US09655031B2
In order to reduce a disruption of communication which occurs upon performing an active scan, an access point (10_2) includes an interface on DS side (100_2) which communicates with different access points (10_1 and 10_3) through distribution system (DS) media (30), and an interface on terminal side (200_2) which generates, when receiving from a terminal (20) not being in communication with the access point through a radio channel (CH2) a probe request frame (FR7) which is the one for scanning an access point capable of communicating with the terminal and which includes an address (A100_1) for the DS media (30) to identify the different access point (10_1) being in communication with the terminal (20), a response frame (FR8) addressed to the address (A 100_1) and responding to the probe request frame (FR7), and makes the interface on DS side (100_2) transmit the response frame (FR8) to the DS media (30).
US09655029B2
A system and method for authorizing access to a transmission station for a mobile device is disclosed. The mobile device can receive device extended access barring (EAB) configuration information in a broadcast control channel (BCCH) from a transmission station. The mobile device can bar the mobile device configured for EAB and having characteristics identified in the EAB configuration information for barring from accessing the transmission station. Alternatively, a system and method for barring a mobile device from accessing a transmission station is disclosed. The transmission station can receive from the mobile device a radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment request. The transmission station can configure a system information block (SIB) with extended access barring (EAB) configuration information. The transmission station can broadcast the SIB with EAB configuration information to the mobile device.
US09655026B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for distributing general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) traffic are disclosed. According to one exemplary method, the method occurs at a network node simulator configured to distribute GTP encapsulated data packets among a plurality of processors associated with the network node simulator. The method includes receiving a GTP encapsulated data packet associated with a user device, wherein the GTP encapsulated data packet includes a GTP header having a GTP related endpoint identifier indicating a processor among the plurality of processors associated with the network node simulator. The method also includes determining, using the GTP related endpoint identifier, the processor for processing the GTP encapsulated data packet. The method further includes sending, to the processor, the GTP encapsulated data packet for processing.
US09655025B1
It is identified that an attempted handover of a wireless device from a first access node to a second access node meets a failure criteria, where the attempted handover uses a handover initiation timer and a signal level modifier. A first signal level of the first access node, and a second signal level of the second access node, received at the wireless device at a time when the attempted handover was initiated are determined. At least one of the handover initiation timer and the signal level modifier is adjusted based on the failure criteria, the determined first signal level, and the determined second signal level.
US09654997B2
Method and sensor observation system (200), for reporting observations to data users (204) based on sensor data collected (2:1) from a network of sensors (202). A first observation report that originates from a sensor in the network, is provided (2:4) to a first data user and a rating with respect to quality of the first observation report is received (2:5) from the first data user. Rating information is then created (2:8) based on the received rating, and a second observation report originating from the same sensor and comprising said rating information is provided (2:10) to a second data user. The comprised rating information thus indicates reliability of the second observation report. Thereby, the second data user is enabled to estimate and use the second observation report depending on its reliability as indicated by the rating information.
US09654990B2
A method of co-ordinating communication between a plurality of base stations in a communication system, comprising designating timeslots where said base stations receive and/or transit co-ordination messages to each other. The system may be an autonomous cellular system and the timeslots may be regularly spaced.
US09654989B2
A method and apparatus for measuring a neighbor cell in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for measuring a neighbor cell by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving subframe information including a subframe pattern for neighbor cell measurement; performing synchronization acquisition from the neighbor cell; and performing measurement in a subframe corresponding to the subframe pattern, wherein the user equipment (UE) assumes that a signal required when the UE acquires synchronization from the neighbor cell is transmitted in a subframe corresponding to the subframe pattern.
US09654988B2
Add-on system and methods for spatial suppression of interference in wireless communication networks
A system for cancelling interference in a wireless network, the system comprising apparatus for computing and outputting at least N weighting vectors; and apparatus for cancelling interference from antennae outputs received by the system using the weighting vectors respectively by converting the weighting vectors into FIR filter coefficients and applying FIR filters corresponding to the FIR filter coefficients to derivatives of antennae outputs received by the system. The apparatus for computing and outputting weighting vectors may be operative by estimating a spatial signature while distinguishing interference spatial signature from desired signal spatial signature although both are received simultaneously.
US09654981B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for trusted communication among mobile devices are described. In some aspects, information is wirelessly transmitted from a first mobile device to a second mobile device. The information permits the second mobile device to detect proximity of the first mobile device. In some implementations, the information can be wirelessly transmitted by a proximity-activated wireless interface, such as, for example, a Near Field Communication (NFC) interface. In response to the information, the first mobile device receives a message and a first authentication value wirelessly transmitted from the second mobile device to the first mobile device. A second authentication value is generated at the first mobile device based on the message and the shared secret value. Integrity of the message is verified based on comparing the first authentication value and the second authentication value.
US09654977B2
Contextual information associated with a mobile device can be automatically acquired using various sensors on the device. Based on the contextual information and an access control policy associated with an application on the mobile device, a level of access to the application can be determined. An entity may be identified, authenticated and authorized to gain full access, varying degree of restricted access or no access to the application based on the access control policy. Different applications may be provided different levels of access based on the access control policy associated with each application.
US09654974B2
In a method for unlocking a screen of a mobile device, at least one user-specific number is set and stored into a storage unit of the mobile device. The user-specific number is read from the storage unit and displayed on the screen for selection by a user, when the screen is locked because of input of a wrong password. An unlocking request is transmitted to a terminal providing the selected user-specific number. The mobile device communicates with the terminal, and receives a confirmation message from the terminal, and the screen is unlocked according to the confirmation message.
US09654970B2
A WiFi roaming management method and device which redirect an HTTP request of a mobile terminal from an AP to an AC even though the AC and the AP do not exist in the same subnet, which redirects a source IP address for an HTTP request, after transferring, to an IP address of the AC, and which smoothly support a wireless Internet service in a distributed processing system according to a web authentication of the AC in a WiFi roaming method is provided. A terminal session management function and a traffic control function are separated by a premium AC (Access Controller) and a premium AP (Access Point) interworked with a tunneling method according to a CAPWAP protocol.
US09654962B2
A system and method for recognizing traffic generated from an authenticated a device roaming in a wireless local area network and related aspects are provided. An authentication server is arranged to authorize communications traffic originating from a wireless access point to use a roaming service, the traffic comprising an NAT translated IP address. The server first authorizes a WLAN roaming device, and then processes a meta-data message received from a WLAN access point in which the source address of the message comprises the source address of the roaming device at the WLAN access point. The server then determines, from the information provided in the meta-data message when it is received by the authentication server, which includes at this point a NAT translated source address in the meta-data message what the NAT translated source address of traffic from said authenticated roaming device will be. This enables the authentication server to authenticate internet-bound traffic having said NAT translated source address. In this way, all traffic generated by the roaming device whilst that NAT translated IP address is valid is automatically authorized to use a roaming service to access the internet.
US09654961B2
The present invention relates to a Method for a device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. Specifically, when a terminal, which is performing a device-to-device communication while performing channel hopping, additionally performs the device-to-device communication with a new terminal, a channel hopping period of the existing device to device communication is configured by same time intervals for channels and one time interval among the same time intervals is configured to be identical to a channel hopping period for discovering a new terminal.
US09654956B2
A method for determining a transmit power level in an electronic device and the electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes activating an emergency mode, determining a transmit power level based on a condition, and transmitting an emergency message, including information associated with a request for rescue, with the determined transmit power level.
US09654953B2
A method at a mobile device, including receiving, at the mobile device, an emergency alert message from a base station; determining a response is required for the emergency alert message; and sending the response to the base station.
US09654952B2
A mobile device determines that a communications tower is unresponsive to non-emergency wireless signals, and receives user input to select a recipient for an emergency message from a group of pre-registered recipients. The mobile device presents a group of pre-configured status indicators and receives user input to select a particular status indicator. The mobile device generates a text-based emergency message based on the selected recipient, the selected status indicator, location information for the mobile device, and a time stamp. The mobile device sends, to a message server that is different than the message recipient, the text-based emergency message. To determine a status of the message originator without requiring a connection between mobile devices, the intended recipient initiates a fetch message request to retrieve the text-based emergency message from the message server.
US09654950B2
Techniques control traffic transmissions to manage radio resource utilization. When content is being streamed to user equipment (UE) and is at least initially intended to be streamed in real time at a constant bitrate, a communication management component can determine whether the content being transmitted to the UE can be delayed, instead of being transmitted in real time. In response to determining that the content can be delayed, the communication management component can facilitate buffering data and periodically streaming the data to the UE in data bursts to reduce use of UE power and radio resources. When transmitting a visual image to a UE, the communication management component can adjust resolution of a visual image to correspond to screen dimensions of the UE based on information indicating screen dimensions of the UE that can be received from the UE.
US09654947B2
A line connection apparatus is disclosed. To hold a line, on-hook is set to a first terminal of a first person who holds the line to output voice of a second person for whom the line is held from the first terminal. First identification of the first person is recorded by corresponding to second identification of the second person. To set a lock, when the disconnection of the line being held is recognized, a connection condition to lock the line is acquired from the first person, for the first terminal to receive a re-connection request from a same second person who disconnects the line in a hold state. To control a connection in response to the re-connection request by the same second person, the first terminal is controlled to receive the re-connection request based on the first identification corresponding to the second identification indicated by the re-connection request.
US09654945B2
An electronic device (12) is capable of sending chat-style messages by instant message (IM) messaging and short message service (SMS) messaging. IM messaging is preferred, but a message will be sent by SMS messaging upon user authorization when IM messaging for the electronic device is not available. When IM messaging is not available for a message destination electronic device (14), the user of the electronic device will be notified that the transmission mechanism is SMS messaging and an attempt to wake-up IM messaging in the message destination electronic device will be made.
US09654944B1
An apparatus and method for sending video content to a mobile device is described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprising embedding a widget in a website, the widget generating a form. The form is provided when a user visits the website so as to execute the widget. The form includes a first field to enter a recipient phone number, a send selector, and one or more non-visible fields, the non-visible fields containing a content service provider identifier, and a video URL. A data packet is generated with the widget when the user selects the send selector, the data packet including the recipient phone number, the video URL, and the content service provider identifier. An encoded version of the data packet is sent to the content service provider and a video link message is sent to the recipient phone number.
US09654937B2
A method includes selecting a path for routing a data packet from a source node to a destination node in a vehicular ad hoc network, storing the data packet if the selected path is identified as a dead end, and establishing a communication link with a first node. The method also includes forwarding the data packet to the first node if a first distance between the first node and the destination node is less than a second distance between the source node and the destination node. More specific embodiments include sending a query for location information of the destination node, receiving the location information including two or more available paths from the source node to the destination node, and determining the path for routing the data packet is an optimal path of the two or more available paths.
US09654934B2
In an approach for determining an unauthorized device, a computer receives detection information from a computing device, wherein the detection information includes a broadcast transmission from one or more devices. The computer creates a state trajectory map based on the received detection information, wherein the state trajectory map identifies connections between at least the computing device and a first device of the one or more devices and the computing device and a second device of the one or more devices. The computer one or more anomalies within the created state trajectory map. The computer determines an unauthorized device based on the determined one or more anomalies.
US09654916B2
A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device by generating a hash value based on the identity of the tracking device. If the secondary device cannot resolve the hash value, the hash value can be provided to a tracking server, such as a cloud server, for resolving the hash value. Upon resolving the hash value, the tracking server can store a location of the tracking device in association with the identity of the tracking device. To preserve power, the secondary device can activate location-detection functionality (such as a GPS receive) only in response to the detection of movement of the tracking device, can obtain location information, and can de-activate the location-detection functionality upon providing the location information to the tracking server. The tracking server can associate one or both of a previous location and the current location information based on movement of the tracking device.
US09654911B2
An approach for providing location sharing via simulation is disclosed. A location sharing platform determines at least one location point associated with at least one device and at least one algorithm for determining at least one predicted route of the at least one device based, at least in part, on the at least one location point. The location sharing platform then causes, at least in part, a transmission of the at least one location point and the at least one algorithm to at least one other device for generating location tracking information.
US09654905B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide time-efficient and effective systems and methods for enabling near field communications (NFC) on electronic devices using one or more indicators. Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods that capture and utilize indicators such as, motion of the electronic device or of a user, electromagnetic wave signals, and audio signals to more easily establish an NFC link between a source computer system and a target computer system.
US09654896B2
A method and system for providing on-line services to a user from a services provider over a wireless cellular network. The cellular network is located between the user and the services provider, and a distributed computer system such as the Internet is located between the services provider and the cellular network for transmitting data between the services provide and the cellular network. In one embodiment, the services provider transmits software and operating characteristics over the distributed computer system to the cellular network, and the cellular network installs this software on one or more nodes of the network. When a user connects to the cellular network for services from the service provider, the network operates the software on the one or more nodes in accordance with the operating characteristics, to provide one or more services from this one or more nodes to the user from the service provider.
US09654895B2
Diffuse or spatially large audio objects may be identified for special processing. A decorrelation process may be performed on audio signals corresponding to the large audio objects to produce decorrelated large audio object audio signals. These decorrelated large audio object audio signals may be associated with object locations, which may be stationary or time-varying locations. For example, the decorrelated large audio object audio signals may be rendered to virtual or actual speaker locations. The output of such a rendering process may be input to a scene simplification process. The decorrelation, associating and/or scene simplification processes may be performed prior to a process of encoding the audio data.
US09654893B2
Provided herein is a multichannel sound recording array having an elongated body and a plurality of arms provided at fixed angles relative to a center position of a recording field to enhance sound localization in a surround sound recording.
US09654886B2
A connector-based link is suited to various signals and media for connecting a tube with a hearing instrument, which ensures a reliable mechanical hold, good connection and high tightness and in the process is easy to handle. This is achieved by a connector for a hearing instrument system including a housing which contains a number of connections, and a tube which contains a number of lines, which is embodied to detachably connect a number of lines of the tube to a number of connections of the housing, wherein the connections of the connector contain different spatial orientations. The fact that the connections each have a different spatial orientation brings about a mutual decoupling. As a result, the demands on dimensional stability of the various connections are advantageously reduced since the different connections are not closed in a shared, identical end position.
US09654878B2
An ear warming article that can be comprised of a C-shaped resilient band, an outer sleeve and a speaker or other electronic device is described. The outer sleeve is dimensioned to contain the resilient band, and includes two insulating, ear-receiving portions as well as a first opening through which the resilient band can be inserted or removed to yield an assembled or disassembled article, respectively. In a preferred embodiment, the article includes an electronic device having one or more speakers located at the ends of the resilient band; additional openings in the outer sleeve may exist for any control functionality associated with the electronic device(s). The outer sleeve can be comprised of a washable fabric material, particularly suitable as a means for interchangeable advertising (team logo, branding, etc.). In other embodiments, the ear warming article includes additional advertising and/or securing features.
US09654874B2
A method for feedback detection by an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a first microphone signal by a first microphone. A feedback loop includes the first microphone and a speaker. The method also includes receiving a second microphone signal by a second microphone that is outside of the feedback loop. A first signal based on the first microphone signal and a second signal based on the second microphone signal exhibit a higher correlation in presence of feedback and exhibit a lower correlation in absence of feedback. The method further includes determining a correlation based on the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal. The method additionally includes determining whether feedback is occurring based on the correlation.
US09654873B2
The present invention provides a microphone device capable of preventing a breakdown of a signal processor, which is provided in a circuit case, processing signals from a microphone unit accommodated in a unit case, and preventing production of noise in a state the unit case is detached from the circuit case. A microphone device 1 includes a unit case 3 accommodating a microphone unit 31, a circuit case 4 accommodating an input terminal receiving signals from the microphone unit, and a signal processor processing the signals input to the input terminal, the unit case 3 being detachably fixed to the circuit case 4, and a detector (38, 44) detecting the attachment or detachment between the unit case and the circuit case. The detector grounds the input terminal in response to the detection of the detachment of the unit case from the circuit case.
US09654864B2
A loudspeaker module includes a housing composed of a hollow spherical central section having a central cavity and a plurality of wing members extending from the spherical central section. Each of the plurality of wing members includes a wing member cavity in fluid communication with the central cavity of the spherical central section. A central driver mounting plate secures a low-frequency driver to an aperture formed in the spherical central section. A loudspeaker module may also include a mid-range/high-frequency driver where a full range of sound frequencies are desired.
US09654858B2
The present invention relates to an earset, comprising: a first earphone portion, which includes a first speaker for outputting sound signals or voice signals that are provided from an external device, and which can be inserted into a first external auditory canal of a user; a second earphone portion, which includes a first microphone for receiving inputted user voice signals that are provided through the external auditory canal of the user, and which can be inserted into a second auditory canal of the user; and a main body connected to each of the first and the second earphone portion. When the main body is wirelessly connected to the external device, the main body comprises; a signal transceiving portion for transceiving the signals with the external device; and a control portion for outputting via the first speaker the voice signals received from the external device through the signal transceiving portion.
US09654857B2
A mobile terminal according to the present invention, if it is determined that external power is being supplied through an external charging port, a controller controls the power supply unit to charge the cable-type battery by using the external power. If it is determined that the external power is not supplied, the controller controls the power supply unit to charge the main battery by using a cable-type battery embedded in an earphone.
US09654853B2
In one embodiment, a photonic switching fabric includes a first label detector configured to read a first optical label to produce a first detected label, where the first optical label corresponds to a first optical packet, and where the first optical label is in a control waveband and a switch controller configured to adjust a photonic switch in accordance with the first detected label. The photonic switching fabric also includes the photonic switch, configured to switch the first optical packet, where the first optical packet is in a payload waveband.
US09654850B2
To provide a wavelength multiplexing device and the like that can effectively identify whether impairment occurs at a location before or after a separation and switching module, a wavelength multiplexing device (100) is connected to one or more optical fiber line systems and to one or more optical transceiver systems and is disposed between the optical fiber lines and optical transceivers so as to input and output optical signals, and is provided with the following: first optical switches (12a-12c) that output an optical signal input from an optical line to an optical transceiver; second optical switches (12d-12f) that output an optical signal input from an optical transceiver to an optical fiber line; and a local optical loopback circuit (13) that feeds back and outputs an optical signal input from an optical transceiver (21-23) to that optical transceiver.
US09654845B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus and method thereof. The electronic apparatus includes a communication unit receiving content and additional information for the content, a signal processing unit signal-processing the content and determining the signal-processed contents into one of an audio signal and a video frame, and a processor determining a first keyword and a second keyword for the first keyword by using the additional information and generating summary content according to a plurality of video frames synchronized to a plurality of audio signal sections corresponding to at least one of the first keyword and the second keyword. As a result, the summary contents are able to be easily generated.
US09654844B2
A method comprises receiving content from at least one source, processing the content to identify an object in the content, assigning an identifier to the object based on the processing, permitting viewer selection of the object identifier, and providing additional information for presentation to a viewer of the content responsive to viewer selection of the object identifier. The content in some embodiments comprises live video from at least one live video source. For example, the content may comprise at least a portion of a panoramic video comprising a combination of multiple live videos from respective ones of a plurality of video sources. The panoramic video may be digitally cropped and scaled before a resulting version of the content is provided for presentation to the viewer. A plurality of different digitally cropped and scaled versions of the content from the panoramic video can be generated and made available to the viewer.
US09654841B2
Systems and methods are operable to distribute targeted assets to a plurality of media devices. An exemplary embodiment generates an asset file defined by an asset file time period, wherein target assets are selected for saving into the asset file when the intended initial presentation time of a target asset falls within the asset file time period of the asset file that is being generated. Then, the asset file is communicated to a plurality of media devices at a time in advance of the intended initial presentation times of a target assets of the asset file.
US09654835B2
A method for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG), an electronic device, and a computer readable medium are provided. After a guide enable signal is received, a program database is searched according to a current channel to obtain a current category corresponding to the current channel. The program database includes a plurality of categories, each category includes a plurality of channels, and each channel includes a plurality of programs. A program menu corresponding to the current channel is displayed according to a dependence relationship between the current category, the current channel, and the programs of the current channel in the program database.
US09654829B1
A system and method for communicating data includes a first server, a second server and a user network device that communicates a request for data to the first server. The first server communicates a first portion of data and a path to the second server. The user network device communicates a request for a second data portion using the path to the second server. The second server communicates the second data portion to the user network device. The user network device displays the first data portion and the second data portion.
US09654826B2
A system and method for providing awareness in a hospitality environment are presented. In one embodiment, a vertical and horizontal array of set-top boxes is provided and each set-top box includes an identification corresponding to the room in which the set-top box is placed. Each set-top box includes a wireless transceiver that periodically transmits an identification beacon that is received by a proximate wireless-enabled interactive device. The proximate wireless-enabled interactive device, in turn, broadcasts data packets including an indication of the strength of set-top box identification signals received. The broadcasts are received by a server via an array of wireless routers. The location of the proximate wireless-enabled interactive device is determined based on the signal strength information in the data packets.
US09654824B2
A system and method for using a controllable appliance to report an inoperable state of a controlling device. The appliance is caused to repeatedly determine, at a first predetermined timed interval, if a wireless notification signal, repeatedly transmitted by the controlling device at a second predetermined timed interval, has been received from the controlling device. When the wireless notification signal has not been received from the controlling device within the first predetermined timed interval, the appliance is caused to issue a status notification that the controlling device is in an inoperable state.
US09654823B2
A file generating method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a file generating method for generating an MP4 file, the file generating method including: step S11 of acquiring an original file made in a file format different from MP4; step S12 of acquiring a difference file including data that is not included in the original file; step S13 of acquiring a procedure file indicating a procedure for generating the MP4 file; and step S14 of generating the MP4 file by combining the data included in the difference file and data included in the original file in accordance with the procedure indicated in the procedure file.
US09654819B2
An exemplary computer-implemented media service system detects user input representative of a request by a user to flag a set of related media programs, monitors an availability of the media programs from a plurality of different presentation sources, determines when the user is likely to access each media program included in the set of related media programs, dynamically selects, based on the monitored availability of the media programs from the different presentation sources and on when the user is likely to access each media program included in the set of related media programs, a presentation source from the plurality of different presentation sources for each media program included in the set of related media programs, and provides the user with access to each media program included in the set of related media programs by way of a single user interface. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
US09654816B2
Synchronizing a video feed with internet content displayed on a second device is described. In some implementations, a first device (e.g., a set-top box) can receive a video stream, extract URLs from the video stream and transmit the URLs to a web server for storage. The web server can respond to requests from a web browser on a second device (e.g., a laptop, tablet computer, etc.) to get the URL associated with the video stream. The second device can use the URL to display internet content associated with the video stream.
US09654815B2
A method of handling advertisements in an adaptive bitrate stream is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an adaptive bitrate stream playlist listing chunk identifiers pointing to a plurality of media chunks, analyzing the playlist to find one or more advertising chunks, modifying the adaptive bitrate stream playlist with a client device when the client device has been set to skip advertisements by deleting chunk identifiers associated with advertising chunks from the playlist, retrieving and playing back media chunks according to the playlist, and setting a no-trick-play flag at the client device during playback of the one or more advertising chunks when the client device has not been set to skip advertisements, such that trick-plays through and over media chunks are allowed when the no-trick-play flag is not set and are not allowed when the no-trick-play flag is set.
US09654796B2
An apparatus for decoding an image, the apparatus including an entropy decoder configured to extract an intra prediction mode of a current block, and an intra prediction performer configured to determine a number of neighboring pixels located on a left side of the current block or an upper side of the current block, determine a location of one or more neighboring pixels, the intra prediction mode indicating a particular direction among a plurality of directions, the particular direction being indicated by using one of a dx number in a horizontal direction and a fixed number in a vertical direction, and the location of the one or more neighboring pixels being determined based on a shift operation.
US09654786B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for decoding an image, for decoding a bitstream including a plurality of layers. The image decoding method may comprise: a step of receiving and identifying dependency information indicating whether an upper layer is coded by the same coding method as a lower layer; and a step of recovering the image of the upper layer based on the identified dependency information. Thus, information indicating whether the information of the reference layer which the current layer refers to is encoded data or recovered value can be identified.
US09654779B2
A method, medium, and system encoding and/or decoding a moving picture. The moving picture encoding method may include selecting a prediction mode that is optimal for the macro blocks, which correspond to each other, of the color components of a current image based on the characteristics of a predetermined image, generating a predicted image for the current image according to the selected prediction mode, and encoding a moving picture using the predicted image. An optimal prediction mode can be adaptively applied to the macro blocks, which correspond to each other, of the color components, thereby increasing the moving picture's encoding and decoding efficiencies.
US09654773B2
When removing a block distortion occurring in a local decoded image, a loop filtering part 11 of an image coding device carries out a filtering process on each of signal components (a luminance signal component and color difference signal components) after setting the intensity of a filter for removing the block distortion for each of the signal components according to a coding mode (an intra coding mode or an inter coding mode) selected by a coding controlling part 1.
US09654759B2
A 3D video system transfers video data from a video source device (40) to a destination device (50). The destination device has a destination depth processor (52) for providing destination depth data. The source device provides depth filtering data including filter location data, the depth filtering data representing a processing condition for processing the destination depth data in a filter area of the video indicated by the filter location data. The destination depth processor (52) is arranged for processing, in dependence on the depth filtering data, the destination depth data in an area of the video indicated by the filter location data. The depth filtering data enables the rendering process to improve the quality of the depth data.
US09654743B2
According to one of aspects, an electronic device includes: a camera; a controller configured to determine whether a measured value of a healthcare device is included in an image captured by the camera; and a communication unit configured to transmit information related to the measured value to an information providing device when the measured value is included in the image.
US09654735B2
An ad is placed in a movie, by analyzing inherent characteristics of the movie, analyzing viewed characteristics of the movie, analyzing viewer characteristics of a viewer of the movie, obtaining advertiser preferences for placement of the ad in the movie, determining costs of placing the ad in the movie based on the inherent characteristics of the movie, the viewed characteristics of the movie, the viewer characteristics and the advertiser preferences, and placing the ad in the movie in accordance with the inherent characteristics of the movie, the viewed characteristics of the movie, the viewer characteristics, the advertiser preferences and the determined costs.
US09654732B2
The technology disclosed further relates to distribution of live streaming sources during a video collaboration session. In particular, it relates to receiving or placing an outside call from or to at least one remote limited participant to be joined with an ongoing video collaboration session on a display wall that combines multiple live streaming sources, locating a template that identifies at least one live streaming source selected from the ongoing video collaboration session to transmit to the remote limited participant, and causing a copy of the selected live streaming source to be directed to the remote limited participant upon connection to the ongoing video collaboration session.
US09654730B2
A communication terminal receives display data for displaying certain data on a screen of a display device and image data of an optical-to-electrical-converted image from another communication terminal via a communication network, includes a storage part storing reception information indicating whether the display data has been received by the communication terminal and arrangement information indicating at least one of a size and a position of the image based on the image data, in a manner of associating with one another; a reception part receiving the display data and the image data; an extraction part extracting, based on the reception information, the corresponding arrangement information from the storage part; and a display control part displaying the image using the image data based on the arrangement information extracted by the extraction part.
US09654727B2
Techniques are disclosed for overcoming communication lag between interactive operations among devices in a streaming session. According to the techniques, a first device streaming video content to a second device and an annotation is entered to a first frame being displayed at the second device, which is communicated back to the first device. Responsive to a communication that identifies the annotation, a first device may identify an element of video content from the first frame to which the annotation applies and determine whether the identified element is present in a second frame of video content currently displayed at the first terminal. If so, the first device may display the annotation with the second frame in a location where the identified element is present. If not, the first device may display the annotation via an alternate technique.
US09654721B2
A system and method for providing personal content recommendations comprising a receiver to receive and collect one or more user commands at one or more modules, a processor to generate, at the one or more modules, one or more personalized recommendations based on the one or more user commands, and a transmitter to transmit the one or more personalized recommendations to be displayed at a display device in response to receiving one or more user inputs to display the one or more personalized recommendations.
US09654714B2
An active pixel sensor comprising: a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel includes a light sensitive element and a transfer gate, and the plurality of pixels have at least one floating diffusion region; and a plurality of processing circuits associated with the plurality of pixels; wherein each processing circuit comprises a charge amplifier.
US09654713B2
An image sensor includes at least one pixel with a transfer gate that is controllable among at least three biasing conditions, including a first biasing condition in which electrons are transferable from a photodiode to a potential well under the transfer gate, a second biasing condition in which the electrons are confined in the potential well under the transfer gate, and a third biasing condition in which the electrons are transferable out of the potential well under the transfer gate. The pixel includes a p+ type doped barrier implant located at least partially under a portion of the transfer gate, and a pinned charge transfer barrier located on the opposite side of the transfer gate from the photodiode that includes a p+ type doped region and an n-type doped region. The image sensor can operate in a global shutter mode and/or a rolling shutter mode.
US09654708B2
A semiconductor apparatus, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera system capable of reducing interference between signals transmitted through adjacent via holes, preventing an increase in the number of the via holes, reducing the area of a chip having sensors thereon and the number of mounting steps thereof. First and second chips are bonded together to form a laminated structure, a wiring between the first chip and the second chip being connected through via holes, the first chip transmitting signals obtained by time-discretizing analog signals generated by respective sensors to the second chip through the corresponding via holes, the second chip sampling the signals transmitted from the first chip through the via holes at a timing different from a timing at which the signals are sampled by the first chip and quantizing the sampled signals to obtain digital signals.
US09654695B2
An imaging device for performing inter-exposure zoom photographing in which a zoom operation is performed during an exposure period, comprising: a zoom control section that controls a zoom-lens driving section; a photographing control section that instructs photographing to an image sensor; and an operation control section that causes the zoom control section and the photographing control section to execute control at the same time so that the photographing control section causes the image sensor to perform continuous photographing in synchronization with controlling of the zoom control section by driving a photographing lens in a predetermined direction, the zoom control section causes the zoom-lens driving section to output the driving amount for operating the zoom driving in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction, and the photographing control section causes the photographing to be performed with a part of a zoom position during exposure overlapped.
US09654691B2
System for stabilizing a positioner of an equipment item, the positioner being oriented via an orientation command, and installed on a vehicle undergoing motions, the positioner including angular coders producing angular measurements and a set of gyrometric sensors producing measurements of rates of instantaneous rotation, and exhibiting biases, the positioner including a calculation unit with elements of intra-positioner slaving-correction of the instantaneous rates of rotation of the item using measurements and the orientation command to stabilize the item following the line of sight. The vehicle includes an element for measuring the attitude of the vehicle giving vehicle attitude measurements. The system includes calculation elements for controlling the positioner according to a control law to correct the biases by virtue of the vehicle attitude information and by implementing a state observer combining an estimation of attitude of an item and the measurements of rates of rotation of an item of equipment.
