is generated based on image data of respective colors of multiple colors obtained by an imaging device having an optical system, includes an information acquisition device acquiring transfer function information corresponding to point image distribution in the optical system, for each color of the multiple colors, and a restoration filter generation device generating the restoration filter based on the transfer function information acquired by the information acquisition device and generating the restoration filter that performs phase correction of the luminance system image data according to the transfer function information on a single color of the multiple colors.
US09799088B2
In an example, a method for rendering graphics data includes receiving a plurality of commands associated with a plurality of render targets, where the plurality of commands are received in an initial order. The method also includes determining an execution order for the plurality of commands including reordering one or more of the plurality of commands in a different order than the initial order based on data dependencies between commands. The method also includes executing the plurality of commands in the determined execution order.
US09799083B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with identifying non-technical line loss using data from smart meters in an electric grid are described. In one embodiment, a method includes querying a utility database to collect meter data, wherein the meter data is from electric meters connected to a transformer in an electric grid. Querying the utility database includes collecting the data according to a plurality of intervals over a period of time. Electric consumption and voltage variances are analyzed for the set of meters to identify a first set of intervals that satisfy a threshold for electric consumption and to identify a second set of intervals that satisfy a threshold for voltage variances. The first set of intervals is compared with the second set of intervals to determine whether the set of meters are associated with non-technical line loss.
US09799082B1
Embodiments of a system and method for sharing content across a social network can include: receiving content (e.g., a content update) for a content channel (e.g., at a channel node of a set of remote channel nodes); assigning a content identifier to the content; transmitting the content with the content identifier to a user account associated with the content channel; and modifying the content channel with the content based on the content identifier.
US09799074B2
A disclosed system, method and computer readable storage medium includes mechanism for controlling cascade price movements in an electronic trading system. Price limits control the prices at which traders can place orders. An upper price limit prevents traders from placing orders above the upper limit and a lower price limit prevents traders from placing orders below the lower limit. The gap between the upper limit and the indicative market price as well as the gap between lower limit and the indicative market price is controlled so as to cause a breaking effect on very rapidly changing market price.
US09799069B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for a graphical dining interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a device comprises a component image processor configured to generate a representation of at least one component of an item. The device further comprises an input device configured to receive an input from a user, where the input comprises a selection of a first component. The device further comprises an item image processor configured to generate a representation of the item, where the representation of the item comprises the representation of the first component.
US09799067B2
The present disclosure describes making a payment transaction between a customer and a merchant using a payment card of the customer including: transmitting details of the payment transaction from a mobile device to a remote server; capturing at least one image of the payment card using the mobile device of the merchant; transmitting the at least one image of the payment card to the remote server; identifying, by the remote server, the merchant and the payment card captured in the at least one image; and implementing the payment transaction between bank accounts of the customer and the merchant.
US09799066B2
An electronic commerce system configured to implement a product ordering method for receiving a product search inquiry from an input device, displaying a plurality of products in a product listing available from purchase based on the product search inquiry on an output device, receiving a selection of a product, and displaying a first product information page including at least a product name, a product price, general product information, a first product ordering link for accessing a product ordering interface and a product information detail link. The system further includes a secondary product information display system configured to display a product datasheet including the product name, the general product information, product technical information and a commercial function display including at least one of a second product ordering link for accessing the product ordering interface and an inventory reporting display.
US09799064B2
At least one database is accessed that includes at least personal size information representing measurements respectively associated with at least one person. Clothing information is received that represents at least one of the plurality of articles of clothing. The received clothing information is processed to associate the clothing information with at least some of the personal size information associated with one of the plurality of persons. Thereafter, a value is determined, as a function of the processed clothing information, that represents the fit of the one of the articles of clothing with at least one person. Information associated with the information is displayed.
US09799057B2
Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for creation and management of marketing applications, events, promotions and publications. The system includes a user input device configured to provide a user input for one or more applications. The system includes a display configured to display information from the one or more applications. The system includes a processing unit communicatively coupled to the user input device and the display. The processing unit is configured to execute one or more application to create the promotional activity, configure the promotional activity, and associate an offer with the configured promotional activity.
