US11539750B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for reducing rule set sizes via statistical redistribution throughout a plurality of network security appliances. A rule set may be generated for each security appliance that includes (i) a first set of rules based on known attacks, identified as rules for mandatory inclusion in the rule set; and (ii) a subset of the second set of rules, identified as rules for potential inclusion in the rule set, selected randomly according to a distribution percentage, score, or weight for each potentially included rule. Higher scored rules, which may be more likely vectors for potential attack, may be distributed to a greater number of appliances; while lower scored rules that may be less likely or represent more speculative attacks may be distributed to fewer appliances.
US11539746B2
An authentication system includes an authentication module and a user history database storing order information that includes, for each of multiple logins of the first user to a web property, at least one of: an indication of an order of hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) headers that were previously received at the authentication module during the login, and an indication of an order of navigator object properties that were previously returned to the authentication module during the login. The authentication module is configured to: receive, from a web browser of a first entity attempting to log in to the web property, credentials of the first user; determine order information of the first entity's web browser; perform a comparison operation based on the order information of the first user and that of the first entity, and determine whether to allow the first entity to log in based on the comparison operation.
US11539745B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying legitimate websites and removing false positives from domain discovery analysis. Based on a list of known legitimate domains, a computing platform may generate a baseline dataset of feature vectors corresponding to the known legitimate domains. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive information identifying a first domain for analysis and may execute one or more machine learning algorithms to compare the first domain to the baseline dataset. Based on execution of the one or more machine learning algorithms, the computing platform may generate first domain classification information indicating that the first domain is a legitimate domain. In response to determining that the first domain is a legitimate domain, the computing platform may send one or more commands directing a domain identification system to remove the first domain from a list of indeterminate domains maintained by the domain identification system.
US11539744B2
A method of monitoring network traffic for cryptojacking activity is provided. A request is received from a protected host. It is determined whether the request is a cryptocurrency request based on whether the request uses a protocol specified for requests belonging to the cryptocurrency communication. In response to a determination that the request is a cryptocurrency request for the cryptocurrency, a second request is submitted to a destination indicated by the request, wherein the second request is formatted as a cryptocurrency request for the cryptocurrency. A determination is made whether a reply to the second request from the destination is a cryptocurrency response for the cryptocurrency based on whether the response uses a protocol specified for a response that belongs to communication associated with the cryptocurrency. An intervention action is caused in response to a determination that the reply to the second request from the destination is a cryptocurrency response for the cryptocurrency.
US11539738B1
Mechanisms for mitigating damage resulting from a website being an intermediary in a cyberattack, comprising: detecting a domain name server query made to the website; making a request to the website; receiving a header in response to the request; inspecting the header to identify a software stack component of the website; cross-referencing the software stack component to a common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) database to identify a CVE that applies to the software stack component; applying a rule to determine the impact of the CVE on whether the website is a possible intermediary in a cyberattack; determining that the website is a possible intermediary in a cyberattack; and taking action on the website to mitigate damage resulting from the website being an intermediary in a cyberattack.
US11539737B2
A method for providing protection of a computing resource constrained device against cyberattacks may include collecting threat intelligence data in form of indicators of compromise (IoC). The indicators may include cyberattack chain related data. The method may also include determining a relevance of the cyberattack chain for the device, measuring a utilization of security measures in terms of their detection of the respective IoCs and their respective responses to the IoCs, measuring a resource consumption of the security measures, and determining a benefit value for at least one the security measure expressed by its utilization and a relevance value of the IoCs detected with it.
US11539731B2
Systems and methods for dynamic, hyper context-based microsegmentation are described. In one aspect, span traffic associated with a computing device on a network is processed. Meta data associated with the span traffic is transmitted to a hyper context cloud server. It is determined whether the span traffic meta data matches a policy condition. Responsive to the span traffic meta data matching a policy condition, a policy is triggered. It is determined whether an action associated with the triggered policy is segment. Responsive to determining that the action is segment, a MAC address of the computing device is added to a segment name provided in the policy. The segment name is pushed to one or more enforcement points associated with the network.
US11539729B2
According to some aspects, disclosed methods and systems may comprise generating a profile that is based on monitoring a communication pattern associated with a device. Subsequent communications associated with the device may be monitored. Based on the profile and the subsequent communication, a security status may be associated with the device.
US11539725B2
A system and method for analyzing directory service environment attack path choke points for an enterprise may continuously collect data about the attack paths and provide alerts.
US11539713B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for verifying the presentation of content to a target audience using generated metrics indicative of a likelihood that the content was presented to actual human individuals within the target audience. In some instances, such a metric may be associated with a probability model estimating that a user (e.g., a user of a device) is human and not a bot and/or other automated service. Metrics consistent with aspects of the disclosed embodiments may be generated based, at least in part, on user information received from a user and/or associated devices and/or associated services. Consistent with various disclosed embodiments, metrics indicative of whether a user is human, content distribution decisions and user agency decisions may use such metrics.
US11539710B2
A method for use by a system computer for granting access to a network resource includes receiving, in a first session, a first request for accessing the network resource, the first request including authorization information of a user of an access computer, initiating, while in the first session and using the first authorization information, a first authorization process with one or more authorization computers, and determining a failure relating to the first authorization process initiated with the one or more authorization computers. The method further includes, upon determining the failure, sending a second request indicating a temporary access token is to be delivered to the access computer in response to an access computer executing a session refresh for initiating a second session.
US11539709B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method including: receiving, by a client device, a request to access content stored on a remote server; determining, by the client device, that the requested content includes sensitive information based on a user profile associated with the client device; modifying, by the client device, the requested content in response to the determination that the content includes sensitive information; and providing, by client device, access to the modified content in place of the requested content that includes the sensitive information.
US11539697B1
A method of determining whether to provide user access to a computer resource may comprise receiving a request for the computer resource from a user device; obtaining, from the user device, an encrypted persistent cookie responsive to determining that the encrypted persistent cookie is present on the user device, wherein the encrypted persistent cookie comprises a fingerprint signature field comprising a previous device fingerprint encoded into the fingerprint signature field as part of a previous session; obtaining, from the user device, an obtained device fingerprint of the user device; comparing the obtained device fingerprint with the previous device fingerprint of the fingerprint signature field to derive a fingerprint variance representing a difference between the obtained device fingerprint and the previous device fingerprint of the fingerprint signature field; and processing the request for the computer resource based on the fingerprint variance.
US11539688B2
An example system is configured to (i) generate an authorization code that has an expiration time, (ii) transmit at least one first message including the authorization code over a WAN, (iii) receive at least one second message including the authorization code from a playback device over the WAN, (iv) determine that the received authorization code is valid based at least on the expiration time, (v) after determining that the authorization code is valid, generate a first authorization token, (vi) transmit at least one third message including the first authorization token to the playback device over the WAN, (vii) receive at least one fourth message including a second authorization token and a request from the playback device over the WAN, (viii) determine that the second authorization token is valid, and (ix) after determining that the second authorization token is valid, provide the playback device with audio content based on the request.
US11539686B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are presented for an aggregation platform filter. A hardware computing device is configured to download users' data from a first plurality of third-party service providers over a data network on behalf of the users for a second plurality of third-party service providers. A filter module is configured monitor electronic credentials of users used by a hardware computing device to download the users' data. A filter module is configured to detect similar electronic credentials of a user for the same third-party service provider from a first plurality being used for multiple third-party service providers from a second plurality of third-party service providers. A filter module is configured to share, with multiple third-party service providers, the same data downloaded by a hardware computing device from a same third-party service provider with similar electronic credentials using a same session identity.
US11539685B2
Provided is a process that establishes user identities within a decentralized data store, like a blockchain. A user's mobile device may establish credential values within a trusted execution environment of the mobile device. Representations of those credentials may be generated on the mobile device and transmitted for storage in association with an identity of the user established on the blockchain. Similarly, one or more key-pairs may be generated or otherwise used by the mobile device for signatures and signature verification. Private keys may remain resident on the device (or known and input by the user) while corresponding public keys may be stored in associated with the user identity on the blockchain. A private key is used to sign representations of credentials and other values as a proof of knowledge of the private key and credential values for authentication of the user to the user identity on the blockchain.
US11539684B2
Techniques of dynamic authentication scheme selection in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. One example technique includes analyzing a received authentication request for an indicator of an authentication scheme that is supported by a computing service submitting the authentication request. The example technique can also include determining whether the authentication scheme associated with the indicator is also supported by the authentication service and in response to determining that the authentication scheme associated with the indicator is also supported by the authentication service, initiating an authentication process with the computing service according to the authentication scheme that is supported by both the computing service and the authentication service. As such, the authentication scheme can be dynamically selected at the authentication service for the received authentication request.
US11539681B2
A network with a set of servers can support authentication from a module, where the module includes an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC). The network can send a first network module identity, a first key K, and an encrypted second key K for an eUICC profile to an eUICC subscription manager. The second key K can be encrypted with a symmetric key. The module can receive and activate the eUICC profile, and the network can authenticate the module using the first network module identity and the first key K. The network can (i) authenticate the user of the module using a second factor, and then (ii) send the symmetric key to the module. The module can decrypt the encrypted second key K using the symmetric key. The network can authenticate the module using the second key K. The module can comprise a mobile phone.
US11539670B1
A method in a virtual private network (VPN) environment, the method including receiving, at a processor associated with a device, domain information associated with a VPN service provider; determining, by the processor, substitute domain information based at least in part on determining that the VPN service provider is unreachable via utilization of the domain information, the determining the substitute domain information being based at least in part on utilizing a time marker and a string of alphanumeric characters associated with the VPN service provider; and transmitting, by the processor, a connection request to reach the VPN service provider by utilizing the substitute domain information. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11539665B2
In some variations, first and second rule sets may be received by a network protection device. The first and second rule sets may be preprocessed. The network protection device may be configured to process packets in accordance with the first rule set. Packets may be received by the network protection device. A first portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the first rule set. The network protection device may be reconfigured to process packets in accordance with the second rule set. A second portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the second rule set.
US11539658B2
One or more protocols between a control plane entity (e.g., a mobility management entity (MME)) and its peer nodes (e.g., mobile switching center (MSC) and/or short message service center (SMSC)) are enhanced to improve short messaging services for Internet of things (IoT) devices. Oftentimes, IoT devices enter an extended sleep mode during which they cannot be reached by the control plane entity. In one aspect, the control plane entity can determine a wait period based on information, such as, but not limited to, device context data, mapping tables, policy data, commercial traffic data, latency data, device delay tolerance, sleep mode timer values, etc. The wait period can be provided to the peer nodes, which can utilize the wait period to control one or more message retry mechanisms based on IoT device behaviors resulting in an improvement of overall IoT service behaviors and a delivery of superior IoT customer experience.
US11539654B2
Systems and methods for posting content via a network-connected communication system. A requestor may direct a content post request to a target poster. The target poster receives a notification of the content post request and is prompted to respond with a qualifying post. Constraints for a qualifying post may include, amongst other things, a predetermined time period during which the post must be submitted, preclusion of other system or application functions until submission of a qualifying post, inclusion of a photo captured by a camera integrated into the target poster's computing device, and capturing of such a photo at a geographic location proximate where the target poster received the notification. The qualifying post may be published back to the requestor and optionally other users.
US11539652B2
Systems and methods for processing email messages are described. A method may include obtaining, from a database associated with the database system, data identifying a plurality of email messages for a plurality of email senders, the email messages associated with one or more sales cadences and an email service; enqueuing, by the server computing system, data identifying one or more email messages of the plurality of email messages into a queue provided that no data identifying two email messages associated with a first email sender are in the queue concurrently; and dequeuing, by the server computing system, the data identifying the one or more email messages from the queue, each dequeued data identifying an email message to be processed by the email service, wherein said enqueuing is performed provided that no dequeued data identifying two email messages associated with a second email sender are concurrently waiting to be processed by the email service.
US11539649B2
Provided is a group-based communication interface configured to allow members of the interface to communicate within group-based communication channels. The group-based communication interface is configured to relegate selected group-based messaging communications to a separate display pane, where additional messaging communications can be received, thereby maintaining a focused selected group-based communication channel. The selected group-based communication channel is updated to indicate that the selected group-based messaging communications was relegated to a separate display pane, informing the channel members while also allowing the channel members to access the separate display pane if desired. Accordingly, the selected group-based communication interface provides for efficient and focused group-based communications.
US11539642B2
A device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive an instruction from an administration device; identify a link selector in the instruction that corresponds to a resource attribute of a first resource that specifies how a second resource is to be controlled by the first resource; query a database of contracts between resources to determine that the second resource is available to be controlled by the first resource, based on resource contracts associated with the second resource. The processor may be further configured to generate a resource contract between the first resource and the second resource that indicates the second resource is controlled by the first resource and enable the first resource to communicate with the second resource in accordance with the generated resource contract.
US11539641B1
Systems and methods for responding to latency in connected vehicles. Vehicles operating on or near the edge of networks are identified. Vehicle dependent nodes are identified. Latency is calculated between the vehicle and the dependent nodes. The latency is compared to one or more threshold values and a response is determined and/or executed.
US11539639B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to selection of an operating baud rate for a building automation system that communicates over a Master-Slave Token-Passing (MS/TP) BACnet. A server (or router or gateway) connected to the MS/TP BACnet is programmed to iteratively select operating baud rates from a series of available operating baud rates. Each iteration, the server broadcasts a frame indicating baud rate selection to a plurality of building automation devices connected to a MS/TP BACnet. Each of the plurality of building automation devices connected to the MS/TP BACnet then iteratively sets its baud rate so as to match the baud rate selected by the server. The server monitors communications conducted over the MS/TP BACnet so as to determine reliability or unreliability of the communications conducted over the MS/TP BACnet using the baud rates iteratively selected. A highest reliable baud rate is then used by the building automation system.
US11539634B2
At this time, a communication line load transmission interval deciding unit selects a transmission interval from the load of the bus. An instrument load transmission interval deciding unit selects a transmission interval from the processing loads of at least one of the vehicle on-board instrument and the gateway. A delivery control unit compares the transmission interval selected by the communication line load transmission interval deciding unit with the transmission interval selected by the instrument load transmission interval deciding unit, and performs control so that the divided updating data is delivered at transmission intervals which are equal to or greater than the longer of these transmission intervals.
US11539633B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a gateway datapath that executes on a gateway device to implement logical routers for a set of logical networks and process traffic between the logical networks and an external network. The method receives a data message at the gateway device. To process the data message, the method executes a set of processing stages that includes a processing stage for a particular logical router. As part of the processing stage for the particular logical router, the method (i) uses an access control list (ACL) table to determine whether the data message is subject to rate limiting controls defined for the particular logical router and (ii) only when the data message is subject to rate limiting controls, determines whether to allow the data message according to a rate limiting mechanism for the particular logical router.
US11539632B2
A system and method for detecting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) includes capturing a set of wireless data traffic from a wireless transmission and performing frequency spectrum analysis on datagram arrival times to classify the wireless data traffic based upon potential constant-datagram-rate data content that may be indicative that at least a portion of the wireless data traffic is emanating from a UAV. The wireless data traffic may be captured from one or more Wi-Fi receivers and sorted based upon transmission parameters prior to performing the frequency spectrum analysis. Detected peak frequencies may be used to determine if any constant-datagram-rate traffic within the wireless data traffic potentially contains data traffic streaming from a UAV. Directional antennas and/or a phased array of antennas can be used to determine the direction of propagation of the wireless transmission and further classify the wireless data traffic based on potential emanation from a UAV.
US11539622B2
A network element includes multiple ports and a packet classifier. The packet classifier is configured to receive rules and Rule Patterns (RPs), each RP corresponding to a subset of the rules and specifies positions of unmasked packet-header bits to be matched by the rules in the subset, to store in a RAM a grouping of the RPs into Extended RPs (ERPs), each ERP defining a superset of the unmasked bits in the RPs associated therewith, to receive packets and match each packet to one or more of the rules by accessing the ERPs in the RAM, to determine counter values, each counter value corresponding to a respective RP and is indicative of a number of the received packets that match the RP, and to adaptively modify grouping of the RPs into the ERPs depending on the counter values.
US11539607B2
This application provides example detection block sending and receiving methods, and network devices and systems. One example detection block sending method includes obtaining, by a network device, an original bit block data flow. At least one detection block is generated, and the at least one detection block is inserted into a position of at least one idle block in the original bit block data flow. The bit block data flow including the at least one detection block is then sent.
US11539604B2
Embodiments relate to an apparatus for monitoring a telecommunication network including a plurality of telecommunication channels. The apparatus is configured to obtain operational data specifying the functioning of respective telecommunication channels for respective groups of telecommunication channels. The apparatus is configured to determine a difference between a number of impacted telecommunication channels in said group and an expected number of impacted telecommunication channels in said group, based on said operational data. The apparatus is configured to determine differences.
US11539599B2
Multi-level machine learning models can be generated from the captured log events. Outcomes are predicted for input events in real-time. The captured log events are received and parsed to expose event outcome data. A first data set is generated by determining whether an outcome associated with the event outcome data was a success or a failure. Responsive to a failed event outcome, a second data set is generated by categorizing the failed event outcome, to train multiple level SVMs for prediction of Wi-Fi input events and automatic remediation of Wi-Fi issues.
US11539598B2
Data samples are selected for power consumption management. This includes receiving samples associated with respective times, distributed in a sliding time window as current samples and in a past period as past samples. Selected past samples are determined by keeping a first share of the past samples, including most recent ones, and a second share through eliminating among the past samples deprived from the first share, called a complementary share, part of the past samples in function of at least some of the current samples and of elimination conditions depending on similarity criteria applied to at least the first and complementary shares. The selected past samples are provided with the current samples for power consumption management. Applications to power failure detection and power consumption dynamic adaptation.
US11539597B1
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network performance spread service is provided. The service may include generating a dependency graph representative of a network and identifying current or prospective poor performance spread of network elements based on correlations between the network elements and performance data. The service may also include providing remedial services that address the poor performance spread in the network.
US11539595B1
A real-time stream-based clustering algorithm is disclosed for correlating network impact according to time and space. The clustering algorithm operates at discrete time steps and produces a partitioning of a network graph such that each partition is a cluster. Clusters are tracked at each time step and the partitions can change by disappearing, splitting or merging with others. To track an incident over many clustering time steps, an ID is assigned to and related to previous clusters such that the same ID can propagate between multiple cluster time steps. Thus, a same incident can be tracked over time as its effect traverses the network. Anchor nodes can be assigned to the clusters to establish a relationship between clusters at different time steps.
US11539594B2
In an example, a method to display a graphical diagram includes receiving source data that includes multiple nodes arranged in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) in which each child node of a set of child nodes has multiple DAG parent nodes. The nodes include the DAG parent nodes. The method includes converting the DAG to a tree in which each of the nodes has no more than one tree parent node. The method includes displaying, based on the tree, a graphical diagram in which child graphical objects that represent child nodes that each has multiple DAG parent nodes are positioned in intersection areas of container graphical objects that represent the DAG parent nodes.
US11539574B2
Some embodiments provide a method for providing redundancy and fast convergence for modules operating in a network. The method configures modules to use a same anycast inner IP address, anycast MAC address, and to associate with a same anycast VTEP IP address. In some embodiments, the modules are operating in an active-active mode and all nodes running modules advertise the anycast VTEP IP addresses with equal local preference. In some embodiments, modules are operating in active-standby mode and the node running the active module advertises the anycast VTEP IP address with higher local preference.
US11539570B2
The disclosure relates to technology for compensating for I/Q imbalance. An apparatus includes I-path circuitry having a first analog filter configured to filter an I-path signal and Q-path circuitry having a second analog filter configured to filter a Q-path signal. An I/Q imbalance compensation circuit of the apparatus is configured to process digital versions of the I-path signal and the Q-path signal to compensate for mismatch between the I-path circuitry and the Q-path circuitry. A first circuit of the apparatus is configured to apply a coarse adjustment to at least one of the first analog filter or the second analog filter to reduce an initial mismatch between the I-path circuitry and the Q-path circuitry. The first circuit is configured to operate the I/Q imbalance compensation circuit to compensate for a residual mismatch between the I-path circuitry and the Q-path circuitry with the coarse adjustment applied.
US11539569B2
A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.
US11539566B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may identify an angle parameter for encoding uplink messages using a fractional Fourier Transform (FrFFT). A base station may transmit a set of angle parameters or a single angle parameter that the UE is to use for encoding an uplink message. The UE may select an alpha value from the set of alpha values for the encoding. The UE may transmit an indication of a set of proposed angle parameters to the base station, and the base station may determine and indicate one of or a subset of the received set of proposed angle parameters to the UE. The base station may indicate a correspondence between angle parameters and beam configurations, and the UE may identify an alpha parameter value based on a subsequently indicated beam configuration.
US11539562B2
A method for transmitting a data demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. To this end, a basic DMRS is transmitted via the first OFDM symbol in a data transmission region of a predetermined subframe, and an additional DMRS is transmitted in the predetermined subframe in accordance with a level determined by a transmission environment, wherein the basic DMRS is characterized by being transmitted via the first OFDM symbol in the data transmission region of the predetermined subframe regardless of a transmission link, the structure of the subframe, and the transmission environment.
US11539556B2
A transceiver architecture supports high-speed communication over a signal lane that extends between a high-performance integrated circuit (IC) and one or more relatively low-performance ICs employing less sophisticated transmitters and receivers. The architecture compensates for performance asymmetry between ICs communicating over a bidirectional lane by instantiating relatively complex transmit and receive equalization circuitry on the higher-performance side of the lane. Both the transmit and receive equalization filter coefficients in the higher-performance IC may be adaptively updated based upon the signal response at the receiver of the higher-performance IC.
US11539554B2
Various example embodiments for supporting communications for a network (e.g., a local area network (LAN), a virtual LAN (VLAN), or the like) based on use of an identifier of the network are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting communications for a VLAN based on use of a VLAN identifier (VID) of the VLAN are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting communications of a VLAN based on use of a VID of the VLAN may be configured to support use of a variable sized encoding of the VID (denoted herein as an xVID). Various example embodiments for supporting communications of a VLAN based on use of an xVID for the VLAN may be configured to support use of an xVID that is encoded using a set of fixed-sized identifier units where a number of fixed-sized identifier units used to encode the VID in the xVID is based on the VID.
US11539553B1
The instant solution includes at least one element or action described or depicted herein.
US11539552B1
One or more configuration parameters for an object gateway instance are received at an interface to a provider network, the parameters including an identifier of a first object store of the provider network for which to cache objects in a first object cache of the object gateway instance and an indication of a data transfer mode that controls when objects written to the first object cache are written to the first object store. The one or more configuration parameters are stored in a data store of the provider network and sent to the object gateway instance. A read request that includes the identifier of the first object store and a first object identifier is received from the object gateway instance, and a first object associated with the first object identifier and stored in the first object store is sent to the object gateway instance.
US11539548B2
CAN bus drive slew rate control is used to suppress ringing using bus impedance matching that is only activated during and shortly after the bus driver unit transitions from driving the bus “dominant” to “recessive”. In one embodiment a bus impedance matching unit is a differential input and differential output operational trans-conductance amplifier (OTA). The differential OTA absorbs or provides the ringing current based on bus differential voltage. In another embodiment a bus impedance matching unit is a back-to-back connected RON regulated transistor pair together with a gate control related circuit. Where the total RON is equal to the CAN bus characteristic impedance.
US11539538B1
Systems and methods are provided for utilizing an asynchronous report feature when a time or volume reporting trigger is unavailable. The systems and method can include receiving node level capabilities from at least one of a plurality of user plane functions, receiving an asynchronous report from the at least one of the plurality of user plane functions, determining an absence of a reporting trigger based on charging information associated with a policy control function and trigger information associated with a charging function, selecting a user plane function from the plurality of user plane functions based on the asynchronous report, and generating a usage reporting rule without the reporting trigger to be provided to the user plane function from the plurality of user plane functions.
US11539519B2
Developing a cyber security protocol to enable two members of a community to conduct a conversation without revealing neither their identity, nor the fact that a conversation took place. Secret randomized matching is used to allow people to claim certain personal attributes like age, place of residence, having a license, but without exposing their individual identity.
US11539518B2
Techniques are disclosed securely communicating traffic over a network. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first circuit having a local clock configured to maintain a local time value. The first circuit is configured to determine a synchronized time value based on the local time value, the synchronized time value being an expected time value of a reference clock. The first circuit is further configured to generate a first encryption key by calculating a key derivation function based on the synchronized time value and encrypt a portion of a packet using the first encryption key, the portion of the packet being to be communicated to a second circuit. In some embodiments, the apparatus further includes a first network node coupled to the first circuit and configured to communicate the packet to a second network node coupled to the second circuit and to include the synchronized time value in the packet.
US11539512B2
Methods and systems for encrypting and decrypting data comprising sending sensitive information to a first cryptographic processing system in a first cloud region for encryption with a first key encryption key generated by and stored by the first cryptographic processing system. The first encrypted sensitive information received from the first cryptographic processing system is stored in a first database. The sensitive information is also sent to a second cryptographic processing system in a second cloud region different from the first cloud region for encryption with a second key encryption key generated by and stored by the second cryptographic processing system. The second encrypted sensitive information received from the second cryptographic processing system is stored in a second database. If the first encrypted sensitive information cannot be decrypted by the first cryptographic processing system, the second encrypted sensitive information is sent to the second cryptographic processing system.
US11539505B2
A method and system. An instruction to encrypt plaintext to generate encrypted data from the plaintext is received. The encrypted data is to be stored in a database device in response to a first request received from a client terminal to store the plaintext in the database device. The first request includes the plaintext. Ciphertext is generated by applying both an initialization vector and an encryption key directly to the plaintext. An embedding rule used to generate the encrypted data is selected from a sequence of embedding rules. The encrypted data is stored in the database device, A second request to receive the plaintext data is received from the client terminal. The plaintext is obtained from the encrypted data, by separating the encrypted data into the ciphertext and the initialization vector; and generating the plaintext by decrypting the ciphertext that was separated from the encrypted data.
US11539498B2
Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a signal path that includes a digital filter. The repeater can include a controller. The controller can receive a multi-channel downlink signal. The controller can digitize the multi-channel downlink signal to form a plurality of channelized downlink signals. The controller can determine a base station coupling loss (BSCL) value for each of the channelized downlink signal. The controller can use the digital filter to adjust a gain of one or more of the channelized downlink signals based on the BSCL value for each of the channelized downlink signals.
US11539493B2
A HARQ-ACK transmission method, a user equipment, and a network device are provided. The method performed by the user equipment includes: determining a target PUSCH for carrying HARQ-ACK when a PUCCH carrying HARQ-ACK overlaps with at least one PUSCH in time domain; obtaining an indication field of a DAI in a DCI scheduling a second type of PUSCH, when the target PUSCH is a first type of PUSCH; determining, according to the obtained indication field of the DAI, the number of bits of HARQ-ACK transmitted in the target PUSCH, and transmitting HARQ-ACK in the target PUSCH according to the determined number of bits of HARQ-ACK, wherein the first type of PUSCH is a PUSCH with a DCI scheduling or a PUSCH scheduled by a DCI without DAI, the second type of PUSCH is a PUSCH scheduled by a DCI with a DAI.
US11539489B2
A control information transmission method, a receiving method, a device, a base station, a terminal, and a storage medium. The control information transmission method includes: transmitting control information according to a specified transmission mode, wherein there is a predetermined relationship between the specified transmission mode and a data channel.
US11539482B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to allocating non-continuous resource units (RUs). A device may determine a non-continuous RU allocation for one or more devices in a 80 MHz bandwidth including four 20 MHz channels, the non-continuous RU allocation including disabled tones of a 20 MHz channel of the four 20 MHz channels, and the disabled tones being a subset of tones within the 20 MHz channel. The device may determine a high efficiency wireless frame comprising an indication of the non-continuous RU allocation. The device may send the high efficiency wireless frame to one or more multiple devices.
US11539481B2
A first device transmits to a second device a first data unit which indicates a maximum number of long training field (LTF) symbols that the first device transmits and receives for a multiple input multiple output communication. The first device receives, from the second device, a second data unit which comprises a plurality of LTF symbols up to the maximum number of LTF symbols the first device receives indicated by the first data unit. A channel estimation is performed based on the plurality of LTF symbols of the second data unit up to the maximum number of LTF symbols indicated by the first data unit to recover information in one or more fields of the second data unit. For the case when the second data unit is a trigger frame, the first device generates the third data unit with a plurality of LTF symbols up to the maximum number of LTF symbols the first device transmits indicated by the first data unit and transmits the third data unit.
US11539479B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for communicating HARQ-ACK feedback for a plurality of carrier groups of a downlink slot set. One apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits, to a remote unit, multiple downlink transmissions in a downlink slot set. The downlink slot set comprises a first number of reference slots and a second number of carriers grouped into a plurality of carrier groups based on a subcarrier spacing value of each carrier, such that each carrier in a carrier group has the same subcarrier spacing value. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives a HARQ-ACK codebook from the remote unit for the downlink slot set, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook for the downlink slot set corresponds to all downlink transmissions in the downlink slot set.
US11539476B2
A method for transmitting and receiving HARQ-ACK information in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), HARQ-ACK information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving first downlink control information (DCI) based on a first control resource set group and second DCI based on a second control resource set group; determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for a transmission of the HARQ-ACK information; and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information based on the determined PUCCH resource, wherein the first DCI and the second DCI are indexed based on (i) an index of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) related monitoring occasion, (ii) a cell index, and (iii) an index associated with each control resource set group, and wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based on a last DCI among the first DCI and the second DCI.
US11539471B2
A HARQ feedback indication method includes: configuring to control information a timing relationship between a time domain unit of downlink data and a time domain unit for an uplink HARQ feedback of the downlink data; and sending to a terminal the downlink data and the control information configured with timing information.
US11539470B2
A re-transmission control method of downlink data to be transmitted from a radio base station to a radio terminal includes: by the radio terminal, transmitting information regarding decoding performance of the radio terminal to the radio base station; receiving the downlink data from the radio base station; transmitting a re-transmission request of the downlink data to the radio base station in a case where an error in the downlink data is detected; receiving a re-transmission configuration based on the information regarding decoding performance of the radio terminal, from the radio base station in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), after transmission of the re-transmission request; receiving the downlink data re-transmitted from the radio base station; and decoding the re-transmitted downlink data in accordance with the re-transmission configuration.
US11539468B2
A wireless device may receive one or more configuration parameters for a cell. The one or more configuration parameters may indicate a periodic resource configuration. The periodic resource configuration may be activatable by predetermined values of: a hybrid automatic repeat request process identifier (HARQ ID) field of a first downlink control information (DCI) format; and a redundancy version (RV) field of the first DCI format. The wireless device may receive a DCI based on a second DCI format without the HARQ ID field and/or the RV field. The wireless device may activate the periodic resource configuration based on: a size of the HARQ ID field of the DCI and/or the RV field of the DCI being zero; and the periodic resource configuration being in an inactive state.