US09654690B2
An image stabilization apparatus includes a first filter, a second filter, and a signal selector configure to select as a correction signal for an image stabilization a signal obtained from an output of one of the first filter and the second filter which has a higher cutoff frequency, when the first filter has the third cutoff frequency or the second filter has the fourth cutoff frequency, and when a difference between a first output of the first filter and a second output of the second filter is larger than a threshold, and then to select as the correction signal a signal obtained from an output of the other of the first filter and the second filter which has a lower cutoff frequency.
US09654684B2
A focus adjustment device for carrying out focus adjustment by moving a focus lens, comprises a point light source determination section which determines a point-like light source subject based on the image signals, an orientation stability determination section which determines stability of orientation by detecting orientation of the focus adjustment device, a photometry section which outputs photometric values corresponding to subject brightness based on the image signals, and a focus adjustment section which carries out a focus adjustment operation using the image signals, based on a determination result of the point light source determination section, wherein the point light source determination section, in a state where a point-like light source subject is currently determined, when a determination result of the orientation stability determination section indicates unstable and a photometric value output from the photometry section does not indicate low brightness, determines that the subject is not a point-like light source.
US09654681B2
An electronic apparatus is described. The electronic apparatus includes: an image sensor including a plurality of image pixels and a plurality of focal point detection pixels; an auto-focus (AF) detection unit that detects an AF value based on a first focal point detection signal output from a first focal point detection pixel from the plurality of focal point detection pixels and a second focal point detection signal output from a virtual second focal point detection pixel corresponding to the first focal point detection pixel; and a control unit that generates image data based on an image signal output from the plurality of image pixels and the AF value detected by the AF detection unit.
US09654677B2
A case for a photographic device with a primary visual interface comprising a screen is disclosed. The case comprises a body, an optical viewfinder assembly having a top portion and a bottom portion, the bottom portion being recessed into the body, and the top portion configured to slide between a closed position, where a top plane of the top portion is substantially flush with a top of the body, and an open position where the top portion is above the top of the body, thereby exposing an aperture in the viewfinder assembly; and a track and a track guide in mechanical communication, wherein one of the track and the track guide is attached to the optical viewfinder, to permit the top portion of the optical viewfinder assembly to slide between the closed position and the open position.
US09654675B2
A field of view deviator apparatus for a camera lens housing on a personal communications device has a coupling that seats a removable element in a position adjacent to the camera lens and a field of view deviator prism that seats in the coupling and defines a path for image-bearing light from the subject scene to the camera lens having a first transmissive surface that is at a sufficiently oblique angle to the defined path of image-bearing light within the prism for total internal reflection, a second transmissive surface that is substantially at a normal to the defined path of incident image-bearing light within the prism; and a first reflective surface that folds the defined path of image-bearing light within the prism.
US09654669B2
A color processing apparatus includes an area group manager, a predictor, and a conversion relationship generator. The area group manager extracts, as an area group, a particular area on each page from image data in which one copy is constituted of multiple pages, and manages the area group in association with a page number. The predictor obtains color data of the image data output by an image forming section, and predicts a color variation on the basis of color data corresponding to the area group. The conversion relationship generator generates, on the basis of the color variation of the area group corresponding to a particular page number, a conversion relationship unique to the particular page number as a conversion relationship for performing color adjustment of the image forming section.
US09654663B2
Provided is a mobile terminal device that can prevent print data from being erased due to a battery exhaustion. This mobile terminal device have a battery as a power source, constructs print data (PD) from print target data stored in a volatile storage part to transmit to an image forming apparatus (IFA), and causes the IFA to execute printing of the PD. The mobile terminal device includes a non-volatile storage part, a battery residual amount detection part configured to detect a residual amount of the battery, and a print allowance/disallowance determination part configured to store, pursuant to a determination thereof, the PD in the non-volatile storage prior to a transmission of the print data based on the residual amount of the battery detected by the battery residual amount detection part, that no power required for transmitting the PD is ensured.
US09654658B2
An image reading apparatus includes: a housing; a first supporter having a document support surface; a cover switchable between a closed state for covering the support surface and a spaced state for exposing the support surface; a driving device for generating a driving force; a mover movable by the driving force; and an image reader supported by the mover to perform a reading operation. A controller obtains first information that changes depending upon change in a magnitude of a force acting on the support surface. The controller determines, based on the obtained first information, whether the driving device generates the driving force based on a first driving manner or a second driving manner different from the first driving manner, as a driving manner of the driving device. The controller controls the driving device to generate the driving force based on a determined driving manner.
US09654651B2
An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a first selection unit configured to select a workflow for executing at least one process with respect to data; an acquisition unit configured to acquire from a terminal, which includes an access function for accessing a storage service, authentication information used by the terminal upon using the storage service; and an instruction unit configured to instruct an execution of a communication process of exchanging the data with the storage service using the authentication information acquired by the acquisition unit in a case where the workflow selected by the first selection unit includes the communication process.
US09654650B1
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software for providing data quotas based a quota query load. In one example, a method of operating a communication system includes transferring a quota request for a wireless communication device from a packet data network gateway to an online charging server. The method further includes, in the online charging server, receiving the request, identifying a data quota based on a quota query load, and transferring the data quota to the packet data network gateway to be implemented for the wireless communication device.
US09654649B2
A predictive analytics model, that provides for overlaying indexing techniques and enriching the data with public domain and customer sentiment data to provide representation of a macroeconomic trend. Analysis of toll-free telecommunications data, such as call volume data to toll-free numbers owned by key federal agencies, month over month, may be used to develop an indicator of economic events, trends and correlates.
US09654646B2
A mechanism for a user equipment is described. The mechanism comprises allocating a secure memory area, wherein said secure memory area being inaccessible by a user of the user equipment; generating an charging identifier relating to proximity communication involving the user equipment; collecting proximity service charging data during the proximity communication; storing the charging identifier and the proximity service charging data in the secure memory area.
US09654640B1
In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by providing the inquiries to an independent group of experts. These experts are typically able to resolve the inquiry before the inquiries are routed to a traditional contact center. The customer service inquiries are routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. In some embodiments, more than one expert can contribute to the resolution of an inquiry.
US09654637B2
A system and method for managing interactions of a customer contact center. A contact center processor receives a request to reserve a contact center resource for handling an interaction. The processor also receives data about the interaction. The processor identifies a routing point for routing the interaction based on the received data. The routing point is associated with routing logic controlled by a customer instead of the contact center. The processor routes the interaction to the identified routing point for giving the customer control of the routing of the interaction.
US09654634B2
A system is provided for routing transactions to individual ones of a group of agents, comprising, a queue wherein transactions to be routed are placed, a transmission facility sending invitations to interact with a transaction from the queue to agents, and a router routing transactions from the queue to individual agents who accept the invitation.
US09654632B2
An apparatus, method and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating a graphical representation to motivate a plurality of employees in a call center are disclosed. For example, the apparatus includes a display comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each one of the plurality of pixels represents one or more of the plurality of employees, a computer-readable medium storing the graphical representation and a processor in communication with the display and the computer-readable medium, wherein the processor receives an indication from an endpoint device of one of the plurality of employees when the one of the plurality of employees achieves a call center objective and the processor causes a pixel of the plurality of pixels associated with the one of the plurality of employees to turn on in accordance with the graphical representation, wherein the graphical representation comprises a pixel art shape.
US09654631B2
An interactive voice response (IVR) system performs automatic language selection without requiring the caller to provide a manual language selection input. The IVR system receives an incoming call along with appropriate caller identification. The IVR system sends a request for the caller's language preference information either to the caller's device or to a service provider that hosts the caller's account. After receiving the caller's language preference information, the IVR system selects a language for the caller and provides an IVR menu tree using the selected language. The selected language is persisted as the caller's preferred language at either the IVR system or at a service provider for future use.
US09654624B2
The present disclosure discloses a method, a device, and a mobile terminal for performing automatic recording. The method comprises: obtaining content of an ongoing call; performing a recording operation on the content of the ongoing call, and saving a recording of the content of the ongoing call in a predefined region of a system ring buffer. The technical solutions provided in the present disclosure solve the problems of troublesome manual recording adjustments and excessive waste of system resources arising from recording valueless call content, thereby improving user experience.
US09654623B1
A data aggregation service is configured to minimize the number of service calls made to network services. The data aggregation service might be configured to cache objects returned in response to service calls to network services in a shared data object. A hash of the input values in the service calls to the network services may be utilized to determine whether an object referenced by the cache can be utilized instead of making another service call. The data aggregation service might also be configured to utilize change tracking to determine when calls are to be made to dependent services. The data aggregation service might also be configured to utilize data-specific time to live (“TTL”) values, to allow network services to specify the data they are interested in at a granular level, and/or to perform automated optimization of TTL values. Other optimizations might also be implemented by the data aggregation service.
US09654620B2
Systems and methods which detect unauthorized, impermissible, or otherwise undesired call activity through the use of one or more third party databases are shown. For example, a controlled environment facility information management system may access a database external thereto, such as a victim notification database, which is created and maintained by a third party unrelated to the controlled environment facility. Such third party database access may be accomplished at the point of call validation or caller verification for determining the treatment of the call (e.g., allowed, blocked, allowed with limitations, etcetera). Such call treatment determinations may be made with respect a particular prisoner or other resident of the controlled environment facility making the call, may be made with respect to all calls made from a particular controlled environment facility, may be made with respect to a group of controlled environment facilities, etcetera.
US09654617B2
Based on wireless communication between a mobile device and at least one beacon, a present physical location of a mobile device can be identified. Responsive to determining that the mobile device is located at a particular physical location, at least a first message can be communicated to the mobile device. The first message can specify at least one application to be disabled while the mobile device is present at the physical location. Responsive to receiving from the mobile device a response to the first message indicating that the at least one application is disabled, the mobile device can be authorized to establish presence on a network maintained for the physical location.
US09654615B2
The method and system according to embodiments of the present invention may enable drivers to drive safely while paying attention to the road, without taking their eyes off the road or touching the screen, and to hear and respond to received various text messages (include instant messages, messengers), in various manners such as, for example, sending a predefined text and/or voice message, calling the sender of the message, etc. Thus, for example, drivers may continue to be available to messages while not being tempted to look at their phone and/or to text-message while driving.
US09654611B2
A method and an apparatus comprising operating a processor of an apparatus as a first processor and/or as a second processor. The method at a first processor comprises recognizing the proximity of a second apparatus; recognizing a first user input and in response to the user input, sending an application share invitation to the second apparatus. The method at a second processor comprises recognizing the proximity of a first apparatus and in response to receiving an application share invitation from the first apparatus, displaying a security prompt for the user on the display.
US09654599B1
In one embodiment, a deployment server is communicatively coupled with many computing devices requiring updated system installations based on requirements of a session user of the computer devices. Upon booting, the computing devices send remote installation requests to the deployment server. The deployment server matches identification data of the computer devices with corresponding target installation profiles defined according to the requirements of the session user in an installation database. Identification data of a computing device comprises a programmable MAC address. Based on the target installation profiles, the deployment server causes remote installation instructions and files to be sent to the computer devices based on the corresponding target installation profiles. The many computing devices perform installation of heterogeneous operating systems, hypervisors, virtual machines, software and/or software license concurrently under direction of the deployment server based on the remote installation instructions and files. In another embodiment, the deployment server is PXE-compliant.
US09654590B2
A method and apparatus for providing labelling information to a third party regarding terminal users in a communication network. A labelling unit receives communication related data generated from executed communications of the terminal users, and fetches stored labelling rules which have been configured specifically for the third party. The labelling unit then converts the communication related data into labelling information, where a communication habits vector is determined by applying the fetched labelling rules on the received communication related data, and the labelling information is determined for the terminal user(s) based on the resulting communication habits vector. The determined labelling information is finally delivered to the third party.
US09654585B2
Improved methods and systems for granular opportunistic locking mechanisms (oplocks) are provided for increasing file caching efficiency. Oplocks can be specified with a combination of three possible granular caching intentions: read, write, and/or handle. An oplock can be specified with an identifier that indicates a client/specific caller to avoid breaking the original oplock due to an incompatibility from other requests of the same client. An atomic oplock flag is added to create operations that allow callers to request an atomic open with an oplock with a given file.
US09654575B1
In one embodiment, a first server receives a webpage request for a first webpage address of a first webpage served by the first server. The first webpage address is associated with a second webpage served by a second server. The first server includes tracking code within data for the first webpage to record webpage transaction information for the client device. The first server includes a timer function for the tracking code in the data for the first webpage. The first server provides the data for the first webpage to the client device that includes the tracking code and the timer function. The timer function causes the client device to render the second webpage in response to the tracking code receiving a successful tracking status notification or in response to the tracking code not receiving a successful tracking status notification within a threshold amount of time.
US09654573B2
A computer program product for accessing location-based information on a mobile device. The computer program product determines whether a default HTML including information of a location is available, in response to determining that a wireless network at the location is available. The computer program product determines geographical coordinates of the location and calculates a URL and the default HTML using the geographical coordinates, in response to determining that the wireless network at the location is not available and in response to determining that the default HTML is not available. The computer program product displays one or more pages created by the default HTML that is calculated. The computer program product displays the one or more pages created by the default HTML that is available, in response to determining that the default HTML is available.
US09654572B2
A profile-based system is employed to manage user identities and preferences, devices, content and/or other aspects of service delivery. The user profiles may be maintained in one or more servers or other elements located in an external network access via a customer premises equipment (CPE) gateway of a local network. The profiles can be used to map users to identities, devices, services, and other features that affect the manner in which a particular user communicates with (or through) the external network.
US09654571B2
A plurality of subscribers are registered to receive, from a publisher component, at client devices, via a broker component, at least one of messages and content pertaining to a first topic. Each of the subscribers is caused to generate one of N random numbers. A different one of the N random numbers is generated by each of the subscribers. Each of the subscribers is instructed to listen only for the messages and content pertaining to the first topic and corresponding to the corresponding one of the N random numbers. The at least one of messages and content pertaining to the first topic are published to those of the subscribers associated with each one of the N random numbers, number by number, until the at least one of messages and content pertaining to the first topic has been published to all of the plurality of subscribers.
US09654569B2
A method of communication in an internal network system on a local area network is disclosed, where the internal network system includes a host. The method includes finding a first slave on the internal network system of the local area network through a predetermined tool built in an operating system; utilizing a first predefined protocol to search for a second slave; utilizing a second predefined protocol to respond information of the second slave; receiving the information of the second slave; and transmitting the information of the second slave to the host.
US09654548B2
Installation of an application on a test bed machine is monitored to generate a streamed application set of a stream enabled version of the application. Execution of the application on the test bed machine is monitored to generate the streamed application set of the stream enabled version of the application. Stream enabled application pages and a stream enabled application install block to form the streamed application set is generated based on the monitoring of the installation of the application and the monitoring of the execution of the application on the test bed machine. The stream enabled application install block is provided to a client device. A request for a stream enabled application page of the stream enabled application pages is received from the client device. The stream enabled application page is provided to the client device for continued execution of the stream enabled version of the application.
US09654547B2
In the field of telecommunications technology, a method for enabling Hierarchical Architecture of device management gateways is applicable to a remote management system having a server and multiple devices that are connected through one or more gateways in multi-level Hierarchical Architecture of Gateways, with a tree structure. More specifically, the method enables a new functionality required for the OMA-DM Gateway MO (GwMO): support for Hierarchical Architecture of Gateways.
US09654543B2
A communication method includes, when a first communication packet transmitted from a first terminal which is deployed in a second physical machine group and included in a first segment is received, storing identification information of the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal, first transmitting the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal to the first network device based on path information included in the configuration information when the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal is a communication packet to a second terminal included in a second segment, when the first communication packet is transmitted from the first network device, and second transmitting the received first communication packet transmitted from the first network device to the second terminal and updating the path information so as to transmit a communication packet transmitted from the first terminal without passing through the first network device.
US09654540B2
Apparatus for performing load balancing among network servers connected to an internal IPv6 network. The apparatus comprises a first interface coupled to an external IPv4 or IPv6 network for receiving packets sent across the external network and an IP packet creator coupled to said first interface. This IP packet creator is configured, for each received packet at that interface, to select a network server to be allocated to the packet or identify an already allocated network server. The IP packet creator is further configured to create a corresponding IPv6 packet for transmission over said internal network to the selected or identified network server. The apparatus further comprises a second interface coupled to said internal IPv6 network for transmitting created IPv6 packets across the internal network towards respective selected or identified network servers.
US09654539B2
A method for multi-streaming multimedia content data over a network to affiliated client devices is provided. A manifest including a list of Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) for different segments of multimedia content data for selected primary multimedia content and a list of URIs for different segments of multimedia content data for at least one alternate multimedia content related to and different from the selected primary multimedia content is built and made available for download over the network with a transfer protocol. Synchronization of display of the selected primary multimedia content on a primary display and display of the at least one alternate content on the at least one auxiliary client device is thereby enabled. A system for streaming multimedia data over a network to affiliated client devices is also disclosed.
US09654514B1
A computer establishes normal activity levels of a factor associated with an application, system, network, or computing environment. The computer receives rules prescribing the trust levels assigned to users or devices during normal and abnormal activity levels exhibited by the factor. The computer monitors the activity level exhibited by the factor and determines whether the activity is normal or abnormal. If the computer determines that the factor is exhibiting abnormal activity, the computer modifies the trust level of associated users and devices according to the rules. The computer continues to monitor the activity of the factor until the computer determines that normal activity levels of the factor have returned, at which point the computer modifies the trust level of associated users or devices according to the rules.
US09654511B1
A cloud data protection system protects cloud data of an enterprise. A protection policy for the enterprise is established by an administrator of the enterprise. The protection policy describes one or more types of cloud data protection to provide to the enterprise's cloud data. The cloud data protection system examines the protection policy to identify cloud data associated with the enterprise to access in order to implement the policy, and uses a personality object to retrieve the identified cloud data from one or more cloud services. The cloud data protection system performs one or more protection actions on the retrieved cloud data. The protection actions can include scanning the cloud data for malicious software, for compliance with a data loss prevention policy, or for data matching a discovery specification. The protection actions can also include archiving or backing up the cloud data.
US09654510B1
The present disclosure relates to using signatures in a data loss prevention system. According to one embodiment, a DLP system identifies an occurrence of a data loss prevention (DLP) incident triggered by content and a DLP rule. The DLP system generates a first signature representing the DLP incident based on a specific pattern inherent to the content which triggered the DLP incident. The DLP system compares the first signature to one or more second signatures generated from other DLP incidents associated with the DLP rule. Upon determining the first signature matches at least one of the second signatures, the DLP system assigns an event status of the second matching signature to the first signature.
US09654509B2
An approach is provided for distributed policy management and enforcement. A policy manager determines one or more domains of an information system. The one or more domains are associated at least in part with respective subsets of one or more resources of the information system. The policy manager also determines one or more respective access policies local to the one or more domains. The one or more respective access policies configured to enable a determination at least in part of access to the respective subsets, the one or more resources, or a combination thereof. At least one of the one or more respective access policies is configured to operate independently of other ones of the one or more respective schemas.
US09654507B2
A cloud-based method, a system, and a cloud-based security system include receiving a request from a user for a cloud application at a proxy server; determining whether the user is authenticated based on a presence of cookies in the request; if the cookies are present, un-transforming the cookies by the proxy server and forwarding the request with the un-transformed cookies to the cloud application; and, if the cookies are not present, forwarding the request to the cloud application by the proxy server for authentication and transforming the cookies subsequent to the authentication prior to sending the cookies to the user.
US09654502B2
In one embodiment, a device (e.g., switch or registry) maintains a binding table for all internet protocol (IP) addresses in a particular subnet associated with the device, and in response to receiving a neighbor solicitation (NS) lookup message from a router for a particular address, determines whether the particular address is within the binding table. When the particular address is not within the binding table, the device causes the router to not store the particular address in a neighbor discovery (ND) cache at the router (e.g., by responding to clear the cache, or ignoring to prevent state from being created). In another embodiment, the ND-requesting router ensures that the particular address is not kept in an ND cache at the router in response to the device indicating that the particular address is not within its binding table (e.g., an explicit response to clear, or absence of instruction to store state).
US09654487B2
A method, product and computer program product for providing evolutionary selection of malware variants, the method including the steps of: receiving a malware specimen; generating a first generation of variants corresponding to the malware specimen; evaluating each variant of the first generation of variants for one or more evasiveness characteristics and one or more maliciousness characteristics; based on the evaluating, selecting variants of the first generation of variants for further mutation; and generating a second generation of variants from each of the selected variants.
US09654483B1
A technology is described for limiting the rate at which a number of requests to perform a network action are granted using rate limiters. An example method may include receiving a request for a token granting permission to perform a network action via a computer network. In response, rate limiters may be identified by generating hash values using hash functions and a network address representing a source network where the hash values identify memory locations for the rate limiters. The rate limiters may have a computer memory capacity to store tokens that are distributed in response to the request. Token balances for the rate limiters may be determined, and permission to perform the network action may be granted as a result of at least one of the token balances being greater than zero.
US09654482B2
In one embodiment, a validation server in a computer network determines that an edge router of the computer network has blocked access to a desired server address based on the edge router not having authentication information for the desired server address. In response, the server creates a white-listing policy to temporarily allow access to the desired server address at the edge router, and sends the white-listing policy to the edge router. The validation server may then proceed with performing server fetching operations to the desired server address from the validation server while the white-listing policy is in effect, and instructs the edge device to remove the white-listing policy once the server fetching operations are completed.
US09654464B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided that may include one or more operations. One of these operations may include, in response, at least in part, to a request to store input data in storage, encrypting, based least in part upon one or more keys, the input data to generate output data to store in the storage. The one or more keys may be authorized by a remote authority. Alternatively or additionally, another of these operations may include, in response, at least in part, to a request to retrieve the input data from the storage, decrypting, based at least in part upon the at least one key, the output data. Many modifications, variations, and alternatives are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US09654460B2
Methods, systems, and media for providing access control for a computing device are provided. In some implementations, methods for providing access control for a computing device are provided, the methods comprising: receiving a first request to authenticate the computing device from a first sender device; authenticating the computing device based at least in part on the first request; transmitting a session identifier and a session key to the first sender device; receiving an application identifier associated with the sender device from the computing device; determining, using a hardware processor, whether a sender application executing on the sender device is valid based at least in part on the application identifier; and transmitting the session key to the computing device in response to determining that the sender application is valid.
US09654458B1
Techniques are disclosed for identifying an unauthorized device in a network environment that comprises a plurality of heterogeneous devices. In some embodiments, tests may be performed about a device, using information provided by the device, information about the device obtained from a neighboring device, or information about a placement of the device within a network topology. These tests may be used to determine whether a device is unauthorized for the network.
US09654445B2
Implementations disclosed herein provide a managed security service that distributes processing tasks among a number of network security modules working in parallel to process component portions of a replayed network traffic stream. If a network security module detects a potential security threat, the network security module may generate a delivery request specifying other information potentially useful in further investigation of the potential security threat. The delivery request is communicated to a plurality of other processing entities, such as the other network security modules, and any processing entity currently receiving the requested information may respond to the delivery request. Once a source of the requested information is determined, the requested information is routed to the origin of the request.
US09654435B2
A method and apparatus for managing group e-mails in an electronic device is provided. A group e-mail message including a request to receive a reply e-mail by a first time may be transmitted to e-mail addresses of at least two recipients. It is automatically determined whether reply e-mails are received from the at least two recipients by a second time. When there is at least one recipient from whom the reply e-mail was not received by the second time, a reminder e-mail is transmitted to the at least one recipient from whom the reply e-mail is not received.
US09654433B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for selectively resending a first message in a publish-subscribe message distribution model is provided. The method may include receiving the first message having a first message ID associated with the first message. The method may include sending the first message to a plurality of subscribers. The method may include receiving a rolled back first message. The method may include determining if the first message ID matches a second message ID associated with a second message. The method may include creating a first subscriber list associated with the first message. The method may include storing the first message in a data structure. The method may include appending a second subscriber list associated with the second message with a subscriber. The method may include sending the second message to the first subscriber or the first message to the first subscriber.
US09654427B2
Methods and systems for presenting instant messaging contacts are provided. At a computing device having one or more processors that execute one or more programs stored in memory of the computing device there is obtained, from a first electronic device, a first online status of an instant messaging contact. The instant messaging contact is logged-in, at the first electronic device, with respect to an instant message application. Further there is obtained a second online status of the instant messaging contact from a second electronic device. The instant messaging contact is also logged-in, at the second electronic device, with respect to the instant message application. There is determined, with respect to the instant messaging application, an overall online status for the instant messaging contact using the first online status and the second online status.
US09654425B2
A system and method for communicating at least one message between users is provided. The method includes the steps of transmitting, to a plurality of users, data configured to display at least one graphical user interface configured to facilitate users to organize and join a plurality of meeting groups associated with a plurality of in-person meetings or events; transmitting, to at least one user of the plurality of users, information identifying at least one predetermined communication; and in response to only a single action performed by the at least one user, transmitting the at least one predetermined communication to at least one other user of the plurality of users.
US09654422B2
Is in a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) and its included routers, the routers are placed in groups or pods. Each router only contains router port and fabric access data for routers in the same group or pod. In this manner the size of the relevant tables are reduced, which allows for greater expansion of the SAN as a whole. Each router may be programmed by an administrator with a pod value, indicating the pod containing the router. This value may be provided to the Name Server during router registration and may be requested from the Name Server when developing the router's inter-fabric router (IFR) topology or the pod value can be exchanged in the IF_ILS_HLO messages. Router port database information is only stored from routers in the same pod or provided to routers in the same pod, thus reducing the entries in the router port database.
US09654421B2
In one embodiment, a method includes sending a request to one or more distributed fabric protocol (DFP) system members in order to retrieve one or more events from the one or more DFP system members, receiving one or more acknowledgements to the request from the one or more DFP system members at a local network switch of a DFP system master, upon receipt of at least one packet in which the one or more events are encapsulated as data: decoding the at least one packet to retrieve details of the one or more events using a dedicated processor of the DFP system master, creating and sending a message signaled interrupt (MSI) comprising the details of the one or more events to a local processor of the DFP system master using the dedicated processor, and reading the MSI using the local processor of the DFP system master.
US09654420B2
One external ports of the line cards are set as member ports of the same LAG. When monitoring a continuity between the member ports of the LAG and an outside of the device, a management card generates a first monitoring frame and transmits it to any line card corresponding to the LAG. The line card transmits the first monitoring frame to the outside of the device from the external port. When the line cards corresponding to the LAG receive a second monitoring frame from the outside of the device by the LAG, the line cards transmit the second monitoring frames to the management card.
US09654406B2
Communication traffic processing architectures and methods are disclosed. Processing load on main Central Processing Units (CPUs) can be alleviated by offloading data processing tasks to separate hardware.
US09654393B2
An electric motor and a motor control unit exchange information using at least one transfer signal, the information including motion state information of the electric motor and additional information transmitted via a transmission channel, where the motion state information is in the form of at least one base signal and the additional information is transmitted with the aid of the base signal.
US09654391B2
The embodiments described herein provide a video router with integrated control layers and a method of operating the same. The video router includes line cards and fabric cards coupled to a controller communication network. The line cards and fabric cards include crosspoint switches and card controllers. Each card controller controls the operation of the corresponding crosspoint switches. Each crosspoint switch includes a plurality of input switch terminals and output switch terminals coupled to a backplane, providing signal communication paths between the line and fabric cards. The configuration of at least some of the crosspoint switches may be controlled by the controller on the same card or on other cards. The video router may include a switch configuration table to track the coupling of input and output terminals through each of the cross-point switches.
US09654389B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network determines that a particular packet flow in the network is sensitive to packet reordering. The device determines whether a particular packet of the packet flow is to be routed differently than an immediately prior packet in the packet flow, in response to determining that the particular packet flow is sensitive to reordering. The device marks the particular packet as taking a different route than the immediately prior packet in the packet flow, prior to forwarding the marked packet and in response to determining that the particular packet is to be routed differently than the immediately prior packet in the packet flow.
US09654375B1
A computer network testing process to determine whether, given a network node that is unreachable by communication attempts from a controller on a control-plane network, the network node is still functioning to forward data packets on a data-plane network, or if the network node is fully non-functional on both the control-plane network and data-plane network. In order to make this determination, the testing process identifies a network node that is still reachable by the controller on the control-plane network, identifies a route between the controller and unreachable node, passing through the reachable node, and constructs an encapsulated test packet that is sent along this route. In response to sending the encapsulated test packet, the controller may, upon receipt of a confirmation packet, determine that the unreachable node is still functional on the data-plane network, or if no confirmation packet is received, mark the unreachable node as fully non-functional.
US09654361B2
In one embodiment, data is received at a device regarding a network-monitoring process in which one or more nodes in a network export network metrics to one or more collector nodes. A change to the network-monitoring process is determined based on the received data. The device also adjusts the network-monitoring process to implement the determined change.
US09654358B2
Approaches for automatically managing user privileges for computer resources based on determined levels of expertise in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) are provided. In a typical approach, a user profile associated with a prospective user of a set of computer resources in the networked computing environment may be accessed. The user profile may include information pertaining to a skill level of the prospective user with respect to the set of computer resources. Based on the information contained in the user profile, an expertise level of the prospective user with respect to the set of computer resources may be determined, and a corresponding score may be calculated. Based on the score, a level of user privileges for the set of computer resources may be provided.
US09654354B2
A framework supporting content delivery includes a plurality of devices, each device configured to run at least one content delivery (CD) service of a plurality of CD services. The plurality of CD services include delivery services forming one or more delivery service networks.
US09654352B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for brokering data access requests and responses. Aspects of the invention include a brokering pipeline that sequentially processes data access requests and data access responses. The brokering pipeline manages access authentications, request brokering, response rewrite, cache, and hosting multiple (e.g., business) entities.
US09654331B1
A method is provided in one example and includes determining that an access concentrator has lost customer premise equipment information. The method also includes obtaining the customer premise equipment information that is lost by evaluating Neighbor Discovery data and dynamic host configuration protocol version six (DHCPv6) query data. In more specific implementations, the method may include communicating a Bulk Leasequery message; receiving a response to the Bulk Leasequery message; and filtering out cable modem identifiers from the response to the Bulk Leasequery message.