US09799054B2
The presentation of advertisements to a user on a mobile communications device is disclosed. A first external input corresponding to a triggering of an advertisement delivery is received on a first input modality. An advertisement overlay is displayed in a graphical user interface in response to receiving the external input. Advertisement invocation instructions are displayed within the advertisement overlay. A second external input is received on a second input modality different from the first input modality. The second external input is translated to a set of quantified values. An advertisement is then displayed within the advertisement overlay in response to a substantial match between the set of quantified values translated from the received second external input to the set of predefined values corresponding to the advertisement invocation instructions.
US09799053B2
Systems and methods are disclosed which may allow a user having a mobile device to check in to a location using a packet sequence that includes information for identifying the location transmitted by one or more Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) beacons at or near the location. The user may be able to store packet sequences for various locations that may allow the user to automatically check into these locations using the store packet sequences.
US09799045B2
Methods, systems, and techniques for determining the vertical alignment of an infrastructure corridor having a certain horizontal alignment involve using a processor to model the cost of constructing the infrastructure corridor as a function of cost variables that vary with the vertical alignment of the infrastructure corridor. The processor looks up the cost variables at vertical offsets corresponding to certain vertical alignments of the infrastructure corridor and determines the cost of constructing the length of road at elevations located between pairs of the vertical offsets by interpolating from the cost variables at the vertical offsets; the interpolation may be linear. The processor determines, subject to infrastructure corridor design constraints, the vertical alignment of the infrastructure corridor from the cost of constructing the infrastructure corridor at the vertical offsets.
US09799023B2
A point-of-sale self-checkout terminal includes a code reader device for automated entry of a product identification code present on items for purchase and a customer input device for receipt of data from a customer. A customer can initiate a purchase of a non-scannable item and, in response, a database is queried to identify items based on a prediction of purchase of the items, and the identified items are displayed for selection by the customer to purchase the item. Image processing and voice processing, can also be implemented to assist customers with the purchase of non-scannable items.
US09799008B2
A method and system for the ordered modification of a recurring event in a calendaring application. A method for applying ordered modifications to recurring event instances, can include identifying an event exception which corresponds to a separately defined recurring event instance. Subsequently, at least one property of the recurring instance can be modified based upon the event exception. Additional event exceptions corresponding to the recurring event instance can be further identified in accordance with a preferred aspect of the present invention. For each further identified additional event exception, at least one property of the recurring event instance can be further modified based upon the further identified additional event exception. Notably, each of the identifying and modifying steps can be repeated for additional recurring event instances.
US09799004B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for context-aware visualization, notification, aggregation, and formation in a multi-model collaboration space. The system first finds contextually related content from a multi-model collaboration space, wherein the multi-model collaboration space includes disjoint collaboration tools. The system then generates a unified content view of the multi-model collaboration space, wherein the unified content view presents the contextually related content from the multi-model collaboration space.
US09798988B2
A method, computer program product, and system for selecting collaborators is described. A set of candidates for collaboration with an initiator is received. Initial contact scores for one or more member of the set of candidates are determined based upon, at least in part, one or more of initial availability and initial willingness. An initial ranking order for the set of candidates is determined. A member is selected from the set based upon, at least in part, the initial ranking order. An invitation to collaborate is provided to the selected member. If the invitation is accepted, a communication channel connection is established between the initiator and the selected member.
US09798983B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to reserving physical resources in an enterprise via an electronic reservation environment. An electronic search request for an availability of one or more resources in an enterprise is received from a user through a web page and/or a mobile application and is submitted to a reservation engine. The search request includes one or more resource search parameters received via a graphical user interface associated with the electronic reservation environment. A result identifying resources that satisfy the resource search parameters in the request is received in response to the search request and an electronic metadata request is automatically submitted in response to receipt of the result. The electronic metadata request including resource identifiers corresponding to the resources identified in the result. Metadata corresponding to the resources identified in the result is received and an identity of the resources returned in the result, an availability of the resources, and the metadata associated with the resources is displayed to the user.
US09798982B2
Determining a number of kernels within a model is provided. A number of kernels that include data samples of a majority data class of an imbalanced training data set is determined based on a set of generated artificial data samples for a minority data class of the imbalanced training data set. The number of kernels within the model is generated based on the set of generated artificial data samples. A likelihood of the set of generated artificial data samples being included in the majority data class of the imbalanced training data set is calculated. Parameters of each kernel in the number of kernels are updated based on the likelihood of the set of generated artificial data samples being included in the majority data class of the imbalanced training data set. Each kernel in the number of kernels is adjusted based on the updated parameters.
