US09900997B2
A rigid flex board module includes a rigid flex circuit board and a high-density interconnected circuit board. The rigid flex circuit board includes a flexible circuit board, a first rigid circuit board and a first adhesive layer. The flexible circuit board includes a bending portion and a jointing portion connected to the bending part. The rigid flex circuit board is disposed on the jointing portion to expose the bending portion. The first rigid circuit board electrically connects with the flexible circuit board. The first adhesive layer connects the first rigid circuit board and the jointing portion. The high-density interconnected circuit board is disposed in the first rigid circuit board and is electrically connected to the first rigid circuit board.
US09900992B1
A disclosed circuit arrangement includes adhesive transfer tape having a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) having a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface. One or more metal foil pads are attached directly to the second major surface of the layer of PSA. Electrically conductive round wire is attached directly to the second major surface of the layer of PSA. The wire has a round cross-section and one or more portions directly connected to the one or more metal foil pads with one or more weld joints, respectively. An electronic device is attached directly to the second major surface of the layer of PSA and is electrically connected to the one or more portions of the round wire by one or more bond wires, respectively.
US09900991B2
A flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) for an optical module includes: a signal via pad connected with a signal lead pin of the optical module; a ground layer spaced apart from the signal via pad; an isolation gap formed between the signal via pad and the ground layer; and a protective layer which is formed at a portion that comprises the isolation gap, and which, when connected with the signal via pad, compensates for parasitic inductance caused by a protruding signal lead pin.
US09900987B2
There are provided a coil component and a board for mounting the same. The coil component includes a magnetic body including first and second coil portions disposed on one surface of a substrate and disposed linearly, based on a central portion of the magnetic body, and third and fourth coil portions disposed on the other surface of the substrate and disposed linearly, based on the central portion of the magnetic body; and first to fourth external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the magnetic body and connected to the first to fourth coil portions. The first coil portion and the third coil portion have a first core portion, and the second coil portion and the fourth coil portion have a second core portion. A peripheral portion disposed outwardly of the first to fourth coil portions has greater permeability than that of the first and second core portions.
US09900980B2
A transparency including a conductive mesh is disclosed. The conductive mesh is formed by a plurality of inkjet printed electrically conductive lines on a polymer film or a glass, polyacrylate, polycarbonate, or polyurethane substrate, wherein at least one inkjet printed electrically conductive line intersects at least one other inkjet printed electrically conductive line. A flying vehicle including a transparency including a conductive mesh is also disclosed. Additionally, a method of preparing a transparency by laminating a polymer film and a substrate together, wherein a conductive mesh is formed on the polymer film by a plurality of inkjet printed electrically conductive lines, is also disclosed.
US09900973B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a cooling device capable of more efficiently cooling heating components heated. The cooling device has a first heat sink and a heat conductor. The first heat sink is thermally coupled to a first heating component mounted on a first surface of a circuit board. The heat conductor is thermally coupled to a second heating component mounted on a second surface of the circuit board and is thermally coupled to the first heat sink.
US09900965B2
A lighting system includes a master lighting device, a control unit, and one or more slave lighting devices. The master lighting device includes a power input, a light emitting component, a memory device, a processor, and a network interface to communicate over a network. The memory device stores computer readable code that when executed by the processor, causes the master lighting device to receive a message that includes brightness information over the network, receive information regarding a characteristic of power received at the power input, control a brightness level of the light emitting component based on the brightness information and the information regarding the characteristic of the power, and send a message to the slave lighting devices to control their brightness level. The control unit includes a network interface send the message that includes the brightness information over the network.
US09900943B2
A two-terminal IC chip and method thereof. For example, a two-terminal IC chip includes a first chip terminal, a second chip terminal, a first switch configured to receive a control signal, a first capacitor coupled to the first switch, a second switch configured to receive the control signal, a second capacitor coupled to the second switch, a third switch configured to receive the control signal, and a third capacitor coupled to the third switch. A first terminal voltage is a voltage of the first chip terminal, a second terminal voltage is a voltage of the second chip terminal, and a chip voltage is equal to a difference between the first terminal voltage and the second terminal voltage.
US09900942B1
Various embodiments of apparatuses, systems and methods for regulating the currents provided by a DCDC buck converters to an LED unit are provided. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a regulating module operable to instruct and regulate the time periods during which each of the first switch and the second switch of a driver module, used to control the operation of a buck converter module, are configured into at least one of the first operating state and the second operating state such that a maximum current and a minimum current provided by the buck converter module to an LED unit over a given cycle are symmetrically disposed about an average current provided to the LED unit during an operating cycle, where the average current provided is substantially equal to a target current for the LED unit.
US09900937B2
A power supply including: an AC input power connector; an AC-DC converter circuit coupled to the AC input power connector; a constant-current constant-voltage control unit configured to receive DC power from the AC-DC converter circuit; a light emitting diode (LED) lamp unit configured to receive power from the constant-current constant-voltage control unit; and a capacitor coupled in parallel with the LED lamp unit.
US09900936B2
An over-the-range microwave oven includes: a housing; an electric equipment chamber which is disposed in the housing, and includes a control panel, and a drive unit; a cooking chamber which is disposed in the housing and controlled by the electric equipment chamber, and has an air inlet portion which is disposed at one side of the cooking chamber and into which outside air flows, and an opening and closing unit which is disposed at the other side of the cooking chamber and that is opened and closed based on a flow rate of flowing air; and a duct unit in the housing and disposed outside the cooking unit.
US09900928B2
A method in a User Equipment, UE, for managing an extended Discontinuous Reception, DRX, cycle mode. The UE is operating in a network and is in a Radio Resource Control, RRC, connected state. The UE enters (401) the extended DRX cycle mode when a first criterion is satisfied. The first criterion relates to anyone or more out of that the UE has not been scheduled by the network during a specific time duration, that the UE has completed a predefined or configured number of long DRX cycles when being in a long DRX cycle mode, that the UE has received an order from the network to enter to the extended DRX cycle mode.
US09900926B2
A multi-device intelligent interconnection method and system are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a connection with a peripheral device by a central device; transmitting a first self-defined string message to the peripheral device to inform the peripheral device to report a type of a service; receiving the reported type of the service from the peripheral device by the central device, and disconnecting the connection with the peripheral device; and reestablishing the connection or connections with one or more of the peripheral devices through actively initiating one of the services or receiving a request or requests for initiating one or more of the services.
US09900925B2
A master base station comprises: a controller configured to notify a secondary base station of information for indicating whether a user plane architecture in dual connectivity is an architecture in which a SCG (Secondary Cell Group) bearer is used or an architecture in which a split bearer is used. The SCG bearer is a bearer which goes via both a serving gate way and the secondary base station without going via the master base station. The split bearer is a bearer which goes via both the serving gate way and the master base station, and which is split in a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) layer of the master base station, and One split path of the split bearer goes via the secondary base station, and another split path of the split bearer does not goes via the secondary base station.
US09900911B2
LTE-WLAN aggregation (LWA) at the radio access network level promises significant gain in system capacity and user quality of experience (QoE). In order to support QoS over LWA, there is a need to develop mechanisms to ensure that the access category (AC) classification chosen by a wireless device (AP in the case of downlink, and UE in case of uplink) is consistent with the QoS requirements of the EPS bearer/DRB and/or subscriber profile to which the traffic belongs. The cellular LTE network can provision QoS for both downlink and uplink data flows that are transferred using LWA access.
US09900897B2
An access point is configured to determine a frequency channel to operate on. The access point includes a storage element having machine executable code therein that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine the frequency channel with a highest data throughput among available frequency channels, which may undergo different levels of interference.
US09900895B2
A method, system and device are provided for avoiding in-device coexistence interference between different radio technologies deployed in adjacent bands on the same device by controlling and separating the LTE signaling and the non-LTE signaling using dedicated time intervals to separate LTE signaling from non-LTE signaling. In addition, coexistence mode handover procedures are provided which use threshold-based triggering events to avoid coexistence interference and to prevent ping-pong effects by establishing a “keeping time” parameter so that a non-interfering network node does not switch back to an interfering network node after handoff. Coexistence interference is also avoided by providing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism which accounts for coexistence interference by providing a fixed or variable on-interval parameter and an activity parameter indicating whether non-LTE activity is present to maximize a time interval for non-LTE devices without interference from LTE activity on the same device.