US11539466B2
The described technology is generally directed towards scheduling downlink transmissions using orthogonal resources (that is, resources that avoid or at least reduce interference) when a network configures a user equipment (UE) with a multiple slot configuration to repeat the HARQ-ACK information for a transmission. By using orthogonal resources, a downlink transmission can be scheduled in consecutive time slots instead of waiting for the repeated HARQ-ACKs to complete.
US11539465B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting acknowledgement information reporting on subject transmissions based on a HARQ codebook. The HARQ codebook indicates a bit pattern of the acknowledgement information. The bit pattern has a plurality of subpatterns, each subpattern being associated to a different subdivision of a reception time interval to which the acknowledgement information pertains. Each subpattern includes a predetermined number of bits of acknowledgement information associated to subject transmissions of the subdivision. There are also disclosed related methods and devices.
US11539464B2
A receiving station performs first signal detection processing on a received radio signal, performs a retransmission request to a transmitting station in a case in which a code error is detected in a detected radio packet for user data, and enqueues the radio packet in a reception buffer in a case in which no code error is detected. In parallel with the first signal detection processing, the receiving station performs second signal detection processing on the received signal with a longer processing delay than that of the first signal detection processing, and in a case in which no code error is detected in the detected radio packet for user data, the receiving station enqueues the radio packet in the reception buffer. The receiving station outputs, at a predetermined timing, the radio packet for user data with no code error detected, the radio packet being enqueued in the reception buffer.
US11539462B2
A method of operating a first communication node includes receiving a communication at the first communication node from a second communication node, wherein the communication includes information bits in a plurality of information bit positions, determining, by the first communication node, a subset of the information bit positions of the communication that are punctured wherein the determining is performed based on detected or decoded control information, and responsive to determining the subset, reducing, by the first communication node, magnitudes of information bits in the subset of the information bit positions that are punctured.
US11539458B2
A method is described for transmitting a frame in a wireless network. The method includes setting, by a wireless device, a first field of the frame according to a first characteristic of the frame; setting, by the wireless device, a second field of the frame according to a second characteristic of the frame; setting, by the wireless device, a puncturing field of the frame in response to the first field of the frame meeting a first criteria and the second field of the frame meeting a second criteria, wherein the puncturing field is associated with puncturing a set of sub-channels of a transmission bandwidth of the frame; and transmitting, by the wireless device, the frame based on the transmission bandwidth and according to the set of sub-channels.
US11539456B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for rate-matching a stream of bits encoded using polar codes. An exemplary method generally includes determining a target coding rate, RT, for transmitting a group of K information bits, based on a first coding rate, R1, corresponding to a first target block error rate (BLER) for a first transmission of a first redundancy version (RV) of the packet and a second coding rate, R2, corresponding to a second target BLER for a last transmission of a last RV of the packet; determining a circular buffer size, N, of a circular buffer for use in transmitting the first RV and the last RV of the packet; generating encoded information bits from the K information bits using a polar code having a mother code size of N; writing the encoded information bits to the circular buffer; determining a maximum number of retransmissions, based on a latency requirement for the packet; generating different RVs from the encoded information bits in the circular buffer, each RV based on a corresponding target BLER; and transmitting the first RV via a wireless medium.
US11539442B1
A method for automatic power and modulation management in a communication network includes (1) generating a management function of (a) mutual information per symbol (MIPS) of the communication network and (b) output power (P) of a transmitter of the communication network, determining a selected MIPS value and a selected P value which achieve a maximum value of the management function, and causing the transmitter of the communication network to operate according to the selected MIPS value and the selected P value.
US11539419B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A mobility application method of a user equipment (UE) residing in a system of wireless communication systems, which supports transmission/reception of data, using a beamforming, via multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas is provided. The method includes measuring beam measurement reference signals that a network transmitted using different transmission nodes and evolved NodeB (eNBs) and transmitting the measured information to the network in a system using a number of beams.
US11539418B2
A method and apparatus for channel state information feedback and a storage medium are provided according to the present disclosure. The method includes: performing by a terminal channel measurement according to a reference signal; selecting M subbands from K subbands of a CSI reporting band, and reporting to a base station the M subbands' Relative Power Indicator (RPI) and Phase Indicator (PI) of a weighted coefficient associated with a precoding codebook index, where M and K are integers greater than or equal to 1, M
US11539411B2
An electronic device includes a first antenna configured to process a first radio frequency (RF) signal within a first frequency band; a second antenna spaced apart from the first antenna configured to process a second RF within a second frequency band different from the first frequency band; a first radio frequency front end (RFFE) and a second RFFE configured to process a third RF signal within a third frequency band different from the first frequency band and the second frequency band; a communication processor electrically connected to the first switch and the second switch; and a memory operatively coupled to the communication processor and configured to store performance information having, at least, a first value indicating an efficiency of the first antenna when performing a first radio communication, and a second value indicating an efficiency of the second antenna when performing the first radio communication. The memory is configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the communication processor to transmit or receive a signal within at least one of the first frequency band, the second frequency band or the third frequency band, and select an antenna to support the first radio communication among the first antenna and the second antenna based on the performance information having the first value or the second value. The first RFFE and the second RFFE support the first radio communication within the third frequency band.
US11539399B2
The exemplary embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for identifying and authenticating a mobile platform. One embodiment relates to a method comprising receiving, by a mobile platform, a digital certificate from an integrated circuit card (“ICC”) via close-proximity radio communication, verifying the digital certificate with a digital signature stored on the mobile platform, and booting the mobile platform upon verification of the digital certificate of the ICC. A further embodiment relates to a mobile platform, comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a digital signature, and a processor receiving a digital certificate from an integrated circuit card (“ICC”) via close-proximity radio communication between the ICC and the mobile platform, verifying the digital certificate with the digital signature, booting the mobile platform upon verification of the digital certificate of the ICC.
US11539398B1
A system for controlling a level of communication signals broadcast onto an associated power line communication (PLC) network by an associated transmitting device includes an input circuit, an adjustable amplifier circuit, and an output circuit. The input circuit receives a first communication signal having a first signal level from the associated transmitting device. The adjustable amplifier circuit applies a selectable gain to the first communication signal based on one or more of a monitored condition of the associated vehicle and/or a monitored condition of the associated PLC network to generate a level-adjusted communication signal having a second signal level different than the first signal level of the first communication signal. The output circuit receives the level-adjusted communication signal and broadcasts the level-adjusted communication signal onto the associated PLC network.
US11539397B2
A method of powering a controller using an intermediate device with power from an environmental system may include receiving current from a power wire from the environmental system; passing the current from the power wire to a second command wire from the controller; monitoring the current flowing between the power wire and the second command wire while the current is below a threshold indicative of an amount of current used to power the controller from the environmental system; detecting when the current flowing between the power wire and the second command wire exceeds the threshold indicating that the controller is sending a command to the environmental system to perform the function; and sending a command to environmental system using a first command wire from the environmental system after detecting that the current exceeds the threshold.
US11539384B2
A transmitter with a DC detection circuit that can control when a modulator of the transmitter is active. When data is being transmitted, a tone introduced by a mixer in the transmit path is hidden by the data signal and has minimal effect on the transmit path. However, when there is no data, the tone can cause undesirable noise. A modulator may move the tone or noise outside of the transmitter's bandwidth. As the data can hide the tone, the DSM may only be needed when there is a DC signal. By activating the DSM only when a DC signal is detected, the extra power introduced by the modulator can be reduced while eliminating in-band noise.
US11539383B2
An RF frontend integrated circuit (IC) device comprises one or more RF transceivers to transmit and receive RF signals within a first frequency band and a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band. The RF frontend IC device further comprises a bidirectional LO signal generation circuit coupled to the one or more transceivers to generate a bidirectional LO signal. The bidirectional LO signal is injected between the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The bidirectional LO signal generation circuit is to perform a high-side LO injection for the RF signals within the first frequency band by injecting the bidirectional LO signal having an LO frequency higher than the first frequency band and to perform a low-side LO injection for the RF signals within the second frequency band by injecting the bidirectional LO signal having the LO frequency lower than the second frequency band.
US11539373B2
Herein disclosed are some examples of metastability detectors and compensator circuitry for successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) within delta sigma modulator (DSM) loops. A metastability detector may detect metastability at an output of a SAR ADC and compensator circuitry may implement a compensation scheme to compensate for the metastability. The identification of the metastability and/or compensation for the metastability can avoid detrimental effects and/or errors to the DSM loops that may be caused by the metastability of the SAR ADCS.
US11539367B2
A multi-bit level shifter that has a plurality of level shifters, each of which is configured to receive an input signal in a first voltage domain and provide a corresponding output signal in a second voltage domain. The level shifters each have an enable node. An enable circuit includes an output terminal connected to the enable node of each of the plurality of level shifters, and each of the plurality of level shifters is configured to output the corresponding output signals in response an enable signal received by the enable circuit.
US11539366B1
A capacitive transmitter includes a control circuit configured to generate a data signal by delaying input data and to generate a control signal according to the input data and a delayed signal thereof; a capacitor connected between a first node and a transmission node; a driving circuit configured to receive the data signal and to provide an output signal corresponding to the data signal to the first node; and a bias setting circuit configured to set a transmission voltage at the transmission node according to the control signal.
US11539359B2
This disclosure is directed to circuits and techniques for protecting a power switch when the power switch is turned ON. A driver circuit may detect whether the power switch is in a desaturation mode or an overcurrent state based on a signal at a detection pin, and disable the power switch in response to detecting that the power switch is in the desaturation mode or the overcurrent state. In addition, the driver circuit may detect whether the power switch is trending towards a safe operating area (SOA) limit of the power switch based on a rate of change of the signal, and disable the power switch in response to detecting that the power switch is trending towards the SOA limit.
US11539356B2
In an embodiment, a voltage comparator includes: a first switch having a conduction terminal coupled to an internal node that is coupled to an output of the voltage comparator; a current source; a capacitor; and a second switch connected in parallel with the capacitor, wherein the current source, the capacitor, and the first switch are coupled in series.
US11539353B2
Rotary traveling wave oscillator-based (RTWO-based) frequency multipliers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an RTWO-based frequency multiplier includes an RTWO that generates a plurality of clock signal phases of a first frequency, and an edge combiner that processes the clock signal phases to generate an output clock signal having a second frequency that is a multiple of the first frequency. The edge combiner can be implemented as a logic-based combining circuit that combines the clock signal phases from the RTWO. For example, the edge combiner can include parallel stacks of transistors operating on different clock signal phases, with the stacks selectively activating based on timing of the clock signal phases to generate the output clock signal of multiplied frequency.
US11539346B2
A resonator device includes a base, a resonator element attached to the base, a cover accommodating the resonator element between the base and the cover, and a conductive bonding member positioned between the base and the cover and bonding the base to the cover. The base includes a resonator element mount surface on which the resonator element is attached, a first interconnect and a second interconnect that are arranged on the resonator element mount surface and that are electrically coupled to the resonator element, a bonding surface bonded to the cover through the bonding member, and a step between the resonator element mount surface and the bonding surface.
US11539337B2
An amplifier includes a first input transistor, a second input transistor, a first cascode transistor, a second cascode transistor, a first current mirror circuit, and a second current mirror circuit. The first input transistor is coupled to a first input terminal. The second input transistor is coupled to a second input terminal and the first input transistor. The first cascode transistor is coupled to the first input transistor. The second cascode transistor is coupled to the second input transistor and the first cascode transistor. The first current mirror circuit is coupled to the first cascode transistor, the second cascode transistor, and the first input terminal. The second current mirror circuit is coupled to the first cascode transistor, the second cascode transistor, and the second input terminal.
US11539335B2
This application relates to method and apparatus for driving acoustic transducers, such as speakers or haptic transducers. A transducer driver circuit (200) has a hysteretic comparator (201) configured to compare, with hysteresis, an input signal (SIN) received at a first comparator input to a feedback signal (SFB) received at a second comparator input. Based on the comparison the hysteretic comparator (201) generates a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal (SPWM) at a comparator output (206). An inductor (203) is coupled between the comparator output and an output node (204). In use a resistive component (208), which may comprise the transducer (301) is coupled to output node (204). The inductor (203) and resistive component (208) provide filtering to the PWM signal (SPWM). A feedback path extends between the output node (204) and the second comparator input to provide the feedback signal (SFB).
US11539314B2
An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a motor; a driver to drive the motor; a first control circuit; and a second control circuit. The first control circuit controls the driver such that the motor rotates in a set rotation direction. The second control circuit is provided separately from the first control circuit. The second control circuit detects a rotation direction of the motor and performs an abnormality handling process to stop rotation of the motor in response to a situation where the detected rotation direction is reverse to the set rotation direction.
US11539313B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes generating a clock signal; generating a switching signal based on the clock signal; generating a synchronization signal having an edge transition corresponding to a predetermined phase of the switching signal; transmitting the synchronization signal to a master controller; receiving a frequency adjustment command from the master controller based on the transmitted synchronization signal; and adjusting a frequency of the clock signal based on the frequency adjustment command.
US11539302B2
An arrangement provides an AC current to a load for direct electrical heating. The arrangement includes a AC-DC-AC converter cell. The converter cell has at least two converter input terminals connected to at least two transformer output terminals. The converter cell has a first converter output terminal and a second converter output terminal, wherein the first converter cell output terminal is adapted to be connected to the load.
US11539292B2
A subtracting unit calculates a voltage deviation of an output voltage of a DC-to-DC converter from a target voltage. A feedback control variable calculator calculates a feedback control variable in each control cycle. In a control cycle in which a crossing of the output voltage and the target voltage is detected by a feedforward control determination unit, a feedforward control variable calculator calculates a feedforward control variable so that a change in the output voltage is prevented. A switching control signal generator generates a control signal for the DC-to-DC converter for controlling the output voltage, according to a summation of the feedforward control variable and the feedback control variable.
US11539290B2
A power management circuit operable with low battery is provided. The power management circuit is configured to generate a time-variant average power tracking (APT) voltage based on a battery voltage supplied by a voltage source (e.g., battery). In examples disclosed herein, the power management circuit can be configured to remain operable when the battery voltage drops below a low battery threshold. Specifically, the power management circuit maintains the time-variant APT voltage at a constant level in response to the battery voltage dropping below the low battery threshold to thereby avoid drawing a rush current from the voltage source. As a result, a wireless device employing the power management circuit can remain operable with low battery to continue to support critical applications.
US11539289B2
A multi-level charge pump (MCP) circuit is provided. The MCP circuit includes a multi-level voltage circuit configured to receive a supply voltage and generate a low-frequency voltage. The multi-level voltage circuit includes a first switch path, a second switch path, and a third switch path each having a respective on-resistance and coupled in parallel between an input node and an output node. In a non-limiting example, the multi-level voltage circuit is configured to activate the first switch path and at least one of the second switch path and the third switch path when the multi-level voltage circuit generates the low-frequency voltage that equals the supply voltage. By activating at least two of the three switch paths to generate the low-frequency voltage, it may be possible to reduce an equivalent resistance of the multi-level voltage circuit, thus helping to improve efficiency and reduce power loss of the MCP circuit.
US11539283B1
A power converter is configured to measure an output current and to determine a multi-phase voltage reference as a function of the output current. Within the same switching period the voltage reference is determined, a modulation routine determines a modulation index for each phase of the output voltage. In some instances, one or more phases must start modulation during the switching period before the new modulation index is determined. The modulation routine stores the value of the modulation index generated from the prior switching period and uses the stored value when a new value is not yet ready. An offset value for the phase voltage which used a modulation index from the prior switching period is determined in order to compensate the phase voltages of the other phases and to maintain a desired line-to-line voltage output from the power converter.
US11539276B2
A molded product in which a parting line can be disposed at an inconspicuous position on the appearance of the product. The molded product includes a main body having a cylindrical shape and a hole penetrating through the main body in a radial direction, or a protrusion protruding in the radial direction from the main body, and in the molded product, a parting line corresponding to a matching surface of molds is formed in the molded product, and the parting line has a first line extending from the hole or the protrusion to one side in a circumferential direction of the main body, and a second line extending from an end point on the one direction of the circumferential direction of the first line to an end portion in an axial direction of the main body.
US11539271B2
There is provided a method for contactless determination of the position of a driven moving portion (4) of an electric motor (2) by means of a plurality of magnetic field sensors (8), wherein the moving portion is movably arranged with respect to a stator (6) and has a plurality of permanent magnets (40) which generate a moving-portion magnetic field having a plurality of periodically spaced apart maxima, and wherein the plurality of magnetic field sensors are arranged along a movement path (43) of the moving portion. The method comprises the following steps: by means of the plurality of magnetic field sensors, determining a plurality of measured values (70) for a momentary magnetic field that is generated by the plurality of permanent magnets and dependent on the position of the moving portion, determining a specific spectral signal component (74) from the plurality of measured values (70), the specific spectral signal component having the spatial frequency corresponding to the distance between adjacent like maxima of the moving-portion magnetic field, and determining the position of the driven moving portion by means of the specific spectral signal component.
US11539270B2
A resistor pack assembly including an anti-rotation housing. The anti-rotation housing includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, one or more anti-rotation lugs extending away from the first surface, and an internal cavity extending from the second surface into the anti-rotation housing towards the first surface. The resistor pack assembly also including a positive rail located at least partially within the internal cavity, a negative rail having an inner circular face and an outer circular face located radially outward from the inner circular face, and an insulator ring is interposed between the second surface of the anti-rotation housing and the outer circular face of the negative rail.
US11539269B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator extending along an axis and having teeth arranged about the axis. The teeth are circumferentially spaced apart by slots. Conductors extend around the teeth and through the slots. The conductors are electrically connected to one another to form phases. Cooling devices are provided in the slots. Each cooling device is fluidly connected to an inlet tube for supplying cooling fluid to the cooling device and an outlet tube for removing cooling fluid from the cooling device. A manifold includes a first cooling channel fluidly connected to each inlet tube and a second cooling channel fluidly connected to each outlet tube such that all the cooling devices in the machine are fluidly connected in parallel.
US11539267B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to a dynamic curved screen. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes display comprising a flexible screen. A sensor is configured on the display to sense a distance between a user and the screen. The distance may be used to determine a position of the user relative to the screen. An actuator is configured to adjust a curvature of the flexible screen based on the distance. Accordingly, the field of view of the user is improved.
US11539261B2
A breather device includes an intake path configured to communicate between an interior space of a target case and an exterior space, an exhaust path configured to communicate between the interior space and the exterior space and at least partially separated from the intake path, an intake valve inserted in the intake path and configured to allow outside air to flow into the interior space only when an internal pressure Pi is lower, at least by a fixed extent, than an external pressure Po, and an exhaust valve inserted in the exhaust path and configured to allow gas within the interior space to flow toward the exterior space only when the internal pressure Pi is higher, at least by a fixed extent, than the external pressure Po, and a water stop filter disposed downstream of the intake valve in an intake air flowing direction in the intake path.
US11539259B2
The invention relates to a contact device (1) for a stator (2) of an electric machine, wherein the contact device (1) has a contact carrier (4) made from an electrically insulating material, an upper side, which can be positioned to face away from the stator (2), and, at least on the upper side which can be positioned to face away from the stator (2), electrically conductive connection conductors (41) for contacting a plurality of coils (3), arranged over the circumference of the stator (2), via coil conductors (31). The contact device (1) furthermore has feedthrough openings (5), through which the coil conductors (31) of the coils (3) can be guided such that at least one coil conductor (31) can be connected to a connection conductor (41). The contact carrier (4) moreover has fixing devices (6) at the feedthrough openings (5), which fixing devices are designed in such a way that at least one coil conductor (31) touches a connection conductor (41) at a contact surface (7) and the coil conductor (31), at this contact surface (7), applies a permanent force action to the connection conductor (41) via forces acting perpendicularly to the respective conductor axis, whereby mutually parallel-lying portions of the coil conductor (31) and the connection conductor (41) are pressed against each other at the common contact surface (7).
US11539257B2
An electric machine is disclosed that includes a rotor, a stator and a plurality of pins. The stator is received inside the rotor and defines a plurality of slots for receiving the pins. The pins are conductors that are each joined with a circumferentially adjacent pins to form a conductive path for each power phase. The pins each have a first axial leg and a second axial leg that are each disposed in one of the plurality of slots. The first and second axial legs are joined by an asymmetric crown portion of the pin conductors. The crown portion includes a long arm and a short arm that are joined at an apex that is radially and circumferentially offset to be closer to the second leg than the first leg.
US11539256B2
Various embodiments include stator for an electrical machine comprising: a stator winding; and a yoke with a plurality of slots. There are a plurality of conductor segments connected to one another, wherein each conductor segment has one respective axially internal inner section and two respective axially external outer sections. The respective inner section of each conductor segment is embedded into a respective slot. Ducts for coolant flow in the axial direction are formed at least in a portion of each of the slots. The stator defines, at least in a first axial end region, a first coolant chamber fluidically encapsulated from a surrounding area. The first coolant chamber surrounds at least a portion of the respective outer sections of each of the conductor segments situated in the first axial end region. The first coolant chamber is fluidically connected to the ducts to conduct coolant into and/or out of the ducts.
US11539253B2
A rotating electric machine includes: a rotary shaft member; a rotor including an annular rotor core having magnet housing holes; a stator including an annular stator core and a stator coil; a field yoke; and a field coil provided in the field yoke. Further, a bridge portion is provided between two magnet housing holes, an end surface in an axial direction at one end in a radial direction of the field yoke and an end surface in the axial direction of the bridge portion face each other in the axial direction, and an end surface in the axial direction at another end in the radial direction of the field yoke, and an end surface in the axial direction of the rotor core or an end surface in the axial direction of the stator core face each other in the axial direction.
US11539250B2
The invention predominantly relates to a rotating electrical machine for a motor vehicle, comprising: a rotor having an even number of pole pairs Np; and a stator (10) comprising a body provided with slots and a three-phase winding (14) inserted into the slots in the stator body. The three-phase winding (14) comprises: at least a first group (G1) of portions of phases (U, V, W) and a second group (G2) of portions of phases (U, V, W) which are associated with a first set of at least three bridge arms (21.1); and at least a third group (G3) of portions of phases (U, V, W) and a fourth group (G4) of portions of phases (U, V, W) which are associated with a second set of at least three bridge arms (21.1).
US11539247B2
A power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a control and communications unit, an inverter circuit, a coil, and a shielding. The control and communications unit is configured to provide power control signals to control a power level of a power signal configured for transmission to a power receiver, provide a power request to an external power supply, determine if a power signal at the coil is compliant with the power request, and, if the power signal at the coil is compliant with the power request, continue to operate for wireless power transmission. The coil is configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver. The shielding comprises a ferrite core.
US11539228B2
A CPU, when determining that the predicted minimum value of a limit value of charging power is not smaller than the minimum power of a charger, controls charging such that charging is performed in a normal mode, the normal mode being a mode in which a lower limit of a command value of supply power is the minimum power, when determining that the predicted minimum value is smaller than the minimum power, controls charging such that charging is performed in an estimation mode, that is a mode in which the lower limit of the command value is an estimated value of the minimum power of the charger, the estimated value being smaller than the minimum power, and controls charging such that charging is performed in the estimation mode by using, as the command value, power between a current limit value of the charging power and the estimated value.
US11539222B2
A switching unit is provided for each of a plurality of batteries arranged in series, and switches between a connected state where the corresponding battery is connected in series with another battery and a non-connected state where series connection between the corresponding battery and the other battery is disconnected. A control unit controls the switching unit corresponding to the battery to switch to the non-connected state when it is determined that the corresponding battery reaches a charge end voltage during charging or a discharge end voltage during discharging, and determinates deterioration of the batteries. Further, the control unit changes the charge end voltage or the discharge end voltage for each of the plurality of batteries in accordance with a deterioration state of the plurality of batteries.
US11539221B2
A charge-discharge control circuit includes a first cell balancing circuit having a first switch; a second cell balancing circuit having a second switch; a first cell balance detection circuit having a third switch; a second cell balance detection circuit having a fourth switch; and a control circuit which outputs a control signal to turn on the first switch in a prescribed cycle according to the voltage of a first battery which is higher than or equal to a cell balance detection voltage, or outputs a control signal to turn on the second switch in the prescribed cycle according to the voltage of a second battery which is higher than or equal to the cell balance detection voltage, and outputs a control signal to turn off the third switch and the fourth switch in the prescribed cycle during output of the control signal.
US11539215B2
According to one embodiment, a voltage control inverter interconnectable with an electric power system, includes: a voltage detecting circuit configured to detect a first voltage that is a voltage of the electric power system; and a voltage output circuit configured to output a second voltage to the electric power system at a timing depending on a value of the first voltage, the second voltage having a value depending on the value of the first voltage.
US11539214B2
A method for determining when a connection of a power system to a grid has been disconnected. The method includes the power system supplying a first amount of reactive power to the grid to which the power system is connected, and the power system determining if there is a frequency change within the grid. This includes if the frequency change does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the power system supplying a second amount of reactive power to the grid, and if the frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold, the power system supplying a first amount of reactive power to the grid.
US11539212B2
This application provides a photovoltaic power generation system. The system includes at least one first photovoltaic module, a photovoltaic inverter, a first two-way DC/DC converter, and at least one first energy storage unit, and further includes at least one second photovoltaic module or at least one second energy storage unit. The photovoltaic inverter includes a DC/DC converter and a DC-AC inverter, where the DC/DC converter is electrically connected to the at least one first photovoltaic module, and the DC/DC converter is connected to the DC-AC inverter through a direct current bus. For the photovoltaic power generation system, photovoltaic arrays and energy storage devices can be configured flexibly to cope with peaks and troughs of power consumption.
US11539203B2
A system and method of protecting the input components of a power supply. An input overcurrent protection module is provided, which may be implemented in firmware, which monitors the input current through an input interface of the power supply. When the input current exceeds a threshold current (i.e., a current above the maximum rating of an input component, such as an input cable), the input current protection module determines whether an input overcurrent event is occurring. When it is determined that an input overcurrent event has occurred, the input current protection module disables the output circuitry of the power supply and triggers a few timers. The input overcurrent protection module continues to monitor the input and, if the input current continues to exceed the threshold current, is configured to shut down the power supply. In this way, input components may be protected from overcurrent issues in high-power systems.
US11539189B2
An optical apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate and a slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) emitter disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The SCOW emitter comprises an optical waveguide comprising: a first region doped with a first conductivity type; a second region doped with a different, second conductivity type; and an optically active region disposed between the first region and the second region. The optically active region comprises a plurality of quantum dots.
US11539187B2
A surface emission laser formed of a group III nitride semiconductor includes a first conductivity type first clad layer; a first conductivity type first guide layer on the first clad layer; a light-emitting layer on the first guide layer; a second guide layer on the light-emitting layer; and a second conductivity type second clad layer on the second guide layer. The first or second guide layer internally includes voids periodically arranged at square lattice positions with two axes perpendicular to one another as arrangement directions in a surface parallel to the guide layer. The voids have a polygonal prism structure or an oval columnar structure with a long axis and a short axis perpendicular to the long axis in the parallel surface, and the long axis is inclined with respect to one axis among the arrangement directions of the voids.
US11539181B2
A system for determining an absolute carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of ultrashort laser pulses includes a laser system for generating a laser beam including ultrashort optical pulses of a duration of less than 10 fs, an ultrabroadband quarter-wave plate configured to polarize the laser beam, and a gas jet emitting a continuous jet stream into the laser beam. The system includes focusing optics to adjust a focal spot of the laser beam to the gas jet, and a detector arrangement including a beam block and a microchannel plate (MCP) imaging detector, wherein the laser beam is directed to the detector arrangement. The method involves using angular streaking to determine the absolute CEP of both elliptically and linearly polarized light.
US11539174B2
A connector includes a terminal, a housing, a temperature sensor, and a holding structure. The holding structure holds the temperature sensor so as to be movable in at least a first orthogonal direction in a space portion (housing formation space portion). The housing has the base portion and the pressing arm portion extending from the base portion in the contact direction and elastically deformable with respect to the first orthogonal direction orthogonal to the contact direction. The pressing arm portion has a protrusion portion that protrudes into the space portion and comes into contact with the temperature sensor. When the protrusion portion comes into contact with the temperature sensor, the pressing arm portion is elastically deformed to press the temperature sensor located in the space portion with respect to the first orthogonal direction, and the pressed temperature sensor is brought into contact with the terminal.
US11539171B2
An electrical connector for high speed signals. The connector has multiple conductive elements that may serve as signal or ground conductors. A member formed with lossy material and conductive compliant members may be inserted in the connector. The conductive compliant members may be aligned with conductive elements of the connector configured as ground conductors. For a connector configured to carry differential signals, the ground conductors may separate pairs of signal conductors. The member may further include a conductive web, embedded within the lossy material, that interconnects the conductive compliant members. For a receptacle connector, the conductive elements may have mating contact portions aligned along opposing surfaces of a cavity. The conductive elements may have contact tails for attachment to a printed circuit board and intermediate portions connecting the mating contact portions and the contact tails. The conductive compliant members may press against the intermediate portions.
US11539170B2
In a connector assembly in which a first connector that includes a first insulator, first terminals, and a first shell and is mounted on a first board and a second connector that includes a second insulator, second terminals, and a second shell and is mounted on a second board are connected with each other, a first ground pattern that has a frame-like shape and is formed on the first board is soldered to the first shell with first solder, and a second ground pattern that has a frame-like shape and is formed on the second board is soldered to the second shell with second solder. An inner space in which the first terminals and the second terminals are positioned is completely shielded from the outside without any gap.
US11539167B2
A connector or adaptive connector includes a first subassembly and a second subassembly with each subassembly including a center conductor and terminating at one end in a termination portion forming a connector portion. The subassemblies interface with each other to slide with respect to each other. A spring acts on each of the subassemblies to bias the subassemblies to slide away from each other and a sleeve contains the subassemblies and spring, the sleeve securing at least one of the subassemblies while allowing movement of the other of the subassemblies in the sleeve for varying the length of the connector. Each subassembly center conductor includes a respective portion of an electrical contact that cooperate to form a center conductor for the connector. The portions of the electrical contact are configured to slide relative to each other when the connector varies in length for maintaining an electrical signal path through the connector.
US11539157B2
A connection assembly for connection to an audio device includes a connector module including a connector configured for electronic connection to a mating connector of the audio device and a releasable latch configured for retaining the connector module to the audio device, an actuator engageable with the connector module and being moveable to release the latch for removal of the connector module from the audio device, and locking structure configured to selectively resist movement of the actuator to release the latch.