US09798981B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to determining malware. A set of tokens is generated from an application under test, A set of signal tokens is generated from the set of tokens. A likelihood of malware is determined for the application under test based on the signal tokens and a signal token database.
US09798974B2
A recommendation of at least one of multiple audio samples or sets of audio samples to combine with a particular audio sample or set of audio samples is automatically generated. The recommendation is generated by determining the rhythmic compatibility as well as the harmonic compatibility of the particular audio sample or set of samples with each of the multiple audio samples or sets of audio samples. For each of the multiple audio samples or sets of audio samples, a compatibility rating is generated based on the rhythmic compatibility and the harmonic compatibility of the audio sample or set of audio samples with the particular audio sample or set of audio samples. At least one of the multiple audio samples or sets of audio samples is presented by a computing device as a recommendation to combine with the particular audio sample or set of audio samples.
US09798973B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product performs rule execution in decision services. One or more specialized rulesets classified by decision partitions are based on defined clustering predicates of decision service signatures for business rules. A decision request is received from a client, and one or more parameters of the decision request are input to a clustering predicate based on decision service signatures to produce a decision category. A specialized ruleset for the decision request is determined based on the decision category, and the decision request is forwarded for processing to the specialized ruleset. A decision input is then returned from the specialized ruleset.
US09798968B2
A conductive coupling frame (CF) having two ends, forming an open loop having two ends or a discontinuous metal layer disposed surrounding and closely adjacent a transponder chip module (TCM, 610), and substantially coplanar with an antenna structure (AS, CES, LES) in the transponder chip module (TCM). A metal card body (MCB, CB) or a transaction card with a discontinuous metal layer having a slit (S) or a non-conductive strip (NCS, 1034) extending from a module opening (MO) to a periphery of the card body to function as a coupling frame (CF). The coupling frame (CF) may be thick enough to be non-transparent to RF at frequencies of interest. A switch (SW) may be provided to connect ends of the coupling frame (CF) across the slit (S, 630). A reinforcing structure (RS) may be provided to stabilize the coupling frame (CF) and card body (CB). The transponder chip module (TCM) may comprise an antenna structure which may be a laser-etched antenna structure (LES) or a chemical-etched antenna structure (CES), and may comprise and a non-perforated contact pad (CP) arrangement. A coupling frame (CF) may be incorporated onto the module tape (MT, CCT) for a transponder chip module (TCM).
US09798966B2
Systems and methods of a smart card based mobile pull station are provided. For example, a smart card can include control circuitry and an activation mechanism. In some methods, the smart card can receive user input to activate the activation mechanism of the smart card, and upon activation of the activation mechanism, the control circuitry of the smart card can transmit an emergency signal. In some methods, a wireless device can receive the emergency signal from the smart card, the wireless device can transmit the emergency signal to a remote device, and the remote device can identify a location of the smart card based on a location of the wireless device.
US09798962B2
A control apparatus includes a storing unit, a determining unit, a first notification unit, a selection unit, and a second notification unit. The storing unit stores attribute information of sheets to be stored in sheet holding units. The determining unit determines whether attribute information of sheets to be used by a job corresponds to the stored sheet attribute information. The first notification unit notifies, in a case where the determining unit determines that the attribute information does not correspond, a user that the attribute information does not correspond to the sheet attribute information. The selection unit selects the stored sheet attribute information to change the attribute information of sheets to be used by the job. The second notification unit notifies, in accordance with selection of the sheet attribute information, the user that the attribute information of sheets to be used by the job corresponds to the stored sheet attribute information.
US09798959B2
A method and a system for recognizing faces have been disclosed. The method may comprise: retrieving a pair of face images; segmenting each of the retrieved face images into a plurality of image patches, wherein each patch in one image and a corresponding one in the other image form a pair of patches; determining a first similarity of each pair of patches; determining, from all pair of patches, a second similarity of the pair of face images; and fusing the first similarity determined for the each pair of patches and the second similarity determined for the pair of face images.
US09798954B1
Systems and methods for detecting image anomalies include extracting one or more detected images from a submission file received from at least one computing device and generating an image identification (ID) for each of the one or more images. One or more image quality indices are determined for the submission file based on at least one of predetermined image features, an image type of the one or more images, and submission file attributes, and one or more image anomalies associated with the one or more images of the submission file are detected based on at least one of the image ID and the one or more image quality indices.