US09900885B2
A method for receiving a downlink signal by an apparatus in a wireless mobile communication system, the method includes receiving common downlink control information including a resource indication value, RIV, wherein the RIV is mapped to a start index S and a length L of consecutive virtual resource blocks, VRBs; and receiving the downlink signal on the consecutive VRBs, wherein the start index, S, is an element of a first set {s: s=mG<└NVRB/G┘·G} and the length, L, is an element of a second set {1:1=nG≦└NVRB/G┘·G}, where m is an integer of 0 or higher, n is an integer of 1 or higher, NVRB is the number of VRBs in a downlink system bandwidth, and G is an integer of 2 or higher.
US09900881B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which reuse existing LTE functionality to rapidly signal UEs on the availability of a LTE-U cell. Using these techniques the on/off operation can be in the order of a few milliseconds (ms). Several techniques are disclosed herein, including use of component carrier (CC) specific Discontinuous Reception (DRX) signaling, PDCCH signaling, DL assignment based signaling, Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH) signaling, Beacon signaling, and the like.
US09900876B2
The present invention addresses a method, apparatus and computer program product for enabling enhanced repetition transmission for downlink control signal to improve machine type communication coverage. One or a plurality of downlink control channel signaling window lengths is/are predefined, a start position of a window in which repetition of download control signal is allowed is determined based on the determined control channel signaling window length for each window length, and transmission of repetition of download control signal is caused at the determined start position in the respective obtained window length.
US09900866B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate identifying devices in a wireless network and cognitively communicating with devices over utilized frequencies. Devices can be identified by receiving downlink resource assignments related to the devices, evaluating uplink transmissions thereover, and identifying the devices from one or more aspects of the uplink transmissions (e.g., an identifier in the transmission). Moreover, the uplink transmissions can be re-transmitted to a serving device to provide relay functionality for the transmissions. Additionally, peer-to-peer communication with the device and/or other devices can be facilitated by using a portion of available transmission power to re-transmit while using the other portion to transmit peer-to-peer communications. Thus, interference caused by the peer-to-peer communications is mitigated by additionally functioning as a relay using a portion of the transmit power.
US09900864B2
A method and system for requesting a Physical PMCH are provided. The method includes: user equipment determines a target cell to be immigrated which is adjacent to a cell where the user equipment is located; and if the user equipment judges that a preconfigured Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) area in the adjacent target cell does not comprise the MBSFN area used by the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service/group call currently received by the user equipment, the user equipment requests a network side equipment to allocate a PMCH for the currently received MBMS service/group call. According to the technical solution provided in the present invention, the service continuity of the PTT communication user in a receiving state during the moving process is implemented.
US09900863B2
A method for receiving a broadcast signal through a new carrier type (NCT) in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention is executed by a terminal and comprises the steps of: blind-decoding a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) received from a base station; and acquiring a number of antenna ports and system information of the base station from the PBCH, wherein the blind decoding is executed within a candidate range for the blind decoding of the PBCH corresponding to a partial area of a downlink subframe, and the candidate range is an area in which a symbol section is excluded in a downlink subframe to which a physical downlink control channel (PDDCH) of a neighboring base station is mapped, and can be indicated by the base station in advance.
US09900862B2
Embodiments provide an access network device and a communication method. The access network device includes: a receiver, configured to receive a call request sent by a calling user equipment, where the call request carries a user communication identity of a called user equipment. The access network device also includes a processor, configured to generate a paging request based on the user communication identity before the receiver receives a paging message sent by a core network device, where the processor is further configured to set up a signaling connection to the called user equipment based on the paging request. The access network device also includes a sender, configured to send the paging request generated by the processor to the called user equipment.
US09900857B2
A Node-B sends a polling message to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU sends an uplink synchronization burst in response to the polling message without contention. The Node-B estimates an uplink timing shift based on the synchronization burst and sends an uplink timing adjustment command to the WTRU. The WTRU then adjusts uplink timing based on the uplink timing adjustment command. Alternatively, the Node-B may send a scheduling message for uplink synchronization to the WTRU. The WTRU may send a synchronization burst based on the scheduling message. Alternatively, the WTRU may perform contention-based uplink synchronization after receiving a synchronization request from the Node-B. The WTRU may enter an idle state instead of performing a handover to a new cell when the WTRU moves to the new cell. A discontinuous reception (DRX) interval for the WTRU may be set based on activity of the WTRU.
US09900856B2
Method and apparatus for time or frequency synchronization of radio signals transmitted by user terminals in communication with a gateway through a satellite is provided. The satellite may be part of a non-synchronous satellite communication system, such as a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication system for data, voice or video communications. Times of transmission of return link radio signals from the user terminals may be adjusted such that the signals arrive at the satellite or at the gateway without large time delay differentials. Carrier frequencies of return link radio signals transmitted from the user terminals may be adjusted such that the signals arrive at the satellite or at the gateway without large frequency offset differentials.
US09900843B2
Uplink power control techniques for ultra low latency in Long Term Evolution (LTE) devices are presented. For example, an example method for transmission power control is described that includes determining that a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission are scheduled for transmission during a symbol of a subframe. In an aspect, the first uplink transmission has a first transmission time interval (TTI) and a first transmission power and the second uplink transmission has a second TTI, the second TTI being different from the first TTI, and a second transmission power. Furthermore, the method may include determining that a power limitation condition is met for one or both of the first transmission power or the second transmission power and adjusting one or both of the first transmission power or the second transmission power based on a determination that the power limitation condition is met.
US09900830B2
A communication apparatus identifies an access point with which the communication apparatus can perform wireless communication and transmits information indicating the identified access point to a communication partner apparatus by way of the wireless communication. In response to this, an access point designated by the communication partner apparatus is registered as a relay access point.
US09900829B2
An object is to perform connection control for a wireless layer appropriate for service execution in an application layer.A communication device determines to operate as an access point when serving as a device that provides a service in an application layer, whereas the communication device operates as a station when serving as a device that receives a service in the application layer.
US09900822B2
A wireless gateway disposed in a subscriber domain detects presence of a communication device communicating in a vicinity of the subscriber domain over a first wireless communication link such as a wireless cellular phone link. In response to detecting the communication device in the subscriber domain, the wireless gateway provides notification of a presence of the wireless gateway hardware to the communication device. The wireless gateway participates in establishing a second wireless communication link between the communication device and the wireless gateway to facilitate a handoff of a communication session from the first wireless communication link to the second wireless communication link.
US09900818B2
When a representative PS server receives a P-TMSI contained in a PDP context succession request signal from a UE according to a handover communication procedure prescribed in an applicable standard after the UE moves, if the PS server identified with the identification information contained in the received P-TMSI is not its own representative PS server, the representative PS server identifies the PS server identified with the identification information as a PS server that manages a femtocell base station to which the UE belonged before it moved and forwards the PDP context succession request signal to the identified PS server.
US09900817B2
In one example embodiment, a method performed by a target network node is provided for replacing an inactive cell with an active cell in response to a handover request message following one or more reconfigurations. An inactive cell may be replaced with an active cell that reuses a first physical cell identity associated with the inactive cell. A mapping between the inactive cell and the active cell that is replacing the inactive cell may be stored. A handover request message may be received from a source network node. The handover request message may identify the first physical cell identity and one or more cell identifiers that points to the inactive cell. It may be determined that the first physical cell identity and the one or more cell identifiers identified in the handover request message point to the inactive cell. Based on the mapping between the inactive cell and the active cell, the active cell may be identified as reusing the first physical identity. In response to a request from a wireless device for handover execution to the inactive cell, a message to the wireless device may be transmitted to acknowledge completed handover preparation toward the active cell.
US09900811B2
One embodiment of the present specification provides a data channel reception method. The method can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a first cell, a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) and a data channel; receiving, from a second cell, configuration information of an MBMS over a single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe according to the movement from the first cell to the second cell; receiving, from the second cell, the CRS and the data channel of the first cell on at least one MBSFN subframe according to the configuration information; and demodulating the data channel received from the second cell on the basis of the CRS of the first cell received from the second cell.
US09900805B2
A technique is provided for synchronizing a first call state of a network component and a second call state of a mobile device. The mobile device is connectable to a network via a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and a second RAT. The network forwards towards a callee an invitation for a call originating via the first RAT from the mobile device. The network sends a first message corresponding to a callee response towards the mobile device. The network component triggers a transfer of the call session of the mobile device from the first RAT to the second RAT. The first call state is set by the response of the callee. Information indicative of the second call state is received from the mobile device, and a second message for changing the second call state by the response is provided to the mobile device when inconsistent first and second call states.