US11539153B2
A connector includes a housing and a contact elongated in a frontward and rearward direction. The contact has a fixed portion fixed to the housing in a middle in the frontward and rearward direction, a first contact portion formed in a front end portion for coming into contact with a first circuit board, a second contact portion formed in a rear end portion for coming into contact with a second circuit board, and a deflective portion formed between the fixed portion and the second contact portion. The deflective portion is adapted to deflect when the second contact portion receives a force from the second circuit board.
US11539152B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a number of conductive terminals and a connection module. The insulating body includes a mating surface and a slot extending through the mating surface. The slot is adapted to receive at least a part of a mating connector along a mating direction. Each conductive terminal includes a tail portion and a contact portion extending into the slot. The connection module includes a mounting block and a number of connection terminals fixed with the mounting block. The connection terminals and the conductive terminals are disposed separately, thereby improving the anti-interference performance of the electrical connector. Each connection terminal includes an abutting portion to contact the tail portion of the conductive terminal and a mounting foot for being mounted to a circuit board.
US11539147B2
The present invention relates to an electrical conductor connector, comprises: an insulating body, a contact member and an actuation lever. A plurality of inserting openings are provided in the insulating body. The contact member comprises a busbar and a wire connection clamp. The actuation lever comprises an actuation portion for cooperating with the wire connection clamp and a flip portion, wherein the actuation portion is provided with a cam, a stop wall is provided inside the insulating body for contacting the cam. When the flip portion is flipped, the actuation lever swings and moves jointly through the contour of the cam and a contact surface of the stop wall, so a relative displacement is generated between the insulating body and the actuation lever. A contact point is generated between the surface of wire connection clamp and the actuation portion, and the position of the contact point will be changed continuously.
US11539137B2
A socket antenna module includes a patch antenna, a ground plane, and a shield can, the ground plane having a first side and second side, and the patch antenna being coupled to the first side, whereas the shield can is coupled to the second side opposite the first side. In another embodiment, a socket antenna module and transceiver assembly is disclosed that integrates the socket antenna module with a conventional transceiver.
US11539126B2
A device for phase-shifting a radiofrequency signal, includes a first carrier and a second carrier, an input port and an output port for radiofrequency signals, the input port and the output port being formed on the first carrier, the phase-shifting device comprising: a first array of conductive pads that are distributed over the first carrier and run from the input port, a second array of conductive pads that are distributed over the second carrier, the first carrier, the second carrier, the first array of conductive pads and the second array of conductive pads being arranged so as to form a structure for guiding radiofrequency signals of variable length having a rectangular cross section, the first array of conductive pads and the second array of conductive pads being configured such that the length and cross section of the guide structure change, over at least a portion of the path along which the radiofrequency signals propagate through the guide structure, as the second carrier moves relative to the first carrier.
US11539119B1
A system for an antenna for very low frequency communication includes a surface platform that is configured to move on a surface or to be stationary on the surface, a first conductive cable having a first end coupled to the surface platform, wherein the first conductive cable is electrically conductive, and an aerial platform coupled to a second end of the first conductive cable, wherein the aerial platform comprises an electrically conductive portion electrically coupled to the first conductive cable, wherein for a moving surface platform the aerial platform is towed and has an elevation above the surface, and wherein for a stationary surface platform the aerial platform flies an orbital path above the surface platform.
US11539115B2
Distributed antenna systems (DAS) and methods are disclosed that are aware of cellular user/antenna relationships. The DAS systems and/or methods include or use one or more User Aware Units that provide the functionality of knowing (or, knowledge of) which cellular user(s) each antenna can communicate with (and vice versa). The User Aware Unit functions to gather information about the reception in each antenna in order to identify the cellular users that the respective antenna can communicate with or best communicate with compared to other cellular users.
US11539110B2
A base station antenna includes a radio frequency (RF) lens positioned to receive electromagnetic radiation from a radiating element, the RF lens including an RF energy focusing material and a first heat dissipation channel that extends through the RF energy focusing material of the RF lens and contains a cooling fluid.
US11539107B2
Example embodiments relate to substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) transitions. An example SIW may include a dielectric substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface and a first metallic layer portion coupled to the top surface of the dielectric substrate that includes a single-ended termination, an impedance transformer, and a metallic rectangular patch located within an open portion in the first metallic layer portion such that the open portion forms a non-conductive loop around the metallic rectangular patch. The SIW also includes a second metallic layer portion coupled to the bottom surface of the dielectric substrate and metallic via-holes electrically coupling the first metallic layer to the second metallic layer. The SIW may be implemented in a radar unit to couple antennas to a printed circuit board (PCB). In some examples, the SIW may be implemented with only a non-conductive opening that lacks the metallic rectangular patch.
US11539094B2
A grip structure connected to a main body of an imaging apparatus includes a battery storage part configured to store a battery; an inner side wall surface of the battery storage part includes a first corner, a second corner, and a third corner each having a curved shape when viewed in an insertion direction of the battery; and each of the first, second, and third corners has a radius of curvature equal to or greater than a radius of curvature of a cylindrical cell built into the battery.
US11539087B2
The present disclosure is directed to energy storage systems for vehicles. In some aspects, the energy storage system may be used to power an electric automobile. The energy storage system may include a plurality of individual battery cells. The cells may be cylindrical and have a positive and negative terminal on the same side. The cells may be physically and/or electrically organized into bricks. The bricks may be physically and/or electrically organized into modules. The modules may be physically and/or electrically organized into strings. The strings may be physically and/or electrically organized into a pack. In some embodiments, packs, strings, modules and/or bricks may include flexible circuitry and/or may be liquid cooled.
US11539085B2
A battery connector, including a flexible circuit including a first set of electrical circuitry connecting to a plurality of energy storage cells, where the first set of electrical circuitry terminates at a first connection point at the battery connector; a controller including components to control the energy storage cells connected to a second set of electrical circuitry terminating at a second connection point at the battery connector; where the first connection point and the second connection point are electrically connected.
US11539079B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte includes a lithium salt and a nonaqueous solvent in which the lithium salt is dissolved. The nonaqueous solvent includes a fluorinated chain carboxylate ester and a dicarbonyl compound having two carbonyl groups in the molecule. The dicarbonyl compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of esters and acid anhydrides and has not more than three atoms between the two carbonyl groups.
US11539074B2
This disclosure provides a battery comprising a cathode and an anode positioned opposite the cathode. A hybrid artificial solid-electrolyte interphase (A-SEI) layer is deposited on the anode and includes a plurality of active components. A blended material is interwoven throughout the plurality of active components and configured to inhibit growth of Lithium (Li) dendritic structures from the anode to the cathode. The blended material includes a combination of crystalline sp2-bound carbon domains of graphene sheets and a plurality of flexible wrinkle areas positioned at joinder points of two of more of the crystalline sp2-bound carbon domains of graphene sheets and a polymeric matrix configured to bind the plurality of active components and the blended material together. An electrolyte is in contact with the hybrid A-SEI and the cathode and a separator is positioned between the anode and the cathode. The blended material includes curable carboxylate salts of metals.
US11539069B2
Embodiments of the claimed invention are directed to a device, comprising: an anode that includes a lithiated silicon-based or lithiated carbon-based material or pure lithium metal or metal oxides and a sandwich-type sulfur-based cathode, wherein the anode and the cathode are designed to have porous structures. An additional embodiment of the invention is directed to a scalable method of manufacturing sandwich-type Li—S batteries at a significantly reduced cost compared to traditional methods. An additional embodiment is directed to the use of exfoliated CNT sponges for enlarging the percentage of sulfur in the cathode to have large energy density.
US11539065B2
The present invention relates to rhomboidal phase bismuth oxide that maintains electric conductivity of at least about 1×10−2 S/cm at temperature of about 500° C. for at least about 100 hours. In particular, the bismuth oxides of the invention have stable conductivity at a temperature range from about 500° C. to about 550° C.
US11539063B1
The present disclosure provides a fuel cell, comprising: an anode; a cathode; and a membrane electrode assembly disposed between the anode and the cathode. The anode may comprise a gas diffusion layer with one or more channels for directing a source material through the gas diffusion layer of the anode to facilitate processing of the source material to generate an electrical current. The one or more channels may comprise one or more features configured to enhance a diffusion of the source material through the gas diffusion layer of the anode. The source material may comprise hydrogen and nitrogen.
US11539062B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a fuel gas supply channel, a regulator, an injector, and a controller. The controller drives the regulator in conjunction with the injector. The controller compares a fuel gas flow amount necessary for the fuel cell to generate electricity with a predetermined fuel gas flow amount, selects the fuel gas flow amount that is larger, and issues commands to the regulator and the injector. The predetermined fuel gas flow amount is set to be larger than the fuel gas flow amount necessary for the fuel cell to generate the electricity when a generated current or output of the fuel cell is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
US11539059B2
A fuel cell system includes a reformer, a fuel cell, a desulfurizer, a recirculation passage through which the reformer communicates with the desulfurizer such that a part of the anode gas generated in the reformer flows into the desulfurizer, and an orifice member provided on the recirculation passage. The orifice member or at least a part of an inner wall of a portion that constitutes an upstream side from the orifice member in the recirculation passage is made of a material containing a material having an antifungal action.
US11539048B2
A negative electrode includes at least a negative electrode composite material layer. The negative electrode composite material layer contains at least composite particles and a binder. Each composite particle includes a negative electrode active material particle and a film. The film covers at least part of a surface of the negative electrode active material particle. The film contains a layered silicate mineral. The binder includes nanofibers.
US11539046B2
An ion-conducting material, a core-shell structure containing the ion-conducting material, an electrode prepared with the core-shell structure and a metal-ion battery employing the electrode are provided. The core-shell structure includes a core particle and an organic-inorganic composite layer formed on the surface of the core particle for encapsulating the core particle. The core particle includes lithium cobalt oxide, lithium nickel cobalt oxide, lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide, or lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide. Also, the organic-inorganic composite layer includes nitrogen-containing hyperbranched polymer and an ion-conducting material. The ion-conducting material is a lithium-containing linear polymer or a modified Prussian blue, wherein the modified Prussian blue has an ion-conducting group and the lithium-containing linear polymer has an ion-conducting segment.
US11539045B2
A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a lithium metal layer; a first protective layer formed on a surface of the lithium metal layer; and a second protective layer formed on a surface of the first protective layer opposite the lithium metal layer, wherein the first protective layer and the second protective layer are different from each other in at least one property selected from the group consisting of ion conductivity and electrolyte uptake.
US11539036B2
Provided is a battery including a positive electrode including a first positive electrode layer and a second positive electrode layer; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte layer. The first positive electrode layer includes a first positive electrode active material, a first solid electrolyte material, and a coating material. The second positive electrode layer includes a second positive electrode active material and the first solid electrolyte material. The first solid electrolyte material includes lithium, at least one kind selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than lithium; and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of chlorine and bromine. The first solid electrolyte material does not include sulfur.
US11539034B2
A display device includes a substrate, a lens layer including a plurality of lenses, and a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed between the substrate and the lens layer. The plurality of pixel electrodes include a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The plurality of lenses include a first lens disposed correspondingly to the first pixel electrode and a second lens disposed correspondingly to the second pixel electrode. An area of the first pixel electrode in plan view is greater than an area of the second pixel electrode in the plan view. An area of the first lens in the plan view is greater than an area of the second lens.
US11539028B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes an organic electroluminescence element, and a protective layer configured to protect the organic electroluminescence element, wherein the protective layer includes a first insulating film, a second insulating film, a third insulating film, a fourth insulating film, and a fifth insulating film, each of the first insulating film, the second insulating film, the third insulating film, the fourth insulating film, and the fifth insulating film is formed of an inorganic material, and a density of the first insulating film is lower than a density of each of the third insulating film and the fifth insulating film.
US11539027B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a luminescent thin film, a luminescent multilayered film, and an organic electroluminescent element that have luminescence properties with excellent storage stability in atmospheric air; and a production method therefor. This luminescent thin film contains a luminescent compound A, and is characterized by containing 0.0001 mass % or more of an oxide B of luminescent compound A in terms of the luminescent compound A.
US11539024B2
A foldable display device assembly includes a rigid film having first and second sections spaced apart from each other, the rigid film being foldable about a folding axis disposed between the first and second sections of the rigid film; an adhesion structure having first and second adhesion sections spaced apart from each other, the first and second adhesion sections being disposed on the first and second sections of the rigid film, respectively; a lower flexible module disposed on the adhesion structure; a flexible display module disposed on the lower flexible module; and an upper flexible module disposed on the flexible display module.
US11539023B2
A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate having a display region and a peripheral region adjacent to the display region, the peripheral region being provided therein with a gate driver-on-array circuit including a plurality of transistors and capacitors, all of the transistors are provided in a transistor region, at least a part of the plurality of capacitors are provided in a capacitor region, and the capacitor region is located on a side of the transistor region distal to the display region; and an encapsulation structure for encapsulating the display region and the transistor region together; the peripheral region further including a sealing region for arranging a sealing structure therein, the capacitor region is located in the sealing region, and the sealing region is provided on a side of the encapsulation structure distal to the display region.
US11539022B2
To provide a method for manufacturing a lightweight light-emitting device having a light-emitting region on a curved surface. The light-emitting region is provided on a curved surface in such a manner that a light-emitting element is formed on a flexible substrate supported in a plate-like shape and the flexible substrate deforms or returns.
US11539007B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1A: wherein, in Formula 1A, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US11539006B2
The present invention relates to an organometal-complex luminescent material which has a structural formula (I), wherein A, B and C refer to substituted or unsubstituted C, N, O and S atoms independently; a dashed ring for linkage between A and B atoms refers to a substituted or unsubstituted conjugated ring structure; L1, L2, L3 and L4 are single bonds or double bonds independently, wherein L3 and L4 are part of the conjugated ring structure for linkage between A and B atoms; X, X1, Y and Y1 are C, N, O and S atoms independently; Ar1 and Ar2 are substituted or unsubstituted conjugated ring structures independently; M refers to Pt, W and Au atoms. An organometal complex in the luminescent material is high in fluorescence quantum efficiency and heat stability and low in quenching constant and can be used for manufacturing high-efficiency and low-efficiency roll-off red-light OLEDs.
US11539004B2
Provided are an electroluminescent compound having a structure represented by Formula I, a thermally activated delayed fluorescence material and an application thereof. The electroluminescent compound has TADF characteristics and may be applied to a light emitting layer of an OLED device as a thermally activated delayed fluorescence material. The OLED device includes an anode, a cathode, and at least one organic thin film layer comprising the thermally activated delayed fluorescence material in a light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode. The electroluminescent compound effectively reduces the overlap between HOMO and LUMO through special molecular structure design, so that ΔEST is reduced to less than 0.25 eV, which satisfies reverse crossing of energy from a triplet state to a singlet state, effectively improves transmission capacities of two kinds of carriers, improves carrier balance, and thus significantly improves light emitting efficiency of the OLED device.
US11538996B2
The present invention relates to a process to produce compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, as well as to intermediate compounds of formula (Int-1) and compounds of formula (1-1) and (1-2) obtained via the process. These compounds are particularly suitable for use organic electroluminescent devices. The present invention also relate to electronic devices, which comprise these compounds.
US11538990B2
A method for forming a resistive random access memory structure. The resistive random access memory structure includes a bottom electrode; a variable resistance layer disposed on the bottom electrode; a top electrode disposed on the variable resistance layer; a protection layer surrounding the variable resistance layer, wherein a top surface of the protection layer and a top surface of the top electrode are coplanar; and an upper interconnect structure disposed on the top electrode, wherein the upper interconnect structure is electrically connected to the top electrode and directly contacts a sidewall of the protection layer.
US11538988B2
A memory cell design is disclosed. The memory cell structure includes phase change and selector layers stacked between top and bottom electrodes. An ohmic contact may be included between the phase change and selector layers. A multi-layer liner structure is provided on sidewalls of the phase change layer. In some such cases, the liner structure is above and not on sidewalls of the selector layer. The liner structure includes a first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer. The liner structure includes a third dielectric layer on the second dielectric layer and that is sacrificial in nature, and may not be present in the final structure. The second dielectric layer comprises a high-k dielectric material or a metal silicate material. The second dielectric layer protects the phase change layer from lateral erosion and physical vertical etch and provides etch selectivity during the fabrication process.
US11538985B2
A method for configuring a reconfigurable physical unclonable function (PUF) based on a device with spin-orbit torque (SOT) effect is provided. The disclosure uses SOT or magnetic field to change the magnetic moment. After the current or magnetic field is removed, the magnetic moment returns to the easy axis direction. Under the effect of thermal fluctuation, the magnetic moment is randomly oriented in the easy axis direction. The non-volatile devices are formed into an array, the magnetic moments of all non-volatile devices are randomly distributed after a write operation. The read state can be used as a random code to implement the reconfigurable PUF. The PUF has a simple structure and guarantees security. The random code in the disclosure may be two-state or multi-state, which is related to the number of magnetic domains of the ferromagnetic layer. A large number of challenge response pairs form a strong PUF.
US11538983B2
Provided is a chip component manufacturing method which enables a plurality of chip pieces to be handled while being pasted to a sheet, and in which it is possible to apply at least a surface treatment to a plurality of chip pieces while being pasted to a sheet. This chip component manufacturing method comprises: a step for retaining a green sheet or the like on a carrier sheet; a step for cutting, together with a portion of the carrier sheet, the green sheet or the like retained on the carrier sheet; a step for removing, together with a portion of the carrier sheet, at least a dummy portion of the green sheet or the like that has been cut, so as to leave a plurality of chip pieces on the carrier sheet; and a step for applying at least a surface treatment to lateral surface portions of the plurality of chip pieces that have become exposed due to the removing while the plurality of chip pieces are being retained on the carrier sheet.
US11538963B1
A multilayer light emitting device having a plurality of low Si—H bonding dielectric layers is disclosed for improved p-GaN contact performance. Improved p-side contact resistance is provided using one or more bonding, via or passivation layers in a multilayer light emitting structure by the use of processes and dielectric materials and precursors that provide dielectric layers with a hydrogen content of less than 13 at. %.
US11538959B2
A method for repairing a display device, the display device including a plurality of inorganic light emitting elements arranged in a matrix and an insulator arranged around the plurality of inorganic light emitting elements, the method comprising steps of: detecting a defective inorganic light emitting element as the inorganic light emitting element having a defect; removing the insulator around the defective inorganic light emitting element while the defective inorganic light emitting element remains without being removed by irradiating the insulator around the defective inorganic light emitting element with irradiation light; and removing the defective inorganic light emitting element after the insulator therearound has been removed.
US11538951B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to determining an order of power devices connected in a serial string to a central power device. The physical order may be stored in a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium.
US11538950B2
A solar cell panel using a back contact solar cell is disclosed. The solar cell panel includes a front substrate, a back sheet positioned opposite the front substrate, a plurality of solar cells positioned between the front substrate and the back sheet and connected to one another by a plurality of conductive lines electrically connecting two adjacent solar cells, an encapsulant covering the plurality of solar cells, and at least one blocking portion blocking the plurality of conductive lines that is otherwise visible between the solar cells from being visually seen. The at least one blocking portion is positioned between a back surface of the front substrate and the encapsulant.
US11538941B2
An integrated circuit includes a first semiconductor well contained in a semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor well contained in the first semiconductor well. A capacitive element for the integrated circuit includes a first electrode and a second electrode, where the first electrode includes at least one vertical conductive structure filling a trench extending vertically into the first semiconductor well. The vertical conductive structure is electrically isolated from the first semiconductor well by a dielectric envelope covering a base and the sides of the trench. The vertical conductive structure penetrates into the second semiconductor well at least at one longitudinal end of the trench. The second electrode includes the first semiconductor well and the second semiconductor well.
US11538933B2
A trench metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) device comprises an active cell area including a plurality of superjunction trench power MOSFETs, and a Schottky diode area including a plurality of Schottky diodes formed in the drift region having the superjunction structure. Each of the integrated Schottky diodes includes a Schottky contact between a lightly doped semiconductor layer and a metallic layer.
US11538930B2
A bidirectional blocking monolithic heterogeneous integrated Cascode-structure field effect transistor, which mainly solves a problem that the existing monolithic heterogeneous integrated Cascode-structure field effect transistor has no reverse blocking characteristic. The field effect transistor includes a substrate, a GaN buffer layer, an AlGaN barrier layer and a SiN isolation layer, wherein an isolation groove is etched in the middle of the SiN isolation layer, a Si active layer is printed on the SiN isolation layer on one side of the isolation groove so as to prepare a Si metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor, and a GaN high-electron-mobility transistor is prepared on the other side of the isolation groove, and a drain electrode of the GaN high-electron-mobility transistor is in Schottky contact with the AlGaN barrier layer to form a bidirectional blocking monolithic heterogeneous integrated Cascode-structure field effect transistor.
US11538929B2
A semiconductor device includes first and third semiconductor layers of a first conductivity type, and second, fourth and fifth semiconductor layers of a second conductivity type. The first semiconductor layer is provided on the fifth semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is provided on the first semiconductor layer. The third and fourth semiconductor layers are arranged along the second semiconductor layer. In a plane parallel to an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer, the fourth semiconductor layer has a surface area greater than a surface area of the third semiconductor layer. The device further includes first to third electrodes, and first control electrode. The first to third electrodes are electrically connected to the third to fifth semiconductor layers, respectively. The first control electrode is provided in a first trench extending into the first semiconductor layer from an upper surface of the third semiconductor layer.
US11538924B2
A vertical field effect transistor (VFET) device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: (a) providing an intermediate VFET structure comprising a substrate, and fin structures, gate structures and bottom epitaxial layers on the substrate, the gate structures being formed on the fin structures, respectively, each fin structure comprising a fin and a mask thereon, and the bottom epitaxial layers; (b) filling interlayer dielectric (ILD) layers between and at sides of the gate structures; (c) forming an ILD protection layer on the ILD layers, respectively, the ILD protection layer having upper portions and lower portions, and comprising a material preventing oxide loss at the ILD layers; (d) removing the fin structures, the gate structures and the ILD protection layer above the lower portion of the ILD protection layer; (e) removing the masks of the fin structures and top portions of the gate structures so that top surfaces of the fin structures and top surfaces of the gate structures after the removing are lower than top surfaces of the ILD layers; (f) forming top spacers on the gate structures of which the top portions are removed, and top epitaxial layers on the fin structures of which the masks are removed; and (g) forming a contact structure connected to the top epitaxial layers.
US11538921B2
A source electrode (5), a drain electrode (6) and a T-shaped gate electrode (9) are formed on a GaN-based semiconductor layer (3,4) to form a transistor. An insulating film (10,11) covering the T-shaped gate electrode (9) is formed. A property of the transistor is evaluated to obtain an evaluation result. A film type, a film thickness or a dielectric constant of the insulating film (10,11) is adjusted in accordance with the evaluation result to make a property of the transistor close to a target property.
US11538920B2
A method for increasing an oxide thickness at trench corner of an UMOSFET is provided, comprising providing an N-type substrate, and forming an N-type drift region, N-type and P-type heavily doped regions and P-type body therein. A trench is defined through lithography, and a pad oxide is formed along the trench through oxidation or deposition process. An oxidation barrier is formed upon the pad oxide. A thermal oxidation process is employed, so a corner oxide is effectively formed at the trench corner. After removing the pad oxide and oxidation barrier, various back-end processes are carried out to complete the transistor structure. The invention is aimed to increase oxide thickness near the trench bottom, and can be applied to high voltage devices, such as SiC. The conventional electric field crowding effect occurring at the trench corner is greatly solved, thus increasing breakdown voltages thereof.
US11538917B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure. The gate structure is disposed on the substrate, and the gate structure includes a titanium nitride barrier layer and a titanium aluminide layer. The titanium aluminide layer is disposed on the titanium nitride barrier layer, and a thickness of the titanium aluminide layer ranges from twice a thickness of the titanium nitride barrier layer to three times the thickness of the titanium nitride barrier layer.
US11538914B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric, a gate electrode, and a pair of source/drain regions. The gate dielectric is disposed in the semiconductor substrate having an upper boundary lower than an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, and an upper surface flush with the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The gate electrode is disposed over the gate dielectric having a first section over the upper boundary of the gate dielectric and a second section over the upper surface of the gate dielectric. The second section partially covers and partially exposes the upper surface of the gate dielectric. The pair of source/drain regions are disposed on opposing sides of the gate dielectric.
US11538893B2
A display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion provided between the first display region and the second display region, a plurality of first control lines provided in the first display region and extending in a first direction in which the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side, and a plurality of second control lines provided in the second display region and extending in the first direction. The first control lines and the second control lines are electrically connected via curved portion wiring lines formed in the curved portion.
US11538890B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate and lines. The lines include first lines each including a first linear portion and a second linear portion. The first linear portions extend in a first direction and are arranged at intervals in a second direction. The second linear portions extend in a third direction and are arranged at intervals in a fourth direction. A length of each of the first linear portions changes gradually in the second direction. A length of each of the second linear portions changes gradually in the fourth direction.
US11538887B2
A display device includes: a display substrate including a display area and a pad area disposed around the display area; a signal wiring disposed over the display area and the pad area on the display substrate; at least one wiring pad including: a pad pattern portion disposed on the pad area of the display substrate and electrically connected to the signal wiring; and a separation pattern portion separated from the pad pattern portion by a separation space; and a printed circuit board attached to the pad area of the display substrate, the printed circuit board including a lead wiring connected to the at least one wiring pad.
US11538881B2
A display apparatus includes a thin film transistor on the substrate, the thin film transistor including a first semiconductor layer and a first gate electrode overlapping the first semiconductor layer wherein a first gate insulating layer is disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode, and a storage capacitor including a lower electrode including a first lower layer and a first upper layer stacked each other and an upper electrode including a second lower layer and a second upper layer stacked each other, wherein the upper electrode overlaps the lower electrode, and a second gate insulating layer is disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, a display element electrically connected to the thin film transistor, wherein the second upper layer has a thickness greater than a thickness of the first upper layer.
US11538876B2
The disclosure provides LED display panel and manufacturing method thereof. LED display panel includes: substrate; LED on substrate; pixel defining layer defining pixel opening on substrate, the LED being within pixel opening; and first encapsulation layer on light emitting side of LED. Portion of first encapsulation layer within pixel opening includes sidewall inclined with respect to substrate, surface of sidewall close to LED includes first portions and second portions alternately arranged in direction away from LED and connected to each other, and inclination angles of first portions with respect to substrate are smaller than those of second portions with respect to substrate. Refractive index of material of first encapsulation layer is greater than refractive index of material of each of layer structures directly on both sides of first encapsulation layer in direction perpendicular to substrate.
US11538875B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel defining layer, and a first electrode layer between the base substrate and the pixel defining layer. The pixel defining layer defines a plurality of sub-pixels on the base substrate, the first electrode layer comprises a plurality of first electrodes, and the plurality of first electrodes being separated from each other by gaps, and an orthographic projection of the pixel defining layer on the base substrate covers an orthographic projection of the gap on the base substrate.
US11538872B2
The present disclosure relates to a display structure, a display panel including the display structure, and a display device including the display panel and an image acquisition device. The display structure includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a first region of the display structure, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels of N number of colors, and each sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels includes an organic light emitting diode; and N number of driving circuits disposed in a second region of the display structure, wherein an ith driving circuit of the N number of driving circuits is configured to drive each sub-pixel of an ith color of the plurality of sub-pixels, wherein 1≤i≤N and N is an integer greater than 1.
US11538870B2
Disclosed are a flexible display panel, a flexible display device and a deformation detection method thereof, used for detecting deformation of the flexible display panel. The flexible display panel provided by embodiments of the present disclosure includes a flexible substrate, a display device and a piezoelectric sensor arranged in a stacked mode. The piezoelectric sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode; the piezoelectric sensor is configured to generate an electrical signal under the action of stress produced by bending the flexible display panel; and a signal processing chip in the flexible display device is configured to determine deformation parameters of the flexible display panel according to the electrical signal.
US11538868B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and an input sensing unit including a plurality of color filters that correspond with the pixels. The color filters include a plurality of conductive color filters that are electrically conductive, and the conductive color filters include first conductive color filters in first sensing areas arranged in a first direction and second conductive color filters in second sensing areas arranged in a second direction. The input sensing unit includes a first connection pattern electrically coupling the first conductive color filters and a second connection pattern electrically coupling the second conductive color filters.
US11538851B2
Provided is a display device including a base layer, a pixel circuit disposed on the base layer, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a middle layer disposed on the pixel electrode and including a polymer resin layer and a conductive layer, a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed on the conductive layer and electrically connected to the pixel electrode, and a common electrode configured to cover the plurality of light emitting diodes and electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting diodes. Each of the plurality of light emitting diodes includes a first electrode, a light generating layer, and a second electrode sequentially stacked in a thickness direction of the base layer.
US11538848B2
Provided a fingerprint identification substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, a identification method, and a display apparatus. The fingerprint identification substrate includes a substrate and at least two kinds of identification pixels disposed on the substrate, a first identification pixel includes a first photodiode and a second identification pixel includes a second photodiode. The first photodiode includes a first electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer and a second electrode, the second photodiode includes the first electrode, a second photoelectric conversion layer and the second electrode, and the first photoelectric conversion layer and the second photoelectric conversion layer have different spectral response characteristics to red light or infrared light.
US11538844B2
An image sensor device includes a transistor disposed in a pixel region; a salicide block layer covering the pixel region; a first ILD layer covering the salicide block layer; a second ILD layer on the first ILD layer; a source contacts extending through the second and first ILD layers and the salicide block layer, and including first polysilicon plug in the first ILD layer, first self-aligned silicide layer on the polysilicon plug and first conductive metal layer on the first self-aligned silicide layer; and a drain contact extending through the second and first ILD layers and the salicide block, and including second polysilicon plug in first ILD layer, second self-aligned silicide layer on the second polysilicon plug, and second conductive metal layer on the second self-aligned silicide layer.
US11538839B2
A solid-state image sensor is provided. The solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The solid-state image sensor also includes a color filter layer disposed above the photoelectric conversion elements. The color filter layer has a plurality of color filter segments. The solid-state image sensor further includes a partition grid disposed between the color filter segments. Moreover, the solid-state image sensor includes a patterned structure disposed on the color filter layer. The patterned structure has a plurality of patterned segments. The solid-state image sensor also includes a transparent layer disposed on the color filter layer and the partition grid. The transparent layer surrounds the patterned segments. At least one patterned segment is disposed on the partition grid.
US11538837B2
In some embodiments, a pixel sensor is provided. The pixel sensor includes a first photodetector arranged in a semiconductor substrate. A second photodetector is arranged in the semiconductor substrate, where a first substantially straight line axis intersects a center point of the first photodetector and a center point of the second photodetector. A floating diffusion node is arranged in the semiconductor substrate at a point that is a substantially equal distance from the first photodetector and the second photodetector. A pick-up well contact region is arranged in the semiconductor substrate, where a second substantially straight line axis that is substantially perpendicular to the first substantially straight line axis intersects a center point of the floating diffusion node and a center point of the pick-up well contact region.