US09654328B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods of enhancing prefetch operations. One potential method comprises fetching an object from a page on a web server. The method may further include storing, at a proxy server, caching instructions for the fetched object. The proxy server may be connected with the client and the object is cached at the client. Furthermore, the method may include identifying a prefetchable reference to the fetched object in a subsequent web page and using the caching instructions stored on the proxy server to determine if a fresh copy of the object will be requested by the client. Further, the method may include, based on the determination that the object will be requested, sending a prefetch request for the object using an If-Modified-Since directive, and transmitting a response to the If-Modified-Since directive prefetch request to a proxy client. The proxy client may then either serve the response to the client or a copy of the object stored at the proxy client, depending on the request for the object from the client.
US09654323B2
Methods and systems are described for causing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission of various portions of data via various nodes. For example, a first portion of the data may be transmitted, via a first node and using OFDM, to at least a second node. Based on one or more observed capacities associated with one or more nodes (such as the first node and/or another node), it may be determined that a second portion of the data is to be routed via a different node (such as a third node) for transmission. The second portion of the data may be transmitted, via the third node and using OFDM, to at least the second node.
US09654322B2
A wireless communication device has an analog control loop circuitry that generates an analog control signal to adjust a phase of a voltage controlled oscillation signal, in accordance with a phase of a reception signal, a digital control loop circuitry that generates a digital control signal having a frequency determined by a frequency of a reference signal and a predetermined frequency setting code signal and having a phase opposite to a phase of the analog control signal, a voltage controlled oscillator that generates the voltage controlled oscillation signal, on the basis of the analog control signal and the digital control signal, and a data slicer that generates a digital signal obtained by digital demodulation of the reception signal, on the basis of a comparison result of the digital control signal and a predetermined threshold value.
US09654311B2
The present invention is directed to data communication systems and methods. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a communication system that removes reflection signals. A digital data stream is processed through both tentative path and the main path. The tentative path uses a first DFE device and a reflection cancellation circuit to generate a correction signal for removing reflection signal from the digital data stream. A second DFE device removes ISI and other noises from the corrected digital data stream. There are other embodiments as well.
US09654303B2
Methods, apparatuses, data structures, and computer readable media are disclosed that perform emulated processing of packets communicated via a physical port between emulated network devices and real network devices. The emulated processing performs forward equivalence class classification on the packets. The forward equivalence class classification varies with the contents of the packets, and subsequent to the forward equivalence class classification the emulated processing varies with particular successful classifications resulting from the forward equivalence class classification.
US09654302B2
Power Line Communications (PLC) device for enhanced carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols are described. The PLC device includes a modem, an AC interface and a PLC engine. The engine is configured for transmitting PLC packets over a plurality of electrical wires using a particular channel. Transmitting a normal priority packet may include attempting to access a communications channel to transmit a frame after a backoff time proportional to a randomly generated number within a contention window (CW), the CW having an initial value carried over from a previous transmission of a different frame. Additionally or alternatively, some of techniques described herein may facilitate the spreading of the time over which devices attempt to transmit packets, thereby reducing the probability of collisions using, for example, Additive Decrease Multiplicative Increase (ADMI) mechanisms.
US09654301B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for streaming content and in particular, live content. The method includes the steps of: receiving a content stream; periodically encoding the received stream into a sequence of content files to thereby create a plurality of sequential content files; assigning a sequence identifier to each content file; storing the files on a host; delivering a data file to a media player responsive to a request for live content, said data file including information enabling the media player to sequentially and individually request each content file from the host and play the requested content file; and delivering requested content files responsive to each request.
US09654300B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for dynamic addressing of virtual port channels is described. In some implementations, a virtual IP address can be dynamically generated based on which links in a virtual port channel are active. If the numbers of active links in the virtual port channel changes, the virtual IP address can be dynamically changed. The virtual IP address can be dynamically adjusted by changing the values of individual bits in the virtual IP address that correspond to links in the virtual port channel. The virtual IP address can be used as a tunnel end point address in a VXLAN environment.
US09654293B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide for identification processes and/or procedures for accessories coupled with a mobile computing device. During identification an accessory can communicate lingo information that includes only those lingoes the accessory can use while coupled with the mobile computing device. The accessory can also communicate accessory protocol information to the mobile computing device during identification. The accessory can be limited to using only those lingoes and/or those protocols identified during identification. Various other accessory information, capabilities, preferences, etc. can also be communicated to the mobile computing device during identification.
US09654292B2
The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a computing environment for authenticating a user. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may comprise a non-volatile storage, a user interface, and a password engine. The password engine is configured to retrieve two or more predetermined prompts from the non-volatile storage, present the two or more predetermined prompts on the user interface to a user in a random order, receive a first set of input(s) in response to the two or more predetermined prompts, create an encryption keyword from the received first set of input(s) according to an original order of the two or more predetermined prompts stored in the non-volatile storage, and use the encryption keyword to authenticate the user.
US09654285B2
A portion of text associated with a message intended for a group of recipients is encrypted at a computing device. The portion of text may include less than an entirety of the message. Access to the portion of text may be restricted for a first subset of the group of recipients and allowed for a second subset of the group of recipients.
US09654282B2
A flexible aes instruction set for a general purpose processor is provided. The instruction set includes instructions to perform a “one round” pass for aes encryption or decryption and also includes instructions to perform key generation. An immediate may be used to indicate round number and key size for key generation for 128/192/256 bit keys. The flexible aes instruction set enables full use of pipelining capabilities because it does not require tracking of implicit registers.
US09654277B2
In order to provide a multiplexed clock generation apparatus in which synchronization between circuits based on a received clock is not lost, a clock generation apparatus is made to have a clock determination unit which determines whether a cycle shift time between a first clock signal and a second clock signal satisfies a predetermined condition or not and a clock switching unit which switches the first clock signal and the second clock signal based on determination of the clock determination unit. The clock determination unit determines that clock switching is possible when, as the predetermined condition, a first condition that a cycle shift time is equal to or more than a period from a setup start time to a hold end time of a signal specified for a clock bus and a second condition that the cycle shift time exists before the next setup start time are satisfied together.
US09654275B2
The present invention provides a resource management method and system thereof. The resource management method includes: judging whether the variation degree of work state of a communication system will result in the change of resource management information of the communication system or not, if so, then the resource management information is re-collected, wherein the resource management information includes the state, the interference state among links and service stream information relating to each node in the communication system; and determining the resource allocation strategy of the communication system according to the resource management information.
US09654271B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting acknowledgement/negative ACK (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system which supports carrier aggregation, and to an apparatus for the method. A method in which a terminal transmits ACK/NACK in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation comprises the following steps: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) indicated by the PDCCH; and transmitting ACK/NACK for the PDSCH via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). A PUCCH format for transmitting ACK/NACK is selected by taking the number of aggregated carriers into account.
US09654268B2
A terminal device capable of providing a method for determining PUCCH resources used for notification of response signals indicating error detection results for downlink line data, when ARQ is applied during communications using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated to the uplink unit band and when downlink data allocations are instructed using an ePDCCH. In this device, a control unit (208) determines A/N resources on the basis of whether a channel used for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) is a PDCCH or an ePDCCH.
US09654264B2
There is provided beam forming using a dual polarized antenna array. A first set of reference signals for acquiring channel state information is alternatingly transmitted using a dual polarized antenna array in a first polarization direction and in a second polarization direction, respectively. Quantized channel information based on the first set of reference signals is received from a radio transceiver device. Angular information relating to the radio transceiver device is determined based on the quantized channel information. Transmission beams for transmission to the radio transceiver device are determined. The transmission comprises precoder vectors and have relative orthogonal polarizations for beam forming according to the angular information.
US09654262B2
A method may be provided to operate a first base station in a Radio Access Network including the first base station and a second base station. According to this method, a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement list, a Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) hypothesis, and a Benefit Metric may be communicated between the first and second base stations.
US09654257B2
A method and apparatus for time-efficient confirmed group data acknowledgement includes a radio subscriber unit (SU) configured to (i) generate a receive status message comprising a first synchronization pattern indicating successful receipt of a set of data blocks when the SU has successfully received the set of data blocks from a base radio, (ii) generate a receive status message comprising a second synchronization pattern indicating unsuccessful receipt of a set of data blocks when the SU has not successfully received the set of data blocks from the base radio, and (iii) transmit the generated receive status message from the SU to the base radio during an uplink transmit time interval assigned by the base radio.
US09654255B2
The present invention provides a data transmission method including: sending, by a transmitter, a source data frame to a receiver, and saving the source data frame; sending, by the transmitter, other data frames to the receiver, and saving the other data frames; receiving, by the transmitter, a data retransmission notification which is related to the source data frame and sent by the receiver; and retrieving, by the transmitter, the source data frame and other data frames from a storage space, where the other data frames are sent by the transmitter to the receiver in a time period from sending the source data frame by the transmitter to receiving the data retransmission notification by the transmitter, and retransmitting the source data frame and the other data frames to the receiver.
US09654245B2
An optical receiver comprises an optical port configured to receive an encoded optical signal, and a demodulation block indirectly coupled to the port and comprising a multiplexer, wherein the multiplexer is configured to receive an encoded electrical signal, wherein the encoded electrical signal is associated with the encoded optical signal, and wherein the encoded electrical signal is encoded using a code division multiple access (CDMA) scheme, receive a code associated with the scheme, perform a dot multiplication of the encoded electrical signal and the code, and generate a differential voltage based on the dot multiplication.
US09654240B1
An aspect includes receiving, by a computer processor, a sign up request from a mobile device for a message service. The message service is configured to distribute messages spanning a time period that corresponds to an event at which the mobile device is present. A further aspect includes determining, during the course of the time period, an occurrence of a condition for triggering a first message and sending the first message to the mobile device during the time period using a wireless internet browser based protocol. The first message is transmitted over a wireless network. A further aspect includes cancelling the message service at the expiration of the time period.
US09654237B2
A method and system for airing broadcast signals is disclosed. Preferably, the system includes a production truck interface panel receiving a broadcast signal. A transmission relay circuit relays the signal from the interface panel to a broadcast network, and preferably including a broadcast signal detection circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The detection circuit determines a signal type of the broadcast signal, and the signal processing circuit processes the determined signal type. The system preferably further includes an operations control station displaying the determined type of broadcast signal. The method for airing broadcast signals over the broadcast network preferably includes the steps of providing the broadcast signal to the transmission relay circuit, detecting the broadcast signal type with the broadcast signal sensing and discerning circuit; and reconfiguring the signal processing circuit when the configuration of the signal processing circuit does not support transmission of the determined broadcast signal type.
US09654231B1
A device, method, and computer-readable medium are provided for mitigating signal interference at a base station. Signal interference can be generated from subcomponent levels at a base station (e.g., electronic antenna motors) due to non-optimal designs or electric ground interferences. Generally, when power is provided to such subcomponent(s), a noise or harmonic can be inadvertently generated, falling into one of the operating bands of the base station, and negatively impacting system performance. As such, embodiments can be configured to dynamically ascertain a noise baseline associated with the base station, determine that one or more of the subcomponents are at fault for interfering with the base station operating band(s), and mitigate the interfering signal for a period that least impacts system performance.
US09654223B2
Methods and systems for superchannel power pre-emphasis based on transmission criteria may determine a guardband used when transmitting multiple superchannels over an optical transport network. The guardband values may depend on various transmission criteria, such as a reach distance for the superchannels and a number of reconfigurable add-drop multiplexer nodes over a given optical path. An amount of power pre-emphasis for each superchannel may then be determined based on the actual guardband values used. Certain values used for superchannel power pre-emphasis based on transmission criteria may be pre-calculated and stored in advance.
US09654222B1
Systems and methods for optical narrowcasting are provided for transmitting various types of content. Optical narrowcasting content indicative of the presence of additional information along with identifying information may be transmitted. The additional information (which may include meaningful amounts of advertising information, media, or any other content) may also be transmitted as optical narrowcasting content. Elements of an optical narrowcasting system may include optical transmitters and optical receivers which can be configured to be operative at distances ranging from, e.g., 400 meters to 1200 meters. Moreover, the elements can be implemented on a miniaturized scale in conjunction with small, user devices such as smartphones, thereby also realizing optical ad-hoc networking, as well as interoperability with other types of data networks. Optically narrowcast content can be used to augment a real-world experience, enhance and/or spawn new forms of social-media and media content.
US09654221B1
A single chip dual-channel driver for two independent traveling wave modulators. The driver includes two differential pairs inputs per channel respectively configured to receive two digital differential pair signals. The driver further includes a two-bit DAC per channel coupled to the two differential pairs inputs to produce a single analog differential pair PAM signal at a differential pair output for driving a traveling wave modulator. Additionally, the driver includes a control block having internal voltage/current signal generators respective coupled to each input and the 2-bit DAC for providing a bias voltage, a tail current, a dither signal to assist modulation control per channel. Furthermore, the driver includes an internal I2C communication block coupled to a high-speed clock generator to generate control signals to the control block and coupled to host via an I2C digital communication interface.
US09654213B2
A portable apparatus for measuring optical powers of optical signals propagating concurrently in opposite directions in an optical transmission path between two elements, at least one of the elements being operative to transmit a first optical signal (S1) only if it continues to receive a second optical signal (S2) from the other of said elements, comprises first and second connector means for connecting the apparatus into the optical transmission path in series therewith, and propagating and measuring means connected between the first and second connector means for propagating at least the second optical signal (S2) towards the one of the elements, and measuring the optical powers of the concurrently propagating optical signals (S1, S2). The measurement results may be displayed by a suitable display unit. Where one element transmits signals at two different wavelengths, the apparatus may separate parts of the corresponding optical signal portion according to wavelength and process them separately.
US09654207B2
Described is a technology by which a mobile computing device such as a mobile telephone operates differently based on detected proximity to another mobile device with which the first mobile device has a defined relationship. For example, the first mobile device may transfer content to the second mobile computing device when proximity corresponds to a non-cellular communications coupling, such as Bluetooth® or Wi-Fi coupling. In this manner, content transfer is deferred until a non-cellular coupling exists. The mobile device (or both devices) may output a notification to indicate that the other mobile computing device has been detected within a threshold proximity, such as via GPS data or by being within the same cellular tower. The type and/or settings of an output notification may vary based on different thresholds.
US09654204B2
A satellite dish assembly may comprise a reflector, feed horn, receive module, and wireless module. The reflector and feed horn may be operable to receive satellite signals. The receive module may be operable to recover content from the received satellite signals. The wireless module may be operable to communicate the content directly to a mobile device via a wireless connection between the mobile device and the system. The wireless module may be operable to communicate directly with a service provider network via a wireless connection between the satellite dish assembly and the service provider network. The communications with the service provider network may be to obtain security information for descrambling and/or decrypting the content and/or for providing billing information.
US09654199B2
An apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a process, the process comprising, transferring a first acknowledge packet to the first device from the second device, the first acknowledge packet indicating that the second device anticipates receiving a first packet among the plurality of packets having been transferred from the first device to the second device; determining whether a second acknowledge packet indicates that the second device anticipates receiving the first packet, when the apparatus receives the second acknowledge packet from the second device after receiving the first acknowledge packet, and delaying transferring the second acknowledge packet to the first device when it is determined that the second device anticipates receiving the first packet.
US09654198B2
Systems and methods of a node in a wireless communication system with switchable antenna functions are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method by a controller for configuring a switching network may include configuring the switching network for a first mode of operation associated with multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communications. Further, the method may include configuring the switching network for a second mode of operation associated with beamforming communications.
US09654197B2
A system and method for feeding back channel information are provided. A method for communications device operations includes generating feedback information, encoding the feedback information to produce a feedback payload, and transmitting the feedback payload to a communications server serving a communications device. The feedback information includes at least a first long term wideband channel statistics and a second long term wideband channel statistics.
US09654194B2
Disclosed is a precoding method comprising the steps of: generating a first coded block and a second coded block with use of a predetermined error correction block coding scheme; generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2 by performing a precoding process, which corresponds to a matrix selected from among the N matrices F[i], on a first baseband signal s1 generated from the first coded block and a second baseband signal s2 generated from the second coded block, respectively; the first precoded signal z1 and the second precoded signal z2 satisfying (z1, z2)T=F[i] (s1, s2)T; and changing both of or one of a power of the first precoded signal z1 and a power of the second precoded signal z2, such that an average power of the first precoded signal z1 is less than an average power of the second precoded signal z2.
US09654188B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to massive MIMO communications. In some embodiments, a base station is configured to dynamically adjust the number of processing elements used for MIMO signal estimation (e.g., the number of MIMO RX chains used for parallel processing). In some embodiments, the number of processing elements may be based on the number of antennas currently being used, the number of spatial streams, interconnect throughput thresholds, sampling rate, etc. In some embodiments, the base station includes configurable MIMO cores configured to dynamically switch between MIMO signal estimation techniques, e.g., on a per-symbol basis. In some embodiments, the base station includes configurable linear decoders configured to separately multiply input matrices and combine or refrain from combining the results based on the number of antennas and/or processing elements currently in use.
US09654183B2
A system and method for transferring power includes a power transmitting unit for transmitting power and a power receiving unit for receiving power from the power transmitting unit. The power transmitting unit may be positioned outside a human body and the power receiving unit is located on an intrabody instrument adapted to be movable from the outside of the human body to inside the human body. The intrabody instrument may be a medical instrument connected to or incorporated within a robotic arm. The power transmitting unit may wirelessly transfer power to the power receiving unit in a continuous, non-interrupted manner.
US09654178B2
An MFP establishes a first communication link L1 by receiving an activation command and sending an OK command. The MFP receives first target data from a portable device by using the first communication link. The MFP generates second target data by processing the first target data. After receiving the first target data, the MFP disconnects the first communication link. The MFP establishes a second communication link by receiving the activation command and sending the OK command. The MFP sends the second target data to the portable device by using the second communication link.
US09654177B2
A power line data transmitter includes a power circuit including a transistor and a modulation circuit. The transistor has an input terminal to which a voltage of a DC power source is inputted from a DC power line, a control terminal applied with a constant voltage bias, and an output terminal supplied with an electric power. The modulation circuit includes a power supply node, operates when the electric power is inputted, and outputs a data modulation signal. The power circuit functions as a data transmitter to perform a power line transmission. When the data modulation signal is outputted, (i) a potential of the output terminal changes, (ii) the power circuit changes a voltage between the control terminal and the output terminal, (iii) the power circuit changes another potential of the input terminal, and (iv) the power circuit superimposes the data modulation signal on the DC power line.
US09654171B2
The present disclosure concerns receivers for use in nodes or devices that participate in wireless communications. In one exemplary embodiment, the receiver receives a first signal attributable to a first carrier and a second signal attributable to a second carrier. A first path searcher detects taps in the first signal attributable to the first carrier. A second path searcher detects taps in the second signal attributable to the second carrier. A channel tap selector selects, based on received energy values for taps detected by the first path searcher and the second path searcher, which tap values are to be used for taps of the receiver for both the first carrier and the second carrier.
US09654168B2
A system is disclosed, comprising: a wireless fronthaul access point mounted on a radio mast and configured to receive digital I and Q signaling information from a remote baseband unit for a plurality of radios, the wireless fronthaul access point further comprising a first millimeter wave wireless interface; and an antenna-integrated radio for providing access to user equipments (UEs), mounted within line of sight on the radio mast with the wireless fronthaul access point, the antenna-integrated radio further comprising: a second millimeter wave wireless interface configured to receive the digital I and Q signaling information from the baseband unit via the wireless fronthaul access point, wherein the wireless fronthaul access point thereby wirelessly couples the remote baseband unit and the antenna-integrated radio.
US09654154B2
Systems and method for improving operation of a radio frequency system are provided. One embodiment includes instructions to execute a coarse calibration to associate a first output power with a first operational parameter set; instruct the radio frequency system to transmit a signal based at least in part on the first operational parameter set and a base detrough function; determine performance metrics resulting from transmission of the signal; determine changes in the performance metrics resulting from operating the radio frequency based at least in part on the first operational parameter set and each of a plurality of augmented detrough functions; and associate a second operational parameter set with a second output power, in which the second operational parameter set includes one of the plurality of augmented detrough functions selected based at least in part on the changes that reduce margin between the performance metrics and performance metric thresholds.
US09654149B2
In a first aspect an exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method that includes instantiating a plurality of radio protocols, operating the plurality of radio protocols with an underlying physical layer, where each instantiation of a same radio protocol is embodied in a same code module and where each instantiation has associated data stored in a memory. The operating of the plurality of radio protocols comprises executing each instantiation of the radio protocols so that a portion of resources are shared between different instantiations of the radio protocols and different instantiations of radio protocols do not interfere with each other.
US09654144B2
A memory device may include memory components to store data. The memory device may also include a processor that may decode a codeword associated with the data. The processor may receive the codeword and determine whether the codeword is independently decodable using a BCH decoder. The processor may then decode the codeword using the BCH decoder when the codeword is determined to be independently decodable using the BCH decoder. Otherwise, the processor may decode the codeword using a second decoder and the BCH decoder when the codeword is not determined to be independently decodable using the BCH decoder.
US09654143B2
Embodiments of an invention for consecutive bit error detection and correction are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a storage structure, a second storage structure, a parity checker, an error correction code (ECC) checker, and an error corrector. The first storage structure is to store a plurality of data values, a plurality of parity values, and a plurality of ECC values, each parity value corresponding to one of the plurality of data values, a first bit of each parity value corresponding to a first of a plurality of portions of a corresponding data value, wherein the first of the plurality of portions of the corresponding data value is interleaved with a second of the plurality of portions of the corresponding data value, wherein a second bit of each parity value corresponds to a second of the plurality of portions of the corresponding data value, each ECC value corresponding to one of the plurality of data values. The parity checker is to detect a parity error in a data value stored in the first storage structure using a parity value corresponding to the data value. The ECC checker is to generate a syndrome. The error corrector is to detect and correct consecutive bit errors in the data value using the syndrome.
US09654140B1
Methods and systems for multi-dimensional run-length encoding of data are provided. In one embodiment, a method for multi-dimensional run-length encoding of an unprocessed data file is provided. The method includes obtaining an admission key and determining a traversal path within a virtual multi-dimensional shape based on the admission key. The method also includes transforming unprocessed data of the unprocessed data file into a plurality of compressed data segments. Also, the method includes plotting the plurality of compressed data segments onto a plurality of data points along the traversal path to obtain a plurality of secured data segments. Further, the method includes generically sorting the plurality of secured data segments to obtain a plurality of generically sorted data segments, and writing the plurality of generically sorted data segments into a processed data file.
US09654115B2
A phase-locked loop circuit, which includes a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop low-pass filter, a first voltage-current converter, a second voltage-current converter, a current-controlled oscillator, a frequency divider, a comparator, and a mode controller, where the mode controller is configured to control the switches S1, S2, and S3 included in the loop low-pass filter to connect or disconnect. Using the phase-locked loop circuit, a voltage value of a second control voltage signal VC2 provided for the first voltage-current converter can reach, in a relatively short time, a voltage value of a first control voltage signal VC1 provided for the second voltage-current converter, thereby increasing a speed of establishing the phase-locked loop circuit and implementing a quick response of the phase-locked loop circuit.
US09654112B2
A signal inverting device generates an inverted signal of an input signal. The device includes a normally-on transistor, a negative-voltage generating unit that generates a negative voltage, and an output terminal. A first terminal of the normally-on transistor is connected to a current source. The output terminal is connected between the first terminal of the normally-on transistor and the current source. The normally-on transistor is turned on/off, by an input of a drive signal to a conduction control terminal of the normally-on transistor. The drive signal is a signal obtained by a synthesis of the input signal and the negative voltage. The inverted signal is output from the output terminal in accordance with the on/off operation of the normally-on transistor. The negative-voltage generating unit generates the negative voltage by rectifying a high-frequency power.
US09654107B2
An object is to achieve both suppression of operation delay and reduction in power consumption of a programmable LSI. A compiler generates, from source code, configuration data needed in a programmable LSI and a time schedule that shows a timing of using the data in the programmable LSI (a timing at which the data is held in a configuration memory) and a timing of storing the data in the programmable LSI before the data is used. Supply of new configuration data to the programmable LSI from the outside (storage of new configuration data) and data rewrite in the configuration memory in the programmable LSI (circuit reconfiguration) are performed independently and concurrently on the basis of the time schedule.
US09654105B2
A semiconductor apparatus may include an on-die termination (ODT) enable signal generator configured to enable an ODT enable signal in response to a data strobe signal, or enable the ODT enable signal in response to a command latch enable signal and an address latch enable signal. The semiconductor apparatus may include an ODT circuit configured to perform an ODT operation in response to the ODT enable signal.
US09654103B2
A proximity switch assembly and method for detecting activation of a proximity switch assembly and providing feedback is provided. The assembly includes a plurality of proximity switches each comprising a proximity sensor providing a sense activation field. The assembly also includes control circuitry processing a signal associated with the activation field of each proximity sensor and detecting a finger located between two proximity switches. The assembly further includes a feedback device generating a feedback when the finger is detected between the two proximity switches. In addition, the assembly may detect speed of movement of a finger interfacing with the proximity switches and vary the feedback based on the detected speed.
US09654102B2
A circuit breaking system includes a first branch including at least one solid-state snubber; a second branch coupled in parallel to the first branch and including a superconductor and a cryogenic contactor coupled in series; and a controller operatively coupled to the at least one solid-state snubber and the cryogenic contactor and programmed to, when a fault occurs in the load circuit, activate the at least one solid-state snubber for migrating flow of the electrical current from the second branch to the first branch, and, when the fault is cleared in the load circuit, activate the cryogenic contactor for migrating the flow of the electrical current from the first branch to the second branch.
US09654100B2
Disclosed is an output buffer. The output buffer includes a first amplifier configured to amplify an input signal, and output first to fourth amplified signals according to results of the amplification, a first transistor to receive the first amplified signal, a second transistor to receive the second amplified signal, a third transistor to receive the third amplified signal, a fourth transistor to receive the fourth amplified signal, a first node, connected to drains of the first and second transistors, a second node, connected to drains of the third and fourth transistors, an output node connected to the first and second nodes, and a first controller configured to selectively supply a control voltage to the gates of the first to fourth transistors in response to a control signal.
US09654089B2
This document discusses, among other things, a detection circuit configured to receive an output of a window comparator over a range of input values and to measure a difference between first and second thresholds of the window comparator, and a trim circuit configured to adjust at least one of the first or second thresholds using the measured difference between the first and second thresholds.
US09654083B2
A resonator element includes a base portion and a pair of vibrating arms that are provided integrally with the base portion, are aligned in an X-axis direction, and extend in a Y-axis direction from the base portion. Each of the vibrating arms includes an arm portion and a wide hammerhead that is located on the free end side of the arm portion and has a greater length in the X-axis direction than the arm portion. Assuming that the length of the vibrating arm in the Y-axis direction is L and the length of the hammerhead in the Y-axis direction is H, the relationship of 1.2%
US09654082B2
A vibrator includes a vibrator element and a base on which the vibrator element is installed. In addition, when n is set to a natural number equal to or greater than 2, and j is set to a natural number equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or less than n, the vibrator element includes n inherent vibration modes having resonance frequencies different from each other, and when a resonance frequency of a main vibration of the vibrator element in the n inherent vibration modes is set to ω1 in a relationship between an arbitrary integer kj and a resonance frequency ωj corresponding to each of the n inherent vibration modes, the following three expressions are all satisfied. Δω ≡ ( ∑ j = 2 n k j ω j - k 1 - ω 1 ) / ω 1 ω 1 ≥ 0.1 3 ≤ ∑ j = 1 n k j ≤ 10
US09654059B2
An impedance tuning control apparatus has a processing circuit and an output circuit. The processing circuit determines a first control setting according to a first performance metric, and performs a search operation with a search start point set by the first control setting to find a second control setting according to a second performance metric. The second performance metric is different from the first performance metric. The output circuit outputs a final control setting to a tuner, wherein the final control setting is derived from the second control setting.
US09654056B2
A power converter may include a power inductor, a plurality of switches arranged to sequentially operate in a plurality of switch configurations, an output for producing the output voltage, wherein a first switch is coupled to a first output terminal of the output and a second switch is coupled to a second output terminal of the output, and a linear amplifier coupled to the output. The controller may be configured to, in a linear amplifier mode of the power stage, enable the linear amplifier to transfer electrical energy from an input source of the power stage to the load, and in at least one mode of the power stage other than the linear amplifier mode, sequentially apply switch configurations from the plurality of switch configurations to selectively activate or deactivate each of the plurality of switches in order to transfer the electrical energy from the input source to the load.
US09654054B1
The present general inventive concept is directed to provide a saturation prevention method that utilizes transfer function modulation to continuously and precisely condition signals over more than four orders of magnitude from a signal source. To avoid signal conditioning error and large transient behavior due to range switching, continuous conditioning of all ranges without saturation over the entire large input dynamic range is employed. The use of transimpedance amplifiers in an example embodiment induces negligible loading on the signal source such that the integrity of the original signal is fully maintained, enabling precise signal conditioning. The ratio of gain to input impedance with a transimpedance amplifier is orders of magnitude larger than other typical methods of signal conditioning, making these amplifiers optimum for the saturation prevention method. An example embodiment utilizes the saturation prevention method to maintain the expected signal gain and a low impedance load for the signal source to ensure the desired accuracy of the signal conditioning.
US09654051B2
A control circuit for controlling a cooling fan is defined in a data center. The control circuit includes a cooling fan, a controller, a switch unit, and a control unit. The controller is configured to generate a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for controlling the cooling fan to rotate at a first speed and the control unit is configured to generate a second PWM signal for controlling the cooling fan to rotate at a second speed. The switch unit is configured to output the first PWM signal to the cooling fan when the data center is in an active mode and configured to output the second PWM signal to the cooling fan when the data center is in a standby mode.
US09654049B2
Variable frequency drive active harmonic mitigation controls and diagnostics are disclosed. Exemplary controls and diagnostics include operating a variable frequency drive including converting an AC input line voltage to a DC voltage, generating a motor drive signal using the DC voltage, and driving an electric motor with the motor drive signal. A harmonic mitigation signal is provided to the drive configured to at least partially mitigate harmonics during the operation of the drive. The harmonic mitigation signal is inhibited based upon presence of an error condition associated with the drive input. The inhibiting is terminated based upon the absence of the error condition. A diagnostic fault condition based upon a number of occurrences of the error condition.