US09798951B2
Provided is an apparatus for measuring a distance change, the apparatus including an information acquisition unit, an object determination unit, a feature point determination unit, an optical flow calculator, a matching point determination unit, an object length change calculator that calculates a length change ratio between an object of a first frame image and an object of a second frame image by using a feature point and a matching point, and a distance change calculator that calculates a change from a distance between a camera and the object from when the camera acquires the first frame image and when the camera acquires the second frame image using the calculated length change ratio.
US09798950B2
A feature amount generation device includes a feature point detecting unit which detects a feature point from an input image, a pixel information generating unit which generates pixel information from pixel values of the surroundings of the feature point in the input image, a feature point pixel information distribution generating unit which generates a first distribution of pixel information of a first region including the feature point, a sub-feature point detecting unit which detects sub-feature points that are feature points in the surroundings of the feature point, a sub-feature point pixel information distribution generating unit which generates second distributions of pixel information of second regions including the sub-feature points, and a feature amount generating unit which generates a feature amount at the feature point based on the first distribution and the second distributions.
US09798937B2
The present invention provides a vehicle control method for driving safety, including: a first step of photographing an infrared image and a visible ray image; a second step of transmitting the photographed infrared image and visible ray image to an image recognizing and comparing module; a third step of leaving only a frequency for an edge of the infrared image and the visible image using a high pass filter, in the image recognizing and comparing module; and a fourth step of comparing a frequency band distribution processed in the third step to determine the situation as a situation which has a difficulty to secure a clear view when a difference is equal to or higher than a predetermined level.
US09798934B2
A method and apparatus of providing a combined summary by receiving monitored audio and video are provided The method includes: receiving audio and video captured by at least one network camera; generating a video summary by detecting at least one video event from at least one of the audio and the video; generating an audio summary by detecting at least one audio event from at least one of the audio and the video; extracting at least one section of the video summary corresponding to the at least one audio event, and storing the extracted at least one section of the video summary with the audio summary; and providing a display of the video reproducing apparatus with a video summary control interface for controlling the video summary and an audio summary control interface for controlling the audio summary.
US09798922B2
A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors.
US09798915B1
A grocery inventory tracking assembly includes a scanning unit has a scanner and an electronic memory. The scanner is electrically coupled to the electronic memory. The scanner may scan bar codes on grocery items. The electronic memory may store the bar codes thereby facilitating the electronic memory to track inventory of the grocery items. A mount is provided and the mount may be removably coupled to a support surface. The mount frictionally engages the scanning unit. Thus, the scanning unit may be retained on the support surface.
US09798912B1
Targets are read by image capture with a substantially constant resolution over an extended range of working distances. Return light returning from a far-out target located at a far-out working distance is sensed by an array of pixels over a relatively narrow field of view, and over a relatively wide field of view when a close-in target is located at a close-in working distance. A controller processes the sensed return light from the far-out target only from a set of the pixels located in a central region of the array. For the close-in target, the controller groups all the pixels into bins, each bin having a plurality of the pixels, and processes the sensed return light from the close-in target from each of the bins.
US09798908B2
An object detection system includes a reader waveguide (101) formed as an open transmission line, an RFID tag (102) placed above the reader waveguide (101), a signal strength acquisition unit (103) that acquires signal strength of a read signal read from the RFID tag (102) by electromagnetic coupling through the reader waveguide (101), and an object detection unit (104) that detects physical characteristics of an object (105) corresponding to the acquired signal strength based on a relationship between a plurality of (three or more values of) signal strength of the read signal and physical characteristics of the object to be detected.
US09798902B2
An anti-tampering system and method typically featuring a printed circuit board with anti-tamper protection circuitry powered by a power source. Switching circuitry is coupled between the power source and the anti-tamper protection circuitry. A transducer outputs a signal to the switching circuitry electrically connecting the power source to the anti-tamper protection circuitry in response to a tampering event. The switching circuitry otherwise disconnects the power source from the anti-tamper protection circuitry to save power.
US09798900B2
The present disclosure is directed to a flexible counter system for memory protection. In general, a counter system for supporting memory protection operations in a device may be made more efficient utilizing flexible counter structures. A device may comprise a processing module and a memory module. A flexible counter system in the memory module may comprise at least one data line including a plurality of counters. The bit-size of the counters may be reduced and/or varied from existing implementations through an overflow counter that may account for smaller counters entering an overflow state. Counters that utilize the overflow counter may be identified using a bit indicator. In at least one embodiment selectors corresponding to each of the plurality of counters may be able to map particular memory locations to particular counters.