US09900804B2
Provided are a method and device for processing to share network resources, and a method, device and system for sharing network resource. The method includes that: a first forwarding rule is sent to an access network device in a network, wherein the first forwarding rule is configured to indicate a rule adopted when the access network device forwards an access protocol message of a first user; the access protocol message forwarded by the access network device according to the first forwarding rule is received; and access authentication is performed on the first user according to the received access protocol message, and after the access authentication is passed, a second forwarding rule is sent to the access network device, wherein the second forwarding rule is configured to indicate a rule adopted when the access network device forwards a data message of the first user to a service node in the network.
US09900802B2
A data transmission method and apparatus, a base station, and a user equipment are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a size and priority information of a first data packet that needs to be transmitted; determining a transmission bandwidth used for transmitting the first data packet; if the transmission bandwidth is less than the size of the first data packet and active packet discarding is allowed according to the priority information of the first data packet, processing the size of the data packet to obtain a second data packet, where a size of the second data packet is less than the transmission bandwidth; and sending the second data packet to a user equipment by using the transmission bandwidth.
US09900792B2
An apparatus comprising processing circuitry may be configured to execute an interference simulation using a plurality of processing functions on interference data defined for each of a plurality of geographically diverse emitters interfering with one or more victim receivers via a data processing platform. The data processing platform may be defined via an interpretive language that does not use compiling. The processing functions may include determining aggregate interference data, based on the interference data, for at least a selected one of the receivers relative to corresponding ones of the emitters. The aggregate interference data may include directional information in both azimuth and elevation with respect to both the emitters and the receivers. The processing functions may further include displaying the aggregate interference data in a tabular format, and enabling a change to the interference data to be processed in real time to update the aggregate interference data.
US09900788B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communications system. A method for enabling a terminal to determine the bit length of a rank index (RI) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: receiving the information of the number of a first reference signal (RS) antenna ports of a first cell and of the number of a second RS antenna ports of a second cell; receiving the information of the number of first layers and second layers; mapping the number of the first layers to one of the first and the second cell and the number of the second layers to the other cell; and determining the bit length of a first RI based on the minimum value among the number of the first layers and the number of the RS antenna ports associated with the number of the first layers, and the bit length of a second RI based on the minimum value among the number of the second layers and the number of the RS antenna ports associated with the number of the second layers.
US09900774B2
There are provided systems and methods for shared network connection credentials on check-in at a user's home location. A user may have a wireless network for accessing the Internet, such as a WiFi router, at a location for the user. The wireless network may be password protected to prevent unauthorized used. However, the user may further provide a beacon at the location for the location for the wireless network that provides short range wireless communications including a check-in option for other users visiting the location. Once the other users have used a device to check-in to the beacon, the beacon may be push the access credentials for the wireless network securely to the other users' devices. The secure access credentials may be configured to be wiped from the other users' devices after user, for example, when the other users' devices disconnect from the wireless network of the beacon.
US09900770B2
Vector instructions for performing SNOW 3G wireless security operations are received and executed by the execution circuitry of a processor. The execution circuitry receives a first operand of the first instruction specifying a first vector register that stores a current state of a finite state machine (FSM). The execution circuitry also receives a second operand of the first instruction specifying a second vector register that stores data elements of a liner feedback shift register (LFSR) that are needed for updating the FSM. The execution circuitry executes the first instruction to produce a updated state of the FSM and an output of the FSM in a destination operand of the first instruction.
US09900769B2
An embodiment takes the form of a method carried out by a personal mobile device. The personal mobile device receives a session-request message requesting establishment an encrypted-audio session with a call-initiating device, responsively presents one or more call-response inquiries via a user interface, and subsequently receives an accessory-unready indication via the user interface. The one or more call-response inquiries include an accessory-status inquiry, and the accessory-unready indication is associated with the presented accessory-status inquiry. In response to receiving the accessory-unready indication, the personal mobile device sends, to the call-initiating device, a request-acknowledgment message that is associated with the session-request message. Subsequent to sending the request-acknowledgment message but before establishing the encrypted-audio session, the personal mobile device makes an accessory-ready determination. In response to making the accessory-ready determination, the personal mobile device establishes the encrypted-audio session.
US09900765B2
A server of a wireless operator creates a roaming list based on a user's roaming plan and sends the roaming list to the user's wireless device. The roaming list includes a list of public land mobile networks (PLMNs). When the user travels away from their home wireless network to another geographic area, the wireless device scans based on the roaming list for radio signals. The roaming list contributes to user satisfaction because timely attachment to a radio network while away from home occurs efficiently since the wireless operator creates the roaming list based on both i) roaming agreements that the wireless operator is a party to with other wireless operators, ii) the user's roaming plan, iii) the radio access technology (RAT) capabilities of the wireless device and iv) the RAT capabilities of other wireless operators in particular geographic regions.
US09900762B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for user equipment (“UE”) detection of interference-sensitive devices. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile initiator device can utilize a near-field communications (“NFC”) hardware component to generate a radio frequency (“RF”) field that is used to activate a passive NFC component associated with an interference-sensitive device. The mobile initiator device can utilize the NFC hardware component to receive information about an interference sensitivity of the interference-sensitive device. The mobile initiator device can adjust one or more operational aspects of the mobile initiator device to accommodate the interference sensitivity information of the interference-sensitive device.
US09900756B2
A computer-implemented method, comprises: providing, by a computing device, a policy notification to selected one or more user devices via a primary communications channel to cause the selected one or more user devices to update a policy when the policy notification is received by the user device; and providing, by the computing device, an alternate policy to the selected one or more user devices via an alternate communications channel when the selected one or more user devices does not receive the policy notification via the primary communications channel, wherein providing the alternate policy notification causes the selected one or more user devices to update the policy.
US09900748B2
Mesh node modules are associated with stadium seats and companion nodes such as fan CE devices can dynamically form a mesh network which uploads information of the nodes to a network. Sporting information may be downloaded to a fan's CE device or services provided to the fan while in a seat based on information sent through the node modules in the stadium.
US09900744B2
Location based provisioning and broadcasting of content utilizing a multimedia broadcast service is presented herein. A system can comprise a service component, a location component, and a content component. The service component can be configured to receive a request for a client service. The location component can be configured to determine, based on the request, a location corresponding to a mobile device. Based on the location, the content component can be configured to provision a broadcast service device to source content corresponding to the client service, and initiate a broadcast transmission of the content to the mobile device, e.g., using a broadcast enabled access point device that is configured to send broadcast data to multiple devices via a point-to-multipoint communication protocol.
US09900741B2
A method includes determining a first coordinate representing the geo-fence in a first coordinate system when it is detected that a geo-fence is set, where the first coordinate system is a coordinate system used by the geo-fence, converting the first coordinate into a second coordinate representing the geo-fence in a second coordinate system, where the second coordinate system is a coordinate system set to implement geo-fencing by a positioning technology, and the first coordinate system is different from the second coordinate system, comparing a coordinate of a positioning result determined using the positioning technology with the second coordinate representing the geo-fence, and triggering a preset event when a relationship between the coordinate of the positioning result and the second coordinate representing the geo-fence satisfies a trigger condition.
US09900733B2
Search and recovery is performed for a lost or stolen mobile device. When the mobile device is lost or stolen, the mobile device may transmit a recovery signal for receipt by another device. If an acknowledgment is received, the mobile device confirms discovery by sending its current location. Moreover, seeker devices may be conscripted to search for the lost or stolen mobile device.
US09900731B2
A method and an apparatus for providing a location based service in an electronic device are provided. The method includes classifying location information of the electronic device having a similar characteristic into a category and mapping an operation of the electronic device according to the category.
US09900717B2
A thermal protecting device of a speaker is provided. The thermal protecting device includes an amplifier and a temperature detecting unit. An input end of the amplifier receives an audio reference signal, an output end of the amplifier provides an audio output signal to the speaker. The temperature detecting unit receives an audio input signal to provide the audio reference signal, and detects an operation temperature of the speaker to determine an amplitude of the audio reference signal. The amplitude is inversely proportional to the operation temperature.