US11538836B2
A pixel cell includes a photodiode disposed proximate to a front side of a semiconductor layer to generate image charge in response to incident light directed through a backside of the semiconductor layer. A cell deep trench isolation (CDTI) structure is disposed along an optical path of the incident light to the photodiode and proximate to the backside of the semiconductor layer. The CDTI structure includes a plurality of portions arranged in the semiconductor layer. Each of the plurality of portions extends a respective depth from the backside towards the front side of the semiconductor layer. The respective depth of each of the plurality of portions is different than a respective depth of a neighboring one of the plurality of portions. Each of the plurality of portions is laterally separated and spaced apart from said neighboring one of the plurality of portions in the semiconductor layer.
US11538833B2
A display substrate having a bonding area for bonding with a circuit structure. The display substrate includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes in the bonding area, a respective one of the plurality of first electrodes being bound to a respective one of the plurality of second electrodes thereby forming a respective pair of a plurality of bound electrode pairs in the bonding area; a barrier layer including a plurality of barriers respectively between adjacent pairs of the plurality of bound electrode pairs; and an anisotropic conductive film for bonding the respective one of the plurality of first electrodes and the respective one of the plurality of second electrodes together.
US11538828B2
A memory device can include a strained single-crystalline silicon layer and an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over the strained single-crystalline silicon layer. A memory opening fill structure extending through the alternating stack may include an epitaxial silicon-containing pedestal channel portion, and a vertical semiconductor channel, and a vertical stack of memory elements located adjacent to the vertical semiconductor channel. Additionally or alternatively, a drain region can include a semiconductor drain portion and a nickel-aluminum-semiconductor alloy drain portion.
US11538820B2
A memory device is disclosed. The disclosed memory device may include a first wafer, and a second wafer stacked on and bonded to the first wafer. The first wafer may include a cell structure including a memory cell array; and a first logic structure disposed under the cell structure, and including a column control circuit. The second wafer may include a second logic structure including a row control circuit.
US11538817B2
At least a portion of a memory cell is formed over a first substrate and at least a portion of a steering element or word or bit line of the memory cell is formed over a second substrate. The at least a portion of the memory cell is bonded to at least a portion of a steering element or word or bit line. At least one of the first or second substrate may be removed after the bonding.
US11538807B2
A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same, the device including an active pattern extending in a first direction on a substrate; a field insulating film surrounding a part of the active pattern; a first gate structure extending in a second direction on the active pattern and the field insulating film, a second gate structure spaced apart from the first gate structure and extending in the second direction on the active pattern and the field insulating film; and a first device isolation film between the first and second gate structure, wherein a side wall of the first gate structure facing the first device isolation film includes an inclined surface having an acute angle with respect to an upper surface of the active pattern, and a lowermost surface of the first device isolation film is lower than or substantially coplanar with an uppermost surface of the field insulating film.
US11538787B2
A method and a system for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure are provided. The method includes: (a) providing a package body including at least one semiconductor device encapsulated in an encapsulant; (b) providing a flattening force to the package body; (c) thinning the package body after (b); (d) attaching a film to the package body; and (e) releasing the flattening force after (d).
US11538786B2
A transfer printing method and a transfer printing apparatus. The transfer method includes: transferring a plurality of devices formed on an original substrate to a transfer substrate; obtaining first position information of positions of the plurality of devices on the transfer substrate; obtaining second position information of corresponding positions, on a target substrate, of devices to be transferred; comparing the first position information with the second position information to obtain first target position information recording a first transfer position; and aligning the transfer substrate with the target substrate and performing a site-designated laser irradiation on at least part of devices on the transfer substrate corresponding to the first transfer position, simultaneously, according to the first target position information, so as to transfer the at least part of the devices from the transfer substrate to the target substrate.
US11538784B2
A light emitting device including at least one LED stack, electrode pads disposed on the LED stack, and cantilever electrodes disposed on the electrode pads, respectively, in which each of the cantilever electrodes has a fixed edge that is fixed to one of the electrode pads and a free standing edge that is spaced apart from the one of the electrode pads.
US11538780B2
Embodiments of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device and fabrication methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the 3D memory device includes a peripheral circuitry formed on a first substrate. The peripheral circuitry includes a plurality of peripheral devices on a first side of the first substrate, a first interconnect layer, and a deep-trench-isolation on a second side of the first substrate, wherein the first and second sides are opposite sides of the first substrate and the deep-trench-isolation is configured to provide electrical isolation between at least two neighboring peripheral devices. The 3D memory device also includes a memory array formed on a second substrate. The memory array includes at least one memory cell and a second interconnect layer, wherein the second interconnect layer of the memory array is bonded with the first interconnect layer of the peripheral circuitry, and the peripheral devices are electrically connected with the memory cells.
US11538774B2
A wireless transmission module, chips, a passive component, and a coil are integrated into an integral structure, so that an integration level of the wireless transmission module is improved. In addition, the integral structure can effectively implement independence of the module, and the independent module can be flexibly arranged inside structural design of an electronic device, and does not need to be disposed on a mainboard of the electronic device. Only an input terminal of the wireless transmission module needs to be retained on the mainboard of the electronic device. In addition, the integral structure can further effectively increase a capability of a product for working continuously and normally in an extremely harsh scenario, and improve product reliability. In addition, in the structure of the wireless transmission module, the chips and the coil are integrated, and signal transmission paths between the chips and the coil are relatively short.
US11538772B2
The present disclosure provides an antenna module. The antenna module includes a first layer, a second layer, a first antenna, and a second antenna. The first layer has a first dielectric constant. The second layer is adjacent to the first layer. The second layer has a second Dk lower than the first Dk. The first antenna is disposed on the first layer and is configured for operating at a first frequency. The second antenna is disposed on the second layer and is configured for operating at a second frequency higher than the first frequency.
US11538758B2
Disclosed herein are waveguide interconnect bridges for integrated circuit (IC) structures, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, a waveguide interconnect bridge may include a waveguide material and one or more wall cavities in the waveguide material. The waveguide interconnect bridge may communicatively couple two dies in an IC package.
US11538755B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate provided with a decoupling capacitor and plurality of circuit elements disposed along a first direction, and a plurality of first wiring line patterns disposed in a first wiring line layer over the substrate, including a power routing pattern coupled to the decoupling capacitor and a plurality of internal wiring line patterns coupled to the plurality of circuit elements. The plurality of first wiring line patterns extend in the first direction, and are aligned in conformity with virtual wiring line pattern tracks which are defined at a first pitch along a second direction intersecting the first direction and parallel to the substrate.
US11538719B2
A microelectronic device includes a PNP transistor and NPN transistor arranged vertically in a P-type doped semiconductor substrate. The PNP and NPN transistors are manufactured by: forming an N+ doped isolating well for the PNP transistor in the semiconductor substrate; forming a P+ doped region in the N+ doped isolating well; epitaxially growing a first semiconductor layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming an N+ doped well for the NPN transistor, where at least part of the N+ doped well extends into the first semiconductor layer; then epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer; forming a P doped region forming the collector of the PNP transistor in the second semiconductor layer and in electrical contact with the P+ doped region; and forming an N doped region forming the collector of the NPN transistor in the second semiconductor layer and in electrical contact with the N+ doped well.
US11538713B2
A controller for adjusting a height of an edge ring in a substrate processing system includes an edge ring wear calculation module configured to receive at least one input indicative of one or more erosion rates of the edge ring, calculate at least one erosion rate of the edge ring based on the at least one input, and calculate an amount of erosion of the edge ring based on the at least one erosion rate. An actuator control module is configured to adjust the height of the edge ring based on the amount of erosion as calculated by the edge ring wear calculation module.
US11538708B2
An apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck and located within a vacuum enclosure. A plurality of conductive plates can be embedded in the electrostatic chuck, and a plurality of plate bias circuits can be configured to independently electrically bias a respective one of the plurality of conductive plates. Alternatively or additionally, a plurality of spot lamp zones including a respective set of spot lamps can be provided between a bottom portion of the vacuum enclosure and a backside surface of the electrostatic chuck. The plurality of conductive plates and/or the plurality of spot lamp zones can be employed to locally modify chucking force and to provide local temperature control.
US11538700B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus, including: a mounting part on which a carrier having a plurality of slots capable of accommodating a plurality of substrates is mounted; a transfer part configured to load and unload the substrates to and from the plurality of slots based on a reference accommodation position set in the mounting part; a detection part configured to detect a position of each of the plurality of substrates accommodated in the plurality of slots; and a correction part configured to correct the reference accommodation position based on port accumulation information in which detection results obtained by the detection part from a plurality of carriers which has been mounted on the mounting part in the past are accumulated.
US11538690B2
In certain embodiments, a method for processing a semiconductor substrate includes receiving a semiconductor substrate that includes a film stack. The film stack includes a first silicon layer, a second silicon layer, and a first germanium-containing layer positioned between the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer. The method further includes selectively etching the first germanium-containing layer by exposing the film stack to a plasma that includes fluorine agents, nitrogen agents, and hydrogen agents. The plasma etches the first germanium-containing layer and causes a passivation layer to be formed on exposed surfaces of the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer to inhibit etching of the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer during exposure of the film stack to the plasma.
US11538689B2
A substrate has a front side including an electrical circuit and a rear side including an exposed zone that faces the electrical circuit. In an electrochemical treatment step, an electrical potential is laterally applied at least to the exposed zone of the rear side of the substrate, while the exposed zone is in contact with a chemically reactive substance. The electrical potential causes a lateral flow of electrical current at least in the exposed zone of the substrate. The lateral flow of current and the chemically reactive substance alter the substrate in at least the exposed zone.
US11538687B2
A system and method for fluorine ion implantation is described, which includes a fluorine gas source used to generate a fluorine ion species for implantation to a subject, and an arc chamber that includes one or more non-tungsten materials (graphite, carbide, fluoride, nitride, oxide, ceramic). The system minimizes formation of tungsten fluoride during system operation, thereby extending source life and promoting improved system performance. Further, the system can include a hydrogen and/or hydride gas source, and these gases can be used along with the fluorine gas to improve source lifetime and/or beam current.
US11538685B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes providing a to-be-etched layer, forming a core layer over the to-be-etched layer, the core layer including a first trench extending along a first direction, forming a sidewall spacer layer on a top surface of the core layer and on sidewalls and a bottom surface of the first trench, forming a block cut structure in the first trench after forming the sidewall spacer layer, and after forming the block cut structure, etching back the sidewall spacer layer until exposing the top surface of the core layer, thereby leaving a sidewall spacer on the sidewalls of the first trench. The block cut structure extends through the first trench along a second direction. The second direction and the first direction are different. The block cut structure includes a first block-cut layer and a second block-cut layer.
US11538681B2
An epitaxy substrate and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The epitaxy substrate includes a silicon substrate and a silicon carbide layer. The silicon substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, and the first surface is an epitaxy surface. The silicon carbide layer is located in the silicon substrate, and a distance between the silicon carbide layer and the first surface is between 100 angstroms (Å) and 500 angstroms.
US11538675B2
The present disclosure relates to novel and improved methods of analyzing proteins, peptides and polypeptides by mass spectrometry using ion-ion reactions. More specifically the disclosure relates to improved methods for implementing the m/z selective arresting of ion-ion reactions within the ion-ion reaction cell of a mass spectrometer system during a period where ion-ion reactions are performed.
US11538665B2
A gas supply system includes first and second gas supply lines, first and second valves, and a controller. The first gas supply line is connected between a process gas source and a substrate processing chamber and has an intermediate node. The second gas supply line is connected between a purge gas source and the intermediate node. The first valve is disposed upstream of the intermediate node on the first gas supply line. The second valve is disposed upstream of the first valve on the first gas supply line. A controller controls the first and second valves to open the first and second valves in a first mode for supplying a process gas from the process gas source to the substrate processing chamber, and close the first and second valves in a second mode for supplying a purge gas from the purge gas source to the substrate processing chamber.
US11538663B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, a matching network configured for use with a plasma processing chamber comprises an input configured to receive one or more radio frequency (RF) signals, an output configured to deliver the one or more RF signals to a processing chamber, a first variable capacitor disposed between the input and the output, a second variable capacitor disposed in parallel to the first variable capacitor, a third variable capacitor connected in parallel with each of the first variable capacitor and the second variable capacitor and in series with a transistor switch, and a controller configured to tune the matching network between a first frequency for high-power operation and a second frequency for low-power operation.
US11538662B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to a method for impedance matching. A matching network includes first and second reactance elements configured to provide variable positions. A first parameter of the matching network is determined based on a detected value. The method determines first two-port parameters from a first one-dimensional array that corresponds to a first portion of the matching network using the first reactance element position, and second two-port parameters from a second one-dimensional array that corresponds to a second portion of the matching network using the second reactance element position. An output parameter is calculated based on the first parameter, the first two-port parameters, and the second two-port parameters. New first and second reactance element positions are determined from a match position table using the calculated output parameter. The method then alters the reactance elements accordingly to reduce a reflected power.
US11538661B1
There is provided a technique capable of improving a uniformity of a substrate processing on a substrate surface. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a substrate processing room; a plasma generation room; a gas supplier supplying a gas into the plasma generation room; a first coil surrounding the plasma generation room and to which an electric power is supplied; and a second coil surrounding the plasma generation room and to which an electric power is supplied. An axial direction of the second coil is equal to that of the first coil, a winding diameter of the second coil is different from that of the first coil, and a peak of a voltage distribution generated by supplying the electric power to the second coil does not overlap with a peak of a voltage distribution generated by the first coil.
US11538659B2
Provided are a charged particle beam device and a detector capable of non-invasively observing a biochemical sample without a staining treatment or an immobilization treatment, with a simple and high observation throughput. An electron optics system, a stage 64, a sample chamber 100 holding a sample and including a first insulating layer 110 that is in contact with the sample, and a conductive layer 120 that is formed on the first insulating layer, signal detection circuits 20 and 50 connected to the conductive layer and detecting a current flowing through the conductive layer, and a main control unit 14 for controlling the electron optics system and the stage, wherein the main control unit 14 irradiates the conductive layer of the sample chamber placed on the stage with an electron beam from the electron optics system and is input with a detection signal from the signal detection circuit.
US11538652B2
To compensate for hysteresis in an actuator, a path between a first position and a second position can be selected, and a drive signal can be applied to an actuator element that includes a hysteresis-compensated portion to move an object along the selected path.
US11538642B2
A switching device is for a low-voltage electric circuit having a plurality of conductors. In an embodiment, the switching device includes a housing having connection contacts arranged on the housing for connection of conductors of the low-voltage electric circuit; and a mechanical unit situated in the housing having an isolating function and an OFF or IN position, the mechanical unit including isolating contacts for galvanically interrupting the conductors of the low-voltage electric circuit. An electronic unit is provided which is connected to the mechanical unit in series on the current flow side; an auxiliary switch connected to the mechanical unit is provided and is connected in turn to the electronic unit; and the auxiliary switch and the electronic unit are designed in such a way that the electronic unit is highly resistive during an opening process of the mechanical unit.
US11538641B2
A keyboard backlight module includes a light guide plate, a reflector, a light-emitting device and a first microstructure. The light guide plate has an output surface, a light guide pattern and a bottom surface disposed on an opposite side of the output surface. The light guide pattern is arranged on at least one of the bottom surface and the output surface. The reflector has a reflecting surface facing the bottom surface. The light-emitting device is disposed on one side of the light guide plate and configured to provide an incident light to the reflecting surface. The first microstructure is disposed on the reflecting surface, at least partially overlaps with the light guide pattern, and is configured to transform the incident light into a first reflected light.
US11538640B2
Systems and methods for contact erosion mitigation are provided. To perform contact erosion mitigation, an order of opening/closing poles and/or contact relays of particular poles is altered, resulting in a sharing of potential arcing conditions amongst the poles/contact relays of these poles.
US11538637B2
A substrate that includes a base layer having a first principal surface defining a plurality of first trenches and intervening first lands, and a cover layer provided over the first principal surface of the base layer and covering the first trenches and first lands substantially conformally, wherein the surface of the cover layer remote from the first principal surface of the base layer comprises a plurality of second trenches and intervening second lands defined at a smaller scale than the first trenches and first lands. The substrate may be used to fabricate a capacitive element in which thin film layers are provided and conformally cover the second trenches and second lands of the cover layer, to create a metal-insulator-metal structure having high capacitance density.
US11538622B2
An apparatus for a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) coil, comprising: a first coil layer of a PCB; a plurality of vias coupled to and distributed to cover substantially the surface of the first coil layer within the PCB; and a second coil layer of the PCB and coupled to the vias to cover substantially the surface of the second coil layer, wherein the vias are positioned between the first coil layer and the second coil layer and enable substantially high current and low equivalent series resistance (ESR) for the multilayer PCB coil.
US11538621B2
A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body formed by stacking a plurality of insulating layers in a length direction and that has a built-in coil, and first and second outer electrodes that are electrically connected to the coil. The coil is formed by a plurality of coil conductors stacked in the length direction being electrically connected to each other. The first and second outer electrodes respectively cover parts of first and second end surfaces and parts of a first main surface. The length of a region in which the coil conductors are arranged in the stacking direction lies in a range from 85% to 95% of the length of the multilayer body. The sum of the numbers of stacked coil conductors that face the parts of the first and second outer electrodes extending along the first main surface is less than or equal to twelve.
US11538619B2
A coil component including an element assembly that includes a support substrate having a cavity, a first coil disposed on a first principal surface of the support substrate, a second coil disposed on a second principal surface of the support substrate, and a magnetic portion. The coil component further includes first and second outer electrodes electrode electrically coupled to the first coil, and third and further outer electrodes electrically coupled to the second coil. Each outer electrode is disposed on the surface of the element assembly. The cavity of the support substrate, the core portion of the first coil, and the core portion of the second coil overlap at least one another when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the principal surface. The magnetic portion is disposed in at least the cavity and the two core portions. Also, the support substrate is formed of sintered ferrite.
US11538618B2
A coil component includes a body; an insulating substrate embedded in the body; and a coil portion disposed on at least one surface of the insulating substrate. The insulating substrate is inclined with respect to one surface of the body, in a cross-section of the body in a width-thickness direction.
US11538606B1
An electrical cable assembly comprising a first electrical circuit comprising at least two insulated conductors, a second electrical circuit, and a conductive metallic armor encasing the first and second electrical circuits, wherein the conductive metallic armor provides a return ground path. The second electrical circuit comprising at least two control insulated conductors, a jacket surrounding the control insulated conductors, and a wrap surrounding the jacket which is surrounding the control insulated conductors.
US11538602B2
A method of designing at least one coil for producing a magnetic field is disclosed. The method comprises: i) setting a performance target comprising: a target magnetic field, and at least two of a target power, a target resistance, a target size and/or weight, a target supply voltage or current, and a target inductance; ii) determining initial design parameters for the at least one coil; iii) modelling performance with the current design parameters to determine a simulated performance against each of the performance targets; iv) calculating a penalty function based on the difference between the simulated performance and the performance targets; v) modifying the design parameters in order to reduce the penalty function; vi) iterating steps iii) to v) until the penalty function or simulated performance has met an acceptance condition.
US11538593B2
An example method includes storing healthcare information related to a patient on the cloud-based clinical information system and determining if a first local information system of a first healthcare entity includes a first existing patient record associated with the patient. The example method also includes communicating a first command from the cloud-based clinical information system to an edge device located at a facility associated with the first healthcare entity and in communication with the first local information system. The edge device is to automatically attach a first portion of the healthcare information to the first existing patient record if the first local information system includes the first existing patient record or automatically generate a first new patient record to be populated by the first portion of the healthcare information if the first local information system does not include the first existing patient record based on the first command.
US11538590B2
In order to objectively grasp a stress state of a user and to prevent postpartum depression, biological gas information is acquired via a network, where the biological gas information indicates a concentration of benzothiazole of the user and is obtained by a sensor that detects benzothiazole released from a skin surface of the user. From a memory storing information including an upper limit of a normal range of the concentration of benzothiazole per unit period, the information indicating the upper limit of the normal range is read out. When a frequency in the unit period with which the concentration of benzothiazole of the user exceeds the upper limit of the normal range is determined to have an increasing tendency based on the biological gas information obtained during a pregnancy period of the user, the information related to stress of the user is output to an information terminal of the user.
US11538586B2
A computer-implemented method for clinical decision support is provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In the method, patient information can be obtained that comprises at least one clinical condition. A graph can be searched for at least one rule matching the at least one clinical condition. The graph represents a plurality of rule sets. The rule set comprises one or more rule. The rule can be indicated with a path comprising at least one first node and a second node. The first node can indicate a clinical condition, and the second node can indicate a clinical conclusion. Then, a clinical conclusion can be determined based on the at least one path in response that the at least one path matching the at least one clinical condition is searched out.
US11538583B2
In some examples, a computer system may receive medical records for a plurality of patients. The system may generate a plurality of data representations based on the medical records for the individual patients, each data representation representing at least a therapy performed and a quantified disability status of the individual patient. The system may select a subset of the data representations for which an improvement in the quantified disability status exceeds a threshold. Further, the system may receive patient information for a first patient and may generate a first data representation from the patient information. The system may compare the first data representation with the data representations in the subset to determine at least one therapy predicted to provide an improvement in the current quantified disability of the first patient. The system may send information related to the at least one therapy to a computing device.
US11538581B2
The present disclosure provides monitoring system, device and computed-implemented method for monitoring pressure ulcers. The monitoring system and the device are configured to: capture at least one image corresponding to a user; retrieve the anamnesis data of the user; and determine a pressure ulcers condition result corresponding to the at least one image and the anamnesis data according a pressure ulcers prediction model.
US11538578B1
A method for viewing pathology images in a web browser is provided. The method includes obtaining a pathology image in a first format, converting the pathology image into a pyramid representation file comprising images grouped into a plurality of levels, wherein the images in the different plurality of levels correspond to portions of the pathology image at a same or different degrees of resolution, and wherein the images are in the first format, storing the pyramid representation file in the first memory, receiving a request from a user to view the pathology image at a specified resolution, loading one or more images from at least one of the plurality of levels corresponding to the specified resolution, wherein the one or more images are in the first format and wherein the one or more images are loaded into a web browser coupled with the first memory, converting the images into a second format such that the images' degrees of resolution are maintained, and storing the images in the second format in a second memory.
US11538571B1
Methods and systems for automating and managing efficient workflow for the viewing and analysis of diagnostic images within a healthcare enterprise network generate virtual worklists listing of healthcare data orders allocated to a specific destination. The methods and systems can provide flexible worklist viewing, system administration, and maximized diagnostic throughput.
US11538570B2
A display system for a medical suite comprises a scanning device configured to capture scanning data in the medical suite. At least one display configured to display information in an operating region of the medical suite. A controller is in communication with the scanning device and the display. The controller is configured to control the scanning device to capture identifying information of a patient. Based on the identifying information, the controller is configured to authenticate an identity of the patient. Based on the identity, the controller is configured to access a patient record for the patient. The controller is further configured to control the at least one display to display information based on the patient record.
US11538565B1
Decision support technology is provided for use with patients who may experience respiratory deterioration. A mechanism is provided to determine whether a patient is experiencing (or is likely to experience at a future time) an autoimmune inflammatory event, which may include performing a spectral analysis on a time series of nocturnal or axillary temperatures for the patient to determine a spectrum slope or intercept. The time series may be demeaned, detrended, and apodized before performing the spectral analysis. A comparison of the slope or intercept with a baseline value is used to determine an indication of the patient's likely condition or future condition regarding the autoimmune inflammatory event. Based on the comparison, an intervening action may be invoked, such as alerting a caregiver, providing a recommendation or modified treatment, or determining and recommending a tailored prescription of medicine for the patient.
US11538559B2
A method, computing platform, and computer program product are provided for monitoring a clinical trial. A computer platform receives, for the clinical trial, study design information including a set of parameters and corresponding parameter values related to travel constraints of a subject for the clinical trial. The computer platform applies the study design information and the corresponding parameter values to a trained machine learning model to calculate a predicted travel score indicative of a travel burden for the subject. When the travel score fails to satisfy a travel score threshold, the computer platform determines at least one suggestion for adjusting the travel score and the at least one suggestion is output. The computer platform outputs the predicted travel score.
US11538557B2
Systems, methods, and analytical approaches for short read sequence assembly and for the detection of insertions and deletions (indels) in a reference genome. A method suitable for software implementation is presented in which indels may be readily identified in a computationally efficient manner.
US11538550B2
A memory system includes a memory medium and a memory controller. The memory medium has a second address system that is different from a first address system of a host. The memory controller performs a control operation to access the memory medium based on a command from the host. The memory controller is configured to store a second address, corresponding to an address of a read data, when an error of the read data that is outputted from the memory medium is uncorrectable and is configured to repair a region of the memory medium, designated by the second address, when the region of the memory medium that is designated by the second address is repairable.
US11538543B2
Noise injection systems and methods for conducting power noise susceptibility tests on memory systems, including solid state drives. A noise injection system comprises a power selector to deliver a voltage at a first or second level according to a frequency level indicated by a frequency select signal; a noise signal relay to receive a frequency noise signal and to deliver a low or high frequency noise component of the frequency noise signal according to the frequency level of the frequency select signal; and an amplification assembly, responsive to the frequency select signal and which receives the first or second level voltage based on the frequency level of the frequency select signal, receives and amplifies the high frequency noise component when the frequency select signal indicates a high frequency level, and receives and amplifies the low frequency noise component when the frequency select signal indicates a low frequency level.
US11538525B2
Provided is a resetting method of a resistive random access memory (RRAM) including the following steps. A first resetting operation and a first verifying operation on the at least one resistive memory cell are performed. Whether to perform a second resetting operation according to a verifying result of the first verifying operation is determined. A second verifying operation is performed after the second resetting operation is determined to be performed and is finished. To determine whether to perform a healing resetting operation according to a verifying result of the second verifying operation, which comprises: performing the healing resetting operation when a verifying current of the second verifying operation is greater than a predetermined current, wherein a resetting voltage of the healing resetting operation is greater than a resetting voltage of the second resetting operation.
US11538516B2
A memory mat architecture is presented where a column decoder is disposed within the memory array. The location of the column decoder reduces a distance between the column decoder and a target memory cell and thus reduces a distance that a column select signal travels from the column decoder to the target memory cell. A single predecoder is disposed in a bank controller for the memory array. The column decoder may be disposed in the middle of the memory array or offset from the middle near the far edge of the memory array opposite the bank controller. The location of the column decoder enables a reduced array access time to obtain data from the target memory cell.
US11538515B2
A DRAM memory includes: a substrate; a plurality of memory banks arranged in rows and columns on the substrate, each memory bank is divided into three memory blocks in the column direction. Each memory block has a number of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. Dividing each memory bank into three memory blocks in the column direction shortens the length of the memory bank in the row direction, as each memory bank has a certain capacity, so a large drive is no longer required. In addition, the distance from the control circuit and the data transmission circuit to the corresponding memory cell in the memory array in each memory bank will be shorter too, reducing parasitic resistance and parasitic capacitance generated from the data transmission circuit. As a result, the data transmission rate and data transmission accuracy are improved. The overall power consumption is reduced.
US11538506B2
A semiconductor device includes a cell area in which a plurality of memory cells are arranged in an array structure, and a peripheral area in which circuits configured to drive the memory cells are arranged, the peripheral area being next to the cell area. The cell area is divided into a plurality of banks, and the plurality of banks comprise first banks having a base size and second banks having a size of 1/(2*n) (wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 1) of the base size. The plurality of banks are arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the semiconductor device has a shape of a rectangular chip which is elongated in the second direction.
US11538503B1
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: record a motion of a user made until a video pause instruction to pause displayed video is given; and display a still image in the video displayed at a second time point earlier than a first time point, the first time point being a time point at which the video pause instruction is received, the second time point being a threshold time point at which acceleration involved with the motion of the user first exceeds a predetermined threshold and which is a most recent threshold time point.
US11538496B2
A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.
US11538489B2
In general, techniques are described by which to correlate scene-based audio data for psychoacoustic audio coding. A device comprising a memory and one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may store a bitstream including a plurality of encoded correlated components of a soundfield represented by scene-based audio data. The one or more processors may perform psychoacoustic audio decoding with respect to one or more of the plurality of encoded correlated components to obtain a plurality of correlated components, and obtain, from the bitstream, an indication representative of how the one or more of the plurality of correlated components were reordered in the bitstream. The one or more processors may reorder, based on the indication, the plurality of correlated components to obtain a plurality of reordered components, and reconstruct, based on the plurality of reordered components, the scene-based audio data.
US11538485B2
A method watermarks speech data by using a generator to generate speech data including a watermark. The generator is trained to generate the speech data including the watermark. The training process generates first speech from the generator. The first speech data is configured to represent speech. The first speech data includes a candidate watermark. The training also produces an inconsistency message as a function of at least one difference between the first speech data and at least authentic speech data. The training further includes transforming the first speech data, including the candidate watermark, using a watermark robustness module to produce transformed speech data including a transformed candidate watermark. The transformed speech data includes a transformed candidate watermark. The training further produces a watermark-detectability message, using a watermark detection machine learning system, relating to one or more desirable watermark features of the transformed candidate watermark.
US11538474B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling the same are provided. The electronic device includes a microphone, a memory storing at least one instruction and dialogue history information, and a processor configured to be connected to the microphone and the memory and control the electronic device, in which the processor, by executing the at least one instruction, is configured to, based on a user's voice being input via the microphone, obtain response information for generating a response sentence to the user's voice, select at least one template phrase for generating the response sentence to the user's voice based on the stored dialogue history information, generate the response sentence using the response information and the at least one template phrase, and output the generated response sentence.
US11538466B2
Among other things, a developer of an interaction application for an enterprise can create items of content to be provided to an assistant platform for use in responses to requests of end-users. The developer can deploy the interaction application using defined items of content and an available general interaction model including intents and sample utterances having slots. The developer can deploy the interaction application without requiring the developer to formulate any of the intents, sample utterances, or slots of the general interaction model.
US11538464B2
The disclosure includes using dilation of speech content from a separated audio input for speech recognition. An audio input from a speaker and predicted changes for the audio input based on an external noise are received at a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network). In the CNN, diarization is applied to the audio input to predict how a dilation of speech content from the speaker changes the audio input to generate a CNN output. A resulting dilation is determined from the CNN output. A word error rate is determined for the dilated CNN output to determine an accuracy for speech to text outputs. An adjustment parameter is set to change a range of the dilation based on the word error rate, and the resulting dilation of the CNN output is adjusted based on the adjustment parameter to reduce the word error rate.
