US11706632B1
An artificial intelligence network operator (aiNO) that autonomously and dynamically acquires network resources on an open marketplace includes software running a machine learning model and a processor that controls backhaul connectivity and a network communication component. In some embodiments, the aiNO facilitates resale of the acquired network resource to end users.
US11706628B2
A security platform of a data network is provided that includes security services for computing devices in communication with the data network. The security platform may apply a security policy to the computing devices when accessing the Internet via a home network (or other customer network) and when accessing the Internet via a public or third party network. To provide security services to computing devices via the home network, the security platform may communicate with a security agent application executed on the router (or other gateway device) of the home network. In addition, each of the devices identified by the security profile for the home network may be instructed or otherwise be provided a security agent application for execution on the computing devices. The security agent application may communicate with the security platform when the computing device connects to the Internet over a third party or public access point.
US11706625B2
A method includes identifying a potentially malicious node using a rating assigned to nodes within the network and decrementing the rating based on detected dropped messages to identify a potentially malicious node. The malicious node is identified based on location information obtained from the nodes within the network and comparable distances from the potentially malicious node. The method further includes ending communications with the malicious node and selecting a new parent node based on a presumption that any of the plurality of nodes other than the malicious node are non-malicious.
US11706623B2
A communication method in a vehicle to everything (V2X), user equipment (UE), and a network device can achieve a correct communication between UE and UE on a PC5 interface. The method includes: receiving, by the UE, first information transmitted by the network device, the first information being configured to instruct a radio access technology (RAT) authorized to be used by the UE on the PC5 interface.
US11706617B2
Blockchain technology is used to provide distributed authentication, entitlements and trust among different virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) elements. An enterprise blockchain with interfaces enables multi-vendor vRAN deployment across multiple service providers. In another embodiment, a method is provided for authenticating entities in a virtualized radio access network to ensure various entitles are in fact entitled to participate in various radio access network operations.
US11706615B2
Disclosed here is a system and method to determine which wireless telecommunication network functionalities are impaired when using end-to-end encryption and to ameliorate the impairment of the functionality. The system receives a request from a sender device to communicate with a receiver device, where the request indicates whether the sender device is capable of an end-to-end encryption. The system determines whether the receiver device is capable of the end-to-end encryption, and whether the receiver device is associated with a functionality provided by a wireless telecommunication network that is impaired when the end-to-end encryption is used. Upon determining that the receiver device is not capable of the end-to-end encryption or that the receiver device is associated with the functionality that is impaired, the system performs an action to ameliorate the impairment to the functionality.
US11706614B2
The disclosed technology separates session management function signaling from the AMF. In particular, an SMF key is created for each SMF following the AMF generating an SM context request that contains gNB information and UE subscription information. Each PDU session creates a direct connection between the SMF and a local gNB. The gNB communicates with each SMF directly over a new interface (N3-C) for session management that is independent of the N2 interface used by the gNB to communicate with the AMF for mobility management. In this way, each SMF independently handles NAS signaling with the UE, using the SMF key and gNB related session-management signaling over an independent interface with the gNB. This removes the burden of relaying these communications through the AMF, which is then freed up to solely to handle mobility management signaling, resulting in an improved architecture.
US11706607B1
Methods, devices, and system related to wireless communications are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communications includes receiving, by a network node in a communication network, a packet associated with a call that has been initiated for a user device, and determining, by the network node, location information carried in a header of the packet. The method also includes determining, by the network node using a mapping between location information and Major Trading Are (MTA) values, a MTA value corresponding to the location information carried in the header, and routing, by the network node based on the MTA value, the packet using a routing path that bypasses a circuit-switched based network.
US11706599B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit that supports a Bluetooth network, at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor, through the wireless communication circuit, to generate a first link with a first external electronic device based on the Bluetooth network, generate a second link with a second external electronic device based on the Bluetooth network, transmit information to the second external electronic device through the second link, wherein the information is used by the second external electronic device to monitor the first link, negotiate timing for transmitting a response message with the second external electronic device, receive a data packet from the first external electronic device, and transmit a response message to the first external electronic device in response to the data packet based on the negotiated timing.
US11706595B2
Provided are a method and device for determining a transmission mode, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes acquiring information for determining the transmission mode, where the information includes at least one of: service profile information about a first service from an upper layer of a first terminal or an application layer of the first terminal, access layer information about the first terminal, transmission parameter information configured for the first terminal by a base station, or capability information about a second terminal of a proximity service; and determining the transmission mode according to the information. This can solve the problem in the existing art of how to perform communication better when there are UEs of different types or different capabilities in a system.
US11706594B2
A system for providing dynamic roadside assistance coordination may include a customer mobile device or vehicle in direct, or indirect, wireless communication with an insurance provider and/or service provider remote server. The customer's device may transmit a request for roadside assistance (e.g., towing services), and a current GPS location. In response, a closest, trusted service provider vehicle may be determined, and then directed to the customer's location. For instance, a software application may receive the customer location and compare it with availability information to match the customer with a close and trusted service provider. The customer's device may receive an acknowledgement that help is on the way, and be able to track the current location of the service provider vehicle while en route. Payment for the roadside assistance may be automatically and electronically paid by the insurance provider. As a result, prompt and safe roadside assistance may be provided.
US11706593B2
[Problem] Provided is an interference protection mechanism for communications using a transmit beam in a sidelink. [Solution] A terminal device capable of communication using any communication method classified as vehicle-to-x (V2X) includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first information relating to allocation of a resource pool that can be used by a plurality of terminal devices using the communication method and second information relating to transmit power which is associated with a beam ID of one or a plurality of transmit beams which the terminal devices use in communication using the communication method; a parameter determination unit that determines parameters relating to the transmit beams on the basis of the first information and the second information; and a transmission processing unit that performs packet transmission processing using the communication method on the basis of the determined parameters.
US11706592B2
Systems and methods described herein include receiving, at a network device and from a session management device, a first message that includes a first identifier associated with a subscriber and a second identifier associated with a first service that is charged using an online charging system. The network device transmits a second message that indicates a first time period in which to report data usage associated with the first service and a second time period in which to report data usage associated with one or more second services that are charged using an offline charging system. The network device receives first data usage information associated with the first service after the first time period and second data usage information associated with the one or more second services after the second time period. The network device processes the data usage information.
US11706588B2
A positioning method for a user equipment (UE) and an associated electronic device, the method including after a UE initiates a positioning request, receiving, by the UE, first supplementary information sent by a Location Management Function (LMF), where the first supplementary information comprises Synchronization Signal Block beam polling information of a designated cell reported to the LMF by a Next Generation Radio Access Network, measuring, by the UE, the designated cell to acquire first measurement information, and determining, by the UE, a position of the UE according to the first measurement information and the first supplementary information.
US11706583B2
Technical problems and their solution are disclosed regarding the location of mobile devices requesting services near a site from a server. Embodiments adapt and/or configure the transmitting device near the site, the mobile device communicating with the transmitting device using a short haul wireless communications protocol to deliver a token based upon a key shared with the server but invisible to the mobile device. The server can determine the proximity of the mobile device to the site to control actuation of the requested service or disable the service request, and possibly flushing the service request from the server. Solutions are disclosed for traffic intersections involving one or more traffic lights, elevators in buildings, fire alarms in buildings and valet parking facilities.
US11706582B2
Techniques for calibrating listening devices are disclosed herein. The techniques include emitting a predetermined audio signal using an outward-facing transducer located on a first portion of a head-mounted device worn by the user, receiving the predetermined audio signal at a microphone located on a second portion of the head-mounted device, the second portion being different from the first portion, determining a transfer function for the user based on the received predetermined audio signal, and applying the transfer function to audio signals transmitted to the user.
US11706567B2
A display apparatus is capable of outputting a stereo sound. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image; a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel; a rear cover on the rear surface of the display panel and configured to support the sound generating device; a partition member between the rear surface of the display panel and the rear cover and configured to divide the display panel into first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas; and first, second, third, fourth, and fifth sound generating devices attached to the rear surface of the display panel and configured to vibrate the display panel. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth sound generating devices are in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas, respectively.
US11706566B2
Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as “smart” headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system. Exemplary techniques facilitate continuity of playback when transitioning between locations (e.g., from at home to on-the-go or vice versa) or between listening paradigms (e.g., personal or out-loud playback of audio content). An example implementation includes detecting a swap trigger, determining the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s), and performing a playback session swap between the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s).
US11706557B2
A ribbon cord containment and identifying adaptor can be adaptively anchored or fixed to or removed from a ribbon type cord or ribbon cord of a set of earphones by hand via an anchor slot of the adaptor. The anchor slot can have a frame or structure that has an entrapment chamber and a path leading to a cord entrapment chamber where the entrapment chamber is slanted with respect to the path leading to the entrapment chamber. The structure of the entrapment chamber and path help anchor the adaptor on the ribbon type cord segment to prevent inadvertent dislodgement of the adaptor from the cord segment. The structure of the anchor slot is rigid and serves to firmly grip or compress cord segments positioned between gapped-apart opposing sidewalls within the anchor slot. When a cord containment adaptor is anchored via the anchor slot, ribbon type cord segments can be gripped into slots in a manner that helps prevent the adopter from dislodging from the ribbon cord. When positioned on cord segments, the adaptors can serve as identifying objects or adaptors.
US11706552B2
An open audio device including an acoustic radiator that emits front-side acoustic radiation from its front side, and emits rear-side acoustic radiation from its rear side. A front acoustic cavity receives front-side acoustic radiation and comprises at least one front sound-emitting opening, and a rear acoustic cavity receives rear-side acoustic radiation and comprises at least one rear sound-emitting opening. The front and rear acoustic cavities each have a fundamental frequency. The fundamental frequencies are within one octave of each other.
US11706538B2
An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging device that is mounted in a vehicle, and captures and generates an image of a peripheral region of the vehicle; and a processing device that is mounted in the vehicle, and executes processing related to a function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of the image. The imaging device includes: a first control line, a first voltage generator that applies a first voltage to the first control line, a first signal line, a plurality of pixels that applies a pixel voltage to the first signal line, a first dummy pixel that applies a voltage corresponding to the first voltage of the first control line to the first signal line in a first period, a converter including a first converter that performs AD conversion on the basis of a voltage of the first signal line in the first period to generate a first digital code, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the first digital code. The above-described processing device restricts the function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of a result of the diagnosis processing.
US11706534B2
An imaging system including an imaging device 501 and a recording server 502 communicatively connected to the imaging device 501, wherein the imaging device 501 includes an imaging unit 503 that generates a video with a plurality of resolution, a dividing unit 504 that performs a division process of dividing the video generated by the imaging unit 503 into one or a plurality of tile areas and generates a tile image, and a transmission unit 506 that transmits the video to the recording server 502, wherein the recording server 502 includes a division control unit 507 that outputs an instruction to change a division method for the division process to the imaging device according to a designation frequency of an area designated on the video transmitted from the imaging device 501.
US11706532B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises a display; a camera disposed under the display; and a processor configured to, obtain a first image using the camera in a first state in which a first portion of the display corresponding to a position where the camera is disposed is in a first mode, obtain a second image, using the camera in a second state in which the first portion of the display is in a second mode, calculate correction values, based on first data for a first area of the first image and second data for a second area of the second image, wherein the second area of the second image corresponds to the first area of the first image, and correct at least one image among a plurality of images, using the correction values, wherein one of obtaining the first image and obtaining the second image is responsive to the other of obtaining the first image and the second image.
US11706528B2
A digital graduated filter is implemented in an imaging device by combining multiple images of the subject wherein the combining may include combining different numbers of images for highlights and for shadows of the subject. The imaging device may present a user with a set of pre-defined graduated filter configurations to choose from. A user may also specify the direction of graduation and strength of graduation in a viewfinder. In an alternative implementation, combining may include scaling of pixels being added instead of varying the number of images being combined. In an alternative implementation, the combining of multiple images may include combining a different number of images for highlights of the subject than for shadows of subject.
US11706516B2
A camera module and array camera module with circuit board unit and photosensitive unit and manufacturing method thereof is provided. The array camera module includes two or more camera lenses and a circuit unit. The circuit unit includes a circuit board portion for electrically connecting two or more photosensitive sensors of the array camera module, and a conjoined encapsulation portion integrally encapsulated on the circuit board portion. The camera lenses are respectively arranged along the photosensitive paths of the photosensitive sensors.
US11706515B2
An imaging device with a compact design allows illumination with a light source and imaging with an image sensor. An imaging device includes a front case having a front surface including a window and a lens-holder receptacle aligned with each other in a width direction (X-direction), a lens holder including a lens and attachable inside the lens-holder receptacle in the front case, a first circuit board on which an image sensor to receive light through the lens in the lens holder is mounted, and a second circuit board on which an LED to emit light through the window in the front case is mounted. The first and second circuit boards extend entirely in the width direction. The second circuit board is located frontward from the first circuit board.
US11706507B2
Described examples relate to an apparatus comprising a first sensor configured to scan an area of interest during a first time period and a second sensor configured to capture a plurality of images of a field of view. The apparatus may include at least one controller configured to receive the plurality of images captured by the second sensor, compare the timestamp information associated with at least one image of the plurality of images to at least one time period of the first time period, and select a base image from the plurality of images based on the comparison.
US11706504B2
In a video system for imaging a target object by using first and second imaging devices, an information processing method is executed by the first imaging device. The information processing method includes: a step for acquiring a first elapsed time indicating the time elapsed after start of recording by the first imaging device; a step for requesting the second imaging device to transmit a second elapsed time indicating the time elapsed after start of recording by the second imaging device, and receiving the second elapsed time; a step for acquiring a required time to receive the second elapsed time after the request is made; and a step for, based on the first elapsed time, the second elapsed time, and the required time, calculating an offset time for synchronizing a first moving image recorded by the first imaging device and a second moving image recorded by the second imaging device.
US11706493B2
Methods and systems are described herein for providing streamlined access to media assets of interest to a user. The method includes determining that a supplemental viewing device, through which a user views a field of view, is directed at a first field of view. The method further involves detecting that the supplemental viewing device is now directed at a second field of view, and determining that a media consumption device is within the second field of view. A first media asset of interest to the user that is available for consumption via the media consumption device is identified, and the supplemental viewing device generates a visual indication in the second field of view. The visual indication indicates that the first media asset is available for consumption via the media consumption device, and the visual indication tracks a location of the media consumption device in the second field of view.
US11706492B1
Disclosed are a method, a server and a computer-readable medium for recommending nodes of an interactive content, in which, when receiving recommendation request information for requesting a recommendation node for a specific node included in an interactive content from a user generating the interactive content, a first embedding value for a first set including the specific node is calculated, and a second embedding value for each second set including each of a plurality of nodes of each of one or more other interactive contents included in the service server is calculated, so as to calculate a similarity between the first embedding value and the second embedding value and provide the user with a next node, as a recommendation node, of a node corresponding to the second embedding value determined based on the similarity.
US11706488B2
An electronic device, method, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium provide a function of locating and identifying a paired device in a wireless network. The wireless network communicatively connects a plurality of electronic devices including the electronic device and the paired device. The electronic device includes a user interface, a network interface, a hardware processor, and a non-transitory memory storing one or more programs. The hardware processor executes the programs to receive a search command using a first communication connection via the network interface. Moreover, the hardware processor executes the programs to determine whether the peer device identifying information matches identifying information of the electronic device. When the peer device identifying information matches the identifying information of the electronic device, the electronic device identifies as the paired device. Otherwise, the electronic device broadcasts to the wireless network using a second communication connection.
US11706487B2
Systems and methods are described herein for determining a level of user engagement based on user interactions. A media guidance application is configured to retrieve a first record of a first plurality of user inputs, including input type, received during consumption of a media asset. A second time interval, prior to the first time interval, is selected by shifting the first start time and the first end time. A second record of a second plurality of user inputs received during the second time interval, including input type, is retrieved. A first media asset consumed during the first time interval and a second media asset consumed during the second time interval are determined, and the level of user engagement for the first media asset is determined based on the first record and the second record.
US11706472B2
Techniques are disclosed for organizing and distributing artifacts generated by processing pipelines for the training or application of machine learning models. An application may subscribe to a playlist of a stream of events and locally store a copy of the playlist. The subscriber may merge locally stored and/or selected events to generate a merged stream of events. The subscriber may then execute the merged event stream including the newly added instance of the event.
US11706470B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for on-target rate optimization for video. A method may include receiving streaming video advertisement impression data; receiving user activity data indicative of day-parts when viewers watch content; generating, based on the streaming video advertisement impression data and the survey data, using a machine learning model, a demographic probability vector, wherein each entry of the demographic probability vector is indicative of a probability that a viewer is in a respective age range of the non-overlapping demographic groups; generating, using the machine learning model, an audience recognition model with the demographic probability vector; generating a synthetic audience model predicting future advertisement viewing behavior; generating an assignment of an advertisement bid to a respective demographic group of the non-overlapping demographic groups; and generating, based on the assignment, a list of target demographic groups of the non-overlapping demographic groups for a bid request associated with the advertisement bid.
US11706450B2
A decoding device for point cloud decoding includes a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface configured to receive a bitstream. The processor is configured to identify, from the bitstream, messages and one or more sub-bitstreams representing a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. The processor is configured to identify a query label indicating an object of the 3D point cloud for decoding. In response to determining that the query label corresponds to a label, the processor is configured to identify a 3D scene object associated with the query label. The processor is configured to identify a 2D tile that correspond to the 3D scene object. The processor is configured to determine to decode, based on an identification of the 2D tile from the sub-bitstream, a portion of the sub-bitstream corresponding to the 2D tile to generate a portion of a video frame representing a portion of the 3D scene object.
US11706449B2
The multi sample prediction method of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining a sample group consisting of a plurality of samples inside a decoding target block; determining a representative position corresponding to the sample group, inside the decoding target block; determining a representative prediction value for the sample group, on the basis of the determined representative position; and determining the determined representative prediction value as the final prediction value for each of the plurality of samples making up the sample group. The present invention enhances efficiency in encoding/decoding and reduces complexity thereof.
US11706447B2
A method of performing intra prediction for encoding or decoding uses multiple layers of reference samples. The layers are formed into reference arrays that are used by a function, such as a weighted combination, to form a final prediction. The prediction is used in encoding or decoding a block of video data. The weights can be determined in a number of ways, and for a given prediction mode, the same weights, or different weights can be used for all pixels in a target block. If the weights are varied, they can depend on the distance of the target pixel from reference arrays.
US11706445B2
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data comprising data of a plurality of semantically independent source pictures, determining, among the video data, whether references are associated with any of a first access unit (AU) and a second AU according to at least one picture order count (POC) signal value included with the video data, and outputting a first quantity of the references set to the first AU and a second quantity of the references set to the second AU based on the at least one POC signal value.
US11706440B2
A video signal decoding device comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain reference samples corresponding to a first side of a current block and reference samples corresponding to a second side of the current block, obtain a direct current (DC) value for prediction of the current block based on a reference sample set comprising at least some of the reference samples corresponding to the first side and the reference samples corresponding to the second side, and reconstruct the current block based on the DC value.
US11706423B2
An inter-prediction method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving motion information of a current block; and generating a prediction block for the current block on the basis of the derived motion information. According to the present invention, computational complexity can be reduced and encoding efficiency can be improved.
US11706416B2
An image decoding apparatus obtain pieces of coded data that is included in a bitstream and generated by coding tiles. Tile boundary independence information is further obtained from the bitstream, with the tile boundary independence information indicating whether each of boundaries between the tiles is one of a first boundary or a second boundary. The pieces of coded data are decoded to generate image data of the tiles. Image data of a first tile is generated by decoding a first code string included in first coded data with reference to decoding information of a decoded tile when the tile boundary independence information indicates the first boundary, and by decoding the first code string without referring to the decoding information of the decoded tile when the tile boundary independence information indicates the second boundary.
US11706409B2
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a coded representation of the video, that a resolution of a current picture containing the current block and a reference picture used for the conversion are different, and performing the conversion based on the determining such that predicted values of a group of samples of the current block are generated using a horizontal or a vertical interpolation filter.
US11706408B2
Disclosed are region-based image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The method of decoding an image includes: determining a projection format of a 360-degree video image; determining, on the basis of the determined projection format, a spatial correlation degree between a current block and a neighboring block; and determining, on the basis of the determined spatial correlation degree, a candidate block for predicting the current block.
US11706402B2
Provided is an image generation technology capable of suppressing unpleasantness associated with fluctuation in image quality caused by the viewer's viewpoint movement. A synthesis ratio determination unit of an image generation apparatus includes: an image quality evaluation index calculation unit that generates a synthesis image J1 from an observation viewpoint image I1 and an intermediate viewpoint image I2, and a synthesis image J3 from an observation viewpoint image I3 and an intermediate viewpoint image I2, for a plurality of synthesis ratios, calculates an image quality evaluation index in an observation viewpoint V1, an image quality evaluation index in an intermediate viewpoint V2, and an image quality evaluation index in an observation viewpoint V3 by using the synthesis images J1 and J3, and calculates a variation v of an image quality evaluation index by using the image quality evaluation index in the observation viewpoint V1, the image quality evaluation index in the intermediate viewpoint V2, and the image quality evaluation index in the observation viewpoint V3; and an image quality evaluation index comparison unit that determines a synthesis ratio A based on the variation v of the image quality evaluation index.
US11706396B2
An image processing apparatus that performs processing concerning the display of a stereoscopic image so as to improve the convenience of a user in viewing a stereoscopic image. A head mount display displays a stereoscopic image using image data including a plurality of images having different viewpoints. The image data is processed based on metadata attached to the image data. In a case where information indicating that the image data is associated with a file format which cannot cause the head mount display to perform display is included in the metadata, the image data is converted into a file format which can cause the head mount display to perform display.
US11706381B2
Described herein are techniques that may be used to provide for automatic obfuscation of one or more objects in a media data. Such techniques may comprise receiving, from a data source, a media data comprising a depiction of a number of objects, identifying, within the received media data, a set of objects associated with the media data, and storing an indication of one or more locations of the objects in the set of objects within the media data with respect to time. Upon receiving a request for the media data, such techniques may further comprise updating the media data by applying an obfuscation effect to the one or more locations with respect to time, and providing the updated media data in response to the request.
US11706380B2
A radiometric camera having internal black body components and a method for calibrating a radiometric camera having internal black body components. A radiometric camera includes a detector, the detector further including a thermal detector configured to capture thermal images, wherein the thermal detector is pointed in a direction, wherein the radiometric camera is adapted to receive at least one black body element in front of the detector with respect to the direction of the thermal detector, the thermal detector having a plurality of portions including at least one first portion, wherein the at least one black body element affects radiation readings by the at least one first portion of a plurality of portions of the thermal detector when disposed in the radiometric camera.
US11706378B2
An electronic device comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image set including a first image and a second image which have parallax from each other; and a control unit configured to perform control such that 1) in a case of a first display mode where the first image is to be displayed without displaying the second image, the first image is displayed on a display with an orientation of the first image being corrected to be directed to be in a predetermined orientation, and 2) in a case of a second display mode where both the first image and the second image are to be displayed, the first image and the second image are displayed on the display without an orientation of the first image and the second image being corrected to be directed to be in the predetermined orientation.
US11706375B2
A system and method for virtual camera configuration and selection. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: a decode subsystem comprising circuitry to concurrently decode a plurality of video streams captured by cameras at an event to generate decoded video streams from a perspective of corresponding virtual cameras (VCAMs); video evaluation logic to apply at least one video quality metric to determine a quality value for the decoded video streams or a subset thereof, and to rank the decoded video streams based, at least in part, on the quality values associated with the decoded video streams; preview logic to provide the decoded video streams or modified versions thereof to one or more computing devices accessible to one or more video production team members and to further provide the quality values and/or the rank generated by the video quality evaluation logic; stream selection hardware logic to select a subset of the plurality of decoded video streams based on input from the one or more video production team members; and transcoder hardware logic to transcode the subset of the plurality of decoded video streams for live transmission over a public or private network.
US11706366B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit, a storage unit configured to store a program to be executed by the control unit, a verification unit configured to read the program from the storage unit and to verify the read program, and a light-emitting unit configured to be changed to a predetermined light-emitting state or to be changed from the predetermined light-emitting state based on a result of the verification of the program by the verification unit.
US11706356B2
An input device that is mountable on an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of numerical keys arranged as hardware keys, a connector provided in a casing of the input device and configured to electrically connect the image forming apparatus and the input device, and a USB port provided in the casing and configured to USB-connect external equipment, which is different from the image forming apparatus, to the input device. As viewed in an up-down direction that the numerical keys are pressed, the USB port is provided on a front side surface of the casing.
US11706355B2
Provided is a system including: a printing apparatus; an information processing apparatus; and a server system. The printing apparatus outputs identification information on the printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits the identification information obtained from the printing apparatus based on acceptance of an instruction for receiving a first service, and performs display control of the information processing apparatus. The server system executes processing for confirmation as to whether or not the printing apparatus identified by the identification information transmitted from the information processing apparatus is registered for a second service, and provides data for displaying an item for the second service in a case where the printing apparatus is not registered for the second service. The information processing apparatus displays an item for registering the printing apparatus for the second service on a display unit of the information processing apparatus based on the provided data.
US11706345B1
Computer-implemented techniques for answer time prediction in a contact center service of a provider network. While a delayed processing timing has not been met, a set of contact queuing context-actual answer time data for a set of contact inquiries serviced is received as a first set of contact queuing context-actual answer time data. When the delayed processing timing has been met, a new queuing model is learned based on the first set of contact queuing context-actual answer time data and a previous set of contact queuing context-actual answer time data for a previous set of contact inquiries serviced or a previous version of the queuing model. A request to predict an answer time for a target contact queuing context is received and an answer time for the target contact queuing context is predicted based on the new queuing model. The predicted answer time is provided to a contact via a contact communications channel.
US11706338B2
A computer-implemented method for providing an objective evaluation to a customer service representative regarding his performance during an interaction with a customer may include receiving a digitized data stream corresponding to a spoken conversation between a customer and a representative; converting the data stream to a text stream; generating a representative transcript that includes the words from the text stream that are spoken by the representative; comparing the representative transcript with a plurality of positive words and a plurality of negative words; and generating a score that varies according to the occurrence of each word spoken by the representative that matches one of the positive words, and/or the occurrence of each word spoken by the representative that matches one of the negative words. Tone of voice, as well as response time, during the interaction may also be monitored and analyzed to adjust the score, or generate a separate score.
US11706333B1
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for client-based control of revising caller identifications (IDs) for communications between a private network and a public network. An apparatus including a telecommunications-providing server and processing circuit that communicates client-specific sets of data over an interface protocol. The telecommunications-providing server revises a caller ID for a VoIP call based on the client-specific sets of data, an identifier that corresponds to a requesting endpoint, and a geographic region determined from the call request. Further, the telecommunications-providing server causes control data to be sent to activate an analog-telephone bridging circuit and redirect the VoIP call by obtaining a dial tone and passes at least a subset of the data packet through the analog-telephone bridging circuit for connecting over the local line. The subset of the data packet includes the revised caller ID which is a local number identified by the determined geographic region.
US11706317B2
A memory system having one or more memory components and a controller. The controller can receive access requests from a communication connection. The access requests can identify data items associated with the access requests, addresses of the data items, and contexts of the data items in which the data items are used for the access requests. The controller can identify separate memory regions for separate contexts respectively, determine placements of the data items in the separate memory regions based on the contexts of the data items, and determine a mapping between the addresses of the data items and memory locations that are within the separate memory regions corresponding to the contexts of the data items. The memory system stores the data items at the memory locations separated by different memory regions according to different contexts.
US11706316B2
A method for operating a distributed application includes: transmitting, by an application frontend, an initialization request to a registration server via a communication network; selecting, by the registration server, an instance of an application backend and transmitting a fully qualified domain name of the selected instance to the application frontend; transmitting, by the application frontend, a lookup request to a domain name server; transmitting, by the domain name server, an IP address associated with the fully qualified domain name to the application frontend; transmitting, by the application frontend, application data to the transmitted IP address via a connection provided by the communication network; selecting, by a core server of the communication network, a quality service for the distributed application; applying, by the communication network, a service quality determined by the selected quality service to the connection; and operating, by the distributed application, with the applied service quality.
US11706306B2
A method for location-dependent determination comprises: determining, with one or more processors, a geographic location of a user's electronic device using first data; in response to determining the determined geographic location is insufficient for performing a location-dependent determination, requesting second data to determine an updated geographic location of the user's electronic device; performing, with an Application Programming Interface (API), the location-dependent determination based on the updated geographic location; and completing, with the API, a transaction using the location-dependent determination.
US11706303B2
The present disclosure provides systems, methods and computer-readable media for maintaining network connectivity, in a LISP based network, when one or more network edge nodes lose connectivity to a LISP control plane of the network, using multicast messaging. In one example, a method includes receiving a connection request from a first endpoint to a second endpoint communicatively coupled to a second edge node; determining, by the first edge node, that a connection session to a control plane for locating the second endpoint has failed; querying one or more available edge nodes for locating the second endpoint using a multicast message; locating the second endpoint based on at least one query response received from the one or more available edge nodes, at least one query response including an identifier of the second endpoint; and establishing the connection request between the first endpoint and the second endpoint upon locating the second endpoint.
US11706301B2
Methods and terminal devices, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting a server node. According to one of the methods, a terminal device first sends a connection request to one server node, and then sends a connection request to another server node after a time interval T. The terminal device first sends a connection request to a first server node. If the terminal device receives, within a first preset duration T, response information fed back by the first server node, the terminal device does not need to send a connection request to another server node. This helps save resources. In addition, the terminal device may establish a connection to a server node corresponding to received response information, and does not need to wait for feedback from another server node. This helps reduce a delay in establishing a connection between the terminal device and a server node.
US11706292B1
Embodiments herein describe a CDN where anycast routing is used to identify a load balancer for selecting a cache in the CDN to use to deliver a requested object to a user. In one embodiment, the user performs a DNS lookup to identify an anycast IP address for a plurality of load balancers in the CDN. The user can then initiate anycast routing using the anycast IP address to automatically identify the closest load balancer. Once the identified balancer selects the cache, the load balancer can close the anycast connection with the user device and use an HTTP redirect to provide the user device with a unicast path to the selected cache. The user device can then establish a unicast connection with the cache to retrieve (e.g., stream) the object.
US11706291B2
Method for offloading calculation tasks between a user terminal and an edge host device in a communication network according to a multi-access edge computing technique, including steps of: Offloading data necessary for the execution of the calculation from the user terminal to the edge host device, and Transmitting data resulting from the calculation carried out by the edge host device, from the edge host device to the user terminal, wherein the offloading of data is controlled on the basis of joint criteria of energy efficiency and of minimization of exposure of a user of the user terminal to electromagnetic fields.