US09900711B2
A method for compensating for acoustic crosstalk between a first and a second microphone unit being acoustically connected to a shared volume. The method includes the steps of providing a first output signal, Pout, from the first microphone unit, providing a second output signal, Uout, from the second microphone unit, and generating a compensated output signal by combining a portion of one of the output signals with the other output signal via addition or subtraction in order to compensate for acoustical crosstalk. The invention further relates to a microphone module configured to implement the before-mentioned method. The invention further relates to a hearing aid comprising the microphone module.
US09900708B2
A hearing instrument includes: a microphone comprising a microphone transducer element, wherein the microphone transducer element is configured to provide a transducer signal in response to receipt of sound; a microphone amplification circuit configured to generate an amplified microphone signal based on the transducer signal; a control and processing circuit for receipt and processing of the amplified microphone signal according to a hearing loss of a user; and a level detector configured to detect a level of the amplified microphone signal; wherein the microphone amplification circuit is coupled to a switchable power supply, and wherein the switchable power supply is configured to selectively connect a first power supply voltage, having a first DC voltage level, or a second power supply voltage, having a second DC voltage level higher than the first DC voltage level, to the microphone amplification circuit based on the detected level of the amplified microphone signal.
US09900703B2
The present invention relates to a suspension structure for a high power micro speaker and, more particularly, to a shape of a suspension which ensures a lightweight of the suspension as well as high reliability and a conductive pattern which applies electric signals. The present invention provides a suspension for a high power micro speaker that includes an outer peripheral portion, a central portion and a connection portion, is provided with a conductive pattern, and is formed in a rectangular shape, wherein land portions for use in soldering or welding lead-in wires of a voice coil are formed on long connection portions disposed on long sides.
US09900695B2
The present application refers to a head-mounted electronic device including a headphone, a display portion, and two position limiting structures. The headphone includes a C-shaped elastic belt which has two connection ends, two movable members, each rotatably connected to one connection end around a first axis, and two sound generators, each rotatably connected to one movable member around a second axis. The display portion includes a main body generating and projecting images, and two connection members connected to opposite ends of the main body. Each of the two connection members is rotatably connected to the sound generators around a respective third axis. When rotating around the third axis, the headphone is driven by the display portion to rotate around the first axis and the second axis, which avoids distortion of the elastic belt and the connection member, and ensures the display portion can be folded together with the headphone.
US09900690B2
A nonlinear control system and a loudspeaker protection system. In particular, a nonlinear control system including a controller, an audio system, and a model is disclosed. The controller is configured to accept one or more input signals, and one or more estimated states produced by the model to produce one or more control signals. The audio system includes one or more transducers configured to accept the control signals to produce a rendered audio stream therefrom. An active loudspeaker with an integrated amplifier is disclosed. A loudspeaker protection system and a quality control system are disclosed. More particularly, a system for clamping the input to a loudspeaker dependent upon a bank of representative models is disclosed.
US09900687B2
An earphone device (1) to be worn in the ear, which earphone device (1) comprising a main body (18) to be arranged in the concha (19) of the outer ear (14) of a user and an optical sensor (35), which optical sensor (35) comprises a light emitter (16) and a light detector (17). The earphone device (1) comprises window means (8, 9) through which light emitted by the light emitter (16) can be transmitted. The window means (8, 9) comprises an end face (31) adapted to abut a conchal wall (37) at a sensing position (36). The main body (18) comprises a speaker protrusion (26) to be inserted into to ear canal (15). The distance between the speaker protrusion (26) and the end face (31) is adjustable.
US09900686B2
An apparatus including an input configured to receive at least one first audio signal from a first apparatus; an input configured to receive at least one second audio signal from a second apparatus; a distance detector configured to determine a distance between the first and the second apparatus; and a level control generator configured to generate a level control for mixing the at least one first audio signal and the at least one second audio signal based on the distance between the first and the second apparatus.
US09900684B2
A microphone device includes a microphone unit that outputs an electrical signal upon receipt of a sound wave, a microphone case that supports the microphone unit in its inside with cushioning members formed of an elastic material (rubber material), and a microphone cable that supplies the electrical signal from the microphone unit to an output connector attached to the microphone case. A part of the microphone cable is attached in a state of meandering back and forth once or more between one surface and the other surface of the rear cushioning member formed in a flat manner. This configuration allows to suppress transmission of vibration through the microphone cable connected to the microphone unit and prevent generation of vibration noise due to free vibration of the microphone cable.
US09900683B2
A headphone device comprising a surrounding ear pad and a sound generator which has a substantially rigid plate and a drive system for converting electrical signals into mechanical oscillations of the plate.
US09900675B2
There is provided an acoustic element for placement in a sound path of a loudspeaker device, the acoustic element comprising a container and an acoustic volume increasing material located in the container. In an embodiment, the container comprises wall portions with different physical characteristics. In other embodiments, the walls of the container are made of the same material.
US09900674B2
According to one of aspects, an electronic device includes a speaker and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire information and output an acquired information from the speaker upon sounding an alarm.
US09900668B2
Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: obtaining location data associated with a portion of a region including at least one sensor; wirelessly transmitting one or more sensor operation activation signals to one or more sensors; and powering one or more sensing operations of a sensor via the one or more sensor operation activation signals.
US09900667B2
Systems and methods for authorizing the connection of a utility service are disclosed. The system can comprise a utility meter, or other utility connection, a utility server, and a means of communication. The utility meter can comprise a disconnect switch capable of connecting and disconnecting a location from the utility. The disconnect switch can connect the utility to the location upon a command from the server and confirmation from a customer. The system can enable utilities to offer pay-as-you-go and pre-paid utility services, which can minimize the financial exposure of the utility. The system can also enable customers to connect utility services without having to be present and/or come into physical contact with utility equipment.
US09900665B2
Exemplary methods for automatically testing closed caption (CC) rendering includes receiving a set of one or more reference audio video (AV) streams from an AV source, and generating reference CC images from the set of one or more reference AV streams starting from a recording start time to a recording stop time. In one embodiment, the method further includes receiving a set of one or more test AV streams from the AV source, and generating test CC images from the set of one or more test AV streams starting from the recording start time to the recording stop time. In one embodiment, the methods further include determining whether the AV source is performing CC rendering properly by automatically comparing the test CC images against the reference CC images.
US09900652B2
Methods and apparatus for transcoding metadata are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for accessing first metadata accompanying media to be presented by a media device, the first metadata in a first format not detectable by a meter collecting audience measurement data associated with the media device. The example apparatus also include means for transcoding the first metadata into second metadata having a second format different from the first format, the second metadata detectable by the meter and supported by an application programming interface (API) provided by the media device and accessible by the meter. The example apparatus further include means for communicating the second metadata in a second transmission for receipt by the meter via the API provided by the media device, the second transmission being separate from a first transmission communicating the media and the first metadata, but not communicating the second metadata, to the media device.
US09900632B1
Described are systems, methods and computer program products for suggesting television programs to a user by, for example, analyzing closed caption or subtitle content of unwatched or unrecorded video content to determine if the video content is of interest to the user. The user may indicate one or more keywords for use in the analysis and the analysis may scan the text of the closed caption or subtitle content to identify matches to the keywords. Beside user input keywords, the keywords may also be determined through analysis of video content watched or recorded by the user to determine frequently encountered words. These frequently encountered words may automatically be used in matching the text of the closed caption or subtitle content. The users may also or alternatively select particular words of the frequently encountered words to use for matching.
US09900631B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving video content at a mobile device, utilizing the mobile device for adjusting dimensions of an area of attention in an image of the video content based on a desired display resolution, utilizing the mobile device for adjusting dimensions of a peripheral portion that surrounds the area of attention, and replacing the image with the adjusted image during presentation of the video content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09900605B2
An apparatus configured to code video information includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit is configured to store video information associated with a video layer having a picture. The processor is configured to determine whether the picture is a non-picture-order-count (POC)-anchor picture, and based on the determination of whether the picture is a non-POC-anchor picture, perform one of (1) refraining from indicating a POC reset in connection with the picture, or (2) indicating the POC reset in connection with the picture. The processor may encode or decode the video information.
US09900602B2
Methods and systems for optimizing and enhancing remote graphics on client devices are presented. A client device may determine a visual focus region of a display of the client device based on a user input. A server may receive, from the client device, data regarding the visual focus region of the display. The server may determine a first subset of an image that corresponds to the visual focus region of the display and a second subset of the image that is external to the visual focus region of the display. The server may apply a lossless encoding to the first subset and a lossy encoding to the second subset. The server may then transmit, to the client device, the first subset through a first channel and the second subset through a second channel, wherein the first channel comprises a higher network bandwidth allocation than the second channel.