US09654048B2
Diagnostic and/or control methods, systems and apparatuses for variable frequency drives are disclosed. The variable frequency drive may be controlled by a controller that may conduct one or more tests or evaluations. The tests or evaluations may include determining whether a switching device in the variable frequency drive is open-circuited, short-circuited, or operating normally. The tests may include determining whether current provided at an inverter output of the variable frequency drive is within a predetermined range. An exemplary embodiment evaluates the drive for a short circuit condition, an open circuit condition, and a sensor error or failure condition, controls operation of the drive based upon these one or more evaluations, may abort operation of the drive based upon one or more evaluations, and may set a fault code indicative of the type of error encountered.
US09654046B2
A power inverter comprises at least a box-shaped housing; and a power module, a smoothing capacitor, a base plate made of a flat plate, and a rotating electric machine control circuit board arranged in order in the housing. The base plate is arranged with the fringes fixed to the inner wall surfaces of the housing, and the smoothing capacitor and rotating electric machine control circuit board are fixed.
US09654031B2
A controlling apparatus includes a storage unit for storing, for each sampling period, a combination of a primary frequency of connected induction motors and the amplitude of a voltage command value, and a gradient detection unit for calculating a value corresponding to an increase in the amplitude of the voltage command value divided by an increase in the primary frequency, and for outputting a failure signal upon determining, when a result of the division is less than a predetermined reference value, that the plurality of induction motors include at least one induction motor having a phase sequence that includes incorrect wiring with respect to the power converter.
US09654030B2
The invention relates to a method for starting a variable-speed electric motor, wherein upon detection of locking of the motor shaft a positive torque is applied to the motor shaft, and wherein the positive torque is continuously modified with different frequencies to overcome the locking.
US09654016B2
A converter includes a converter inductor, a converter diode, and a converter switch, wherein the converter inductor, the converter diode and the converter switch operate together to receive an input voltage and generate a converted output voltage. The converter further includes a bypass circuit that is connected in parallel with the converter switch; the bypass circuit includes a bypass capacitor connected in series with a diode, wherein a forward direction of the diode is the same as a regular direction of current flow through the converter switch. The converter also includes a discharge circuit configured to discharge the bypass capacitor, wherein the discharge circuit includes an inductor. The inductor of the discharge circuit is magnetically coupled to the converter inductor.
US09654013B2
In one embodiment, a control circuit configured to control a power stage circuit of a primary-controlled flyback converter, can include: (i) a current sense circuit that generates a current sense signal by sampling a primary current; (ii) a voltage sense circuit that generates a voltage sense signal by sampling an auxiliary voltage after a blanking time has elapsed; (iii) a control signal generator that generates a switch control signal according to the voltage sense signal and the current sense signal; and (iv) the switch control signal being configured to control a power switch of the power stage circuit, where the switch control signal is active during a constant on time.
US09654002B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for efficiently using power at a voltage regulator, such as a synchronous buck converter. The synchronous buck converter includes a first switch and a second switch operated by a first control signal and a second control signal, respectively, where the first and second control signals have a corresponding phase difference. A logic circuit measures a duty cycle of an input pulse width modulated (PWM) signal against iterative changes of the phase difference between the first control signal and the second control signal. The logic circuit selects a phase difference corresponding to a minimum value of the PWM signal, thereby optimizing dead time at the synchronous buck converter. The logic circuit may include a Digital Pulse Width Modulator.
US09653997B2
A method of controlling a power converter for converting a DC input voltage to a DC output voltage is presented The power converter comprises an inductor, one or more switching elements for energizing and de-energizing the inductor, a drive circuit for controlling switching operation of the one or more switching elements in accordance with a control signal, and a feedback circuit for generating the control signal on the basis of a first feedback quantity indicative of an actual output voltage of the power converter and in accordance with one or more circuit parameters of the feedback circuit, the method comprising: detecting an open loop condition of feedback control by the feedback circuit; and modifying at least one of the circuit parameters of the feedback circuit in such a manner that a time until the feedback control by the feedback circuit returns to the closed loop condition is reduced.
US09653976B2
A method of manufacturing a rotor for an electric rotating machine is provided. According to the method, resin is applied and impregnated to a surface of a winding through windows of a wavy clearance between pawl parts opposed to each other of a pair of pole cores. Uncured resin having fluidity is dropped to at least one part area of the outer surface of the winding. The uncured resin, immediately after dropping, is spread on the outer surface of the winding, and the uncured resin adheres to the outer surface of the winding other than the part area.
US09653973B1
Apparatuses and methods relating to hub motors having enhanced thermal characteristics may include a hub motor having a stator comprising steel and a central axle (e.g., a mandrel and shaft) comprising a material with a substantially higher thermal conductivity than the stator (e.g., aluminum). Heat may be transferred from the stator through the axle of the motor to an outside heat sink. Manufacturing of thermally enhanced hub motors may include extrusion and/or cryogenic fitting methods relating to the central mandrel and shaft.
US09653966B2
The coolant supplying and collecting apparatus is inserted along an inner diameter of a rotary shaft of a motor. The apparatus includes a first body section having a hole section formed at one side thereof, and a second body section inserted into and fixed to the first body section. The apparatus is configured to provide a moving path of a fluid along an inner diameter thereof. A channel section is formed between an inner circumferential surface of the first body section and an outer circumferential surface of the second body section and extends in a longitudinal direction to provide a moving path of the fluid in the hole section direction.
US09653965B2
An exemplary electrical system may include a power plant and a dual motor/generator assembly coupled to each other. The power plant may be a gas turbine engine, and may be operable to provide motive power. The dual motor/generator assembly may include a first motor/generator and a second motor/generator operatively coupled to a common gear shaft, and a gear box configured to couple the first motor/generator and the second motor/generator to the power plant. The first motor/generator and the second motor/generator may be operable to selectively provide power to or extract power from the power plant. The dual motor/generator assembly may be configured such that the first motor/generator and the second motor/generator may operate together at part loads, or individually as a main and a redundant, backup to the other.
US09653964B2
[Problem] To reduce the size of a linear actuator motor without increasing the operating noise thereof, and to thereby achieve a quieter, more compact linear actuator. [Solution] A linear actuator including: a shaft that is rotated in the forward and reverse directions by a motor via a double start worm and a worm wheel; a screw nut that is screwed and mounted to the shaft; and a piston tube that is fixed to the screw nut and that advances or retreats in accordance with the rotation of the shaft. The motor includes: a four-pole magnet; an armature formed by lap winding an armature coil; a commutator; brushes that are vertically arranged at positions offset by approximately 90°; and an equalizer for connecting coils in the armature coil that are to undergo potential equalization.
US09653945B2
A system, comprising a solar circuit (2), a coupling circuit (1), a converter circuit (5), a source circuit (3), and a load circuit (4), wherein the coupling circuit (1) couples in a first, charging mode the solar circuit (2) to the source circuit (3) via the converter circuit (5) and couples in a second, feeding mode the source circuit (3) to the load circuit (4) via the converter circuit (5). A power flow through the converter circuit (5) has a same direction in both modes. In the first mode, a charging current is guided from the solar circuit (2) to the source circuit (3) via the converter circuit (5) for charging the source circuit (3). In the second mode, a feeding current is guided from the source circuit (3) to the load circuit (4) via the converter circuit (5) for feeding the load circuit (4). The coupling circuit (1) may comprise a first switch (11) and a second switch (12) and a control circuit (13-21) for controlling the first and second switches (11, 12). The control circuit (13-21) may comprise generators (13, 15), a comparator (14), detectors (16, 17, 19), a manager (18) and a regulator (20).
US09653944B2
The disclosed invention provides examples of preferred embodiments including systems for harvesting energy from variable output energy harvesting apparatus. The systems include energy harvesting apparatus for providing energy input to a switched mode power supply and a control loop for dynamically adjusting energy harvesting apparatus input to the switched mode power supply, whereby system output power is substantially optimized to the practical. Exemplary embodiments of the invention include systems for harvesting energy using solar cells in boost, buck, and buck-boost configurations.
US09653943B2
A power management apparatus cooperates with a controlled apparatus and is electrically connected to a power system. The power management apparatus includes an energy storing module, a switching module and a comparing module. The energy storing module is electrically connected to the controlled apparatus, and the switching module is electrically connected to the energy storing module. The comparing module is electrically connected to the switching module and receives a detection signal. The comparing module generates a periodic signal to control the switching module according to the detection signal. The energy storing module stores an electric energy during a cycle of the periodic signal and releases the electric energy during other cycle after the said cycle. Thereby, the power management apparatus is capable of effectively protecting the controlled apparatus, avoiding the waste of the power, and storing and using extra power.
US09653939B2
A non-contact type power charging apparatus may include a plurality of power transmitting coils transmitting power in a non-contact scheme, a plurality of switching units connected to the power transmitting coils, respectively, to switch the power transmitted through corresponding power transmitting coils, and a switching controlling unit controlling power switching of the switching units depending on coupling coefficients between each of the power transmitting coils and at least one power receiving coil of a plurality of battery apparatuses. The battery apparatuses may have at least one power receiving coil receiving the power from the power transmitting coils to charge the power in at least one battery cell.
US09653938B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises: monitoring a motion of a handset from a wireless charger to detect a presence of the handset on the wireless charger (312); initiating a wireless charging when the presence of the handset is detected on the wireless charger and transmitting a charging notification to an end user (318); sending a battery full message for notifying the end user when the wireless charging is complete and terminating the wireless charging (316); setting the handset to a standby mode and initializing inertial sensor(s) to provide an interrupt signal (330); entering a maintenance charging mode of a battery of the handset when it is below a recharging threshold without notifying the end user (336); and continuing the maintenance charging mode of the wireless charging device until the battery is full (342) or the wireless charging device is removed from the wireless charger transmitter (340).
US09653932B2
The portable cathodic protection current interrupter is a programmable, portable current interrupter for selectively controlling current interruption to a cathodic protection system. A processor and a voltage regulator are disposed within a portable housing and are in communication with one another. The voltage regulator is adapted for communication with an external power source. A display and a user interface are each mounted on the portable housing. An onboard clock is in communication with the processor for controlling the frequency and duration of current interruption signals. A global navigation satellite system receiver is provided for synchronizing a time signal of the onboard clock. At least one on-board relay is provided for communication with the cathodic protection current source for selectively interrupting current thereto. The portable cathodic protection current interrupter provides selective switching of the relay(s) between a main interruption channel, a testing interruption channel, and an external interruption channel.
US09653926B2
Wireless sensors configured to sense, record and transmit data are provided herein. In one aspect, the wireless sensor has a power harvesting unit; a transducing A-to-D converter unit, a microcontroller unit, and a transmitting coil. The power harvesting unit is configured to receive an external energizing magnetic field generated by an external interrogator and store the energy generated thereby. The transducing A-to-D converter unit has a passive electrical transducer configured to respond to variations in a physical property and a converter configured to measure a characteristic value of the passive electrical transducer and provide a digital signal that is indicative of the measured characteristic value. The microcontroller unit is electrically coupled to the power harvesting unit and the transducing A-to-D converter unit and is configured to receive the digital signal from the transducing A-to-D converter unit. The transmitting coil is configured to receive the digital signal and to transmit the digital signal to the external interrogator. Upon receiving a start signal, the transducing A-to-D converter unit charges a current through the passive electrical transducer until a reference voltage is reached and, upon reaching the reference voltage, the microcontroller unit receives the digital signal.
US09653922B2
Provided is a plurality of power supply apparatuses connected in parallel with a grid that are capable of obtaining the same measured values of the same voltage.The power supply apparatus according to the present invention is connected in parallel with the grid and includes a voltage sensor 108 configured to obtain a first measured voltage value by measuring a voltage of the grid, a communication interface 114 configured to communicate with another power supply apparatus connected in parallel with the grid, and a controller 118 configured to obtain, via the communication interface 114, a second measured voltage value obtained by the another power supply apparatus by measuring the voltage of the grid and carrying out an adjustment such that the first measured voltage value and the second measured voltage value of the same voltage of the grid approximate to the same value.
US09653919B2
A method for reducing the common mode current (i) circulating between the internal ground (13) of an electrical circuit (4) and the earth when electrical energy is exchanged between an electrical energy storage unit of the electrical circuit (4) and an electrical energy source external to said circuit (4),in which method an electronic component (21) is used to apply an electrical quantity (Vs, Is) ata point (26) connected via at least one impedance (28) to an electrical line (5) of said circuit (4) via which electrical energy is exchanged,said electrical quantity (Vs, Is) applied making it possible to reduce the common mode current (i).
US09653914B2
An interface supply system includes a switching power supply, a control chip, and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to the switching power supply and the control chip. The switching power supply is configured to supply power to an interface. The control circuit is configured to be switched on and output a detection signal to the control chip when the switching power supply and the control chip are shorted. The control chip is configured to not supply power to the interface after receiving the detection signal.
US09653909B1
In one aspect, a method is described. The method may include operating a plurality of circuit elements, and operating a plurality of fault-mitigation circuits. Each circuit element may include an energy storage element, each individual fault-mitigation circuit may be electrically coupled in parallel to a respective circuit element, and each individual fault-mitigation circuit may include a switch. The method may include detecting an electrical fault in one of the circuit elements and cycling the switch of the fault-mitigation circuit coupled in parallel to the faulty circuit element between an open position and a closed position until the storage element of the faulty circuit element is discharged of energy, at which point the switch remains closed.
US09653905B2
The present invention relates to a power supply and measuring device for an electronic device (e.g. an IED), which is configured to provide supervision, control, protection, communication and/or monitoring functionalities for LV or MV circuits or apparatuses. The power supply device comprises a current transformer, which is operatively associated to a main power line. An input section of the power supply device comprises a burden regulating stage that is configured to regulate the equivalent electric load at the secondary winding of said current transformer. An output section of the power supply device provides a supply voltage suitable to feed said electronic device.
US09653888B2
A spark plug including an insulator containing not less than 92 mass % and not greater than 96 mass % of Al component in terms of oxide, wherein the insulator is formed from an alumina sintered body comprising alumina crystal and a grain boundary phase present between crystal grains of the alumina crystal. Assuming that mass contents of an Si component, an Mg component, a Ba component, and a Ca component in terms of oxide are represented by MSiO2, MMgO, MBaO, and MCaO, respectively, and a sum of MSiO2, MMgO, MBaO, and MCaO is represented by Mt, the grain boundary phase contains these components so as to satisfy conditions (1) to (4) as follows: (1) 0.17≦MSiO2/Mt≦0.47; (2) 0.005≦MMgO/Mt≦0.07; (3) 0.29≦MBaO/Mt≦0.77; (4) 0.03≦MCaO/Mt≦0.19.
US09653887B1
A spark plug for a prechamber internal combustion engine, having: a body with a passage and a front end; a center electrode located in the passage and that projects past the front end; an insulator that surrounds a section of the center electrode and has a tapering front end that together with the passage forms a free annular space within the body; a ground electrode with an annular ignition section that surrounds a section of the center electrode located outside the body, forming a spark gap; the ground electrode has a mounting section connected to the front end of the body, and at least two web sections connecting the ignition section to the mounting section; located between the web sections are scavenging ports through which the annular space is in connection with the environment outside the spark plug.
US09653884B2
Semiconductor photonic device surfaces are covered with a dielectric or a metal protective layer. The protective layer covers the entire device, including regions near facets at active regions, to prevent bare or unprotected semiconductor regions, thereby to form a very high reliability etched facet photonic device.
US09653880B2
A light source is disclosed, having a quasi-incoherent broadband pump source configured to produce a longitudinally and transversally multi-mode pump beam. The light source may include a means for narrowing the linewidth of the pump beam. The light source includes an optical parametric oscillator with an optical cavity containing a crystal. The optical parametric oscillator is configured to receive light from the pump source and produce a first output light beam and a second output light beam. An optical coupler is disposed between the pump source and the optical parametric oscillator. At least one of the first and second output light beams is a substantially single transversal mode light having a narrower linewidth than the pump source.
US09653878B2
A dual-rate power point compensating circuit, comprising a microprocessor and a transmitter optical subsystem assembly (TOSA), wherein the TOSA includes a laser connected to a laser driver, a monitor photodiode (MPD) connected to the laser driver, and a current divider connected to the microprocessor and the MPD. When a feedback current from the MPD exceeds the adjustable and/or operating range of the laser driver, the feedback current is reduced so that it is kept in the adjustable and/or operating range of the laser driver. The laser driver determines the optical output power of the laser from the value of the reduced feedback current. The circuit and method extend the adjustable and/or operating range of a laser driver and enable it to regulate a target optical output power of the laser with a broad testing range and high accuracy when the feedback current is relatively high.
US09653874B1
Coherent Trichel Pulse transient energy emissions by directing energetic triggers for driving to unstable a Trichel Pulse generator (TPG) charged electrode or gap to elicit a phased or delayed emitted photon energy Trichel Pulse and electronic driven current pulse nearly contemporaneously due to electronic flow eruptive cascade into the discharge gap. Triggered random laser spherical emission or directed energy provided by concentric spherical or linear resonator mirrors optically pumping the spherical center TPG glow region of maximum energy densities at the spherical center provided with take off linear transmission of the resonator stimulated emissions providing linear propagation and targeting.
US09653871B1
Rare earth oxides doped multicomponent glass fibers for laser generation and amplification, including a core and a cladding, the core comprising at least 2 weight percent glass network modifier selected from BaO, CaO, MgO, ZnO, PbO, K2O, Na2O, Li2O, Y2O3, or combinations; wherein the mode of the core is guided with step index difference between the core and the cladding, a numerical aperture of the fiber is between 0.01 and 0.04; core diameter is from 25 to 120 micron, and a length of the gain fiber is shorter than 60 cm.
US09653870B1
Rare earth oxides doped multicomponent glass fibers for laser generation and amplification, including a core and a cladding, the core comprising at least 2 weight percent glass network modifier selected from BaO, CaO, MgO, ZnO, PbO, K2O, Na2O, Li2O, Y2O3, or combinations; wherein the mode of the core is guided with step index difference between the core and the cladding, a numerical aperture of the fiber is between 0.01 and 0.04; core diameter is from 25 to 120 micron, and a length of the gain fiber is shorter than 60 cm.
US09653867B2
A source of femtosecond pulses at center wavelengths of about 940 nm and about 1140 nanometers (nm) includes a mode-locked fiber MOPA delivering pulses having a center wavelength of about 1040 nm. The 1040-nanometer pulses are spectrally spread into a continuum spectrum extending in range between about 900 nm and about 1200 nm and having well defined side-lobes around the 940-nm and 1140-wavelengths. Radiation is spatially selected from these side-lobes and delivered as the 940-nm and 1140-nm pulses.
US09653859B1
An electrical connector system including a male connector having a male terminal that defines a first blade longitudinally projecting from the male terminal and a second blade longitudinally projecting from the same male terminal. A first blade width is less than a second blade width and a first blade length is less than a second blade length. The male terminal further defines a pair of crimp wings configured to attach the male terminal to a wire cable. The system further includes a female connector having a first female terminal configured to receive the first blade and a second female terminal configured to receive the second blade, thereby electrically interconnecting the first female terminal, the second female terminal, and the wire cable.
US09653855B2
A connector includes a fixed contact, a movable contact provided on one end of a movable plate, a connection terminal to be connected to another connection terminal of another connector, the connection terminal being connected to the fixed contact or the movable contact, a card provided in contact with the movable plate, a button provided in contact with the card, and a slide provided in contact with the button. With the connection terminal being in contact with the other connection terminal, the slide is contacted and pressed by a part of the other connector to slide to move the button, and the movable plate is moved by the movement of the button via the card so that the movable contact moves into contact with the fixed contact.
US09653853B2
An electric connection box includes a resin plate having a connector terminal soldered to a via hole of a circuit substrate. The circuit substrate and the resin plate are inserted to be housed in an opening part of a casing of the electric connection box. A housing is positioned in the opening part and functioning as a cover closing an opening side of the casing. The circuit substrate is supported by the housing and the casing through the resin plate that is held between the housing and the casing while the circuit substrate is spaced from the housing and the casing.
US09653852B2
An interconnection junction for communications cables includes: a first connector; a second connector; and a sealing enclosure having a cavity and formed of a polymeric material, the sealing enclosure comprising an RF-isolating material. The first connector and second connector are joined and reside within the cavity of the sealing enclosure.
US09653850B1
An electrical connector includes an insulating assembly, terminals, an inner shielding assembly and an outer shielding assembly. The insulating assembly has a tongue board at a front. The terminals are insert molded the insulating assembly and are divided into an upper row and a lower row with contacts portions located at a top side and a bottom side of the tongue board. Outmost two of the upper row of terminals and outmost two of the lower row of terminals are grounding terminals, outsides of rears of the contact portions of the grounding terminals form touch portions. The inner shielding assembly includes an upper shielding piece and a lower shielding piece located to a rear of the tongue board. The outer shielding assembly includes a shielding sleeve sleeving and spaced from the tongue board, the shielding sleeve contacts with at least one of the upper shielding piece and the lower shielding piece.
US09653842B2
The present disclosure provides a USB connection system for an open cab vehicle such as a golf car, turf-care vehicle, small maintenance vehicle, shuttle vehicle, cargo vehicle, all-terrain vehicle, utility terrain vehicle, motorcycle, and/or other utility vehicle, and/or other outdoor/off-road vehicle. The USB connection system comprises a module structured and operable to receive and retain at least one USB port, a water protected circuit board located remotely from the USB port(s) and electrically and communicatively connected to the USB port(s). The USB connection system additionally comprises a laterally rotatable slide-away cover that is pivotally connected to the module via a pivot pin longitudinally disposed within a module housing such that the cover can be laterally rotated, between an opened and a closed position about the pivot pin. Furthermore, in various implementations, the module includes at least one water drainage channel structured and operable to drain water away from the USB port(s).
US09653833B2
Providing an electrical component socket that enables stability of an electric resistance value to be maintained even after repeated use. A contact pin of the present invention includes: a lower contact portion; a spring portion that is provided so as to extend upward from the lower contact portion; a linear portion provided so as to extend upward from an upper end of the spring portion; and an upper contact portion that is formed on an upper end side of the linear portion. The upper contact portion includes a first contact protrusion arranged on an extension of the linear portion and a plurality of second contact protrusions arranged at respective positions off the extension of the linear portion.
US09653830B1
An extending device includes a first riser card, a signal coupling card and a second riser card. A first electric socket of the first riser card is disposed on a side surface of a first circuit board of the first riser card, and a first electric connector is disposed at an edge of the first circuit board. A second electric connector and a third electric connector of the signal coupling card are respectively disposed on both side surfaces of a third circuit board of the signal coupling card. The second electric connector inserts into the first electric socket. A second electric socket and an extending socket of the second riser are respectively disposed on both side surfaces of a second circuit board of the second riser. The third electric connector inserts into the second electric socket and the extending socket is electrically connected to the second electric socket.
US09653826B2
An interface mounting device includes a circuit board with a connector and a bracket configured to receive an interface device and including a hook. The circuit board defines an installation opening and a cutout extending from an edge of the installation opening. The bracket is received in the installation opening. The hook is engaged with the circuit board through the cutout. The bracket defines a guiding slot aligned with the connector. The guiding slot is configured for a coupling portion of the interface device to pass through and coupling to the connector. A printed circuit board assembly with the interface mounting device is also provided.
US09653821B1
An antenna structure with a radio frequency (RF) circuit, an antenna carrier, and conductive material disposed on the antenna carrier and coupled to the RF circuit slot is described. The conductive material can radiate or receive first electromagnetic energy as a loop antenna in a first frequency band in a second order mode. The conductive material can include a first slot between portions of the conductive material and a second slot between other portions of the conductive material. The first slot or the second slot can radiate or receive second electromagnetic energy as a slot antenna at a second frequency band in a first order mode. The second frequency band can be higher than the first frequency band.
US09653815B2
The present invention discloses a metamaterial, a metamaterial preparation method, and a metamaterial design method. The metamaterial includes: at least one layer of substrate and multiple artificial microstructures, where the metamaterial includes an electromagnetic area, and an artificial microstructure in the electromagnetic area generates a preset electromagnetic response to an electromagnetic wave that is incident into the electromagnetic area. Due to a simple making process, a low processing cost, and simple craft precision control, the metamaterial according to the present invention may replace various mechanical parts that have complicated curved surfaces and need to have a specific electromagnetic modulation function, and may also be attached onto various mechanical parts that have complicated curved surfaces to implement a desired electromagnetic modulation function. In addition, by expanding a curved surface and division into electromagnetic areas, a three-dimensional structure metamaterial has a high electromagnetic responsivity and a wide application scope.
US09653804B2
An electronically scanned array (ESA) system comprises a first ESA assembly including a first antenna system coupled to a first plurality of transmit/receive modules and a second ESA assembly including a second antenna system coupled to a second plurality of transmit/receive modules. The ESA system also includes a manifold system coupled to the first and second ESA assemblies. The manifold system including an RF signal processing system for processing signals received from the first and second ESA assemblies.
US09653795B2
A node in a wireless communication network, the node comprising at least two antenna columns which are physically separated from each other, each antenna column comprising at least one dual polarized antenna element. Each antenna element has a first polarization and a second polarization. The node further comprises at least two four-port power dividers/combiners, each power divider/combiner having a first port pair and a second port pair, where, for each power divider/combiner, power input into any port in a port pair is isolated from the other port in said port pair, but divided between the ports in the other port pair. Antenna ports of antenna columns that are pair-wise physically separated, from those pairs of antenna columns that are most physically separated to those that are least physically separated, are cross-wise connected to the first port pair in corresponding power dividers/combiners.
US09653793B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for a frequency reconfigurable filtenna system. Implementations incorporate a reconfigurable band-pass filter within the feeding line of an antenna structure. The combination of the filter and the antenna may be referred to as a “filtenna”. Implementations integrate both the band-pass filter and the antenna within the same substrate, permitting easier, more efficient and more compact integration in the transceiver hardware. Moreover, by using this configuration, the biasing of the switching elements are not present in the radiating plane of the antenna. This reduces the negative effect of the biasing lines on the antenna radiation performance, as we!! as provides a tunable filtered antenna radiation characteristic.
US09653792B2
A window antenna wherein a silver ceramic trace is printed on an interior ply, and a connector is attached to the trace and a signal input. A length of the embedded antenna wire is oriented parallel to a coextensive length of the trace to form a coupled pass band filter. The coupled pass band filter provides a convenient feed to the antenna wire and eliminates a connection that extends from the edge of the laminate.
US09653791B2
An antenna device includes a substrate, a first antenna element disposed on a surface of the substrate, a second antenna element disposed on the surface of the substrate, the second antenna element being a linear shape, a length of the second antenna element being shorter than twice a length of a side that determines a lowest operating frequency of the first antenna element, a grounding conductor disposed so as not to overlap with the first antenna element and the second antenna element, a feeder coupled to the first antenna element, a first switch and a second switch disposed at the feeder wire, a first matching element and a second matching element disposed between the feeder wire and the grounding conductor, respectively, a third switch configured to switch connecting states of the first antenna element and the second antenna element.
US09653788B2
The space below the hood of a vehicle is used for the positioning of a vertical plate part of thin profile mobile antenna structures. The ground reference can be added directly in the form of the base plate.
US09653787B2
Antenna system for a vehicle including a first directive antenna device and a second antenna device for a frequency band of operation, and a reflector plane, where the first directive antenna device includes a first ground plane, a first dielectric substrate, a first antenna group shorted to the first ground plane and having a first radiating conductor and a second radiating conductor, forming a first configuration and connected to the reflector plane by transmission lines electromagnetically coupled to the frequency band of operation, the reflector plane, disposed forming an angle with respect to the first dielectric substrate, the first directive antenna device radiating in a direction of radiation, and the second antenna device, connected to the first directive antenna device, radiating in an opposing direction to the first directive antenna device.
US09653784B2
A wearable antenna is operably positioned on a wearer's skin and is operably connected the wearer's tissue. A first antenna matched to the wearer's tissue is operably positioned on the wearer's skin. A second antenna matched to the air is operably positioned on the wearer's skin. Transmission lines connect the first antenna and the second antenna.
US09653776B2
An adjusting method of an antenna of the outdoor wireless access point includes steps of A. moving the antenna in a predetermined pointing range, and obtaining received signal strength indications in multiple pointing directions at different time points; B. separating the pointing range into at least two sub-ranges, and averaging the received signal strength indications in all pointing directions in each sub-range; and C. moving the antenna pointing at the sub-range in which the average received signal strength indication is the highest and setting the sub-range as the next predetermined pointing range, and repeating the steps A to C until the step C is executed a predetermined times. Besides, the composition elements of the outer wireless access point are also disclosed.
US09653766B2
A polarizer, such as a septum polarizer, which may alter between two states wherein, effectively, the septum is rotated 180 degrees around the longitudinal axis of the waveguide so that the polarization of the signals in the waveguide may easily be altered without having to alter receivers/transmitters connected to the waveguide.
US09653765B2
The present invention generally relates to batteries and, in particular, to electrodes for use in batteries such as non-aqueous metal-air batteries, for example, lithium-air batteries, as well as in other electrochemical devices. Such devices may exhibit improved performance characteristics (e.g. power, cycle life, capacity, etc.). One aspect of the present invention is generally directed to electrodes for use in such devices containing one or more pores or channels for transport of gas and/or electrolyte therein, e.g., forming an open porous network. In certain embodiments, the electrolyte may be a gel or a polymer. In some embodiments, there may be network of such channels or pores within the electrode such that no active site within the electrode is greater than about 50 micrometers distant from a gas channel. In some embodiments, such systems may be created using electrodes containing gel or electrolyte polymers, and/or by forming electrodes having different wettabilities such that certain regions preferentially attract the electrolyte compared to other regions, thereby causing self-organization of the electrolyte within the electrode. Other aspects of the invention are generally directed to methods of making such batteries or electrochemical devices, methods of using such batteries or electrochemical devices, kits involving such batteries or electrochemical devices, or the like.
US09653764B2
A method for recovering sodium from a sodium-sulfur battery of the present invention includes a reaction step of injecting a treatment liquid toward the sodium housed in a sodium-housing component in the battery container and causing the sodium to react with the treatment liquid so as to generate a reaction liquid; and a circulation step of generating the treatment liquid by adjusting the concentration and liquid temperature of the reaction liquid, and, in the reaction step, while the entire amount of the sodium is reacted with the treatment liquid, the treatment liquid is continuously injected toward the sodium.