US11538461B1
Some implementations include methods for detecting missing subtitles associated with a media presentation and may include receiving an audio component and a subtitle component associated with a media presentation, the audio component including an audio sequence, the audio sequence divided into a plurality of audio segments; evaluating the plurality of audio segments using a combination of a recurrent neural network and a convolutional neural network to identify refined speech segments associated with the audio sequence, the recurrent neural network trained based on a plurality of languages, the convolutional neural network trained based on a plurality of categories of sound; determining timestamps associated with the identified refined speech segments; and determining missing subtitles based on the timestamps associated with the identified refined speech segments and timestamps associated with subtitles included in the subtitle component.
US11538458B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus capable of controlling voice recognition. The electronic apparatus increases a score of a category corresponding to a word included in user's utterance in a database when the instruction included in the user's utterance is present in the database. The electronic apparatus checks whether the score of the category corresponding to the word is equal to or greater than a preset value when the instruction is not present in the database. The electronic apparatus registers the instruction in the database so that the instruction is included in the category corresponding to the word when the score is equal to or greater than the preset value as the check result.
US11538453B2
An ultrasound interface element (10) is for establishing interface with an incident tissue surface (32) for the purpose of transfer of ultrasound waves. An ultrasound-transmissive active layer (14) is provided comprising one or more responsive material elements (16) deformable in response to an electromagnetic stimulus. The one or more elements are controlled to deform in a manner such as to progressively establish with the tissue surface (32) an outwardly expanding interface, starting from an initial point or line of contact and spreading outwards to a wider area.
US11538451B2
A playback device is configured to receive, via a network interface, a source stream of audio including first and second channel streams of audio, and to produce, via respective first and second speaker drivers, a first channel audio output and a second channel audio output. The playback device is also configured to receive, via one or more microphones, a captured stream of audio including first and second portions corresponding to the respective first and second channel audio outputs. The playback device is also configured to combine at least the first channel stream of audio and the second channel stream of audio into a compound audio signal and perform acoustic echo cancellation on the compound audio signal and thereby produce an acoustic echo cancellation output, then to apply the acoustic echo cancellation output to the captured stream of audio and thereby increase a signal-to noise ratio of the captured stream of audio.
US11538449B2
An electronic percussion instrument, a stroke detection device, and a stroke detection method which can improve stroke detection accuracy are provided. A thickness dimension (L2) of an upper cover part (5b1) is approximately constant from the inner circumferential side to the outer circumferential side in a region facing the upper surface of an outer circumferential part (4b3) of the frame bow part (4b) (a concave part formed according to a level difference between a bent part (4b2) and the outer circumferential part (4b3)). Accordingly, the entire upper cover part (5b1) is easily deformed such that it is bent when struck, and thus a protrusion part (5b3) can be securely pressed to an edge sensor (7b) according to deformation of the upper cover part (5b1). Therefore, the accuracy of detection of a stroke applied to the upper cover part (5b1) can be improved.
US11538445B1
A stringed instrument has a stringed instrument neck that is removably attached to a stringed instrument body. A back plate is attached to a recess in a back side of the stringed instrument body. A latching mechanism can be mechanically affixed to the back plate. A latch pin retainer of the latching mechanism can include a slot formed therein. A latch pin can extend through the slot of the latch pin retainer, where the latch pin can be resiliently urged into a first position, with a lip of the latch pin operable to be secured against a latch pin catch disposed in the stringed instrument neck. A button is operable to move the latch pin into a second position with the lip disengaged from the latch pin catch, permitting separation of the stringed instrument neck from the stringed instrument body. A headstock can further be removably attached to the neck.
US11538444B2
Provided is a keyboard apparatus including: a key, displaced about a key axis and having a cavity opening downward formed therein; and a guide member, having a guide inserted into the cavity of the key and guiding displacement of the key by contact between a guided surface of the key and the guide. The key includes a stopper formed within the cavity. The stopper includes a base connected to the key and extending downward, and a hook formed on a lower end side of the base and displaced in a position vertically side by side with the key axis. The guide includes a recess formed on a rear surface of the guide, and the hook is inserted into the recess. The hook is formed in a position overlapping the guided surface or a position vertically side by side with the guided surface in a left-right view of the key.
US11538440B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for controlling brightness of a screen widget, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining display data; determining a widget area of the screen widget based on the display data, in which the screen widget is configured to display multimedia information in a form of a small window on the display screen; and controlling a brightness of the widget area to be adjusted to a target brightness.
US11538421B2
A display device includes display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a data driver configured to generate data voltages based on output image data, and to provide the data voltages to the plurality of pixels; and a controller configured to receive input image data and input frequency information from a host processor, and to provide the output image data to the data driver, wherein the controller includes an adaptive refresh block configured to: determine a target frequency by analyzing the input image data; determine a masking ratio based on an input frequency represented by the input frequency information and the target frequency; and selectively output the input image data as the output image data by performing a masking operation on the input image data with the masking ratio.
US11538406B2
The present application provides a display substrate, a display panel and a spliced screen, and belongs to the field of display technology. The display substrate in the present application is divided into display and boding regions, and includes a base substrate, and a pixel driving circuit on the base substrate and corresponding to the display region. The display substrate further includes an interlayer insulating layer and a signal lead-in wire on the base substrate. The signal lead-in wire at least includes a first signal lead-in sub-wire on a side of the interlayer insulating layer away from the base substrate. The first signal lead-in sub-wire is connected to a first connection pad in the bonding region for introducing an external signal to the pixel driving circuit. The interlayer insulating layer includes sub-insulating layers defining a multi-stepped structure at a position where the display region is adjacent to the bonding region.
US11538405B2
The pixel driving circuit includes a current control circuit and a gating circuit. The current control circuit is configured to transmit a driving current signal to an element to be driven. The gating circuit is configured to transmit a second voltage signal from a second voltage signal terminal to the element to be driven such that the element to be driven continuously emits light or transmit a third voltage signal from a third voltage signal terminal to the element to be driven such that the element to be driven intermittently emits light, under the control of a scan signal from a scan signal terminal, a reset signal from a reset signal terminal and a second data signal from a second data signal terminal.
US11538400B2
A light-emitting diode display and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed. The light-emitting diode display includes a driving backplane and a plurality of pixel units. Each of the plurality of pixel units includes at least one light-emitting diode and a package substrate. The top surface of the package substrate has at least one conductive position and at least one conductive vacant position corresponding to the at least one conductive position. The conductive position is provided with the light-emitting diode. The conductive position is electrically connected to the light-emitting diode. The bottom surface of the package substrate of each pixel unit is arranged on the driving backplane. The driving backplane is electrically connected to the light-emitting diode and the corresponding conductive vacant position of each pixel unit thereon.
US11538392B2
Disclosed are a display substrate, a method for driving the same, a display device, and a fine metal mask, and a display area of the display substrate includes a first display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a high density, and a second display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a low density.
US11538387B1
Disclosed is a power module which includes a first power module that generates a first output current based on a first input voltage, a second power module that generates a second output voltage based on a second input voltage, generates a second output current based on the second output voltage, and generates the second output current when a level of the first input voltage is smaller than a level of a reference voltage, and a voltage controller that generates a feedback signal for regulating at least one of the level of the first input voltage and a level of the second input voltage based on current information about a current flowing in the power module.
US11538383B2
A driving method of a display panel is provided. The driving method of the display panel includes: within one frame, in a charging period of sub-pixels electrically connected to an ith scan line, each multiplexing circuit charging N data lines electrically connected to the multiplexing circuit in a charging sequence of a first preset sequence; in a charging period of sub-pixels electrically connected to a jth scan line, each multiplexing circuit charging the N data lines electrically connected to the multiplexing circuit in a charging sequence of a second preset sequence; the second preset sequence is different from the first preset sequence, and charging rankings of each data line electrically connected to each multiplexing circuit in at least two charging sequences are different, where N is an integer and N≥2, and i and j are positive integers and j≠i.
US11538381B2
Provided are a gate drive unit, a gate drive circuit, a drive method and a display apparatus. The gate drive unit includes an input control module, an input module, a potential pull-down module, a first output module, a second output module, an isolation module, a first node and a second node, wherein the input control module controls operation of the input module under action of a second input signal and a first clock signal; the input module transmits a second clock signal to the second node under control of the input control module; the potential pull-down module pulls down a potential of the second node under action of a potential of the first node; the first output module outputs a first output signal under action of the potential of the first node, the potential of the second node and the first clock signal.
US11538374B2
A power voltage generator includes a voltage sensor and a power controller. The voltage sensor is configured to sense a first voltage in a first charge sharing period of a gate clock signal and a second voltage in a second charge sharing period of the gate clock signal. The power breaker is configured to disconnect a power based on the first voltage and the second voltage.
US11538371B2
A display apparatus and an electronic device relating to the field of display technologies are provided. The display apparatus includes: a first housing, one end of which includes an opening; a second housing slidably connected to the first housing and configured to slide out of a cavity of the first housing via the opening of the first housing; a flexible display screen configured to slide out of the cavity of the first housing along with the second housing when the second housing slides out of the cavity of the first housing; and at least one elastic assembly configured to provide an elastic force to the second housing when the second housing slides out of the cavity of the first housing so that a second lateral outer surface is kept flush with the first lateral outer surface.
US11538365B2
The present disclosure relate to a display module, comprising: a flexible panel, wherein bumps are formed along two opposing sides of the flexible panel respectively, and a size of the bumps in a thickness direction of the flexible panel is larger than a thickness of the flexible panel; two curled slide rails arranged opposite to and in parallel with each other, wherein each slide rail has a groove for receiving the bump that extends along a curling direction of the slide rail, and for each groove, a groove entry for entering the groove is formed at one end of a respective slide rail; the slide rails and a space therebetween form a receiving rail for receiving the flexible panel; each of the bumps is able to enter a respective groove of the slide rail through the groove entry of the groove and move along the groove where the bump resides.
US11538361B1
A rotational device is provided that enables a user to tangibly experience movement of a three-dimensional object in a four dimensional space. The rotational device includes an inner cubic frame assembly rotatably supported within an outer frame. The outer frame is formed from a series of wires connected at hubs to enable the user to view the movement of the inner cubic frame. A rotation mechanism may be provided to allow a user to rotate the inner cubic frame within the outer frame. A fixed internal cubic frame is mounted within the outer frame to support the inner cubic frame assembly. The inner cubic frame assembly includes an inner cubic frame and a sphere supported within the inner cubic frame. Reference points or nodes are provided on the inner cubic frame to provided visually traceable reference points as the inner cubic frame rotates within the outer frame and fixed internal cubic frame.
US11538346B2
A flight management assembly of an aircraft and method of monitoring the flight management assembly. The assembly includes two flight management systems, and a monitoring and backup unit, each of the flight management systems configured for generating data including a trajectory and a prediction of a parameter of the aircraft, one of the flight management systems being active and the other being passive, the monitoring and backup unit configured for carrying out monitoring of at least one of the items of data generated by the active flight management system in order to verify if the item of data is valid, the flight management assembly carrying out, in case of validation of the monitored item of data, a synchronization of the monitoring and backup unit and of the passive flight management system, with data called synchronization data of the active flight management system, namely a flight plan and/or a flight trajectory.
US11538345B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable storage media for airspace management within an airspace region at a node of a peer to peer network having a plurality of nodes and maintaining a blockchain containing a current deconflicted flight schedule for the airspace region. One method includes receiving requests for airspace reservations, each including flight plan data, from other nodes over the peer to peer network, compiling the flight plan data to identify conflicts between the requests and the current deconflicted flight schedule, validating the flight plan data of the requests that do not conflict with the current deconflicted flight schedule to generate validated airspace reservations, creating a block containing the validated airspace reservations and interlinking the block with the blockchain such that the blockchain contains a new deconflicted flight schedule for the airspace region for broadcast to the other nodes over the peer to peer network.
US11538344B2
An anomaly handling method using a roadside device is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a vehicle, an anomaly detection notification, which includes level information indicating a level affecting safety, and a location of the vehicle. The method also includes obtaining a location of the roadside device and determining whether a distance between the location of the vehicle and the location of the roadside device is within a predetermined range. When the distance is within the predetermined range and is shorter than a first predetermined distance, not changing the level information and transmitting the received anomaly detection notification externally from the one vehicle. When the distance is within the predetermined range and is longer than or equal to the first predetermined distance, changing to decrement a level indicated by the level information, and transmitting changed anomaly detection notification externally from the one vehicle.
US11538343B2
An example operation includes one or more of receiving, via a transport, a transport audio, classifying, via the transport, a subset of the transport audio as an atypical transport audio, determining, via the transport, a possible source location of the atypical transport audio, transmitting, via the transport, the atypical transport audio and the possible source location to a server, determining, via the server, a set of potential causes of the atypical transport audio and receiving, via the transport, the set of potential causes of the atypical transport audio.
US11538336B1
This application discloses an object control system (OCS) to control navigation of a moving vehicle when exiting from its own road or freeway to a new road or freeway. The new road or freeway is an underpass or overpass and have no physical junction with the moving vehicle's own road or freeway. The moving vehicles obtains its navigation information data from the IoT network it is registered with and a plurality of stationary objects near and in vicinity of an exit. The stationary objects during the time slots assigned to them by OCS transmit variety of information data that assist moving vehicle navigating to the right lane and exit. These stationary objects also provide an operation information data that is used in the new road or freeway in case the vehicle exits to a road or freeway that belongs to a new cell with different operation information data.
US11538331B2
A mobile access device includes a memory, a transceiver and a control module. The memory is configured to store incident information. The transceiver is configured to report the incident information to a relay station. The transceiver is at least one of ultra-wideband enabled or personal area network enabled. The control module is configured to: execute an emergency alerting application; transmit an alert signal from the mobile access device to the relay station indicating an incident has occurred; collect the incident information including at least one of (i) capturing audio or video of the incident, or (ii) receiving a descriptive comments from a user of the mobile access device; generate a report message including the incident information; and perform countermeasures including sending the report message to the relay station. At least one of the alert signal or the report message includes a unique signal identifier.
US11538329B2
Among other things, systems to encourage compliance with hand washing procedures can include: an infrared emitter that projects a first infrared beam with a transverse cross-section having a first axis and a second axis that is shorter than the first axis, the transverse cross-section having a maximum length along the first axis, the infrared emitter modulating the first infrared beam to transmit a first identification signal; wherein the infrared emitter projecting the first infrared beam is placed such that the first axis of the transverse cross-section of the first infrared beam is substantially parallel to a boundary.
US11538325B2
In a system and method for detecting carbon dioxide in an enclosed volume, a CO2 detection system is triggered to awaken from a deep sleep state. Once awake, the system queries system sensors to determine the current system parameters, including current CO2 level and temperature. Current and expected CO2 decay rates are calculated, and the system determines whether the current CO2 decay rate is within an expected normal range for an unoccupied enclosed volume. If the volume is static, i.e., not moving, and the CO2 rate is rising and the temperature is rising, a series of alerts are sent to contacts previously set up by the user. If the alerts are not cleared by a user, emergency management personnel are notified.
US11538318B2
In some embodiments, a security device comprises a context information intake device, a sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to activate the context information intake device when the sensor detects an activation event initiated by an object such that the context information intake device records context information associated with the object; and perform a context-aware cryptographic process to cryptographically authenticate the object using attribute-based access control based on the recorded context information associated with the object.
US11538308B2
A method of determining rewards due to a player playing a regulated gaming machine may comprise providing a game configured such that a plurality of games assets within the game are configured as a corresponding plurality of Wagering Opportunities, the game being further configured to have an overall minimum return to player (RTP) and an overall maximum RTP. Upon receiving a player interaction with a Wagering Opportunity of the plurality of Wagering Opportunities, the game may perform either a) generating a Wagering Event using the accepted funds, a random number and an accessed first payout schedule that defines a first RTP when the player interaction with the Wagering Opportunity causes a first result, the first RTP being at least as great as the overall minimum RTP; or b) generating a Wagering Event using the accepted funds, the random number and an accessed second payout schedule that defines a second RTP when the player interaction with the Wagering Opportunity causes a second result, the second RTP being greater than the first RTP. The player may then be rewarded an amount determined by the random number and the accessed first payout schedule or second payout schedule.
US11538293B2
One example method includes collecting data concerning operation of a vehicle, and the collecting is performed by one or more sensors of the vehicle, storing the data in the data storage locally at the vehicle, automatically caching the stored data in the cache memory locally at the vehicle, and uploading the cached data to a node over a THz wireless link. The stored data may be automatically cached according to requirements specified in a data model, and the cached data may be prioritized for uploading according to requirements specified in the data model.
US11538287B2
An apparatus for managing vehicle data collection including a remote access execution circuit, a property translation circuit, a parameter acquisition circuit, a remote operation circuit, and a parameter conditioning circuit. The remote access execution circuit interprets a remote access request value including a requested vehicle property and/or a vehicle function value. The property translation circuit determines: a property request value responsive to the requested vehicle property; and/or an actuator command value responsive to the vehicle function value. The parameter acquisition circuit interprets vehicle parameter values responsive to the property request value. The remote operation circuit provides the actuator command value to a vehicle network zone endpoint. The parameter conditioning circuit generates, responsive to the property request value, vehicle property data from the vehicle parameter values. The vehicle property data corresponds to the requested vehicle property. The remote access execution circuit transmits the vehicle property data to the requesting device.
US11538285B2
A method for franking mail items fed to a franking machine. The mail items are drawn from the underside of a stack for separation or are fed individually on a conveying section upstream of the franking machine to a printing unit for franking, after franking, are discharged in the opposite direction from the printing unit. The mail items are fed via a diverter section to the conveying section, after franking, are conveyed via the diverter section which is switched over to change the conveying direction into a depositing apparatus below the diverter section. The mail items are guided in the opening region of the franking machine into the printing position and are returned out of the printing position. The printing position of a mail item fed to the printing unit is determined by a print head movement-controlled from a readiness position pursuant to the format length of the mail item.
US11538282B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to representing recorded hand motion. One example provides a computing device comprising a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive a recorded representation of hand motion determined relative to a virtual model aligned to a first instance of an object, receive image data corresponding to an environment, and recognize a second instance of the object in the environment. The instructions are further executable to align the virtual model to the second instance of the object, and output a parametric representation of hand motion for display relative to the virtual model as aligned to the second instance of the object, such that the parametric representation is spatially consistent with the recorded representation of hand motion relative to the virtual model as aligned to the first instance of the object.
US11538270B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate, an array layer located at one side of the base substrate, a display layer located at one side of the array layer facing away from the base substrate, a color filter layer located at one side of the display layer facing away from the array layer, a touch layer located between the color filter layer and the display layer, a second light-shielding layer located at one side of the display layer facing away from the color filter layer and a light-sensing sensor layer. The color filter layer includes a first light-shielding layer and color resists, the first light-shielding layer includes multiple first imaging pin-holes; the second light-shielding layer includes multiple second imaging pin-holes corresponding to the first imaging pin-holes. The light-sensing sensor layer is used for detecting images generated via the second imaging pin-holes.
US11538265B2
An orientation tag provides orientation information and, by affixing the orientation tag to an object, orientation information of the object. The orientation tag displays different orientation information based on viewing the orientation tag at different angles. In particular, the orientation tag displays an angle and direction that the orientation tag is rotated about a horizontal axis relative to a viewer, and an angle and direction that the orientation tag is rotated about a vertical axis relative to the viewer. Viewing the orientation tag enables determining an angle and direction (e.g., depth information) that the orientation tag is rotated about a depth axis relative to the viewer. The orientation information and the depth information facilitate determining the orientation of the orientation tag in three dimensions. An output device outputs a user interactive experience based on the orientation information and the depth information provided by the orientation tag.
US11538264B2
A document scanner includes an enclosure with a scanning area. A transparent platform in the scanning area allows a user to position a document for authentication. A top camera takes a picture of the top of the document and a bottom camera takes a picture of the bottom under multiple light conditions including UV, IR, and white light. Mirrors reduce the enclosure size and multiple computers within the enclosure share work to process image data and determine document type. Types are searched in order based historically detected types. Barcode data is decoded and image samples are filtered as one of the computers finds a match. Security features are checked for the detected type and fake variants of the detected type are checked. Card information and formatting is validated and face data captured from a face camera and as shown on the document are matched against a database of banned users.
US11538252B2
In step S11, a color image CIMG is acquired. In step S12, a distance image DIMG is acquired. In step S13, the color image CIMG is projected onto the distance image DIMG. An alignment of the color image CIMG and the distance image DIMG is performed prior to the projection of the color image CIMG. In step S14, it is determined whether or not a basic condition is satisfied. In S15, it is determined whether or not a special condition is satisfied. If a judgement result of the steps S14 or S15 is positive, then in step S16 a first data point and a second data point on the distance image DIMG are associated. If bot of the judgement results of steps S14 and S15 are negative, data points are not associated in step S17.
US11538247B2
The present invention discloses a method and a system for monitoring manufacturing operation workflow using Structural Similarity (SSIM) index based activity detection. The method comprising receiving video data corresponding to a manufacturing operation activity, extracting a plurality of video frames from the video data, measuring SSIM index for each video frame of the plurality of video frames with respect to next consecutive video frame of the plurality of video frames, comparing the SSIM index of the each video frame with the SSIM index of next consecutive video frame of the plurality of video frames to identify one or more local maxima, and determining at least one manufacturing operation activity based on the one or more local maxima using machine learning technique.
US11538238B2
Systems and methods for classifying at least a portion of an image as being textured or textureless are presented. The system receives an image generated by an image capture device, wherein the image represents one or more objects in a field of view of the image capture device. The system generates one or more bitmaps based on at least one image portion of the image. The one or more bitmaps describe whether one or more features for feature detection are present in the at least one image portion, or describe whether one or more visual features for feature detection are present in the at least one image portion, or describe whether there is variation in intensity across the at least one image portion. The system determines whether to classify the at least one image portion as textured or textureless based on the one or more bitmaps.
US11538236B2
Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for processing an untrusted data set to automatically determine which data points there are poisonous. A neural network is trained network using potentially poisoned training data. Each of the training data points is classified using the network to retain the activations of at least one hidden layer, and segment those activations by the label of corresponding training data. Clustering is applied to the retained activations of each segment, and a clustering assessment is conducted to remove an identified cluster from the data set, form a new training set, and train a second neural model with the new training set. The removed cluster and corresponding data are applied to the trained second neural model to analyze and classify data in the removed cluster as either legitimate or poisonous.
US11538232B2
A method for picture processing is described. A first tracking area is obtained. A second tracking area is also obtained. The method includes beginning to track the first tracking area and the second tracking area. Picture processing is performed once a portion of the first tracking area overlapping the second tracking area passes a threshold.
US11538231B2
In various examples, sensor data may be adjusted to represent a virtual field of view different from an actual field of view of the sensor, and the sensor data—with or without virtual adjustment—may be applied to a stereographic projection algorithm to generate a projected image. The projected image may then be applied to a machine learning model—such as a deep neural network (DNN)—to detect and/or classify features or objects represented therein.
US11538227B2
An augmented reality display system can include a partially transparent eyepiece, an ambient light sensor, and an image input device. The image input device can include a light source and a spatial light modulator. The system can also include a controller that determines that no virtual content is being displayed to the user and compares the ambient light to display light to determine if a light source shutoff criterion is satisfied. If the light source shutoff criterion is satisfied, the controller can turn off the light source.
US11538221B2
A method to process tiles of a screen space includes determining a tile-processing order for tiles of a first batch of primitives based on a tile-processing order for a second batch of primitives in which the second batch of primitives are processed prior to the first batch of primitives. The tiles of the first batch of primitives are processed based on the tile-processing order determined for the tiles of the first batch of primitives. The tile-processing order is updated as tiles of the first batch of primitives are pushed to a backend processing portion of a graphics processing unit. In one embodiment, determining the tile-processing order for the tiles of the first batch of primitives include arranging the tiles of the first batch of primitives that have a same screen-space as tiles of the second batch of primitives based on a most-recently-processed-tile-to-a-least-recently-processed tile order of the second batch of primitives.
US11538212B2
A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for expressing an emotion in a conversation message using a gesture are provided. A message expression method may include: receiving a message that is entered in a message input area of a chatroom; obtaining animation information based on an input applied to the message in the message input area; modifying the message based on the animation information; and displaying the modified message in a chat view area of the chatroom in response to receiving a message send request.
US11538209B2
An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes a terminal apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. In the information processing apparatus, first image data are stored in a first storage device. Second image data are received from the terminal apparatus. Third image data representing a third image is generated for displaying a part of a second image represented by second image data in a region inside or outside a shape of an element included in a first image represented by the first image data. The third image data are output to an output apparatus. In the terminal apparatus, an input is received from a user. The second image data are stored in a second storage device. The second image data are sent to the information processing apparatus.
US11538206B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for using electronic diffusers to implement message indicators are described. A segment of a diffuser attached to an electronic device is configured to indicate an informational message in response to signals that result in a change to an optical property. A set of information to be displayed using the segment is determined, and a signal is transmitted to the segment to display the information.
US11538188B1
A method and apparatus for calibrating a projection axis orientation for an optical projector associated with a vehicle inspection or service system so as to enable projection of indicia onto selected spatial locations within a vehicle service area. Projector axis orientations required for the projection of visible indicia onto reference targets disposed at determinable locations within a common coordinate system of the vehicle service area are utilized to establish a relationship utilized to mathematically transform between selected spatial coordinate locations for projected indicia and corresponding orientations of the projection axis, facilitating projection of the visible indicia to additional spatial coordinate locations within the common coordinate system.
US11538184B2
An example system includes a pose engine to determine a pose of a camera based on an environmental measurement. The system also includes a transform engine to determine a transform to apply to frames captured by the camera based on the pose of the camera. The system includes a correction engine to apply the transform to the frames captured by the camera in substantially real-time with capturing of the frames.
US11538182B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for automatic localisation of static objects in an urban environment. More particularly, the present invention relates to the use of noisy 2-Dimensional (2D) image data to identify and determine 3-Dimensional (3D) positions of objects in large scale urban or city environments. Aspects and/or embodiments seek to provide a method, system, and vehicle for automatically locating static 3D objects in urban environments by using a voting-based triangulation technique. Aspects and/or embodiments also provide a method for updating map data after automatically new 3D static objects in an environment.
US11538180B2
A method for determining residue length within a field includes receiving, with a computing system, a captured image depicting an imaged portion of the field from one or more imaging devices. Furthermore, the method includes determining, with the computing system, an image gradient orientation at each of a plurality of pixels within the captured image. Additionally, the method includes identifying, with the computing system, a residue piece present within the image portion of the field based at least in part on the determined image gradient orientations. Moreover, the method includes determining, with the computing system, a length of the identified residue piece.
US11538173B1
Present embodiments pertain to systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing and reporting the movements in mechanical structures, inanimate physical structures, machinery, and machine components, including automatically detecting aliased frequencies of a component on the structure which exhibits frequencies higher than the maximum frequency of the FFT spectrum calculated from the acquired data. To automatically detect the presence of aliased frequencies, a second virtually identical recording is acquired using a slightly different sampling rate and this provides the basis for detecting frequencies which are greater than the Nyquist sampling rate of the video recording and calculating the true frequency value of the aliased peaks in the frequency spectrum.
US11538169B2
The present invention relates to an image processing device and a method of framing changes and movements in a video image divided into N×N blocks of pixel positions. The method comprises calculating a first bitmap of the video image by a DCT transform on each of the N×N blocks of pixel positions, assigning a first binary value to the pixel positions of the N×N blocks when more than an amount of change, and a second binary value to the pixel positions of the N×N blocks when less than an amount of change. Calculating a third bitmap by an OR operation between a number of bitmaps representing past time frames of the video image, calculating a fourth bitmap by performing a dilation process of the third bitmap representing the current time frame of the video image, and creating one or more frames identifying area of changes and movements in the video image based on detecting BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) in the fourth bitmaps.
US11538167B2
An image processing method is provided that automatically calculates Body Surface Area (BSA) score using machine learning techniques. A Felzenszwalb image segmentation algorithm is used to define proposed regions in each of a plurality of training set images. The training set images are oversegmented, and then each of the proposed regions in each of the plurality of oversegmented training set images are manually classified as being a lesion or a non-lesion. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is then trained using the manually classified proposed regions in each of the plurality of training set images. The trained CNN is then used on test images to calculate BSA scores.
US11538153B2
A computational methodology for noninvasively assessing the severity of arterial stenosis and predicting the therapeutic outcome of interventional treatment for stenosis assessed as severe, mild, or in between based on patient's CT/MRI imaging data, ultrasound test data, and physio-pathological material properties. The method includes two major parts. The steps in the first part comprise receiving medical data, segmenting the anatomical three-dimensional geometry of the stenosed artery, setting up boundary conditions at inlet and outlets using the ultrasound velocity waveforms together with 3-element WinKessel model, and computing pulsatile pressure waveforms proximal and distal to the existing stenosis for TPI. The steps in the second part comprise of varying the VR of the stenosis virtually from 0% to 95% with an increment of 5%, computing TPI for each level of VR, establishing the functional relation between TPI and VR, identifying the two thresholds of VRmild and VRsevere on TPI-VR curve, determining the severity of the existing stenosis by comparing VRexisting with VRmild and VRsevere concurrently and predicting the outcome of the lesion (TPI) improvement after an interventional treatment such as stenting for the existing stenosis.
US11538152B2
A method is for providing an aggregate algorithm for processing medical data. In an embodiment, a multitude of local algorithms are trained by machine learning. The training of each respective local algorithm is performed on a respective local system using respective local training data. A respective algorithm dataset concerning the respective local algorithm is transferred to an aggregating system that generates the aggregate algorithm based on the algorithm datasets.
US11538149B2
Provided is a spot detection device including an imager configured to capture a display panel displaying a first image of a first grayscale and a second image of a second grayscale different from the first grayscale and generate image data, and a spot detector configured to receive the image data from the imager in order to detect a spot. The image data includes first image data obtained by capturing the first image, second image data obtained by capturing the second image, and a plurality of third image data obtained by capturing portions of the first image.
US11538148B2
A system for validating installation correctness of a component in a test assembly includes a housing having a platform including a tiered surface. The tiered surface forms an abutment surface configured as a stop against which a test assembly is abutted. A plurality of cameras is positioned to capture different views of the test assembly. A processing device is configured to execute instructions to capture an image from each of the plurality of cameras of the test assembly that includes a plurality of components. Each of the plurality of components is analyzed within each image of the plurality of images. A matching score is determined and an indication of whether the plurality of components was correctly installed in the test assembly is generated.
US11538147B2
A method and apparatus related to developing electromagnetic emission and power models for a target device using photonic emissions thereof are provided. Data of photonic emissions of a target device during a first period of time with the target device in one or more modes is recorded. Data of electromagnetic emissions of the target device during the first period of time with the target device in the one or more modes is also recorded. The recorded data of the photonic emissions and the recorded data of the electromagnetic emissions are correlated to establish one or more electromagnetic emission models for the target device. The one or more electromagnetic emission models enable predictive analysis of emissions by the target device.