US09900596B2
A merging motion information candidate list construction unit generates a merging motion information candidate list, which is a list of merging motion information candidates, using a spatial merging motion information candidate and a temporal merging motion information candidate. A second merging motion information candidate supplying unit generates a new merging motion information candidate including, if a reference index indicates an available reference picture, the reference index and, if the reference index does not indicate an available reference picture, a predetermined reference index along with a motion vector having a size and a direction that are preset and adds the new merging motion information candidate to the merging motion information candidate list. A merging motion information selection unit selects one merging motion information candidate from the merging motion information candidate list to which the new merging motion information candidate has been added.
US09900577B2
An apparatus and a method for synchronizing left and right streams in a stationary/mobile hybrid 3DTV are disclosed. The apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment may synchronize content streams corresponding to left and right images using a timestamp pairing mode, a timestamp offset mode, and a network time protocol (NTP) synchronization mode.
US09900567B2
An image display device includes a light source, a screen, an optical system, a screen driving mechanism unit, a memory unit, and a screen driving circuit unit. An image is formed on the screen by being irradiated with light from the light source. The screen driving mechanism unit moves the screen in an optical axis direction of the light. A smoothed movement profile is obtained by smoothing a movement profile used as a target for moving the screen so as to make a moving speed of the screen vary gently. The memory unit stores screen driving waveform information that has been generated so that the screen follows the smoothed movement profile. The screen driving circuit unit drives the screen driving mechanism unit, based on the screen driving waveform information stored in the memory unit.
US09900566B2
The present disclosure provides a projection device, a projection system and a method for adjusting projection brightness of the projection system. The method includes: projecting, by a projection unit of each projection device, an image on a projection plane corresponding to the projection unit separately; collecting, by a brightness collecting device, brightness information on the projection planes separately, and sending the brightness information to the projection device; receiving, by a processing unit, the brightness information, and obtaining an actual brightness value of projection of the projection device after processing the brightness information; determining whether the actual brightness value is within a preset brightness value range of the projection device; when the actual brightness value is not within the preset brightness value range; adjusting, by a brightness adjusting unit, the projection brightness of the projection device until the actual brightness value falls within the preset brightness value range.
US09900564B2
A light source system and a projection display device comprising the light source system. The light source system comprises at least three light sources (10, 20, 30) used for generating at least two wide-spectrum light beams, a light splitting and combining device (40), and at least two spatial light modulators, i.e. a first spatial light modulator (50) and a second spatial light modulator (60), wherein a first wide-spectrum light beam and a second wide-spectrum light beam generate light with two colors and at least four primary wavelengths after being split by the light splitting and combining device (40), thereby expanding the color gamut range and improving the quality of image display. In addition, using two spatial light modulators to modulate light simultaneously takes account of the costs of products while guaranteeing the image display quality.
US09900560B1
A process generates depth maps of a scene in the field of vision of a camera. The camera has a plurality of illuminators, a lens assembly, an image sensing element, a processor, and memory. The illuminators provide illumination using all of the illuminators. The lens assembly focuses incident light on the image sensing element. The memory stores image data from the image sensing element. The processor executes programs to control operation of the camera. The process operates in a second mode, where each of a plurality of subsets of the illuminators provides illumination separately from other subsets. The process sequentially activates each of the subsets to illuminate a scene and receives reflected illumination from the scene incident on the lens assembly and focused onto the image sensing element. The process measures light intensity values at the image sensing element and stores those measured light intensity values.
US09900557B2
An approach is provided for remotely controlling set-top boxes. A command is received from a computing device for controlling a plurality of set-top boxes. The set-top boxes are configured according to the received command.
US09900553B2
A method of facilitating a multi-participant communication session with an efficient use of network bandwidth and processing resources is described. The processing resources are made available to the session participants via a switching fabric and composites of less active session participants can be used to minimize the bandwidth utilization between a media server and endpoints.
US09900549B2
Image data is accurately resized in real time by downscaling. An image signal generating apparatus includes a parameter generator that dynamically generates a parameter PM and an image signal generator that repeats processing of generating an output image signal Q in response to each sampling signal B. Each parameter includes a division ratio parameter DP. The division ratio parameter DP corresponds to a ratio of a second time period Tb and a third time period Tc other than the second time period Tb. The second time period Tb is a time interval until the generation of a sampling signal Bn in a first time period Ta until input of an immediate timing signal Ak+1 since input of a last timing signal Ak. The image signal generator repeatedly generates a first weighted signal and a second weighted signal of the image signal in response to each sampling signal Bn.
US09900543B1
A synchronization control device for use in a TV system is provided. The TV system includes a TV and a first electronic device. The synchronization control device includes: a microcontroller; a first detection apparatus, and a second detection apparatus. The synchronization control device is capable of detecting the power state of the TV and of the first electronic device using color image sensors to detect the status of power indicators of the TV and of the first electronic device. When the power state of the TV is different from that of the first electronic device, the microcontroller controls a first infrared emitter in the first detection apparatus to emit a infrared control signal to the TV to switch the power state of the TV, so that the power state of the TV is synchronized to the power state of the first electronic device.
US09900541B2
An Augmented Reality (AR) device, places manual controls and virtual displays onto a surface of a controllable electronic device (CED) or next to the CED as viewed through the AR device allowing the user to manipulate the controls and view feedback via the virtual displays associated with the controllable device. The AR device overlays an image on a surface of the CED with virtual control objects and virtual feedback image(s) are displayed on a surface of the CED or adjacent to the CED. The user views the control objects and virtual displays on the surface and/or area adjacent to the CED. These control objects are manipulated via voice, hand, head, and eye gestures recognized by the AR device and will be able to see real time feedback displayed on the virtual displays.
US09900524B2
Described herein is an IR camera that can prepare a report on-board the camera in a standard file format that is substantially universally readable by a number of receiving devices, including but not limited to computers. The report preferably includes at least one IR image, at least one visual image and a table that can be populated with the output of any of the camera's measurement functions or any parametric information (time, date, emissivity, background temperature, GPS location, etc.). The report may also include text, voice, and/or visual/graphical comments and recommendations. The comments may be added directly to the report or hyperlinked to the report.
US09900519B2
A method, a device and a computer readable for automatically identifying a Christmas tree scene and setting a camera's focus and/or exposure parameters in a way that yields images with high image quality. The Christmas tree scene identification can be performed by segmenting the image into bright and dark regions, identifying the light objects, collecting the statistics of the light objects, and classifying the scene based on the statistics of the light objects, or by collecting the pixel value statistics for the image, and classifying the scene based on the statistics of the pixel values, or by collecting the pixel value statistics for the image, filtering the image, collecting the pixel value statistics for the filtered image, and classifying the scene by comparing the statistics of the pixel values before and after filtering. The focus and exposure settings can be adjusted based on the Christmas tree scene identification results. For Christmas tree scenes, the exposure can be set based on a value that is adjusted upwards from the mean luminance of the image, or on a value that is calculated from the top luminance value. The focus can be set by identifying the lights in the image, and minimizing the light size in the image.
US09900502B2
An information processing apparatus that acquires captured image data; determines whether a position determining unit of the information processing apparatus detects a location of the information processing apparatus; controls a user interface to prompt a user to enter information when it is determined that a location of the information processing apparatus has not been detected; and receives location information that is extracted based on a user input received at the user interface in response to the prompt.
US09900500B2
An auto-focusing method of an electronic device is provided. The auto-focusing method includes collecting sensor information using a plurality of sensors of the electronic device when a camera of the electronic device is driven, determining at least one focusing sensor, from among the plurality of sensors, based on the collected sensor information, and focusing on a subject located in an image collected from the camera using the at least one determined focusing sensor.
US09900495B2
The present invention includes a fixed unit having a perforated hole formed therein, a movable unit including at least one lens, the movable unit configured to linearly move in the perforated hole of the fixed unit, a movable coil disposed on a surface of the movable unit, and a fixed coil disposed on a surface of the fixed unit, the fixed coil configured to receive from the movable coil an induced current or voltage according to a distance from the movable coil, wherein the movable coil receives a current or a voltage via a first wiring and a second wiring for moving the movable unit, and wherein the fixed coil outputs a current or a voltage via a third wiring and a fourth wiring based on the received induced current or voltage from the movable coil.