US11706274B2
A distribution device for delivering a selected viewport stream of virtual reality (VR) data to each of a plurality of client devices, comprising a processor configured for receiving a plurality of extended viewport streams of a VR video file each comprising a sequence of extended field of view (EFOV) frames created for a respective one of a plurality of overlapping segments constituting a sphere defined in the VR video file and delivering a selected one of the plurality of extended viewport streams to each of a plurality of client devices by performing the following for each of the client devices in each of a plurality of iterations: (1) receiving a current orientation data of the respective client device; (2) selecting one of the plurality of extended viewport streams according to the current orientation data; and (3) transmitting the selected extended viewport stream to the respective client device.
US11706271B2
A method utilized in a wireless device used to wirelessly receive and play audio information includes: receiving a data packet stream transmitted from an audio source; monitoring a data amount of at least one buffer of a memory of the wireless device; and tuning an audio clock frequency dedicated for playing audio samples if the data amount of the at least one buffer deviates from a specific data amount level.
US11706270B2
A method of distributing media content using mobile communication devices including providing media access cards which promote selected media content to users of such devices whereby a user may access a web server associated with the media access cards and download application software enabling access to selected media content via a mobile device, the media access cards including a machine readable identification number code that identifies media content associated with the card whereby the application software facilitates reading and transmitting the code to a web server via the mobile device, receiving the identification number with the web server and using the identification number to locate a table value in a database wherein a plurality of media access cards identification numbers are associated with a media content table value, using the table value to identify media codes associated with the selected content server which transmits media to the mobile device.
US11706258B2
A segmentation server updates enforcement of a segmentation policy based on detection of core services. The segmentation server obtains characteristics of workloads and identifies workloads that provide core services using port matching, supervised learning based classification, semi supervised learning based classification, or a combination thereof. The segmentations server applies labels to workloads identified as core service providers indicative of the detection. Rules of the segmentation are distributed to enforcement modules based on the label sets of associated workloads to enable the enforcement modules to enforce the segmentation policy. Detection of core services reduces the likelihood of administrator inadvertently enforcing a policy that blocks essential core services.
US11706254B2
A method includes parsing a handshake message of an encrypted data stream according to a secure encrypted transmission protocol corresponding to the encrypted data stream, to obtain a plurality of fields included in the handshake message, determining, from a plurality of rule sets and based on the plurality of fields, a rule set that matches the handshake message, and determining, based on a mapping relationship between the matched rule set and an application, an application corresponding to the encrypted data stream.
US11706248B2
A computer-implemented method for computing or modeling the risk of a cyber security breach to an asset begins by gathering coverage information from network sensors, endpoint agents, and decoys related to the asset, as well as gathering importance information related to the asset, alerts and anomalies from an enterprise and vulnerability information related to the asset. From this, a threat-score is computed for the asset. Connections or coupling information is gathered between users and assets, users and data, and assets and data, which is fused to generate a 3-dimensional vector representation of coverage, importance, and threat-score of the assets, users and data. From this 3-dimensional vector, an asset risk score is computed to provide the asset risk score.
US11706242B2
Methods and systems for scanning an endpoint terminal across an open computer network are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a scanner engine in a computer server in communication with an open computer network, and establishing a secure connection across the open computer network between the scanner engine and a scanner agent installed on the endpoint terminal in communication with the open computer network. Commands for collecting data regarding the endpoint terminal are sent from the scanner engine across the secure connection to the scanner agent. The scanner engine then receives the collected data from the scanner agent across the secure connection, analyzes the data to assess a current posture of the endpoint terminal, and determines any updates for the endpoint terminal from the analysis. Updates are sent across the secure connection to the scanner agent for installation on the endpoint terminal, and the secure connection may then be terminated.
US11706234B2
Techniques for user behavior anomaly detection. At least one low-variance characteristic is compared to an expected result for the corresponding low-variance characteristics to determine if the low-variance characteristic(s) is/are within a pre-selected range of the expected results. A security response action is taken in response to the low-variance characteristic not being within the first pre-selected range of the expected results. At least one high-variance characteristic is compared to an expected result for the corresponding high-variance characteristics to determine if the high-variance characteristic(s) is/are within a pre-selected range of the expected results. A security response action is taken in response to the high-variance characteristic not being within the first pre-selected range of the expected results. Access is provided if the low-variance and the high-variance characteristics are within the respective expected ranges.
US11706232B2
Systems and methods are provided for data security. A server system provides data security using one or more processor devices, one or more communication interfaces, and one or more memory devices including computer-executable instructions. Those instructions cause the one or more processor devices to: monitor one or more requests or activities of a computing device; compare the monitored one or more requests or activities with a database of predetermined characteristics to determine whether the monitored one or more requests or activities indicates that the computing device downloaded or attempted to download more than a threshold number of data files or objects; and determine that the one or more requests or activities is suspicious when the comparing determines that the one or more requests or activities indicates that the computing device downloaded or attempted to download more than the threshold number of data files or objects, which causes a response to hinder the monitored one or more requests or activities.
US11706208B2
A system and method for security of Internet of things (IoT) devices are discussed. A user of a mobile device, such as a customer of a wireless communication network, may remotely lock an IoT device while concomitantly assigning an ad hoc password to the IoT device that can be subsequently used to unlock the device. Alternatively, an IoT device may self-lock and produce a password in response to detecting its motion. The produced password may be provided to the user of a mobile device and used later to unlock the IoT device.
US11706204B2
Systems and methods are provided for a media provider to allow a user to access media objects with a third-party partner that authenticates the user and authorizes the user to access certain media objects. The media provider offers access to media objects, such as video content or audio content. The partner, through a relationship with the media provider, similarly offers access to the media provider's media objects, for example, as a service or benefit to the partner's customers or users. In particular, a partner integration server mediates user authentication and authorization by the partner. The partner integration server also allows the media provider to easily and flexibly to add and integrate additional partners.
US11706202B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for performing distributed encryption across multiple devices. An example method can include a first device discovering a second device that shares a network. The device can identify data to be sent to a server and calculate a checksum for that data. The device can then split the data into multiple portions and send a portion to the second device, along with a certificate associated with the server for encrypting the data. The first device can encrypt the portion of data it retained. The first device can receive an encrypted version of the second portion of the data sent to the second device. The first device can merge these two portions and send the merged encrypted data to the server, along with the checksum value. The server can decrypt the data and confirm that it reflects the original set of data.
US11706198B2
A communication server, interacting with an organization system having users that wish to communicate securely, provides secure communication capability to the users, without the communication server itself having access to unencrypted content of the user communications or to cryptographic keys that would allow the communication server to derive the unencrypted content. Thus, the communication server that provides the secure communication capability need not itself be trusted by the users with access to communicated content. To achieve this, the various entities communicate to exchange cryptographic keys in such a manner that the communication server never obtains usable copies of the cryptographic keys. Secure search capability is also provided by the client devices supplying a set of message tokens obtained by transformations that the communication server cannot replicate, and the communication server maintaining a search index storing the message tokens in association with the (encrypted) messages from which they were obtained.
US11706194B2
In one embodiment, a secure network system includes a two-way bridge connecting a protected packet data network with an external packet data network so as to allow bidirectional communication between the protected and external networks, a one-way link unidirectionally connecting the protected network to the external network and physically configured to carry signals in one direction from the protected network to the external network and to be incapable of carrying signals in the opposite direction from the external packet data network to the protected packet data network, and a security server to receive an indication of a security threat to at least one of the networks, and in response to the indication, to deactivate the two-way bridge and activate the one-way link so as to prevent the protected network from receiving packets from the external network while allowing forwarding of packets from the protected network to the external network.
US11706183B2
A system and method for aggregating content, social sharing and instant messaging of saved electronic content to a memory location includes an administrator for controlling and allocating storage quota, based on a subscription type of one or more users. The user receives the electronic content on his computing device by selecting a text from the electronic content or the user can select the document by pressing the copy menu, which causes a pop-up user interface. The user can save the electronic content in one click directly on the user device or to a server as well as collaborate on the instant messaging platform to chat or share electronic content with other users.
US11706180B2
A terminal device includes a first communication device, a display device, and a first control device. The first control device functions as a display controller. The display controller allows the display device to display a first massage in a message display area of the display device. When the first message is not a high-importance message and the display controller then receives through the first communication device a second message sent from the information processing apparatus, the display controller allows the display device to execute first processing of scrolling a displayed image in the message display area and displaying the second message in the message display area. When the first message is a high-importance message and the display controller then receives the second message through the first communication device, the display controller allows the display device to execute second processing different from the first processing.
US11706171B2
An information processing device includes a processor configured to: perform a control for displaying on an operation screen a candidate for a thread on a service screen for a message exchange service in which information for accessing an electronic document generated by scanning a document is displayed in such a manner that a thread is able to be selected; and receive, on the operation screen, an operation for selecting a candidate for a thread and an operation for posting the electronic document into the message exchange service.
US11706169B2
In some embodiments, a first electronic device shares a portion of a content item corresponding to a respective portion of lyrics for the content item with a second electronic device. In some embodiments, a system facilitates securely sharing a portion of a content item between two devices. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates a server address for accessing a portion of a content item. In some embodiments, a uniform resource locator includes an identification of content, an indication of a first subset of the content, and authentication data.
US11706158B2
Technologies for accelerating edge device workloads at a device edge network include a network computing device which includes a processor platform that includes at least one processor which supports a plurality of non-accelerated function-as-a-service (FaaS) operations and an accelerated platform that includes at least one accelerator which supports a plurality of accelerated FaaS (AFaaS) operation. The network computing device is configured to receive a request to perform a FaaS operation, determine whether the received request indicates that an AFaaS operation is to be performed on the received request, and identify compute requirements for the AFaaS operation to be performed. The network computing device is further configured to select an accelerator platform to perform the identified AFaaS operation and forward the received request to the selected accelerator platform to perform the identified AFaaS operation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11706154B2
According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a cloud computing system can include a load adaptation architecture framework that performs operations for orchestrating and managing one or more services that may operate within at least one of layers 4 through 7 of the Open Systems Interconnection (“OSI”) communication model. The cloud computing system also can include a virtual resource layer. The virtual resource layer can include a virtual network function that provides, at least in part, a service. The cloud computing system also can include a hardware resource layer. The hardware resource layer can include a hardware resource that is controlled by a virtualization layer. The virtualization layer can cause the virtual network function to be instantiated on the hardware resource so that the virtual network function can be used to support the service.
US11706153B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing cloud computing resources from one or more cloud service providers for a client computing device through a computing platform. The client computing device may benefit from an economy of scale while being able to obtain different types of cloud services over a plurality of cloud providers. The client computing device may request an initial amount of cloud services and subsequently may request cloud services that utilize a requested amount of cloud resources. The requested amount of cloud resources may be apportioned among the plurality of cloud service providers, to provide the requested cloud service. The computing platform may also support a cloud abstraction layer interacting between client computing device and one or more cloud providers so that the client computing device can obtain cloud service in a transparent manner.
US11706145B2
A highly predicable quality shared distributed memory process is achieved using less than predicable public and private internet protocol networks as the means for communications within the processing interconnect. An adaptive private network (APN) service provides the ability for the distributed memory process to communicate data via an APN conduit service, to use high throughput paths by bandwidth allocation to higher quality paths avoiding lower quality paths, to deliver reliability via fast retransmissions on single packet loss detection, to deliver reliability and timely communication through redundancy transmissions via duplicate transmissions on high a best path and on a most independent path from the best path, to lower latency via high resolution clock synchronized path monitoring and high latency path avoidance, to monitor packet loss and provide loss prone path avoidance, and to avoid congestion by use of high resolution clock synchronized enabled congestion monitoring and avoidance.
US11706138B2
In some examples, a computing device comprises a first service function instance to apply a service function and a service function forwarder to: receive a first layer 3 routing protocol route advertisement that includes service function instance data for a second service function instance, the service function instance data indicating a service function type and a service identifier for the service function instance; receive a second layer 3 routing protocol route advertisement that includes service function chain data for a service function chain, the service function chain data indicating a service path identifier and one or more service function items; and send, to the second service function instance and based at least on determining a service function item of the one or more service function items indicates the second service function instance, a packet classified to the service function chain.
US11706127B2
A method comprising instantiating virtual routers (VRs) at each of a set of nodes that form a network. Each VR is coupled to the network and to a tenant of the node. The network comprises virtual links in an overlay network provisioned over an underlay network including servers of a public network. The method comprises configuring at least one VR to include a feedback control system comprising at least one objective function that characterizes the network. The method comprises configuring the VR to receive link state data of a set of virtual links of the virtual links, and control routing of a tenant traffic flow of each tenant according to a best route of the network determined by the at least one objective function using the link state data.
US11706120B1
Systems and methods of performing automated testing using a process flow of messages are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication that represents a time stamped message that is sent or received by a second electronic node and that is associated with a certain function. The method also includes generating a process flow of messages between the set of electronic nodes for the certain function based on the time stamped message of the second electronic node that is associated with the certain function and time stamped messages of the other electronic nodes associated with the same function so that the first electronic node is operable to simulate the certain function specific to that node based on the process flow of messages so as to test that at least one electronic node is operable to perform the certain function in conformance with the process flow of messages.
US11706119B2
A method is disclosed for the collection of performance metrics by establishing service operations administration and maintenance (OAM) sessions between an actuator and a plurality of reflectors in a communication network. Test packets from an actuator simultaneously reach a plurality of reflectors along a test path. Each single test packet results into a plurality of test results, one per reflector, with quasi-synchronous performance metrics to sectionalize a network and more efficiently isolate fault or performance problems without the need for additional test packets to isolate the issue. Another method is disclosed wherein an actuator generates and transmits a plurality of simultaneous test packets, one per NID device, resulting into a plurality of test results, one per reflector, with quasi-synchronous performance metrics to sectionalize a network and more efficiently isolate fault or performance problems without the need for additional test packets to isolate the issue.
US11706113B2
This application provides an example delay measurement method and an example network device. The method includes receiving, by a first network device, a first service flow. The method also includes determining, by the first network device, a first delay value based on a first measurement code block in the first service flow. The first delay value is a time difference between a first moment at which the first measurement code block is detected in the first network device and a second moment at which the first measurement code block is detected in the first network device.
US11706112B1
5G connected and automated mobility (CAM) services modeling for optimization includes defining different 5G communications network configuration parameters which configure a 5G cellular communications network that encompasses a geographic region supporting autonomous vehicle movements. The method further includes assigning different values to each of the different parameters in different sets of network configurations and correlating each of the different sets with corresponding CAM performance metrics of the autonomous vehicle movements. The method yet further includes storing the correlated sets in a data structure. Finally, the method includes querying the data structure with a new set of values for the parameters and receiving in response to the querying, correlated ones of the corresponding CAM performance metrics.
US11706111B1
Implementations are directed to improving network anti-fragility. In some aspects, a method includes receiving parameter data from a network of nodes, the parameter data comprising attributes, policies, and action spaces for each node in the network of nodes; configuring one or more interruptive events on one or more nodes included in the network of nodes; determining a first action of each node in the network of nodes in response to the one or more interruptive events; determining a first performance metric, for each node, that corresponds to the first action, wherein the first performance matric is determined based on at least a first reward value associated with the first action; continuously updating the first action in an iterative process to obtain a final action, wherein a performance metric corresponding to the final action satisfies a performance threshold, and transmitting the final action for each node to the network of nodes.
US11706108B2
A method for determining a Quality of Experience associated with a real-time communication session between user devices includes monitoring the real-time communication session and determining at least one quality indicator of the Quality of Experience, at least one first performance indicator of a Quality of Service, and at least one second performance indicator of the Quality of Service. Based on the quality indicator and the first performance indicator, the method determines, among a family of correlation functions indicative of the correlation between the Quality of Experience and a Quality of Service in respect of a generic real-time communication session, a correlation function which is indicative of the correlation between the Quality of Experience and the Quality of Service in respect of the monitored real-time communication session. Then the method applies the first performance indicator and the second performance indicator to the correlation function to determine said Quality of Experience.
US11706092B2
Dynamically controlling use of a shared computing resource by virtual-computing sessions of a client computing device includes storing per-virtual-channel weights representing contributions of session virtual channels to performance, the stored weights including sets of weights for respective distinct application types. A resource allocation operation includes (i) for each session, selecting a set of weights based on a type of application using the session and applying the selected set of weights to activity state data to produce a session activity value, the activity state data representing activity states of the session virtual channels, and (ii) generating resource usage control signals based on the session activity values of the sessions, the resource usage control signals representing a target pattern of use of the shared computing resource by the sessions. An enforcement operation uses the resource usage control signals to establish the target pattern of use of the shared resource by the sessions.
US11706091B2
A system and method for publishing and updating policy rules in a network can be based on predictive algorithms and blockchain techniques for network systems (e.g. next generation emergency systems).
US11706088B2
A system incorporated in a slice-based network can implement a first virtual infrastructure manager (“VIM”) at a first region. The first VIM can be associated with a first internet protocol (“IP”) prefix range, and configured to receive a second IP prefix range associated with a second region having a second VIM. For compliance with requirements from a software license agreement (“SLA”), the first VIM can monitor a performance of a first virtual network function (“VNF”) of a network slice. In the event of a performance threshold violation, the first VIM can map portions of a workload associated with the violated threshold to the first region and the second region based on respective workload flow data associated with each of the first and second IP prefix ranges. The first VIM can instantiate a second VNF in the region having a workload portion that corresponds to a higher network resource consumption.
US11706086B1
The present disclosure relates to a baseboard management controller (BMC)-based switch monitoring method, a system, a computer device, and a readable medium thereof. The BMC-based switch monitoring method includes: virtualizing a multi-core BMC into a plurality of logical computers such that each core operates separately; in response to start of a switch, migrating functions of the switch into a first core of the multi-core BMC for start, and monitoring other cores of the multi-core BMC based on a second core of the multi-core BMC; determining, in response to that a new service is received by the switch is detected, whether the new service is a firmware upgrade service; and allocating the new service to the second core in the multi-core BMC for operation, in response to that the new service is the firmware upgrade service.
US11706078B1
A network disruption detection engine gathers and stores network routing path update messages that routinely modify routing tables used by internet routers for transporting message traffic between a source and a destination. Routing path messages continually maintain a network transport infrastructure both for intranets used for particular entities such as corporations, and internet traffic between arbitrary source and destination nodes. Major disruptions or outages typically result in an increase in routing path messages, typically focused on a particular set, region or network entity where the disruption occurred, as other routing entities seek to avoid the troubled region. Analysis of this sudden activity of routing messages and extracting message content about the network region they seek to avoid allows identification and queries of a widespread network outage.
US11706071B2
Aspects presented herein may improve the efficiency and performance of the tone reservation PAPR reduction technique by allocating peak reduction tone based at least in part on a channel condition, such as based on the signal to noise ratio of the channel. In some aspects, a transmitting device measures a signal to noise ratio for a plurality of tones within a frequency resource. The transmitting device selects a location of one or more reserved tones (e.g., peak reduction tones) among one or more tones based at least in part on an SNR for one or more tones. The transmitting device transmits data to a receiving device in a subset of the plurality of tones that does not include the one or more peak reduction tones. Other aspects and features are also disclosed.
US11706070B1
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a configuration of a cyclic prefix (CP) frame structure associated with a CP-based waveform and a guard interval (GI) frame structure associated with a GI-based waveform, wherein the CP frame structure includes multiple CP slots arranged in a half subframe, wherein the GI frame structure includes multiple GI slots arranged in the half subframe, and wherein a first GI slot is associated with one of an extra portion, a truncated portion, or a removed portion such that a boundary of the first GI slot aligns with a boundary of a first CP slot. The UE may transmit or receive a first message in the half subframe via the GI-based waveform using the first GI slot. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11706062B1
A digital filter for filtering a pulse density modulation (PDM) signal is presented. The filter has a first filter circuit to receive an input signal and to provide a filtered input signal at successive time steps which include a first filtered value at the first time step and a second filtered value at a second time step. The filter also has a quantizer to provide an output signal comprising output values at successive time steps and a filter variable circuit with a first multiplication circuit to receive the first filter variable, and divide the first filter variable by a first gain factor and a first summing circuit configured to receive the divided first filter variable, receive the output signal, and add the divided first filter variable and the first output value and a second multiplication circuit and a delay circuit.
US11706056B2
In some examples, a device includes a capacitor arranged across the galvanic isolation barrier, where the capacitor is configured to communicate a single-ended signal from a first voltage domain to a second voltage domain. The device also includes a high-pass filter arranged in the second voltage domain and configured to receive the single-ended signal from the capacitor. The device further includes a low-pass filter arranged in the second voltage domain and coupled between the high-pass filter and a low-impedance node. The high-pass filter is coupled between the capacitor, the low-pass filter, and the low-impedance node, and the low-pass filter is configured to generate a differential signal.
US11706043B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to render one or more workflow interface objects to a group-based communication apparatus in association with an operational sequence set returned by a query. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to detect a workflow trigger event associated with a workflow identifier, retrieve an operational sequence set based upon at least the workflow identifier from a group-based communication workflow repository, initiate the operational sequence set, and cause rendering of one or more workflow interface objects to the group-based communication interface. In some embodiments, the operational sequence sets are associated with a group-defined template.
US11706026B2
A first entity may provide a request to transmit data from the first entity to a second entity. The first entity may receive a session key from the second entity in response to the request where the session key is encrypted by a second key that is based on a combination of a public key and a location associated with the second entity. A location associated with the first entity may be identified. Furthermore, a first key may be generated based on a combination of the location associated with the first entity and a private key that corresponds to the public key. The first key may decrypt data encrypted by the second key when the location associated with the first entity corresponds to the location associated with the second entity.
US11706016B2
A public-key scheme of Homomorphic Encryption (HE) in the framework Quotient Algebra Partition (QAP) comprises: encryption, computation and decryption. With the data receiver choosing a partition or a QAP, [n, k, C], a public key Keypub=(VQen, Genε) and a private key Keypriv=†P† are produced, where VQen is the product of an n-qubit permutation V and an n-qubit encoding operator Qen, Genε an error generator randomly provides a dressed operator Ē=V†EV spinor error E of [n, k, C]. Then, by Keypub, the sender can encode his k-qubit plaintext Ix) into an n-qubit ciphertext |ψen, which is transmitted to the cloud. The receiver prepares the instruction of encoded computation Uen=PV†Qen† for a given k-qubit action M and sends to cloud, where is the error-correction operator of [n, k, C], =I2n−k⊗M the tensor product of the (n−k)-qubit identity I2n−k and M , and V†Q†en and P the complex-transposes of VQen and †P† respectively. The cloud executes the homomorphic encryption computation Uen|ψen) and conveys the encrypted result to receiver. The receiver performs the decryption KeyprivUen|ψen and obtains the final result M|x.
US11706007B2
A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit, in a case that the aperiodic channel state information reporting and the periodic channel state information reporting occur in a same time period for a certain cell group, only an aperiodic channel state information report in the same time period, transmit, in a case that the semi-persistent channel state information reporting and the aperiodic channel state information reporting occur in a same time period for a certain cell group, only the aperiodic channel state information report in the same time period, and transmit, in a case that the periodic channel state information reporting and the semi-persistent channel state information reporting occur in a same time period for a certain cell group, only a semi-persistent channel state information report in the same time duration.
US11706006B2
A user equipment apparatus in a radio communication system in which uplink communication and downlink communication are dynamically changed includes a reception unit configured to receive, from a base station, control information indicating a resource for an uplink demodulation reference signal in a subframe used for transmitting uplink data; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the uplink demodulation reference signal according to the control information; wherein the resource for the uplink demodulation reference signal is multiplexed into a part of resources corresponding to one or more symbols at a beginning of a data segment in the subframe used for transmitting the uplink data.
US11706003B2
A method, wireless device and network node are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for a wireless device includes receiving a configuration of a reference signal resource set from the network node, the reference signal resource set being a set of single-symbol and single antenna port reference signal resources in at least one slot; and based on at least one parameter of the received configuration, determining whether the UE can assume a same antenna port for all reference signal resources of the reference signal resource set.
US11705994B2
A communication apparatus in a radio communication system, including: a reception unit configured to receive control information including puncture information which indicates that there is a puncture resource in resources allocated to the communication apparatus from another communication apparatus; and a decoding unit configured to decode data received from the other communication apparatus in the allocated resources, wherein the decoding unit performs the decoding using the puncture information included in the control information received by the reception unit.
US11705992B2
An infrastructure equipment that transmits signals representing data via a wireless access interface to a communications device and receives signals representing data via the wireless access interface from the communications device in accordance with a time divided structure in which the wireless access interface is divided into a plurality of repeating time units. The infrastructure equipment provides, in each of a first plurality of the time units, one of a plurality of control channels each configured to schedule one of a plurality of data channels, and provides, in each of a second plurality of time units of the signal transmitted to the communications device, one of the plurality of data channels, the plurality of data channels being formed of one or more bundles of data channels, wherein the infrastructure equipment transmits a bundle status indicator in one or more of the plurality of control channels.
US11705990B2
A channel encoding method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining A to-be-encoded information bits; mapping the A to-be-encoded information bits and L CRC bits to a first bit sequence based on an interleaving sequence, where the L CRC bits are obtained based on the A to-be-encoded information bits and a CRC polynomial, the interleaving sequence is obtained from a prestored interleaving sequence table or is obtained based on a maximum-length interleaving sequence, A+L is less than or equal to Kmax, and Kmax is a length of the maximum-length interleaving sequence; and encoding the first bit sequence. In this way, not only an encoding delay can be reduced, but also decoding has an early stop capability, so that decoding can end in advance, thereby reducing a decoding delay.
US11705986B2
A method and a system for correcting cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for a frame with last bytes changed are provided. The method includes acquiring a data frame, calculating a CRC of a modified data frame, and determining a corrected CRC for the data frame based on at least the CRC of the modified data frame and a CRC correction field calculated on the bytes to be replaced at the end of the frame. An altered data frame includes the data frame with a number of last bytes of the data frame replaced with new bytes.
US11705985B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: an outer encoder configured to encode input bits to generate outer-encoded bits including the input bits and parity bits; a zero padder configured to generate a plurality of bit groups each of which is formed of a same number of bits, determine whether a number of the outer-encoded bits satisfies a predetermined number of bits required according to at least one of a code rate and a code length for Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoding, pads zero bits to some of the bits in the bit groups if the number of the outer-encoded bits is less than the predetermined number of bits, and maps the outer-encoded bits to remaining bits in the bit groups, based on a predetermined shortening pattern, thereby to constitute LDPC information bits; and an LDPC encoder configured to encode the LDPC information bits, wherein the some of the bits, in which zero bits are padded, are included in some of the bit groups which are not sequentially disposed in the LDPC information bits.
US11705984B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for a terminal device to determine demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising: obtaining (211) a DMRS configuration and a corresponding signature assigned by a network side node; constructing (212) a DMRS according to the DMRS configuration; mapping (213) the DMRS to a physical channel assigned to the terminal device. The signature indicates a processing configuration for the physical channel. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the signature, and DMRS configuration may be configured correspondingly, to obtain low-crosstalk DMRS signals for different terminal devices, thus, the number of the supported terminal devices may be improved.
US11705980B2
A passive optical network includes a central office providing subscriber signals; a drop terminal; and a wave division multiplexer. A fiber distribution hub may split or separate out dedicated optical signals from subscriber optical signals between the central office and the drop terminal. The wave division multiplexer separates dedicated optical signals pertaining to a specific dedicated subscriber from other optical signals on the line received at the wave division multiplexer. The wave division multiplexer may be part of a cable or part of an intermediate service terminal.
US11705976B2
A method of beamforming calibration is disclosed for a multi-antenna transceiver configured to communicate with one or more other transceivers. The multi-antenna transceiver has a plurality of transceiver chains connectable to respective antenna elements of the multi-antenna transceiver. Each transceiver chain comprises a transmitter path and a receiver path. The method comprises (for each transceiver chain) feeding an analog signal from the transmitter path to the receiver path via connection circuitry between the transmitter path and the receiver path to provide a digital calibration signal, and determining a beamforming calibration factor for the transceiver chain based on the digital calibration signal. Corresponding apparatus, multi-antenna transceiver, wireless communication node, and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11705973B2
A frequency combination corresponding to target data to be transmitted is determined. The frequency combination includes at least two different frequencies. Ultrasonic waves of frequencies in the frequency combination are sent within a predetermined duration.
US11705972B2
A computer memory system includes an electro-optical chip, an electrical fanout chip electrically connected to an electrical interface of the electro-optical chip, and at least one dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slot electrically connected to the electrical fanout chip. A photonic interface of the electro-optical chip is optically connected to an optical link. The electro-optical chip includes at least one optical macro that converts outgoing electrical data signals into outgoing optical data signals for transmission through the optical link. The optical macro also converts incoming optical data signals from the optical link into incoming electrical data signals and transmits the incoming electrical data signals to the electrical fanout chip. The electrical fanout chip directs bi-directional electrical data communication between the electro-optical chip and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) DIMM corresponding to the at least one DIMM slot.
US11705966B2
A method and system is described. A signal indicative of a failure of a first channel within a plurality of channels of a transmission signal traversing a signal working path in a network is received. The signal working path has a headend node, a tail-end node and an intermediate node. The first channel has a frequency band and a power level prior to failing. The signal working path is associated with a protection path. The protection path includes the intermediate node, optical cross-connects, and a transmitter supplying (ASE) light. The transmitter is activated to supply the ASE light within a frequency band and having a power level corresponding to the frequency band and power level associated with the first channel. The ASE light is supplied to a cross-connect, such that the cross-connect provides a transmission signal including the ASE light.
US11705953B2
A first wireless device may select a first beam for communication with a second wireless device from a first set of beams associated with a first beam level. A second set of beams may be associated with a second beam level. The first beam may be associated with a first children list. The first children list may be associated with a first subset of beams of the second set of beams. Each beam in the first subset of beams may have an envelope area that intersects an envelope area of the first beam. The first wireless device may select a second beam for communication with the second wireless device from the first subset of beams based on an envelope area of the second beam intersecting the envelope area of the first beam. The first wireless device may communicate with the second wireless device.
US11705947B2
Aspects described herein relate to activating, by a user equipment (UE), or causing activation of, by a base station, one or more antenna panels at the UE. An action time for activating or deactivating the one or more antenna panels may also be used to allow processing time related to activation or deactivation of the antenna panels.
US11705937B2
A method for pseudo channel hopping in a node of a wireless mesh network is provided that includes scanning each channel of a plurality of channels used for packet transmission by the node, wherein each channel is scanned for a scan dwell time associated with the channel, updating statistics for each channel based on packets received by the node during the scanning of the channel, and selecting a channel of the plurality of channels for scanning based on the statistics when the scan dwell time of a currently scanned channel ends.