US09653760B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery units, a protective circuit module on each of the plurality of battery units and that is electrically connected to each of the plurality of battery units, and an upper cover on the protective circuit module. Each of the battery units includes a bare cell including a can, an electrode assembly in the can, and a cap plate that seals an opening of the can, and a holder between the bare cell and the protective circuit module. The bare cells are located side by side along a first direction such that each cap plate is exposed along the same direction. One of the holder and the upper cover includes a protrusion that protrudes in a second direction, and another one of the holder and the upper cover includes a hole combined with the protrusion.
US09653758B2
Provided are a solid electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery, and a surface treatment method thereof, and more specifically, a solid electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery capable of having excellent electrochemical performance by improving wettability with respect to molten sodium, even under a low temperature operation environment of 250° C. or less, and a surface treatment method thereof.
US09653746B2
A manifold for a redox flow battery capable of effectively suppressing a shunt current has a supply flow pathway and an exhaust flow pathway respectively formed at a left side and a right side of an anode or cathode electrode electrolyte reaction unit so as to include a U-shaped curved portion, and the U-shaped curved portion is formed to be positioned on the upper part of the top or the lower part of the bottom of the first electrode electrolyte reaction unit. When the manifold is applied to a redox flow battery, the supply flow pathway and the exhaust flow pathway having the U-shaped curved portion are formed on the upper part of the top or the lower part of the bottom of the electrode electrolyte reaction unit to prevent an electrolyte existing in the inside of a stack and a pipe from passing through the U-shaped curved portion.
US09653741B2
A fuel cell stack includes at least one membrane electrolyte assembly having an electrolyte membrane, an anode on a first surface of the electrolyte membrane, and a cathode on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the electrolyte membrane; and at least one supply member coupled to the electrolyte membrane and configured to supply a conductive material to the electrolyte membrane.
US09653732B2
A process for producing a phosphate by: introducing oxidic metal(II)-, metal(III)- metal(IV) or compounds with mixed oxide stages selected from hydroxides, oxides, oxide-hydroxides, oxide-hydrates, carbonates and hydroxide carbonates, of at least one of the metals Mn, Fe, Co and Ni with the elemental forms or alloys of at least one of the metals Mn, Fe, Co and/or Ni into an aqueous medium containing phosphoric acid, and reacting the oxidic metal compounds with elemental forms or alloys of the metals to obtain divalent metal ions, removing solid substances, producing an alkali metal phosphate receiver solution with a pH-value of 5 to 8 and metering the aqueous solution into the receiver solution and at the same time metering a basic aqueous alkali hydroxide solution that the pH-value of the resulting reaction mixture is kept in the region of 5 to 8 to precipitate the desired phosphate.
US09653730B2
An electrochemically active material comprising a mixture or blend of two groups of particles, exhibits synergetic effect. The two groups of particles are compounds of formula LixHyV3O8 and compounds of formula LixMyPO4 wherein M is one or more transition metals, comprising at least one metal which is capable of undergoing oxidation to a higher valence state. In order to obtain a synergistic effect, the particles of formula (I) and the particles of formule (II) are present in amounts of 5:95% by weight to 95:5% by weight.
US09653723B2
A battery terminal includes a terminal main body provided in opposed plates thereof as a pair, formed by folding approximately in a U shape a strip plate made of a conductive metal, respectively with electrode insertion holes in which a rod-like electrode projecting from a terminal attaching surface in a battery is sequentially inserted, and formed to extend toward an outer edge of the terminal attaching surface at time of being connected to the rod-like electrode, and a joint joining the pair of the opposed plates in a state in which the opposed plates surface-contact and overlap each other on an opposite side of a folded part as seen from the electrode insertion hole.
US09653712B2
Disclosed herein is a battery module including a battery cell array including two or more stacked battery cells, each of which is configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including a cathode, an anode, and a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode, is received in a battery case together with an electrolyte in a sealed state, and fixing members, each of which is integrally coupled to a portion or the entirety of an outer edge of a corresponding one of the battery cells, each of the fixing members being provided with an assembly type coupling structure, by which the fixing members are coupled to each other such that the battery cell array forms a stable stack structure.
US09653708B2
A display comprises a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, an electrode structure, and a light-emitting combination (LEC) layer positioned between the first and second substrates, wherein the LEC layer comprises a light emitting material and a LC material, and a horizontal or vertical electric field is generated when a voltage is applied to that electrode structure. One of exemplified displays has an electrode structure comprising a first electrode and a second electrode oppositely disposed, and the LEC layer is positioned between the first and second electrodes, wherein a vertical electric field is generated when a voltage is applied. The device can further comprise an electron injection layer and a hole transport layer. Another exemplified display has an electrode structure arranged on one side of the first substrate, and a horizontal electric field is generated when a voltage is applied.
US09653699B2
Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.
US09653697B2
A light-emitting element includes a first electrode; a first light-emitting layer over the first electrode, containing a first phosphorescent compound and a first host material; a second light-emitting layer over the first light-emitting layer, containing a second phosphorescent compound and a second host material; a third light-emitting layer over the second light-emitting layer, containing a third phosphorescent compound and a third host material; and a second electrode over the third light-emitting layer. Between peaks of emission spectra of the first, second, and third phosphorescent compounds, the peak of the emission spectrum of the second phosphorescent compound is on the longest wavelength side and that of the emission spectrum of the third phosphorescent compound is on the shortest wavelength side. The third host material has higher triplet excitation energy than the first host material and the second host material.
US09653682B1
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including an Nth metal layer, a planar bottom barrier layer over and in contact with the Nth metal layer, a data storage layer over the planar bottom barrier layer, an electrode over the data storage layer, and an (N+1)th metal layer over the electrode. N is a positive integer. A manufacturing method for the semiconductor structure is also provided.
US09653679B1
A method of making a magnetoresistive structure is disclosed. The method includes forming a pillar structure including a magnetic tunnel junction on a substrate that includes a first electrode, depositing a stressed layer onto a pillar structure sidewall, and depositing a second electrode above the magnetic tunnel junction.
US09653676B2
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric device including a piezoelectric thin film, a support member, a first electrode, and a cavity formed at a support member side of the first electrode between the piezoelectric thin film and the support member includes forming a sacrificial layer in an area to define the cavity, forming an etching adjustment layer which adjusts progress of etching in a region where the first electrode is exposed to a side of the piezoelectric thin film, simultaneously forming a through hole through which a portion of the sacrificial layer is exposed to the side of the piezoelectric thin film and an opening which the first electrode is exposed to the side of the piezoelectric thin film by etching the piezoelectric thin film and the etching adjustment layer, and removing the sacrificial layer through the through hole.
US09653672B2
A thermoelectric material containing a dichalcogenide compound represented by Formula 1 and having low thermoelectric conductivity and high Seebeck coefficient: RaTbX2-nYn (1) wherein R is a rare earth element, T includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Group 1 elements, Group 2 elements, and a transition metal, X includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, and Te, Y is different from X and includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, P, As, Sb, Bi, C, Si, Ge, Sn, B, Al, Ga and In, a is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 1, b is greater than or equal to 0 and less than 1, and n is greater than or equal to 0 and less than 2.
US09653665B2
Affixed over a transparent growth substrate (34) of an LED die (30) is a transparent rectangular pillar (40), having a footprint approximately the same size as the LED die. The pillar height is greater than a length of the LED die, and the pillar has an index (n) approximately equal to that of the substrate (e.g., 1.8), so there is virtually no TIR at the interface due to the matched indices. Surrounding the pillar and the LED die is a lens portion (42) having a diameter between 1.5-3 times the length of the LED die. The index of the lens portion is about 0.8 times the index of the substrate. The lens portion may have a dome shape (46). A large portion of the light exiting the substrate is internally reflected off the lateral pillar/cylinder interface and exits the top surface of the pillar. Thus, the emission is narrowed and light extraction efficiency is increased.
US09653663B2
A package for multiple LED's and for attachment to a substrate includes a body, which includes a top body layer, a cavity disposed through the top body layer and having a floor for bonding to the multiple LED's, and a thermal conduction layer bonded to the top body layer and having a top surface forming the floor of the cavity and a bottom surface. The thermal conduction layer includes a thermally conducting ceramic material disposed between the floor and the bottom surface. The package also includes a plurality of LED bonding pads in direct contact with the floor and configured to bond to the multiple LED's and a plurality of electrical bonding pads in direct contact with the floor, proximate to the LED bonding pads, and in electrical communication with a plurality of electrical contacts disposed on a surface of the body.
US09653659B2
Provided is a light emitting device having a phosphor layer on a surface of a semiconductor light emitting element and reducing unevenness in light distribution color, and a method of manufacturing the same. A light emitting device 100 includes a light emitting element 20 with a supporting body which is composed of a semiconductor light emitting element 1 and a supporting body 10, and a phosphor layer 7 which continuously covers an upper surface and side surfaces of the semiconductor light emitting element 1, and side surfaces of the supporting body 10. The phosphor layer 7 is configured such that at least a lower portion of the side surface of the supporting body 10 is thinner than the upper surface and the side surface of the semiconductor light emitting element 1. Such a configuration of the phosphor layer can be formed by applying a spray-coating of a slurry containing phosphor particles and a thermosetting resin in a solvent on the semiconductor light emitting element 1 side of the light emitting element 20 which has the supporting body.
US09653657B2
A semiconductor light emitting apparatus comprised of a semiconductor light emitting device (100) having a layered semiconductor layer (110) configured by layering at least two or more semiconductor layers (103), (105) and a light emitting layer (104) to emit first light, and a wavelength conversion member that covers at least apart of the semiconductor light emitting device (100), absorbs at least a part of the first light and that emits second light with a wavelength different from that of the first light, characterized in that the semiconductor light emitting device (100) is provided with a fine structure layer, as a component, including dots comprised of a plurality of convex portions or concave portions extending in the out-of-plane direction on one of main surfaces forming the semiconductor light emitting device (100), the fine structure layer forms a two-dimensional photonic crystal (102) controlled by at least one of a pitch among the dots, a dot diameter and a dot height, and that the two-dimensional photonic crystal (102) has at least two or more periods each of 1 μm or more.
US09653656B2
An LED package with trenches traversing a die pad to provide a mechanical interlock mechanism to strengthen bonding between the die pad and an insulator such that de-lamination is less likely to occur between the die pad and the insulator. A chip carrying region is defined by a barrier portion formed by the insulator in the trenches and in gaps between electrodes and the die pad, such that a light converting layer is confined within the barrier portion.
US09653650B2
A method for providing (Al,Ga,In)N thin films on Ga-face c-plane (Al,Ga,In)N substrates using c-plane surfaces with a miscut greater than at least 0.35 degrees toward the m-direction. Light emitting devices are formed on the smooth (Al,Ga,In)N thin films. Devices fabricated on the smooth surfaces exhibit improved performance.
US09653647B2
Various embodiments of SST dies and solid state lighting (“SSL”) devices with SST dies, assemblies, and methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a SST die includes a substrate material, a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material on the substrate material, an active region between the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, and a support structure defined by the substrate material. In some embodiments, the support structure has an opening that is vertically aligned with the active region.
US09653636B2
The invention relates to a device for interconnecting photovoltaic cells having contacts on their back side, comprising at least one layer of a woven produced from electrically insulating fibers, comprising at least one thread or tape section made of an electrically conductive material woven with said fibers and arranged so as to be flush with the surface of at least one region of the woven in order to form an electrical contact region intended to be connected to a contact pad located on the back side of a cell. The invention also relates to a module of interconnected photovoltaic cells having contacts on the back side, comprising an interconnecting device arranged along the back side of the cells, and a process for manufacturing such a module.
US09653629B2
The present invention relates to an exclusive alloy substrate material for CIGS solar cells. Particularly, the present invention provides a substrate material having a thermal expansion coefficient similar to that of a CIGS layer. The substrate material according to the present invention may prevent damage such as interlayer separation due to differing thermal expansion coefficients from occurring because the substrate material has a thermal expansion coefficient similar to that of the CIGS layer.
US09653628B2
A photovoltaic device includes a substrate, a back contact layer disposed above the substrate, and an absorber layer disposed above the back contact layer. The absorber layer includes at least two regions at respectively different horizontally locations. Each respective region has a respectively different concentration profile of an ingredient at a respective depth of the absorber layer.
US09653626B2
There is provided a photovoltaic device (100) having a substrate (10), i-type amorphous layers (16i, 18i) formed over a region of at least a part of a back surface of the substrate, and an i-type amorphous layer (12i) formed over a region of at least a part of a light-receiving surface of the substrate (10); and characterized in that electrodes (24n, 24p) are provided on the back surface and no electrode is provided on the light-receiving surface, and an electrical resistance per unit area of the back surface side i-type amorphous layers is lower than an electrical resistance per unit area of the light-receiving surface side i-type amorphous layer.
US09653624B2
The following configuration is adopted in order to provide a highly reliable optival sensor device which enhances the reliability of devices without making the devices unsuitable for size and thickness reductions. The light sensor comprises an element-mounting portion (3) having a cavity and a lid member closely attached thereinto, the lid member being composed of: a window (2) constituted of a phosphate-based glass to which properties approximate to a spectral luminous efficacy properties have been imparted by compositional control; and a frame (1) constituted of a phosphate-based glass having light-shielding properties. The lid member is aLaminated glass member obtained by cutting the phosphate-based glass having the spectral luminous efficacy properties into individual pieces, fitting the glass piece into the opening of the phosphate-based glass (1) having light-shielding properties, the opening having been formed so as to have a size approximately equal to the cavity size, and melting and integrating the glasses member.
US09653620B2
A semiconductor device including a p or p+ doped portion and an n or n+ doped portion separated from the p or p+ doped portion by a semiconductor drift portion. The device further includes an insulating portion provided adjacent the drift portion and at least one of the doped portions in a region where the drift portion and the at least one doped portion meet. The device further includes at least one additional portion, wherein the at least one additional portion is located such that, when the doped portions and the at least one additional portion are biased, the electrical potential lines leave the semiconductor drift portion homogeneously.
US09653602B1
Various embodiments disclose a method for fabricating one or more vertical fin field-effect-transistors. In one embodiment, a spacer layer is formed in contact with at least one fin structure. The at least one fin structure contacts a source/drain layer formed on a substrate and includes a channel material. A high-k dielectric layer is formed in contact with the spacer layer and the at least one fin structure. A work function metal layer is formed in contact with and conforms to the high-k dielectric layer. A metal gate layer is formed in contact with the work function metal layer. The metal gate layer includes an intrinsic stress inducing a stress on the at least one fin structure.
US09653593B2
The present disclosure provides a FinFET device and method of fabricating a FinFET device. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a fin structure on the substrate, forming a gate structure including a gate dielectric and gate electrode, the gate structure overlying a portion of the fin structure, forming a protection layer over another portion of the fin structure, and thereafter performing an implantation process to form source and drain regions.
US09653591B2
A semiconductor device includes a first compound semiconductor material, a second compound semiconductor material on the first compound semiconductor material, the second compound semiconductor material having a first doping concentration and including a different material than the first compound semiconductor material, a control electrode, and at least one buried semiconductor material region having a second doping concentration different from the first doping concentration. The at least one buried semiconductor material region is disposed in the second compound semiconductor material in a region other than a region of the second compound semiconductor material being covered by the control electrode.
US09653578B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a TFT, its manufacturing method and a display device. A first region of an active layer of the TFT corresponding to a gap between a source electrode and a drain electrode includes a metallic oxide semiconductor layer and a silicon semiconductor layer arranged on the metallic oxide semiconductor layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are directly lapped onto the active layer.
US09653558B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a source region, a drain region, a gate, and a dummy contact. The source region and the drain region are formed in the substrate. The gate is formed on the substrate and between the source region and the drain region. The dummy contact includes a plurality of dummy plugs formed on the substrate, wherein the dummy plugs have depths decreasing towards the drain region.
US09653552B2
A fin-FET or other multi-gate transistor is disclosed. The transistor comprises a semiconductor substrate having a first lattice constant, and a semiconductor fin extending from the semiconductor substrate. The fin has a second lattice constant, different from the first lattice constant, and a top surface and two opposed side surfaces. The transistor also includes a gate dielectric covering at least a portion of the top surface and the two opposed side surfaces, and a gate electrode covering at least a portion of the gate dielectric. The resulting channel has a strain induced therein by the lattice mismatch between the fin and the substrate. This strain can be tuned by selection of the respective materials.
US09653547B1
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate stacks spaced apart from each other on a substrate, an etch stop layer formed on an upper surface of each gate stack, a dielectric cap layer formed on each etch stop layer, a plurality of source/drain regions formed on the substrate between respective pairs of adjacent gate stacks, and a plurality of contacts respectively corresponding to each source/drain region, wherein the contacts are separated from the gate structures and contact their corresponding source/drain regions.
US09653540B2
A method of manufacturing semiconductor devices in a semiconductor wafer comprises forming charge compensation device structures in the semiconductor wafer. An electric characteristic related to the charge compensation device structures is measured. At least one of proton irradiation and annealing parameters are adjusted based on the measured electric characteristic. The semiconductor wafer is irradiated with protons and annealed based on the at least one of the adjusted proton irradiation and annealing parameters. Laser beam irradiation parameters are adjusted with respect to different positions on the semiconductor wafer based on the measured electric characteristic. The semiconductor wafer is irradiated with a photon beam at the different positions on the wafer based on the photon beam irradiation parameters.
US09653535B2
Method of forming a deep trench capacitor are provided. The method may include forming a deep trench in a substrate; forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) stack within a portion of the deep trench, the MIM stack forming including forming an outer electrode by co-depositing a refractory metal and silicon into the deep trench; and filling a remaining portion of the deep trench with a semiconductor.
US09653531B2
A method of manufacturing a package may include: providing a first device having a first redistribution layer (RDL) and an insulator layer disposed over the first RDL; and forming a first micro-bump line over the insulator layer of the first device. The first micro-bump line may extend laterally over a surface of the insulator layer facing away from the first RDL, and a first inductor of the package comprises the first RDL and the first micro-bump line.
US09653527B2
A display apparatus comprising: a base comprising; a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed over the substrate, and a pixel definition layer formed over the plurality of pixel electrodes; and an intermediate layer formed over each of the plurality of pixel electrodes of the base. In one implementation, the base is divided into a plurality of areas which comprises a first area and a second area, wherein the intermediate layer formed over the first area of the base has a first thickness, and the intermediate layer formed over the second area of the base has a second thickness substantially different from the first thickness wherein the intermediate layer comprises a common layer and a functional layer, and wherein the common layer of the intermediate layer formed over the first area of the base has a thickness substantially different from that of the common layer of the intermediate layer formed over the second area of the base.
US09653525B2
A light emitting display device includes a substrate, a first electrode, a pixel defining layer, a light emitting layer, a second electrode, and a reflective pattern. The substrate includes a plurality of pixels, each including a top emission pixel in a first area and a bottom emission pixel in a second area. The first electrode is in the first area and the second area. The pixel defining layer includes pixel openings to expose the first electrode and reflective pattern openings between adjacent pixels. The light emitting layer is on the first electrode, and the second electrode is on the light emitting layer. The reflective pattern is in the reflective pattern opening and spaced from the second electrode in the first area.
US09653519B2
A light emitting device having a high definition, a high aperture ratio and a high reliability is provided. The present invention realizes a high definition and a high aperture ratio for a flat panel display of full colors using luminescent colors of red, green and blue without being dependent upon the film formation method and deposition precision of an organic compound layer by forming the laminated sections 21, 22 by means of intentionally and partially overlapping different organic compound layers of adjacent light emitting elements. Moreover, the protective film 32a containing hydrogen is formed and the drawback in the organic compound layer is terminated with hydrogen, thereby realizing the enhancement of the brightness and the reliability.
US09653511B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor with peninsular ground contacts includes (a) a substrate having a plurality of pixel units arranged in rows of pixel units and (b) a plurality of ground contacts for grounding the pixel units, wherein the ground contacts are formed in respective peninsular regions of the substrate within respective ones of the pixel units, and wherein each of the peninsular regions is only partly enclosed by a shallow trench isolation and the peninsular regions have alternating orientation along each of the rows of pixel units.
US09653504B1
A chip-scale image sensor packaging method with black masking includes (a) cutting a composite wafer having a plurality of image sensors bonded to a common glass substrate to form slots in the common glass substrate, wherein the slots define a cover glass for each of the image sensors, respectively, (b) forming black mask in the slots such that the black mask, for each of the image sensors, spans perimeter of the cover glass as viewed cross-sectionally along optical axis of the image sensors, and (c) dicing through the black mask in the slots to singulate a plurality of chip-scale packaged image sensors each including one of the image sensors and the cover glass bonded thereto, with sides of the cover glass facing away from the optical axis being at least partly covered by the black mask.
US09653501B2
An image sensor including a color filter and a method of manufacturing the image sensor are provided. The image sensor includes a light-sensing layer configured to detect incident light, and convert the incident light to an electrical signal. The image sensor further includes a color filter layer disposed on the light-sensing layer, the color filter layer including color filters, each of the color filters being configured to transmit, among the incident light, light in a wavelength band to the light-sensing layer. The image sensor further includes an isolation layer disposed between the color filters, the isolation layer being configured to optically isolate the color filters from each other. An upper portion of each of the color filters has a cylindrical shape, and a lower portion of each of the color filters has a hemispherical shape.
US09653498B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a pixel region, each of the plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element including a first electrode provided above a substrate, a second electrode provided above the first electrode and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, an interconnection layer provided between the substrate and the first electrode, the interconnection layer including a first conductive member extending in a first direction, and a second conductive member arranged at a level lower than the first conductive member and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first contact portion provided in the pixel region, the first contact portion electrically connecting the second electrode and the first conductive member, and a second contact portion electrically connecting the first conductive member and the second conductive member.
US09653495B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes: forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a gate insulating film on the substrate; forming an oxide semiconductor on the substrate; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on the substrate; forming a passivation film on the substrate; forming a common electrode on the substrate; forming an interlayer insulating film on the substrate; forming a pixel electrode on the substrate; forming an alignment film on the substrate; radiating UV-rays onto the oxide semiconductor; and heat-treating the oxide semiconductor irradiated with the UV-rays. The radiating UV-rays is performed after the forming an oxide semiconductor, and the heat-treating is performed after the forming a passivation film.
US09653486B2
To provide a semiconductor device with low power consumption. In transistors electrically connected to function as a comparator circuit, back gates are provided in the transistors functioning as current sources, and the transistors functioning as the current sources can be switched between conduction and non-conduction in accordance with a control signal supplied to the back gates. The control signal makes the transistor conductive in a period during which the comparator circuit operates and non-conductive in the other period. A semiconductor layer to be a channel formation region of the transistor included in the semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor.
US09653483B2
The invention provides a display motherboard, a display panel and a display device for solving the problem of unsmooth cutting of the display motherboard in the prior art during cutting. In the display motherboard, the display panel and the display device provided by the present invention, a cutting area of the display motherboard is provided with a raised portion on one side close to sealant, and the raised portion can make the cutting stress more concentrated when the display motherboard is cut, so that adhesion of the sealant to substrates is reduced and thus the display motherboard is cut more smoothly.
US09653480B1
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor device and resulting structures having a nanosheet capacitor by forming a first nanosheet stack over a substrate. The first nanosheet stack includes a first nanosheet vertically stacked over a second nanosheet. A second nanosheet stack is formed over the substrate adjacent to the first nanosheet stack. The second nanosheet stack includes a first nanosheet vertically stacked over a second nanosheet. Exposed portions of the first and second nanosheets of the second nanosheet stack are doped and gates are formed over channel regions of the first and second nanosheet stacks.
US09653474B2
A method for fabricating an electronic device including a semiconductor memory may include: forming a stack structure in which an interlayer dielectric layer and a material layer are alternately stacked on a substrate; forming a plurality of holes arranged to have a substantially constant interval while exposing the substrate by passing through the stack structure; forming a channel layer in a first hole of the plurality of holes; forming a dummy layer in a second hole of the plurality of holes; forming a mask pattern on a resultant structure including the dummy layer and the channel layer to expose an area extending in a first direction while overlapping the dummy layer arranged in the first direction; and forming a slit by etching the stack structure using the mask pattern as an etching barrier and removing the dummy layer.
US09653472B2
According to example embodiments, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes alternately stacking interlayer insulating layers and intermediate layers on a substrate, forming openings passing through the interlayer insulating layers and the intermediate layers to form recessed regions in the substrate, forming first epitaxial layers on recessed surfaces in the recessed regions, and forming second epitaxial layers using the first epitaxial layers as seed layers. The second epitaxial layers fill the recessed regions and extend above the substrate.
US09653465B1
A method of forming a semiconductor device and resulting structures having vertical transistors with different gate lengths are provided. A sacrificial gate is formed over a channel region of a semiconductor fin. The sacrificial gate includes a first material. The first material in a first portion of the sacrificial gate adjacent to the semiconductor fin is converted to a second material, the first portion having a first depth. The first portion of the sacrificial gate is then removed.
US09653462B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin type active pattern extended in a first direction and disposed on a substrate. A first gate electrode and a second gate electrode are disposed on the fin type active pattern. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are extended in a second direction crossing the first direction. A trench region is disposed in the fin type active pattern and between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode. A source/drain region is disposed on a surface of the trench region. A source/drain contact is disposed on the source/drain region. The source/drain contact includes a first insulating layer disposed on the source/drain region and a metal oxide layer disposed on the first insulating layer.
US09653456B2
A method is provided for forming a metal-insulator-metal capacitor in a replacement metal gate module. The method includes providing a gate cap formed on a gate. The method further includes removing a portion of the gate cap and forming a recess in the gate. A remaining portion of the gate forms a first electrode of the capacitor. The method also includes depositing a dielectric on remaining portions of the gate cap and the remaining portion of the gate. The method additionally includes depositing a conductive material on the dielectric. The method further includes removing a portion of the conductive material and portions of the dielectric to expose a remaining portion of the conductive material and a remaining portion of the dielectric. The remaining portion of the conductive material forms a second electrode of the capacitor. The remaining portion of the dielectric forms an insulator of the capacitor.
US09653454B1
Methods to forming trigger-voltage tunable cascode transistors for an ESD protection circuit in FinFET IC devices and resulting devices. Embodiments include providing a substrate including adjacent first-type well areas, over the substrate, each pair of first-type well areas separated by a second-type well area; providing one or more junction areas in each first and second type well area, each junction area being a first type or a second type; forming fins, spaced from each other, perpendicular to and over the first and second type junction areas; and forming junction-type devices by forming electrical connections between the first and second type junction areas in the first-type well areas and the substrate, wherein a first-stage junction-type device in a first-type well area includes stacked first and second type junction areas, and wherein the first-stage junction-type device is adjacent a second-type well area including first and second type junction areas.
US09653453B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device is disclosed including at least an NPN transistor and a PNP transistor coupled between a first node and a second node, wherein the ESD protection device may be configured to sink current from the first node to the second node in response to an ESD event. The transistors may be coupled such that a collector of the NPN may be coupled to the first node. A collector of the PNP may be coupled to the second node. A base of the NPN may be coupled to the emitter of the PNP. An emitter of the NPN may be coupled to a base of the PNP.
US09653448B2
In an embodiment, an ESD protection circuit is provided in which diodes may be formed between N+ and P+ diffusions within an insulated semiconductor region and in which additional diodes may be formed between adjacent insulated regions of opposite conduction type as well. The diodes may be used in parallel to form an ESD protection circuit, which may have low on resistance and may sink high ESD current per unit area. To support the formation of the ESD protection circuit, each silicon region may have alternating N+ and P+ diffusions, and adjacent silicon regions may have N+ and P+ diffusions alternating in opposite locations. That is a perpendicular drawn between the N+ diffusions of one adjacent region may intersect P+ diffusions in the other adjacent region, and vice versa.
US09653447B2
Disclosed is a PNP ESD integrated circuit, including a substrate, an active region formed within the substrate, the active region including at least one base region of a second conductivity type, a plurality of collector regions of a first conductivity type formed within the active region, a plurality of emitter regions of the first conductivity type formed within the active region, and a local interconnect layer (LIL) contacting the plurality of emitter regions and the plurality of collector regions, the LIL including cooling fin contacts formed on the collector regions to enhance the current handling capacity of the collector regions.
US09653446B1
An IC includes logic cells, selected from a standard cell library, and fill cells, configured for compatibility with the standard logic cells. The fill cells contain structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). The IC includes such NCEM-enabled fill cells configured to enable detection and/or measurement of a variety of open-circuit and short-circuit failure modes, including at least one via-open-related failure mode, one AACNT-short-related failure mode, one TS-short-related failure mode, and one AA-short-related failure mode.
US09653435B2
A light emitting diode (LED) package includes a main vertical LED (VLED) die; a short circuit VLED die; a lens support dam; a transparent lens attached to the lens support dam; a first electrode in electrical communication with a first semiconductor layer of the main VLED die and a second electrode in electrical communication with a second semiconductor layer of the main VLED die.
US09653418B2
A method of manufacturing a packaging device may include: forming a plurality of through-substrate vias (TSVs) in a substrate, wherein each of the plurality of TSVs has a protruding portion extending away from a major surface of the substrate. A seed layer may be forming over the protruding portions of the plurality of TSVs, and a conductive ball may be coupled to the seed layer and the protruding portion of each of the plurality of TSVs. The seed layer and the protruding portion of each of the plurality of TSVs may extend into an interior region of the conductive ball.
US09653411B1
An electronic package that includes a substrate; an electronic component mounted to a surface of the substrate; and a porous coating that includes grains of metal powder formed onto the electronic component by melting the metal powder onto the electronic component. An electronic package that includes a substrate; an electronic component mounted to a surface of the substrate; and a porous coating that includes grains of metal powder formed onto the substrate by melting the metal powder onto the substrate. An electronic package that includes a substrate; an electronic component mounted to a surface of the substrate; an initial mold covering the electronic component; and a porous coating that includes grains of metal powder formed onto the initial mold by melting the metal powder onto the initial mold.
US09653408B2
A high-frequency package comprises a die; a plurality of leads; and a die pad; wherein a surface of the die pad is lower than top surfaces of the plurality of leads, the die is disposed on the die pad with the lower surface, such that a top surface of the die is substantially aligned with the top surfaces of the plurality of leads.