US11538145B2
A gas monitoring image recording device, a gas monitoring image recording method, and a gas monitoring image recording program according to the present invention involve: acquiring gas monitoring image data including a plurality of time-series images for use in monitoring a gas leak; extracting a leakage candidate area as a candidate for a gas leak based on the gas monitoring image data acquired; extracting predetermined features related to the gas leak in response to extracting the leakage candidate area; and causing a storage unit to store the features extracted in association with the gas monitoring image data from which the leakage candidate area has been extracted.
US11538144B2
The invention relates to a method for determining errors in at least one parameter of the object derived from a digital representation of an object, wherein the digital representation comprises a large number of pixels arranged on a grid. At least one item of image information that quantifies a material-specific value of the object at the position of the pixel is assigned to a pixel. The image information results from a metrological mapping of the object, and is overlaid with statistical noise. As a result of the metrological mapping of the object, the image information of a first pixel is correlated to the image information of pixels within a surroundings of the first pixel defined by a correlation length of the image.
US11538143B2
Systems and methods for detecting anomaly in video data are provided. The system includes a generator that receives past video frames and extracts spatio-temporal features of the past video frames and generates frames. The generator includes fully convolutional transformer based generative adversarial networks (FCT-GANs). The system includes an image discriminator that discriminates generated frames and real frames. The system also includes a video discriminator that discriminates generated video and real video. The generator trains a fully convolutional transformer network (FCTN) model and determines an anomaly score of at least one test video based on a prediction residual map from the FCTN model.
US11538129B2
A device includes memory and a processor. The device receives biometric information. The device receives location information. The device analyzes the received biometric information with stored biometric information. The device analyzes the received location information with stored location information. The device determines whether the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information. The device determines whether the received location information matches the stored location information. The device sends an electronic communication that indicates whether the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information and whether the received local information matches stored geographic location that is not within a particular distance of another geographic location.
US11538122B1
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing an electronic document processing system, an electronic document generation mechanism, an encrypted digital certificate generator, a tool for coordinating the processing of electronic documents, a packaging mechanism for finalizing and authenticating electronic documents, a tracking log for recording relevant electronic document information, and a transferring protocol for transferring the ownership of electronic documents. The present disclosure also is directed to an electronic authentication system including an electronic document authentication watermark seal or signature line for confirming a document's signing within the view. The present disclosure also is directed to a system, software program, and method for generating electronic documents, coordinating the signing of electronic documents, digitally authenticating and certifying electronic documents, and organizing electronic documents for retrieval and transfer in a mortgage closing and/or other financial services application.
US11538121B2
Various techniques for facilitating communication with and across a network platform and one or more user computing devices are described. For example, these techniques may include (i) generating preference data based on capturing and analyzing user interactions with respect to a set of training photographs, (ii) generating, verifying, and processing search requests to allow users to identify other users and/or target objects on the network platform, and (iii) generating, verifying, and processing link requests to allow users to create links to or associations with other users and/or target objects on the network platform, among others.
US11538120B2
An apparatus for paying a wireless charging fee for an electric vehicle while being driven may include: an electric power receiver configured to perform wireless charging of an electric vehicle; a toll fee payment processor configured to perform a fee collection processing with respect to the electric vehicle in response to a toll fee payment request from a gantry; and a controller configured to generate information on an accumulated charging amount of the electric vehicle before the electric vehicle passes through the gantry in response to the toll fee payment request from the gantry and transmit the information on the accumulated charging amount to the toll fee payment processor.
US11538119B2
The disclosure relates to identifying a user consuming content so that the user can share information on a social network communication service. Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting reactions to the content and transmitting information to a social networking service associated with the user.
US11538105B2
Provided is a process, including for lending, with a smart contract executable by a decentralized computing platform, money to a borrower. The process includes securing, with the smart contract, the loan by obtaining control of cryptocurrency of the borrower and monitoring, via the smart contract, whether the cryptocurrency satisfies a loan-to-value threshold. In response to the monitoring, an amount of cryptocurrency secured with the loan can be adjusted.
US11538104B2
Exemplary embodiments may provide an online automobile purchasing experience for a customer. The experience may be provided by, or associated with, a financial institution. The automobile buying experience may be accessible to both customers of the financial institution as well as non-customers. Customers of the financial institution may receive added benefits during and after the experience. Non-customers may have the opportunity to become a customer of the financial institution as part of the experience.
US11538103B1
A system includes one or more processors configured to receive income-related data, receive an input comprising an image that corresponds to a desired acquisition, access at least one database to identify a cost of the desired acquisition, generate a first purchase plan for the desired acquisition based on the income-related data and the cost, graphically augment the image to generate a graphically-augmented version of the image comprising at least a portion of the image and the purchase plan, and display the graphically-augmented version of the image on a device.
US11538095B2
A virtual marketplace may offer end users the ability to acquire articles (including tools and metadata objects) that are compatible with an enterprise operating system platform. The virtual marketplace may determine one or more articles that are implemented (or installed) on the enterprise operating system platform. The enterprise operating system platform may be provided to the end user by an operator of the marketplace. The articles including articles that may be used for evaluating a performance of an entity. The virtual marketplace may further ascertain data that are processed or generated by the articles that are implemented on the enterprise operating system platform. The virtual marketplace may additionally determine functionalities that are used or provided by the articles. Accordingly, the virtual marketplace may provide a recommendation of associated articles from the virtual marketplace that have at least one dependency relationship with the articles.
US11538088B2
A computer device determines requirements of a particular device/service by analyzing designated electronic communications. The computer device then monitors performance of the device/service over a period of time to determine performance of the device/service in meeting those derived requirements. An output regarding the performance of the device/service in meeting those requirements is then generated.
US11538087B2
A system or method is provided that includes receiving a pet image. The pet image may depict a pet and may be received from a user device. The system or method may further analyze the pet image with a pet image recognition model to determine one or more pet characteristics of the pet. In certain embodiments, analyzing the pet image may further include identifying one or more image characteristics of the pet image. The system or method may further analyze the pet characteristics with a pet food recommendation model to generate a pet food recommendation for the pet.
US11538084B2
Examples described herein relate to a system consistent with the disclosure. For instance, the system may comprise a data lake including information relating to an in-store activity of a customer and an online activity of the customer, a processing resource, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by the processing resource to identify the in-store activity and the online activity of the customer, aggregate and store the in-store activity and the online activity of the customer in the data lake, reduce an amount of products in a product portfolio, compare purchases including in-store purchases and online purchases, and recommend a product of the plurality of products based on the comparison.
US11538075B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for event-based communication and messaging that includes determining general event data associated with an event, determining user data associated with a user based on determining the event data associated with the event, determining pre-event data associated with the event, current event data associated with the event, or post-event data associated with the event based on the general event data associated with the event and the user data associated with the user, determining a current user location of the at least one user, generating at least one message based on the current user location, the at least one message including at least one of the following: pre-event data; current event data; post-event data; or any combination thereof; and communicating the at least one message to a user device of the user. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11538073B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a memory and a processor. The electronic device may execute an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm, and perform communications with other electronic devices in a 5G communication network. Accordingly, user convenience can be significantly improved.
US11538068B2
Systems and methods of facilitating transactions related to targeted or customized commercial offerings based on derived sentiment states are provided. The sentiment states are derived from digital representations such as images, videos and sound recordings.
US11538063B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and a method for controlling same. A method for controlling an electronic device according to the present disclosure comprises: a step of obtaining a program which shares data about an advertisement with another electronic device so as to verify the shared data; a step of, when an event for the advertisement occurs, generating first data including information about the event for the advertisement; a step of transmitting the generated first data to the other electronic device; a step of receiving second data including information about an event from the advertisement generated from the other electronic device; and a step of verifying the second data using the program.
US11538058B2
The systems and techniques described herein measure advertisement effectiveness of behavior-based outcomes (e.g., site visit, number of pages consumed, searches, online and offline transactions). The system implemented an automated model to measure the impact of exposures and impressions on outcomes using uses panel data, cookie-based data, and combinations thereof. The techniques use test and control approach to calculate effectiveness, where the test group are those exposed to a campaign and a control group who is not exposed. For those exposed, a running analysis of impressions (and other variables) in a pre period is used to determine behavior based outcomes over a set time period after that exposure. As a result, the automated model is able to generate metrics that show absolute and relative impacts on future behavior.
US11538032B2
Methods and systems for managing a public perspective of an entity by analyzing online posts and automatically performing actions in response to these online posts are described herein. Real-time feeds of online posts may be streamed from social media servers. Online posts that are determined to be related to the entity may be extracted from the feeds and accumulated for analysis. A sentiment analysis may be performed on the online posts to determine the public perspective toward the entity. Content of the online posts may be analyzed to determine whether it is related to a prohibited transaction or an inquiry for a product or a service offered by the entity. Actions may be automatically performed to prevent the prohibited transaction from occurring. Resources related to the product or the service may be offered in response to the online post.
US11538020B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure processors and devices for providing disposable account cards using a contactless reader and contactless communication tag. A processor receives, via an antenna module from the contactless reader, radio signal data of a radio signal emitted by a contactless tag, where the radio signal data includes encoded tag data including a tag identifier. The processor determines that the contactless tag is a new contactless tag based on the tag identifier being unlinked to any account, and generates a disposable account card identifier in a user account including a unique disposable account number. The processor generates an account link that links the tag identifier to the disposable account card identifier such that the tag identifier refers to the unique disposable account number for performing contactless electronic requests to the user account in place of a user account card.
US11538018B2
Secure communication protocols for proximity-based validation in distributed multi-device frameworks
Various systems, apparatuses, and methods are described herein for enabling secure communication protocols for proximity-based validation in distributed multi-device frameworks. Distributed multi-device frameworks present unique challenges when it comes to ensuring that user communications between various devices and over variable-security communication mediums remain secure. To address the noted challenges, some embodiments of the present invention provide for an apparatus configured to establish secure communications with a central system using wallet identifying data that is configured to secure data transfers between the apparatus and the central system. In accordance with some embodiments, devices communicating on proposed networks are arranged in a manner and using a network architecture that is configured to optimize overall network security and system integrity.
US11538016B2
A system and computer-implemented method for authenticating digital transactions. The method includes receiving a device registration request and a device attestation response including at least a device integrity status from a device. In response to the device registration request, the method includes providing a device registration response to the device, based on validation of the device integrity status. Further, the method includes receiving a first payment transaction request and an enrolment request from the device via an application to authenticate a second payment transaction request using a first type of authentication technique. Finally, the method includes enrolling the device to the first type of authentication technique and providing a second token to the device based on a result of the first payment transaction request, wherein the second token is used for authenticating the second payment transaction request.
US11538013B1
Described are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for low-input initiation of user account-affiliated transactions. An example apparatus can comprise a processor and a memory storing program code configured to cause the apparatus to store payor information, authentication information, and account information associated with a payor; store payee information associated with payees; receive, from a payee device or a payor device, a request to initiate a payment, the request comprising information about a payor and payee as well as a payment amount; determine, based at least upon the information about the payor and payee, and the stored information, whether the payment is to a pre-approved payee or merchant with which payor has a pre-existing account; and, in an instance in which the determination is in the affirmative, initiate the payment by providing at least payor and payee information and payment amount a payment processor.
US11538010B2
A method that includes receiving, from one or more motion sensors in a device, data describing a signature arc in three-dimensional space, the signature arc having been generated by gesturing using the device; identifying, from the data describing the gestured signature arc, a plurality of points that correspond to the gestured signature arc in three-dimensional space; generating a curve along the identified plurality of points corresponding to the gestured signature arc; generating a two-dimensional representation of the gestured signature arc; and displaying, on a display screen, the generated two-dimensional representation of the gestured signature arc.
US11538003B2
A sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may reduce the amount of work and communication required by each participant, thus possibly avoiding scalability bottlenecks that may be inherent in previous distributed ledger implementations and possibly enabling the use of additional resources to translate to increased throughput. A sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may be made up of multiple shards, each of which may also be a distributed ledger and which may operate in parallel. Participation within a sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may be allowed only with permission of an authority. A sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may include a plurality of nodes, each including a dispatcher configured to receive transaction requests from clients and to forward received requests to verifiers configured to append transactions to individual ones of the shards.
US11538002B2
An escrowing system for cross-blockchain third-party settlement and a method thereof are disclosed. In the escrowing system, an initiating-end host and an accepting-end host escrow digital assets in smart contracts in different blockchains, respectively, and based on a result of delivery of trading entities outside the blockchain, the digital assets escrowed by the smart contracts are transferred or returned, and the arbitration host is permitted to perform trading arbitration, without managing the trading entities, to determine whether the delivery outside the blockchain succeeds. When the arbitration host determines that the delivery outside the blockchain succeeds, the arbitration host can transfer the digital assets escrowed by the initiating-end host and the accepting-end host without consent of the initiating-end host, so as to achieve a technical effect of improving reliability of escrow.
US11538001B2
Transaction systems and methods are described for verifying transactions in a vehicle. The transactions utilize blockchains of a cryptocurrency to allow for verification of a transaction even where a live Internet connection is unavailable. The systems and methods utilize a digital wallet stored in the vehicle that allows for transactions with a passenger having a passenger digital wallet. A plurality of local nodes disposed in the vehicle store a local and updated copy of the blockchain to allow for verification of the cryptocurrency transactions even during periods of intermittent internet connectivity.
US11538000B2
A cloud-based computing system is provided that includes a payments platform for integrating synchronous payment gateway services with a cloud computing platform so that clients of the cloud computing platform can perform payment transactions with customers via the cloud computing platform. The synchronous payment gateways that include a particular synchronous payment gateway. The cloud computing platform can include a multitenant database system that provides applications and services to a plurality of clients, and a payments platform module. Each client can be, for example, a tenant or organization of the cloud computing platform that transacts business with one or more customers via a synchronous payment gateway. The payments platform module has a pluggable architecture for integrating payment gateway adapters with the cloud computing platform.
US11537996B2
A data analysis system is disclosed that receives data from a master data system to enable useful and efficient rescheduling of items, taking into account effects of various rescheduling options on various metrics related to the items and/or the scheduling. The data analysis system includes sophisticated data analysis and interactive graphical user interface functionality to enable efficient, multi-variable evaluation of various rescheduling options. The interactive graphical user interface includes interactive functionality for suggesting rescheduling options in view of the effects of those changes on various metrics, evaluating various rescheduling options in view of effects on the various metrics, adjusting instances of metrics related to items/timelines in view of scheduling changes, and the like. Once a set of schedule modifications are determined by the data analysis system, the data analysis system can push the schedule modifications back to the master data system for implementation.
US11537992B2
Navigating a neighborhood using an interactive electronic map displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile software application executing on a wireless mobile computer device. In some embodiments, a method may include displaying in a graphical user interface (“GUI”) an image of a map of a sales region on an electronic display of the mobile device, including a plurality of potential sales targets; providing a database comprising sales information for at least some of the plurality of potential sales targets; processing the sales information to generate predictive data for at least some of the potential sales targets, the predictive data indicating a relative sales potential for at least some of the potential sales targets; and displaying in the GUI a plurality of icons depicted on the map and each corresponding to a geographic location of a potential sales target within the sales region, wherein a first subset of the plurality of icons each have at least one characteristic distinguishing it from a second subset of the plurality of icons and wherein the characteristic indicates a relatively higher sales potential for potential sales targets in the first subset than those in the second subset and based on the predictive data.
US11537987B2
A processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a screen output unit that generates and outputs an inventory status screen on which an inventory status at each of a plurality of inventory checkpoints in a supply chain is displayed. On the inventory status screen, a plurality of objects respectively corresponding to the plurality of inventory checkpoints are displayed so that an appearance order of the inventory checkpoints in the supply chain can be identified. An image of a container having a size corresponding to an optimal inventory quantity or an optimal inventory value, and an image of a content having a size corresponding to a current inventory quantity or a current inventory value are displayed in the object.
US11537977B1
A method (800) and system (150) for optimizing delivery of consignments is disclosed. Real-order data for delivering a consignment including a plurality of packages is received. The real-order data includes package related information and vehicle related information, which are pre-processed to generate a plurality of inputs. A machine learning model (164) trained using DRL is selected to optimize an objective function of minimizing an overall cost of consignment delivery by optimizing a number of vehicles selected for consignment delivery and optimizing a number of consignees and a number of drop locations serviced by each selected vehicle. The plurality of inputs is provided to the machine learning model (164) to predict a sequence of loading actions in relation to loading of the plurality of packages in the vehicles. A loading plan (504) is generated based on the sequence of loading actions. The loading plan (504) optimizes the delivery of the plurality of packages associated with the consignment.
US11537962B2
The invention is generally related to operations support systems and more specifically, to a method of and system for managing and planning future use of resources. One embodiment of the invention comprises an operations support system which displays multiple visits across a timeline, each visits being associated with a set of resource requirements. The system tabulates, in real-time, the total level of resources required for all of the visits, for each given day, comparing these totals against nominal available resource levels. If there is a shortfall, the system displays a number associated with the short-fall, such as the number of additional technicians that would be required. This provides the user with feedback so he/she can amend visits and tasks within visits to resolve short-falls in resources.
US11537960B2
This application relates to systems and methods for generating desired or optimized event schedules. An example computer-implemented method of dynamically generating an event schedule includes: receiving ogle or more parameters for a series of live events to be held in a plurality of geographic regions; generating a schedule for the series of live events based on the one or more parameters; and automatically updating the schedule based on a change to the one or more parameters.
US11537952B2
A system for monitoring a data-driven model, configured to perform a task in a plurality of sites, includes a plurality of variants of the data-driven model deployed in each site. Each variant is used in one of a plurality of states including a first state wherein the output data of the variant is included in computing a result of the task, and a second state wherein the output data of the variant is excluded from computing the result of the task. A supervision module in each site monitors the plurality of variants, computes the task result based on the output data generated by each variant being used in the first state, and changes, based on the output data generated by variants being used in the first state and in the second state, the use state of a variant from one state to another.
US11537949B2
A method for reducing idleness in a machine-learning training system can include performing operations by computing devices. A first set of training operations can access and prepare a plurality of training examples of a set of training data. A second set of training operations can train a machine-learned model based at least in part on the set of training data and can include one or more repeat iterations in which at least a portion of the second set of training operations is repeatedly performed such that the training example(s) are repeatedly used to train the machine-learned model. A rate of the repeat iteration(s) can be based at least in part on an echo factor that can be based at least in part on a comparison of a first computational time of the first set of training operations to a second computational time of the second set of training operations.
US11537946B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for a machine learning (ML) model and framework for training of the ML model to enable the ML model to correctly match entities even in instances where new entities are added after the ML model has been trained. More particularly, implementations of the present disclosure are directed to a ML model provided as a neural network that is trained to provide a scalar confidence score that indicates whether two entities in a pair of entities are considered a match, even if an entity in the set of entities was not accounted for in training of the ML model.
US11537945B2
A machine learning device includes a sparse modeling processing unit and a selection unit. The sparse modeling processing unit acquires individual importance degrees for each of explanatory variable candidates, the individual importance degrees being acquired by using respective sparse modeling methods different from each other, each of the sparse modeling methods taking input data including a specified objective variable in a learning model used for industrial activity and the explanatory variable candidates that are candidates for an explanatory variable for explaining the specified objective variable. The selection unit calculates a comprehensive importance degree for each of the explanatory variable candidates based on the individual importance degrees of each of the explanatory variable candidates, and selects an explanatory variable of the learning model from among the explanatory variable candidates based on the comprehensive importance degree.
US11537944B2
A system, a method and a computer program product are provided for evaluating quality of data, such as sensor data and map data, using a machine learning model. The system may include at least one memory configured to store computer executable instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions to obtain first sensor features of the first sensor data associated with a road object in a first geographic region, first map features of the first map data associated with the road object and ground truth data associated with the road object. The processor may be configured to generate the machine learning model by configuring the ground truth data and calculating first information scores for each of the first sensor features and the first map features by recursively splitting each of the first sensor features and the first map features.
US11537942B1
Techniques are described for providing a machine learning (ML) data analytics application including guided ML workflows that facilitate the end-to-end training and use of various types of ML models, where such guided workflows may also be referred to as ML “experiments.” One such model is an outlier detection model to assist in the monitoring of computer network traffic and computer performance. For example, the ML data analytics application may generate an outlier detection model using user-identified data from a data source and parameter information. The generates outlier detection model can include distribution functions of distribution types selected from a plurality of distribution types by a distribution fitting algorithm.
US11537939B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for transforming patterns of operations on tensors in a computational graph to reduce the memory burden incurred when reshape operations are performed, in particular when deployed to hardware platforms that have vector instructions or vector memory requiring alignment of operands.
US11537934B2
Embodiments herein provide for a machine learning algorithm that generates models that are more interpretable and transparent than existing machine learning approaches. These embodiments identify, at a record level, the effect of individual input variables on the machine learning model. To provide those improvements, a reason code generator assigns monotonic relationships to a series of input variables, which are then incorporated into the machine learning algorithm as metadata. In some embodiments, the reason code generator creates records based on the monotonic relationships, which are used by the machine learning algorithm to generate predicted values. The reason code generator compares an original predicted value from the machine learning model to the predicted values from the machine learning model.
US11537926B2
Systems and methods are described for operating a hybrid computing system using cluster contraction for converting large, dense input to reduced input that can be easily mapped into a quantum processor. The reduced input represents the global structure of the problem. Techniques involve partitioning the input variables into clusters and contracting each cluster. The input variables can be partitioned using an Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean algorithm. The quantum processor returns samples based on the reduced input and the samples are expanded to correspond to the original input.
US11537924B2
Systems and methods for reconstructing a trajectory from anonymized data are provided. In some aspects, a method includes receiving anonymized data corresponding to a trajectory of a user or object, and assembling, based on the anonymized data, a state-space model. The method also includes executing a prediction algorithm, based on the state-space model, to generate predicted data from the anonymized data, and reconstructing the trajectory of the user or object using the predicted data. The method further includes generating a report indicative of the trajectory.
US11537923B2
To identify the sweet spot for criteria attributes (i.e., variables) within a complex system, a data source having objectively acceptable values or ranges of values for the criteria attributes for each variant of the system is generated. The identification system used to analyze the complex system to identify the sweet spot receives measurement values from a testing system that measures values of the criteria attributes from variants of the complex system and provides the measurement values to the identification system. The criteria attributes may be prioritized for determination of the sweet spot, including a selection of a value or range of values that are to be used for the most highly prioritized criteria attribute. The prioritized criteria attributes and objectively acceptable values can be used to filter the measurement values to identify the sweet spot for the variants of the complex system.
US11537922B2
Embodiments relate to a processing node in a temporal memory system that performs temporal pooling or processing by activating cells where the activation of a cell is maintained longer if the activation of the cell were previously predicted or activation on more than a certain portion of associated cells in a lower node was correctly predicted. An active cell correctly predicted to be activated or an active cell having connections to lower node active cells that were correctly predicted to become active contribute to accurate prediction, and hence, is maintained active longer than cells activated but were not previously predicted to become active. Embodiments also relate to a temporal memory system for detecting, learning, and predicting spatial patterns and temporal sequences in input data by using action information.
US11537916B2
An optimization apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: compute a local solution for a combinatorial optimization problem based on a first evaluation function representing the combinatorial optimization problem, select a state variable group targeted by partial problems from the plurality of state variables based on a first state variable whose value at the local solution is a predetermined value among the plurality of state variables included in the first evaluation function, a weight coefficient representing a magnitude of an interaction between the plurality of state variables held in a storage unit, and input selection region information, search a ground state for a second evaluation function representing the partial problems for the selected state variable group, and generate a whole solution by updating the local solution based on the partial solutions acquired by the ground state search.
US11537914B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for determining developed code scores of an application. The method may include: receiving, by a processor, one or more first score tags of one or more first blocks of developed code from a user through a computing device; identifying, by the processor, patterns in the developed code based on the received one or more first score tags; applying, by the processor, the identified patterns to one or more second blocks of the developed code; and determining, by the processor, one or more second score tags for the one or more second blocks of the developed code based on the applied patterns.
US11537913B2
A system and method are disclosed for detecting anomalies in input data. The input data can include enrollment information for members of a health insurance product offered by an insurance carrier. A system is configured to process one or more parameters associated with the input data to detect whether an anomaly is indicated in the input data. At least one artificial intelligence algorithm is configured to compare a parameter in the one or more parameters to a range defined by a moving average. When an anomaly is detected, the processing can be paused and manual intervention can be facilitated. When no anomaly is detected, a database is updated based on the input data. In an embodiment, the input data is an ANSI 834 format file that includes a plurality of membership records, and the one or more parameters are derived from statistics related to the membership records.
US11537908B2
Provided are systems and methods for dynamically determining a discipline-specific knowledge value of an agent. In one example, the method may include receiving from an agent, via a computing device, a formulation of content that corresponds to an inquiry, determining a knowledge value for the agent based on one or more of the content and a property of the inquiry with respect to a dynamically defined solution to the inquiry, and storing the determined knowledge value of the agent within a storage device.
US11537905B2
Embodiments associate a relevant semantic data type (e.g., date) with incoming raw data (e.g., a column of digits) which lacks metadata. Assignment of semantic data type is inferred from a plurality of features. A first step determines a first feature comprising success rate in converting the raw data into various semantic data types. Then, alignment between observed/reference distributions of other features (e.g., data first digit, data length) is determined per-semantic data type. Total scores for each semantic data type are calculated from the combined features, and used as a basis for ranking the semantic data types. The total scores may reflect a weighting of the various features. In a second step, top-ranked semantic data types may be further differentiated from one another by applying additional features. User feedback regarding accuracy of semantic data type assignment, may be incorporated into training data used to modify the feature reference distributions.
US11537896B2
Systems, methods, computer program products, and apparatuses to determine, by a neural network based on training data related to wireless signals exchanged by a device and a plurality of wireless access points in an environment, a respective distance between the device and each wireless access point, receive location data related to a respective location of each wireless access point of the plurality of wireless access points, determine a geometric cost of the neural network based on a geometric cost function, the respective distances, and the received location data, and train a plurality of values of the neural network based on a backpropagation and the determined geometric cost.
US11537894B2
Systems, devices, and methods for training a neural network and performing image interest point detection and description using the neural network. The neural network may include an interest point detector subnetwork and a descriptor subnetwork. An optical device may include at least one camera for capturing a first image and a second image. A first set of interest points and a first descriptor may be calculated using the neural network based on the first image, and a second set of interest points and a second descriptor may be calculated using the neural network based on the second image. A homography between the first image and the second image may be determined based on the first and second sets of interest points and the first and second descriptors. The optical device may adjust virtual image light being projected onto an eyepiece based on the homography.
US11537893B2
A method and an electronic device for selecting deep neural network hyperparameters are provided. In an embodiment of the method, a plurality of testing hyperparameter configurations are sampled from a plurality of hyperparameter ranges of a plurality of hyperparameters. A target neural network model is trained by using a training dataset and the plurality of testing hyperparameter configurations, and a plurality of accuracies corresponding to the plurality of testing hyperparameter configurations are obtained after training for preset epochs. A hyperparameter recommendation operation is performed to predict a plurality of final accuracies of the plurality of testing hyperparameter configurations. A recommended hyperparameter configuration corresponding to the final accuracy having a highest predicted value is selected as a hyperparameter setting for continuing training the target neural network model.
US11537890B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for compressing weights for distributed neural networks. In some embodiments, a first network comprising a first set of weights is trained using a set of training data. A second network comprising a second set of weights is trained using the set of training data. A number of weights in the first set of weights is greater than a number of weights in the second set of weights. The first set of weights are adjusted based on a first loss determined by the first network and a second loss determined by the second network. The second set of weights are adjusted based on the first loss determined by the first network and the second loss determined by the second network. Values of the second set of weights are sent to a computing system.
US11537882B2
A machine learning apparatus according to an embodiment includes a feature extractor configured to extract features from an object region of an image, a label processor configured to create sentence label embeddings from a sentence label corresponding to the object region, a first training data creator to extract first sub-features from a plurality of first sub-regions created by partitioning the object region, add the sentence label embeddings to the extracted first sub-features, and add the first sub-features added with the sentence label embeddings to the features of the object region, a second training data creator to extract a plurality of second sub-regions along a bounding surface of the object region, create an attention matrix from the second sub-regions, and create a training data by applying the attention matrix to the features of the object region, and a trainer to train an object detection model using the training data.
US11537881B2
A method of machine learning model development includes building an autoencoder including an encoder trained to map an input into a latent representation, and a decoder trained to map the latent representation to a reconstruction of the input. The method includes building an artificial neural network classifier including the encoder, and a classification layer partially trained to perform a classification in which a class to which the input belongs is predicted based on the latent representation. Neural network inversion is applied to the classification layer to find inverted latent representations within a decision boundary between classes in which a result of the classification is ambiguous, and inverted inputs are obtained from the inverted latent representations. Each inverted input is labeled with a class that is its ground truth, and thereby producing added training data for the classification, and the classification layer is further trained using the added training data.
US11537876B2
Machine learning models, semantic networks, adaptive systems, artificial neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and other forms of knowledge processing systems are disclosed. Input data for a machine learning system may be analyzed to determine one or more potential biases in the input data. Based on the one or more potential biases, the input data may be grouped, and/or weights may be applied to one or more portions of the input data. The input data may be input into a machine learning algorithm, which may generate output data. Based on an evaluation of the output data, the input data may be grouped, and/or second weights may be applied to one or more portions of the input data.
US11537871B2
A computer architecture may comprise a processor, a memory, and a differential memory subsystem (DMS). A learning engine is stored on the memory and configured to present data to an expert user, to receive user sensory input measuring reactions related to the presented data, and to create an attention map based thereon. The attention map is indicative of portions of the presented data on which the expert user focused. The learning engine is configured to annotate the attention map with the natural language input labels and to train a neural network based on the user sensory input. The learning engine is configured to create a model based on the trained neural network, to provide an application program for an output target; and to instruct the output target via the application program to detect and remedy anomalous activity. The DMS is physically separate and configured for experimental data processing functions.
US11537870B1
Some embodiments provide a method for training a machine-trained (MT) network. The method propagates multiple inputs through the MT network to generate an output for each of the inputs. each of the inputs is associated with an expected output, the MT network uses multiple network parameters to process the inputs, and each network parameter of a set of the network parameters is defined during training as a probability distribution across a discrete set of possible values for the network parameter. The method calculates a value of a loss function for the MT network that includes (i) a first term that measures network error based on the expected outputs compared to the generated outputs and (ii) a second term that penalizes divergence of the probability distribution for each network parameter in the set of network parameters from a predefined probability distribution for the network parameter.