US11705931B2
Methods and systems for interference management are described. Methods and systems can be used for minimizing interference among communication and/or electronic devices. Interference data can be gathered/received from interference sources such as weather and natural patterns, various electronic devices, and one or more network protocols. The interference data can be used to generate interference patterns of each interference source in an interference map. The interference map can be used to determine how a particular interference pattern can affect a system. The interference map can also be used to evaluate a new source of interference (e.g., cordless phones, weather conditions) to determine how a system can be affected. The interference data can also be associated with an interference signature (e.g., an interference pattern, a fingerprint) for an interference source in a database. The database can be used based on the interference signature to identify known and/or unknown interference sources.
US11705924B2
A system comprises an encoder configured to entropy encode a bitstream comprising both compressible and non-compressible symbols. The encoder parses the bitstream into a compressible symbol sub-stream and a non-compressible sub-stream. The non-compressible symbol sub-stream bypass an entropy encoding component of the encoder while the compressible symbol sub-stream is entropy encoded. When a quantity of bytes of entropy encoded symbols and bypass symbols is accumulated a chunk of fixed or known size is formed using the accumulated entropy encoded symbol bytes and the bypass bytes without waiting on the full bitstream to be processed by the encoder. In a complementary manner, a decoder reconstructs the bitstream from the packets or chunks.
US11705918B2
An incremental analog-to-digital converter including a first-stage non-delay memorization element and other elements is disclosed. An ending time point of a second reset signal received by the first-stage non-delay memorization element is later than an ending time point of a first reset signal received by the other elements by at least one clock cycle, a reset duration of the first-stage non-delay memorization element is longer than a reset duration of the other element, so that the first-stage non-delay memorization element can be prevented from occurring overshoot or spike on an output thereof, and the incremental analog-to-digital converter can maintain a good signal-to-noise and distortion ratio under the condition that the internal elements has low swing limits.
US11705916B2
Describe is a buffer which comprises: a differential source follower coupled to a first input and a second input; first and second current steering devices coupled to the differential source follower; and a current source coupled to the first and second current steering devices. The buffer provides high supply noise rejection ratio (PSRR) together with high bandwidth.
US11705912B2
A tracking system for a digital Phase Locked Loop (PLL), the tracking system including a PLL model configured to emulate an actual internal PLL signal, wherein the emulation is based on another internal PLL signal received from the digital PLL and on an estimated analog PLL parameter of the PLL model; and a tracker configured to compare the emulated internal PLL signal with the actual internal PLL signal, and to update the estimated analog PLL parameter according to a minimization algorithm that minimizes a result of the comparison.
US11705911B2
A delay locked loop circuit includes a delay line, a phase detector, a selection controller, and a charge pump. The delay line delays, based on a delay control voltage, a reference clock signal to generate an internal clock signal and a feedback clock signal. The phase detector compares phases of the internal clock signal and the feedback clock signal to generate a first detection signal and a second detection signal. The selection controller provides the reference clock signal as an up-signal and a down-signal. The charge pump generates the delay control voltage based on the up-signal and the down-signal.
US11705910B1
Methods and apparatus for quickly changing line rates in PCIe analyzers without resetting the receivers. One example circuit for multi-rate reception generally includes: a receiver having a data input, a data output, and a clock input configured to receive a clock signal from a clock generator, the receiver being configured to switch between receiving data at a first data rate and at least one second data rate and to sample data according to the first data rate, wherein the first data rate is higher than the at least one second data rate; a phase detector having an input coupled to the data output of the receiver; and a filter having an input coupled to an output of the phase detector and having an output configured to effectively control a phase of the sampling by the receiver when the data is at the at least one second data rate.
US11705908B2
The present disclosure discloses an on-chip synchronous self-repairing system based on a low-frequency reference signal. The system adopts a dual-input PLL stellate coupled structure or a dual-input PLL butterfly-shaped coupled structure, and delay of the whole loop is made to be an integral multiple of the reference signal by synchronizing the transmitted reference signal with the received reference signal, so as to ensure synchronization of local oscillation signal of each IC chip. The transmission wire based on an adjustable left-handed material is used as a delay wire to connect the dual-input PLL, thereby achieving low loss and reducing the physical distance of the delay wire. The system has the advantages of small area, low loss, strong adaptability and strict synchronization in various environments.
US11705901B2
A driver circuit drives an output terminal with an input/output voltage using an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor. A pre-driver for the NMOS transistor supplied with a drive voltage and receives a data signal referenced to the drive voltage. A pre-driver for the PMOS transistor has a positive supply input connected to the positive supply rail, a negative supply input receiving a second drive voltage equal to the supply voltage minus the drive voltage. A level shifter circuit, shifts the data signal to be referenced between the supply voltage and the second drive voltage. A charge pump circuit for providing second drive voltage, the charge pump circuit driven with a variable switching frequency proportional to a current of the PMOS transistor.
US11705897B2
An aspect relates to an apparatus, including: a ring oscillator coupled between a first node and a first voltage rail; a control circuit coupled to the first node; a delay line coupled between a second node and the first voltage rail; and a voltage regulator including an input coupled to the first node and an output coupled to the second node.
US11705896B2
Apparatuses and methods of DLL measurement initialization are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: a clock enable circuit that provides a first clock signal having a half frequency of an input clock signal and second clock signals having a quarter frequency of the input clock signal; a coarse delay that provides the first clock signal with a coarse delay; a fine delay that provides the first clock signal with the coarse delay and a fine delay as an output clock signal; a model delay having a feedback delay equivalent to a sum of delays of an input stage and an output stage, and provides a feedback signal that is the output clock signal with the feedback delay; and a measurement initialization circuit that performs measurement initialization. The measurement initialization circuit includes synchronizers that receive the feedback signal and the second clock signals, and provide a stop signal to the coarse delay.
US11705888B2
A memory device includes a terminal calibration circuit having at least one of a pull-down circuit or a pull-up circuit used in calibrating an impedance of a data bus termination. The memory device also includes a reference calibration circuit configured to generate a calibration current. The terminal calibration circuit can be configured to program an impedance of the least one of a pull-down circuit or a pull-up circuit based on the calibration current.
US11705886B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a multiplexer that includes a first filter and a second filter coupled to a common node. The first filter includes an acoustic filter arranged to filter a radio frequency signal, a matching network coupled between the acoustic filter and the common node, and a parallel circuit coupled in series between the acoustic filter and the common node. The parallel circuit includes an inductive component in parallel with a capacitive component. In certain instances, the first filter is coupled to the common node via a switch, the matching network is coupled to a node between the acoustic filter and the switch, and the parallel circuit is coupled in series between the acoustic filter and the switch. Related methods, radio frequency modules, and wireless communication devices are also disclosed.
US11705881B2
A branching filter includes a common port, a first signal port, a second signal port, a first filter, which is provided between the common port and the first signal port, that selectively passes a signal of a frequency within a first passband, a second filter, which is provided between the common port and the second signal port, that selectively passes a signal of a frequency within a second passband different from the first passband, and a capacitor that has a first end and a second end and connects the first filter and the second filter.
US11705880B2
A process for fabricating a micro-electro-mechanical system, includes the following steps: production of a stack on the surface of a temporary substrate so as to produce a first assembly, comprising: at least depositing a piezoelectric material or a ferroelectric material to produce a layer of piezoelectric material or of ferroelectric material; producing a first bonding layer; production of a second assembly comprising at least producing a second bonding layer on the surface of a host substrate; production of at least one acoustic isolation structure in at least one of the two assemblies; production of at least one electrode level containing one or more electrodes in at least one of the two assemblies; bonding the two assemblies via the two bonding layers, before or after the production of the at least one electrode level in at least one of the two assemblies; removing the temporary substrate.
US11705878B2
An audio output device may include one or more audio sensors configured to detect ambient sound and noises around the audio output device. The audio output device may include a controller configured to analyze the detected sound and noises and may adjust audio settings of the audio output device accordingly. In an embodiment, the controller may analyze and recognize that the detected noise is another person's attempt to get the user's attention or to talk to the user, such as audio sound of the user's name. In response, the controller may stop the audio output or lower the volume of the audio output.
US11705877B2
Envelope tracking power amplifiers with advanced gain shaping are provided. In certain implementations, a power amplifier system includes a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) signal and an envelope tracker that controls a voltage level of a supply voltage of the power amplifier based on an envelope of the RF signal. The power amplifier system further includes a gain shaping circuit that generates a gain shaping current that changes with the voltage level of the supply voltage from the envelope tracker. For example, the gain shaping circuit can include an analog look-up table (LUT) mapping a particular voltage level of the supply voltage to a particular current level of gain shaping current. Additionally, the gain shaping circuit biases the power amplifier based on the gain shaping current.
US11705876B2
Envelope tracking systems for power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracker is provided for a power amplifier that amplifies an RF signal. The envelope tracker includes an error amplifier that controls a voltage level of a power amplifier supply voltage of the power amplifier based on amplifying a difference between a reference signal and an envelope signal indicating an envelope of the RF signal. The envelope tracker further includes a multi-level switching circuit that generates an error amplifier supply voltage based on sensing a current of the error amplifier, and uses the error amplifier supply voltage to power the error amplifier.
US11705870B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a power splitter. The power splitter can include a first splitter branch having a first amplifier with passive components, a second splitter branch having a second amplifier with passive components. The first splitter branch is substantially electrically isolated from the second splitter branch by configuring the first and second splitter branches to have similar phase delays. Outputs of the power splitter can be electrically coupled to the multi-stage amplifier. The power splitter can be manufactured on a single semiconductor die or integrally formed on the same semiconductor die with other circuits such as the multi-stage amplifier. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11705867B2
One example includes a device that is comprised of a pre-power amplifier, a power amplifier, a signal path, and a dynamic bias circuit. The pre-power amplifier amplifies an input signal and outputs a first amplified signal. The power amplifier receives the first amplified signal and amplifies the first amplified signal based on a dynamic bias signal to produce a second amplified signal at an output thereof. The signal path is coupled between an output of the pre-power amplifier and an input of the power amplifier. The dynamic bias circuit monitors the first amplified signal, generates the dynamic bias signal, and outputs the dynamic bias into the signal path.
US11705865B2
The present disclosure relates to a relaxation oscillator, an integrated circuit and an electronic apparatus, the relaxation oscillator comprising a first signal generation module and an oscillation module configured to output a first oscillation signal and a second oscillation signal, the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal being opposite in phase, the oscillation module comprising a first switch, a second switch, a capacitor, and a comparison unit. The oscillation module according to the disclosed embodiment using a floating amplifier to implement a comparator, where in a pre-charging stage, the first switch and the second switch are turned on to charge the capacitor, and a common mode of the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal is determined; in a comparing stage, the first switch and the second switch are turned off to output the oscillation signal. The embodiment of the present disclosure eliminates the need to provide an additional common mode feedback generation circuit, and does not require an increase in power consumption, achieving the advantages of smaller occupied area, lower power consumption, less noise, and better performance as compared with a relaxation oscillator of the related art.
US11705862B2
A method is provided for enhancing the detection of the start time of a reference oscillator (4) of a super-regenerative receiver (1), which includes the reference oscillator, a bias current generator (7), an oscillation detector (6), and an impedance matching unit (3). Following the supply of the bias current (i_vco) after receiving the activation control signal (Sosc), an oscillation detection is performed by the oscillation detector (6), and once oscillation is detected, an additional amplification current (iboost) dependent on the envelope of the detected oscillation, of an amplification current generation circuit is supplied to the reference oscillator (4) in addition to the bias current to amplify the oscillation signal to be above a critical oscillation start threshold so as to precisely define the start time of the oscillator, and enable the oscillation detector (6) to order the stoppage of oscillation of the reference oscillator (4).
US11705861B1
A first three state driver injects a first clock signal into a crystal through an input node during a startup phase of a crystal oscillator and a second three state driver injects a second signal into the crystal through an output node during the startup phase. The first and second signals are anti-phase signals. The crystal oscillator circuit includes a first amplifier that is used during starting up and steady-state operation and includes a second amplifier. The injection through the input and output nodes is disabled after a fixed time. After injection ends, the second amplifier is turned on if voltage on the output node has reached a desired voltage and left off otherwise. If the second amplifier is turned on, the second amplifier is turned off when the voltage on the output node reaches the desired voltage.
US11705841B2
An estimation device includes a phase current determination unit, a time difference calculation unit, and an estimation unit. The phase current determination unit performs a determination process for determining values of phase currents based on the value of the bus current detected by a bus current detection unit and states of gate pulse signals. The time difference calculation unit calculates a difference between a detection time of the bus current used in a previous determination process and a detection time of the bus current used in a present determination process. The estimation unit estimates at least one of a position and a speed of an AC motor based on the values of the phase currents determined by the phase current determination unit and the difference calculated by the time difference calculation unit.
US11705835B2
Systems and methods for position determination in an electric machine are provided. Aspects include a DC power source connected to an inverter circuit, an electric motor comprising a rotor and a stator, wherein an output of the inverter circuit is connected to a plurality phase of windings, and a controller configured to operate the electric motor and the inverter circuit, wherein the controller is further configured to determine one or more inactive phase windings from the plurality of phase windings, supply a voltage to the inactive phase windings, receive, from a current sensor connected to the electric motor, a current for each inactive phase winding of the inactive phase windings, determine an inductance for each inactive phase winding of the inactive phase winding based on the current, and determine a position of the rotor in the electric motor based on the inductance for each inactive phase winding.
US11705834B2
Systems and methods for sensorless trapezoidal control of brushless DC motors provide effective high-torque startup and low speed operation without the use of Hall effect sensors or encoders during motor operation. The systems and methods also provide the ability to boost signal-to-noise ratio for motor startup and low speed operation via an augmenting supply voltage. Sampling architectures and current-dependent inductance modeling architectures for the control systems are also described.
US11705830B2
An electromechanical motor (1) comprises a stator (2) and a translator (10). The stator has two electromechanical actuators (20) having electromechanically active material (26) and means (35) for providing exciting signals. The translator is arranged between, and in driving contact with, driving portions (22) of the electromechanical actuators. The stator has a spring element (30) arranged for holding the driving portions against the translator. The electromechanical actuators are arranged for providing a vibration, which gives rise to a driving action, directed in a driving direction (X) perpendicular to the direction of the normal force, against the surface of the translator. The electromechanical motor further comprises a guiding means (50) having a circular hole (52). The translator has a cylindrically shaped guidance part (16) arranged at least partly in the circular hole. A tunable high-frequency filter comprising such a motor is also disclosed.
US11705828B2
A power conversion device according to an embodiment includes a cell, a first sensor, a second sensor, a storage, a first controller, and a second controller. The first controller is configured to control or protect the cell on the basis of at least one of an output result of the first sensor and an output result of the second sensor. The second controller, in a case in which a change in at least one of the output result of the first sensor and the output result of the second sensor satisfies a first condition, is configured to execute at least one of a first operation of storing the output result of the first sensor in the storage, a second operation of storing the output result of the first sensor in the storage over a second period longer than a first period, and a third operation of storing the output result of the second sensor instead of the output result of the first sensor.
US11705826B2
Systems and methods for a capacitive coupler for high-voltage step-down include an actively-controlled current-steering circuit connected in series with a current-limiting capacitor in order to transform a higher and potentially variable AC voltage to a lower regulated DC voltage. The actively-controlled current-steering circuit includes a switching element which, during operation, is predominantly either fully open or fully closed, and comparatively spends only a small fraction of operating time in a transition-state between the open and closed positions.
US11705824B2
A half bridge DC-DC converter device includes a primary circuit and a secondary circuit, which include separate windings that are disposed around a magnetic core. The first circuit includes two switches and a drive circuit to turn the two switches on and off in an alternating fashion. The primary circuit further includes two thermal regulating components to regulate the current at the base of the two switches over a range of operating temperatures. The regulation of base current over a range of different operating temperatures results in the half bridge converter device being efficient and maintaining a stable switching frequency over the operational temperature range.
US11705817B2
An LLC resonant converter including a transformer, a switching full-bridge circuit, a resonant circuit, and a bridge rectifier. The switching full-bridge circuit has a first pair of switches and a second pair of switches, with the first pair of switches being connected between a DC input voltage and a second end of a secondary winding of the transformer, the second pair of switches being connected between a DC input voltage and a first end of the secondary winding of the transformer.
US11705811B2
An apparatus includes a buck converter portion of a buck-boost converter configured to operate under a constant on-time control scheme, wherein an on-time of a high-side switch of the buck converter portion is determined by a buck on-time timer, and a boost converter portion of the buck-boost converter configured to operate under a constant off-time control scheme, wherein an off-time of a low-side switch of the boost converter portion is determined by a boost off-time timer.
US11705810B2
An apparatus includes a first power converter and a second power converter. The first power converter converts an input voltage into a first output voltage; the second power converter converts the first output voltage into a second output voltage that powers a load. The second power converter includes a switched-capacitor converter combined with a magnetic device. The switched-capacitor converter provides capacitive energy transfer; the magnetic device provides magnetic energy transfer. Additionally, the second power converter provides unregulated conversion of the first output voltage into the second output voltage via the capacitive energy transfer and the magnetic energy transfer. To maintain the magnitude of the second output voltage within a desired range or setpoint value, the first power converter regulates a magnitude of the first output voltage based on comparison of a magnitude of the second output voltage with respect to a desired setpoint reference voltage.
US11705798B2
An electric motor has an end shield and a sensor for detecting a magnetic field. The sensor is integrated into the end shield of the electric motor. An electric drive unit may include a brake, in particular an electromagnetically actuatable brake, and an electric motor, where a shielding element is arranged between the sensor and the brake.
US11705790B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an arrangement for a plug-in coil of an electrical machine, comprising the steps of: providing a core with slots; providing coil elements which are rod-shaped and have a proximal end and a distal end; inserting the coil elements into the slots from an end side of the core with the distal end at the front in such a way that the proximal end is arranged in the region of the end side and the distal end is arranged in the region of an opposite end side of the core or adjacent to it; and producing a respective jointed connection for the distal ends or the proximal ends of a first coil element and of a second coil element with an associated first connecting element on the opposite end side or the end side of the core, wherein, here, before joining between the respective joining partners, specifically the distal end or the proximal end of the first coil element and a first joining section of the first connecting element and also the distal end or the proximal end of the second coil element and a second joining section of the first connecting element, a connection is formed in each case, with which the relative position of the joining partners in relation to one another is defined. The invention further provides an arrangement for a plug-in coil of an electrical machine.
US11705789B2
A motor includes a rotating portion rotatable about a center axis that extends vertically and a stationary portion that rotatably supports the rotating portion. The stationary portion includes a stator facing at least a part of the rotating portion in a radial direction, a circuit board disposed axially below the stator, and a resin portion covering at least a part of the stator, and the circuit board. The stator includes a plurality of coils disposed in a circumferential direction. The circuit board includes an axially upper surface mounted with an electric element that is disposed at least at one of positions including a position between two coils of the plurality of coils, adjacent to each other in the circumference direction, and a position below the coil.
US11705788B2
The present disclosure envisages an electromagnetic drive unit. The drive unit comprises a magnet having a north pole surface, a south pole surface, an operative top surface and an operative bottom surface. A coil having a pair of terminals is assembled on the magnet and hingeably coupled to the magnet, wherein a hingeable movement of the coil with respect to the magnet provides a reciprocating mechanical drive to the magnet. The hingeable movement of the coil is facilitated by providing an alternating supply to the pair of terminals of the coil. A hinge is provided on a base supporting the magnet for facilitating the pivotal movement of coil with respect to the magnet. A resilient band is provided adjacent the operative top surface of the magnet for securing the coil to the magnet.
US11705787B2
A motor assembly includes a motor, a controller controlling at least one aspect of operation of the motor, and a control housing defining a control chamber. The controller is in part received within the control chamber. The controller includes a main electronics board and a modular connector assembly. The modular connector assembly includes a secondary electronics board and a connector at least in part supporting the secondary electronics board. The connector includes an inner connector portion and an outer connector portion. The connector extends through the control housing such that the inner connector portion is disposed inside the control chamber and the outer connector portion is disposed outside the control chamber. The outer connector portion defines a first access portal facilitating access to a first component of the secondary electronics board.
US11705765B2
An electrical machine includes a housing, a stator, and a rotor. The rotor is mounted relative to the stator for rotation about an axis of rotation. The stator radially outwardly surrounds the rotor. The housing is shrunk onto the stator from radially outside. On its radially outer periphery, the stator includes spring dements which are at least partially elastically deflected radially inwards during shrinking of the housing onto the stator such that the projections rest against the housing with a spring force.
US11705761B2
A wireless charging transmit end includes a dual-polarized antenna which includes at least one dual-polarized element and a signal processing apparatus. Each dual-polarized element includes a first linearly polarized element and a second linearly polarized element that are mutually orthogonal and respectively receive a first wireless signal and a second wireless signal from the receive end. The signal processing apparatus obtains a first energy signal and a second energy signal based on a waveform relationship between the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal. The first energy signal is sent to the receive end by the first linearly polarized element, and the second energy signal is sent to the receive end by the second linearly polarized element. The first energy signal and the second energy signal are combined into an energy signal matching the receive end.
US11705754B2
Methods and devices optimize backup power management for network devices connected to backup power sources including two different batteries. Machine learning techniques are used to predict upcoming power outages affecting the network device based on power-related historic information and current conditions. A backup-power operation plan prescribing usage of the backup power sources during the predicted power outages is then generated. The backup-power operation plan schedules a battery among the backup power devices to be used at least twice without being recharged.
US11705749B2
Methods and systems are provided for managing multi-battery systems, such as those utilized in an electric vehicle. Multi-battery systems comprise batteries providing power in parallel, thereby making each battery available to the vehicle and avoiding the weight of transporting a backup battery. The methods and systems provided allow for a fault in one battery, in a parallel configuration with at least one other battery, to be detected and managed.
US11705744B2
A battery unit for a favor inhaler includes a chargeable and dischargeable power supply, a connection part capable of electrically connecting to an external charger, and a controller configured to perform control regarding at least the power supply, wherein when an accumulated value of a connection time period to the charger exceeds a first predetermined time period, the controller determines that the power supply has been degraded.
US11705741B2
Described herein is a battery system that allows a battery pack to operate in different modes at different times. Each of the different modes may provide its own set of functionality that affects how the battery pack operates and/or reacts to external input signals. A mode may change how the battery pack discharges power by, for example, altering whether terminals are enabled or disabled. A mode may change how the battery pack's hardware operates by, for example, disabling or enabling portions of the battery pack's hardware. A mode may change what battery-related services are provided by the battery pack and available to an end user by, for example, enabling or disabling the sending of battery status information from the battery pack.
US11705740B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of cells and a control module. The control module is configured to acquire internal resistance of each of the plurality of cells, acquire a terminal voltage of each of the plurality of cells in real time in a case where the plurality of cells are charged with a constant current, determine an electromotive force of each of the plurality of cells based on the internal resistance of each of the plurality of cells and a charging current and the terminal voltage, determine a target cell from the plurality of cells based on the electromotive force of each of the plurality of cells, and perform charging balancing management on the target cell.
US11705722B2
In a method for protecting lines, in which a reactor device for reactive power compensation is provided on an electrical line, a resonant current is measured on the line side of the reactor device by a first measuring device after an opening of a circuit breaker. A voltage is measured by a second measuring device after the opening of the circuit breaker. A current in the reactor device is calculated by an evaluation device on a basis of the measured voltage, and the calculated current is subtracted from the measured resonant current by the evaluation device in order to obtain a corrected current.
US11705719B1
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a system includes a generator control relay configured to electrically connect a generator and an exciter switch drive to drive an exciter switch. A first processor is operatively connected to control a state of the generator control relay to control the electrical connection between a generator and the exciter switch drive. The system includes an exciter drive configured to generate excitation current for field windings of a generator system based on a state of the exciter switch. A second processor is operatively connected to control the exciter drive and to communicate with the first processor during a fault event to place the generator control relay in an open state, disconnecting the generator from the exciter switch drive to prevent generation of excitation current. In certain embodiments, the first processor can include a microcontroller and the second processor can include a voltage regulation processor.
US11705712B2
In one example, an arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) is provided. The AFCI may include a plurality of current arc signature detection blocks configured to output a plurality of corresponding current arc signatures, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive each of the plurality of current arc signature from each of plurality of current arc signature detection blocks, respectively, and generate a first trigger signal. The processor may be further configured to assess each of the current arc signatures, determine whether an arc fault exists based on the assessment, and generate the first trigger signal if an arc fault is determined to exist. A method for detecting an arc fault is also provided.
US11705709B2
The present disclosure relates to a dry-type cable termination comprising: a tubular support structure comprising: an insulator support comprising a frustoconical portion, wherein the insulator support is made of an electrically insulating non-metallic composite material having a tensile modulus of at least 11 GPa; and a screen tube; an insulating body at least partially externally covering and directly contacting the support structure; an elastomeric stress cone housed in the frustoconical portion and in direct contact to the frustoconical portion; an electrode, housed within the screen tube, connected with the stress cone and in electric contact with the screen tube.
US11705708B2
A laminated busbar includes: a base body comprising conducting layers and insulating material to electrically insulate the conducting layers from each other. The conducting layers and the insulating material are clamped together by mechanical means and/or a profile is connected to the base body. In an embodiment, no glue or adhesive is arranged between at least one conducting layer and at least one insulating material.
US11705707B2
Apparatus and methods are employed to install fiber optic cables in a data center facility using one or more cable dispensing robots that dispense fiber optic cable that is pre-spooled on a cable cartridge, by programmatically unspooling the cable from the cable cartridge and paying the cable out along a potentially transverse oscillatory path (e.g. sinusoidal curve) as the robot moves down a cable tray network that is arranged adjacent and above large numbers of equipment bays. A controller accesses a database which stores the state of the cables within the cable tray network. The database further stores information regarding availability of cable cartridges of standard cable lengths, which are potentially stored within a cable cassette loading/unloading system. The controller receives instructions on where and how to spatially deploy a fiber optic interconnect cable within the tray network of the data center facility.
US11705699B2
A sheath removal device includes: an electric wire gripping member which grips an electric wire having a wire and a sheath that covers the wire; cutting blades which form a cut in the sheath at a cutting position that is located on a tip side than a position where the electric wire is gripped by the electric wire gripping member; and a sheath gripping member which grips a sheath tip portion that is a portion, from the tip of the sheath to the cutting position, of the sheath. The sheath gripping member peels off the sheath tip portion from the wire by performing a rotation operation about an extension direction of the electric wire and a pulling-out operation on the sheath tip portion.
US11705698B2
A cable securing device facilitates secure connection to a cabling end, and employs a retaining cap, a barrel and a cable receiving component. The cable receiving component can include a spacer gland, a fastening ring and a retaining jaw, or a subset thereof, and the elements of the cable receiving component may either be joined together as individual elements or provided as an integrated cartridge.
US11705689B2
A plurality of dies includes a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate having a surface region and an epitaxial material formed overlying the surface region. The epitaxial material includes an n-type cladding region, an active region having at least one active layer overlying the n-type cladding region, and a p-type cladding region overlying the active region. The epitaxial material is patterned to form the plurality of dies on the surface region, the dies corresponding to a laser device. Each of the plurality of dies includes a release region composed of a material with a smaller bandgap than an adjacent epitaxial material. A lateral width of the release region is narrower than a lateral width of immediately adjacent layers above and below the release region to form undercut regions bounding each side of the release region. Each die also includes a passivation region extending along sidewalls of the active region.
US11705681B2
A connector has a plug housing and a termination cap housing assembly pivotably attached to the plug housing. The termination cap housing assembly has a pair of contacts secured thereto such that pivoting the termination cap housing assembly to the plug housing terminates the contacts to a pair of wires inserted into the plug housing.
US11705680B2
A wall-mounted electrical-connector-engaging assembly for axial engagement with an electrical connector, the assembly including (a) a wall-surface adapter having front and back faces and attached to a wall over an opening in the wall and (b) a backcap. The adapter back face has a plurality of wire-connection points for installation of a corresponding plurality of wires, and the adapter front face has a plurality of slidably-engaging electrical connection points for engagement in at least an axial direction with the electrical connector. The backcap surrounds the plurality of wire-connection points and adjacent portions of the corresponding plurality of wires connected thereto, and includes a twist lock for installation on the wall-surface adapter.
US11705669B2
A high-current high-frequency electrical connector receptacle applicable to network data transmission includes a receptacle housing and a socket tongue. The socket tongue is inserted into the receptacle housing in a front-rear direction, and a relative position thereof is locked. The socket tongue includes an upper terminal block, a lower terminal block and an insulating plastic body. The upper terminal block and the lower terminal block are both built in and fixed into the insulating plastic body. The receptacle housing is provided with a special-shaped fool-proofing unit.
US11705656B2
A connecter terminal structure includes: a male housing of a male connecter; a male terminal accommodated in the male housing and including a first electrical contact portion; a stepped shaft portion formed at a tip end of the first electrical contact portion; a hood portion surrounding the first electrical contact portion; an annular terminal spring externally fitted to the stepped shaft portion; and an insulating cap fixed to a tip end of the stepped shaft portion and configured to hold the annular terminal spring. The connecter terminal structure further includes: a female housing of a female connecter; a female terminal accommodating portion configured to be fitted into the hood portion; and a female terminal accommodated in the female terminal accommodating portion and including a second electrical contact portion having a tubular shape to allow the first electrical contact portion to be inserted therein.
US11705653B2
A connector that is attachable to an end of a flat cable and is connectable to a counterpart connector includes a housing having a plate-shaped portion and a terminal accommodating portion, and a socket terminal housed in the terminal accommodating portion. The socket terminal has a box portion in which a pin terminal of the counterpart connector is to be inserted, and a spring portion having a cantilever shape, the spring portion extending from the box portion and protruding onto the plate-shaped portion. The end of the flat cable is to be interposed between the plate-shaped portion and the spring portion of the socket terminal. The terminal accommodating portion receives part of force that the spring portion receives from the flat cable.
US11705652B2
Apparatus including an elongated body to couple with a surface mount connector to reduce or prevent deformation of the surface mount connector during soldering of the surface mount connector to a substrate, the surface mount connector including a connector housing having a first end portion and a second end portion. In one implementation, the elongated body may include: a first body end portion forming a first tab insertable into a first portion of a socket defined by the first housing end portion; and a second body end portion forming a second tab insertable into a second portion of the socket defined by the second housing end portion.
US11705641B2
A 5G antenna system is disclosed that comprises a substrate and at least one antenna element configured to transmit and receive 5G radio frequency signals. The at least one antenna element is coupled to the substrate. The substrate comprises a polymer composition that comprises a polymer matrix containing at least one polymer having a glass transition temperature of about 30° C. or more and at least one laser activatable additive wherein the polymer composition exhibits a dissipation factor of about 0.1 or less, as determined at a frequency of 2 GHz.