US09798888B2
An example method for managing data in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes receiving from a user in the computer network environment a policy about how a piece of data should be treated, an encryption of the piece of data, a signature of a cryptographic hash of the policy and a cryptographic key, requesting from a trust authority the cryptographic key to access the piece of data, transmitting an encryption of at least one share to the trust authority, wherein the at least one share is created by and received from the trust authority, receiving from the trust authority the cryptographic key, wherein the cryptographic key is recreated by a combiner using a subset of the at least one share, shares associated with the trust authority and shares associated with the combiner, and decrypting the encryption of the piece of data using the recreated cryptographic key.
US09798887B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method to securely activate or revoke a key. For example, the apparatus may comprise: a storage device to store a plurality of pre-stored keys; a communication interface to receive an activate key command and a certificate associated with one of the pre-stored keys; and a processor. The processor may be coupled to the storage device and the communication interface and may be configured to: implement the activate key command to reboot the apparatus with the pre-stored key and the certificate; and determine if the reboot is successful.
US09798879B2
An apparatus, system, and method is disclosed for protecting against key logger malware. The protection includes protection form grabbing keylogger malware. In response to detecting a form submission event from a browser associated with a user entering data into a form, confidential data is cleared to prevent it being captured by malware. Additional protection of data inputs, entered at a driver level, may be provided as an additional level of protection against hook based malware operating at a virtual keyboard level or operating system level. Data inputs received at a physical driver level may be protected as they pass through a virtual keyboard level and an operating system level. The projection against malware may be provided as a preventive measure that does not require detection of the key logger malware itself.
US09798869B2
Provided is a processing apparatus that authenticates a requestor in response to a request for performing predetermined processing. The processing apparatus executes the predetermined processing upon the authentication succeeding. Whether or not authentication is performed is set individually for each of the processing apparatus and an external apparatus of the processing apparatus that serve as the requestor. The authentication is performed in the case where authentication is set to be performed on the requestor that made the request.
US09798864B2
A computer program product, a method, and an information handling system is provided to track and retrieve licensing agreements of features integrated into an application by detecting during development of an application installation of one or more features having a licensing agreement associated with using the one or more features; storing in a database a mapping between the one more installed features to a corresponding licensing agreement for each of the one or more installed features; and providing support to retrieve for the each installed features, the corresponding licensing agreement.
US09798863B2
Federated systems for issuing playback certifications granting access to technically protected content are described. One embodiment of the system includes a registration server connected to a network, a content server connected to the network and to a trusted system, a first device including a non-volatile memory that is connected to the network and a second device including a non-volatile memory that is connected to the network. In addition, the registration server is configured to provide the first device with a first set of activation information in a first format, the first device is configured to store the first set of activation information in non-volatile memory, the registration server is configured to provide the second device with a second set of activation information in a second format, and the second device is configured to store the second set of activation information in non-volatile memory.
US09798862B2
An apparatus for distributing medicines, vitamins and/or samples, including an organizer and dispensing units for medicines, vitamins and/or samples. The organizer includes seats in which to place the dispensing units. The apparatus includes an identification device connected to a data processing device and containing dispensing data on medicines, vitamins and/or samples, including detecting members controlled to a detecting state by detecting signals generated on the basis of dispensing data in the data processing device. The identification device is configured to be brought in connection with the organizer so that at least some of the detecting members are aligned with at least some of the seats of the organizer, wherein at least those dispensing units, which are aligned with at least one detecting member, can be identified by means of detecting signals generated on the basis of dispensing data in the data processing device.
US09798861B2
The present invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses for the management, distribution, dispensing, and administration of consumer products, including over-the-counter and prescription medications through use of a product container labeling system and an optional integrated computer-based or online management system. In certain aspects, the invention relates to a product container comprising a hollow body, a child-resistant cap, and a specialized information label affixed to the hollow body.
US09798859B2
A medicinal fluid delivery device and methods for its use are provided. The device can include a command means and a dispensing unit that can include a reusable part and a disposable, reservoir part. Software can be included that facilitates pairing and communications between a command means and the dispensing unit.
US09798858B2
A method, a system, and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing a computer implemented method for automatically evaluating the quality of a medical record. The method includes: generating temporary facts from a medical record to be evaluated; constructing a query to a knowledge base of standard facts of standard medical records from the temporary facts; executing the query to the knowledge base by using a reasoning engine; and determining the quality of a medical record to be evaluated based on the result of the query.