US11537869B2
Systems and methods provide a learned difference metric that operates in a wide artifact space. An example method includes initializing a committee of deep neural networks with labeled distortion pairs, iteratively actively learning a difference metric using the committee and psychophysics tasks for informative distortion pairs, and using the difference metric as an objective function in a machine-learned digital file processing task. Iteratively actively learning the difference metric can include providing an unlabeled distortion pair as input to each of the deep neural networks in the committee, a distortion pair being a base image and a distorted image resulting from application of an artifact applied to the base image, obtaining a plurality of difference metric scores for the unlabeled distortion pair from the deep neural networks, and identifying the unlabeled distortion pair as an informative distortion pair when the difference metric scores satisfy a diversity metric.
US11537865B2
A processor system comprises a first and second group of registers and a hardware channel convolution processor unit. The first group of registers is configured to store data elements of channels of a portion of a convolution data matrix. Each register stores at least one data element from each channel. The second group of registers is configured to store data elements of convolution weight matrices including a separate convolution weight matrix for each channel. Each register stores at least one data element from each convolution weight matrix. The hardware channel convolution processor unit is configured to multiply each data element in the first group of registers with a corresponding data element in the second group of registers and sum together the multiplication results for each specific channel to determine corresponding channel convolution result data elements in a corresponding channel convolution result matrix.
US11537863B2
A resistive processing unit cell includes a weight storage device to store a weight value of the resistive processing unit cell, and multiple circuit blocks. Each circuit block includes a weight update circuit coupled to dedicated update control lines, and a weight read circuit coupled to dedicated read control lines. The circuit blocks are configured to operate in parallel to (i) perform separate weight read operations in which each read circuit generates a read current based on a stored weight value, and outputs the read current on the dedicated read control lines of the read circuit, and (ii) perform separate weight update operations in which each update circuit receives respective update control signals on the dedicated update control lines, generates update currents based on the respective update control signals, and applies the update current to the weight storage device to adjust the weight value based on the update current.
US11537860B2
A neural network processor is disclosed that includes a combined convolution and pooling circuit that can perform both convolution and pooling operations. The circuit can perform a convolution operation by a multiply circuit determining products of corresponding input feature map and convolution kernel weight values, and an add circuit accumulating the products determined by the multiply circuit in storage. The circuit can perform an average pooling operation by the add circuit accumulating input feature map data values in the storage, a divisor circuit determining a divisor value, and a division circuit dividing the data value accumulated in the storage by the determined divisor value. The circuit can perform a maximum pooling operation by a maximum circuit determining a maximum value of input feature map data values, and storing the determined maximum value in the storage.
US11537855B2
Low spike count ring buffer mechanisms on neuromorphic hardware are provided. A ring buffer comprises a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of memory cells comprises one or more neurosynaptic core. A demultiplexer is operatively coupled to the ring buffer. The demultiplexer is adapted to receive input comprising a plurality of spikes, and write sequentially to each of the plurality of memory cells. A plurality of output connectors is operatively coupled to the ring buffer. Each of the plurality of output connectors is adapted to provide an output based on contents of a subset of the plurality of memory cells.
US11537854B2
Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method for providing an artificial reality. In one aspect, a system includes a shared physical memory and a first processor having access to the shared physical memory. In one aspect, the first processor performs, during a first time period, a first rendering process to generate a first image frame of a first view of an artificial reality. In one aspect, the first processor performs, during a second time period, a second rendering process to generate a second image frame of a second view of the artificial reality. In one aspect, the system includes a second processor including a neural network and having access to the shared physical memory. In one aspect, the second processor performs, during a third time period overlapping a portion of the second time period, an image enhancing process on the first image frame.
US11537852B2
A system includes a plurality of graph convolutional networks corresponding to a plurality of time steps, each network modelling a graph including nodes and edges, and in turn including a plurality of graph convolution units; an evolving mechanism; and an output layer. Each of the units, for a given one of the time steps, takes as input a graph adjacency matrix, a node feature matrix, and a parameter matrix for a current layer, and outputs a new node feature matrix for a next highest layer. The mechanism takes as input a parameter matrix for a prior time step updates the input parameter matrix, and outputs the parameter matrix for the given time step. The output layer obtains, as input, output of each of the units for a final time step, and based on the output of each of the units for the final time step, outputs a graph solution.
US11537848B2
Classes are identified in a dataset, and an independent artificial neural network is created for each class in the dataset. Thereafter, all classes in the dataset are provided to each independent artificial neural network. Each independent artificial neural network is separately trained to respond to a single particular class in the dataset and to reject all other classes in the dataset. Output from each independent artificial neural network is provided to a combining classifier, and the combining classifier is trained to identify all classes in the dataset based on the output of all the independent artificial neural networks.
US11537846B2
A neural net processor provides twin processing paths trainable using different moments of the input data, one moment providing a proxy for uncertainty. Subsequent operation of the trained neural net allows monitoring of the uncertainty proxy to provide real-time assessment of neural net model-based uncertainty.
US11537845B2
Methods, systems and computer program products implementing character-level deep neural networks for information extraction are disclosed. A system uses character-level information retrieved from a transaction record to classify the transaction as a whole and to tag individual sections of the transaction record by entity type. The system processes the transaction record using multiple and separate character-level models. The system can use a one-dimensional neural network for featurization fed into a fully connected network for classification for identifying the most common classes of a transaction record. The system can identify one or more entities, e.g., service provider names, from the transaction using an RNN. The RNN can include one or more LSTM models. The LSTM models can be BI-LSTM models.
US11537844B2
A method for recommending offerings to a business may include: receiving a request for recommended business offerings from a device; receiving business data associated with a business from the device, the business data comprising invoice data associated with the business; embedding the business data to a vector space to obtain a business vector, the vector space comprising a plurality of other vectors associated with other businesses; calculating a relation metric between the business vector and a vector of the plurality of other vectors, the vector being associated with a second business, the relation metric representing a degree of relation between the business and the second business; determining that the relation metric is above a pre-defined threshold value; and responsive to the determining, sending business data associated with the second business to the device, the business data associated with the second business comprising invoice data associated with the second business.
US11537837B2
Techniques and systems for critical dimension metrology are disclosed. Critical parameters can be constrained with at least one floating parameter and one or more weight coefficients. A neural network is trained to use a model that includes a Jacobian matrix. During training, at least one of the weight coefficients is adjusted, a regression is performed on reference spectra, and a root-mean-square error between the critical parameters and the reference spectra is determined. The training may be repeated until the root-mean-square error is less than a convergence threshold.
US11537834B2
A smart card includes a first circuit delivering a power supply voltage and a second circuit coupled to the first circuit by an electrical conductor and powered with the power supply voltage. A light-emitting diode has a first terminal coupled to the electrical conductor and a second terminal coupled to a first terminal of the second circuit. During a first operating phase, the first circuit delivers a first value of the power supply voltage and the second circuit applies a first voltage to the first terminal. During a second operating phase, the first circuit delivers a second value of the power supply voltage and the second circuit applies a second voltage to the first terminal.
US11537831B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining information based on a received image. The method includes one or more processors receiving image data from a computing device. The method further includes one or more processors identifying an object included in the received image data. The method further includes one or more processors determining a value that corresponds to the identified object included in the received image data. The method further includes one or more processors determining whether the determined value corresponds to a defined action. Another aspect of the present invention discloses an apparatus that includes a foreground label overlaying a background label, and a measurement device coupled to the foreground label. The measurement device is capable of movement in response to observing measurement data.
US11537809B2
In an approach for optimally grouping containers, a processor passively monitors a set of parameters for a set of containers within a network. A processor records the set of parameters for each container of the set of containers. A processor deploys a k-nearest neighbor neural network (KNN) to determine a first set of groupings of the set of containers based on the set of parameters. A processor simulates the network having grouped containers based on the first set of groupings of the set of containers output by the KNN. A processor simulates an action on the set of containers. A processor updates a reward function based on the action. A processor determines whether a maximum value of the reward function is reached.
US11537792B2
The present disclosure provides a pre-training method for a sentiment analysis model and an electronic device, which relates to a field of artificial intelligence technologies. The method includes: based on a given seed sentiment dictionary, performing sentimental knowledge detection on a training corpus in a training corpus set, and determining a detection sentiment word and a detection word pair of the training corpus; according to preset mask processing rules, performing mask process on the training corpus to generate a masked corpus; performing encoding and decoding on the masked corpus by using a preset encoder and decoder to determine the detection sentiment word and the detection word pair of the training corpus; and updating the preset encoder and decoder according to a difference between prediction sentiment word and the detection sentiment word, and a difference between prediction word pair and the detection word pair.
US11537784B2
A collaborative content management system is disclosed herein for receiving a command to add an annotation object following a character input into a line of a collaborative content item. The system inserts an annotation object onto the line following the character, detects a selection of the annotation object, and displays a secondary collaborative content item in visual association with the character. The system detects textual content that corresponds to a citation within the secondary collaborative content item, and responsive to detecting the textual content, generates for display a template for inputting fields of a citation. The system receives text entered into one or more of the fields, generates a citation based on the text, and inputs the citation into the secondary collaborative content item.
US11537781B1
The present invention relates to a system and method for synchronizing and highlighting a target text and audio associated with a reference document. The system and method may comprise one or more of an input unit, an extracting unit, a mapping unit, a processing unit, and an image resizing unit. The system and method may synchronize the target text and audio in order to provide a user with a Read Along. The invention further synchronizes and highlights closed captions and audio that helps people with hearing impairment to comprehend better while watching a movie or listening to songs.
US11537777B2
The invention relates to a server for providing a graphical user interface to a client over a communication network. The graphical user interface comprises a graphical user interface element, the graphical user interface element being formed by an element shape and an element text, the element shape being represented by element shape data, the element text being represented by element text data. The server comprises an encoder configured to encode the element shape data into video data, a detector configured to detect a change associated with the graphical user interface element within the graphical user interface, and a communication interface configured to separately transmit the video data and the element text data over the communication network, the element text data being transmitted upon detection of the change associated with the graphical user interface element for providing the graphical user interface to the client.
US11537769B2
Simulator includes a first core unit corresponding to the first simulation model, a second core unit corresponding to the second simulation model, a slave block unit for communicating with one of the first core unit and the second core unit, the first core unit and the second core unit and a simulation control unit for causing either to execute instructions. The first core unit includes a high-speed mode instruction execution control unit that stops executing subsequent instructions in response to a request for switching from the first simulation model to the second simulation model, and a transaction monitor unit that monitors whether or not the transaction processing between the first core unit and the slave block unit has been completed. The simulation control unit causes the second core unit to execute instructions in response to a notification of completion of the transaction processing from the transaction monitor unit.
US11537768B2
A method for aging simulation model establishment includes following operations. Provide a planar p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (pMOSFET) having a source and a drain. Measure a first reliability degradation data of the pMOSFET. Select a model for the pMOSFET with modeling parameters related to hot carrier induced punch-through (HEIP). The modeling parameters comprise hot carrier injection (HCI) parameters used to fix a simulated current relation between the source and the drain. Construct the modeling parameters by aging parameters multiplied corresponding flags. Perform a simulation of the pMOSFET with the model to have a second reliability degradation data. Update the aging parameters and re-performing the simulation if the first reliability degradation data and second reliability degradation data are not matched. Collect the aging parameters when the first reliability degradation data and the second reliability degradation data are matched to establish the aging simulation model for the pMOSFET.
US11537765B1
Systems, methods, and software for placing, customizing, and pricing part marks for use in one or more part designs that are represented in a computer model. Placement may be performed as a function of particular locations of part designs. Users may customize part marks by determining particular attributes thereof, such as textual content, font, and/or manufacturing method, among others. A user may manipulate a graphical user interface in order to determine various attributes that further define part mark. Pricing may be performed as a function of user-determined attributes and/or data from one or more pricing catalogs.
US11537764B2
The invention is directed to a method of digitally modeling in two, three or more dimensions an infrastructure (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4), comprising using digital two, three, four, five or more dimensional objects; and attributing at least one flexibility attribute (8.2, 8.3) to at least one of the objects (4, 6, 10). Several digital two, three or more dimensions infrastructure models (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) are merged and managed by automatically detecting (14) potential conflict(s) between objects (6, 10) of the models (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) and by automatically searching (16) for at least one possible solution to each of the at least one conflict, based on the flexibility attribute(s) (8.2, 8.3) of the objects (6, 10) related to the conflict.
US11537760B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for executing a web application with client-side encryption. A web application may execute in a web browser at a client computing device. The web browser may generate a document comprising a secure display element. The web browser may request to render the document at the client computing device. A cryptographic tool of the web browser may decrypt the first encrypted value to generate a first clear value. The web browser may render the document at an output device of the client computing device using the clear value. The web browser may also be programmed to prevent the web application from accessing the first clear value.
US11537759B2
The claimed group of technical solutions relates to the field of controlling electronic devices with the aid of a graphical user interface, in particular to a method and a system for activating an interface with the aid of a specified type of user input. The technical result of the claimed solution consists in providing the option of activating a graphical user interface with the aid of a user input path from two different corner areas of a display. The claimed method is implemented by creating a pattern of gesture activation of an application, comprising an input path using corner regions of a screen.
US11537757B2
A computer system includes an independent compute core; and an isolated secure data storage device to store data accessible only to the independent compute core. The independent compute core is to open an Application Program Interface (API) during runtime of the computer system in response to receiving a verified message containing secure data to be written to the secure data storage device.
US11537743B2
An equipment management system comprises a first database configured to store equipment information about an equipment, a second database configured to store user information about a user, and a controller configured to collect the equipment information from a control apparatus controlling the equipment. The controller is configured to allow access to the first database from the control apparatus. The controller is configured to prohibit access to the second database from the control apparatus.
US11537729B2
For detecting and preventing cipher key disclosure, a method detects software code in a copy buffer. In response to detecting the software code, the method detects a cipher key in the software code. In response to detecting the cipher key, the method communicates a cipher alert that the cipher key is in the software code.
US11537728B1
Methods and systems for securing data using random bits and encoded key data. A plurality of true random number generator (TRNG) disks and a plurality of key data sets are provided. A key data set from the plurality of key data sets is associated with each of the plurality of TRNG disks, respectively. The key data set comprises at least a block of random bits of an associated TRNG disk. An encoded key data set is formed by encoding at least two of the key data sets together. The source data can be encrypted with the encoded key data set to produce a quantity of encrypted data. The encrypted data can be decrypted with the encoded key data set or the at least two of the key data sets retrieved from the associated TRNG disks.
US11537726B2
A secret computation system is a secret computation system for performing computation while keeping data concealed, and comprises a cyphertext generation device that generates cyphertext by encrypting the data, a secret computation device that generates encrypted basic statistics by performing secret computation of predetermined basic statistics using the cyphertext while keeping the cyphertext concealed, and a computation device that generates decrypted basic statistics by decrypting the encrypted basic statistics and performs predetermined computation using the decrypted basic statistics.
US11537723B2
A data storage device providing secure data storage for a software application executed by an operating system in a computer system including a file system operation interceptor that detects requests for file system operations in respect of data for the application; a file system operation analyzer that is responsive to the interceptor and that analyses an intercepted file system operation request to identify attributes associated with the file system operation; a comparator that compares the attributes with a predefined security policy definition; a cryptographic unit that encrypts and/or decrypts data using one or more cryptographic functions; wherein the cryptographic unit is operable in response to the comparator to perform an encryption or decryption operation on the data and effect the performance of the requested file system operation by the operating system.
US11537722B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to perform passive and realtime software identification and data collection for vulnerability management. Vulnerability management based on agent-collected event data involves monitoring a process start event associated with an application executing on a computing device that is part of a network, identifying a binary location of the process start event, and based on the binary location, identifying a software type of the application and a version of the software type. Vulnerability management based on event data in logs involves monitoring the process start event for configuration or file changes, generating fingerprint rules by mapping the configuration or files changes and the process start event associated with a software installation or an upgrade of the software, and processing log data to fingerprint the software type and the version of the software type. Agent-collected event data and event data in logs can be amalgamated to perform software and version identification for vulnerability management.
US11537715B2
There is disclosed a circuit for monitoring the security of a processor, wherein the circuit is configured to access a memory configured to store execution context data of a software program executed by the processor; to determine one or more signatures from said execution context data; and to compare said signatures with predefined signatures to monitor the security of the processor (110). Developments describe that context data can comprise control flow data, that a signature can comprise a hash value or a similarity signature, or that the integrity of signatures can be verified for example by using a secret key (e.g. obtained by random, or by using a physically unclonable function). Further developments describe various controls or retroactions on the processor, as well as various countermeasures if cyber attacks are determined.
US11537711B2
A management system detects a change at the target device. The management system transmits a request message to authorization devices of the authorization users of the multi-user authorization pool to from the authorization users an indication of whether the detected change is approved. The management system receives a plurality of response messages from authorization devices of the multi-user authorization pool indicating whether the detected change is approved by the corresponding authorization user, and based on at least three of the plurality of response messages indicating a disapproval, that the detected change is disapproved. In response to the determination that the change is disapproved, an instruction message is sent to a target managed device to instruct the target managed device to rollback to an earlier state.
US11537702B2
Embodiments herein relate to sensor based authentication between an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external device. In an embodiment, the IMD includes a wireless communication module and an internal inertial measurement unit (IMU) capable of measuring vibrations, movement, or rotation. The IMD is configured to record an internal IMU signal from the internal IMU. The external device includes a wireless communication module and an external IMU. The external device is configured to record an external IMU signal from the external IMU. The system further includes a data processing system to receive a first level communication that can include the internal IMU signal, the external IMU signal, or both, compare data from the internal IMU signal with data from the external IMU signal, and authorize a second level communication based on results of the comparison step.
US11537699B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for changing a required authentication type based on a request for a particular type of information. For example, consider a situation where a user has asked a virtual assistant “who owns this device?” By default, the device may allow biometric authentication to unlock. In response to identification of the owner by the virtual assistant, however, the device may require one or more other types of authentication (e.g., manual entry of a passcode) to unlock the device. In various embodiments, the disclosed techniques may increase the security of the device by making it more difficult for malicious entities to obtain the sensitive information or to access device functionality once the sensitive information has been disclosed. In various embodiments, this may prevent or reduce unauthorized access to the device.
US11537692B2
A personal identification apparatus includes a recording unit that records in advance feature information concerning an activity of at least one of a first person (person A) and a second person (person B or C) when the first person and the second person are together; an information acquiring unit that acquires identification information for identifying the other person; and an identification processing unit that identifies the other person as the second person, based on matching between the identification information and the feature information.
US11537690B2
Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture related to end-point media watermarking are disclosed. An example device includes a media receiver to receive a media signal, a watermark generator to generate a watermark, a trigger to activate the watermark generator to generate the watermark based on an external input, an encoder to encode the media signal with the watermark to synthesize an encoded media signal, a media output to render the encoded media signal.
US11537681B2
An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining section that obtains a content; a linking section that extracts resource information indicating a resource from the content obtained by the obtaining section and links the content, a notification destination, and the extracted resource information; and a notification section that obtains a state of the resource indicated by the resource information and in a case where the obtained state satisfies a predetermined condition, transmits a notification to the notification destination linked with the resource information.
US11537674B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a search query completion suggestion by a search engine by receiving an indication of at least a portion of a search query from an electronic device; generating, based on the indication, a ranked set of search query completion suggestions; analyzing a top one of the ranked set of search query completion suggestions to determine if the top one of the ranked set of search query completion suggestions meets a pre-determined trigger condition; in response to a positive outcome, generating a set of search results that are responsive to an intermediate search query that includes the at least the portion of the search query and the top one of the ranked set of search query completion suggestions; transmitting to the electronic device: the ranked set of search query completion suggestions; and a Search Engine Result Page (SERP) containing the set of search results.
US11537666B2
Crowdsourced prevention or reduction of dissemination of selected content in a social media platform
Crowdsourced solutions are provided that can prevent and/or reduce dissemination of selected digital content in a social media platform. In one embodiment, a system can include at least one memory device having computer-executable components stored therein, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer-executable components. Such computer-executable components can include a selection component that identifies multiple reviewer accounts using a selection criterion corresponding to a user account in the social media platform. The multiple reviewer accounts can evaluate presence of particular digital content in the social media platform directed to the user account. The computer-executable components also can include a routing component that can provide portions of digital content directed to the user account to respective reviewer accounts. The computer-executable components can further include a feedback component that receives rating information indicative of ratings for the portions of the second digital content.
US11537663B1
Techniques are disclosed to provide a graph based recommendation system. A recommendation engine definition that includes for each of a plurality of pipeline phases a corresponding phase definition and data indicating a location of the phase in a pipeline defined by the recommendation engine definition is stored in a memory of other storage device. The recommendation engine definition is used to generate programmatically one or more procedures to provide a recommendation engine that implements the pipeline. An API usable by a client to obtain a recommendation from the recommendation engine is generated programmatically and exposed.
US11537657B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable products for selecting tracks. A plurality of request parameters are received from a client device. Based on those request parameters, plurality of bans, history track attributes, and artist identifiers are loaded from a database. A most recent discovery track is calculated based on the plurality of histories and the plurality of artist identifiers. An artist identifier is repeatedly selected from the plurality of artist identifiers along with a track type from a set of track types until a predetermined number of artist identifier and track type pairs have been selected. A plurality of candidate tracks for each selected artist identifier are loaded from a database. One track of the plurality of candidate tracks is repeatedly selected for each artist identifier and track type pair until one track has been selected for each pair of the predetermined number of artist identifier and track type pairs. The predetermined number of tracks that have been selected are returned to the client device.
US11537656B2
A system for analyzing screenshots can include a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory and a display screen configured to display content. The system can include an application stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The application can include a screenshot receiver configured to access, from storage to which a screenshot of the content displayed on the display screen captured using a screenshot function of the computing device is stored, the screenshot including an image and a predetermined marker. The application can include a marker detector configured to detect the predetermined marker included in the screenshot. The application can include a link identifier configured to identify, using the predetermined marker, a link to a resource mapped to the image included in the screenshot, the resource accessible by the computing device via the link.
US11537654B2
Automated personalized identifier switching is provided for switching personalized identifiers for individuals and groups. For this purpose, a method includes determining, by a computer device, a closeness factor of a contact to a user, matching, by the computer, the determined closeness factor of the contact with an identifier having the same closeness factor stored in a database comprised of a plurality of different types of identifiers of the user, and transmitting the matched identifier from the database to the contact to display as an identifier of the user, wherein at least two of the plurality of identifiers in the database have different closeness factors from one another.
US11537652B2
A filesystem can be shared between containers. For example, a computing device having a host filesystem can launch a first container from an image file. Launching the first container can include creating an initialization directory for the first container on the host filesystem. The initialization directory can include a filesystem to be shared between containers. Launching the first container can also include creating a first filesystem directory for the first container on the host filesystem and mounting the initialization directory to the first filesystem directory. The computing device can also launch a second container from the image file. Launching the second container can include creating a second filesystem directory for the second container on the host filesystem and mounting the initialization directory to the second filesystem directory to enable the second container to access the filesystem.
US11537645B2
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention detect rhetoric agreement between texts. In an example, a rhetoric agreement application accesses a multi-part initial query and generates a question communicative discourse tree that represents rhetorical relationships between fragments of the query. The application identifies a sub-discourse tree from the question communicative discourse tree. The application generates a candidate answer communicative discourse tree for each candidate answer of a set of candidate answers. The application computes a level of complementarity between the sub-discourse tree and each candidate answer discourse tree by applying a classification model to the sub-discourse tree and candidate answer communicative discourse trees. The application selects an answer from the candidate answers based on the computed complementarity, thereby building a dialogue structure of an interactive session.
US11537632B2
A method for facilitating real-time monitoring of changes in a database is provided. The method includes scanning a subsystem vector table for a database subsystem that is active on a logical partition; compiling a vector list that includes the active database subsystem; and dynamically generating, based on the vector list, a task for each of the active database subsystem. For each of the active database subsystem, the method further includes retrieving, from a module, a log that includes a parameter by executing the task; determining, by using a model, a deviation from an average operating state of the parameter based on the log; and determining whether the deviation meets a predetermined threshold for a predetermined period of time.
US11537627B1
Systems and methods ingest machine data including logs, metadata, and cost and usage information from multiple heterogeneous cloud services. The machine data is saved as events. An application retrieves the metadata, events, metrics, and logs and causes an easy to understand visual representation of costs, resource usage, and non-compliance for each of a client's cloud services. Further, the data across the client's multiple heterogeneous cloud services is normalized to provide visual representations that compare the costs, resource usage, and non-compliance across the client's multiple heterogeneous cloud services. Further, machine learning aspects of the application can provide recommendations and trend analysis for cloud service asset usage.
US11537623B2
To select the content to be presented to the user, a first latent vector is determined for a content item based on a first object associated with the content item. A second latent vector is determined for the content item based on a second object associated with the content item. A content item vector is then determined based on the first and second latent vectors. Furthermore, a user vector is determined based on interactions of the user with the first set of content objects and the second set of content objects. A score indicative of the likelihood of the user interacting with the content item is determined based on the content item vector and the user vector.
US11537620B2
A computing system includes a processor and memory. The memory includes instruction code that causes the processor to generate first and second parser instances and associate the first parser and the second parser with respective first and second search queries. The processor controls the first parser to repeatedly obtain data from the data stream in blocks until the first parser finishes identifying elements in the data stream associated with its search path. The processor controls the second parser to repeatedly obtain blocks from the first parser when the blocks obtained by the first parser have not been searched by the second parser, and controls the second parser to obtain blocks from the data stream when the blocks obtained by the first parser have been searched by the second parser and the first parser has finished searching.
US11537619B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for replica group modification in a distributed database are disclosed. One or more stream processors write elements of a data stream to a plurality of replicas in a replica group. A control plane adds an identifier of a new replica to membership metadata for the replica group. The control plane also generates a new version number for the membership metadata that now includes the new replica. The stream processor(s) write new elements of the data stream to the replica group including the new replica. Write requests to the replica group comprise the new version number, and successful writes of the new elements are acknowledged by the replicas based at least in part on the new version number.
US11537615B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for using machine learning to estimate query resource consumption in a massively parallel processing database (MPPDB). In various embodiments, the machine learning may jointly perform query resource consumption estimation for a query and resource extreme events detection together, utilize an adaptive kernel that is configured to learn most optimal similarity relation metric for data from each system settings, and utilize multi-level stacking technology configured to leverage outputs of diverse base classifier models. Advantages and benefits of the disclosed embodiments include providing faster and more reliable system performance and avoiding resource issues such as out of memory (OOM) occurrences.
US11537604B1
A system and method for processing of queries including receiving a query including a set operation and a sort operation, wherein the set operation includes a first data structure and a second data structure and the sort operation requests a result set that is sorted based on a column or attribute of the first data structure and a column or attribute of the second data structure; generating a query plan in which a sort operation occurs prior to the set operation; determining a first, partial set of one or more resultant rows responsive to the query; sending the first, partial set of one or more resultant rows responsive to the query to a client; determining a second, partial set of one or more resultant rows responsive to the query; and sending the second, partial set of one or more resultant rows to the client.
US11537603B2
Embodiments as disclosed allow identity management with respect to SQL database by discovering substantially database objects and their entitlements and associating them with corresponding identities within the identity management system, thus providing insights into such SQL server entitlements and their associated identities, even across multiple SQL servers within an enterprise environment.
US11537597B1
A method and system for streaming data from portable storage devices. Specifically, the disclosed method and system implement iterative data streaming from a portable storage device for remote storage operations, while requiring zero over-provisioning storage space for buffering incoming write operations to the portable storage device.
US11537593B2
A fast-copyable database apparatus includes a processor and a memory in electronic communication with the processor. The memory stores a database table with multiple records each having a compound key including a version identifier. The memory also stores instructions executable to cause the processor to generate a first virtual clone of the database table and a second virtual clone of the database table, receive a query at the first virtual clone, and modify the query so that it includes a version identifier of the first virtual clone. The processor can query the database table using the modified query to generate a response based in part on each record from the set of records having a version identifier associated with an ancestral path of the version identifier of the first virtual clone, and send the response. Each compound key includes a version identifier and a data portion.
US11537580B2
A system and method are presented that analyze evaluation data concerning a subject using attributes that are logically arranged in a geometric structure such as a rectangular array. A plurality of dimension layers is laid on top of the logical arrangement of data. Each dimension layers assigns values to a plurality of dimensions based on the value of neighboring attribute groups. Each dimension layer can be associated with one or more reporting configurations that contain descriptors for the defined dimensions as well as formatting instructions for report-like output.
US11537570B2
Certain example embodiments relate to data migration. During setup, migration reference and change log tables are created. The former includes instructions for implementing changes to accommodate the migration. A custom migration procedure is generated to process these instructions. Triggers are created to automatically record, in the change log table, information about data-related actions performed on tables structured using the source schema. During backup, the triggers are activated, and the migration procedure is run to conform a restored version of the data in the tables structured using the source schema to the target schema. During migration, data modifications made to the tables structured using the source schema during the backup stage are replicated in the tables structured using the target schema, by processing the information about the data-related actions recorded in the change log table using the migration procedure, while the triggers also replay further data-related actions encountered during the migration.
US11537569B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to merge operations for multi-level data structures, such as log-structured merge-trees (LSM trees). A computer system may store, in a database, a plurality of files as part of an LSM tree and a plurality of database key structures. A given one of the plurality of database key structures may indicate, for a corresponding one of the plurality of files, a set of key ranges derived from database records that are included in the corresponding file. The computer system may determine, using ones of the plurality of database key structures, a key range overlap that is indicative of an extent of overlap of key ranges from a set of the plurality of files with respect to a particular key range. Based on the determined key range overlap, the computer system may assign a priority level to a merge operation that involves the set of files.
US11537561B2
Described herein are technologies that provide an element of security related to file system operations. Individual nodes in a file system, such as a directory or a file, can be associated with information that describes how to handle letter case when a file name included in a file system operation request is used to locate a file in the file system. For example, a case sensitive designation associated with a directory can require a case sensitive match between a file name included in a request and a file name included in the directory, in order to perform the requested file system operation. In another example, a case preferring designation associated with a directory first checks for a case sensitive match between file names. If a case sensitive match does not exist, then a case insensitive match between the file names can be used to perform the requested file system operation.
US11537556B2
Provided are techniques for optimized content object storage service for large scale content. A content object file is created. An index entry for the content object file is created with a content object key and a content object location. The content object file is appended to an aggregated file on a storage node. In response to a request to retrieve the content object file from the aggregated file, the content object key is used to access the content object location that describes the storage node, a name of the aggregated file, an offset into the aggregated file, and a size of the content object file to retrieve the content object file.