US09900493B2
A CPU detects an image displacement amount using a signal acquired from an image sensor and converts a defocus amount using a conversion factor. The CPU predicts a future image-plane position of a moving object based on data on the defocus amount, time and a lens position. The CPU corrects the conversion factor using the data. The CPU predicts the future image-plane position of the moving object using the corrected conversion factor.
US09900480B1
An electronic apparatus has a connection assembly and an electronic module. The connection assembly has a first connection portion. The first connection portion has a first connecting surface, a first buckle assembly, and a first magnetic attraction element. The first buckle assembly is disposed on the first connecting surface. The first magnetic attraction element is mounted in the first housing. The electronic module is detachably connected with the connection assembly and has a second connection portion. The second connection portion has a second connecting surface, a second buckle assembly, and a second magnetic attraction element. The second connecting surface selectively abuts the first connecting surface. The second buckle assembly is disposed on the second connecting surface and is detachably engaged with the first buckle assembly. The second magnetic attraction element is mounted in the second housing.
US09900473B2
A printer cartridge includes a memory device and at least one compressed color table stored on the memory device. A compressed color table includes a losslessly compressed neutral axis, a number of nodes that correspond to seed color table nodes and a number of delta nodes that correspond to a number of delta tables. The number of delta tables indicate differences between interpolated color table nodes and corresponding actual color table nodes.
US09900459B2
When heights from the reading lines (Lr, Lg, Lb) on the transmission part (13B) corresponding to the line sensors (33r, 33g, 33b) to the predetermined conveyance path T are employed as reading heights of the line sensors (33r, 33g, 33b), a position shift correction unit (100) performs first correction control for correcting position shifts between image signals outputted from the line sensors (33r, 33g, 33b) on the basis of a difference of the reading heights between the line sensors (33r, 33g, 33b).
US09900450B2
An image forming apparatus includes a processing portion, a storage portion, and a touch pad. The processing portion is adapted to accept input of a value for a prescribed processing condition for an image forming job. The storage portion is adapted to store the value accepted by the processing portion. The touch pad is adapted to accept a touch operation. The processing portion updates the value stored in the storage portion based on a manner of change in touch position resulting from a second touch operation on the touch pad while a first touch operation in a prescribed region of the touch pad continues.
US09900435B2
A method for routing activities in a contact center to contact center agents includes: concurrently selecting, by a processor, N activities, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; concurrently identifying, by the processor, N contact center agents; identifying, by the processor, one or more sets of preferences associated with the N activities and the N contact center agents; matching, by the processor, the N activities and the N contact center agents based on the one or more sets of preferences; and routing, by the processor, one or more of the N activities to the matched contact center agents.
US09900432B2
A system and method for aggregating state information in a contact center. Agent-owner nodes aggregate state information for the agents they own, and, upon request from a client-side adapter, provide partial agent-group state information to the client side adapter. The client-side adapter aggregates the partial agent-group state information to form full agent-group state information and provides this full agent-group state information to clients upon request.
US09900428B1
The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for detecting and monitoring a contraband device including communication devices by utilizing a combination of mobile devices, fixed monitoring devices, and a contraband monitoring center. The mobile devices include smart phones or tablets that are borrowed, rented, or purchased by an inmate from a correctional facility. These mobile devices are configured to detect, monitor, and intervene in the communications of target devices. Further, the mobile devices are configured to communicate with fixed monitoring devices located throughout the correctional facility in performing intervention operations. The contraband monitoring center may also be utilized in the coordination, monitoring, and intervention of target devices.
US09900425B1
A mobile device case and monitor for discouraging cell device usage (web, texting, voicemail, games, apps, etc.) device during specific activities (while driving, working, at school, etc.) The case has a photodetector inside it and a flash on a cell phone is activated (flashed) and it is determined whether the photodetector detects the flash or not. If the flash is detected, then it is assumed that the cell phone is in the case, while if the flash is not detected then it is assumed that the cell phone is not in the case. If an employee's cell device is not placed inside the case with the lid closed and the employee is on company time, then an alert is generated indicated that the employee is not adhering to corporate procedures.
US09900416B2
An information processing method and device, and an apparatus used for a terminal with multiple operation systems include: according to the content of information received in the current operation system, the type of the information is determined; according to the type of the information, the operation system for processing the information is determined, and the information is processed by the operation system. The current operation system can determine the operation system for processing the information according to the content and the type of the information received by a terminal.
US09900379B2
The present solution allows users, such as administrators to configure slow start parameters for new services. These slow start parameters specify a rate at which requests should be given to a newly added or up service. The users can also chose to automatically increase the load in multiples of the chosen rate by specifying an increment interval. The services are given the configured rate for the interval, and once the interval is reached, the next multiple of the rate of requests is given. The increase of rate of requests is done automatically until an existing service request rate is reached. At that point in time this functionality is disabled and the existing and new services are treated the same.
US09900376B2
A method, a terminal device, and a cloud server are provided for presenting schedule reminder information. The method includes after a second terminal logs in to the cloud server by using a first group account, acquiring schedule information stored in the cloud server, where the schedule information is information that is created by a first user who registers a first personal account, and is transmitted to the cloud server by a first terminal that logs in, by using the first personal account, to the cloud server; when reminder time of the schedule information arrives, acquiring second biometric characteristic information of a second user who is using the second terminal; and when it is determined that the second biometric characteristic information is the same as first biometric characteristic information of the first user, presenting reminder information of the schedule information.
US09900372B2
Techniques to detect and react to proxy interference are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a first network protocol component operative to receive a first network connection initiation attempt from a client at a server; determine that the first network connection initiation attempt is malformed; extract a cookie from the first network connection initiation attempt, the cookie comprising a client identifier; a client record component operative to record a malformed network connection initiation record in response to determining that the first network connection initiation attempt is malformed; and a second network protocol component operative to receive a second network connection initiation attempt from the client at the server; extract the cookie from the second network connection initiation attempt; and transmit a malformed network connection message to the client based on the malformed network connection initiation record. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09900359B2
A system and method can support user account management in a computing environment. The computing environment can include a video encoding pool to support load balancing and a managing server, such as a privileged account manager server. The video encoding pool includes a set of nodes that are able to perform one or more video processing tasks for another node. Furthermore, the managing server can receive a request from a managed node in the computing environment for delegating a video processing task, and can select one or more nodes from the video encoding pool to load balance and to perform the video processing task.
US09900356B2
Methods and system for routing first communication session data between a first device and at least one participant device via a first communication session are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for routing first communication session data between a first device and at least one participant device includes receiving a request to establish a second communication session with at least one discovered extension device proximate to the first device, routing at least a portion of the communication session data to the discovered extension device via the second communication session and synchronizing the communication session data routed via the first communication session, and the at least a portion of the communication session data routed via the second communication session.
US09900349B2
Implementing security in social applications includes inferring a closeness level of a connection to a user's profile of a social application based on a closeness policy and implementing a security level individualized to the connection based on the closeness level.
US09900347B2
A method and apparatus for handling trust in an IP Multimedia Subsystem network. A node in the IP Multimedia Subsystem network receives a Session Initiation Protocol message from a remote node. The message includes an indicator indicating the level of trust of a communication sent from the remote node to the IP Multimedia Subsystem node. The node can then apply a security policy to the message, the security policy being determined by the indicator.
US09900337B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for selective website vulnerability and infection testing and intelligently paced rigorous direct website testing. By providing robust website content integrity checking while only lightly loading the website hosting server, visitor bandwidth availability is maintained through selective testing and intelligently paced external website exercising. A modular pod-based computing architecture of interconnected severs configured with a sharded database facilitates selective website testing and intelligent direct website test pacing while providing scalability to support large numbers of website testing subscribers.
US09900336B2
Disclosed is an improved approach to implement a system and method for detecting insider threats, where models are constructed that is capable of defining what constitutes the normal behavior for any given hosts and quickly find anomalous behaviors that could constitute a potential threat to an organization. The disclosed approach provides a way to identify abnormal data transfers within and external to an organization without the need for individual monitoring software on each host, by leveraging metadata that describe the data exchange patterns observed in the network.