US11705632B2
Systems and methods for designing, optimizing, patterning, forming, and manufacturing symphotic structures are described herein. A symphotic structure may be formed by identifying a continuous refractive index distribution calculated to convert each of a plurality of input reference waves to a corresponding plurality of output object waves. The continuous refractive index distribution can be modeled as a plurality of subwavelength voxels. The system can calculate a symphotic pattern as a three-dimensional array of discrete dipole values to functionally approximate the subwavelength voxels. A symphotic structure may be formed with a volumetric distribution of dipole structures. A dipole value, such as a dipole moment (direction and magnitude) of each dipole is selected for the volumetric distribution to convert a plurality of input reference waves to a target plurality of output object waves.
US11705620B2
A wireless wearable device comprises a radiating system that contains at least a non-resonant element disposed in different arrangements within a radiating structure in the radiating system, featuring compact dimensions and an adequate performance when operating on a carrier living body.
US11705619B2
In an embodiment, an electronic device may include a housing having an inner space and an antenna structure disposed in the inner space of the housing. The antenna structure may include a printed circuit board (PCB) and at least one antenna disposed in the PCB. The PCB may have a plurality of insulating layers and a ground layer. The at least one antenna may include a conductive line disposed on a first insulating layer among the plurality of insulating layers, a conductive via extended from the conductive line in a first direction, and at least one conductive pattern branched at a right angle from the conductive line on the first insulating layer. The wireless communication circuit may be configured to transmit and/or receive a radio signal in a range of about 3 GHz to about 100 GHz through the at least one antenna.
US11705617B2
In some embodiments, a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag system includes a first strap mounting pad of an RFID antenna component, and a second strap mounting pad of the RFID antenna component, the second strap mounting pad being electrically coupled to the first RFID strap mounting pad. At least one of the first strap mounting pad and the second strap mounting pad may extend diagonally with respect to a wide edge direction of the antenna component, thus making the RFID antenna component configured to receive both a strap that is parallel to a wide edge direction of the antenna component and a strap that is perpendicular to a wide edge direction of the antenna component.
US11705606B2
A tab, a preparation method thereof, and a battery including the tab are disclosed. The tab is a copper foil material, a surface of the copper foil material having a large compressive stress is an S surface, a surface having a small compressive stress is an M surface, and only the M surface is provided with an indentation or a reinforcing rib. In the preparation method of the tab of the disclosure, the S surface/M surface of the copper foil material are identified, and it is ensured that a feed direction is oriented so that the M surface faces outward (or inward), and winding/unwinding directions of each process and a mounting direction of an embossing device are reasonably fixed, so as to ensure that a tab emboss pattern of a product is pressed on the M surface of the copper foil material rather than the S surface or both surfaces.
US11705603B2
A battery pack exhaust duct includes a guide tube, an exhaust inlet, an exhaust outlet, and exhaust guide components. The exhaust guide components include first and second exhaust guide components. Each of the exhaust guide components has a first part and a second part. The first part has a first end that is nearer to the interior surface of the guide tube. The first part extends away from the interior surface, and toward the exhaust inlet. The second part has a first end that is nearer to the first part. The second part extends toward the interior surface. The second part has a second end that is apart from the interior surface. The second end of the second part of the first exhaust guide component and the second end of the second part of the second exhaust guide component are displaced along axis X along which the guide tube extends.
US11705601B2
A lightweight structure for a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, comprises a longitudinal member with a base web, which has a first busbar on a contact surface, and a cross member with a central web and a cross web extending transversely to the central web, the cross web being a first connecting conductor which extends in the area of a first end section of the cross member on a first surface and a second surface of the cross web oriented opposite to this, and a second connection conductor track which extends separately from the first connection conductor track at least on the first surface of the cross web. The cross member extends transversely to the longitudinal member and the cross member is connected at the first end section to the base member in such a way that the first connection conductor track is in contact with the first busbar of the base member. The lightweight structure also includes a flat carbon fiber structure battery connected to the central web of the cross member, a first collector of the carbon fiber structure battery being electrically connected to the first or the second connection conductor track and a second collector of the carbon fiber structure battery being electrically connected to the respective other connection conductor track.
US11705598B2
A method for producing a traction battery of a motor vehicle. A battery housing of the traction battery has a receiving compartment for receiving a cell module. It is thus provided that the receiving compartment is delimited by a bottom and walls adjoining said bottom, A topography of the bottom is recorded by measuring technology, a thermal-conductor amount determined by the topography is applied locally to the bottom, whereupon the cell module is inserted into the receiving compartment.
US11705589B2
Provided is a pressure balancing device, having a mounting seat and a cover, wherein an accommodating cavity is formed between the mounting seat and the cover. The pressure balancing device may also have a partition member, wherein the partition member divides the accommodating cavity into first and second accommodating cavities. The partition member may also include a support portion and an elastic portion, the support portion being disposed on the elastic portion and having a vent hole capable of fluidly communicating the accommodating cavities. The elastic portion is elastically deformable so as to move the support portion relative to the cover. The pressure balancing device may also have a breathable film that is disposed on the support portion and covers the vent hole, and that is movable as the support portion moves.
US11705585B2
Disclosed is a rechargeable lithium battery including a positive electrode including a positive active material layer; and a negative electrode including a negative active material layer and a negative functional layer on the negative active material layer, wherein the functional layer includes flake-shaped polyethylene particles, and the positive active material layer includes a first positive active material including one or more composite oxides of lithium and a metal selected from cobalt, manganese, nickel, and a combination thereof, and a second positive active material including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and. In Chemical Formula 1, 0.90≤a≤1.8, 0≤x≤0.7, and M is Mg, Co, Ni, or a combination thereof. LiaFe1−xMxPO4 [Chemical Formula 1]
US11705580B2
Electrolytes for lithium ion batteries with carbon-based, silicon-based, or carbon- and silicon-based anodes include a lithium salt; a nonaqueous solvent comprising at least one of the following components: (i) an ester, (ii) a sulfur-containing solvent, (iii) a phosphorus-containing solvent, (iv) an ether, (v) a nitrile, or any combination thereof, wherein the lithium salt is soluble in the solvent; a diluent comprising a fluoroalkyl ether, a fluorinated orthoformate, a fluorinated carbonate, a fluorinated borate, a fluorinated phosphate, a fluorinated phosphite, or any combination thereof, wherein the lithium salt has a solubility in the diluent at least 10 times less than a solubility of the lithium salt in the solvent; and an additive having a different composition than the lithium salt, a different composition than the solvent, and a different composition than the diluent. In some electrolytes, the nonaqueous solvent comprises an ester.
US11705575B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and discloses a battery module, a battery package and a vehicle. The battery module can include a plurality of battery cells arranged in a horizontal direction, the battery cell can include an electrode assembly and a battery case, and the electrode assembly can be accommodated in the battery case. The electrode assembly can include a first electrode sheet, a second electrode sheet, and a separator disposed between the first and second electrode sheets, wherein the dimension of the battery module in the horizontal direction can be larger than that in the vertical direction of the battery module. The electrode assembly can be of a wound structure or of a laminated structure. The present disclosure can effectively reduce the expansion deformation of the battery module.
US11705570B2
The present disclosure discloses a flow battery system and a large-scale flow battery energy storage device. The flow battery system comprises multiple flow batteries; each of the flow batteries comprises a battery pack A, a battery pack B, a battery pack C, and a set of electrolyte circulation system used by the battery pack A, the battery pack B and the battery pack C; the battery pack A, the battery pack B and the battery pack C comprised in each flow battery are independent of each other in the circuit. According to the present disclosure, at least two sets of electrolyte circulation system are saved under the same power scale, such that the system stability is improved while the cost is reduced.
US11705568B2
The present invention provides a catalysed ion-conducting membrane comprising an ion-conducting membrane, an electrocatalyst layer having two opposing faces, and a layer A comprising an ion-conducting material and a carbon containing material. Also provided are methods for preparing the catalysed ion-conducting membrane.
US11705566B2
The disclosure relates to a fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell stack for providing an electrical power Pstack depending on a power demand, at least one auxiliary unit for operating the fuel cell stack with an electrical power consumption Paux, at least one consumer with an electrical power request Puse, and a control unit for regulating the power demand as well as a method for controlling such a fuel cell system. It is provided that the control unit is configured to selectively operate the fuel cell system in a first operating mode or in a second operating mode, whereby the fuel cell stack is turned off depending on the operating mode upon the falling below of an optimal efficiency degree operating point P(ηmax) of the fuel cell system or a minimum operating point Pmin of the fuel cell stack. In particular, at least one auxiliary unit is also turned off in the first operating mode, when the optimal efficiency degree operating point decreases.
US11705563B2
A fuel cell system includes a control unit that detects an abnormality of a flow dividing valve provided in a bypass channel for an oxidation gas by using a detected opening degree detected by a valve opening degree detection sensor that detects the opening degree of the flow dividing valve. When the detected abnormality is an opening abnormality that is failure to open and the flow dividing valve can close, the control unit sends a closing command for making the opening degree smaller than a current opening degree to a valve driving motor. Either when the detected abnormality is a closing abnormality that is failure to close and the flow dividing valve can open or when the detected abnormality is an opening-closing abnormality that is failure both to close and to open, the control unit sends a maintaining command for maintaining the opening degree to the valve driving motor.
US11705561B2
A method and system of controlling hydrogen purge are provided. The method includes estimating an air supply rate supplied to a fuel cell stack and then executing hydrogen purge based on the estimated air supply rate.
US11705557B2
Various embodiments include fuel cell interconnects having a fuel distribution portion having an inlet opening, a fuel collection portion having an outlet opening, and a primary fuel flow field containing channels, wherein the fuel distribution portion comprises at least one raised feature defining a fuel distribution flow path, and the fuel distribution flow path is not continuous with the channels in the primary fuel flow field. The at least one raised feature may include, for example, a network of ribs and/or dots. Further embodiments include interconnects having a fuel distribution portion with a variable surface depth to provide variable flow restriction and/or a plenum with variable surface depth and raised a raised relief feature on the cathode side, and/or varying flow channel depths and/or rib heights adjacent a fuel hole.
US11705554B2
Articles and methods related to electrochemical cells and/or electrochemical cell components (such as electrodes) comprising species comprising a conjugated, negatively-charged ring comprising a nitrogen atom and/or reaction products of such species are generally provided. The electrochemical cell may comprise an electrode (e.g., a cathode) comprising a protective layer comprising a species comprising a conjugated, negatively-charged ring comprising a nitrogen atom and/or a reaction product thereof.
US11705552B2
A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are disclosed, and the negative active material includes a primary particle of a crystalline carbon-based material and secondary particle that is an assembly of the primary particles, wherein a ratio of an average particle diameter (D50) of the secondary particle relative to an average particle diameter (D50) of the primary particle (average particle diameter (D50) of the secondary particle/average particle diameter (D50) of the primary particle) ranges from about 1.5 to about 5 and an aspect ratio of the primary particle ranges from about 1 to about 7.
US11705551B2
An electrode material manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing an electrode material (50) of an all-solid-state battery, and the method includes: the step of preparing a coated active substance to prepare a coated active substance (10) containing a positive electrode active substance 11 and a coating layer (12) of an oxide-based solid-electrolyte that covers at least a portion of a surface thereof; the step of first compositing to manufacture a first composite material (20) by covering at least a portion of a surface of the solid electrolyte (21) with a conductive auxiliary agent (22); the step of second compositing to manufacture a second composite material (40) by covering a surface of the coated active substance (10) with the first composite material (20); and the step of mixing the second composite material (40), the conductive auxiliary agent (22), and the solid electrolyte (21) to manufacture an electrode material (50).
US11705539B2
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor stack including a top surface; a current blocking region, including a first pad portion formed on the semiconductor stack and wherein the current blocking region includes transparent insulated material; a first opening, formed in the first pad portion, exposing the top surface of the semiconductor stack; a transparent conductive layer, covering the top surface of the semiconductor stack, including a second opening overlapping the first opening; and a first electrode, formed on the semiconductor stack, including a first pad electrode formed on the first pad portion of the current blocking region; wherein the first pad electrode contacts the semiconductor stack through the first opening and the second opening; wherein the first opening includes a first area, the first pad portion and the first opening compose a total area, and a ratio of the first area to the total area is between 10% and 40%.
US11705537B2
Disclosed are a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a plurality of pixels, a light emitting device provided in each of the plurality of pixels, the light emitting device having a first surface and a second surface, which are opposite to each other, a first electrode electrically connected to the first surface of the light emitting device, a second electrode electrically connected to the second surface of the light emitting device, and a metal oxide pattern interposed between the second surface of the light emitting device and the second electrode. The metal oxide pattern is provided to cover a portion of the second surface and to expose a remaining portion of the second surface. The second electrode is electrically connected to the exposed remaining portion of the second surface, and the metal oxide pattern includes single-crystalline or polycrystalline alumina.
US11705536B2
In an image display element, a side surface of a nitride semiconductor is covered with a reflection material inclined so as to open in a light emitting direction, wavelength conversion units are surrounded by partition walls, and side surfaces of the partition walls facing the wavelength conversion units are reflection surfaces inclined so as to open in the light emitting direction.
US11705534B2
A micro-light emitting diode (uLED) device comprises: a mesa comprising: a plurality of semiconductor layers including an n-type layer, an active layer, and a p-type layer; a p-contact layer contacting the p-type layer; a cathode contacting the first sidewall of the n-type layer; a first region of dielectric material that insulates the p-contact layer, the active layer, and a first sidewall of the p-type layer from the cathode; an anode contacting the top surface of the p-contact layer; and a second region of dielectric material that insulates the active layer, a second sidewall of the p-type layer, and the second sidewall of the n-type layer from the anode. The top surface of the p-contact layer has a different planar orientation compared to the first and second sidewalls of the n-type layer. Methods of making and using the uLED devices are also provided.
US11705533B2
Disclosed is a photosensitive component, including: an intrinsic layer; a first doped layer provided on a light incident side of the intrinsic layer; and a second doped layer provided on a light exit side of the intrinsic layer; the intrinsic layer, the first doped layer and the second doped layer are all doped with a dopant, and silicon ions are injected into the intrinsic layer, the first doped layer and the second doped layer. An X-ray detector and a display device are further disclosed.
US11705532B2
An X-ray device including a sensing panel is provided. The sensing panel includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The second pixel is disposed adjacent to the first pixel in a top view direction. The first pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion layer. The second pixel includes a second photoelectric conversion layer. The first photoelectric conversion layer and the second photoelectric conversion layer belong to different layers.
US11705530B2
An imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion unit in which a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode are stacked. A semiconductor material layer including an inorganic oxide semiconductor material having an amorphous structure at least in a portion is formed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and the formation energy of an inorganic oxide semiconductor material that has the same composition as the inorganic oxide semiconductor material having an amorphous structure and has a crystalline structure has a positive value.
US11705529B2
Structures for a photodetector and methods of fabricating a structure for a photodetector. The structure includes a first waveguide core having a first taper, a semiconductor layer having a sidewall adjacent to the first taper, and a second waveguide core having a second taper that is positioned to overlap with the first taper and a curved section. The second taper is longitudinally positioned between the sidewall of the semiconductor layer and the curved section. The curved section terminates the second waveguide core.
US11705526B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a first active area and a second active area in proximity to the first active area. A trench isolation region is between the first active area and the second active area. A source line region is disposed in the first active area and adjacent to the trench isolation region. An erase gate is disposed on the source line region. A floating gate is disposed on a first side of the erase gate. A first control gate is disposed on the floating gate. A first word line is disposed adjacent to the floating gate and the first control gate and insulated therefrom. A second control gate is disposed on a second side of the erase gate and directly on the trench isolation region. A second word line is disposed adjacent to the second control gate and insulated therefrom.
US11705518B2
Isolation schemes for gate-all-around (GAA) transistor devices are provided herein Integrated circuit structures including increased transistor source/drain contact area using a sacrificial source/drain layer are provided herein. In some cases, the isolation schemes include changing the semiconductor nanowires/nanoribbons in a targeted channel region between active or functional transistor devices to electrically isolate those active devices. The targeted channel region is referred to herein as a dummy channel region, as it is not used as an actual channel region for an active or functional transistor device. The semiconductor nanowires/nanoribbons in the dummy channel region can be changed by converting them to an electrical insulator and/or by adding dopant that is opposite in type relative to surrounding source/drain material (to create a p-n junction). The isolation schemes described herein enable neighboring active devices to retain strain in the nanowires/nanoribbons of their channel regions, thereby improving device performance.
US11705517B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is described. The method includes forming a nanosheet stack on a substrate, the nanosheet stack includes nanosheet channel layers. A gate is formed around the nanosheet channel layers of the nanosheet stack. A strained material is formed along a sidewall surface of the gate. The strained material is configured to create strain in the nanosheet channel layers of the nanosheet stack.
US11705497B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active pattern extending in a first direction on the substrate, a gate electrode extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction on the active pattern, a gate spacer extending in the second direction along side walls of the gate electrode, an interlayer insulating layer contacting side walls of the gate spacer, a trench formed on the gate electrode in the interlayer insulating layer, a first capping pattern provided along side walls of the trench, at least one side wall of the first capping pattern having an inclined profile, and a second capping pattern provided on the first capping pattern in the trench.
US11705496B2
A thin-film memory transistor includes a source region, a drain region, a channel region, a gate electrode, and a charge-trapping layer provided between the channel region and the gate electrode and electrically isolated therefrom, wherein the charge-trapping layer has includes a number of charge-trapping sites that is 70% occupied or evacuated using a single voltage pulse of a predetermined width of 500 nanoseconds or less and a magnitude of 15.0 volts or less. The charge-trapping layer comprises silicon-rich nitride may have a refractive index of 2.05 or greater or comprises nano-crystals of germanium (Ge), zirconium oxide (ZrO2), or zinc oxide (ZnO). The thin-film memory transistor may be implemented, for example, in a 3-dimensional array of NOR memory strings formed above a planar surface of a semiconductor substrate.
US11705495B2
Provided is a memory device including a plurality of stack structures disposed on a substrate; and a dielectric layer. Each stack structure includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, an inter-gate dielectric layer, a metal silicide layer, and a barrier layer. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The inter-gate dielectric layer is disposed between the first and second conductive layers. The metal silicide layer is disposed on the second conductive layer. The barrier layer is disposed between the metal silicide layer and the second conductive layer. The dielectric layer laterally surrounds a lower portion of the plurality of stack structures to expose a portion of the metal silicide layer of the plurality of stack structures.
US11705486B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a first III-V semiconductor material over a substrate and a second III-V semiconductor material over the first III-V semiconductor material. The second III-V semiconductor material is a different material than the first III-V semiconductor material. A doped region has a horizontally extending segment and one or more vertically extending segments protruding vertically outward from the horizontally extending segment. The horizontally extending segment is arranged below the first III-V semiconductor material.
US11705479B2
Provided are a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a support substrate, a driving layer provided on the support substrate and including a driving element configured to apply power to a pixel electrode, and a light-emitting layer provided on the driving layer.
US11705478B2
A display device includes a first pixel including a first light emitting area in which first light emitting elements are arranged, a second pixel including a second light emitting area in which second light emitting elements are arranged, a light blocking pattern disposed on the first and second pixels to overlap a peripheral area of the first and second light emitting areas and including a first opening corresponding to the first light emitting area and a second opening corresponding to the second light emitting area, and a color filter including a first color filter pattern disposed in the first opening and a second color filter pattern disposed in the second opening. The second pixel includes a greater number of second light emitting elements than a number of the first light emitting elements. The second opening has an area smaller than an area of the first opening.
US11705477B2
A display device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The display device includes a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode on the substrate and spaced apart from the first electrode, a plurality of light emitting elements, at least a portion of each of which is between the first electrode and the second electrode, and contact electrodes on the first electrode, the second electrode and the light emitting elements, the contact electrodes including a conductive polymer, wherein the contact electrodes include a first contact electrode which contacts an end portion of a first portion of the light emitting elements and the first electrode and a second contact electrode which contacts an end portion of a second portion of the light emitting elements, and the second electrode and is spaced apart from the first contact electrode.
US11705476B2
A light emitting device including a plurality of pixels is provided by the present disclosure. Each of the plurality of pixels includes at least two light emitting diodes, and the at least two light emitting didoes are electrically connected with each other in series, wherein the at least two light emitting diodes have peak external quantum efficiencies under different currents.
US11705471B2
A semiconductor-based imaging device and method of manufacture. A direct bond hybridization (DBH) structure is formed on a top surface of a read out integrated circuit (ROIC). A silicon-based detector is bonded to the ROIC via the DBH structure. A non-silicon-based detector is bonded to the DBH structure located on the top of the ROIC using indium-based hybridization.
US11705469B2
Light detecting structures comprising a Si base having a pyramidal shape with a wide incoming light-facing pyramid bottom and a narrower pyramid top and a Ge photodiode formed on the Si pyramid top, wherein the Ge photodiode is operable to detect light in the short wavelength infrared range, and methods for forming such structures. A light detecting structure as above may be repeated spatially and fabricated in the form of a focal plane array of Ge photodetectors on silicon.
US11705468B2
Image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes a first pixel and a second pixel, each having a filter unit that can be switched to a light-shielding state in which light is blocked or to a transmissive state in which light is transmitted, a photoelectric conversion unit that generates an electric charge through photoelectric conversion of light transmitted through the filter unit and an output unit that outputs a signal based upon electric charge generated at the photoelectric conversion unit, and; a correction unit that corrects a signal output from the output unit of the first pixel while the filter unit of the first pixel is in a transmissive state, based upon a signal output from the output unit of the first pixel with the filter unit of the first pixel set in a light-shielding state and with the filter unit of the second pixel set in a transmissive state.
US11705465B2
A display apparatus comprises a first signal line on a substrate, a second signal line intersecting with the first signal line, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, a first drain electrode, and a second gate electrode disposed on the same layer as that of the first signal line, a first active layer spaced apart from the first gate electrode and partially overlapped with the first gate electrode, a second active layer spaced apart from the second gate electrode and partially overlapped with the second gate electrode, and a first electrode of a display device connected with the second active layer.
US11705461B2
Disclosed are a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises: a base substrate provided with a first area and a second area which are not overlapped with each other; a low temperature poly-silicon transistor arranged in the first area, the low temperature poly-silicon transistor comprises a poly-silicon active layer; an oxide transistor arranged in the second area, the oxide transistor comprises a first gate electrode; the first gate electrode is arranged in a same layer as the poly-silicon active layer, and a material of the first gate electrode is heavily-doped poly-silicon.
US11705459B2
The disclosure relates to a display device which includes a substrate, pixels, a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate and including a recess, a first conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer, a second conductive layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the substrate and electrically connected to the first conductive layer, a trace layer disposed between the first and second conductive layers and electrically connected to the first conductive layer, and a buffer layer disposed between the second conductive layer and the trace layer. The substrate includes a bent portion and a main portion and the pixels are disposed on the main portion. The first conductive layer is electrically connected to at least one of the pixels, and the first conductive layer includes a first portion disposed in the recess, and a second portion disposed out of the recess.
US11705457B2
A monolithic multi-FET transistor comprises an epitaxial layer disposed on a dielectric layer. The epitaxial layer comprises a crystalline semiconductor material and a multi-FET area. An isolation structure surrounds the multi-FET area and divides the multi-FET area into separate FET portions. A gate disposed on a gate dielectric extends over each FET portion. A source and a drain are each disposed on opposite sides of the gate on the epitaxial layer within each FET portion. Each gate, source, and drain comprise a separate electrical conductor and the gate, source, drain, and epitaxial layer within each FET portion form a field-effect transistor. Gate, source, and drain contacts electrically connect the gates, sources, and drains of the separate FET portions, respectively. At least the sources or drains of two neighboring FET portions are disposed in common over at least a portion of the isolation structure dividing the two neighboring FET portions.
US11705455B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly, to high voltage extended drain MOSFET (EDMOS) devices in a high-k metal gate (HKMG) and methods of manufacture. A structure of the present disclosure includes a plurality of extended drain MOSFET (EDMOS) devices on a high voltage well with a split-gate dielectric material including a first gate dielectric material and a second gate dielectric material, the second gate dielectric material including a thinner thickness than the first gate dielectric material, and a high-k dielectric material on the split-gate dielectric material.
US11705448B2
A number of monolithic diode limiter semiconductor structures are described. The diode limiters can include a hybrid arrangement of diodes with different intrinsic regions, all formed over the same semiconductor substrate. In one example, a method of manufacture of a monolithic diode limiter includes providing an N-type semiconductor substrate, providing an intrinsic layer on the N-type semiconductor substrate, implanting a first P-type region to a first depth into the intrinsic layer, implanting a second P-type region to a second depth into the intrinsic layer, and forming at least one passive circuit element over the intrinsic layer. The method can also include forming an insulating layer on the intrinsic layer, forming a first opening in the insulating layer, and forming a second opening in the insulating layer. The method can also include implanting the first P-type region through the first opening and implanting the second P-type region through the second opening.
US11705447B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor part; first and second electrodes respectively on back and front surfaces of the semiconductor part; a control electrode provided inside a trench of the semiconductor part; a third electrode provided inside the trench; a diode element provided at the front surface of the semiconductor part; a resistance element provided on the front surface of the semiconductor part via an insulating film, the diode element being electrically connected to the second electrode; a first interconnect electrically connecting the diode element and the resistance element, the first interconnect being electrically connected to the third electrode; and a second interconnect electrically connecting the resistance element and the semiconductor part. The resistance element is connected in series to the diode element. The diode element is provided to have a rectifying property reverse to a current direction flowing from the resistance element to the second electrode.
US11705443B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first memory cell, a first bit line, a first word line, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first memory cell is provided above the substrate. The first bit line extends in a first direction. The first bit line is coupled to the first memory cell. The first word line extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first word line is coupled to the first memory cell. The first transistor is provided on the substrate. The first transistor is coupled to the first bit line. The second transistor is provided below the first memory cell and on the substrate. The second transistor is coupled to the first word line.
US11705440B2
A micro LED display panel includes a driving substrate and a plurality of micro light emitting diodes (LEDs). The driving substrate has a plurality of pixel regions. Each of the pixel regions includes a plurality of sub-pixel regions. The micro LEDs are located on the driving substrate. At least one of the sub-pixel regions is provided with two micro LEDs of the micro LEDs electrically connected in series, and a dominant wavelength of the two micro LEDs is within a wavelength range of a specific color light. In a repaired sub-pixel region of the sub-pixel regions, only one of the two micro LEDs emits light. In a normal sub-pixel region of the sub-pixel regions, both of the two micro LEDs emit light.
US11705431B2
A semiconductor storage device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first semiconductor chip, and a second semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first surface contacting with the substrate, a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface, and a first pad provided on the second surface. The second semiconductor chip includes a third surface contacting with the second surface, a fourth surface on an opposite side to the third surface, and a cutout portion. The cutout portion is provided at a corner portion where the third surface crosses a lateral surface between the third surface and the fourth surface. The cutout portion overlaps with at least a part of the first pad as viewed from above the fourth surface.
US11705421B2
Semiconductor devices including continuous-core connectors and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. The continuous-core connectors each include a peripheral wall that surrounds an inner-core configured to provide an electrical path using uniform material.
US11705420B2
A method includes forming a package component comprising forming a dielectric layer, patterning the dielectric layer to form an opening, and forming a redistribution line including a via in the opening, a conductive pad, and a bent trace. The via is vertically offset from the conductive pad. The conductive pad and the bent trace are over the dielectric layer. The bent trace connects the conductive pad to the via, and the bent trace includes a plurality of sections with lengthwise directions un-parallel to each other. A conductive bump is formed on the conductive pad.
US11705415B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip; plural redistribution lines provided on a main face of the first semiconductor chip, the plural redistribution lines including a redistribution line that includes a first land and a redistribution line that includes a second land; a first electrode provided within the first land, one end of the first electrode being connected to the first land, and another end of the first electrode being connected to an external connection terminal; and a second electrode provided within the second land, one end of the second electrode being connected to the second land, wherein a shortest distance between an outer edge of the second land and an outer edge of the second electrode, is less than, a shortest distance between an outer edge of the first land and an outer edge of the first electrode.
US11705410B2
A semiconductor device having an integrated antenna is provided. The semiconductor device includes a base die having an integrated circuit formed at an active surface and a cap die bonded to the backside surface of the base die. A metal trace is formed over a top surface of the cap die. A cavity is formed under the metal trace. A conductive via is formed through the base die and the cap die interconnecting the metal trace and a conductive trace of the integrated circuit.
US11705408B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a semiconductor device, and a ring structure. The semiconductor device disposed on the substrate. The ring structure disposed on the substrate and surrounds the semiconductor device. The ring structure includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion bonded to the substrate. The second portion connects to the first portion. A cavity is between the second portion and the substrate.
US11705405B2
A packaged integrated circuit device includes a substrate having a spacer chip thereon, which is devoid of active integrated circuits therein but which has a stress-relieving pattern of grooves in an upper surface thereof. A first semiconductor chip is provided, which is bonded to the upper surface of the spacer chip. A molded region is provided, which includes a passivating resin that: (i) at least partially surrounds the first semiconductor chip and the spacer chip, and (ii) extends into at least a portion of the grooves within the upper surface of the spacer chip.
US11705398B2
Various embodiments relate to a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a first die. The first die includes a first bridge interconnect region. The semiconductor package further includes a second die. The second die includes a second bridge interconnect region. The semiconductor package includes a bridge die. The bridge die includes a first contact area to connect to the first bridge interconnect region and a second contact area to connect to the second bridge interconnect region. In the semiconductor package, the first bridge interconnect region is larger than the second bridge interconnect region. Additionally, each of the first bridge interconnect region and the second bridge interconnect region include a plurality of conductive bumps. An average pitch between adjacent bumps of the first bridge interconnect region is larger than an average pitch between adjacent bumps of the second bridge interconnect region.
US11705394B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device with a fuse structure and an anti-fuse structure and a method for forming the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and a first electrode disposed over the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device also includes a fuse link disposed over the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed over the fuse link. The semiconductor device further includes a third electrode disposed adjacent to the first electrode, and a second dielectric layer separating the first electrode from the first dielectric layer and the third electrode. The first electrode, the fuse link, and the second electrode form a fuse structure, and the first electrode, the third electrode, and a portion of the second dielectric layer between the first electrode and the third electrode form an anti-fuse structure.