US11537554B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to obtain snapshots used for analysis of streaming data. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving initial data that includes a plurality of identifiers and corresponding timestamps, generating and storing a snapshot based on the initial data, wherein the snapshot includes the identifiers and a corresponding status, receiving a data stream that includes a subset of the identifiers, activity information for each identifier in the subset, and corresponding timestamps. The method further includes periodically analyzing the data stream to obtain a delta that includes an updated status for each identifier in the subset, storing the delta separate from the snapshot. The method further includes receiving a request for identifiers that are active in a particular time period, and based on the particular time period, retrieving active identifiers from the data stream, the delta, or the snapshot.
US11537541B2
A network interface device comprises a plurality of components configured to process a flow of data one after another. A control component is configured to provide one or more control messages in said flow, said one or more control message being provided to said plurality of components one after another such that a configuration of one or more of said components is changed.
US11537540B2
A mother board topology including a processor operable to be coupled to one or more communication channels for communicating commands. The topology includes a first communication channel electrically coupling a first set of two or more dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) and a first primary data buffer on a mother board. The topology includes a second communication channel electrically coupling a second set of two or more DIMMs and a second primary data buffer on the mother board. The topology includes a third channel electrically coupling the first primary data buffer, the primary second data buffer, and the processor.
US11537536B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
US11537535B2
A monolithic integrated circuit (IC) including one or more compute circuitry, one or more non-volatile memory circuits, one or more communication channels and one or more communication interface. The one or more communication channels can communicatively couple the one or more compute circuitry, the one or more non-volatile memory circuits and the one or more communication interface together. The one or more communication interfaces can communicatively couple one or more circuits of the monolithic integrated circuit to one or more circuits external to the monolithic integrated circuit.
US11537526B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data alignment for logical to physical table compression are described. A controller coupled with the memory array may receive a command to access a logical block address associated with a memory device. In some cases, a first portion of a physical address of the memory device associated with the logical block address may be identified. The controller may perform an operation on the logical block address included in the command and identify a second portion of the physical address based on performing the operation. The physical address of the memory device may be accessed based on identifying the first portion and the second portion.
US11537524B2
The present disclosure generally relates to effective transport layer packet (TLP) utilization. When the controller of the data storage device generates a request for transferring data to or from the storage device, the request is stored in a merging buffer. The merging buffer may include previously generated requests, where the previously generated requests and the new requests are merged. A timeout counter is initialized for the requests stored in the merging buffer. The timeout counter has a configurable threshold value that corresponds to a weight value, adjusted for latency or bandwidth considerations. When the merged request is greater than the maximum TLP size, the merged request is partitioned, where at least one partition is in the size of the maximum TLP size. The request is sent from the buffer when the request is in the size of the maximum TLP size or when the threshold value is exceeded.
US11537519B1
A memory-referent instruction is executed to calculate a target effective address (EA) of a corresponding memory-referent request. An array entry in an upper level cache is allocated, and the EA is specified in a corresponding EA directory entry. While in-flight, the memory-referent request is buffered in a queue in association with a pointer to the entry in the EA directory. Based on receiving a translation invalidation request requesting invalidation of an address translation in a translation structure, the processor core walks the EA directory, determines the EA in the entry matches an address range specified by the translation invalidation request, and, based on the match, precisely marks the memory-referent request using the pointer to the EA directory entry. Based on the marking, the translation invalidation request is permitted to complete with reference to the processor core only after the memory-referent request has drained from the processing unit.
US11537515B2
Reordering a descriptor queue while searching the queue of descriptors corresponding to map segments
Provided herein may be a memory controller configured to control a memory device. The memory controller may include a map buffer, a descriptor queue, and a descriptor controller. The map buffer may sequentially store map segments of a plurality of map segments stored in the memory device. The descriptor queue may store descriptors corresponding to the respective map segments, based on a plurality of addresses of the map buffer. The descriptor controller may search for a target descriptor among the stored descriptors based on a logical address received from a host, and reorder the stored descriptors while searching for the target descriptor.
US11537500B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to technologies for providing error detection for a disk drive of a digital video recorder (DVR). Access data is measured according to a degree of usage of a disk drive of a DVR. The access data is stored. The stored access data is analyzed to detect performance degradation of the disk drive.
US11537494B2
Example implementations relate to predicted usage based on monitored usage. For example, a system comprising a monitor engine can monitor usage of a plurality of applications used by a user during a first time period, during a heartbeat event, and predict usage of the plurality of applications, using a predictor engine, by the user during a second time period based on the analyzed monitored usage of the plurality of applications during the first time period. Additionally, the predictor engine can generate content during the second time period based on the predicated usage of the plurality of applications during the first time period.
US11537480B1
In part, the disclosure relates to a backup and restoration system for a transactional log based journaling application. The system includes a transactional log backup process executing on one or more computing devices; an archive stored in non-transitory computer readable memory; and a binary difference file generator in electronic communication with the archive and responsive to instructions from the transactional log backup process. In one embodiment, the binary difference file generator includes a backup driver in electrical communication with and responsive to communication signals from the transactional backup process.
US11537467B2
A memory which includes a downlink error correction circuit suitable for correcting an error in data transferred from a memory controller based on a downlink error correction code transferred from the memory controller to produce an error-corrected data so that when an uncorrectable error is detected in the downlink error correction circuit of the memory or when an uncorrectable error is detected in the memory error correction circuit of the memory, the information that there is an uncorrectable error may be transferred to the memory controller in the memory system by using an uncorrectable error signal and an error flag signal, thus, improving the reliability of the memory system.
US11537465B2
In general, according to an embodiment, a memory system includes a memory device including a memory cell; and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive first data from the memory cell in a first data reading; receive second data from the memory cell in a second data reading that is different from the first data reading; convert a first value that is based on the first data and the second data, to a second value in accordance with a first relationship; and convert the first value to a third value in accordance with a second relationship that is different from the first relationship.
US11537461B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically resolving an error in a user interaction with a user page without the user having to disengage from the user page to resolve the error. A monitoring agent may interface with the user page. The monitoring agent may provide an error signal to an error resolution module in response to detecting an error in the user interaction with the user page. The error resolution module may determine a causal factor for the error based on the error signal and contextual data at the time of the error. A resolution flow may be determined based on the causal factor. The resolution flow may be implemented by the monitoring agent contextually within the user page to resolve the error without the user disengaging from the user page.
US11537459B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically predicting device failure using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining telemetry data from at least one client device; predicting failure of at least a portion of the at least one client device by processing at least a portion of the telemetry data using a first set of one or more machine learning techniques; predicting lifespan information pertaining to at least a portion of the at least one client device by processing the predicted failure and at least a portion of the telemetry data using a second set of one or more machine learning techniques; and performing at least one automated action based at least in part on one or more of the predicted failure and the predicted lifespan information.
US11537456B2
Systems and methods for selectively exposing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) dynamically and in a scalable manner include, when a new API is exposed in a microservice, making it accessible via a gateway if it is indicated to be exposed. The present disclosure focused on exposing a range of services behind the API gateway in a scalable, easy to use manner. The present disclosure includes an API gateway that supports a new microservice easily and efficiently as long as it provides metadata. The API gateway dynamically decides which APIs will be exposed via the gateway with filtering per service. Also, the API gateway routes any request made by a user to the gateway back to the intended microservice in a transparent fashion, as well as performing any additional transformations of the request before sending it back to the microservice.
US11537455B2
In a message processing system, an application connected to an event stream publishes a schema for the structure of data payloads contained in messages from the application. Other readers and writers within the system can receive the schema and apply the schema to subsequent inbound and/or outbound messages as appropriate. The application may from time to time dynamically update the schema and publish a revised schema for use by the other applications connected to the event stream for subsequent messages.
US11537447B2
Technologies for providing efficient migration of services include a server device. The server device includes compute engine circuitry to execute a set of services on behalf of a terminal device and migration accelerator circuitry. The migration accelerator circuitry is to determine whether execution of the services is to be migrated from an edge station in which the present server device is located to a second edge station in which a second server device is located, determine a prioritization of the services executed by the server device, and send, in response to a determination that the services are to be migrated and as a function of the determined prioritization, data utilized by each service to the second server device of the second edge station to migrate the services. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11537444B2
This document describes methods, systems and computer program products related to cloud-based rendering. The subject matter of this document is embodied in a method that includes receiving, at a server, information associated with a job of rendering one or more frames at the server, and using, at the server, an application to perform at least a portion of the rendering. The use of the application to perform the rendering bears a charge according to a usage license associated with the application. The method also includes measuring, at the server, an amount of use of the application in performing the rendering for use in determining the charge.
US11537441B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for balancing loads, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: for each data processing unit in a set of data processing units in a data processing system, acquiring current input data of the data processing unit for a current clock cycle and next input data of the data processing unit for a next clock cycle; and determining a first metric value indicating changes in input data of said data processing unit in the next clock cycle based on a comparison between the current input data and the next input data. The method further includes controlling an operating state of the set of data processing units in the next clock cycle based on the first metric value determined for the set of data processing units.
US11537440B2
A system to facilitate infrastructure management is described. The system includes one or more processors and a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to execute an infrastructure management controller to receive first monitoring data indicating a first infrastructure condition occurring at an on-premise infrastructure controller, determine a first load state of the on-premise infrastructure controller based on the first infrastructure condition and adjust a consistency level of the on-premise infrastructure controller to a first level of the consistency based on the first state.
US11537435B2
The disclosure relates to systems, methods and computer-readable media for using system jobs for performing actions outside the constraints of batch compute jobs submitted to a compute environment such as a cluster or a grid. The method for modifying a compute environment from a system job disclosure associating a system job to a queuable object, triggering the system job based on an event and performing arbitrary actions on resources outside of compute nodes in the compute environment. The queuable objects include objects such as batch compute jobs or job reservations. The events that trigger the system job may be time driven, such as ten minutes prior to completion of the batch compute job, or dependent on other actions associated with other system jobs. The system jobs may be utilized also to perform rolling maintenance on a node by node basis.
US11537434B2
The disclosure relates to systems, methods and computer-readable media for using system jobs for performing actions outside the constraints of batch compute jobs submitted to a compute environment such as a cluster or a grid. The method for modifying a compute environment from a system job disclosure associating a system job to a queuable object, triggering the system job based on an event and performing arbitrary actions on resources outside of compute nodes in the compute environment. The queuable objects include objects such as batch compute jobs or job reservations. The events that trigger the system job may be time driven, such as ten minutes prior to completion of the batch compute job, or dependent on other actions associated with other system jobs. The system jobs may be utilized also to perform rolling maintenance on a node by node basis.
US11537433B2
A system, computer program product, and method to deriving a cost model and dynamic adjustment of the derived model responsive to dynamic modification of one or more of the resources in a hybrid shared resource environment. Resources and corresponding configuration information are collected while monitoring runtime utilization of resource performance. As changes to the resources are discovered, the changes are subject to an assessment. A hybrid cost model is derived and configured to account for the one or more resources. The derived hybrid cost model is leveraged to conduct a multi-dimensional resource evaluation of the assessed changed configuration information. Responsive to the multi-dimensional evaluation, a generated resource utilization optimization of the one or more resources is selectively implemented.
US11537424B2
A system and method for dynamically configuring a virtual machine to accommodate requests of a microservice application program and executing the microservice application program in the virtual machine with optimal computing resources are provided. The method includes: creating a dynamically configurable virtual machine including a first virtual CPU, receiving microservice application code, linking the microservice application code to generate executable code, determining and assigning memory in the dynamically configurable virtual machine for executing the executable code, executing the executable code using the dynamically configurable virtual machine, determining whether the dynamically configurable virtual machine requires reconfiguration and performing reconfiguration of the dynamically configurable virtual machine responsive to determining that the virtual machine requires reconfiguration.
US11537422B2
A migration process for migration of a virtual machine from a source host to a destination host has initiated is determined. The source host and the destination host are part of a network. A multicast address that is mapped to a group comprising the source host and the destination host is obtained. Host in the network to begin encapsulating packets addressed to the virtual machine and send the encapsulated packets using the multicast address in a destination address field of the encapsulated packets is notified.
US11537421B1
Computer systems and methods are disclosed to implement a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that stores cryptographic keys for guest virtual machines (VMs) and securely executes cryptographic operations on the VMs' behalf using the stored cryptographic keys. The cryptographic keys are maintained in a key store that is accessible to the VMM but not accessible to the guest VMs. The cryptographic operations are executed in a manner that does not reveal the cryptographic keys to the guest VMs. In embodiments, the guest VMs may invoke the cryptographic operations via a device driver, a memory access interface, or some other mechanism. Advantageously, the guest VMs cannot obtain the cryptographic keys in their own memory space, so that the keys cannot be exfiltrated from the guest VMs. Embodiments of the VMM may be used to implement cryptographic operations such as request signing and verification, data encryption and decryption, and others.
US11537418B2
A system for executing software, wherein a computing device stores instructions for a code execution module such that, when the instructions are executed, the computing device will: receive, for execution by the code execution module, software; create one or more immutable software nodes described in the software; determine that the software comprise an instruction to begin a simulated change at runtime of the one or more immutable software nodes; store the simulated change in a simulated change apparatus; using the simulated change apparatus, perform one or more operations of the software as if the one or more immutable software nodes had been changed in memory, during a period of time where each of the one or more immutable software nodes is guaranteed to retain logical immutability; and output results of the one or more operations.
US11537416B1
In an embodiment, a method of real-time process monitoring includes initiating monitoring of user interface (UI) activity in a plurality of user environments in which a user-executed process is performed. The user-executed process is defined in a stored instruction set that identifies a plurality of steps of the user-executed process. The plurality of user environments include a first environment operated by a human worker and a second environment operated by a bot. The method also includes, responsive to the initiating, detecting a new process scenario for the user-executed process. The method also includes determining new bot logic for the new process scenario. The method also includes causing the bot to implement the new bot logic.
US11537415B2
An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an information processing circuit configured to generate a finite state machine based on a predetermined matching condition with respect to sequence data of an event that is input to the information processing apparatus; to process the sequence data so as to substantially remove data that does not match the matching condition from the sequence data; and to output the processed sequence data.
US11537398B2
Method, apparatus, and program means for performing a string comparison operation. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a first instruction. In response to the first instruction, said execution resources store a result of a comparison between each data element of a first and second operand corresponding to a first and second text string, respectively.
US11537393B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing states of deployment. A presence of a configuration change to be implemented at a deployment may be detected. The configuration change may include one or more commands to change a configuration of the deployment. Responsive to detecting the presence of the configuration change, information describing the configuration change may be stored in a repository. The information may be stored in an unsubstituted form and a substituted form. An interface through which configuration change information is accessible may be provided. The configuration change information may describe the configuration change at the deployment based on one or both of the unsubstituted form and the substituted form.
US11537390B2
A Smart Products Lifecycle Management (sPLM) system that is built upon the smart component data model and the NPD3 process model, is enabling engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to collaborate on a common platform to develop smart products. The sPLM system is validated by applying it to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) development and operations, referred to as UsPLM. The UsPLM has shared lifecycle management functions that are provided as web services and can be applied to all digital models of UAS devices, software, autonomy functions, and missions. The individual models can be versioned, tracked, and be composed with other compatible models, if needed. The rule and scoring engines embedded in the UsPLM allow building and executing configuration rules, regulation rules, and various machine-learning models. This facilitates modular UAS architecture design so that the UAS has the flexibility to be reconfigured for various mission applications.
US11537389B2
A method can include storing first instruction data in a first region of a nonvolatile memory device; mapping addresses of the first region to predetermined memory address spaces of a processor device; executing the first instruction data from the first region with the processor device; receiving second instruction data for the processor device. While the first instruction data remains available to the processor device, the second instruction data can be written into a second region of the nonvolatile memory device. By operation of the processor device, addresses of the second region can be remapped to the predetermined memory address spaces of the processor device; and executing the second instruction data from the second region with the processor device.
US11537381B2
Techniques facilitating quantum software developer kit and framework as a service are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an execution component that executes, on a quantum device located within a cloud computing environment, a code based on an identification of the code received from a communication device. A quantum software development kit can execute on the communication device.
US11537375B2
An apparatus and method is described that digitally coordinates dynamically adaptable clock and voltage supply to significantly reduce the energy consumed by a processor without impacting its performance or latency. A signal is generated that indicates a long latency operation. This signal is used to reduce power supply voltage and frequency of the adaptable clock. An early resume indicator is generated a few nanoseconds before normal operations are about to resume. This early resume signal is used to power up the power-downed voltage regulator, and/or can increase frequency and/or supply voltage back to normal level before normal processor operations are about to resume.
US11537373B2
A system for compiling programs for execution thereof using a hierarchical processing system having two or more levels of memory hierarchy can perform memory-level-specific optimizations, without exceeding a specified maximum compilation time. To this end, the compiler system employs a polyhedral model and limits the dimensions of a polyhedral program representation that is processed by the compiler at each level using a focalization operator that temporarily reduces one or more dimensions of the polyhedral representation. Semantic correctness is provided via a defocalization operator that can restore all polyhedral dimensions that had been temporarily removed.
US11537365B2
Developer and runtime environments supporting multi-modal input for computing systems are disclosed. The developer environment includes a gesture library of human body gestures (e.g., hand gestures) that a previously-trained, system-level gesture recognition machine is configured to recognize. The developer environment further includes a user interface for linking a gesture of the gesture library with a semantic descriptor that is assigned to a function of the application program. The application program is executable to implement the function responsive to receiving an indication of the gesture recognized by the gesture recognition machine within image data captured by a camera. The semantic descriptor may be additionally linked to a different input modality than the gesture, such as a natural language input.
US11537363B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to generating a user interface (UI) migration plan, including intermediate UIs, for migrating from a current UI to a new UI. A computer system may receive information specifying a current UI and a new UI, and identify one or more differences between the current and the new UIs. Based on the differences, the computer system may generate information specifying one or more candidate intermediate UIs. The computer system may score the candidate intermediate UIs relative to a specified set of design criteria. The computer system may determine a UI migration plan that specifies a set of the one or more candidate intermediate UIs that are displayable in order to migrate from the current UI to the new UI, where the set of one or more intermediate UIs is selected based on the scoring. Use of the UI migration plan may advantageously reduce user interaction issues.
US11537359B2
A response activity pattern may be ascertained from a set of computing devices obtained during a monitoring mode of operation. The monitoring mode of operation can be initiated when a user command is determined to be a new or unknown command. The response activity pattern may be used to generate a response profile indicating an activity to carry out using one or more user devices to perform a task associated with the user command. When an indication of a previously unknown user command to perform a task is received, the generated response profile can be used to perform the designed task by carrying out the activity using the one or more user device. In this way, the activity that should be carried out to perform the task can be learned based on the monitored user activity related to the one or more user devices.
US11537354B2
An HUB system 1 is equipped with an HUB device 10 for displaying a video in front of a vehicle; a communication unit 31 for connecting a mobile device 3 with the HUD device and establishing communication; a speaker 32 for outputting sounds to a driver; a microphone 33 for picking up the voices of the driver; a sound recognition unit 34 for analyzing the picked-up voices; and an in-vehicle camera 35 for photographing the face of the driver. When there is an incoming call at the mobile device, a calling indication of the mobile device 3 is displayed on the display screen of the HUD device, an incoming call sound is outputted from the speaker, and on the basis of a result of an analysis of voices uttered by the driver performed by the sound recognition unit, the conversation operations of the mobile device are started or ended.
US11537351B2
A computer implemented method of facilitating communication between first and second users includes displaying, by a first head-worn device, a first virtual object to the first user first user wearing the first head-worn device. The method also includes displaying, by a second head-worn device, a second virtual object to the second user wearing the second head-worn device. The method further includes facilitating, by the first and second head-worn devices, communications between the first and second users using the first and second virtual objects to simulate the first and second users being present in a common environment.
US11537348B2
Disclosed is a multi-display apparatus including display modules and a sensor. Some of the display modules sequentially connected receive a signal from the sensor, and each of the display modules transmits signals including the signal from the sensor to a display module connected to a rear stage thereof. The display module connected to a final stage transmits the signal from the sensor to a control box. The control box includes a detector configured to detect whether signals from a plurality of transmission lines include a generated flag signal based on the signals including a signal from the sensor and a selector configured to select a transmission line detected as including the flag signal by the detector and set the selected transmission line as a channel for communication with the sensor.
US11537343B2
A server includes a server storage that stores a print job related information record in which a print job ID is associated with network information, a first acquirer that acquires a print request, a transmitter that transmits a print instruction to a terminal device based on the stored network information associated with the print job ID included in the print request acquired by the first acquirer, a second acquirer that acquires print job information from the terminal device, and an updater that updates, based on the acquired print job information, the stored print job related information record including the print job ID included in the print job information acquired by the second acquirer.
US11537342B2
Management is performed by using a contract number, a model, a device ID, and data for managing the number of printed sheets as the contract device, a task for acquiring information necessary for management as the contract device is generated in response to a detection of a new device corresponding to a contract, a device search is performed via a network, and information necessary for management as the contract device is acquired from a new device according to the task in response to a detection if the new device corresponding to a model managed as the contract device is detected by the search. Additionally, a device ID of the contract device and data for managing the number of printed sheets are updated and managed by using the information acquired from the new device in response to the detection of the new device.
US11537333B2
Provided is a client device configured to communicate with a server via a network, the client device comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to: acquire counter information which is totaled according to performing a job by the client device and is stored in the one or more memories; determine whether the client device has been performed at least one job during acquiring the counter information; reacquire counter information in a case where it is determined that the client device has been performed at least one job during acquiring the counter information; and transmit the reacquired counter information to the server.
US11537326B2
The present disclosure generally relates to efficiently relocating data within a data storage device. By implementing an error correction code (ECC) module in a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip for each memory die within a memory array of a memory device, the data can be relocated more efficiently. The ECC decodes the codewords at the memory die. The metadata is then extracted from the decoded codewords and transferred to a controller of the data storage device. A flash translation layer (FTL) module at the controller then checks whether the data is valid by comparing the received metadata to FTL tables. If the metadata indicates the data is valid, then the data is relocated.
US11537325B2
A storage system and method for token provisioning for faster data access are provided. In one embodiment, a storage system is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a write command from a host to write data in the memory; write the data in the memory at a starting physical address; provide the host with a token indicating the starting physical address; receive a read command and the token from the host; and read the data stored in the memory at the starting physical address as indicated by the token. Other embodiments are provided.
US11537323B2
A processing-in-memory (PIM) device includes a first group of storage regions, a second group of storage regions, and a plurality of multiplication/accumulation (MAC) operators. The MAC operators are configured to communicate with the first and second groups of storage regions through a global data input/output (GIO) line. A first storage region corresponding to a storage region of the first group of storage regions, a second storage region corresponding to a storage region of the second group of storage regions, and a first MAC operator corresponding to a MAC operator of the plurality of MAC operators constitute a MAC unit. The first MAC operator is configured to receive first data and second data from the first and second storage regions, respectively, through the GIO line to perform a MAC arithmetic operation of the first and second data and to output a result of the MAC arithmetic operation.
US11537322B2
A method includes, responsive to receiving a modified first reservation command from a storage controller, identifying, by a storage drive, a first range of storage based on a first range identifier of the modified reservation command. The method also includes granting, by the storage drive, a reservation for access to the storage drive on behalf of a first host controller by associating the reservation for the first range with a second range of storage.
US11537318B2
A memory system includes: a memory device; a command queue queuing a program descriptor and a first read descriptor, and sequentially outputting the descriptors; a program manager performing an error handling operation in response to the program descriptor, the error handling operation including performing a program operation on a second physical address when a program operation performed on a first physical address fails; a fail managing buffer storing the first physical address for the failed program operation; a queue manager deleting the first read descriptor from the command queue and outputting an exception signal, when a physical address of the first read descriptor is the same as the first physical address; and a descriptor generator generating a second read descriptor including the second physical address in response to the exception signal and enqueuing the second read descriptor in the command queue, when the error handling operation passed.
US11537312B2
An apparatus comprises a source system comprising a distribution layer, a management component and a plurality of replication components. The distribution layer is configured to obtain an input-output operation corresponding to an address and to identify a given replication component that corresponds to the address based at least in part on a distribution instance. The distribution layer is configured to assign a first distribution identifier corresponding to the distribution instance to the input-output operation and to provide the input-output operation to the given replication component with the first distribution identifier. The given replication component is configured to obtain a second distribution identifier from the management component and to determine whether or not the first distribution identifier is equal to the second distribution identifier. The given replication component is further configured to perform at least one action on the obtained input-output operation based at least in part on the determination.
US11537301B2
A system comprises a processor and a plurality of memory units. The processor is coupled to each of the plurality of memory units by a plurality of network connections. The processor includes a plurality of processing elements arranged in a two-dimensional array and a corresponding two-dimensional communication network communicatively connecting each of the plurality of processing elements to other processing elements on same axes of the two-dimensional array. Each processing element that is located along a diagonal of the two-dimensional array is configured as a request broadcasting master for a respective group of processing elements located along a same axis of the two-dimensional array.
US11537290B2
There is provided a method for managing a solid state storage system with hybrid storage technologies. The method includes monitoring one or more storage request streams to identify operating mode characteristics therein from among a set of possible operating mode characteristics. The set of possible operating mode characteristics correspond to a set of available operating modes of the hybrid storage technologies. The method further includes identifying a current operating mode from among the set of available operating modes responsive to the identified operating mode characteristics. The method also includes predicting a likely future operating mode responsive to variations in workload requirements to generate at least one future operating mode prediction. The method additionally includes controlling at least one of data placement, wear leveling, and garbage collection, responsive to the at least one future operating mode prediction.
US11537287B2
An electronic device includes an input screen including: a dial keyboard on which multiple characters are annularly arranged for selection by an operator; an input area into which a character selected from the multiple characters is input at an input position; and a movement key for allowing the operator to move the input position at which the selected character is to be input in the input area to determine the input position. The dial keyboard sequentially displays the multiple characters for selection by the operator on the dial keyboard, according to an operation on the dial keyboard by the operator. The input area displays the selected character at the input position determined in response to an operation on the movement key, in response to a selection of a character from the multiple characters by the operator.
US11537286B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for displaying content on a user device. For example, a method of displaying content on a user device may include: receiving a first set of content data; arranging and displaying the first set of content in a first sequence of consecutive segments; detecting user input indicative of a scroll pattern of the user through the first sequence of consecutive segments; determining a preferred category based on the detected user input; receiving a second set of content data; arranging the second set of content data into a second sequence of consecutive segments based on the preferred category; and displaying the second set of content data in the arranged second sequence of consecutive segments on the display of the user device.
US11537284B2
A method for scrolling visual page content in a predetermined direction on a screen of a display device can include displaying at least one visual object on the screen, detecting a scrolling action for moving the at least one visual object on the screen, detecting information on scrolling behavior of the displayed visual object, and displaying a scrolling of the visual object on the screen based on the detected information on the scrolling behavior.
US11537278B2
The technology herein involves accessing content of an electronic document and a shared layout for the electronic document, wherein the shared layout provides a layout for user devices having different dimensions of display areas; rendering the content of the electronic document onto a primary rendering surface and a secondary rendering surface, wherein the primary rendering surface is associated with a native platform of a user device and the secondary rendering surface is associated with the shared layout of a server; applying operation commands to modify the primary rendering surface, the operation commands resulting from a user interaction with the electronic document; merging the operation commands into a merged operation call; and invoking the merged operation call to modify the secondary rendering surface, wherein the merged operation call reduces a number of operation calls that modify the secondary rendering surface and is shared with the server to modify the shared layout.
US11537274B2
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving a sequence of actions entered into a GUI before an account action for a user account of a user during a user session initiated via a first user portal; dividing the sequence of actions into actions for real-time features and actions for periodic features; simultaneously (1) storing the actions for the periodic features in a distributed cloud storage system and (2) processing the actions for the real-time features into the real-time features; and simultaneously storing the periodic features and the real-time features in a database managed by real-time stream processing software.
US11537273B1
An online system presents a content item to users and receives selections of reaction icons from the users. The online system generates a background animation with the selected reaction icons and a foreground animation to be layered on top of the background animation. The online system sends the background and foreground animations to a client device to be cached. Further, the online system presents the content item to a viewing user associated with the client device and receives a selection of a reaction icon from the viewing user. The online system selects a subset of the users based on the viewing user's affinity to the users, retrieves images of the selected users, and send the images to the client device. The client device customizes the background and foreground animations based on the images and the viewing user's reaction icon to generate a compound animation for display to the viewing user.
US11537272B2
In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems for integrating web content generated by a content management system (CMS) with dynamic content generated by a content development system include an API handler of the CMS configured to communicate an action received from a remote computing device to a web part, where the web part interfaces with both the CMS and a web application framework to coordinate response to the action and to inject information regarding the dynamic content into the web content for use by the remote computing device. The remote computing device may include a view provider module configured to access the dynamic content using the injected information.
US11537271B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for facilitating a comparison of content in a user interface are described. Two or more open browser interfaces of a browser are identified, each of the two or more open browser interfaces containing an item description of one or more items. The browser interfaces include at least one of a tab of the browser or a window of the browser. One or more features related to each of the one or more items from at least two of the item descriptions are extracted or identified. The comparison for a plurality of items is generated based on the extracted or identified one or more features. The comparison of the plurality of items is displayed within at least one of the browser interfaces.
US11537258B2
In one embodiment, a method includes a computer system accessing an image of a physical environment of a user, the image being associated with a perspective of the user and depicting a physical input device and a physical hand of the user, determining a pose of the physical input device, generating a three-dimensional model representing the physical hand of the user, generating an image mask by projecting the three-dimensional model onto an image plane associated with the perspective of the user, generating, by applying the image mask to the image, a cropped image depicting at least the physical hand of the user in the image, rendering, based on the perspective of the user and the pose of the physical input device, a virtual input device to represent the physical input device, and displaying the cropped image depicting at least the physical hand over the rendered virtual input device.
US11537238B2
A method, device and system for touch recognition are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring touch information corresponding to a first touched position on a touched surface when a touch operation is performed at the first touched position; acquiring a continuous-touch condition of the first touched position according to the touch information corresponding to the first touched position; and updating a corresponding touch-operation identifier according to the continuous-touch condition of the first touched position to recognize the touch operation, and performing a touch response to a corresponding touch operation according to the touch-operation identifier as updated.
US11537237B2
The present disclosure relates to a touch panel. The touch panel includes a plurality of pixel units, and each of the plurality of pixel units includes a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit of each of the plurality of pixel units includes a driver, a writer, a power supply, a reset module, a controller and a compensator. The power supply includes a fourth switching transistor and a second capacitor. A gate of the fourth switching transistor is input with a light emitting control signal, and a source of the fourth switching transistor is input with a power supply signal. The second capacitor includes a first electrode connected to the driver; and a second electrode input with the power supply signal.
US11537233B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device and, more particularly, to a touch display device having a structure capable of enabling efficient testing and reducing the number of test pads.