US09653405B2
In various embodiments, a chip arrangement may be provided. The chip arrangement may include a metallic carrier. The chip arrangement may also include at least one chip arranged on the metallic carrier, wherein the at least one chip includes a chip contact, wherein the chip contact is electrically coupled to the metallic carrier. The chip arrangement may also include encapsulation material at least partially encapsulating the at least one chip. The chip arrangement may also include an electrically conductive shielding structure formed over at least a portion of the encapsulation material to electrically contact the metallic carrier.
US09653403B1
Structures and processes include a single metallization step for forming a metal nitride liner layer suitable for contact formation. The structure and processes generally includes forming a nitrogen-enriched surface in a deposited metal liner layer or forming a nitrogen-enriched surface in the dielectric material prior to deposition of the metal liner layer. In this manner, nitridization of the metal occurs upon deposition of nitrogen ions into the metal liner layer and/or as a function of additional conventional processing in fabricating the integrated circuit such that the deposited nitrogen ions diffuse into at least a portion of the metal liner layer. As a consequence, only a single metal layer deposition step is needed to form the metal liner layer.
US09653402B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device including a fin structure, a first liner, a first insulating layer and a dummy gate structure. The fin structure is disposed on a substrate, where the fin structure has a trench. The first liner disposed in the trench. The first insulating layer disposed on the first liner. The dummy gate structure is disposed on the first insulating layer and disposed above the trench, where a bottom surface of the dummy gate and a top surface of the fin structure are on a same level.
US09653401B2
A method for forming a buried conductive line is described. A substrate having a trench therein and a contact area thereon is provided, wherein the trench has an end portion in the contact area and a conductive layer is filled in the trench. A mask layer is formed covering the conductive layer in the contact area. The conductive layer is etched back using the mask layer as a mask.
US09653398B1
A method of forming a superconductor device is provided. The method includes depositing a non-oxide based dielectric layer over a substrate, depositing a photoresist material layer over the non-oxide based dielectric layer, irradiating and developing the photoresist material layer to form a via pattern in the photoresist material layer, and etching the non-oxide based dielectric layer to form openings in the non-oxide based dielectric layer based on the via pattern. The method further comprises stripping the photoresist material layer, and filling the openings in the non-oxide based dielectric with a superconducting material to form a set of superconducting contacts.
US09653383B2
A semiconductor device with thick bottom metal comprises a semiconductor chip covered with a top plastic package layer at its front surface and a back metal layer at its back surface, the top plastic package layer surrounds sidewalls of the metal bumps with a top surface of the metal bumps exposing from the top plastic package layer, a die paddle for the semiconductor chip to mount thereon and a plastic package body.
US09653382B2
A semiconductor laser structure is provided. The semiconductor laser comprises a central thermal shunt, a ring shaped silicon waveguide, a contiguous thermal shunt, an adhesive layer and a laser element. The central thermal shunt is located on a SOI substrate which has a buried oxide layer surrounding the central thermal shunt. The ring shaped silicon waveguide is located on the buried oxide layer and surrounds the central thermal shunt. The ring shaped silicon waveguide includes a P-N junction of a p-type material portion, an n-type material portion and a depletion region there between. The contiguous thermal shunt covers a portion of the buried oxide layer and surrounds the ring shaped silicon waveguide. The adhesive layer covers the ring shaped silicon waveguide and the buried oxide layer. The laser element covers the central thermal shunt, the adhesive layer and the contiguous thermal shunt.
US09653373B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip on a package substrate, a heat spreader on the semiconductor chip, a molding layer, an adhesive film between the semiconductor chip and the heat spreader, and a through-hole passing through the heat spreader. The heat spreader includes a first surface and a second surface. The molding layer covers sidewalls of the semiconductor chip and the heat spreader and exposes the first surface of the heat spreader. The adhesive film is on the second surface of the heat spreader.
US09653365B1
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit that include providing or obtaining an extremely thin silicon-on-insulator (ETSOI) substrate, dividing the ETSOI substrate into a low voltage field effect transistor (FET) region and one or both of a medium voltage FET region and a high voltage FET regions, and forming a low voltage FET within the low voltage FET regions and forming a medium and/or high voltage FET within the medium and/or high voltage FET region(s). Channel, source, and drain structures of the low voltage FET are formed in an upper silicon layer that is disposed above a buried oxide layer of the ETSOI substrate, whereas channel, source, and drain structures of the medium and/or high voltage FETs are formed at least partially below the upper silicon layer.
US09653364B1
Provided is a FinFET device including a substrate having at least one fin, first and second gate stacks, first and second strained layers, first and second dielectric layers, and first and second connectors. The first and second gate stacks are across the fin. The first and second strained layers are respectively aside the first and second gate stacks. The first and second dielectric layer are respectively over the first and second strained layers, and the top surface of the first dielectric layer is lower than the top surface of the second dielectric layer. The first connector is through the first dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the first strained layer. The second connector is through the second dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the second strained layer. Besides, the width of the second connector is greater than the width of the first connector.
US09653362B2
A method includes providing a substrate that underlies a layer of SiGe; forming a plurality of fins in the layer of SiGe. Each formed fin has a fin shape and fin location preserving hard mask layer on a top surface. The method also includes depositing Si on a first subset of the set of fins in what will be an nFET area; performing a Si—Ge inter-mixing process on the first subset of fins to reduce a concentration of Ge in the first subset while producing a Si—Ge intermix layer; removing the Si—Ge intermix layer leaving the first subset of fins having the reduced concentration of Ge, and forming a second subset of fins in what will be a pFET area. The second subset is also formed from the layer of SiGe and has a greater percentage of Ge than a percentage of Ge in the first subset of fins.
US09653352B2
Methods for forming metal organic tungsten for middle-of-the-line (MOL) applications are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of processing a substrate includes providing a substrate to a process chamber, wherein the substrate includes a feature formed in a first surface of a dielectric layer of the substrate; exposing the substrate to a plasma formed from a first gas comprising a metal organic tungsten precursor to form a tungsten barrier layer atop the dielectric layer and within the feature, wherein a temperature of the process chamber during formation of the tungsten barrier layer is less than about 225 degrees Celsius; and depositing a tungsten fill layer over the tungsten barrier layer to fill the feature to the first surface.
US09653345B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure for improving critical dimension control is provided in the present invention. The method includes the following steps. An inter metal dielectric (IMD) layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate, a patterned hard mask layer is formed on the IMD layer, and a first aperture is formed in the IMD layer. A first barrier layer is formed on the patterned hard mask layer and a surface of the first aperture, a first patterned resist is formed on the first barrier layer, and an etching process is performed to form a second aperture in the IMD layer by using the first patterned resist as a mask. The first patterned resist is kept from being poisoned because of the first barrier layer, and the critical dimension control of the semiconductor structure may be improved accordingly.
US09653335B2
A laminate comprising a support, a temporary adhesive layer, and a wafer having a circuit-forming front surface and a back surface to be processed allows for processing the wafer. The temporary adhesive layer consists of a first temporary bond layer (A) of thermoplastic organosiloxane polymer which is releasably bonded to the front surface of the wafer and a second temporary bond layer (B) of thermosetting modified siloxane polymer which is laid contiguous to the first temporary bond layer and releasably bonded to the support.
US09653334B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber, a plasma source that generates plasma within the processing chamber, a transfer carrier that has a holding sheet and a frame, the holding sheet holding a substrate, and the frame being attached to the holding sheet so as to surround the substrate, a stage that is provided within the processing chamber and has a gas supply hole formed in a mounting area of the stage for mounting the transfer carrier thereon, an electrostatic chucking part that is provided within the stage and electrostatically attracts the transfer carrier, and a gas supply part that supplies gas through the gas supply hole of the stage to assist separation of the transfer carrier from the stage.
US09653327B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to methods of removing and/or cleaning a substrate surface having different material layers disposed thereon using water vapor plasma treatment. In one embodiment, a method for cleaning a surface of a substrate includes positioning a substrate into a processing chamber, the substrate having a dielectric layer disposed thereon forming openings on the substrate, exposing the dielectric layer disposed on the substrate to water vapor supplied into the chamber to form a plasma in the water vapor, maintaining a process pressure in the chamber at between about 1 Torr and about 120 Torr, and cleaning the contact structure formed on the substrate.
US09653324B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) package including a die having a first side and a second side disposed opposite to the first side. The IC package may further include an encapsulation material encapsulating at least a portion of the die and having a first surface that is adjacent to the first side of the die and a second surface disposed opposite to the first surface. In embodiments, the second surface may be shaped such that one or more cross-section areas of the IC package are thinner than one or more other cross-section areas of the IC package. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09653302B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a floating gate structure formed over the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a dielectric structure formed over the floating gate structure and a control gate structure formed over the dielectric structure. The semiconductor structure further includes a first spacer formed over a lower portion of a sidewall of the control gate structure and an upper spacer formed over an upper portion of the sidewall of the control gate structure. In addition, a portion of the control gate structure is in direct contact with the upper spacer.
US09653294B2
The present inventive concept provides a method of forming a fine pattern including forming a plurality of pillar-shaped guides that are regularly arranged on a feature layer.
US09653283B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate including a transistor and a dummy gate disposed on the transistor, removing the dummy gate on the transistor, performing treatment using hydrogen (H2) on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, so as to remove residue materials left behind from the removal of the dummy gate, and forming a metal gate on the transistor.
US09653276B2
Methods and systems for generating ions from a liquid sample for mass spectrometry are provided herein. In various aspects, the methods and systems can enhance the break-up of a jet of the liquid sample upon injection into an ionization chamber. In some aspects, methods and systems perturb the liquid sample prior to discharge to increase the internal energy of the sample so as to enhance the formation of liquid droplets when the liquid sample is injected into the ionization chamber.
US09653268B2
A method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible includes an inspection method comprising: a measurement step of measuring an infrared absorption spectrum or a Raman shift of a measurement point on an inner surface of the vitreous silica crucible; a determining step of predicting whether a surface defect region is generated or not in the measurement point based on an obtained spectrum to determine a quality of the vitreous silica crucible.
US09653267B2
A liner for a semiconductor processing chamber and a semiconductor processing chamber are provided. In one embodiment, a liner for a semiconductor processing chamber includes a body having an outwardly extending flange. A plurality of protrusions extend from a bottom surface of the flange. The protrusions have a bottom surface defining a contact area that is asymmetrically distributed around the bottom surface of the flange.
US09653263B2
To irradiate a target with a beam of energetic electrically charged particles, the beam is formed and imaged onto a target, where it generates a pattern image composed of pixels. For a pattern which comprises a primary pattern region to be written with a predetermined primary feature size and a secondary pattern region which is composed of structure features capable of being written with a secondary feature size, larger than the primary feature size. The structure features of the primary pattern region are written by exposing a plurality of exposure spots on grid positions of a first exposure grid; the structure features in the secondary pattern region are written by exposing a plurality of exposure spots on grid positions of a second exposure grid according to a second arrangement which is coarser that the regular arrangement of the first exposure grid.
US09653259B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a beamlet position in a charged particle multi-beamlet exposure apparatus. The apparatus is provided with a sensor comprising a conversion element for converting charged particle energy into light and a light sensitive detector. The conversion element is provided with a sensor surface area provided with a 2D-pattern of beamlet blocking and non-blocking regions. The method comprises taking a plurality of measurements and determining the position of the beamlet with respect to the 2D-pattern on the basis of a 2D-image created by means of the measurements. Each measurement comprises exposing a feature onto a portion of the 2D-pattern with a beamlet, wherein the feature position differs for each measurement, receiving light transmitted through the non-blocking regions, converting the received light into a light intensity value, and assigning the light intensity value to the position at which the measurement was taken.
US09653249B2
The present invention relates to a transmission type target having a diamond base material as the transmissive base material. The transmission type target includes a target layer containing a metal carbide constituted of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tantalum, and tungsten and carbon; and a diamond base material supporting the target layer. The transmission type target inhibits the composition of the target layer from varying with the drive history of the transmission type target and inhibits the output of radiation from varying over a long time.
US09653245B2
The invention relates to a temperature switch comprising a housing (2), a switching system (3) consisting of a first support (3.1) with a fixed contact (3.2) and a second support (3.3), on which a switch spring (3.4) with a switch contact (3.5) is arranged and a switching arrangement (4), which effects a positional change of the switch contact (3.5) as a function of the temperature.
US09653239B2
The present invention includes a wear-resistant material including: a base material formed of pure aluminum or an aluminum alloy having a projection, and a depression in a pit-like shape on a surface thereof; and a coat including a dehydrate of a hydrated oxide of aluminum, the coat being formed on a surface of the base material. Further, the present invention including a method for producing a wear-resistant material including the steps of: forming a hydrated oxide coat of aluminum on a surface of the base material by a chemical conversion coating; and heating the hydrated oxide coat. Further, the present invention also includes a puffer cylinder and a puffer-type gas circuit breaker applied to the above wear-resistant material.
US09653238B2
An exemplary embedded pole part with an isolating housing, which accommodates a vacuum interrupter as well as electric terminals by an injected embedding material, wherein the injected embedding material is filled with silica based on silicon dioxide as filler material, and the silica is silica fume, which includes amorphous, non-porous spheres of silicon dioxide and agglomerates thereof.
US09653235B2
A switch device includes an operation unit having a pushbutton for performing a pushing operation; a switch unit separably joined to the operation unit, the switch unit including an opening-closing contact mechanism opened or closed in conjunction with the pushing operation of the pushbutton of the operation unit, and a rotary drive plate rotating between a standby position and a usage position; and an engagement portion engaging the operation unit to the rotary drive plate to rotary-drive the rotary drive plate from the standby position to the usage position when the operation unit is attached to the switch unit. The operation unit is detached from or attached to the switch unit to set the opening-closing contact mechanism in respectively predetermined opening-closing states.
US09653227B2
A switch for controlling a control circuit or an operating current of electric-motors in linear gear drives includes: a switch casing, having at least an upper part including keys, and a lower part for forming a receiving space; a circuit board incorporated in the receiving space with microswitches including a switch casing and a spring-biased push-rod therein; wherein, when the keys are actuated by a user, the push rod actuates the micro-switch to control a control circuit or operating current, and wherein the switch contains at least one locking element, transferable between a locking position, which locks the keys, and a release position, which releases the keys. To prevent damage to a switch from pressure forces during actuation, the locking device is formed such that the pressure applied to the key is transferred onto the switch casing and/or the circuit board plate over as wide an area as possible.
US09653222B2
A contact device includes a pair of fixed contacts fixedly disposed inside an arc extinguishing chamber and maintaining a predetermined interval from each other; a movable contact disposed inside the arc extinguishing chamber, and contacting to and separating from the pair of fixed contacts; a first arc root movement promotion portion formed on the pair of fixed contacts, and promoting a movement of a root of an arc in a direction away from the movable contact, the arc being generated when contacts are opened in which the movable contact moves away from the pair of fixed contacts; and a second arc root movement promotion portion formed on the movable contact, and promoting a movement of the root of the arc in a direction away from the relevant fixed contact.
US09653221B2
An anode in a lithium ion capacitor, including: a carbon composition comprising: a coconut shell sourced carbon in from 85 to 95 wt %; a conductive carbon in from 1 to 10 wt %; and a binder in from 3 to 8 wt %; and an electrically conductive substrate, wherein the coconut shell sourced carbon has a disorder (D) peak to graphitic (G) peak intensity ratio by Raman analysis of from 1.40 to 1.85; and by elemental analysis a hydrogen content of from 0.01 to 0.25 wt %; a nitrogen content of from 0.01 to 0.55 wt %; and an oxygen content of from 0.01 to 2 wt %. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the carbon composition.
US09653217B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a surface-treated transparent conductive polymer thin film, including: 1) preparing a PEDOT:PSS ink composition; 2) forming a PEDOT:PSS thin film on a substrate using the ink composition; 3) applying a p-toluene sulfonic acid solution on the PEDOT:PSS thin film and then thermally treating the PEDOT:PSS thin film; 4) rinsing the thermally treated PEDOT:PSS thin film; and 5) drying the rinsed PEDOT:PSS thin film.
US09653216B2
A sealing element of the instant disclosure includes a cover body, an exterior convex portion, and an interior convex portion. The cover body has a first surface, a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface, and a pair of terminal holes formed on the cover body and extending through the first and second surfaces. The exterior convex portion has at least one first abutting surface arranged on the first surface of the cover body and an expansion space formed concavely in the exterior convex portion. The interior convex portion has at least one second abutting surface arranged on the second surface of the cover body. Specifically, the sealing element is configured to prevent the capacitor element from swaying, so that the electrical property of the wound-type solid state electrolytic capacitor with the sealing element can be improved.
US09653215B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor comprises a positive electrode, a dielectric layer, a silane coupling layer, a conductive polymer layer, and a negative electrode layer. The dielectric layer is provided on the positive electrode. The silane coupling layer is provided on the dielectric layer. The conductive polymer layer is provided on the silane coupling layer. The negative electrode layer is provided on the conductive polymer layer. The silane coupling layer comprises a first silane coupling layer and a second silane coupling layer. The first silane coupling layer covers a part of a surface of the dielectric layer facing the conductive polymer layer. The second silane coupling layer covers at least a part of a portion exposed from the first silane coupling layer on the surface of the dielectric layer facing the conductive polymer layer.
US09653213B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include a ceramic body having first to third dielectric layers, first and third internal electrodes disposed to be partially exposed to an upper surface of the ceramic body, second and fourth internal electrodes disposed to be partially exposed to a lower surface of the ceramic body, internal resistance electrodes disposed on the third dielectric layers and partially exposed to the upper surface of the ceramic body, first and third external electrodes disposed on the ceramic body to be connected to the first and third internal electrodes, second and fourth external electrodes disposed to be connected to the second and fourth internal electrodes. The first and third external electrodes are electrically connected to each other by the internal resistance electrodes.
US09653211B2
A conductive paste includes a metal powder, a glass frit containing a Si component, and an organic vehicle. The metal powder has a flat shape with a ratio a/b of a maximum length a to a maximum thickness b of 2.5 or more, a molar content of SiO2 in the glass frit is 36 to 59 percent by mole, and a volume content of the glass frit is 6 to 11 percent by volume. In external electrodes of a multilayer ceramic capacitor using this conductive paste, the molar content of SiO2 in a glass phase is 38 to 60 percent by mole, and an occupation rate of the glass phase is 30% to 60% on the area ratio, and a maximum length c of the glass phase is 5 μm or less.
US09653210B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include: a ceramic body; a plurality of first internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body; a plurality of second internal electrodes stacked alternately with the first internal electrodes in the ceramic body; first and second external electrodes connected to the first internal electrodes, respectively; a third external electrode extended from one side surface of the ceramic body to a portion of a surface opposing a mounting surface of the ceramic body and connected to the second internal electrodes; a fourth external electrode extended from the other side surface of the ceramic body to a portion of the surface opposing the mounting surface of the ceramic body; and an intermitting part disposed on the surface opposing the mounting surface of the ceramic body and connecting the third and fourth external electrodes to each other.
US09653204B2
Structures and methods for implementing high performance symmetric multi-port inductors are provided. The multiport inductor structure includes a plurality of conductors which are structured and arranged in turns to obtain symmetry between a plurality of selected input terminals connecting to respective ones of the plurality of conductors.
US09653200B2
An electromagnetic-valve controller includes a control switch, a control portion regulating a supply current supplied to the electromagnetic valve by controlling a drive of the control switch and controlling to open or close the electromagnetic valve, and a current detection portion detecting the supply current. The control portion controls the drive of the control switch based on a detection result of the current detection portion. The control portion controls the drive of the control switch by using a first pulse signal having a duty ratio that is variable, in a closed period. The control portion controls the drive of the control switch by using a second pulse signal maintaining the supply current to be constant so as to maintain the electromagnetic valve to be in the fully closed state, in a closed-state maintaining period.
US09653194B2
A conductive insert which provides a low resistance bond between low conductive materials. The insert includes a first surface and an oppositely facing second surface. A plurality of openings extends between the first surface and the second surface. At least one first projection extends from the first surface proximate respective first openings, the at least one first projections extend from the first surface in a direction away from the second surface. At least one second projection extends from the second surface proximate respective second openings, the at least one second projections extend from the second surface in a direction away from the first surface.
US09653193B2
A coating method for producing an electrically insulating coating on a bearing component, wherein, in a first step, a substance mixture comprising at least a) a silane and/or siloxane compound, b) a metal alcoholate, and c) PEEK and/or PTFE in the form of a dispersion is applied to the bearing component and, in a second step, is solidified on the component surface by means of a laser beam.
US09653191B2
The present invention relates to a copper alloy for electric and electronic device, a copper alloy sheet for electric and electronic device, a conductive component for electric and electronic device, and a terminal. The copper alloy for electric and electronic device includes more than 2.0 mass % to 15.0 mass % of Zn; 0.10 mass % to 0.90 mass % of Sn; 0.05 mass % to less than 1.00 mass % of Ni; 0.001 mass % to less than 0.100 mass % of Fe; 0.005 mass % to 0.100 mass % of P; and a remainder comprising Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which 0.002≦Fe/Ni<1.500, 3.0<(Ni+Fe)/P<100.0, and 0.10
US09653184B2
The various embodiments described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable physical-to-physical address remapping in a storage module. In one aspect, the method includes, for each of a sequence of two or more units of non-volatile memory, determining a validity state of a respective unit of memory. In accordance with a determination that the validity state of the respective unit of memory is an invalid state, the method includes storing, in a table, a second address assigned to the respective unit of memory. At least a portion of the second address is a physical address portion corresponding to a physical location of a second unit of memory. In accordance with a determination that the validity state of the respective unit of memory is a valid state, the method includes forgoing assignment of the second address corresponding to the unit of memory.
US09653180B1
A system and method of writing data to a memory block includes receiving user data in a memory controller to be written to the memory block. The user data is first written to a buffer. A screening pattern is written to at least one screening column and a first memory integrity test is performed based on at least one operational aspect of the memory block. The first memory integrity test includes reading screening column data from the at least one screening column and comparing the screening column data read from the at least one screening column to the screening pattern. The user data is written to at least one user data column in the memory block when the screening column data read from the at least one screening column matches the screening pattern in the first memory integrity test.
US09653177B1
A read sensing method for an OTP non-volatile memory is provided. The memory array is connected with plural bit line pairs. Firstly, the plural bit line pairs are precharged to a precharge voltage. Then, a selected memory cell connected with a specific bit line pair is determined. Then, two bit lines of the specific bit line pair are respectively connected with the data line and the reference line and are discharged to a reset voltage. After a first cell current and a second cell current from the specific bit line pair are received, a first voltage level of the data line and a second voltage level of the reference line are gradually changed from the reset voltage. According to a result of comparing the first voltage level and the second voltage level, an output signal is generated.
US09653176B2
Memory systems may include a memory including a plurality of memory blocks and a controller. The controller calculates an effective read disturb based on both a direct neighbor read disturb count and a non-direct neighbor read disturb count. The controller selects a wordline with the largest effective read disturb for test read and deciding whether to reclaim the data of the block based on the errors on the wordline.
US09653175B2
A number of techniques for determining defects in non-volatile memory arrays are presented, which are particularly applicable to 3D NAND memory, such as that of the BiCS type. Word line to word shorts within a memory block are determined by application of an AC stress mode, followed by a defect detection operation. An inter-block stress and detection operation can be used determine word line to word line leaks between different blocks. Select gate leak line leakage, both the word lines and other select lines, is consider, as are shorts from word lines and select lines to local source lines. In addition to word line and select line defects, techniques for determining shorts between bit lines and low voltage circuitry, as in the sense amplifiers, are presented.
US09653174B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes memory cell array including a memory cell, a bit line coupled to the memory cell, a sense circuit coupled to the bit line and being capable of charging the bit line, and a charging circuit, the memory cell array being disposed between the sense circuit and the charging circuit and being capable of charging the bit line.
US09653172B2
There are provided a storage device and an operating method thereof. A storage device includes a main block including a plurality of sub-blocks, a peripheral circuit for generating operation voltages used in a read operation of a selected sub-block among the sub-blocks and performing the read operation of the selected sub-block by using the operation voltages, and a control logic for, when an erased sub-block among the sub-blocks is included in the read operation, controlling the peripheral circuit to perform the read operation by lowering levels of some of the operation voltages.
US09653171B2
Apparatuses may include a memory block with strings of memory cells formed in a plurality of tiers. The apparatus may further comprise access lines and data lines shared by the strings, with the access lines coupled to the memory cells corresponding to a respective tier of the plurality of tiers. The memory cells corresponding to at least a portion of the respective tier may comprise a respective page of a plurality of pages. Subsets of the data lines may be mapped into a respective partial page of a plurality of partial pages of the respective page. Each partial page may be independently selectable from other partial pages. Additional apparatuses and methods are disclosed.
US09653163B2
The invention concerns a memory cell comprising first and second resistive elements (202, 204) coupled respectively between first and second storage nodes and first and second intermediate nodes, at least one of them being programmable to take up one of at least two resistive states (Rmin′ Rmax); a third transistor (220) coupled between the first and second intermediate nodes; a fourth transistor (502) coupled between the first storage node (206, 210) and a data input node (506); and a control circuit arranged, during a write phase, to activate the third and fourth transistors and to couple the data input node to a second supply voltage (VDD, GND) via a first circuit block (508) in order to generate a current in a first direction through the first and second resistive elements in order to program the resistive state of at least one of the elements.
US09653162B2
The embodiments herein relates to a hybrid non-volatile memory cell system and architecture for designing integrated circuits. The system comprises CMOS access transistor connected to a memristor which stores a data based on a resistance. The system has a word line for accessing the hybrid memory and two bit lines carrying data of mutually opposite values for transferring a data from the memory. The two terminals of the transistor are connected respectively to a first terminal of the memristor and to a first bit line. The gate terminals of the transistors are coupled together to form a word line. The access transistors control the two bit lines during a read and write operation. A control logic performs a read and write operation with the hybrid memory cells. The memory architecture prevents a power leakage during data storage and controls a drift in a state during a read process.
US09653155B1
A nonvolatile memory device may include a cell string comprising a plurality of memory cells coupled in series; a bit line coupled to the cell string; a page buffer suitable for driving a sensing node to a ground voltage, a middle voltage, and a core voltage during a normal program operation, a slow program operation and a program inhibition operation, respectively; and a connection unit suitable for coupling the bit line to the sensing node in response to a control signal of a first voltage during the slow program operation, and in response to the control signal of a second voltage higher than the first voltage during the normal program operation and the program inhibition operation.
US09653152B1
In an aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided. In one aspect, the apparatus is a memory controller that includes a logic circuit configured to generate a select signal for selecting between first and second ports of a memory as a function of first and second port signals. Additionally, the memory controller includes a switch configured to connect and disconnect the first and the second port signals. In another aspect of the disclosure, the apparatus is a storage apparatus that includes a memory and a memory controller. The memory controller includes a latch configured to latch a first port selection signal to produce a first port signal and latch a second port selection signal to produce a second port signal. The memory controller also includes a switch configured to connect and disconnect the first and the second port signals and a logic circuit configured to generate a select signal.
US09653145B1
A semiconductor system includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device outputs first to (M+1)th command/address signals (wherein, “M” denotes a natural number which is equal to or greater than two) and receives a detection signal to detect a normality/abnormality of a temperature sensor. The second semiconductor device enters a test mode in response to the (M+1)th command/address signal and compare first to Nth sensing codes (wherein, “N” denotes a natural number which is equal to or greater than two) generated by the temperature sensor with the first to Mth command/address signals to generate the detection signal. The second semiconductor device also executes a refresh operation in response to a refresh signal including a plurality of pulses whose cycle time is controlled by the first to Mth command/address signals.
US09653144B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses relating to package on package memory refresh and self-refresh rate management are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor die, a dynamic memory die mounted to and overlapping the processor die, a first thermal sensor of the processor die disposed adjacent to a first hot spot from a first type of workload and a second thermal sensor of the processor die disposed adjacent to a second hot spot from a second type of workload, and a hardware control circuit of the processor die to cause a refresh of a capacitor of the dynamic memory die when either of an output of the first thermal sensor exceeds a first threshold value and an output of the second thermal sensor exceeds a second threshold value.
US09653140B2
A memory device may include: an active controller configured to output a row active signal in response to a refresh control signal and a row enable signal when an active signal is activated; a refresh controller configured to generate and store a flag bit for controlling a refresh operation in response to a refresh signal, a precharge signal, and a precharge stop signal, and output the row enable signal corresponding to the stored flag bit to the active controller; and a cell array circuit configured to perform a refresh operation in memory cell array areas in response to the row active signal.
US09653138B1
A memory includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic layer between the first and second magnetic layers, a third magnetic layer synthetic-antiferromagnetic-coupled with the second magnetic layer, and a controller controlling a read operation and a write operation. The write operation includes a first operation, a second operation and a third operation. A first potential of the first magnetic layer is larger than a second potential of the third magnetic layer in the first operation. A third potential of the third magnetic layer is larger than a fourth potential of the first magnetic layer in the second operation. A fifth potential of the first magnetic layer is larger than a sixth potential of the third magnetic layer in the third operation.
US09653133B2
A semiconductor system may include a command processor configured to decode a command to generate an active pulse and a delayed active pulse, and a bank active signal generation circuit configured to generate a bank active signal for performing an active operation for a bank accessed by an address. The bank active signal may be disabled in synchronization with the active pulse and is enabled in synchronization with the delayed active pulse.
US09653122B1
A storage device carrier includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame includes two opposite sidewalls. Two through holes are defined in each of the sidewalls, for allowing screws to extend therethrough. The second frame is detachably mounted in the first frame. The second frame includes two opposite side plates. Each side plate defines two through slots for allowing screws and unthreaded fasteners to extend therethrough. When the second frame is mounted in the first frame, the side plates of the second frame respectively abut against the sidewalls of the first frame, and the through slots of the side plates respectively align with the through holes of the sidewalls. A mounting apparatus having the storage device is also provided.
US09653118B1
An example method involves: accessing a first list that includes ordered clip identifiers C1 . . . Cn; accessing a second list that includes ordered player identifiers P1 . . . Px; making a determination that a clip identifier Cm is an initial one of the clip identifiers C1 . . . Cn to have a player-identifier assignment-restriction; responsive to making the determination, (i) determining that the clip identifier Cm is restricted to being assigned a player identifier Pz from the player identifiers P1 . . . Px, and (ii) assigning to each clip identifier C1 . . . Cm in reverse order a respective one of the player identifiers P1 . . . Px selected in a reverse ordered and looping fashion starting with the player identifier Pz; and traversing the clip identifiers C1 . . . Cm, and for each traversed clip identifier, causing a player identified by the one of the player identifiers P1 . . . Px assigned to the traversed clip identifier to load a clip identified by the traversed clip identifier.