US11705388B2
A first device includes a rectangular substrate having a first width and a first length and a first pattern of electrical interface nodes at first, second and third sides with a first set of electrical interface nodes at the fourth side. A second device includes a second rectangular substrate having a second width equal to the first width, a second length and a median line extending in the direction of the second width. A second pattern of electrical interface nodes for the second device includes two unmorphed replicas of the first pattern arranged mutually rotated 180° on opposite sides of the median line as well as two second sets of electrical interface nodes formed by two smaller morphed replicas of the first set of electrical interface nodes arranged mutually rotated 180° on opposite sides of said median line.
US11705386B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an interlayer insulating layer on the substrate, a first etch stop layer on the substrate, a first through-silicon-via (TSV) configured to pass vertically through the substrate and the interlayer insulating layer, and a second TSV configured to pass vertically through the substrate, the interlayer insulating layer, and the first etch stop layer, wherein the second TSV has a width greater than that of the first TSV.
US11705382B2
A cooling system and method for using the cooling system are described. The cooling system includes a plurality of individual piezoelectric cooling elements spatially arranged in an array extending in at least two dimensions, a communications interface and driving circuitry. The communications interface is associated with the individual piezoelectric cooling elements such that selected individual piezoelectric cooling elements within the array can be activated based at least in part on heat energy generated in the vicinity of the selected individual piezoelectric cooling elements. The driving circuitry is associated with the individual piezoelectric cooling elements and is configured to drive the selected individual piezoelectric cooling elements.
US11705377B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a plurality of dielectric layers forming a substrate, a plurality of first conductive contacts on a first surface of the substrate, a cavity in the first surface of the substrate defining a second surface parallel to the first surface, a plurality of second conductive contacts on the second surface of the substrate, one or more integrated circuit die(s) coupled with the second conductive contacts, and mold material at least partially covering the one or more integrated circuit die(s) and the first conductive contacts. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11705376B2
A semiconductor chip is disclosed that includes a chip pad disposed in a first region of a chip body, a redistribution wiring test pad disposed in the first region of the chip body spaced apart from the chip pad and connected to the chip pad through a redistribution wiring structure, and a redistribution wiring connection pad disposed in the first region of the chip body or a second region of the chip body and connected to the chip pad through the redistribution wiring structure.
US11705368B2
A manufacturing method of a chip package includes patterning a wafer to form a scribe trench, in which a light-transmissive function layer below the wafer is in the scribe trench, the light-transmissive function layer is between the wafer and a carrier, and a first included angle is formed between an outer wall surface and a surface of the wafer facing the light-transmissive function layer; cutting the light-transmissive function layer and the carrier along the scribe trench to form a chip package that includes a chip, the light-transmissive function layer, and the carrier; and patterning the chip to form an opening, in which the light-transmissive function layer is in the opening, a second included angle is formed between an inner wall surface of the chip and a surface of the chip facing the light-transmissive function layer, and is different from the first included angle.
US11705367B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming line structures comprising conductive material and insulative material overlying the conductive material, the line structures separated from one another by trenches. An isolation material is formed on surfaces of the line structures inside and outside of the trenches, the isolation material only partially filling the trenches to form air gaps interposed between the line structures. Openings are formed to extend through the isolation material and expose portions of the insulative material of the line structures. The exposed portions of the insulative material of the line structures are removed to form extended openings extending to the conductive material of the line structures. Conductive contact structures are formed within the extended openings. Conductive pad structures are formed on the conductive contact structures. Additional methods, microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems are also described.
US11705365B2
The present disclosure relates to micro-via structures for interconnects in advanced wafer level semiconductor packaging. The methods described herein enable the formation of high-quality, low-aspect-ratio micro-via structures with improved uniformity, thus facilitating thin and small-form-factor semiconductor devices having high I/O density with improved bandwidth and power.
US11705362B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device including a device substrate, a thinned device die with a device region over the device substrate, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The device region includes an isolation portion, a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion, and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion with a contact layer and an active section. The contact layer resides over the BEOL portion, the active section resides over the contact layer, and the isolation portion resides over the contact layer to encapsulate the active section. The first mold compound resides over the device substrate, surrounds the thinned device die, and extends vertically beyond the thinned device die to define an opening over the thinned device die and within the first mold compound. The second mold compound fills the opening and directly connects the isolation portion of the thinned device die.
US11705359B2
A substrate transfer mechanism for transferring a substrate to each of a plurality of stacked processing modules that process the substrate includes an arm base provided with a first driver, a lift configured to move up and down the arm base, a first arm extending transversely from a lower side of the arm base, and having a tip end that pivots around a vertical axis with respect to the arm base by the first driver, a second arm extending transversely from an upper side of the tip end of the first arm, and having a tip end that pivots around a vertical axis with respect to the first arm along with the pivoting of the first arm, and a substrate holder provided on an upper side of the tip end of the second arm, and configured to rotate around a vertical axis with respect to the second arm.
US11705354B2
An apparatus for transferring a substrate is disclosed herein. More specifically, the apparatus relates to substrate handling systems used in semiconductor device manufacturing, and more particularly, to substrate handling systems having a substrate handler with enclosed moving elements and increased compatibility with post-CMP cleaning modules. The apparatus includes one or more indexing assemblies. Each of the indexing assemblies including an enclosure, an actuator assembly disposed within the enclosure, and two handling blades disposed outside of the disclosure. Each of the two blades are moveable in either of a translational or a rotating manner.
US11705350B2
The inventive concept provides an apparatus and method for removing a film formed on a substrate. A method for treating the substrate includes a primary solvent dispensing step of dispensing an organic solvent onto the substrate to remove a photoresist film on the substrate and an ozone dispensing step of dispensing a liquid containing ozone onto the substrate to remove organic residue on the substrate, after the primary solvent dispensing step.
US11705348B2
A laser light source is provided including an airtight container. A first resonance mirror and a second resonance mirror are disposed outside the airtight container. The first resonance mirror includes a lens unit and a reflection coating layer. The lens unit includes a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface is inclined with respect to the second surface.
US11705343B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit package includes attaching a first die to an interposer. The interposer includes a first die connector and a second die connector on the interposer and a first dielectric layer covering at least one sidewall of the first die connector and at least one sidewall of the second die connector. The first die is coupled to the first die connector and to the first dielectric layer and the second die connector is exposed by the first die. The method further includes recessing the first dielectric layer to expose at least one sidewall of the second die connector and attaching a second die to the interposer, the second die being coupled to the second die connector.
US11705341B2
Disclosed are redistribution substrates and semiconductor packages including the same. For example, a redistribution substrate including a dielectric pattern, and a first redistribution pattern in the dielectric pattern is provided. The first redistribution pattern may include: a first via part having a first via seed pattern and a first via conductive pattern on the first via seed pattern, and a first wiring part having a first wiring seed pattern and a first wiring conductive pattern, the first wiring part being disposed on the first via part and having a horizontal width that is different from a horizontal width of the first via part. Additionally, the first wiring seed pattern may cover a bottom surface and a sidewall surface of the first wiring conductive pattern, and the first via conductive pattern is directly connected to the first wiring conductive pattern.
US11705340B2
A cavity may be formed in a dielectric material layer overlying a substrate. A layer stack including a metallic barrier liner, a metallic fill material layer, and a metallic capping material may be deposited in the cavity and over the dielectric material layer. Portions of the layer stack located above a horizontal plane including a top surface of the dielectric material layer may be removed. A contiguous set of remaining material portions of the layer stack includes a metal interconnect structure that is free of a pitted surface.
US11705339B2
A disclosed etching method includes (a) generating plasma of a processing gas in a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. The plasma is generated in a state where a substrate is placed on a substrate support having a lower electrode in the chamber. The substrate has a film and a mask. The mask is provided on the film. The etching method further includes (b) etching the film by supplying ions from the plasma to the substrate by periodically applying a pulse of a voltage to a lower electrode. In the operation (b), a level of a voltage of the pulse is changed at least once such that an absolute value of a negative potential of the substrate has a tendency to increase according to progress of etching of the film.
US11705336B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a deposition-type interface layer over a substrate, converting the deposition-type interface layer into an oxidation-type interface layer, forming a high-k layer over the oxidation-type interface layer, forming a dipole interface on an interface between the high-k layer and the oxidation-type interface layer, forming a conductive layer over the high-k layer, and patterning the conductive layer, the high-k layer, the dipole interface, and the oxidation-type interface layer to form a gate stack over the substrate.
US11705325B2
Provided is processing of a substrate including: forming film on substrate by performing cycle, multiple times, including non-simultaneously performing: (a) supplying precursor gas and inert gas to the substrate; and (b) supplying reaction gas to the substrate. In (a), at least one of the precursor and inert gas stored in first tank is supplied to the substrate, and at least one of the precursor and inert gas stored in second tank is supplied to the substrate. A concentration of the precursor gas in the first tank differs from that in the second tank. Further, in (a), the at least one of the precursor and inert gas is supplied from the first tank to the substrate, and the at least one of the precursor and inert gas is supplied from the second tank to the substrate to suppress multiple adsorption of molecules constituting the precursor gas on the substrate's surface.
US11705323B2
The wafer trimming device includes a chuck table configured to hold a target wafer via suction, thereby fixing the target wafer, a notch trimmer configured to trim a notch of the target wafer, and an edge trimmer configured to trim an edge of the target wafer. The notch trimmer includes a notch trimming blade configured to rotate about a rotation axis perpendicular to a circumferential surface of the target wafer. The edge trimmer includes an edge trimming blade configured to rotate about a rotation axis parallel to the circumferential surface of the target wafer.
US11705321B2
A transmission line for conveying a radio frequency (RF) signal between a first terminal and a second terminal. The transmission line comprises an inner conductor, a middle conductor and an outer conductor. The inner conductor comprises a length of conductive material having a first end for electrical connection with the first terminal and a second end for electrical connection with the second terminal. The middle conductor surrounds at least a part of the length of the inner conductor and is electrically connected to the electrical ground of the source. The outer conductor surrounds at least a part of the length of the middle conductor and is electrically connected to the electrical ground of the load.
US11705305B2
A radio frequency (RF) generator includes a pulse generator circuit configured to receive input signals indicative of a pulse pattern comprising pulse segments, the input signals defining power levels and durations for the pulse segments. The pulse generator circuit generates a pulse modulation control signal for each pulse segment responsive to the input signals. The pulse modulation control signal is coupled to adjust an amplitude and to modulate an RF source signal to generate the pulse RF signal having an envelope defined by the pulse segments of the pulse pattern.
US11705301B2
It is provided a charged particle beam manipulation device for a plurality of charged particle beamlets, the charged particle beam manipulation device including a lens having a main optical axis, the lens including at least a first array of multipoles, each multipole of the first array of multipoles configured to compensate for a lens deflection force on a respective charged particle beamlet of the plurality of charged particle beamlets, the lens deflection force being a deflection force produced by the lens on the respective charged particle beamlet towards the main optical axis of the lens.
US11705298B2
A method of forming a microelectromechanical device is disclosed wherein a beam of the microelectromechanical device may deviate from a resting to an engaged or disengaged position through electrical biasing. The microelectromechanical device comprises a beam disposed above a first RF conductor and a second RF conductor. The microelectromechanical device further comprises at least a center stack, a first RF stack, a second RF stack, a first stack formed on a first base layer, and a second stack formed on a second base layer, each stack disposed between the beam and the first and second RF conductors. The beam is configured to deflect downward to first contact the first stack formed on the first base layer and the second stack formed on the second base layer simultaneously or the center stack, before contacting the first RF stack and the second RF stack simultaneously.
US11705294B2
A key structure includes a base, a movable mechanism movably positioned on the base, a sound generating member positioned on the base, and an adjusting unit movable relative to the base to be at a first position or a second position. The sound generating member has a hitting portion, which extends corresponding to an impact surface. When the adjusting unit is at the first position, and a pressing force is applied to the movable mechanism, the movable mechanism moves relative to the base and drives the sound generating member to move, so the hitting portion moves to hit the impact surface to generate a hitting sound. When the adjusting unit is at the second position, the adjusting unit restricts movement of the hitting portion, so the hitting portion cannot move to hit the impact surface.
US11705291B1
This disclosure relates to a switch guard that prevents inadvertent pressing by a user of the direction-control switch of a handheld power tool. On each side of the housing of the tool, a pair of protrusions extend from the housing, one just to the front of the switch and one just to the rear. Whether the power tool is being operated right- or left-handed, the protrusions prevent a user's thumb or forefinger from inadvertently pressing the direction-control switch while the tool is in operation.
US11705285B2
A chip component includes a substrate that has a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, a plurality of wall portions that are formed on a side of the first surface by using a part of the substrate, that have one end portion and one other end portion, and that are formed of a plurality of pillar units, a support portion that is formed around the wall portions by using a part of the substrate and that is connected to at least one of the end portion and the other end portion of the wall portions, and a capacitor portion formed by following a surface of the wall portion, in which each of the pillar units includes a central portion and three convex portions that extend from the central portion in three mutually different directions in a plan view and in which the wall portion is formed by a connection between the convex portions of the pillar units that adjoin each other.
US11705280B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include a monolithic body and interleaved first and second pluralities of electrodes extending from the first and second ends, respectively, of the monolithic body towards opposite ends of the monolithic body. A first margin distance and a second margin distance may be formed, respectively, between the electrodes and the opposite ends of the monolithic body. First and second external terminations may be respectively disposed along the first end and second end of the monolithic body and respectively connected with the first and second plurality of electrodes. A margin ratio between a length of the monolithic body and the first margin distance and/or second margin distance may be less than about 10. At least one of the first external termination or the second external termination may include a conductive polymeric composition.
US11705279B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including pluralities of first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed to face each other with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween. First and second external electrodes are disposed on external surfaces of the ceramic body and are respectively electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes. A first dummy electrode is disposed in a margin portion of the ceramic body adjacent the first internal electrode in a third direction, and a second dummy electrode is disposed in a margin portion of the ceramic body adjacent the second internal electrode in the third direction. A distance (Ld) between the first and second dummy electrodes in a second direction, and a length (Lm) of each margin portion between one of the first and second internal electrodes and an external surface of the ceramic body in the second direction, satisfy Ld≤Lm.
US11705273B2
A coil component includes a core that includes a core part having a first end portion and a second end portion; and a first wire and a second wire that are wound around the core part from the first end portion to the second end portion in substantially helical shapes so as to have substantially the same number of turns. The first wire is wound so as to form a first layer that contacts the peripheral surface of the core part, the second wire is wound such that at least part of the second wire forms a second layer on the outside of the first layer, and a first coil length formed by the first wire is longer than a second coil length formed by the second wire.
US11705272B2
A coil component includes: a coil embedded in a substrate body and having a winding part constituted by a wound conductor; wherein the substrate body has: a first region sandwiched between one end surface of the substrate body and a plane parallel with the one end surface and running through a portion of a first external electrode farthest away from the one end surface; a second region sandwiched between another end of the substrate body and a plane parallel with the another end surface and running through a portion of a second external electrode farthest away from the another end surface; and a third region between the first region and the second region; and the winding part is provided in the third region, and also in the first region where it is wound by one turn or more.
US11705266B2
In an embodiment a core component includes a base plate, a plurality of members arranged on corners of the base plate and delimiting an inner region of the core component and a center piece located in the inner region and having an oval basic shape.
US11705265B2
In a coil component, a second magnetic portion disposed in the vicinity of a coil is designed to have a higher proportion of Fe than a metal magnetic powder-containing resin constituting a first magnetic portion. Therefore, a magnetic flux of the coil flows smoothly. Although the second magnetic portion has a relatively lower withstand voltage than the first magnetic portion, since the second magnetic portion is surrounded by the first magnetic portion, it is not exposed on an outer surface of a magnetic body. For this reason, a situation in which the coil and external terminal electrodes are short-circuited with the second magnetic portion therebetween is effectively curbed, and short-circuiting between the coil and the external terminal electrodes can be curbed.
US11705260B2
A magnetic device includes a winding, and insulators by which the winding is surrounded. Each of the insulators is in contact with the winding. A gap exists between each two adjacent of the insulators in a winding direction of the winding.
US11705256B2
A neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet, a preparation method and use thereof are disclosed. The neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet has a composition represented by formula I: [mHR(1−m) (Pr25Nd75)]x(Fe100-a-b-c-dMaGabIncSnd)100-x-yBy formula I; where a is 0.995-3.493, b is 0.114-0.375, c is 0.028-0.125, d is 0.022-0.100; x is 29.05-30.94, y is 0.866-1.000; m is 0.02-0.05; HR is Dy and/or Tb; M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Cu, Ti, Al, Nb, Zr, Ni, W and Mo.
US11705255B2
Disclosed herein is a method comprising disposing a first particle in a reactor; the first particle being a magnetic particle or a particle that can be influenced by a magnetic field, an electric field or a combination of an electrical field and a magnetic field; fluidizing the first particle in the reactor; applying a uniform magnetic field, a uniform electrical field or a combination of a uniform magnetic field and uniform electrical field to the reactor; elevating the temperature of the reactor; and fusing the first particles to form a monolithic solid.
US11705253B2
A superconducting wire according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a superconducting layer having a third surface and a fourth surface; and respective coating layers. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The fourth surface is opposite to the third surface. The superconducting layer is disposed on the substrate such that the third surface faces the second surface. The respective coating layers are disposed on the first surface and the fourth surface. Adhesion strength between the substrate and the coating layer disposed on the first surface is lower than adhesion strength between the superconducting layer and the coating layer disposed on the fourth surface.
US11705249B2
Thorium-based fuel bundles according to one or more embodiments of the present invention are used in existing PHWR reactors (e.g., Indian 220 MWe PHWR, Indian 540 MWe PHWR, Indian 700 MWe PHWR, CANDU 300/600/900) in place of conventional uranium-based fuel bundles, with little or no modifications to the reactor. The fuel composition of such bundles is 60+ wt % thorium, with the balance of fuel provided by low-enriched uranium (LEU), which has been enriched to 13-19.95% 235U. According to various embodiments, the use of such thorium-based fuel bundles provides (1) 100% of the nominal power over the entire life cycle of the core, (2) high burnup, and (3) non-proliferative spent fuel bundles having a total isotopic uranium concentration of less than 12 wt %. Reprocessing of spent fuel bundles is also avoided.
US11705247B2
In an approach to predictive contact tracing, a computer receives a query associated with contact tracing of a person with an infection. A computer retrieves timestamped location data associated with the person over a period of time. Based on the retrieved data, a computer creates a contact graph associated with the person, where the contact graph depicts one or more other people that were in contact with the person over the period of time. A computer retrieves medical data associated with the person and the one or more other people that were in contact with the person over the period of time. Based on the retrieved data, a computer builds a probabilistic model. A computer runs the probabilistic model to provide a prediction of a probability of infection of the one or more other people over the period of time as a result of being in contact with the person.
US11705223B2
In a method of molecular scaffold hopping an interface of a scheduler computer sends instructions, prepared by the scheduler computer, to a job runner computer to perform a plurality of separate computational tasks. Each of the separate computational tasks includes calculating one or more chemical properties for a query molecule or molecules in a library of molecules. One or more of the plurality of separate computational tasks performed on the job runner computer are preemptible computing instances. Status indicators sent from the job runner computer are received by the interface for each of the plurality of separate computational tasks. The indicators are one of: incomplete, completed, or failed computing instances. The interface resends the instructions to the job runner computer that correspond to the separate computational tasks having the failed computing instance indicator to increase fault-tolerance against the separate computational tasks not attaining the completed computing instance indicator.
US11705221B2
The present invention provides a method for forming a history of natural gas accumulation by using carbon isotopes by a pyrolysis experiment. The method includes: obtaining activation energy distribution and a frequency factor of light carbon methane; carrying out carbon isotope kinetics simulation of natural gas in a study area by using a spreadsheet function of Excel to obtain activation energy, a mass fraction and a frequency factor of heavy carbon methane; establishing a burial history and a thermal history of the study area based on geological data; and combining the activation energy distribution and frequency factor of the heavy carbon methane with the burial history and thermal history of the study area, and establishing an instantaneous curve, a cumulative curve and a stage cumulative curve of natural gas under geological conditions on a geologic time scale.
US11705220B2
Techniques for generating therapy biomarker scores and visualizing same. The techniques include determining, using a patient's sequence data and distributions of biomarker values across one or more reference populations, a first set of normalized scores for a first set of biomarkers associated with a first therapy, and a second set of normalized scores for a second set of biomarkers associated with a second therapy, generating a graphical user interface (GUI) including a first portion associated with the first therapy and having at least one visual characteristic determined based on a normalized score of the respective biomarker in the first set of normalized scores; and a second portion associated with a second therapy and having at least one visual characteristic determined based on a normalized score of the respective biomarker in the second set of normalized scores; and displaying the generated GUI.
US11705219B2
The technology disclosed directly operates on sequencing data and derives its own feature filters. It processes a plurality of aligned reads that span a target base position. It combines elegant encoding of the reads with a lightweight analysis to produce good recall and precision using lightweight hardware. For instance, one million training examples of target base variant sites with 50 to 100 reads each can be trained on a single GPU card in less than 10 hours with good recall and precision. A single GPU card is desirable because it a computer with a single GPU is inexpensive, almost universally within reach for users looking at genetic data. It is readily available on could-based platforms.
US11705218B2
In one embodiment, provided are a method for analyzing at least one nucleic acid that can conveniently and highly accurately analyze even a very small number of analyte at least one nucleic acid. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for analyzing at least one nucleic acid, comprising: a library preparation step of preparing a library comprising at least one standard nucleic acid of specific copy number(s) and at least one analyte nucleic acid in a same system; a calibration curve data generation step of generating calibration curve data based on the copy number(s) of the at least one standard nucleic acid of specific copy number(s); and an analyte nucleic acid analysis step of identifying at least one nucleotide sequence of the analyte nucleic acid while identifying the number(s) of the at least one nucleotide sequence of the at least one analyte nucleic acid using the calibration curve data.
US11705216B2
A determination is made by a processing device included in a memory component that an operation to program data to a location in the memory component has failed, the data is programmed to a different location in the memory component by the processing device upon determining the operation has failed, and a notification that the data has been programmed to the different location in the memory component is provided by the processing device to a processing device operatively coupled to the memory component.
US11705212B2
A memory device and a method of correcting error in a memory device is provided. The memory device controller includes a memory array, a tie-breaker array, a write controller, a verify circuit, and a controller. The memory array includes a plurality of memory cells. The tie-breaker array includes a plurality of tie-breaker rows. The write controller is configured to apply a programming voltage to the memory array. The verify circuit is configured to apply a verify voltage to verify whether the memory cells in the memory array are in an unambiguous state or not. The controller is configured to enable one or more tie-breaker rows in additions to the memory array to adjust an output of the memory array when the memory cells in the memory array are in an ambiguous state.
US11705211B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for accessing an array of memory cells, including storing a set of user data in a plurality of memory cells, storing, in a portion of the array, additional information representative of a voltage difference between a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage of the memory cells programmed to a first logic state, applying to the array a read voltage to activate a first group of memory cells corresponding to a preset number of memory cells, determining that the first group of memory cells has been activated based on applying the read voltage, wherein the read voltage is equal to the first threshold voltage when the first group of memory cells has been activated, and based on the additional data information, applying the voltage difference to the array to activate a second group of memory cells programmed to the first logic state.
US11705208B2
An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to identify a set of embedded servo cells stored on the memory device; determine a read voltage offset by performing read level calibration based on the set of embedded servo cells; and apply the read voltage offset for reading a memory page associated with the set of embedded servo cells.
US11705206B2
Apparatuses and techniques are described for modifying program and erase parameters in a memory device in which memory cells can be operated in a single bit per cell (SLC) mode or a multiple bits per cell mode. In one approach, the stress on a set of memory cells in an SLC mode is reduced during programming and erasing when the number of program-erase cycles for the block in the SLC mode is below a threshold. For example, during programming, the program-verify voltage and program voltages can be reduced to provide a shallower than normal programming. During erasing, the erase-verify voltage can be increased while the erase voltages can be reduced to provide a shallower than normal erase. When the number of program-erase cycles for the block in the SLC mode is above the threshold, the program and erase parameters revert to a default levels.
US11705198B2
A programmable resistive memory element and a method of adjusting a resistance of a programmable resistive memory element are provided. The programmable resistive memory element includes at least one resistive memory element. Each resistive memory element includes an Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (IGZO) resistive layer, a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact. The first and second electrical contacts are disposed on the IGZO resistive layer in the same plane. The programmable resistive memory element includes a voltage generator coupled to the first and second electrical contacts, constructed and arranged to apply a thermal treatment to the resistive memory element to adjust a resistance of the resistive memory element.
US11705195B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for increase of a sense current in memory. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to count a number of program operations performed on the memory cells of the memory during operation of the memory, and increase a magnitude of a current used to sense a data state of the memory cells of the memory upon the count of the number of program operations reaching a threshold count.
US11705192B2
A block family associated with a memory device is created. The block family is associated with a threshold voltage offset bin. A set of read level voltage offsets is determined such that, applying the set of read level voltage offsets to a base read level threshold voltage associated with the block family, result in a suboptimal error rate not exceeding a maximum allowable error rate. The determined set of read level offsets is associated with the threshold voltage offset bin by updating a block family metadata.
US11705189B2
There are provided a semiconductor memory device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes: a source layer; a channel structure extending in a first direction from within the source layer; a source-channel contact layer surrounding the channel structure on the source layer; a first select gate layer overlapping with the source-channel contact layer and surrounding the channel structure; a stack including interlayer insulating layers and conductive patterns that are alternately stacked in the first direction and surrounding the channel structure, the stack overlapping with the first select gate layer; and a first insulating pattern that is formed thicker between the first select gate layer and the channel structure than between the stack and the channel structure.
US11705184B2
A memory device having long data retention time and high reliability is provided. The memory device includes a driver circuit and a plurality of memory cells, the memory cell includes a transistor and a capacitor, and the transistor includes a metal oxide in a channel formation region. The transistor includes a first gate and a second gate, and in a period during which the memory cell retains data, negative potentials are applied to the first gate and the second gate of the transistor.
US11705175B2
A circuit includes a plurality of registers, each register including SRAM cells, a read port configured to receive a read address, a write port configured to receive a write address, a selection circuit, a latch circuit, and a decoder coupled in series between the read and write ports and the plurality of registers, and a control circuit. Responsive to a clock signal and read and write enable signals, the control circuit causes the selection circuit, the latch circuit, and the decoder to select a first register of the plurality of registers in a read operation based on the read address, and select a second register of the plurality of registers in a write operation based on the write address.
US11705173B1
Memory units are accessed using address bits. The address bits used to access memory units can have various formats. The address bits to access successive locations that are to be sequentially accessed can have a reduced Hamming distance binary code format to reduce a quantity of toggling to switch from one set of address bits to another set of address bits.
US11705171B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods include technology that identifies whether a product of first and second digital numbers is associated with a positive value or a negative value. During a first clock phase, the technology sets a first reference voltage to have a first value or a second value based on whether the product is associated with the positive value or the negative value. During the first clock phase, the technology controls switches to supply the first reference voltage to first plates of capacitors. Each of the capacitors includes a respective first plate of the first plates and a second plate. Further, during the first clock phase, the technology controls the switches based on the first digital number to electrically connect at least one of the second plates to the first reference voltage and electrically connect at least one of the second plates to a second reference voltage.
US11705154B2
According to an embodiment, a manufacturing method includes: estimating a distribution of an initial value of a clearance of a magnetic head on a first recording surface; and recording first spiral signals on the first recording surface while controlling a clearance using the distribution of the initial value of the estimated clearance. The manufacturing method includes measuring a distribution of an initial value of a clearance of a magnetic head on a second recording surface under positioning control using the first spiral signals recorded on the first recording surface. The manufacturing method includes recording the first spiral signals on the second recording surface while controlling a clearance using the distribution of the initial value of the measured clearance of the magnetic head on the second recording surface. The manufacturing method includes recording the second spiral signals on a third recording surface under positioning control using the first spiral signals recorded on the second recording surface.
US11705145B2
An apparatus for generating an enhanced signal from an input signal, wherein the enhanced signal has spectral values for an enhancement spectral region, the spectral values for the enhancement spectral regions not being contained in the input signal, includes a mapper for mapping a source spectral region of the input signal to a target region in the enhancement spectral region, the source spectral region including a noise-filling region; and a noise filler configured for generating first noise values for the noise-filling region in the source spectral region of the input signal and for generating second noise values for a noise region in the target region, wherein the second noise values are decorrelated from the first noise values or for generating second noise values for a noise region in the target region, wherein the second noise values are decorrelated from first noise values in the source region.
US11705140B2
The present technology relates to a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a program which make it possible to obtain sound with higher quality. A demultiplexing circuit demultiplexes an input code string into a gain code string and a signal code string. A signal decoding circuit decodes the signal code string to output a time series signal. A gain decoding circuit decodes the gain code string. That is, the gain decoding circuit reads out gain values and gain inclination values at predetermined gain sample positions of the time series signal and interpolation mode information. An interpolation processing unit obtains a gain value at each sample position between two gain sample positions through linear interpolation or non-linear interpolation according to the interpolation mode based on the gain values and the gain inclination values. A gain applying circuit adjusts a gain of the time series signal based on the gain values. The present technology can be applied to a decoding apparatus.
US11705132B2
A computing device is disclosed which includes a processor and non-transient memory operably connected to the processor. The non-transient memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to extract a plurality of sub-strings from a character string, analyze each sub-string for compliance with each of several field definitions, where each of the field definitions corresponds to a field in a digital form, and populate some of the fields in the digital form based on the analysis of each sub-string for compliance with the field definitions.
US11705130B2
An example method includes, at an electronic device: receiving an indication of a notification; in accordance with receiving the indication of the notification: obtaining one or more data streams from one or more sensors; determining, based on the one or more data streams, whether a user associated with the electronic device is speaking; and in accordance with a determination that the user is not speaking: causing an output associated with the notification to be provided.
US11705124B2
In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor, an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive voice input at the first device and to track a second device using one or more UWB signals received from the second device via the UWB transceiver. The instructions may then be executable to, based on tracking, perform an operation using the voice input.
US11705105B2
A speech synthesizer for evaluating quality of a synthesized speech using artificial intelligence includes a database configured to store a synthesized speech corresponding to text, a correct speech corresponding to the text and a speech quality evaluation model for evaluating the quality of the synthesized speech, and a processor configured to compare a first speech feature set indicating a feature of the synthesized speech and a second speech feature set indicating a feature of the correct speech, acquire a quality evaluation index set including indices used to evaluate the quality of the synthesized speech according to a result of comparison, and determine weights as model parameters of the speech quality evaluation model using the acquired quality evaluation index set and the speech quality evaluation model.