US09900335B2
Techniques described herein include systems and methods for categorizing and prioritizing indicators of compromise for a network of network resources. The indicators of compromise may lead to security threats from malicious entities. In embodiments, a service provider computer receives information identifying an indicator of compromise for a network resource of a network associated with an organization. The information may include an identification of a severity for the indicator of compromise that is provided by a reporting entity. A normalized severity for the indicator of compromise may be calculated based at least in part on a set of factors. A lifecycle to associate with the indicator of compromise may be determined based on the normalized severity for the indicator of compromise. A report identifying the indicator of compromise and the normalized severity for the indicator of compromise may be generated and transmitted to an indicator of compromise information sharing network.
US09900332B2
A security platform employs a variety techniques and mechanisms to detect security related anomalies and threats in a computer network environment. The security platform is “big data” driven and employs machine learning to perform security analytics. The security platform performs user/entity behavioral analytics (UEBA) to detect the security related anomalies and threats, regardless of whether such anomalies/threats were previously known. The security platform can include both real-time and batch paths/modes for detecting anomalies and threats. By visually presenting analytical results scored with risk ratings and supporting evidence, the security platform enables network security administrators to respond to a detected anomaly or threat, and to take action promptly.
US09900329B2
A computer-implemented system and method for discovering heterogeneous communities with shared anomalous components is provided. A graph is obtained that includes vertices representing entities that are connected by edges representing associated with the entities represented by the connected vertices. The vertices are associated with collections of words of different categories, each of the words describing an item associated with at least one of the events. Each of the vertices is further associated with topics describing a type of activity of the entity represented by that vertex. Communities within the graph are identified, each including at least two of the connected vertices. Identified as anomalous are categories of words whose removal from the collections associated with the vertices in a community increases a likelihood of that community being associated and the collections of the words associated with the community vertices.
US09900324B1
A method is presented for analyzing an original software program as a potentially evasive malware. The method may comprise discovering at least one revealed instruction in the original software program, where the revealed instructions are not executed when the original software program is run without modification; modifying the original software program to create a modified program that will execute at least one revealed instruction when the modified program is run; and exploring the at least one revealed instruction by running the modified program.
US09900312B2
Methods and systems for authenticating a user device employ a database of global network latencies categorized and searchable by location and calendar date-time of day usage, providing network latency by geography and by time. The database is constructed using voluminous daily data collected from a world-wide clientele of users who sign in to a particular website. Accuracy of the latency data and clock skew machine identification is made practical and useful for authentications using a service provider-proprietary, stable reference clock, such as an atomic clock, so that internal clock jitter of a service provider performing authentications does not affect the network latency time and clock skew identification of user devices. Increased authentication confidence results from using the database for correcting network latency times and user device signatures generated from the clock skew identifications and for cross checking the authentication using comparisons of initial registration to current sign in data.
US09900307B2
A portable electronic card system and a verifying method thereof are provided. The portable electronic card system includes: a portable personal electronic device, a rewritable card, and a writing device. The portable personal electronic device is used for obtaining a certificated code and a personal information from a remote controller. When a bidirectional verifying communication is performed between the remote controller and the portable electronic device to download the personal information, security code stored in the rewritable card be compared with security code stored in the portable electronic device for verifying and writing the personal information into the rewritable card, and another security code is generated to update or replace the original security code stored in the portable electronic device and the rewritable card.
US09900301B2
A device management service provide a centralized credential provisioning system which can instantiate a proxy device that facilitates remote connections between various computing devices and various client devices. The device management service can manage instances of proxy devices in a resource provider environment that are associated with various computing devices. When a client device requests to access a computing device, the device management service can identify an instance of a proxy device associated with the computing device. The instance of the proxy device and the computing device can be configured to securely connect using credentials exchanged through, and managed by, the device management service. The computing device can be instructed to connect to the instance of the proxy device, and the client device can be provided with access information for the instance of the proxy device.
US09900280B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for presenting a selected media message to a first user. The method includes displaying via a graphical user interface (GUI) a notification associated with a request from a first user for a communication with a second user in the context of a graphical representation of a communication session including at least the second user, receiving a second user input identifying a selected action associated with the first user via the GUI, and performing the selected action relative to the first user. The second user can be notified of the incoming request via a communication session displayed as a set of graphical elements representing a structure of the communication session via the GUI. The first and/or second user can be a communication session of multiple users.
US09900279B2
A social networking system provides a content feed to a client device associated with the user of a social networking system, the content feed including a plurality of content items. The social networking system identifies a read section and an unread section of the content feed. The social networking system receives a request for a subsequent content feed from a client device associated with the user. The social networking system identifies new content items that are associated with users of the social networking system. The social networking system generates a current content segment that includes the new content items and the unread section of the content feed, and generates the subsequent content feed by inserting the current content segment before or after the read section of the content feed. The social networking system provides a portion of the subsequent content feed to the client device.
US09900278B2
Communicating social media content over a computer network via one or more social media services, in one aspect, may include receiving content from a first node of an online social network. A set of topics in the content is generated. Based on monitoring of online activities of target audience, topic popularity corresponding to a topic in the set of topics over a plurality of time ranges is determined. A trending metric associated with the topic is generated. Weighted topic popularity for a respective one of the plurality of time ranges is generated, as a function of the topic popularity, the trending metric, and an elapsed time between time associated with the respective time range and a preferred time for posting the content. A time range from the plurality of time ranges are selected based on the weighted topic popularity for posting the content.
US09900272B2
A method and server for transmitting application test data are provided, the method including: obtaining data to be transmitted by an application; dividing the data into a plurality of data sections, wherein each data section is less than a maximum transmission capacity that the application can transmit one time; and controlling the application to transmit the plurality of data sections sequentially, wherein upon the completion of the transmission of a data section, the application is reinitiated to automatically transmit a next data section. The method and server for transmitting application test data saves testing costs and enhances operational efficiency.
US09900267B2
A low latency packet switching system comprising a switching device and a processing device. The switching device may include a first plurality of input/output (I/O) ports and a second plurality of I/O ports, wherein each port of the first plurality of ports may be electrically coupled to a pluggable transceiver socket configured to receive a cable connector. The processing device may include a plurality of transceivers electrically coupled to the second plurality of ports. The switching device may be configured to receive a first electric signal encoding one or more incoming data packets. The switching device may be programmed to output the first electric signal to one or more ports, in accordance with a programmable port mapping scheme. The processing device may be configured to receive the first electric signal and to output a second electric signal encoding one or more modified data packets derived from the incoming data packets.
US09900261B2
A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium product are provided for shared resource watermarking and management. In the context of a method, a method is provided that includes identifying requests to share resources from a device and identifying a watermark template. The method further includes associating the watermark template with the resources, and authorizing the request to share the resources from the device.
US09900255B2
A system and method for forwarding network traffic includes receiving a first flow of network traffic at an ingress port on a switch, collecting flow control metrics for a plurality of egress ports assigned to a link aggregation group of the switch, selecting a first egress port from the plurality of egress ports using a hashing strategy based on at least information associated with the flow control metrics, assigning the first flow to the first egress port, directing the first flow to the first egress port, and transmitting network traffic associated with the first flow using the first egress port.
US09900247B2
A device may receive, via a first message, first route information for directing network traffic for a network. The first route information may identify a media access control (MAC) route corresponding to a MAC address associated with a host device connecting to a subnet of the network. The first route information may fail to include Internet protocol (IP)/MAC binding information associated with the host device. The device may transmit a request for IP/MAC binding information associated with the host device. The device may receive a response, to the request for IP/MAC binding information, identifying the IP/MAC binding information. The device may advertise, via a second message, second route information for directing network traffic for the network based on receiving the response identifying the IP/MAC binding information. The second route information may identify the IP/MAC binding information associated with the host device.
US09900245B2
An example network system includes a layer two (L2) device and a layer three (L3) device. The L2 device includes a control unit is configured to determine a preferred network path from a first L2 network in which the L2 device resides to an intermediate L3 network in which the L3 device resides that couples the first L2 network to a second L2 network having a second L2 device. The control unit includes a management endpoint (MEP) module. The MEP module executes an operations, administration, and management (OAM) protocol to monitor the first L2 network and output an L2 frame in accordance with the OAM protocol to the L3 device to notify the L3 device that it is within the preferred network path. A MEP module of the L3 device executes an OAM protocol that outputs L2 frames to the L2 device indicating the status of the L3 network.