US09653116B2
Techniques are provided for assisting users to share specific locations within videos. Specifically, controls are provided to enable a viewer of a video to drop a “video pin” on a location within a video. In response to the user dropping a video pin at a particular location in the video, a “video pin record” that indicates the selected location is automatically generated by a video pin application. The video pins may be used to identify specific time points in the video and/or specific time segments of the video. Video pin records may be shared with other users to allow the other users to immediately jump to the locations, within the video, at which the corresponding video pins were dropped.
US09653110B2
Embodiments generally relate to data storage in a computing system. The present technology discloses techniques that that can enable an optimized mechanism to change spinning speed of data storage disk drives. The present technology can use a service controller, e.g. a Baseboard Management Device (BMC), to communicate with a disk controller to change the spinning speed of disk drives. The present technology can improve energy efficiency by efficiently controlling the spinning speed of disk drives. It can also reduce data access latency by promptly spinning up a disk from a spun-down state.
US09653108B2
When recording is performed by focusing a short pulse laser on an inside of a transparent medium such as quartz glass, and forming a minute deformed region in which the refractive index is different from that of surroundings thereof, it is difficult to ensure a recording quality. Therefore, a recorded dot length in a depth direction is monitored 111 and a power of the laser light is adjusted based on the monitored recorded dot length, or a difference between a focus position where a region of the recorded dots appears brighter than the surroundings and a focus position where the region of the recorded dots appears darker than the surroundings is measured and the power of the laser light is adjusted based on the difference.
US09653107B2
A hologram recording and playback device is provided with: a medium rotation unit which rotates a hologram recording medium around a predetermined rotational axis; a movement unit which is capable of moving the position of the medium rotation unit within a plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis; an orthogonal incident angle modification unit which is capable of modifying an orthogonal incident angle; a medium rotation control unit which controls the medium rotation unit so as to rotate the hologram recording medium; an eccentricity compensation unit which performs positioning control of the movement unit; an orthogonal incident angle control unit which controls the orthogonal incident angle modification unit; and an orthogonal incident angle calculation unit which calculates the orthogonal incident angle.
US09653102B1
A data reader may have a magnetoresistive stack consisting of at least magnetically free and magnetically fixed structures. The magnetically fixed structure can be set to a first magnetization direction by a first pinning structure separated from an air bearing surface by a front shield portion of a magnetic shield. The front shield portion may be set to a different second magnetization direction by a second pinning structure.
US09653097B2
Provided herein is a sound output device 200 that includes a microphone 270, a speaker 280, and a processor 210. The sound output device 200 continues a conversation either autonomously or in accordance with an instruction from a server when the message accepted via the microphone 270 does not correspond to a first emotion, and ends a conversation either autonomously or in accordance with an instruction from a server when the message accepted via the microphone 270 corresponds to the first emotion.
US09653092B2
A method for controlling acoustic echo cancellation and an audio processing apparatus are described. In one embodiment, the audio processing apparatus includes an acoustic echo canceller for suppressing acoustic echo in a microphone signal, a jitter buffer for reducing delay jitter of a received signal, and a joint controller for controlling the acoustic echo canceller by referring to at least one future frame in the jitter buffer.
US09653089B2
An apparatus for decoding data segments representing a time-domain data stream, a data segment being encoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain, a data segment being encoded in the frequency domain having successive blocks of data representing successive and overlapping blocks of time-domain data samples. The apparatus includes a time-domain decoder for decoding a data segment being encoded in the time domain and a processor for processing the data segment being encoded in the frequency domain and output data of the time-domain decoder to obtain overlapping time-domain data blocks. The apparatus further includes an overlap/add-combiner for combining the overlapping time-domain data blocks to obtain a decoded data segment of the time-domain data stream.
US09653085B2
A method and system for reconstructing an original audio signal is disclosed. The original audio signal has a baseband up to a cutoff frequency and high-frequency components not included in the baseband above the cutoff frequency. The system includes a bitstream deformatter that extracts a representation of the baseband, an estimated spectral envelope, and noise-blending parameters from an audio bitstream. The system also includes a spectral component regenerator that copies or translates all or at least some of the baseband spectral components to non-overlapping frequency ranges of the high-frequency components not included in the baseband to generate regenerated spectral components. The system further includes a gain adjuster that modifies a spectral envelope of the regenerated spectral components based at least in part on the estimated spectral envelope and the noise-blending parameters to generate gain-adjusted regenerated spectral components.
US09653082B1
Methods and systems for handling speech recognition processing in effectively real-time, via the Internet, in order that users do not experience noticeable delays from the start until they receive responsive feedback. A user uses a client to access the Internet and a server supporting speech recognition processing. The user inputs speech to the client, which transmits the user speech to the server in approximate real-time. The server evaluates the user speech, and provides responsive feedback to the client, again, in approximate real-time, with minimum latency delays. The client upon receiving responsive feedback from the server, displays, or otherwise provides, the feedback to the user.
US09653081B2
A method and a device for displaying images on a digital media frame is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a memory, a processing unit, a display, an interface circuit, and a display circuit. The interface circuit has at least one receiving port capable of identifying various types of networking protocols that are used to transfer the image data. The processing unit attaches auxiliary information to each image before images are stored in a memory. The display circuit displays images according to the image data received. The digital media frame further contains a user input device, which allows a user to alter the image display sequence. The user input device is an input device other than a keyboard or a cursor control device.
US09653076B2
A display device for converting a voice to a text and displaying the converted text and a method thereof are disclosed. The display device comprises a storage unit configured to store the voice data; a display unit configured to display the text; a sensor unit configured to detect a user input to the display unit; and a processor configured to convert the voice data to the text and display the converted text in the display unit, wherein the processor provides a text preview interface displaying at least a part of the text in the display unit, in response to a first user input, and provides a text output interface displaying the text in the display unit, in response to a second user input, and the text output interface displays the text in accordance with the second user input.
US09653072B2
A combination and a method are provided. Automatic speech recognition is performed on a received utterance. A meaning of the utterance is determined based, at least in part, on the recognized speech. At least one query is formed based, at least in part, on the determined meaning of the utterance. The at least one query is sent to at least one searching mechanism to search for an address of at least one web page that satisfies the at least one query.
US09653069B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for automatic speech recognition. The method includes selecting a speaker independent model, and selecting a quantity of speaker dependent models, the quantity of speaker dependent models being based on available computing resources, the selected models including the speaker independent model and the quantity of speaker dependent models. The method also includes recognizing an utterance using each of the selected models in parallel, and selecting a dominant speech model from the selected models based on recognition accuracy using the group of selected models. The system includes a processor and modules configured to control the processor to perform the method. The computer-readable storage medium includes instructions for causing a computing device to perform the steps of the method.
US09653066B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for estimating reliability of alternate speech recognition hypotheses. A system configured to practice the method receives an N-best list of speech recognition hypotheses and features describing the N-best list, determines a first probability of correctness for each hypothesis in the N-best list based on the received features, determines a second probability that the N-best list does not contain a correct hypothesis, and uses the first probability and the second probability in a spoken dialog. The features can describe properties of at least one of a lattice, a word confusion network, and a garbage model. In one aspect, the N-best lists are not reordered according to reranking scores. The determination of the first probability of correctness can include a first stage of training a probabilistic model and a second stage of distributing mass over items in a tail of the N-best list.
US09653059B2
A CPU 41 acquires a string vibration signal in a case where a string picking operation is performed with respect to the stretched string 22, analyzes a frequency characteristic of the acquired string vibration signal, determines whether or not the analyzed frequency characteristic satisfies a predetermined condition, and changes a frequency characteristic of a musical sound generated in the connected sound source 45 depending on a case where it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied or determined that the predetermined condition is not satisfied.
US09653055B1
A vibrato tailpiece system for a stringed instrument includes a tailpiece, a vibrato bar operable with the tailpiece and having an end portion rotatable about an axis of rotation, and a magnet attached to the end portion of the vibrato bar. A sensor chip is spaced from the magnet by a gap sufficiently small to enable the sensor chip to detect a change in the magnetic field due to a rotation of the vibrato bar. The sensor chip outputs a control signal based on the change in the magnetic field. A sensor circuit uses the control signal from the sensor chip to adjust or modify the pickup output signal based on the position of the vibrato bar and deliver an adjusted output signal to an output connector of the stringed instrument.
US09653050B2
The Improved Guitar Plectrum Retainer of the present invention is mechanically fastened to bracketing in the pickguard location.The intended use of the present invention is to provide ease in alternating between plectrum and non plectrum techniques. The location and design of the improved retainer facilitate that ease of transition.When wishing to insert the plectrum into the retainer the practitioner need only contact the elongated cover of the retainer with the tip of the plectrum and slide the plectrum along the inner surface of the cover.
US09653046B1
A foldable guitar includes a body having a base, a neck, a head and multiple strings. A first board is an elongate board and pivotably connected to the rear side of the body. The first board can be located overlapped and parallel to the body. The first board has a recess defined in one end thereof and the recess so as to accommodate a user's arm. A second board is an elongate board and pivotably connected to the rear side of the body. The second board can be located overlapped and parallel to the body. The second board has a protrusion which is received in the recess. The first and second boards can be folded to the rear side of the body to save storage space, or to be arranged according to different users' need.
US09653043B2
A method for magnifying a screen content executed by an input device is disclosed. The method is suitable for magnifying a display content of a computer device and includes that the input device receives an informed command from the computer device. The informed command indicates whether the operation system of the computer device supports a system magnifier. If the operation system supports the system magnifier, the input device outputs a first magnification command to the computer device according to pressing of a function key. The computer device initializes the system magnifier of the operation system and magnifies the screen content according to the first magnification command. If the operation system doesn't support the system magnifier, the input device outputs a second magnification command provided by the input device to the computer device, so that the second magnification command magnifies the screen content according to the second magnification command.
US09653036B2
The method for adjusting a gamma voltage comprises: applying a reference common electrode voltage and a to-be-adjusted gamma voltage to a display module; collecting first light intensity data when the display module displays a grayscale test pattern after the reference common electrode voltage and the to-be-adjusted gamma voltage are applied; plotting a testing gamma curve in accordance with the first light intensity data; when the testing gamma curve is not located within the acceptable range of the standard gamma curve, adjusting the to-be-adjusted gamma voltage currently applied to the display module, until the testing gamma curve is located within the acceptable range of the standard gamma curve; and when the testing gamma curve is located within the acceptable range of the standard gamma curve, determining the to-be-adjusted gamma voltage currently applied to the display module as a final gamma voltage.
US09653033B2
In an IPS mode liquid crystal display device, measures are taken against dark unevenness at the corner portion of a screen. The problem can be solved by a liquid crystal display device in which a comb tooth pixel electrode is formed on a common electrode formed in a flat surface through an interlayer insulating film; a TFT substrate is formed with a dummy pixel region and a display region surrounding the display region; a pixel on the display region is formed with a comb tooth display region pixel electrode bent in a projection in the first direction; and a pixel on the dummy pixel region is formed with a comb tooth dummy pixel region pixel electrode bent in a projection in a direction opposite to the first direction at an angle of 180 degrees.
US09653014B2
A method of driving an electro wetting display panel includes applying a first data voltage to a pixel part of the display panel during a first section of a frame and applying a second data voltage different from the first data voltage to the same pixel part during a second section of the frame. The first data voltage is converted from display data based on a first gamma curve. The second data voltage is converted from the display data based on a second gamma curve. Light transmittance through the pixel part is changed based on movement of a fluid within the pixel part.
US09653013B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can suppress, more than the prior art, lowering of display quality when low-frequency drive is being carried out. The liquid crystal display device is operated in a low frequency drive mode. A source driver applies a gradation voltage during write periods and an idle period voltage during an idle period to each source line. The value of the idle period voltage is, for example, an average value of a maximum gradation positive voltage, a maximum gradation negative voltage, a minimum gradation positive voltage, and a minimum gradation negative voltage. By making the voltage for each source line during the idle period be the idle period voltage, potential variations in the source lines when switching from the write periods to the idle period are smaller than the prior art.
US09652996B2
A computer implemented method for measuring a person's cognitive load comprises initially receiving 100 stroke data (FIG. 4, FIG. 5(a)) representative of hand-based strokes produced by a person 200 while performing a task. A processor 216 selects 104 a subset of the stroke data FIG. 5(c) that meets one or more predetermined stability criteria. A measure indicative of the person's cognitive load based on the subset of stroke data is determined 106. In this was the user's cognitive load in an objective, uniform and non-intrusive manner by analyzing the user's writing behavior. An analysis of all of a user's writing strokes will bias the evaluation result. The accuracy of the cognitive load measurement is increased by applying stability criteria to select the best strokes for further analysis. By disregarding unstable strokes the computation costs for determining the user's cognitive load is also improved.
US09652989B1
Methods and systems for integration of symbology and flight planning information in a flight management system are disclosed. A method may include: receiving a portion of a flight plan from an auxiliary flight management system; receiving graphical data for the portion of the flight plan from the auxiliary flight management system; integrating the portion of the flight plan received from the auxiliary flight management system into at least one additional portion of the flight plan managed by a primary flight management system to produce an integrated flight plan; and displaying the integrated flight plan to a user, wherein the portion of the flight plan received from the auxiliary flight management system is displayed at least partially based on the graphical data for the portion of the flight plan received from the auxiliary flight management system.
US09652988B2
A display control device includes a unit for determining whether an object recognized by a recognition unit is present in a specific region adjacent to a locus, and a control unit controlling a display source, upon determination that the object is present in the specific region, to generate a first virtual image at first timing and a second virtual image at second timing later than the first timing. The first virtual image is displayed in a first region midway in a locus approaching direction toward a locus on a display medium, which corresponds to the locus, from a position thereon corresponding to an object position. The second imaginary region is displayed in a second region, located midway in the locus approaching direction closer to the locus than the first region, in size not smaller than that of the first virtual image displayed in the first region at the second timing.
US09652987B2
A distributed remote sensing system including at least one gateway, at least one sensing device and a communication interface providing radio frequency communication through a shared frequency scheme between each sensing device and one of the at least one gateway and between each sensing device and another of the at least one gateway through a different frequency scheme.
US09652984B2
Method for conveying driving conditions includes determining when a vehicle is within a set distance from an activatable sensor using a proximity sensor coupled thereto. Only when the proximity sensor determines that the vehicle is within the set distance from the activatable sensor, the activatable sensor is activated (from a deactivated state) to measure or detect a property or condition of the travel surface or the environment around the travel surface that affects interaction between tires of the vehicle and the travel surface using a measuring or detecting component, and communicate the sensor-generated information directly from the activatable sensor to the vehicle or occupant thereof. Energy is provided to the activatable sensor from an energy harvesting system associated with the activatable sensor to enable it to measure or detect the property or condition of the travel surface or the environment around the travel surface.
US09652983B2
A traffic surveillance and guidance system comprising a traffic server system is disclosed. The traffic server is configured to receive and update and record data of geographical positions of registered road users, and wherein each registered road user is registering a replaceable and modifiable geometrically shaped model of a field of view representing the respective road users observation space and observation ability of possible traffic incidents around geographical positions the respective road users are located on at any time.
US09652975B1
An integrated building occupant protection system includes alarm units having a controller, one or more sensors, a timer, a transceiver, an audio alert device, and a communication device. When a sensor detects a threat, the audio alert device is activated. The transceiver transmits an event signal to mobile devices associated with the building occupants. The controller uses response signals from those devices to pinpoint the location of the occupants, which may be broadcast by the communication device. The mobile devices may be cellular telephones or pet collar devices. The system is configured to perform periodic self-tests. A system for generating revenue by selling promotional time following the system tests is also provided.
US09652968B2
Cradle for exhibiting wearable device and method for warning stolen state of cradled wearable device
A cradle having an anti-theft device of a wearable device is provided. The cradle includes a cradle body, a cradle head that supports a wearable device and is detachable from the cradle body, such that the cradle head is exchangeable, and an anti-theft device that connects the cradle body and the wearable device.
US09652965B2
A system for transmitting alerts and notifications to a user. The system includes a user wearable portable data communication unit configured to set a predetermined period of time and select a geographical area by using a mapping software integrated with the user wearable portable data communication unit for geo-fencing the selected geographical area, an alerting unit configured in the user wearable portable data communication unit to transmit notifications and alerts to predefined list of contacts on determining the crossing of the user from the selected geo-fence area and exceeding the predetermined time period set by the user and a web based server unit in communication with user wearable portable data communication unit through a data communication network configured to store the predefined list of contacts, threshold levels, frequency, way points, current location of the user and software versions.
US09652951B2
There is disclosed herein a barrier assembly (1) adapted to inhibit access to an area. The assembly including at least two markers (2) operatively associated with each other to define an area where access is to be inhibited. Means to connect said markers and monitoring means adapted in use to determine if access to said area has been breached.
US09652947B2
A haptic device for providing somesthesis by using a magnetic stimulation includes a magnetic field generation unit which generates a magnetic field for providing somesthesis, wherein the somesthesis is provided using a magnetic stimulation.
US09652935B2
A gaming system and method includes receiving a wager and in response thereto a basic game is conducted. The basic game includes a plurality of symbols that indicate a randomly selected outcome. In response to an offer trigger, an offer is displayed to conduct one or more subsequent plays of the basic game at a reduced maximum bet wager having a wager amount that is less than a normal maximum bet wager amount. A second input is received indicative of an acceptance of the offer for a reduced maximum bet wager. A randomly selected outcome is displayed. The plurality of possible outcomes each include a plurality of symbols arranged in an array. If the randomly selected outcome includes a winning symbol combination, an award is provided for any winning outcome. The provided award is determined as though a normal maximum bet wager amount was received.
US09652919B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide for secure and flexible access to the contents of a smart package in the chain of transportation. In embodiments, access is automatically controlled by a security authentication adaptor based on an authentication mechanism that adapts to changing security environments during transportation. In embodiments, a level of required authentication is adjusted depending on situational, contextual awareness that is achieved via sensors coupled to a context state detector to monitor and detect a transportation state of the smart package. Based on the transportation state, a security state machine dynamically adjust a risk level associated with the transportation state and instructs an authentication module apply, in response to an authentication request, one or more authentication methods based on the risk level.
US09652918B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing access to secure-access facilities based on pairing of the secure-access facilities with a user device such as a wearable device. A pairable secure-access facility may be a public storage facility or device such as a locker that includes communications circuitry for pairing with the user device. Once paired with the user device, the locker may operate a locking mechanism to lock the locker when the user device is away from the locker and to unlock the locker when the user device is in the vicinity of the locker. The locker may include a beacon for detecting and pairing with the user devices. Pairing the user device and the locker may include entering a locker identifier into the user device to ensure that the intended user device is paired with the intended locker.
US09652915B2
An apparatus and method are provided that include biometric identification intrusion and access control. The apparatus features a monitoring system, a visual input device, and an audible input device. The visual and audible input devices are coupled to control circuits of the monitoring system, which can implement an authentication process responsive to both visual and audile inputs.
US09652906B1
A rollover predictor judgment device for a combination vehicle includes a lateral acceleration sensor, a yaw rate sensor, an articulate angle sensor, and a judgment device in a form of a retarder controller. The judgment device judges that the combination vehicle is in a rollover predictor status when a first lateral acceleration calculated based on a detection value of the lateral acceleration sensor is a first threshold or more or when a second lateral acceleration calculated based on a detection value of the yaw rate sensor and a detection value of the articulate angle sensor is a second threshold or more.
US09652901B2
A health management unit for an aircraft and method of monitoring health information of an aircraft and transmitting information from the aircraft including determining capabilities of one or more radios onboard the aircraft, selecting one of the multiple radios to transmit the transmission based, and transmitting the transmission utilizing the selected radio.
US09652895B2
There is provided a system and method for augmented reality image transformation. In one implementation, such a system includes a system processor, a system memory, and an image transformation engine stored in the system memory. The system processor is configured to execute the image transformation engine to receive image data corresponding to an image, to detect a feature on a surface of the image, and to synthesize a texture corresponding to the feature. The system processor is further configured to execute the image transformation engine to produce an augmented reality representation of the image having the texture for display to a user, the texture covering a surface of the augmented reality representation of the image corresponding to a portion of the feature that is not visible on the surface of the image.
US09652893B2
Embodiments are described herein for determining a stabilization plane to reduce errors that occur when a homographic transformation is applied to a scene including 3D geometry and/or multiple non-coplanar planes. Such embodiments can be used, e.g., when displaying an image on a head mounted display (HMD) device, but are not limited thereto. In an embodiment, a rendered image is generated, a gaze location of a user is determined, and a stabilization plane, associated with a homographic transformation, is determined based on the determined gaze location. This can involve determining, based on the user's gaze location, variables of the homographic transformation that define the stabilization plane. The homographic transformation is applied to the rendered image to thereby generate an updated image, and at least a portion of the updated image is then displayed.
US09652879B2
A target animation includes a blend of two or more animations from a plurality of predetermined animations. The blend includes a weighted combination of the two or more animations based on respective blend weights. In a method of generating a target animation of a virtual object, an input identifying a first point, specifying the target animation, in a control parameter space is received. A second point corresponding to the first point is determined using a predetermined displacement function. A barycentric coordinate for the second point in the control parameter space is determined. The barycentric coordinate is defined relative to predetermined points in the control parameter space, each predetermined point corresponding either to a respective one of the two or more animations or a respective blend of the two or more animations. The blend weights for the two or more animations are based on the barycentric coordinate for the second point.
US09652874B2
A method and apparatus for displaying and manipulating the rendering of multiple parameters obtained from a plurality of objects simultaneously. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: plotting the parametric locations of the plurality of objects in m-dimensional parametric space on a first 2-dimensional display; positioning a closed boundary over a subset of the parametric locations of the plurality of objects in the first 2-dimensional display; and plotting the parametric locations of the objects corresponding to the subset of the parametric locations in the first 2-dimensional display in an n-dimensional space on a second 2-dimensional display.
US09652869B2
The present disclosure belongs to the field of computer technologies and discloses an interface adjustment method, apparatus, and terminal. The method includes: capturing a current image by an image capture device of the terminal; analyzing current ambient brightness according to the current image; and adjusting display of an interface on the terminal according to the current ambient brightness. According to the present disclosure, current ambient brightness is obtained by capturing a current image and analyzing the current image, thereby implementing interface adjustment. Such approach solves the problem that an existing interface adjustment method can only be used in a smart TV having a light sensor, and any terminal having an image capture function can adjust an interface by sensing light.
US09652867B2
A method and system for providing a dynamic grain effect tool for a media-editing application that generates a grain effect and applies the grain effect to a digital image. The application first generates a random pixel field for the image based on a seed value. The application then generates a film grain pattern for the image by consecutively applying a blurring function and an unsharp masking function, based on an ISO value, to the randomly generated pixel field. The application then blends the grain field with the original image by adjusting each pixel based on the value of the corresponding pixel location in the grain field. The application then adjusts the grain amount in the previously generated full-grain image by receiving a grain amount value from a user and applying this value to the full-grain image.
US09652859B2
Methods for determining a property of a trajectory of a ball with a mobile computer device are described, which include: (a) capturing a sequence of video frames of the ball with a camera of the mobile computer device; (b) determining a first picture coordinate of the ball in a first video frame of the sequence; (c) determining a second picture coordinate of the ball in a second video frame of the sequence; and (d) computing a property of the trajectory of the ball based on a difference of the first and second picture coordinates, a time difference between the first and second video picture and a reference quantity, which may be determined based on a form and/or dimension of the ball in a picture taken with the camera.
US09652858B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image information acquiring unit that acquires image information of an image, a position information acquiring unit that acquires position information of a containing region input by a user so as to contain a designated region that is a specific image region in the image, a first representative position setting unit that sets a first representative position that is a representative position of the designated region based on the position information of the containing region, a second representative position setting unit that sets a second representative position that is a representative position of a region-outside-designated-region that is a region outside the designated region, and a region detection unit that detects the designated region based on the first representative position and the second representative position.
US09652850B2
A subject tracking device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, detecting at least one subject candidate area in which it is probable that a tracking target subject appears on an image that is received from an imaging unit; calculating a degree of blur of the subject candidate area for each of the subject candidate areas; determining that the subject appears in a subject candidate area having a degree of blur in accordance with a moving speed of the subject, out of the subject candidate areas; and deciding movement of the subject depending on a movement direction from an area in which the subject appears on a previous image that is captured by the imaging unit before capturing the image, to the subject candidate area in which the subject appears on the image.
US09652849B2
Stereo image reconstruction techniques are described. An image from a root viewpoint is translated to an image from another viewpoint. Homography fitting is used to translate the image between viewpoints. Inverse compositional image alignment is used to determine a homography matrix and determine a pixel in the translated image.
US09652848B2
Images captured by multi-camera arrays with overlap regions can be stitched together using image stitching operations. An image stitching operation can be selected for use in stitching images based on a number of factors. An image stitching operation can be selected based on a view window location of a user viewing the images to be stitched together. An image stitching operation can also be selected based on a type, priority, or depth of image features located within an overlap region. Finally, an image stitching operation can be selected based on a likelihood that a particular image stitching operation will produce visible artifacts. Once a stitching operation is selected, the images corresponding to the overlap region can be stitched using the stitching operation, and the stitched image can be stored for subsequent access.
US09652847B2
The invention relates to a method for calibrating a digital optical imaging system, comprising at least one motorized or coded zoom system and an image sensor, to a method for correcting aberrations in such an imaging system, and to an optical imaging system which is configured to carry out the methods according to the invention. During the calibration method, a reference object is recorded in various zoom settings and the image is corrected pixel-wise with digital-optical means using a previously determined model. To this end, distortion correction coefficients and image stability correction coefficients are ascertained. The real total magnification of the system is ascertained from the corrected image. The model ascertained in the calibration process also serves for correcting aberrations during operation of the imaging system.
US09652845B2
A medical analysis method for estimating a motion vector field of the magnitude and direction of local motion of lung tissue of a subject is described. In one embodiment a first 3D image data set of the lung and a second 3D image data set is obtained. The first and second 3D image data sets correspond to images obtained during inspiration and expiration respectively. A rigid registration is performed to align the 3D image data sets with one another. A deformable registration is perforated to match the 3D image data sets with one another. A motion vector field of the magnitude and direction of local motion of lung tissue is estimated based on the deforming step. The motion vector field may be computed prior to treatment to assist with planning a treatment as well as subsequent to a treatment to gauge efficacy of a treatment. Results may be displayed to highlight.
US09652844B2
Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for automatic ER/PR scoring of tissue samples may include for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising identifying a positive stained nucleus in a slide image of the tissue sample, identifying a negative stained nucleus in the slide image, computing a proportion score based on number of the positive stained nucleus identified and number of the negative stained nucleus identified and determining the cancer diagnosis score based on the proportion.
US09652838B1
Various approaches enable a user to capture image information (e.g., still images or video) about an object of interest such as the sole of a shoe or other piece of footwear (e.g., a sandal) and receive information about items that are determined to match footwear based at least in part on the image information. For example, an image analyze service or other similar service can analyze the images to determine a type of shoe included within the images based at least in part on patterns of other distinguishing features of the sole of the shoe. The image analysis service can aggregate the results and can provide information about the results as a set of matches or results to be displayed to a user in response to a visual search query. The information can include, for example, descriptions, contact information, availability, location data, pricing information, and other such information.
US09652835B2
An image processing device includes an image sequence acquisition section that acquires an image sequence that includes a plurality of constituent images, and a processing section that performs an image summarization process that deletes some of the plurality of constituent images included in the image sequence to generate a summary image sequence, the processing section selecting a reference image and a determination target image from the plurality of constituent images, detecting an unnecessary area from the determination target image, calculating a loss area based on deformation information about the reference image and the determination target image, and the unnecessary area, the loss area being an area that is lost when the determination target image is deleted, and determining whether or not the determination target image can be deleted based on the calculated loss area.
US09652834B2
A computer-implemented method for viewing images on an interactive computing device comprises displaying an image from a stack comprising a display image and at least one compressed sub-image of nominally the same scene, each of the sub-images of the stack having been acquired at respective focal distances. Responsive to a user selecting a portion of the displayed image, the selected portion is mapped to a corresponding mapped portion of a sub-image within the stack according to the difference in focal distances between the displayed image and the sub-image. At least one row of compressed image blocks of the at least one sub-image extending across the mapped portion; and a reference value for a point in the compressed image stream of the sub-image preceding the row of compressed image blocks is determined. Using the reference, the row of blocks of the sub-image at least partially decoded, and a measure of focus for an area of the mapped portion coinciding with the decoded image blocks is computed to determine if at least that content of the sub-image should be displayed within a display image.
US09652828B1
A method and apparatus for imaging a scene. The method includes receiving a plurality of images of the scene from a plurality of first source devices. The method also includes receiving a first metadata identifying a location and a field-of-view of each of the plurality of first source devices. The method also includes receiving a second metadata identifying a location and a field-of-view of each of one or more available image source devices. The method also includes identifying overlapping portions of the plurality of images. The method also includes stitching the plurality of images together to form a combined image of the scene based on the overlapping portions of the plurality of images. The method also includes identifying a missing portion of the combined image of the scene and responsive to identifying the missing portion, performing one or more actions to fill a part of the missing portion.
US09652823B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a terminal device for controlling a display of a video image. The method includes: obtaining the video image captured by a smart camera device; obtaining orientation variation data of a terminal device when the video image is displayed on a screen of the terminal device; and controlling the video image to slide on the screen according to the orientation variation data of the terminal device.
US09652817B2
In a pipelined application having different stages of processing, such as a graphics application or an image processing application, there may be a dependence of one compute kernel upon another. Data associated with individual kernels needs to be written and read. A technique to minimize a need to read and write kernel data to external memory utilize at least one of fusing kernels, resizing workgroups, and performing interleaving of kernels.
US09652813B2
In a risk analysis system, a risk analysis engine and a related method, incident information or activity information, which may be of a spatiotemporal nature, is analyzed. Behavioral patterns are identified in or derived from the incident information or the activity information. Observations are produced from matches of the behavioral patterns to behavior specifications. Based upon the observations, and asset vulnerability data, per-asset risks are derived.
US09652809B1
An instant messaging user may be able to convey information about the user by displaying self-expression items in the instant message communications. Examples of self-expression items generally include non-animated icons, animated avatars, sounds, wallpaper, or objects associated with an avatar or wallpaper. A user may select an avatar, and one or more other types of self-expression items, from among many available avatars and other types of self-expression items. A user profile that provides information about the user (e.g., geographical location of the user, the user's occupation, and various interests held by the user) may be used to identify a subset of the universe of available avatars and self-expression items to be presented to the user for selection.