US11705102B2
A method for eliminating unstable noise is provided and applicable to a sound recording device and implemented by a codec. The method includes: activating the sound recording device to start recording; setting a suppression duration and a cutoff frequency switching duration according to unstable noise and a DC offset value of the sound recording device; processing a front-end audio of a recorded sound by a filter having a first cutoff frequency to make the unstable noise in the front-end audio quickly converge, and outputting a filtered audio signal; suppressing the filtered audio signal according to the suppression duration to eliminate the unstable noise; and adjusting the first cutoff frequency of the filter to a second cutoff frequency according to the cutoff frequency switching duration, where the first cutoff frequency is greater than the second cutoff frequency. A device for eliminating unstable noise is also provided.
US11705100B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for closed-loop sleep protection and/or sleep regulation. According to an aspect, sleep disturbing noises are predicted and a biosignal parameter is measured to dynamically mask predicted disturbing environmental noises in the sleeping environment with active attenuation. Environmental noises in a sleeping environment of a subject are detected, input, or predicted based on historical data of the sleeping environment collected over a period of time. The biosignal parameter is used to determine sleep physiology of a subject. Based on the environmental noises in the sleeping environment and the determined sleep physiology, the noises are predicted to be disturbing or non-disturbing noises. For predicted disturbing noises, one or more actions are taken to regulate sleep and avoid sleep disruption by using sound masking prior to or concurrently with the occurrence of the predicted disturbing noises.
US11705098B2
The sound absorbing material according to the present invention is formed by laminating a porous sound absorber and two or more sheets of a nonwoven fabric one on another. The nonwoven fabric has a plurality of drawn filaments arranged and oriented in one direction. The mode value of the diameter distribution of the plurality of filaments is in the range of 1 to 4 μm. The grammage of the nonwoven fabric is in the range of 5 to 40 g/m2. The sound absorbing material according to the present invention provides high sound absorption performance in a predetermined low frequency band of 6000 Hz or less, and still remains light in weight and flexible enough and easy enough to handle to be substantially comparable to the porous sound absorber.
US11705092B2
Exemplary embodiments of stringed instruments including extended string retaining saddle straps are disclosed. The exemplary embodiments include an extended string retaining saddle strap connected to each of, and between, a string connection to the instrument's strings at a bottom portion of a body portion of the stringed instrument and a saddle strap connector at an upper portion of the body portion of the stringed instrument. In an aspect, the saddle strap connector may be connected to a neck block portion joining a neck portion of the stringed instrument to the body portion, within a hollow interior of the body portion. In an aspect, connecting the extended string retaining saddle strap to each of, and between, the string connection and the saddle strap connector creates a tension that tends to pull the string connection and the saddle strap connector towards each other.
US11705065B2
In a display device and display panel, a display panel includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each including two white subpixels and a plurality of colored subpixels, and a data pad connecting two adjacent colored subpixels, among the plurality of colored subpixels, corresponding to a same color, in a first direction, wherein luminance data is applied to the white subpixel, wherein each of the plurality of colored subpixels includes a dual subpixel having a size of the two white subpixels arranged in a second direction, the dual subpixel including a plurality of transistors, wherein a first transistor in the dual subpixel is connected to a first signal line extending through a first of the two white subpixels, and wherein a second transistor in the dual subpixel, is connected to a second signal line extending through a second of the two white subpixels.
US11705053B2
A display panel and a driving method thereof are provided, including a time schedule controller and at least one driver integrated circuit (driver IC). Pulse width modulation (PCM) data between the time schedule controller and the driver IC is transmitted in a decoded manner, and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) data is transmitted in an undecoded manner, reducing a transmission rate between the time schedule controller and the driver IC, and thereby reducing or eliminating risks of electromagnetic interference (EMI). Furthermore, using this transmission method can reduce the number of latches used in the driver IC.
US11705049B2
The present application provides a differential signal interface and a display device adopting the differential signal interface. A plurality of different differential signals are transmitted between a transmitting end and a receiving end of the differential signal interface by a plurality of differential pairs. A plurality of moderating modules are disposed between the transmitting end and the receiving end. Each moderating module is connected to a corresponding differential pair and is configured to adjust the impedance of the transmitting end and/or the receiving end such that the impedance of the transmitting end and/or the receiving end matches the impedance of the corresponding differential pair.
US11705042B1
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a gate line and a data line, a controller generating a source output enable signal determining an output timing of a data voltage output to the data line, and a data driver including a signal changer, generating a final source output enable signal by using the source output enable signal, and randomly changing the output timing of the data voltage for each gate line by using the final source output enable signal.
US11705039B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides ambient light and optical proximity detection methods, a photographing method, and a terminal, so that an entire display screen of the terminal is used to display a user interface, and this improves user experience. The method specifically includes: controlling, by a terminal, some areas of a display screen to display a black picture for a plurality of times; and when the areas display the black picture, obtaining an intensity of ambient light detected by an ambient light sensor to adjust luminance of the display screen.
US11705037B1
In an embodiment, an electronic display includes an active area including a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and a plurality of source drivers driving image data to columns of pixels. The electronic display also includes a first plurality of switches selectively coupling respective source drivers of the plurality of source drivers to one or more columns. Selective coupling enables the respective source drivers to, at different times, drive the image data to: a single column; and multiple columns. In another embodiment, an electronic display includes a display panel configured to operate using a reference voltage received via a resistive path having a routing resistance, a reference voltage source outputting the reference voltage, and a feedback circuit sensing an electrical parameter of the resistive path and producing a compensation voltage that, when added to the reference voltage, causes the reference voltage to remain substantially constant at the display panel.
US11705024B2
A display apparatus includes a display module, a support configured to rotate and support the display module, and a mounting device configured to mount a mobile device on the display module. The mobile device is configured to be paired with the display module. The mounting device includes a mounting portion including a mounting groove having a shape corresponding to a frame forming borders of the display module. The mounting portion is coupled to the frame when the frame is inserted into the mounting groove, and an accommodating portion is positioned below the mounting portion, and accommodates the mobile device such that the mobile device is mounted on the display module.
US11705016B2
An integrated system for art examination includes a power module, an information receiving and a storage module, an information processing module, a control module, a display module, a paper printing module, and a paper processing module; the information receiving and storage module is used to receive and transmit an examinees registration information, an examination room information and an on-site identity information to the information processing module; the information processing module is used to verify whether the examinees registration information is consistent with the on-site identity information and transmits a conclusion to the control module; the control module controls the display module, the paper printing module and the paper processing module; the display module is used to display information to guide an exam worker how to operate, and an input of the examinee's on-site identity information is completed on the display module through a human-computer interaction.
US11705012B2
A method for execution by a computing entity to utilize a lesson package in a virtual world environment includes selecting the lesson package based on a learner requirement for a learner to produce a selected lesson package. The method further includes identifying a set of active virtual world environments that each include a different instance of execution of the selected lesson package. The method further includes selecting one active virtual world environment of the set of active virtual world environments based on at least one of the learner requirement and learning assessment results for the selected lesson package to produce a selected virtual world environment. The method further includes rendering updated first descriptive asset video frames of a first descriptive asset and updated second descriptive asset video frames of a second descriptive asset within the selected virtual world environment to produce a new video stream for the learner.
US11705010B2
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for generation of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle flight plans based on triggered sensor information. One of the methods includes accessing information correlated from sensors monitoring features of weather events, and determining an upcoming weather event, the determination comprising one or more areas expected to be affected by the weather event. A likelihood of damage associated with the weather event is determined to be greater than a threshold in the areas. The weather event is monitored while areas in which the likelihood is greater than the threshold are updated accordingly. Subsequent to the weather event, properties to be inspected by unmanned aerial vehicles are determined based on severity information associated with the weather event. Job information is generated, the job information being associated with inspecting the determined properties, the job information including jobs each assignable to operators for implementation.
US11705007B2
A vehicle display device includes: a forward image acquiring section that acquires images of a region ahead of a vehicle; a vehicle information acquiring section that acquires vehicle information relating to traveling of the vehicle; a path predicting section that, based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquiring section, predicts an own vehicle traveling line that is a traveling path of the vehicle; an ideal path deriving section that, based on the images of the region ahead of the vehicle acquired by the forward image acquiring section, derives an ideal traveling line that is a proper traveling path; and a display control section that displays the own vehicle traveling line and the ideal traveling line so as to be superposed on a view in front of a driver's seat.
US11705006B2
The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for issuing a hazard warning to an animate object located in a vicinity of a vehicle. In an example method, a processor in a warning system of a vehicle, detects an animate object (a person or an animal) in the vicinity of a first vehicle and determines a hazard posed to the animate object. The hazard, which may be caused by the first vehicle or another vehicle that is moving in a collision course with the animate object, can be evaluated by determining a trajectory of the animate object and a trajectory of the vehicle. If the probability of intersection of the two trajectories exceeds a threshold intersection probability level, the processor recognizes a hazard and issues a warning to the animate object (a horn beep, flashing lights, or a text message to a smart device of the person).
US11705003B2
A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating a loudness of sound emitted by a second vehicle parked within a predetermined range from a first vehicle or a vehicle height of the second vehicle, and in a case in which the controller determines that the loudness or the vehicle height exceeds a predetermined first threshold, the controller provides a predetermined notification to the first vehicle via a communication interface.
US11704998B2
The present disclosure is directed to using anomaly data detected in traffic data to efficiently initiate remote assistance sessions. In particular, a computing system can receive, from a computing device associated with a human-driven vehicle, travel data for the human-driven vehicle. The computer system can identify a navigation anomaly associated with the human-driven vehicle based on the travel data. The computer system can generate, based on the identified navigation anomaly, an anomaly entry for storage in an anomaly database, the anomaly entry comprising geofence data describing a geographic area associated with the navigation anomaly. The computer system can determine, based on location data received from an autonomous vehicle and the geofence data, that the autonomous vehicle is entering the geographic area associated with the navigation anomaly. The computer system can initiate a remote assistance session with the autonomous vehicle.
US11704990B2
A system, method, and apparatus are provided to facilitate social distancing. The system issues alarms based on the distance between a user and an object and one or more variable social distancing thresholds. The system enables trade-offs between risk and a desire to have in-person interaction for different activities by using one or more variable social distancing thresholds that may be based on social distancing guidelines and various characteristics.
US11704989B1
Systems, methods, and devices for locating items, people, and/or animals are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, locator devices for locating a target device are provided, the locator devices comprising: a first transceiver configured to communicate with a second transceiver in the target device; a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver configured to receive data from a plurality of satellites for calculating a location; a visual indicator; and a hardware processor that: receives signals from the first transceiver; calculates an estimated distance between the locator device and a target device based on the signals; controls whether the GNSS receiver is powered on or off based on the estimated distance; and causes the visual indicator indicate an estimated direction to the target device from the locator device.
US11704987B2
The present disclosure relates to aspirating smoke detectors (ASD). In an ASD, ambient air is aspirated and is fed to a fire detector unit for determining a signal level. For normal operation, the suction power is set to a nominal airflow value and this is increased from a minimum signal level value in order to shorten the transport time of aspirated smoke through the suction pipe to the fire detector unit. In some embodiments, an interruption signal provided for normal operation is output if the airflow exceeds an upper limit value for a minimum period. Independently thereof, the suction power is increased from the minimum signal level value only to the extent that the airflow does not exceed the upper limit value. Or, regardless thereof, the suction power is increased only for a timespan smaller than the minimum period in which the airflow exceeds the upper limit value.
US11704972B2
The gaming system and method of the present disclosure provide a Class II bingo game with a player-selectable wild spot feature. Generally, for a play of the Class II bingo game and for each player, the gaming system provides that player a bingo card and enables the player to affirmatively designate up to a designated quantity of spots of the bingo card as wild spots. The wild spots are guaranteed marks. The gaming system then draws bingo numbers until a game-winning pattern is marked on one of the players' bingo cards.
US11704967B2
Gaming machines or systems that provide for display of a current theoretical return-to-player (CTRTP) characteristic to the player during play of a game of chance are provided. Such gaming machines may also provide the player with opportunities (and notifications thereof) to increase the CTRTP characteristic by satisfying one or more CTRTP increase conditions associated with a credit wagering rate of the player on the gaming machine that the player is playing. Some such gaming machines may have automated wagering functionality in which the gaming machine may automatically place wagers for the player as long as certain conditions are met. In such gaming machines, the player may be able to control or influence the automatic wagering behavior of the gaming machine through the use of a rate selector that allows the player to change the wagering frequency and/or the wager amount used to place the automatic wagers.
US11704963B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to communication methods in gaming networks using portable devices. In some networks portable devices communicate information about the status of particular gaming machines on the gaming network. In other networks portable devices are used as a secondary display for the gaming device. In yet other networks bonus games may be played on the portable devices. Further embodiments include a portable device that operates to match a current state of a game to a pre-defined state or states.
US11704950B2
A retail security system that includes a locking system having locking assemblies that can be locked and unlocked directly by a consumer or clerk/employee using his or her mobile phone or other portable electronic device. Each of the locking assemblies may be configured to lock an article so that it cannot be freely accessed. The security system may include a sanitizing system that sanitizes the article after a consumer returns the article to the locking system without making a purchase. The security system may include a computer apparatus that allows an owner of the security system to access a software application that provides the owner with information/data about access to the locked articles.
US11704948B2
A method for forming bonded mobile device connection with a vehicle includes determining a request count comprising a plurality of Bluetooth advertisement requests received from a mobile device with respect to time, determining an invalid Consumer Access Key (CAK) transmission count associated with the plurality of Bluetooth advertisement requests, generating an active bond record with the request count and the invalid CAK transmission count, determining, based on the active bond record, that a Global Attribute Profile (GATT) service associated with the mobile device is inactive, and disabling a Bluetooth advertisement response setting associated with the GATT service.
US11704936B2
A method and system using face tracking and object tracking is disclosed. The method and system use face tracking, location, and/or recognition to enhance object tracking, and use object tracking and/or location to enhance face tracking.
US11704935B2
A computing device stores a captured image as a transient image template when there is a failure in an image-based authentication of the captured image and the user of the computing device has provided user credentials that authorize the user to access the computing device. The transient image template may be used to further authorize the user to access the computing device during an established time period.
US11704933B2
An information processing apparatus (100) includes an acquisition unit (122) that acquires a first image from which person region feature information regarding a region including other than a face of a retrieval target person is extracted, a second image in which a collation result with the person region feature information indicates a match, and a facial region is detected, and result information indicating a collation result between face information stored in a storage unit and face information extracted from the facial region, and a display processing unit (130) that displays at least two of the first image, the second image, and the result information on an identical screen.
US11704929B2
An optical structure is provided. The optical structure includes an optical element and a plurality of protrusions. The optical element has a planarized top surface. The plurality of protrusions are disposed on the planarized top surface, wherein each of the plurality of protrusions independently has a size in the subwavelength dimensions.
US11704925B2
Systems and methods for digitized document image data spillage recovery are provided. One or more memories may be coupled to one or more processors, the one or more memories including instructions operable to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to capture an image; process the image through at least a first pass to generate a first contour; remove a preprinted bounding region of the first contour to retain text; generate one or more pixel blobs by applying one or more filters to smudge the text; identify the one or more pixel blobs that straddle one or more boundaries of the first contour; resize the first contour to enclose spillage of the one or more pixel blobs; overlay the text from the image within the resized contour; and apply pixel masking to the resized contour.
US11704915B2
A design support system for permitting a design that easily meets desired conditions regarding an entire item group is provided. An automatic estimation system acting as the design support system comprises: an item recognition section that recognizes each of the items included in the item group by individually recognizing elements making up the item; a designated condition recognition section that recognizes a designated condition from the manufacturing conditions; and a recommended-to-be-examined element recognition section that recognizes, with respect to the designated condition recognized, the element corresponding to any of the manufacturing conditions that is recommended to be examined for changes. The recommended-to-be-examined element recognition section displays a model of the item group by highlighting the element for which the manufacturing condition is recommended to be examined for changes.
US11704908B1
An apparatus including an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data. The processor may be configured to generate a plurality of video frames in response to the pixel data received from the interface, perform computer vision operations to detect objects in the video frames, extract features of the objects in response to characteristics of the objects determined using the computer vision operations, identify a person in the video frames based on the features, detect an event based on the person identified and generate a notification in response to detecting the event and a permission status. The permission status may suppress sending the notification when the permission status for the person identified corresponds to denying the notification and enable sending the notification when the permission status does not correspond to denying the notification.
US11704903B2
Systems and method of identifying a horizon depicted in an image are presented herein. Information defining an image may be obtained. The image may include visual content comprising an array of pixels. The array may include pixel rows. Parameter values for a set of pixel parameters of individual pixels of the image may be determined. Individual average parameter values of the individual pixel parameters of the pixels in the individual pixel rows may be determined. Based on the average parameter values a pixel row may be identified as depicting a horizon in the image.
US11704895B2
Camera data normalization for an autonomous vehicle are described herein, including: receiving, from one or more cameras of the autonomous vehicle, camera data; applying a color normalization to the camera data; applying a spherical reprojection to the camera data; and applying, based on a registration point, a stabilization to the camera data.
US11704892B2
An image classification system for tracking a net sport is illustrated. The system includes a visual device configured to capture video footage of a match. The computing device is communicatively connected to the visual device and is configured to receive the video footage of the match from the visual device, translate video footage of the match from the visual device into a data representation by logging an event with a timestamp, and display data representation to a user.
US11704875B2
The present invention relates to a method for arranging one or more functional elements in a room, comprising the steps of: a) three-dimensional acquisition of the room or of a part of the room by means of a scanner, b) definition of a grid based on the acquisition according to step a), c) definition of grid points of the room in the grid established according to step b), d) definition of at least one grid point of one or more functional elements, and e) virtual arrangement of the one or more functional elements in the room at at least one location, at which at least one grid point of the room and at least one grid point of the functional element coincide.
US11704870B2
A system and method of generating a graphical representation of a network of a subject human brain. The method comprises receiving, via a user interface, a selection of the network of the subject brain; determining, based on an MRI image of the subject brain and one or more identifiers associated with the selection, one or more parcellations of the subject brain (405); determining, using three-dimensional coordinates associated with each parcellation, corresponding tracts in a diffusion tensor image of the brain (425); and generating a graphical representation of the selected network (430), the graphical representation including at least one of (i) one or more surfaces representing the one or more parcellations, each surface generated using the coordinates, and (ii) the determined tracts.
US11704867B2
Embodiments herein provide techniques for signaling of priority information (e.g., priority ranking) and/or quality information in a timed metadata track associated with point cloud content. For example, embodiments include procedures for signaling of priority information and/or quality information in a timed metadata track to support viewport-dependent distribution of point cloud content, e.g., based on MPEG's International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF). In some embodiments, metadata samples of the timed metadata track may include priority information and/or quality information for a point cloud bounding box of a point cloud media presentation (e.g., for one or more point cloud objects in the point cloud bounding box). Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11704835B2
Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. Actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
US11704832B2
An apparatus that calibrates a parametric mapping that maps between object points and image points. The apparatus captures an image of a calibration pattern including features defining object points. The apparatus determines, from the image, measured image points that correspond to the object points. The apparatus determines, from the mapping, putative image points that correspond to the object points. The apparatus minimizes a cumulative cost function dependent upon differences between the measured image points and putative image points to determine parameters of the parametric mapping. The mapping uses a parametric function to specify points where light rays travelling from object points to image points cross the optical axis.
US11704828B2
Road obstacle detection device, road obstacle detection method, and computer-readable storage medium
The road obstacle detection device includes a semantic label estimation unit that estimates a semantic label for each pixel of an image using a classifier learned in advance and generates a semantic label image, an original image estimation unit for reconstruction of the original image from the semantic label image, a difference calculating unit for calculating a difference between the original image and the reconstructed image from the original image estimation unit as a calculation result, and a road obstacle detection unit for detecting a road obstacle based on the calculation result.
US11704826B2
With a diagnostic imaging support apparatus, a diagnostic imaging support method, and a diagnostic imaging support program, an optimum image for extracting a contour can be automatically selected from a superimposed image obtained by superimposing a plurality of images of different types. A diagnostic imaging support apparatus 1 includes: an accepting unit 22 that accepts a specification of the position of a predetermined defined region R on a superimposed image G obtained by superimposing a plurality of images of different types including a target image G0 that is a target on which a contour is created; a selection unit 23 that selects an image for extracting a contour on the basis of image information about regions R0, R1, and R2, in the plurality of images of different types, each corresponding to the accepted defined region R; and a contour extraction unit 24 that extracts the contour from the selected image.
US11704822B2
Systems and methods for self-supervised depth estimation using image frames captured from a camera mounted on a vehicle comprise: receiving a first image from the camera mounted at a first location on the vehicle; receiving a second image from the camera mounted at a second location on the vehicle; predicting a depth map for the first image; warping the first image to a perspective of the camera mounted at the second location on the vehicle to arrive at a warped first image; projecting the warped first image onto the second image; determining a loss based on the projection; and updating the predicted depth values for the first image.
US11704821B2
A method for monocular depth/pose estimation in a camera agnostic network is described. The method includes projecting lifted 3D points onto an image plane according to a predicted ray vector based on a monocular depth model, a monocular pose model, and a camera center of a camera agnostic network. The method also includes predicting a warped target image from a predicted depth map of the monocular depth model, a ray surface of the predicted ray vector, and a projection of the lifted 3D points according to the camera agnostic network.
US11704820B2
To improve user convenience as to adjustment for vibration correction of a captured image captured by an image capturing apparatus, a feature portion evaluation unit refers to feature portions selected by a feature portion selection unit and determines whether feature portions necessary for vibration isolation have been acquired from a reference image. The feature portion evaluation unit has the function of notifying information about the feature portions of the reference image in a case where the acquired feature portions do not satisfy a predetermined condition, that is, in a case where the reliability of the acquired feature portions does not reach a predetermined level.
US11704819B2
The present disclosure discloses a three-dimensional data alignment apparatus, a three-dimensional data alignment method, and a recording medium, which may align a location between volumetric data and surface data even without a segmentation process of extracting a surface from the volumetric data. A three-dimensional data alignment apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a three-dimensional data alignment unit for aligning a location between first three-dimensional data and second three-dimensional data expressed in different data forms with regard to a target to be measured. The first three-dimensional data are three-dimensional data acquired in a voxel form with regard to the target to be measured, and the second three-dimensional data are three-dimensional data acquired in a surface form with regard to the target to be measured. The three-dimensional data alignment unit is configured to extract one or more vertices from the second three-dimensional data; extract the first voxel values of first voxels located around each vertex from the first three-dimensional data, based on a location of each vertex extracted from the second three-dimensional data; determine corresponding points between the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data based on the first voxel values extracted from the first three-dimensional data; and calculate location conversion information minimizing a location error between the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data based on the corresponding points.
US11704811B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for generating a background-free image, a device, and a medium. The method may include: determining an image proportion of a target subject in an original image; clipping, in response to the image proportion being less than a preset threshold, a subject region image corresponding to the target subject from the original image; determining a corresponding subject region mask based on the subject region image; and synthesizing the subject region mask and the subject region image to generate a background-free image corresponding to the original image.
US11704803B2
Various embodiments are directed to video-based deep learning evaluation of cardiac ultrasound that accurately identify cardiomyopathy and predict ejection fraction, the most common metric of cardiac function. Embodiments include systems and methods for analyzing images obtained from an echocardiogram. Certain embodiments include receiving video from a cardiac ultrasound of a patient illustrating at least one view the patient's heart, segmenting a left ventricle in the video, and estimating ejection fraction of the heart. Certain embodiments include at least one machine learning algorithm.
US11704802B2
Implementations are directed to receiving a target object model representative of a target object, receiving a source object model representative of a source object, defining a set of target segments and a set of source segments using a segmentation machine learning (ML) model, for each target segment and source segment pair in a set of target segment and source segment pairs, generating a compatibility score representing a degree of similarity between a target segment and a source segment, the compatibility score calculated based on global feature representations of each of the target segment and the source segment, each global feature representation determined from a ML model, selecting a source segment for style transfer based on compatibility scores, and merging the source segment into the target object model to replace a respective target segment within the target object model and providing a stylized target object model.
US11704799B2
The current disclosure provides for mapping medical images to style transferred medical images using deep neural networks, while maintaining clinical quality of the style transferred medical image, thereby enabling a clinician to evaluate medical images in a preferred style without loss of clinically relevant content. In one embodiment the current disclosure provides for a method comprising, acquiring a medical image of an anatomical region of a subject, wherein the medical image is in a first style, selecting a target style, wherein the target style is distinct from the first style, selecting a clinical quality metric, selecting a trained style transfer network based on the target style and the clinical quality metric, mapping the medical image to a style transferred medical image using the trained style transfer network, wherein the style transferred medical image is in the target style, and displaying the style transferred medical image via a display device.
US11704789B2
A defect inspection device includes an ultrasonic probe, an image acquirer, a calculator, and a corrector. The ultrasonic probe acquires an ultrasonic image of an inspection object or a simulated inspection object. The image acquirer acquires an infrared image including a first region of the simulated inspection object or a second region of the inspection object. The calculator calculates a first correction value for correcting a coordinate deviation of the first region in the ultrasonic image and the infrared image with respect to a designed coordinate of the first region, or calculate a second correction value for correcting a coordinate deviation of the second region in the infrared image with respect to a designed coordinate of the second region. The corrector performs coordinate correction with the calculated first or second correction value for the ultrasonic image of the inspection object.
US11704787B2
The present invention relates to a method of determining stock in an inventory. The method comprises obtaining one or more images comprising one or more objects. Further, estimating a three dimensional (3D) location of a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) marker associated with each of one or more visible objects. Furthermore, determining a stacking pattern of the one or more objects for each level on the pallet using one of the 3D location of SKU marker and a learning model. Thereafter, detecting at least one of presence or absence of one or more undetected objects at each level based on the stacking pattern and the 3D location of the SKU marker. Finally, determining the stock in the inventory based on the presence or the absence of the one or more undetected objects and the one or more visible objects.
US11704785B2
Embodiments are directed to techniques for image content extraction. Some embodiments include extracting contextually structured data from document images, such as by automatically identifying document layout, document data, document metadata, and/or correlations therebetween in a document image, for instance. Some embodiments utilize breakpoints to enable the system to match different documents with internal variations to a common template. Several embodiments include extracting contextually structured data from table images, such as gridded and non-gridded tables. Many embodiments are directed to generating and utilizing a document template database for automatically extracting document image contents into a contextually structured format. Several embodiments are directed to automatically identifying and associating document metadata with corresponding document data in a document image to generate a machine-facilitated annotation of the document image. In some embodiments, the machine-facilitated annotation may be used to generate a template for the template database.
US11704784B2
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) ergonomic assessment and positioning system that analyzes remote workspace data, identifies objects that are improperly positioned, oriented, and/or have undesirable settings, and automatically adjusts, moves, sets, and/or provides automatic guidance for the adjustment, movement, and/or setting of target objects in the remote workspace.
US11704780B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus obtains first characteristic information, which is provided according to a plurality of sections of content and corresponds to an image characteristic of a section to be displayed among the plurality of seconds, from a signal received in the signal receiver, obtains first image-quality setting information for setting image quality of the section based on the obtained first characteristic information, obtains second characteristic information corresponding to an image characteristic of a frame included in the section from the frame, obtains second image-quality setting information for setting image quality of the frame based on the obtained first image-quality setting information and the obtained second characteristic information, and controls the display to display an image of the frame, the image quality of the frame being set based on the obtained second image-quality setting information.
US11704779B2
A head-up display device includes: a display unit that produces a display light for the left eye by modulating a first illumination light derived from superimposing first illumination light beams output from a first region of a fly eye lens and produces a display light for the right eye by modulating a second illumination light derived from superimposing second illumination light beams output a second region of the fly eye lens; and an image processing unit that produces an image for the left eye and produces an image for the right eye; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the image for the left eye when the first illumination light is produced and causes the display unit to display the image for the right eye when the second illumination light is produced.
US11704771B2
An image processing method and a device, where the image processing method is performed by a terminal having a digital zoom function, and the method includes determining a target zoom magnification based on a selection input of a user, collecting a to-be-processed image, and processing the to-be-processed image using a target super-resolution convolutional neural network model to obtain a processed image corresponding to the target zoom magnification, where the target super-resolution convolutional neural network model is obtained by training a super-resolution convolutional neural network model using a high-definition training image, a low-definition training image, and a mask image.
US11704762B2
A system and method is provided for incorporating a wagering activity into an electronic commerce transaction. The system preferably includes a host device in communication with at least a user device and a merchant device via the Internet. If the merchant does not offer the wagering activity, the user may shop for items offered by the merchant via the host's website. When an item is selected by the user, the item is placed in the host's shopping cart (i.e., the host's virtual shopping cart on the merchant's website). If the user decides to participate in a wagering activity, user payment information is used to transfer funds (e.g., a wagering amount) to the host. If the user wins, host payment information is provided to the merchant and used to purchase the item from the merchant. The item is then provided (shipped) to the user.
US11704756B2
The present inventive concept is a technique related to a system and method for displaying additional information on a 3D tour. In this case, the method for displaying additional information on a 3D tour performed by a server for providing a 3D tour service linked to a user terminal, the method includes providing a 3D tour comprising 3D information of a particular space to the user terminal, receiving coordinate information for a start point and an end point of an additional-information signpost to be created newly on the 3D tour displayed on the user terminal, creating an additional-information signpost connecting the start point and the end point, and overlappingly displaying the created additional-information signpost on the 3D tour.
US11704751B2
A physical container (e.g., a battery) may be filled up (charged) or emptied (discharged) with energy commensurate with requirements to post a particular amount of collateral. The disclosure provides computing systems and methods for processing data using a novel combination of wavelet techniques and rolling techniques to more efficiently detect seasonality in particular products (e.g., energy products) to more accurately model and determine collateral/margin requirements. A clearinghouse computing device may be configured to generate a margin requirement for a portfolio of products and may include a processor to process instructions that cause the clearinghouse computing device to perform wavelet decomposition and rolling methods on a historical database of records.
US11704748B2
A system and method are provided for automatically correlating geologic tops. The system receives well logs from different well bores and each of the picks is added to a priority queue ordered by each pick's quality measure. User selected picks are assigned the highest level of quality measure. The system performs correlation by selecting a window of well log data about a pick selected from the top of the priority queue and then finding the best optimal match with a corresponding window in a neighboring wellbore.
US11704739B2
Systems and methods for using a mobile device to submit an application for an insurance policy using images of documents captured by the mobile device are provided herein. The information is then used by an insurance company to generate a quote which is then displayed to the user on the mobile device. A user captures images of one or more documents containing information needed to complete an insurance application, after which the information on the documents is extracted and sent to the insurance company where a quote for the insurance policy can be developed. The quote can then be transmitted back to the user. Applications on the mobile device are configured to capture images of the documents needed for an insurance application, such as a driver's license, insurance information card or a vehicle identification number (VIN). The images are then processed to extract the information needed for the insurance application.