US09798857B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product therefore provide an integrated display of clinical data. In this regard, the method, apparatus and computer program product may provide access to patient clinical data during a medical study. The relevant clinical data may be obtained from patient medical records, and displayed along with information from the medical study. An interface may be provided, allowing for selection of one or more portions of the relevant clinical data by a user. The portion of relevant clinical data associated with the particular interface element may be displayed. The method, apparatus, and computer program product may also incorporate adaptive learning techniques, monitoring user input during various study operations to identify particular relevant clinical data and/or interface elements that are selected by the user during the study.
US09798854B2
Methods, computer-accessible medium, and systems for generating a genome wide probe map and/or a genome wide haplotype sequence are provided. In particular, a genome wide probe map can be generated by obtaining a plurality of detectable oligonucleotide probes hybridized to at least one double stranded nucleic acid molecule cleaved with at least one restriction enzyme, and detecting the location of the detectable oligonucleotide probes. For example, genome wide haplotype sequence can be generated by analyzing at least one genome wide restriction map in conjunction with at least one genome wide probe map to determine distances between restriction sites of the genome wide restriction map(s) and locations of detectable oligonucleotide probes of the genome wide probe map(s) and defining a consensus map indicating restriction sites based on the genome wide restriction map(s) and/or locations of detectable oligonucleotide probes based on each of the genome wide probe map(s).
US09798851B2
A method for DRC verification of a design layout file comprising off-grid patterns includes identifying an off-grid pattern having one or more off-grid sides, outwardly expanding the one or more off-grid sides to adjacent grids to obtain a first on-grid pattern, inwardly contracting the expanded one or more sides of the first on-grid pattern to adjacent grids to obtain a second on-grid pattern, and performing a DRC verification on the second on-grid pattern using an existing on-grid DRC deck. The method also includes making a backup copy of the design layout file prior to converting the identified off-grid pattern into an on-grid pattern.
US09798847B2
Embodiments relate to cross-hierarchy interconnect adjustment. An aspect includes receiving chip layout data corresponding to a chip design, wherein a first portion of a metal stack of the chip design is assigned to a first hierarchy and a second portion of the metal stack is assigned to a second hierarchy based on a contract between the first and second hierarchy. Another aspect includes determining an unused portion of the first portion of the metal stack. Another aspect includes moving an interconnect of the second hierarchy from the second portion of the metal stack that is assigned to the second hierarchy to the unused portion of the first portion of the metal stack in the chip layout data. Another aspect includes performing power recovery on the chip layout data after moving the interconnect based on an amount of slack margin generated in the chip design by the moving of the interconnect.
US09798835B2
It is provided a computer-implemented method for designing a three-dimensional modeled object. The method comprises providing a boundary representation of the modeled object; determining a subset of the set of faces for which the faces are a copy one of another; forming a first group of faces within the subset that form a geometrical pattern; and associating to the first group of faces at least one second group of faces that are, for each face of the second group, adjacent to a respective face of the first group and that are, for each pair of faces of the second group, compliant with the rigid motion that transforms, one into the other, the respective faces of the first group to which the faces of the pair are adjacent. Such a method improves the design of a 3D modeled object.
US09798834B2
There are disclosed an apparatus for assembling a 3D model including a key input unit configured to generate a variety of key inputs for 3D model assembling or key data based on touch input on a screen; a control unit configured to drive an application to implement 3D model assembling based on the key input from the key input unit; a 3D model unit configured to provide a menu screen for 3D model assembling, when driven by the control unit, to display a screen of parts for a 3D model selected as an assembling object based on the touch or key input on the menu screen and to assemble parts selected from the part screen in successive steps to finish the 3D model; and a display unit configured to display successive screens based on the 3D model assembling performed by the 3D model unit.
US09798830B2
A query parser that converts query definition into a query graph and decides the execution order of operators is installed, a set of consecutive operators in the execution order is called a stage, the total of calculation costs of operators configuring each stage is called a calculation cost of the stage, the query graph is divided into multiple stages such that the calculation cost of each stage becomes a value less than a value dividing the total cost of all operators by the number of calculation cores, and each calculation core extracts tuples one by one from an input stream, and, when taking charge of and executing processing of the tuples from the entrance to exit of the query graph, before the execution of each stage, confirms whether processing of the stage is completed for a tuple previous to a charge tuple.