US09652808B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing e-receipts to customers. Embodiments receive authorization from a customer for the customer to be enrolled in a point of transaction e-receipt communication program; receive transaction data corresponding to at least one transaction performed by the customer at a point of transaction of a merchant; and initiate communication, to the customer, of an e-receipt based at least in part on the received transaction data. Some embodiments receive authorization from a plurality of enrolling merchants for enrollment in the point of transaction e-receipt communication program; and build a cooperating merchant list comprising information corresponding to a plurality of cooperating merchants cooperating with a financial institution implementing the point of transaction e-receipt communication program.
US09652797B2
User intent is identified while the user browses online and recommendations are provided to the user. The recommendations are based on the identified intent, interests, and preferences of the user who is performing the searches. The determination of user intent and interests is based on a statistical model derived from data compiled from the user and a plurality of other users. Other resources may also be determined to be relevant, for example, because of past interactions of the user, memberships of the user in ecommerce websites, the user's interests and preferences are similar to those of other users, and so on. The result of the user search is a ranked set of recommendations that is provided to the user.
US09652796B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for automatically providing item feedback information during the checkout process is provided. Feedback information related to one or more items added to an electronic shopping cart of a user is obtained. A message including the feedback information is provided automatically to the user during the checkout process.
US09652795B2
The present invention generally relates to a method for converting a client order into a custom canvassed bulletin board, where the client accesses a board maker's web site and uploads a digital image over the internet to a server. The client verifies the uploaded image, selects an image print size, and submits personal information to the server. The uploaded image is retrieved by the board maker and resized. The board maker prints the image onto a canvas, fixes the printed canvas onto a bulletin board, and delivers the custom board to the client. The bulletin board can be framed, hung on a surface, used with push pins to attach messages to the canvassed surface, or be used as decorative art. Cork's self-healing properties causes holes through the printed canvas and tack receptive cork layers to close up and restore the printed image to its near original quality.
US09652791B1
A method that includes receiving, from a user device, a request for a listing of merchants; in response to receiving the request for a listing of merchants, sending, to the user device, data describing one or more merchants and respective initial geographic locations of the one or more merchants; receiving, from the user device, a user request for updating a geographic location of a particular merchant in the one or more merchants; sending a request for an updated geographic location to a computing device of the particular merchant; receiving, from the computing device of the particular merchant, data describing an updated geographic location of the particular merchant; and providing, to the user device, data describing the updated geographic location of the particular merchant.
US09652774B2
Embodiments of techniques for distributing and rendering media content are provided. In response to a request for a first media file, a combined media file is generated having first and second segments that together include data from the first media file and from a second media file. The combined media file is then provided to a player module operable to render only data from the first media file during a first operating mode, and operable to render data from both the first and second media files during a second operating mode. For example, the first media file may be a music file, and the second media file an advertisement. A consumer may play the music portion without special software or a license, but the advertisement will be rendered as well. Alternatively, the consumer may purchase a license and use special playback software to render the music without the advertisement.
US09652772B1
The invention provides systems and methods for identifying fraud in an ATM transaction and in other financial processing environments. The system, tangibly embodied in the form of a computer processer includes a profile database, a filter processing portion, a scoring engine, and an authorization processing portion. The profile database contains card profiles and ATM profiles. The filter processing portion inputs transaction data generated from a requested ATM transaction. The filter processing portion includes a plurality of filters that filter high risk transactions, and outputs customer related data and ATM related data to the profile database. The scoring engine assesses risk of the high risk transaction based on attributes of the transaction, data in at least one card profile, and data in at least one ATM profile. The authorization processing portion determines whether the requested transaction should be approved or declined based on the fraud score and transaction data.
US09652771B2
A method for transmitting data between a mobile communication device and a server. The method includes running a mobile application on the mobile communication device. The mobile application is hosted on the mobile communication device through the server as a Software as a Service (SaaS). The method further includes transmitting data associated with the mobile application between the mobile communication device and the server, in which transmission of the data between the mobile communication device and the server is monitored through the server.
US09652758B2
Provided are methods and systems for providing compensation for using a mobile payment service. The method may commence with receiving payment information associated with a user. The method may include generating a unique code encoding the payment information and providing the generated unique code to the user. The method may continue with receiving a deposit amount associated with a purchase related to the user. The purchase may be made via the mobile payment service. The method may further include receiving a notification about a further purchase of the user via the mobile payment service. The notification may include at least the unique code and a product barcode. The product barcode may be associated with the further purchase. The method may further include providing a compensation from the deposit amount to the user. The compensation may be associated with a payment amount associated with the further purchase.
US09652757B2
A system and method for distribution of product price and/or sales data in a retail establishment. Product price and/or sales data is stored locally in a central computer or master electronic cash register (ECR), or remotely at a master computer. The price data can be pushed from the master ECR to an ECR emulation hub. Similarly, the ECR emulation hub can request product price data from the master ECR, local or master computers. Once the product price data arrives at the ECR emulation hub, it can be processed and sent to a display located near the appropriate product. The ECR emulation hub can also record and/or transmit prices actually charged for products over time to allow for automatic auditing of promotional pricing offers. The ECR emulation hub acts like an ECR, thereby requiring no special software or hardware modifications to existing pricing display systems that already support ECRs.
US09652755B2
Devices and methods for securely upgrading devices, such as field upgradeable units, are disclosed. In response to receiving an update object, a device may determine whether a predefined location of memory includes a predetermined value. Based on the value in the predefined location, the device may store the received update object in a verification portion of the memory. After verifying the authenticity of the update object, the device may copy the update object from the verification portion of the memory to an inactive portion. The inactive portion of the memory can be swapped with an active portion of the memory, such that the inactive portion becomes active.
US09652754B2
A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based e-commerce environment includes a merchant site to receive a voice call associated with a purchase transaction from a consumer, generate a payment request corresponding to the consumer purchase transaction in response to receiving the voice call, send the payment request to a payment site, and receive confirmation from the payment site that payment for the consumer purchase transaction has been received.
US09652748B1
Systems and methods for managing accident events are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may access sensor data associated with operation of a vehicle, and analyze the sensor data to determine that an accident event has occurred, where the accident event may have one or more effects such as damage or injury. The electronic device may also interface with a server to identify one or more providers who may be capable of addressing the effects of the accident event. The electronic device or the server may automatically schedule an appointment(s) with the one or more providers, resulting in an effective handling of the accident event.
US09652741B2
Systems and methods for synchronizing workspaces in a web-based collaboration environment with local folders on computers of collaborators of the workspaces are disclosed. Collaborators of a workspace can edit copies of work items either at the collaboration environment server or at the computer. Updates to all synchronized folders are automatically performed. Conflicts between edits made by different collaborators to the same file are flagged, and a notification is sent to the author attempting to make edits to a version of a file that has already been updated by another collaborator.
US09652740B2
An analytical request for information that includes queryable attributes mapped to corresponding fields of customer records from in-memory database of a number of data sources is received. Semantic mapping of the queryable attributes to the corresponding fields of the customer records is resolved according to semantic mapping metadata. A query that includes the corresponding fields is generated and over the in-memory database views and a number fan records each representing a unique fan entity. Fan related data is retrieved from the number of fan records and the in-memory database views based on the executed at least one query. Upon executing the query, at runtime the in-memory database views are dynamically integrated with the number fan records based on a cross-reference table linking the in-memory database views with the number of fan records based on a fan identifier.
US09652739B2
Methods and apparatus involve attestation of items, such as user profiles, roles, assets, etc. In a computing environment, a compliance administrator initiates an attestation process, including specifying particular attributes of a user that require attestation. A workflow is launched to present the user with a workflow form in a browser page of his computing device. As part of the launch, a UI control makes calls to an attestation service to determine which attributes of the user were specified by the compliance administrator and to query an association between each of the specified attributes and a particular UI control and field value therefor. Upon obtaining the results, the particular UI control for the specified attributes are presented to the user in the workflow form, along with an attestation question UI control, and an option for the user to update at least one of their field values.
US09652737B1
A solution for inventory identification and quantification using a portable computing device (“PCD”) comprising a camera subsystem is described. An exemplary embodiment of the solution comprises a method that begins with capturing a video stream of a physical inventory comprised of a plurality of individual inventory items. Using a set of tracking points appearing in sequential frames, and optical flow calculations, coordinates for global centers of the frames may be calculated. From there, coordinates for identified inventory items may be determined relative to the global centers of the frames within which they are captured. Comparing the calculated coordinates for inventory items identified in each frame, as well as fingerprint data, embodiments of the method may identify and filter duplicate image captures of the same inventory item within some statistical certainty. Symbology data, such as QR codes, are decoded and quantified as part of the inventory count.
US09652736B2
A portable radio-frequency identifier (RFID) reading terminal can comprise a microprocessor, a memory, an RFID reading device, and a display. The portable RFID reading terminal can be configured to display a scan trace provided by a line comprising a plurality of time varying points. Each point can be defined by a projection of a radio frequency (RF) signal coverage shape of the RFID reading device onto a chosen plane at a given moment in time.
US09652727B1
An apparatus, a method, and a computer program receive a request message from a mobile device to connect with an agent and authenticate the request message and provisioning a database for enabled services and service location. A service provider is identified and selected from a plurality of service providers. As a result, the request message is transmitted to the service provider in order to determine availability of the service provider.
US09652724B2
A system and method is disclosed that enables the display of permits and/or permit information related to a specific location, collection of permitting data onsite, comparison of the onsite data to permitted constraints, and reporting the results of the inspection (as required under the appropriate regulatory policy or as requested by the organization or entity being inspected), as well as sending immediate notifications, as appropriate, to decision makers. In certain embodiments, the system and method may also offer predictions on the likelihood of an enforcement action against the organization given factors such as, but not limited to, the type of violation, degree of violation, and enforcement actions against others for similar violations. In other embodiments, the system and method allows the permittee to mitigate the risk of a violation by notifying emergency personnel in addition to decision makers within the organization.
US09652719B2
A system and computer program product that facilitates authoring of a Bayesian Belief Networks by: accessing text content stored in a content storage device; identifying statements within said accessed text content indicating a dependence relation; extracting said statements indicating said dependence relation from said text content; and aggregating said extracted statements into a form suitable for representation as a BBN network structure. To identify statements indicating a dependence relation, the system identifies one or more lexical and semantic attributes of variables within a text unit indicating a conditional dependence relation between two or more variables. The system further processes the text content to extract probabilistic information and probability statements and aggregate the probability statements into a quantitative layer of the BBN structure.
US09652712B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using recurrent neural networks to analyze health events. One of the methods includes: processing each of a plurality of initial temporal sequences of health events to generate, for each of the initial temporal sequences, a respective network internal state of a recurrent neural network for each time step in the initial temporal sequence; storing, for each of the initial temporal sequences, one or more of the network internal states for the time steps in the temporal sequence in a repository; obtaining a first temporal sequence; processing the first temporal sequence using the recurrent neural network to generate a sequence internal state for the first temporal sequence; and selecting one or more initial temporal sequences that are likely to include health events that are predictive of future health events in the first temporal sequence.
US09652710B2
A method for recording the number of sterilizations of a piece for a medical device. The piece can be a motor and/or a handpiece. The piece includes a temperature sensor and/or a pressure sensor and/or a humidity sensor and/or an angular position. The method includes the following steps: inserting the piece into the sterilization camber; detecting the sterilization based on the temperature and/or the pressure and/or the humidity and/or the angular position in which the handpiece is received in the sterilization chamber by the temperature sensor and/or the pressure sensor (102) and/or the humidity sensor and/or the angular position sensor. This solution allows recording of the number of sterilizations of a handpiece and/or a motor for a medical device, in particular for a dental device.
US09652709B2
Protocols, systems, and methods are disclosed for two or more RFID tags to communicate with each other and a device using direct connections. A disclosed system includes a first RFID tag, a second RFID tag, and a device. The first and second RFID tags are configured to mate to each other and directly exchange information. The second RFID tag is further configured to directly exchange information with the device such that information received directly at the second RFID tag from the first RFID tag may then be directly exchanged with the device. The first RFID tag may send a first tag identification directly from the first RFID tag to the second RFID tag. The second RFID tag may then send a first acknowledgement to the first RFID tag if the first tag identification was correctly received by the second RFID tag.
US09652701B2
A scoring and weighting system and method for providing print device selection on the basis of product characteristics that are specified for a print product is provided. The system determines the properties of one or more printing devices in relation to the product characteristics. The printing devices have one or more print mediums for providing the print product. A score is derived by determining a status respecting the conformity of the one or more print mediums to the product characteristics and evaluating the one or more printing devices' properties. Associating that score with each of the one or more printing device. Also, associating the print product with a print job and utilizing the score to route the print job to one of the one or more printing devices to produce the print product on one of the one or more print mediums.
US09652697B2
The card holding member is able to hold a card having terminal members and is able to be inserted into a card connector, and includes a frame portion opposing the side surfaces of the card. The frame portion includes a first metal portion composed of a metal plate, a second metal portion composed of a metal plate being a separate component from the first metal portion, and a resin portion surrounding and covering at least a portion of the first metal portion and the second metal portion.
US09652683B2
Exemplary methods of extracting closed caption images from frames of an audio video (AV) stream are described. A first set of frames of a first AV stream including CC images and a second set of frames not including the CC images are received. Each pixel in the first frame is replaced with a dummy pixel, upon determination that a pixel at a corresponding position in the corresponding frame has a same color value to generate a filtered frame including dummy pixels and non-dummy pixels. First coordinates of the top-left most pixel of the first frame that is not a dummy pixel and second coordinates of the bottom-right most pixel of the first frame that is not a dummy pixel are determined. The filtered frame is cropped along the first and second coordinates to extract the CC image.
US09652676B1
A video personalizing method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium receiving user information for a viewer watching a first video, includes a biometric analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for biometric data, a viewer content analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for online content generated by the viewer in parallel to watching the first video, an expression analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for facial and eye reactions of the viewer, a text analyzing device configured to analyze the user information for text that the viewer reads, and a video selection device configured to select a second video out of a plurality of videos stored in a video storing unit in order to increase a satisfaction of the viewer based on the collective outputs the biometric analyzing device, the viewer content analyzing device, the expression analyzing device, and the text analyzing device.
US09652666B2
Providing human review of an image stream for a parking camera system is disclosed. Initially, a first image stream is received from a first camera having a first field of view showing a first vehicle or at least one destination location. Next, it is determined that a value for the at least one type of information relating to the at least one destination location or the first vehicle has failed to be automatically detected. In response, an exemption event is generated. Presentation of the at least part of the first image stream to a human operator is then enabled. Finally, the value for the at least one type of information relating to the at least one destination location or the first vehicle is received from the human operator.
US09652656B2
A method and apparatus for generating an organ image are provided. An organ image generating method involves: receiving image data of a medical image of a subject; extracting an image of an organ from the medical image; receiving image data of a generic image of the organ; and generating image data of an organ image of the subject from the generic image of the organ and the extracted image of the organ.
US09652655B2
One method for estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in a portion of a physical sample includes: extracting a feature from a portion of an image of the sample; tagging the portion of the image of the sample with a blood volume indicator according to the extracted feature; and estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in at least the portion of the physical sample, associated with the portion of the image of the sample, according to the blood volume indicator.
US09652653B2
A method of predicting the location of a region of interest within an image of a scannable object comprising providing a scanner having a processor and an image sensor; sensing in a viewing direction toward a scannable object, with an imaging plane being perpendicular to the viewing direction; capturing an image of the scannable object with the image sensor; sensing motion of the scanner within a motion sensor plane relative to the scannable object, the motion sensor plane being parallel to the imaging plane; outputting a velocity and a movement direction corresponding to the velocity; locating a region of interest in said captured image in response to the velocity and the movement direction; and scanning the captured image beginning with the region of interest.
US09652650B2
An indicia reader system includes: an indicia reader for reading symbol indicia and producing a symbol signal representative of the symbol indicia, the indicia reader capable of transferring and receiving data formatted in a plurality of protocols; a controller capable of transferring and receiving data formatted in a plurality of protocols; and, a translation interface for translating data from the controller which is in a first protocol to a second protocol for receipt by the indicia reader.
US09652647B2
An article management system includes RFID tags (102) fixed above a reader transmission line (101), a metal sheet (103) having an opening (103a) at positions corresponding to RFID tags (102) located within an assigned position (108) assigned to place an article (106), a tag reading unit (104) that reads the plurality of RFID tags (102) by electromagnetic coupling through the reader transmission line (101), and an article presence/absence determination unit (105) that determines presence or absence of the article (106) at the assigned position (108) on the metal sheet (103) based on results of reading the plurality of RFID tags (102). It is thereby possible to manage articles at high speed even when a plurality of RFID tags are placed.
US09652643B1
Synthesized-beam RFID readers may be used to manage and provide information about RFID tag populations. In one embodiment, two or more synthesized-beam readers synthesize respective RF beams towards a tag location. The synthesized-beam readers may coordinate their pointing by means of a controller, a peer-to-peer network, or by using a master-slave arrangement. The synthesized-beam readers may coordinate their transmissions to increase the RF energy available to a tag at the pointing location.
US09652640B1
A chip-enabled card is detected within a card reader. The card reader locks the chip-enabled card in the card reader until an indication is received indicating that a card transaction with the chip-enabled card has ended and preventing the chip-enabled card from being removed while the chip-enabled card is locked in the card reader.
US09652634B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems generate an encryption key based upon data content of a portion of data to be encrypted by the encryption key. The encryption key is stored as one of a plurality of encryption keys within a subset of storage. Each of the plurality of encryption keys is generated based upon corresponding data content. A checksum representing the plurality of encryption keys is calculated. In response to receiving an input/output (I/O) request for data encrypted by the encryption key, a verification checksum representing the plurality of encryption keys is calculated. The requested data is decrypted using the encryption key in response to verifying the checksum and verification checksum match.
US09652633B2
In systems and methods of generating an authenticated document biosignature, a processor of a verification device may calculate a base verification score associated with a user based on at least one identification input, the identification input comprising one or more identification features, a feature validity rating of each identification feature, a source where the one or more identification feature are received, and a source validity rating, wherein at least one of the identification features includes a biometric identification feature. The processor of the verification device may generate a glyph based on the base verification score and the identification input. The glyph may be associated with a document, and may be used to verify the identity of the user associated with the glyph.
US09652630B2
An apparatus comprises a network interface and a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface. The network interface communicates with a database comprising a plurality of columns and a plurality of views. Each view is associated with at least one column of the plurality of columns. The processor receives a request to determine one or more noncompliant views of the database. For each view and each column associated with the view, the processor determines whether the column is associated with a privacy indicator that indicates that the column should be masked and whether the view masks the column. The processor then determines that the view is noncompliant if the view does not mask at least one column that should be masked, and generates a report that indicates whether each view of the database is noncompliant. The network interface communicates the report.
US09652629B2
A system and method for selectively securing data from unauthorized access on a client device storing a plurality of data types with reference to an authorization level indicated in a command. A command is received at a client device comprising an authorization level indicator. Based on at least one predefined rule, which may be implemented in an IT policy stored at the client device, each of the plurality of data types to be secured is determined, and then the data corresponding to those types is secured. The data may be secured by encrypting and/or deleting the data at the client device. The predefined rules associated with each authorization level may be configured by a user or administrator having an authorization level that exceeds the associated authorization level.
US09652609B2
The entry/exit architecture may be a critical component of a protection framework using a secure enclaves-like trust framework for coprocessors. The entry/exit architecture describes steps that may be used to switch securely into a trusted execution environment (entry architecture) and out of the trusted execution environment (exit architecture), at the same time preventing any secure information from leaking to an untrusted environment.
US09652604B1
Authentication objects are usable to generate other authentication objects. A user associated with a first authentication object has access to a system. The first authentication object is usable to generate a second authentication object that is usable by a second user for access to the system in accordance with access granted to the second user via the second authentication object. The second authentication object may have various restrictions so that the second user does not obtain all access available to the first user.
US09652602B2
A method of verifying, by a processing system, whether a user of a device corresponds to a previously authenticated user. The processing system has access to a first image and a second image. The first image is an image of an identity document comprising an image of the previously authenticated user. The second image is an image captured by the device. The method comprises: comparing said first image to said second image, whereby to determine whether they are images of the same user; and, in the event that it is determined that the first and second images are images of the same user: designating one of the first and second images as a higher quality image; and, storing said designated image as a validated image of the previously authenticated user.
US09652600B2
A machine performs an ownership audit on source media files whose media tracks are used, or proposed for use, in a mash-up media file. The machine may access a first group of media identifiers from a user's media library and identify authorized media files that the user is authorized to play or use in a mash-up. The machine may access a second group of media identifiers that identify source media files selected by the user for inclusion in a mash-up. The machine may determine whether all source media files are authorized and then present a notification that indicates whether the mash-up media file can be generated, or has been generated, exclusively from authorized media files. If a source media file is not authorized, the notification may include a suggestion that the user purchase an authorization to play the media file, use it in a mash-up, or both.
US09652595B1
A kit for individualized intravenous exogenous insulin-based therapy, which includes a portable data storage in communication with client device processor. The data storage can have computer instructions, a database of metabolic factors, a library of weight management protocols, a diabetic treatment model, and a library of care plan templates. The kit for individualized intravenous exogenous insulin-based therapy includes a blood glucose meter, a plurality of intravenous catheters fluidly engageable with a fluid source, and a plurality of metabolic enhancements.
US09652594B2
A medication storage and dispensing workstation for use in a medication management system administering the inventory and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies in a healthcare environment is disclosed. The workstation incorporates a linear drawer assembly having a plurality of discrete, removable, storage modules for containing medications and/or other medical supplies. The storage modules are arranged in a linear array extending longitudinally along the travel path of the linear drawer assembly. Each storage module, in turn, comprises a drawer that is extensible laterally relative to the linear arrangement of the storage modules. As such, the drawer assemblies comprise a compartmentalized “drawer-in-drawer” arrangement that provides an efficient use of storage space and enables a user to utilize the workstation in a workspace having a smaller footprint that traditional storage cabinet apparatus.
US09652589B2
A user interface including a touch-sensitive display unit that has a display area and is configured to show a medical image and a user-selectable element on the display area. The display unit is configured to detect an operator touch and detect a location of the operator touch in the display area. The user-selectable element includes an activating portion and a location indicator. The display unit is configured to move the user-selectable element along the medical image as directed by the operator when the activating portion is touched. The location indicator and the activating portion have fixed positions with respect to each other as the user-selectable element is moved along the display area. The user-selectable element is configured to operate in an activated state and in an inactivated state. The user-selectable element configured to modify the medical image when in the activated state.
US09652586B2
An area of research in the field of bioinformatics deals with the identification of similarities within one, or between two DNA sequences. Current techniques are quite slow and many matches are missed. The invention provides a faster and more sensitive solution, by using “optimized spaced seeds” to perform these biological sequence homology searches. Various techniques are shown for identifying seeds which are optimized to improve the sensitivity or speed of the searching. In the preferred embodiment, optimized spaced seeds are determined by the parameters of the search and independent of the actual databases being searched (for example, using the length and weight of the spaced seed, as well as the probability of a hit in a similar region). Thus, these optimized seeds can be stored in libraries which are accessed as required.
US09652582B1
Electronic design automation systems and methods are presented for top-down timing budget flow in master-clone scenarios. In some embodiments, different instances of a master-clone block within an integrated circuit design are associated with different constraint files. The different constraint files are based on the different connections of each instance with elements of the integrated circuit design as well as the shared structure of the master-clone block. A top-down timing budget flow may then be generated based on the differing constraint files, and the integrated circuit design may be modified based on this analysis prior to generation of physical devices based on the design.
US09652573B1
Systems and techniques are described for designing an integrated circuit (IC). Some embodiments explicitly represent wide-gates as distinct objects in an IC design data model. One or more IC design representations that are used in an IC design flow may natively support such wide-gate objects. These new objects can enable rapid access and preservation of wide-gates, thereby improving the runtime and/or quality of results (QoR) of an IC design system.
US09652568B1
For simulating a parallel supercomputing cluster, a simulation program includes a model of the system of compute nodes and a model of an I/O subsystem that stores checkpoints from the compute nodes. When executed, instructions in the simulation program perform the steps of receiving input parameters defining the compute nodes and the I/O subsystem, computing a total number of computational flops for a time between checkpoints and an amount of disk storage required to store the checkpoint data for different configurations of the parallel supercomputing cluster, and presenting a summary to a user of the computed number of computational flops for a time between checkpoints and an amount of disk storage required to store the checkpoint data for the different configurations of the parallel supercomputing cluster.
US09652564B2
Testing scale buildup in a well tool can include pressurizing separate cationic and anionic solutions, then heating the separate solutions, mixing together the solutions, and exposing the well tool to the mixed solutions. A well tool can be constructed by a) determining velocities of flow at a predetermined offset from surfaces of a geometric model representative of the well tool, b) calculating scale buildup on the surfaces based at least in part on the velocities, c) reducing pressure change per unit distance along selected ones of the surfaces having greater than a predetermined level of scale buildup, and d) repeating steps a-c until all scale buildup is no greater than the predetermined level. A method of predicting scale buildup can include inputting a parameter indicative of flow through a well tool to a mathematical model, which determines a rate of scale buildup on a surface of the well tool.
US09652562B2
A system and method for capturing logged data from proximal equipment onto a form. A form creation application determines equipment in proximity to a portable computing device, receives a selection of a piece of equipment from a user, extracts logged data from the piece of equipment that is selected, determines a form with a structure to fill in with the logged data, parses the logged data and fills in at least one field in the form, generates graphical data for displaying the form to the user, provides the form to the user, receives input on the form from the user and stores the form and the input received on the form.
US09652556B2
Computer-implemented methods for providing suggestions for a search based on a visibility of content within a viewport of a device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving information on content currently loaded for display on a device. The information includes an indication of whether at least one portion of the content has entered a viewport of the device. The method also includes identifying, based on the content, at least one suggestion to provide for display with the search field, wherein the at least one suggestion is weighted based on whether a portion of the content referring to at least one suggestion has entered the viewport of the device, and providing the at least one suggestion for display with a display of a search field on the device. Systems and machine-readable storage media are also provided.
US09652553B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for displaying a web page, a system for displaying a web page, and a computer program product for displaying a web page. A method for displaying a web page is provided. The method includes pre-processing text information to be picture processed in a web page, creating a picture, generating a position description for each text block in the picture, filling the corresponding text blocks into the picture based on the position descriptions, generating a call address for the picture, and correspondingly saving the call address and the position description of each text block as metadata. If an access request for the web page is received, invoking the metadata, loading the picture, selecting at least one corresponding text block from the picture, and displaying the at least one text block is performed.
US09652550B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indexing application pages of native applications that operate independent of a browser application on a user device. In one aspect, a method includes instantiating a virtual machine emulating an operating system of a user device; instantiating, within the virtual machine, a native application that generates application pages for display on a user device within the native application; accessing, within the virtual machine, application pages of the native application, and for each of the application pages: generating application page data describing content of the application page, the content described by the application page data including text that a user device displays on the application page when the user device displays the application page; and indexing the application page data for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine.
US09652547B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting local query suggestions. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of determining a general location and a specific location for a client device. Methods also include while receiving a query stem, and before receiving an input submitting a query to the search engine, obtaining general queries containing the query stem, each general query having a first quality measure. Methods also include obtaining local queries containing the query stem, each local query having a second quality measure. Methods also include combining at least one of the general queries and at least one of the local queries into combined queries, the combined queries having a presentation order based on the respective quality measures of the queries. Methods also include presenting the queries.
US09652544B2
Implementations include receiving trigger query data, the trigger query data identifying one or more trigger queries and one or more sets of authoritative users, each set of authoritative users being associated with a respective trigger query, providing a plurality of trigger query and authoritative user pairs, each trigger query and authoritative user pair identifying a trigger query and an authoritative user from a set of authoritative users associated with the trigger query, for each trigger query and authoritative user pair: generating a snippet based on user data, the user data being associated with the authoritative user in one or more computer-implemented services, each snippet being specific to the trigger query and specific to the authoritative user, and storing one or more snippets in computer-readable memory, each snippet being associated with the trigger query and the authoritative user for which the snippet was generated.
US09652540B2
Methods, systems, and products create credit cards, debit cards, and other transactional cards. An image is received and provided on a transactional card. Account information is retrieved and associated with the transactional card. A machine-readable element is also provided on the transactional card and includes the account information.
US09652538B2
Techniques for optimizing the performance of a webpage crawler are described. According to various embodiments, historical web crawler performance data is accessed, the data describing a performance of a web crawler during various time periods in one or more prior days. A capacity of the web crawler to fulfill uniform resource locator (URL) crawl requests for an upcoming given time period is then estimated, based on the historical web crawler performance data. Thereafter, a plurality of URL crawl requests are distributed to the web crawler during the upcoming given time period, based on the estimated capacity of the web crawler.
US09652535B2
In an embodiment, a method is provided for presenting a query directed at an information resource. In this method, a number of queries is accessed over a time period. A burst of the number of queries is detected within the time period. It should be noted that a burst is a determinable increase in the number of queries received within the time period relative to a historical number of queries received in a preceding time interval. Event-related information that is associated with the burst in the time is searched, and the query in conjunction with the event-related information is displayed at a display unit.
US09652525B2
A method for dynamic event detection based on content from a set of social networking systems including receiving content from the set of social networking systems, identifying a plurality of content associated with a geofence, the content that was generated within a predetermined time period, determining feature values from the plurality of content for each of a set of features, determining an event probability for the geofence based on the feature values, and detecting an event within the geofence in response to the event probability exceeding a threshold event probability.
US09652519B2
A mechanism is provided for handling transaction messages in asynchronous data replication in a database system, in which the database system includes a source node and a target node, and each transaction message has information concerning a row change to a table copy at the source node. The mechanism determines whether a first transaction message has a dependency on a preceding non-completed transaction message. Responsive to the first transaction message having a dependency on the preceding non-completed transaction, the mechanism holds the first transaction message, completes the preceding non-completed transaction message including applying the row change associated with the preceding non-completed transaction message to the table copy at the target node, and responsive to completing the preceding non-completed transaction message, and releases the first transaction message and applying the row change associated with the first transaction message to the table copy at the target node.