US11704738B2
Systems and methods are described for using data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to generate insurance claim estimates that an insured individual may quickly review, approve, or modify. When an insurance-related event occurs, such as a vehicle collision, crash, or disaster, one or more UAVs are dispatched to the scene of the event to collect various data, including data related to vehicle or real property (insured asset) damage. With the insured's permission or consent, the data collected by the UAVs may then be analyzed to generate an estimated insurance claim for the insured. The estimated insurance claim may be sent to the insured individual, such as to their mobile device via wireless communication or data transmission, for subsequent review and approval. As a result, insurance claim handling and/or the online customer experience may be enhanced.
US11704736B1
Various examples are directed to providing portfolio management tools. For example, a system may generate a portfolio management user interface comprising a first table and a first rebalancing button. The first table may comprise an asset class name column; a model portfolio column indicating asset class weights in a model portfolio; a test portfolio column indicating asset class weights in a test portfolio; a modification column indicating modifications to asset class weights; a modified portfolio column indicating asset class weights in a modified portfolio; and a plurality of rows comprising a first row for a first asset class of the asset classes and a second row for a second asset class of the asset classes. The system may receive an indication that the user selected the rebalancing button and generate a first set of modifications to asset class weights to reduce a difference between the test portfolio and the model portfolio.
US11704725B1
A method for evaluating bids for the purchase of inventory items to optimize bid-generated revenue. The method comprises receiving a bid for an inventory item, the bid comprising a bid price, a specific inventory item that is to be purchased, and a number of inventory items to be purchased. The bid is input into a machine learning algorithm as are features associated with the inventory item and information associated with the bid. The machine learning algorithm analyzes the bid and generates an output to accept or decline the bid. Responsive to that output the bidder is advised whether the bid was accepted or declined.
US11704712B2
A method for conducting a plurality of electronic service exchanges over a network and a tangible, non-transient computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon to carry out the method are disclosed. The exchanges are conducted between two or more service providers on a basis of service time and description, and do not involve any monetary transaction. The method includes receiving information about an offered and requested service to initiate service exchanges. A plurality of parameters associated with the offered and requested services and an instruction set for each exchange are then identified. When the identification results in a match between the offered service and the requested service of a first service provider on a first terminal coupled to the network and the requested service and the offered service of at least one additional service provider on at least one additional terminal coupled to the network, the service exchange is conducted.
US11704710B2
An online marketplace system generates an online marketplace for seller-financed transactions. The system includes a plurality of listings of transaction offerings that are available. The transaction offerings are listed by a plurality of users and are from a plurality of different categories of products and services. The transaction offerings include a plurality of transaction terms, including payment and seller-financing terms. A transaction engine facilitates the negotiation of transaction terms between users and the formation of agreement between users. Transaction coins are awarded during the successful performance of a transaction according to the agreed upon transaction terms. A reputation engine generates trust profiles and trust scores for users. The trust profiles and trust scores are used by parties to evaluate the trustworthiness of the other party. A user interface engine generates a user interface that includes listings from users and trust scores of those users.
US11704702B2
Systems and related methods providing for dynamic message creation are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured receive generic configuration data that references work chunks for message generation and time data indicating a message send time. The work chunks may include references to message data, but not the actual message data. Based on the time data, the work chunks may be placed in a message queue. Circuitry may also be configured to retrieve a work chunk from the message queue and to generate one or more messages based on the retrieved work chunk. The references to message data in the work chunk may be used to retrieve the message data at the time of message generation.
US11704696B2
A single tracking URL collects tracking information for multiple tracking services based on multiple tracking URL templates. A dynamic link generator generates a tracking URL configured to collect tracking information requested by each of a set of enabled tracking URL templates. The tracking information is transmitted to the tracking services associated with the enabled tracking URL templates. Additionally or alternatively, a tracking URL is configured to redirect a consumer to one of a candidate set of destination URLs. A tracking URL includes a base URL, which is resolved to an IP address of a server of a particular tracking service. Based on tracking data associated with the tracking URL and/or digital body language associated with the consumer, the particular tracking service selects one of a candidate set of destination URLs associated with the tracking URL. A destination page corresponding to the selected destination URL is presented to the consumer.
US11704692B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods for establishing promotions for sellers and promoting images of items to users on behalf of sellers. A management service receives a source location identifier from a seller, processes images stored in an image data store to determine images that include the source location identifier in the corresponding image information and includes those images in a promotion that is established for the seller. Likewise, the management service may determine users that have previously interacted with the images and include those users in the promotion campaign.
US11704690B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for tracking an advertisement based on the advertisement's context. When an ad event is received on a client-computing device, a single URL is determined to display an item and track a context of the ad event. A first parameter related to the ad event is encoded as a HTTP header, and a second parameter related to tracking the ad event is encoded as a query parameter appended to the URL. The URL with the HTTP header is called, causing a domain server named in the URL to extract the first parameter from the HTTP header and the second parameter from the query parameter in order to determine the context of the ad. The domain server asynchronously requests tracking of the ad based on the context. Additionally, content for a landing page is received from the domain server.
US11704672B2
A data string that includes potentially sensitive information, such as an account number for a payment card, may be evaluated to determine whether or not any portion of the data string encodes a known identifier of sensitive information, such as a known bank identification number (BIN). A fixed number of bytes of the data string may be analyzed using a trie algorithm, in which the value of a first byte is compared with the value of a corresponding first character of the known identifier. A second byte is then compared with a set of values of corresponding second characters, which accompany the first character of the known identifier. Then the value of a third byte of the data string is compared with a set of values of corresponding third values, which accompany the first and second characters of the known identifier. The use of a trie algorithm decreases the length of the search process by several orders of magnitude.
US11704666B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media utilized for authorizing transactions without a payment card present. One method includes receiving a habitual transaction request including a customer indicator and identifying characteristics of the habitual transaction request. The method further includes identifying, utilizing the customer indicator, habit information of a customer and authenticating the habitual transaction request based on the characteristics of the habitual transaction request conforming with the habit information. The method further includes, in response to authenticating the habitual transaction request, authorizing the habitual transaction request and receiving a non-habitual transaction request including the customer indicator. The method further includes determining that the customer is active, and the customer indicator is approved to conduct a non-habitual transaction and authorizing the non-habitual transaction request based on the determination and the customer indicator being approved to conduct the non-habitual transaction and transmitting a notification indicating the non-habitual transaction request was authorized.
US11704665B2
A method for offline transmission of blockchain details includes: storing, in a computing device, a first private key and a currency amount; receiving a first destination address associated with a blockchain network and a transaction amount; generating a second private key; generating a second destination address associated with the blockchain network using the second private key; generating a blockchain transaction including at least the first destination address, the transaction amount, the second destination address, and a remainder amount based on at least the currency amount and the transaction amount; signing the generated blockchain transaction using the first private key; executing a query to replace the first private key with the second private key, wherein replacement of the first private key includes deletion of the first private key from the computing device; and transmitting the generated blockchain transaction.
US11704661B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating and managing dynamic customized electronic tokens for electronic device interactions. A system for transferring data between a user device associated with a user and a remote device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the stored instructions. The stored instructions may configure the processor to receive, via a network, transaction information from the remote device, access information associated with an electronic token, and provide the electronic token to the remote device. The electronic token may be associated with at least one of the user or the user device, and a token server may generate the electronic token based on the received transaction information, and determine one or more expiration parameters for the electronic token.
US11704660B2
Described are systems and methods for transferring a token between mobile computing devices. A token transfer processing computing device includes a memory device for storing data and a processor in communication with the memory device. The processor is programmed to receive a token transfer message. The token transfer message includes a current device identifier associated with a current mobile device having an original token associated therewith for initiating secure payments using the current mobile device, and a new device identifier associated with a new mobile device replacing the current mobile device. The processor is further programmed to perform a lookup in a device-to-token mapping table to identify the original token associated with the current mobile device. The processor further generates an updated token associated with the payment account and transmits a token transfer response to the new mobile device. The token transfer response includes the updated token.
US11704646B2
A method and system for retail management of controlled substances is provided. Controlled substances such as alcohol or cannabis may be sold as products or served at a venue. The process of purchasing the controlled substance, or service of a controlled substance the current venue includes a customer presenting the controlled substance for purchase and providing a customer identifier. The point of sale device at the venue may send an authorization request to a processing server at a remote service, which may reply with an advisory response including information from a customer profile. Optionally, a system and method of retail management of controlled substances provides for a law enforcement system may send an investigation request comprising a vehicle identifier to the processing server, and in response an investigation response may be sent to the law enforcement system may be sent including information from the customer profile.
US11704644B2
A method of operating a carwash includes driving a vehicle to a point of sale station of the carwash, purchasing a carwash transaction, and taking a first picture of a license plate number of the vehicle after the completion of the purchase of the carwash transaction at the point of sale station. The license plate number is associated with the carwash transaction as a carwash ticket. The vehicle is then sent to a carwash queue disposed downstream of the point of sale station. The carwash ticket information is sent to a carwash tunnel. A second picture of the license plate number of the vehicle is taken right as it approaches the carwash tunnel. The license plate number is associated with the carwash ticket and the vehicle is washed according to a wash dictated by the carwash ticket.
US11704636B2
Proxied cross-ledger authentication techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a verifier presentation requirement is determined, the verifier presentation requirement indicating a set of elements required to be provided by a client to authenticate the client. An authentication contract instance is created on a market maker ledger not associated specifically with the verifier, the authentication contract instance including at least a subset of the elements required by the verifier presentation requirement. A verifier system associated with the verifier presentation requirement is configured to read information from the authentication contract instance, obtain from an issuer associated with the client an issuer revocation data associated with the authentication contract instance, and use the information read from the authentication contract instance and the issuer revocation data to authenticate the client.
US11704627B2
The present disclosure relates generally to utilizing paid time off. In one example, the systems and methods described herein may provide an infrastructure to repurpose paid time off into other uses, such as cash, travel, bill payments, and the like.
US11704621B2
A method of sensing a loaded state of articles in a storage bin and a robot implementing the method are provided. The robot senses a loaded state of articles received in the storage bin in real time or at regular intervals and includes the storage bin and storage bin sensors disposed outside the storage bin. The storage bin sensors are arranged at a non-parallel angle relative to a side surface of the storage bin.
US11704619B2
Provided is a package reception management system including a delivery vehicle configured to move in an unmanned operation. The package reception management system is configured to: acquire a reception region in which a package transported by the delivery vehicle is to be passed to a user being a delivery destination; issue authentication information to be input to the delivery vehicle in the reception region by the user being the delivery destination; and to notify the user of the issued authentication information. In the issuing, the package reception management system sets information for restricting later issuing of the issued authentication information for the reception region, and restricts issuing of the same authentication information as at least one piece of authentication information restricted in the issuing for the reception region.
US11704618B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to application mapping and alerting based on data dependencies in business and technology logic. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive a request to map enterprise technology resources. Then, the computing platform may generate a business capability model. Next, the computing platform may cause a user computing device to display a graphical user interface comprising selectable graphical representations of applications associated with the enterprise technology resources. Then, the computing platform may receive a user input identifying an occurrence of a technology incident by selecting one of the graphical representations. In response to the selection, the computing platform may trace, using the generated business capability model, upstream or downstream impacts of the technology incident. Then, the computing platform may cause a visual representation of data dependencies indicating upstream or downstream impacts of the technology incident to be displayed on the user computing device.
US11704615B2
In one aspect, a device agnostic system for providing a fully connected worker risk assessment is disclosed. The system includes an interface and data model for capturing and interpreting one or more variables associated with a worker's body motion and non-body motion related data. The system further includes a processor for aggregating, assessing, and interpreting the one or more input variables to perform a fully connected worker risk assessment based on not only the worker's movement, but also non-movement related data. The processor further provides an output based on the processed one or more input variables to provide a fully connected risk assessment and solutions relating to the same.
US11704608B2
The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system receives session information from a requestor computing device in response to one or more session events. The system utilizes the received session information to determine a likelihood that the associated session on the requestor computing device will result in a transportation request. If the determined likelihood is above a threshold amount, the system generates an upfront dispatch that matches the associated session to a provider computing device. The system then reserves the provider computing device and generates a predicted dispatch for the reserved provider computing device.
US11704600B2
Approximating a more complex multi-objective feed item scoring model using a less complex single objective feed item scoring model in a multistage feed ranking system of an online service. The disclosed techniques can facilitate multi-objective optimization for personalizing and ranking feeds including balancing personalizing a feed for viewer experience, downstream professional or social network effects, and upstream effects on content creators. The techniques can approximate the multi-objective model—that uses a rich set of machine learning features for scoring feed items at a second pass ranker in the ranking system—with the more lightweight, single objective model—that uses fewer machine learning features at a first pass ranker in the ranking system. The single objective model can more efficiently score a large set of feed items while maintaining much of the multi-objective model's richness and complexity and with high recall at the second pass ranking stage.
US11704595B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for performing a cognitive search operation comprising: receiving training data, the training data comprising information based upon user interaction with cognitive attributes; performing a machine learning operation on the training data; generating a cognitive profile based upon the information generated by performing the machine learning operation; and, performing a cognitive search operation on a corpus of content based upon the cognitive profile, the cognitive search operation returning cognitive results specific to the cognitive profile of the user.
US11704593B1
A method of improving performance of machine learning models by leveraging crowdsourced artificial intelligence includes sending first data to a plurality of data source compute nodes and receiving indications of stakes and estimates based on the first data from the plurality of data source compute nodes. Each data source compute node is ranked based on the received indications of stakes, to generate a plurality of ranked data source compute nodes. An accuracy of each received estimate is calculated by comparing the received estimates to second data. Until a predefined resource is depleted, and in order of rank, if the accuracy of the estimate associated with a ranked data source compute node exceeds a predefined threshold, the predefined resource is decremented and a token augmentation can be assigned to the ranked data source compute node.
US11704590B2
A method for predicting a failure of a power control unit of a vehicle is provided. The method includes obtaining data from a plurality of sensors of the power control unit of a vehicle subject to simulated multi-load conditions, implementing a machine learning algorithm on the data to obtain machine learning data, obtaining new data from the plurality of sensors of power control unit of the vehicle subject to real multi-load conditions, implementing the machine learning algorithm on the new data to obtain test data, predicting a failure of the power control unit based on a comparison between the test data and the machine learning data.
US11704585B2
System and method for determining an outcome probability of an event based on videos are disclosed. The method includes receiving the videos of an event, creating a building block model, extracting one of an audio content, a video content from the videos, analysing extracted content, generating an analysis result, analysing an engagement between speaker and participant of event, generating a data lake comprising a keyword library, computing the outcome probability of the event, enabling the building block model to learn from the data lake and the outcome probability computed and representing the at least one outcome probability in a pre-defined format.
US11704582B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using machine learning to generate precision predictions of readiness. In some implementations, a database is accessed to obtain status data that indicates activities or attributes of a subject. A set of feature scores is derived from the status data for the subject, the set of feature scores including values indicative of attributes or activities of the subject. The set of feature scores to one or more models that have been configured to predict readiness of subjects to satisfy one or more readiness criteria. The one or models can be models configured using machine learning training. Based on processing performed using the one or more machine learning models and the set of feature scores, a prediction regarding the subject's ability to achieve readiness to satisfy the one or more readiness criteria is generated.
US11704581B1
A system and method for visualizing one or more crop response surfaces. The system includes a geospatial database associated with a crop prediction engine. The geospatial database receives soil composition information for plots of land. The crop prediction engine identifies covariates from the soil composition information, which has a feature matrix. The crop prediction engine generates a multi-dimensional covariate training data set from the covariates. The crop prediction engine then applies the multi-dimensional covariate training data set to a machine learning training model to generate at least one predictive crop-yield predictive model. The crop prediction engine ranks covariates having feature set interactions. Subsequently, the crop prediction engine determines a dominant crop-yield feature set interaction from the ranked covariates having feature set interactions. The crop prediction engine generates a crop response surface from the dominant crop-yield feature set interaction. The crop prediction engine then visualizes the crop response surface.
US11704578B2
Disclosed herein is a method of providing user-customized learning content in a service server, which includes a) for a specific subject, configuring a problem database including at least one of multiple-choice problems each including at least one example, providing the problem to user devices, and collecting example selection data of users for the problem from the user devices, b) estimating a probability of right answer to the problem for each of the users using the example selection data of each of the users, and assuming that any user selects an example of any problem, calculating, for each problem, a change rate of probabilities of right answer to all problems contained in the problem database for the user, and sorting the problems contained in the problem database in the order of the high change rate to recommend them to the user.
US11704576B1
A system and method for identifying ground types from one or more interpolated covariates. The method proceeds by accessing soil composition information for plots of land, in which the soil composition information includes measured soil sample results, environmental results, soil conductivity results or any combination thereof. The method continues by identifying covariates from the soil composition information. Subsequently, the method interpolates covariates associated with different locations with an interpolation training model. Voxels are generated that are each associated with interpolated covariates having a corresponding geographical location. The method trains a random forest training model with the interpolated covariates. The voxels traverse the trained random forest model to identify clusters of voxels that are co-associated. The method identifies a ground type by combining the co-associated clusters. Each ground type is associated with a crop zone, a soil fertility, or a farm management recommendation.
US11704569B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for enhancing a binary weight neural network using a dependency tree. A method of enhancing a convolutional neural network (CNN) having binary weights includes constructing a tree for obtained binary tensors, the tree having a plurality of nodes beginning with a root node in each layer of the CNN. A convolution is calculated of an input feature map with an input binary tensor at the root node of the tree. A next node is searched from the root node of the tree and a convolution is calculated at the next node using a previous convolution result calculated at the root node of the tree. The searching of a next node from root node is repeated for all nodes from the root node of the tree, and a convolution is calculated at each next node using a previous convolution result.
US11704568B2
Systems and techniques for facilitating hand activity sensing are presented. In one example, a system obtains, from a wrist-worn computational device, hand activity data associated with a sustained series of hand motor actions in performance of a human task. The system also employs a machine learning technique to determine classification data indicative of a classification for the human task.
US11704564B2
In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive a plurality of data inputs for training a neural network, wherein the data inputs comprise training data and weights inputs; represent the data inputs in a first form; and represent the weight inputs in a second form. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11704559B2
Embodiments are disclosed for learning structural similarity of user experience (UX) designs using machine learning. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise generating a representation of a layout of a graphical user interface (GUI), the layout including a plurality of control components, each control component including a control type, geometric features, and relationship features to at least one other control component, generating a search embedding for the representation of the layout using a neural network, and querying a repository of layouts in embedding space using the search embedding to obtain a plurality of layouts based on similarity to the layout of the GUI in the embedding space.
US11704555B2
Batch normalization (BN) layer fusion and quantization method for model inference in artificial intelligence (AI) network engine are disclosed. A method for a neural network (NN) includes merging batch normalization (BN) layer parameters with NN layer parameters and computing merged BN layer and NN layer functions using the merged BN and NN layer parameters. A rectified linear unit (RELU) function can be merged with the BN and NN layer functions.
US11704554B2
In one embodiment, a method of training dynamic models for autonomous driving vehicles includes the operations of receiving a first set of training data from a training data source, the first set of training data representing driving statistics for a first set of features; training a dynamic model based on the first set of training data for the first set of features; determining a second set of features as a subset of the first set of features based on evaluating the dynamic model, each of the second set of features representing a feature whose performance score is below a predetermined threshold. The method further includes the following operations for each of the second set of features: retrieving a second set of training data associated with the corresponding feature of the second set of features, and retraining the dynamic model using the second set of training data.
US11704547B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a request to perform computations for a neural network on a hardware circuit having a matrix computation unit, the request specifying a transpose operation to be performed on a first neural network matrix; and generating instructions that when executed by the hardware circuit cause the hardware circuit to transpose the first neural network matrix by performing first operations, wherein the first operations include repeatedly performing the following second operations: for a current subdivision of the first neural network matrix that divides the first neural network matrix into one or more current submatrices, updating the first neural network matrix by swapping an upper right quadrant and a lower left quadrant of each current submatrix, and subdividing each current submatrix into respective new submatrices to update the current subdivision.
US11704542B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for machine prediction. The method includes forming, by a hardware processor, a Convolutional Dynamic Boltzmann Machine (C-DyBM) by extending a non-convolutional DyBM with a convolutional operation. The method further includes generating, by the hardware processor using the convolution operation of the C-DyBM, a prediction of a future event at time t from a past patch of time-series of observations. The method also includes performing, by the hardware processor, a physical action responsive to the prediction of the future event at time t.
US11704538B2
A data processing method and device are provided. The method includes: performing a forward calculation of a neural network on global data to obtain intermediate data for a reverse calculation of the neural network; storing the intermediate data in a buffer unit; reading the intermediate data from the buffer unit; and performing the reverse calculation of the neural network on the intermediate data to obtain a result of the reverse calculation. According to embodiments, in the reverse calculation of the neural network, the number of accessing the global memory is reduced, thereby reducing the computational time cost and increasing the data processing speed.
US11704535B1
Examples herein describe hardware architecture for processing and accelerating data passing through layers of a neural network. In one embodiment, a reconfigurable integrated circuit (IC) for use with a neural network includes a digital processing engine (DPE) array, each DPE having a plurality of neural network units (NNUs). Each DPE generates different output data based on the currently processing layer of the neural network, with the NNUs parallel processing different input data sets. The reconfigurable IC also includes a plurality of ping-pong buffers designed to alternate storing and processing data for the layers of the neural network.
US11704533B2
A vehicle includes a controller configured to select one of a group of topics for generating an answer to a question embedded within the group based on an operating parameter of the vehicle and a syntax of a phrase. The selection is responsive to input originating from utterances including a preceding topic and a following topic having a moniker therebetween that is associated with only one of the topics through the syntax. The vehicle may operate an interface to output the answer.
US11704529B2
Tracker tags, smart tags, locator tags, and the like are provided. A portable tracker device, according to one implementation, includes a housing having a front cover and a back cover. The portable tracker device also includes Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry configured to operate within at least one of a Bluetooth (BT) frequency range and an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) frequency range. Also, the portable tracker device includes a piezoelectric device having a first conductive plate and a second conductive plate. The RF circuitry utilizes at least one of the front cover, the back cover, the first conductive plate, and the second conductive plate as one or more antennas.
US11704526B2
A barcoded indicator operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of at least one threshold by at least one product quality affecting parameter, the barcoded indicator including at least a first barcode and at least a second barcode, the at least a second barcode being in a second barcode unreadable state prior to exceedance of the at least one threshold and upon exceedance of the at least one threshold the at least a first barcode becoming unreadable and generally simultaneously the at least a second barcode becoming readable.
US11704525B2
A two-dimensional marker for marking an object comprises a plurality of line segments each extending between a first end point and a second end point thereof, wherein at least one of the line segments comprises a shape of at least one period of a periodic waveform.
US11704516B2
Disclosed is computing technology for managing information display of an electronic label which is connected to a management server via a network and displays electronic information. A moving device transmits images, which are obtained by photographing an electronic label and a product while being moved in a store, to a management server. The management server analyzes the images to extract information and detects changes in displayed products to register changed information. The management server performs inventory management using the extracted information. Further, the management server uses the extracted information to inform a store manager so that a location of a displayed product deviated from a place thereof is corrected.
US11704512B2
A method and apparatus for manipulating an aiming light of a reader to indicate the field-of-view (FOV) of an imager within the reader includes an optical element. The optical element receives the aiming light from an aiming assembly and redirect the aiming light such that the central axis of the aiming light exiting the optical element is non-coaxial with the central aiming axis of the aiming assembly at the entry of the optical element. The optical element may be configured to project an image on a target that indicates the boundary of the FOV or project an image on the target that indicates the center of the FOV.
US11704509B2
A method for dynamically associating an ultra wide band (UWB) tag with an object by an electronic device is provided. The method includes monitoring, by the electronic device, a first object and a second object in vicinity of the UWB tag over a period of time and determining, by the electronic device, a parameter associated with each of the first object and the second object with respect to the UWB tag. Further, the method includes generating, by the electronic device, a correlation between the UWB tag and each of the first object and the second object based on the parameter and dynamically associating, by the electronic device, the UWB tag with one of the first object and the second object based on the correlation between the UWB tag and each of the first object and the second object.
US11704503B2
In some embodiments, text for user consumption may be generated based on an intended user action category and a user profile. In some embodiments, an action category, a plurality of text seeds, and a profile comprising feature values may be obtained. Context values may be generated based on the feature values, and text generation models may be obtained based on the text seeds. In some embodiments, messages may be generated using the text generation models based on the action category and the context values. Weights associated with the messages may be determined, and a first text message of the messages may be sent to an address associated with the profile based on the weights. Based on a reaction value obtained in response to the first message, a first expected allocation value may be updated based on the reaction value.
US11704502B2
A two way communication assembly includes a display housing that is positionable on a support surface such that the display housing is visible to a pair of users. A pair of displays and a pair of qwerty keyboards is each integrated into opposite sides of the display housing. A translation unit is integrated into the display housing and the translation unit stores a database comprising a plurality of languages spoken around the world. The translation unit translates language between the qwerty keyboards to facilitate a patient who speaks a first language to communicate with a caregiver that speaks a second language. In this way the translation unit facilitates the caregiver to communicate with the patient.
US11704500B2
Disclosed are an apparatus, a system and a non-transitory computer readable medium that implement processing circuitry that receives non-dialog information from a smart device and determines a data type of data in the received non-dialog information. Based on the determined data type, the processing circuitry transforms the received first data using an input from a machine learning algorithm into transformed data. The transformed data is standardized data that is palatable for machine learning algorithms such as those used implemented as chatbots. The standardized transformed data is useful for training multiple different chatbot systems and enables the typically underutilized non-dialog information to be used to as training input to improve context and conversation flow between a chatbot and a user.
US11704495B2
An information processing device and method for prediction of a film's success-quotient is provided. The information processing device receives a film script for a film for production, identifies a plurality of scenes in the film script based on a textual analysis of the film script, and computes a first score for each scene of the film script based on genre information for plurality of scenes. The information processing device further identifies a list of characters in the film script, selects an actor for roleplay of each character of the list of characters and computes a second score that indicates a suitability of the selected actor for the roleplay. The second score is computed based on a machine learning model that is trained on datapoints of a historical film database. The information processing device predicts the success-quotient for the film based on the computed first score and the computed second score.
US11704488B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for generating a language detection model of a language analysis system. The systems and methods access a set of messages including text elements and convert the set of messages into a set of training messages. The set of training messages are configured for training a language detection model. The systems and methods train a classifier based on the set of training messages. The classifier has a set of features representing word frequency, character frequency, and a character ratio. The systems and methods generate a language detection model based on the classifier and the set of features.
US11704478B2
A page processing method. The method includes generating a loading masking directory when page data of a target page is being loaded, the loading masking directory including a data directory corresponding to a data module set to be loaded in the target page, and loading state information of data modules in the data module set; and displaying the loading masking directory at least during a loading period of the page data.
US11704475B2
The present disclosure relates to non-transitory computer readable mediums (CRMs) for guided-viewing of annotations and the process or organizing and connecting annotations of web documents within web browsers. The rationale for creating and using such computer readable medium is discussed in detail within this disclosure. Throughout the course of this explanation, various steps are dissected and explained in detail in the context of exemplary embodiments to elaborate on the relevant data structures and the architectures, messaging patterns, and use cases that provide the context for these data structures.
US11704474B2
Various embodiments support or provide for binding markdown data content to an action. In particular, some embodiments provide a document editor for binding an action to content of a document, such as a markdown document. Such embodiments can enable a user to edit or generate a document using markdown syntax that links and binds the document to metadata, which enables some embodiments to enhance the content the document beyond what standard markdown permits, such as a user invokable action.
US11704471B2
A layout geometry of a lithographic mask is received. The layout geometry is partitioned into feature images, for example as selected from a library. The library contains predefined feature images and their corresponding precalculated mask 3D (M3D) filters. The M3D filter for a feature image represents the electromagnetic scattering effect of that feature image for a given source illumination. The mask function contribution from each of the feature images is calculated by convolving the feature image with its corresponding M3D filter. The mask function contributions are combined to determine a mask function for the lithographic mask illuminated by the source illumination.
US11704469B2
An integrated circuit includes a first set of devices, a set of metal layers and a header circuit. The first set of devices are configured to operate on a first supply voltage, and are located on a first layer of the integrated circuit. The set of metal layers are above the first layer, and includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer extends in at least a first direction and a second direction. The header circuit is above the first set of devices. At least a portion of the header circuit is positioned between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The header circuit is configured to provide the first supply voltage to the first set of devices, and is configured to be coupled to a first voltage supply having the first supply voltage.
US11704465B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a first and second power rail extending in a first direction and being located at a first level, a first and second set of conductive structures located at a second level and extending in a second direction, a first and second set of vias, and a first and second conductive structure located at a third level and extending in the second direction. The first set of vias coupling the first power rail to the first set of conductive structures. The second set of vias coupling the second power rail to the second set of conductive structures. The first conductive structure overlaps a first conductive structure of the first set of conductive structures and the second set of conductive structures. The second conductive structure overlaps a second conductive structure of the first set of conductive structures and the second set of conductive structures.
US11704463B2
Computer-implemented methods of optimizing a process simulation model that predicts a result of a semiconductor device fabrication operation to process parameter values characterizing the semiconductor device fabrication operation are disclosed. The methods involve generating cost values using a computationally predicted result of the semiconductor device fabrication operation and a metrology result produced, at least in part, by performing the semiconductor device fabrication operation in a reaction chamber operating under a set of fixed process parameter values. The determination of the parameters of the process simulation model may employ pre-process profiles, via optimization of the resultant post-process profiles of the parameters against profile metrology results. Cost values for, e.g., optical scatterometry, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy may be used to guide optimization.
US11704457B2
Methods, software, and apparatuses for accurate and computationally fast and efficient topologic and geometric characterization of porous material or medium, flow characterization of porous material or medium, and porous material or medium design are described.
US11704454B2
A method of designing a fire suppression system including: determining nozzle placement for nozzles of a fire suppression system within a location; determining piping placement for pipes of the fire suppression system within the location; determining whether the nozzle placement or piping placement violate a constraint; and generating a map displaying the nozzle placement and the piping placement on a computing device.
US11704452B2
In one embodiment, a system and method for determining a natural frequency of a structure involve modeling the structure, creating a synthesized excitation comprising a plurality of waves having various frequencies within a defined range of frequencies, applying the synthesized excitation to a base of the modeled structure, and generating response data indicative of a natural frequency of the modeled structure that is based upon the application of the synthesized excitation.