US09798829B1
Some implementations provide a user interface that allows non-technical users to import, create, and maintain a knowledge document. The knowledge document may include links to other knowledge documents or links to public data graphs. For example, a method may include generating data used to display tabular data to a user, a first column of the tabular data being associated with a first entity type and non-heading rows in the tabular data representing information for entities of the first entity type. The method may also include permitting the user to select a second column of the tabular data and provide a second entity type as an object type to be associated with a relationship represented by the second column. The method may include generating an entity in the knowledge document of the second entity type and linking an entity of the first entity type to the generated entity by the relationship.
US09798824B2
Generating a 2D barcode includes acquiring private information input by a user and sending the private information to a server through a network. The method includes receiving an information access address returned through the network by the server, and generating a 2D barcode including the information access address. The method further includes acquiring a 2D barcode including an information access address and scanning the 2D barcode to obtain the information access address included in the 2D barcode, the information access address being for accessing private information. The method further includes sending the information access address to a server through a network, and receiving the private information returned through the network by the server, and using the private information as a reading result of the 2D barcode.
US09798819B2
The selective aggregation of marker objects on a map is disclosed. A plurality of marker objects is received in response to a query. The marker objects are each defined by a set of coordinates to a specific location on the map. The map is segregated into a plurality of bounding areas each defined by a set of bounding coordinates. A bounding area count of the number of marker objects having coordinates within a first one of the bounding areas is generated. The bounding area count is compared to a predetermined threshold. If the bounding area count is greater, a first aggregate marker is displayed in the first one of the bounding areas of the map. Otherwise, each of the marker objects within the first one of the bounding areas of the map is displayed. The marker objects are positioned according to the set of coordinates associated therewith.
US09798816B2
Systems and methods for range programming using a search query are disclosed. A method for range programming using a search query includes determining whether the search query comprises a range operation and identifying a target application to launch using a search application which is separate from the target application and based on the search query. A range of results to process with the target application can be identified using the search application and based on the search query. The results can be separately within the range in the context of the target application.
US09798804B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a detector, an acquisition unit, and a search unit. The storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string included in voice text data obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, the voice positional information indicating a temporal position in the voice data and corresponding to the character string. The acquisition unit acquires reading information being at least a part of a character string representing a reading of a phrase to be transcribed from the voice data played back. The search unit specifies, as search targets, character strings whose associated voice positional information is included in the played-back section information among the character strings included in the voice indices, and retrieves a character string including the reading represented by the reading information from among the specified character strings.
US09798799B2
A vehicle personal assistant to engage a user in a conversational dialog about vehicle-related topics, such as those commonly found in a vehicle owner's manual, includes modules to interpret spoken natural language input, search a vehicle knowledge base and/or other data sources for pertinent information, and respond to the user's input in a conversational fashion. The dialog may be initiated by the user or more proactively by the vehicle personal assistant based on events that may be currently happening in relation to the vehicle. The vehicle personal assistant may use real-time inputs obtained from the vehicle and/or non-verbal inputs from the user to enhance its understanding of the dialog and assist the user in a variety of ways.
US09798797B2
A cluster method and apparatus based on user interest are provided in the present invention. The method includes: receiving pre-determined basic attribute data of a user; calculating a distance between the basic attribute data and a cluster center point, based on the cluster point of the basic attribute data related to the calculation of user interest; comparing the distance with a predefined threshold; if the distance is less than the predefined threshold, determining that the user belongs to a cluster of the interest. As the embodiments of the invention take the basic attribute data from the data of registered users into consideration, the recommendation of corresponding content is executed before getting user behavior data of browsing operations, based on the cluster of interest obtained from register information. Thus the accuracy of recommending to new registered users may be improved.
US09798785B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for searching for address book information. To this end, the present invention, upon receiving a search request message for searching address book information from a client, checks a search preference, searches for the address book information based on the checked search preference, applies a priority to the found address book information to create a final search result, creates a response message including the created final search result, forwards the response message to the client, and updates the preset search preference based on the final search result, thereby providing a search result optimized for a user.
US09798782B2
Techniques are described for revising data partition size for use in generating predictive models. In one example, a method includes determining an initial number of base model partitions of data from a plurality of data sources; determining an initial base model partition size based at least in part on the initial number of base model partitions; and evaluating the initial base model partition size at least in part with reference to at least one base model partition size reference. The method further includes determining a finalized number of base model partitions based at least in part on the initial base model partition size; determining a revised base model partition size; and generating revised base models based at least in part on the revised base model partition size, including using a predictive modeling framework to randomly assign input data records from the plurality of data sources into the base model partitions.
US09798780B2
A search system configured to predict further search intents of a user and to perform exploratory further searches and produce a number of search features and associated relevances and divergence quantifiers for displaying by user equipment at least two-dimensional so as to allow the user to identify relationship of various diverging search terms and to rapidly direct the searching towards information the existence of which may have been previously unknown to the user. Some of the search features can be concealed and shown to the user only if the user magnifies the corresponding area on a display showing the search features returned by the search engine. Files matching to varying degree with the present and predicted further searches are shown to the user with respective lists of search features.
US09798777B2
In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving, from a client device associated with a first entity of a communication service, a request by the first entity to access the communication service, the request comprising an entity identifier (ID) of the first entity, determining whether the first entity is authorized to access the communication service based at least in part on a gray list comprising entity IDs of the entities who are not authorized to access the communication service, wherein the gray list is based on a black list, and prohibiting, by one or more of the computing devices, access to the communication service by the first entity if the first entity is not authorized to access the communication service based on the gray list.
US09798774B1
A graph data search method and apparatus, where the method includes obtaining a query request including a query condition that carries a start graph node, the query request queries a first to-be-queried graph node matching the query condition from a graph data set, and the graph data set includes the start graph node, a plurality of to-be-queried graph nodes, an association relationship between the start graph node and the plurality of graph nodes, and an association relationship between each to-be-queried graph node and another graph node, filtering out, according to the query condition and a preset available resource condition, a second to-be-queried graph node that does not meet the query condition and an association relationship in the graph data set that includes the second to-be-queried graph node, and performing a query in the reduction subgraph using the query condition.
US09798771B2
Content is secured in a database. One or more columns in challenge tables are identified, and values from the challenge tables are retrieved. A database query may execute in response to a match between the values from the challenge tables and query data. However, if the query data fails to match the values from the challenge tables, execution of the database query may be disallowed.
US09798764B2
Disclosed are database systems, computing devices, methods, and computer program products for identifying recurring sequences of user interactions with an application. In some implementations, a server of a database system provides a user interface of the application for display at a computing device. The database system stores data objects identifying a first plurality of user interactions with the application. The server receives information representing a second plurality of user interactions with the application. The server updates the database system to further identify the second user interactions. The server identifies a recurring sequence of user interactions from the first and second user interactions as resulting in a first target state of the application. The server updates the database system to associate the recurring sequence of user interactions with the first target state of the application.
US09798759B2
A plurality of transactions are handled in a database. Each transaction comprises a plurality of operations on at least one record in the database with at least two of the transactions being handled concurrently. Thereafter, a temporary timestamp is assigned to each record that is based, at least in part, on the corresponding transaction. A first transaction among the plurality of transactions is subsequently committed. Afterwards, re-stamping of at least one commit timestamp modified by the first transaction is delegated. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US09798758B2
A personal food inventory system (PFIS) allows for storage of food items in a personal inventory associated with a user account, as well as tracking of food items consumed by the user account. The PFIS is linked to an application for communicating between an account user and the PFIS items that are received into the personal inventory and items consumed or otherwise removed from the personal inventory. The PFIS is linked to one or more preferred vendors for easy entry of items into the personal inventory. The PFIS also provides recommendation of dishes the account user can prepare based on the personal food inventory and/or a vendor inventory associated with the preferred vendor. The PFIS further provides user notifications for items nearing their expiry date. The PFIS also provides notification to the account user regarding usage of the personal food inventory system by tracking consumption.
US09798757B2
Difficulty exists in ensuring a consistent level of activity tracking in a Customer Relationship Management System, Applicant Tracking System, or other tracking application among users (e.g., recruiter or sales representatives) within a single firm. This difficulty is due in part to the manual and time consuming mechanics of logging the activity. Example embodiments of the present invention include a system that automatically logs such activity. The system determines the sender and recipient of the email, as well as, whether the email contains calendar event information. The system then searches a database to determine if the sender or recipient is a contact in the tracking application. If a match is found, the system automatically adds the email to the contact's activity record as an inbound or outbound email or appointment. Activity tracking is, thus, consistently maintained among users of the firm, ensuring a higher quality of activity-based metrics.