US11704451B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to generating a wiring schema with more than one safety device sharing at least one test signal through one or more external terminal blocks when the number of terminals required by safety devices exceeds the number of available terminals of a safety controller. In an illustrative example, the method may include determining a total number of terminals A of safety devices to be connected to a safety evaluation device having a number of terminals B. If A is greater than B, the method may then include generating a wiring schema that one or more external terminal blocks may show indicia of electrical connections between an identified set of safety devices and a shared terminal of the safety evaluation device associated with that set. Various embodiments may advantageously expand a number of devices to be connected to the safety evaluation device.
US11704446B2
An end-user computing device can include a theft detector that maintains a registered host device list containing identifiers of at least one registered host device. The theft detector can have root access to operations of the end-user device and the theft detector can provides a secure reboot request in response to detecting a possible theft condition. The end-user computing device can also include a boot loader that executes a secure reboot of the end-user device in response to a secure reboot request from the theft detector. The secure reboot of the end-user device resets the end-user device to prevent access to the end-user device.
US11704437B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
US11704427B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for providing data loss prevention via an embedded browser. An interprocess communication (IPC) manager may interface with an embedded browser to control the transfer of data from a first application to a second application in accordance with a policy. The IPC manager may detect a command to store data accessed on the first application via the embedded browser and store the data onto a secure container. The secure container may be dedicated to the embedded browser. The IPC manager may subsequently detect a command to retrieve data from the secure container and to replicate the data onto the second application. The IPC manager may determine a policy to apply to the data. The policy may specify whether the data from the first application is permitted to be replicated onto the second application. The IPC manager may subsequently replicate the data on the second application.
US11704418B2
Fingerprint encryption method and device, fingerprint decryption method and device, storage medium and terminal are provided. The fingerprint encryption method includes: acquiring a fingerprint image; dividing the fingerprint image into a plurality of block images according to a preset window, wherein a size of the block image is the same with a size of the preset window; determining identifiers of the plurality of block images, wherein the identifiers of the plurality of block images have a first preset order; and determining, according to the identifiers of the plurality of block images and a received encryption order, a plurality of encrypted block images to obtain an encrypted fingerprint image. Security of fingerprint storage or fingerprint transmission is enhanced.
US11704413B2
A computer-implemented method for assessing latent security risks in Kubernetes clusters is provided including selecting a service account from a plurality of service accounts defined in namespaces of a cluster, binding a role to the selected service account based on predetermined role-binding data, and determining if the role meets at least one of a first, second, and third conditions based on predetermined role data defining permitted operations for roles, the first condition being that the role can receive secret tokens for pods within a namespace of the namespaces, the second condition being that the role can perform execution operation to other pods, and the third condition being that the role can create DaemonSet, Deployment, StatefulSet, and additional pods on the namespace.
US11704403B2
Input data for an operating system command of an automation process is received. The operating system command is generated based on the received input data. The generated operating system command is parsed to identify one or more metrics. The identified one or more metrics are automatically evaluated to determine a security risk associated with the generated operating system command.
US11704398B1
A real-world object-based method and system of performing an authentication of a person in order to permit access to a secured resource is disclosed. The system and method are configured to collect image data from an end-user in real-time that includes objects in their environment. At least one object is selected and its image data stored for subsequent authentication sessions, when the system can determine whether there is a match between the new image data and image data previously collected and stored in a database. If there is a match, the system verifies an identity of the person and can further be configured to automatically grant the person access to one or more services, features, or information for which he or she is authorized.
US11704393B2
A user, using a user-computing device connected to a computer network, is authenticated to access a computing resource managed by a system on the computer network. The user computing device presents a user interface to prompt the user to input a value for each of a set of user-defined credentials that the user has previously defined for a SAIF server to authenticate the user to access the computer resource, thereby forming a set of input values. Modified values, each generated from and representing a corresponding one of the input values, are transmitted and validated by comparing them with corresponding modified forms of user-defined credential values stored in a memory, thereby determining whether the user is authenticated to access the computing resource on the system.
US11704391B2
In some examples, a system includes storage storing a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model comprises a plurality of layers comprising multiple weights. The system also includes a processing unit coupled to the storage and operable to group the weights in each layer into a plurality of partitions; determine a number of least significant bits to be used for watermarking in each of the plurality of partitions; insert one or more watermark bits into the determined least significant bits for each of the plurality of partitions; and scramble one or more of the weight bits to produce watermarked and scrambled weights. The system also includes an output device to provide the watermarked and scrambled weights to another device.
US11704386B2
Herein are feature extraction mechanisms that receive parsed log messages as inputs and transform them into numerical feature vectors for machine learning models (MLMs). In an embodiment, a computer extracts fields from a log message. Each field specifies a name, a text value, and a type. For each field, a field transformer for the field is dynamically selected based the field's name and/or the field's type. The field transformer converts the field's text value into a value of the field's type. A feature encoder for the value of the field's type is dynamically selected based on the field's type and/or a range of the field's values that occur in a training corpus of an MLM. From the feature encoder, an encoding of the value of the field's typed is stored into a feature vector. Based on the MLM and the feature vector, the log message is detected as anomalous.
US11704385B2
A method for traffic light auto-labeling includes aggregating vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) traffic light signals at an intersection to determine transition states of each driving lane at the intersection during operation of an ego vehicle. The method also includes automatically labeling image training data to form auto-labeled image training data for a traffic light recognition model within the ego vehicle according to the determined transition states of each driving lane at the intersection. The method further includes planning a trajectory of the ego vehicle to comply with a right-of-way according to the determined transition states of each driving lane at the intersection according to a trained traffic light detection model. A federated learning module may train the traffic light recognition model using the auto-labeled image training data during the operation of the ego vehicle.
US11704381B2
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.
US11704379B2
In some implementations, a subscriber to an online content management system can share content items that are external to the subscriber's content library. A computing device can include managed content items associated with the subscriber's content library. The computing device can include unmanaged content items that are stored externally to the subscriber's content library. The subscriber can provide input associated with an unmanaged content item to generate a link (e.g., URL, file path, location reference, etc.) for the unmanaged content item. When generating the link, the unmanaged content item can be uploaded to the online content management system and stored separately from the subscriber's content library. The generated link can be shared with recipient user (e.g., subscriber or non-subscriber). The generated link can be used by the recipient to access the unmanaged content item uploaded to and stored by the online content management system.
US11704373B2
The methods and systems described herein improve upon existing deep linking concepts, by creating links directed to a feature registry which may then serve the user's need of selecting and accessing a given feature. The feature registry may provide customized features that may populate a feature template in a user interface (e.g., of a feature registry application) on a local device. This population may occur in both a real-time (e.g., based on a continuously updated machine learning model) and modular fashion. For example, the system and methods may generate customized content on a website or mobile application through a hyperlink by filtering available features on a feature registry based on the identity of the user, the information from the user profile, and the description of the hyperlink content.
US11704370B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a feature configuration for a feature. Next, the system obtains, from the feature configuration, an anchor containing metadata for accessing the feature in an environment. The system then uses one or more attributes of the anchor to retrieve one or more feature values of the feature from the environment. Finally, the system provides the one or more feature values for use with one or more machine-learning models.
US11704367B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a system to provide an interface that is dynamic and that provides selectable links in response to a query for products in an electronic marketplace, where the selectable links are titled with the query and portions of reviews for products associated with the query. The system is configured to select feedback for items purchased from an electronic marketplace. Descriptors from the feedback are generated. In response to a query for the one or more of the items in the electronic marketplace, a determination is made that portions of the descriptors provide detail responsive to the query. An interface is displayed including selectable links titled with the query in combination with the portions of the descriptors. In response to selection of one of the selectable links, a portion of the items are displayed.
US11704363B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for generating highly scalable temporal graph databases. In one embodiment, a novel architecture is presented that enables the identification of mutation or changes in graphs. For the identification a combination of graph-based modeling and journal entry is used. Events occurring are consumed and changes are ingested, transformed for use by a graph simulation system. The changes are journaled using a vertex centric temporal journaling schema.
US11704360B2
Embodiments provide an apparatus for providing a fingerprint of an input signal, wherein the apparatus is configured to determine intensity values for a plurality of time-frequency regions of the input signal, wherein the apparatus is configured to compare the intensity values associated with different time-frequency regions of the plurality of time-frequency regions, to obtain individual values of the fingerprint based on the comparison of intensity values associated with two time-frequency regions.
US11704353B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are disclosed to interface with one or more storage devices storing a plurality of documents, wherein each of the plurality of documents is associated with one or more tags of one or more predefined hierarchies of tags, wherein the one or more hierarchies of tags include multiple dimensions. In accordance with some embodiments, a method is provided to identify one or more documents from the data storage devices. The method comprises acquiring, via an interface, a selection of one or more tags of the one or more predefined hierarchies of tags. The method further comprises identifying one or more documents from the data storage devices in response to the selection, the identified one or more documents having tags that have a relationship with the selected tags, and providing data corresponding to the identified documents for displaying in the interface.
US11704348B2
A method for outputting a search result includes: executing a reception process that includes receiving a search query for target data; executing a candidate item identification process that includes referring to index information associating each of a plurality of items included in the target data with a position of a corresponding one of the items, and identifying a first storage area configured to store an item corresponding to a keyword included in the search query; and executing an addition process that includes when a description included in the corresponding one of the items includes a reference to a different item, referring to the index information, and adding information on a second storage area configured to store the different item to the reference to the different item.
US11704333B2
A computer-implemented method, apparatus and program product use the spatial locations of words identified in an unstructured document to both reconstruct lines in the unstructured document and vertically partition the unstructured document. Key/value pairs may then be generated from one or more of the reconstructed lines by using one or more words to one side of the vertical partition as keys and using one or more words to the other side of the vertical partition as values.
US11704330B2
An electronic device displays a chart, which includes a first set of visual marks that represent values derived from a set of data. The device concurrently displays a chart-calculations-options area. The chart-calculations-options area displays a first plurality of options for type of calculation. The device detects user selection of (i) a first option, from the first plurality of options, for type of calculation and (ii) a second option corresponding to a parameter for the selected first option. In response to detecting the user selection, the device visually distinguishes visual marks in a second set of visual marks in the chart. The second set of visual marks is distinct from the first set of visual marks and corresponds to the first option for type of calculation and the second option corresponding to the parameter for the selected first option.
US11704325B2
Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for automatically clustering and canonically identifying related data in various data structures. Data structures may include a plurality of records, wherein each record is associated with a respective entity. In accordance with some embodiments, the systems and methods further comprise identifying clusters of records associated with a respective entity by grouping the records into pairs, analyzing the respective pairs to determine a probability that both members of the pair relate to a common entity, and identifying a cluster of overlapping pairs to generate a collection of records relating to a common entity. Clusters may further be analyzed to determine canonical names or other properties for the respective entities by analyzing record fields and identifying similarities.
US11704323B2
A search request for content can be initiated by a user, and the content that is relevant to the search request can be identified and presented in a manner that indicates the content's trustworthiness or relevancy. The identified content can be ranked based on the number of times the content has been referenced as well as by source that referenced the content. The relevant identified content can then be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered based on the number of times the content has been referenced. In some cases, the order may be modified by the authority of the source.
US11704319B1
A computing device receives user selection of a data source. The computing device receives a user input to specify a level of detail (LOD) expression, which includes a first keyword, a SORT keyword, and an analytic expression. In response to the user input, the computing device identifies one or more data fields from the data source. The device translates the LOD expression into one or more executable database queries referencing the identified data fields. The computing device executes the queries to retrieve data from the data source. The computing device generates and displays a data visualization using the retrieved data.
US11704315B1
Disclosed are techniques for trimming large clusters of related records. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a set of clusters, each cluster in the clusters including a plurality of records. The method extracts an oversized cluster in the set of clusters and performs a breadth-first search (BFS) on the oversized cluster to generate a list of visited records. The method terminates the BFS upon determining that the size of the list of visited records exceeds a maximum size and generates a new cluster from the list of visited records and adding the new cluster to the set of clusters. By recursively performing BFS traverse over the oversized cluster and extracting smaller new clusters from it, the oversized cluster is eventually partitioned into a set of sub-clusters with the size smaller than the predefined threshold.
US11704300B2
Apparatus and methods for managing provision of digital content within a content distribution network. In one embodiment, a content application manager (CAM) process is used to provide one or more centralized redirection functions for network client processes such as just-in-time (JIT) packagers and cloud digital video recorders (cDVRs). A local database accessible to the CAM is updated with “live” or other content storage locations within the network, and accordingly each of the client processes can be made simpler and not require any intrinsic knowledge of content asset storage locations. This simplifies the client process configuration, enhances performance in terms of reduced end-user request servicing latency, and allows for single-point automated database updates versus having to provide updates to each client process as under the prior art.
US11704299B1
Fully managed repository to create, version, and share curated data for machine learning development
Techniques and technologies for providing a fully managed datastore for clients to securely store, discover, retrieve, remove, and share curated data, or features, to develop machine learning (ML) models in an efficient manner. The feature store service may provide clients with the ability to create and store feature groups that include features and associated metadata providing clients with a quick understanding of features so that they may determine which features are suitable for training ML models and/or use with ML models. The feature store service may provide first a data store configured to store the most recent values associated with a feature group, such that client can access the features and utilize ML models to make real-time predictions with low latency and high throughput, and a second datastore configured to store historical values associated with a feature group, such that a client can utilize the features to train ML models.
US11704289B2
Provided are techniques for role reversal of primary and secondary sites with minimal replication delay. During a backup phase, an Input/Output (I/O) operation selected from a group comprising a create operation and a rename operation is received with one or more local attributes of a local file. The I/O operation is processed to generate one or more remote attributes. The one or more local attributes are stored with the one or more remote attributes. During a reversed phase, a write operation for the remote file is processed, and, the write operation is sent to the primary replication system with the one or more local attributes, where the primary replication system uses a local file handle in the one or more local attributes to access the local file for processing the write operation to sync the local file with the remote file.
US11704288B2
An aircraft computer file distribution system comprises a store (36) of aircraft computer files for loading into at least one aircraft device (12) that is onboard, mobile or replicated on the ground. The system includes a file manager (44), configured for identifying an aircraft configuration of the aircraft with which the aircraft device (12) is associated and a computer configuration of the aircraft device (12); defining, among the computer files in the computer file store (36), at least one computer file loadable into the aircraft device (12) according to the identified aircraft configuration and computer configuration; and activating a synchronization for remote distribution of at least one computer file to be loaded into the aircraft device (12) selected from the one or more computer files loadable into the aircraft device (12) based on the identified aircraft configuration and computer configuration.
US11704285B1
A data intake and query system establishes a network connection with an instrumented target system. The instrumented target system collects metrics in accordance with an instrumentation platform, whereby the instrumentation platform defines an instrumentation platform query. The metrics are stored in the data intake and query system. A data intake and query system query for a subset of metrics is transmitted. The data intake and query system query replicates the instrumentation platform query of the instrumentation platform. From the data store, log data for the instrumented target system, and correlated with the metrics to obtain correlated results.
US11704283B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to generate a preview image used for previewing content data, present a reason why there is no preview image, in a case where an operation related to display of the preview image is received for the content data which does not have the preview image, and allow reception of a preview image creation instruction from a user, for content data which does not have the preview image and satisfies a first condition.
US11704275B2
A device connected by a link to a host system can include a first port to receive a capability configuration message across a link and a message request receiving logic comprising hardware circuitry to identify a capability of the device identified in the capability configuration message, determine that the capability is to be presented or hidden from operation based on a capability hide enable bit in the capability configuration message, and configure a capability linked list to present or hide the capability based on the determination. The device can also include a message response generator logic comprising hardware circuitry to generate a response message indicating that the capability is to be presented or hidden from operation. The device can include a second port to transmit the response message across the link.
US11704260B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to a memory controller, such as a host memory controller. An example apparatus can include a host memory controller coupled to a first memory device and a second memory device via a channel, wherein the host memory controller is configured to send a first number of commands to the first memory device using a first device select signal, and send a second number of commands to the second memory device using a second device select signal.
US11704258B2
A method can include: receiving, in a memory device, a read request from a host device that is coupled to the memory device by an interface; decoding an address of the read request that is received from the interface; decoding a command of the read request to determine whether the read request is for an aligned address operation; maintaining the decoded address without modification when the read request is determined as being for the aligned address operation regardless of an actual alignment of the decoded address; and executing the read request as the aligned address operation on the memory device by using the decoded address.
US11704256B2
An example memory subsystem includes a memory component and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory component. The processing device is configured to receive a plurality of logical-to-physical (L2P) records, wherein an L2P record of the plurality of L2P records maps a logical block address to a physical address of a memory block on the memory component; determine a sequential assist value specifying a number of logical block addresses that are mapped to consecutive physical addresses sequentially following the physical address specified by the L2P record; generate a security token encoding the sequential assist value; and associate the security token with the L2P record.
US11704251B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for using a banked memory structure with accelerators. The devices and methods may segment and isolate dataflows in datapath and memory of the accelerator. The devices and methods may provide each data channel with its own register memory bank. The devices and methods may use a memory address decoder to place the local variables in the proper memory bank.
US11704249B2
Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided. The controller may receive a prefetch request to retrieve data for a host having a promoted stream. The controller may access a frozen time table indicating hosts for which data has been prefetched and frozen times associated with the host and other hosts. The controller can determine whether the host has a higher priority over other hosts included in the frozen time table based on corresponding frozen times and data access parameters associated with the host. The controller may determine to prefetch the data for the host in response to the prefetch request when the host has a higher priority than the other hosts. The controller can receive a host read command associated with the promoted stream from the host and provide the prefetched data to the host in response to the host read command.
US11704247B2
Data is stored at a cache portion of a cache memory of a memory sub-system responsive to a request to perform a write operation to write the data. A duplicate copy of the data is stored at a write buffer portion of the cache memory. The cache memory is partitioned into the cache portion and the write buffer portion. An entry that maps a location of the duplicate copy of the data stored at the write buffer portion of the cache memory to a location of the data stored at the cache portion of the cache memory is recorded in a write buffer record.
US11704246B2
A memory system for maintaining data consistency and an operation method thereof are provided. The operation method includes: receiving a first data in a first cache of a first memory from a processor; reading the first data from the first cache and writing the first data as a redo log into a log buffer of the first memory; writing the redo log from the log buffer into a memory controller of the processor; performing an in-memory copy in a second memory to copy a second data as an undo log, wherein the second data is an old version of the first data; and writing the redo log from the memory controller into the second memory for covering the second data by the redo log as a third data, wherein the redo log, the third data and the first data are the same.
US11704244B2
A computer-implemented method for synchronizing local caches is disclosed. The method may include receiving a content update which is an update to a data entry stored in local caches of each of a plurality of remote servers. The method may include transmitting the content update to a first remote server to update a corresponding data entry in a local cache of the first remote server. Further, the method may include generating an invalidation command, indicating the change in the corresponding data entry. The method may include transmitting the invalidation command from the first remote server to the message server. The method may include generating, by the message server, a plurality of partitions based on the received invalidation command. The method may include transmitting, from the message server to each of the remote servers, the plurality of partitions, so that the remote servers update their respective local caches.
US11704230B2
In some examples, a system processes event data and video frames produced by a program during execution of the program, the event data representing user actions with respect to a graphical user interface (GUI) of the program. The system identifies an area of the GUI that corresponds to a respective user action of the user actions, wherein identifying the area of the GUI uses a first video frame before an event corresponding to the respective user action, and a second video frame after the event corresponding to the respective user action. The system identifies, based on the identified area, a test object representing a user interface (UI) element, and generates a test script for testing the program, the test script including the test object.
US11704229B1
Techniques for auto-intrusive data pattern and test case generation for negative service testing are described. A test engine obtains negative test information specifying negative test input examples or schemas associated with tests that are expected to fail. A test generator generates multiple test cases based on the negative test information. A test execution orchestrator splits each test case up into actions that are inserted into queues, where workflow execution agents perform the tests by reading from the queues and interacting with services. The tests may also include adjusting a rate of transactions allowed between top-level services and/or downstream services. Results from the testing are analyzed by a test analysis engine and used to inform the services or the test originator of test cases where the expected failures did not arise.
US11704214B2
A system and methods for contact center fault diagnostics, comprising a diagnostic engine and test cases used for testing components and services in a contact center, designed to operate on a contact center with a specified test campaign, allowing a contact center's various services and systems to be tested either internally or externally in an automated fashion with specified testcases being used to specify the format and expectations of a specific test, with reports of failures and points of failure being made available to system administrators.
US11704207B2
Systems and methods are described for a non-disruptive planned failover from a primary copy of data at a primary storage cluster to a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage cluster without using an external mediator. According to an example, a planned failover feature of a multi-site distributed storage system provides an order of operations such that a primary copy of a first data center continues to serve I/O operations until a mirror copy of a second data center is ready. This planned failover feature improves functionality and efficiency of the distributed storage system by providing non-disruptiveness during planned failover without using an external mediator based on a primary storage cluster being selected as an authority to implement a state machine with a persistent configuration database to track a planned failover state for the planned failover.
US11704206B2
A host is configured to communicate with a storage controller over a first storage area network. A request is transmitted from the host to the storage controller to provide read diagnostic parameters of a second storage area network that is used to mirror data controlled by the storage controller to another storage controller. The host receives the read diagnostic parameters of the second storage area network from the storage controller.
US11704203B2
Replication of a filesystem or a mount point or share may replicate all data that it consists of irrespective of where the data is stored. Replication protects data irrespective of location. One method is to replicate the filesystem namespace as is while skipping the data outside of the appliance/machine so that replication cost and time are reasonable. The data outside of the machine, like cloud/tape data is protected differently. One example method includes a data protection operation configured to replication a namespace associated with multiple data tiers. During replication, data from one of the tiers is skipped while all of the namespace metadata is replicated. The recovery restores the namespace metadata and the data that was replicated from the other tier. This may be performed in connection with cyber security, for example when replicating multi-tier data to a vault.
US11704197B2
A computing device includes a hardware switch that is activated when a primary Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) of a first BIOS chip of the device fails to load an Operating System (OS) image from an OS partition of a hard drive. The switch passes control to a backup BIOS that executes from a backup BIOS chip. The backup BIOS loads a recovery image from BIOS recovery partition of the hard drive, which causes a reflash application to execute from the recovery image. Reflash application obtains a recovery BIOS from the BIOS recovery partition of the hard drive, reflashes/writes the recovery BIOS onto the first BIOS chip and reboots the device. Following reboot of the device, recovery BIOS loads the OS image from the OS partition, and recovery BIOS becomes the primary BIOS on the first BIOS chip of the device.
US11704189B1
Methods and systems for autonomous computing comprising processing historical data to analyze a past performance, collecting data from a plurality of connected devices over a network, synchronizing the collected data from the plurality of connected devices with the processed historical data. Based on the synchronized data, methods and systems disclosed include detecting an alert (error/fault) condition in one or more of the plurality of connected devices, based on the detected alert condition, triggering the delivery of the detected alert condition to an automated network operations center (NOC), and matching the determined alert condition to a historical alert condition by the network operations center. Based on the matching, methods and systems include determining a corrective action, and based on the determined corrective action, assigning a virtual self-healing module from a plurality of virtual self-healing modules. Finally, a trigger to performance of the determined corrective action by the assigned virtual self-healing module is initiated.
US11704186B2
Storage management is performed. For example, a computing device may determine that a fault belongs to one of a plurality of predefined fault categories based on description information of the fault of a storage system. Then, the computing device may determine at least one fault cause associated with the fault category at a first level of a hierarchical structure of predetermined fault causes. Further, the computing device may determine a first fault cause that causes the fault among the at least one fault cause. After that, the computing device may determine a target fault cause at the deepest level that causes the fault based on the first fault cause. As a result, the root cause of a fault of a storage system may be accurately and efficiently determined, thereby providing the possibility of fundamentally eliminating the fault.
US11704182B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to maintaining a high availability (HA) database. In some embodiments, a computer system receives, from a plurality of host computers, a plurality of requests to access data stored in a database implemented using a plurality of clusters. In some embodiments, the computer system responds to the plurality of requests by accessing data stored in an active cluster. The computer system may then determine, based on the responding, health information for ones of the plurality of clusters, wherein the health information is generated based on real-time traffic for the database. In some embodiments, the computer system determines, based on the health information, whether to switch from accessing the active cluster to accessing a backup cluster. In some embodiments, the computer system stores, in respective clusters of the database, a changeover decision generated based on the determining.
US11704174B1
A system for predicting and automatically performing activities related to computer applications is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system is programmed to monitor user interactions with computer applications and detect use events that represent computer-related activities that can be sequentially performed based on information regarding the previous activity in the sequence. The system is programmed to create, for each use event, an action that indicates an activity performed using a computer application, use data being operated on by the computer application, and a timestamp. The system is programmed to then build a decision model for each activity that predicts the next activity with a probability. Subsequently, the system is programmed to detect a current use event, create a current action indicating the current activity, apply the decision model for the current activity, create the next action based on the application result, and automatically effect the next use event.
US11704172B1
In one implementation, systems and methods are provided for processing digital experience information. A computer-implemented system for processing digital experience information may comprise a central data location. The central data location may comprise a connector that may be configured to receive information belonging to a category from an information source; an event backbone that may be configured to route the information received by the connector based on the category; a translator that may be configured to transform the received information into a common data model; and a database that may be configured to store the received information. The event backbone may be further configured to send information to the connector from the event backbone and the database based on one or more criteria.
US11704171B1
In one implementation, systems and methods are provided for processing digital experience information. A computer-implemented system for processing digital experience information may comprise a central data location. The central data location may comprise a connector that may be configured to receive information belonging to a category from an information source; an event backbone that may be configured to route the information received by the connector based on the category; a translator that may be configured to transform the received information into a common data model; and a database that may be configured to store the received information. The event backbone may be further configured to send information to the connector from the event backbone and the database based on one or more criteria.
US11704166B2
Embodiments presented herein techniques for balancing a multidimensional set of resources of different types within a distributed resources system. Each host computer providing the resources publishes a status on current resource usage by guest clients. Upon identifying a local imbalance, the host computer determines a source workload to migrate to or from the resources container to minimize the variance in resource usage. Additionally, when placing a new resource workload, the host computer selects a resources container that minimizes the variance to further balance resource usage.
US11704165B2
A method makes container services persistently available. A computing device receives a request for implementation of a user job in a container environment, and assigns the user job to a compute runner agent of a plurality of compute runner agents to execute the user job. Each compute runner agent is associated with a compute container instance having a unique compute container identifier corresponding to the user job. A computing device assigns the user job to a balancer task to monitor progress of the user job, and assigns the user job to a storage agent to store artifacts associated with running the user job. A computing device receives a notification from the balancer task describing whether the runner agent is correctly running the user job. In response to the runner agent incorrectly running the user job, a computing device resurrects the user job in a new compute container instance.
US11704164B1
Various systems and methods are provided in which a replication process is initiated between a primary site and a recovery site, each having plurality of gateway appliances. Replication loads are evaluated for each given gateway appliance of the plurality of gateway appliances. If a determination is made that at least one gateway appliance of the plurality of gateway appliances is not overloaded, the plurality of gateway appliances are sorted based on replication loads respectively associated with each gateway appliance, and a determination is made as to whether a relative difference in replication loads between a gateway appliance having a highest replication load and a gateway appliance having a lowest replication load exceeds a difference threshold to determine whether the replication workloads between the gateway appliances should be rebalanced.
US11704160B2
At least one processor is configured to obtain measurement information comprising an indication of an amount of utilization of a hardware resource of a first server node by a plurality of processing groups and to determine that the amount of utilization of the hardware resource is above a threshold amount of utilization. The at least one processor is further configured to select a given processing group for redistribution based at least in part on the determination that the amount of utilization of the hardware resource is above the threshold amount and on an amount of utilization of the hardware resource by the given processing group. The at least one processor is further configured to determine that a second server node comprises enough available capacity of the hardware resource and to redistribute the given processing group to the second server node based at least in part on the determination.
US11704158B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media storing instructions for managing processing system efficiency. One of the methods includes obtaining data splitting a plurality of general-purpose processing units in a processing system into a high-priority domain and a low-priority domain, wherein the general-purpose processing units in the high-priority domain are assigned to perform one or more tasks comprising one or more high-priority tasks, and the general-purpose processing units in the low-priority domain are assigned to perform one or more low-priority tasks; and during runtime of the processing system, obtaining memory usage measurements that characterize usage of system memory by the high-priority domain and the low-priority domain; and adjusting, based on the memory usage measurements, a configuration of (i) the high-priority domain, (ii) the low-priority domain, or (iii) both to adjust utilization of the system memory by the general-purpose processing units.
US11704157B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for acquiring information. The method may include: acquiring cloud resource use information; comparing the cloud resource use information with a use rate threshold value, to obtain a comparison result; obtaining use state information of a cloud resource corresponding to the cloud resource use information according to the comparison result; and generating cloud resource state information based on the use state information.
US11704152B2
A method for scheduling tasks on a processor includes detecting, in a task selection device communicatively coupled to the processor, a condition of each of a plurality of components of a computer system comprising the processor, determining a plurality of tasks that can be next executed on the processor based on the condition of each of the plurality of components, transmitting a signal to an arbiter of the task selection device that the plurality of tasks can be executed, determining, at the arbiter, a next task to be executed on the processor, storing, by the task selection device, the entry point address of the next task to be executed on the processor, and transferring, by the processor, execution to the stored entry point address of the next task to be executed.
US11704151B2
A method, system, and computer program product to plan and schedule executions of various utility tasks of a utility command during a maintain window, the method including receiving a utility command. The method may also include identifying possible utility tasks used to execute the utility command. The method may also include determining preferred utility tasks. The method may also include calculating a degree of parallelism for the preferred utility tasks. The method may also include generating a utility execution plan for the utility command. The method may also include analyzing the utility execution plan against resource constraints of a time window and sub time windows of the time window. The method may also include generating a time window execution plan for each sub time window of the sub time windows. The method may also include updating the utility execution plan with the time window execution plans.
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Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamic job performance in secure multiparty computation (SMPC). The method may comprise receiving an SMPC query that indicates a processing job to be performed on a data input. The method may split the data input to generate a plurality of partial data inputs, based on parameters and the query type of the SMPC query. The method may generate a plurality of jobs to perform on the plurality of partial data inputs and determine a combined result of the processing job. The method may adjust the amount of worker processes in a worker pool based on at least one of: required computation, time of day, date, financial costs, power consumption, and available network bandwidth.
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Systems and methods are provided for suggesting reminders from content displayed on a mobile device. An example method may include analyzing content generated by a first mobile application and displayed on a display of a mobile device, and determining that the content suggests an event, the event including at least one entity. The method may also include providing an assistance window requesting confirmation for adding a reminder for the event in a second mobile application responsive to determining that the content suggests the event, and adding the reminder via the second mobile application responsive to receiving the confirmation. In some implementations the first mobile application is a messaging application.