US09900240B2
A node apparatus calculates the arrival rate in a link, discretizes the calculated arrival rate according to thresholds that are set so that the intervals between thresholds in the range in which a large number of the arrival rates in the links with a high frequency of usage exist become narrower, and calculates the link cost according to the value after the discretization. The node apparatus then obtains, from adjacent node apparatuses, the route cost for each route to each final destination that may be reached, and integrates the obtained route cost by the calculated link cost to calculate the route cost to each final destination that can be reached from the local node apparatus via the adjacent node apparatus. The node apparatus then selects the adjacent node apparatus to be the transmission destination according to the route cost of the route to the final destination of a data frame.
US09900233B2
Presented are methods and apparatus for processing test traffic encapsulated within bidirectional subscriber connections on intermediate nodes. Test packet requests are generated by a test traffic controller and received at a node by an enhanced decapsulator, a decapsulator or at an ingress port. A tunnel header is extracted from the test packet requests and a determination is made as to whether the test packet request destination is for the receiving node or for another node. If the test packet request is for another node the test packet request is forwarded toward the destination node. If the test packet request is for the receiving node then a test packet reply is generated and the test packet reply is sent toward the test traffic controller.
US09900227B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing changes in web analytics metrics. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a change in a web analytics metric for a website over a period of time, the web analytics metric being based at least in part on visitor data for the website over the period of time; computing a respective segment contribution score for each of a plurality of segments of the web analytics metric, wherein a segment contribution score for a particular segment is based at least in part on a comparison between a value of the web analytics metric and a value of the particular segment during the period of time; and identifying one or more of the plurality of segments as contributing to the change in the web analytics metric based on the respective segment contribution scores.
US09900223B2
Systems and methods are provided for adding new nodes to a computer networked system. The systems and methods may identify a first set of nodes in a networked computer system. The first set of nodes may be included in a first hash computation that clusters the first set of nodes into communities. An application shard space including a first space and a second space may be generated. The first set of nodes may be mapped to application shards in the first space based on the first hash computation. The application shards in the first space may be assigned to a first set of machines of the networked computer system. The second space may be maintained for mappings of nodes not included in the first hash computation to application shards in the second space.
US09900211B1
A method for managing nodes is disclosed. The method includes testing a management script on a management server for managing at least one node. The method also includes receiving administrator validation to distribute the management script. The method further includes sending the validated management script to one or more management servers on one or more networks.
US09900206B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for establishing communication with a remote communication device in a software defined network (SDN) during time when an SDN controller is unavailable. In one embodiment, a local communication device may be configured to receive a plurality of data flows from an SDN controller and to store the plurality of data flows in a persistent data memory. The device may generate a unique identifier for the local communication device that is transmitted to a remote communication device. Following a disruption the results in the SDN controller being unavailable, the local communication device may recover into a default configured state based on the plurality of data flows in the persistent data memory. The local communication device may then transmit the unique identifier to the remote communication device after the disruption to begin a process of reestablishing communication with the remote communication device.
US09900205B2
Apparatus and methods disclosed herein perform gain, clipping, and phase compensation in the presence of I/Q mismatch in quadrature RF receivers. Gain and phase mismatch are exacerbated by differences in clipping between I & Q signals in low resolution ADCs. Signals in the stronger channel arm are clipped differentially more than weaker signals in the other channel arm. Embodiments herein perform clipping operations during iterations of gain mismatch calculations in order to balance clipping between the I and Q channel arms. Gain compensation coefficients are iteratively converged, clipping levels are established, and data flowing through the network is gain and clipping compensated. A compensation phase angle and phase compensation coefficients are then determined from gain and clipping compensated sample data. The resulting phase compensation coefficients are applied to the gain and clipping corrected receiver data to yield a gain, clipping, and phase compensated data stream.
US09900204B2
A multiple functional equivalence digital communications interface and a group of functional circuits are disclosed. The multiple functional equivalence digital communications interface presents a functional equivalence of each of a group of digital communications interfaces to a digital communications bus. Each functional equivalence of the group of digital communications interfaces is associated with a corresponding one of the group of functional circuits.
US09900198B2
A mobile station includes a receiver configured to receive containing a complex-valued modulation symbol from a base station, a processor configured to extract the complex-valued modulation symbol from the signal, wherein in response to being configured with code-division multiplex-4 (CDM-4), the complex-valued modulation symbol is mapped using a reference signal sequence. A base station includes a processor configured to generate a reference signal sequence for each subcarrier and OFDM symbol, and in response to being configured with code-division multiplex-4 (CDM-4), map a reference signal sequence to the complex-valued modulation symbols. Other embodiments including a method for performing communication on multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio links are also disclosed.
US09900196B2
A system implementing switching diversity in a scalable radio frequency communication system includes a primary radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), a first secondary RFIC, and a second secondary RFIC. The first secondary RFIC is configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a device via antenna elements based on a first beam setting, and transmit the RF signal to the primary RFIC. The primary RFIC is configured to receive the RF signal; downconvert the RF signal to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal; transmit the IF signal to a baseband processor; receive, from the baseband processor, a control signal including a second beam setting; and transmit the control signal to the second secondary RFIC. The second secondary RFIC is configured to receive the control signal from the first primary RFIC, and receive the first RF signal from the device via second antenna elements based on the second beam setting.
US09900192B2
A method of demodulating a signal packet includes steps of: determining whether a pulse width of each of pulses of one of bits of the signal packet is associated with bit 0 or bit 1; updating first counting data associated with a number of the pulses that define bit 0, and determining whether the first counting data is greater than a first threshold value; deciding that said one of the bits of the signal packet is a bit 0; updating second counting data associated with a number of the pulses that define bit 1, and determining whether the second counting data is greater than the second threshold value; deciding that said one of the bits of the signal packet is a bit 1.
US09900190B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes at least one transceiver configured to modulate data to generate a plurality of first electromagnetic waves in accordance with channel control parameters. A plurality of couplers are configured to couple at least a portion of the plurality of first electromagnetic waves to a transmission medium, wherein the plurality of couplers generate a plurality of second electromagnetic waves that propagate along the outer surface of the transmission medium. A training controller is configured to generate the channel control parameters based on channel state information received from at least one remote transmission device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09900181B2
The disclosure herein describes a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) gateway. During operation, the VXLAN gateway receives, from a physical host, an Ethernet packet destined for a virtual machine residing in a remote layer-2 network broadcast domain that is different from a local layer-2 network broadcast domain where the physical host resides. The VXLAN gateway then determines a VXLAN identifier for the received Ethernet packet. The VXLAN gateway further encapsulates the Ethernet packet with the virtual extensible local area network identifier and an Internet Protocol (IP) header, and forwards the encapsulated packet to an IP network, thereby allowing the packet to be transported to the virtual machine via the IP network and allowing the remote layer-2 network broadcast domain and the local layer-2 network broadcast domain to be part of a common layer-2 broadcast domain.
US09900178B2
In a remote control method, a virtual private network is established between a home control network key and a home control network device of the remote control system in a property. In order to establish the virtual private network both the home control network key and device determine their network paths to the Internet from the data transfer network to which they are connected. The determined network paths are stored in a home control network server on the Internet. When it is desired to form a virtual private network, the home control network server supplies the stored network paths to the home control network key and the home control network device. By utilizing the received network paths the home control network key and the home control network device start establishing a virtual private network between them with several known by them establishing methods of a data transfer connection.
US09900168B2
A system and method of providing a reliable and efficient multicast data transfer mechanism in a communication network. The mechanism includes a plurality of computer nodes and one or more data system managers wherein each of computer nodes and each of data system managers are connected through the said communication network. The method generally comprises the steps of setting up of an association among one or more computer nodes as senders and one or more computer nodes as receivers using a combination of unicast and multicast protocols and transmitting one or more packets of data through the said multicast protocol by one or more senders to one or more receivers. The receivers may collaborate among themselves to ensure delivery of said one or more packets of data reliably to the collaborating receivers.
US09900162B2
A method includes receiving, at an access point of a network, a first message from a wireless device. The method further includes determining a device type of the wireless device. In response to determining that the device type satisfies a criterion, the method includes sending, to the wireless device, a second message granting the wireless device access to the network subject to a first restriction level and sending a network access request to a second device associated with an operator of the access point. The method may further include receiving a response to the network access request from the second device and determining, based on the response, whether to grant the wireless device access to the network subject to a second restriction level.
US09900160B1
Techniques for using short-term credentials using asymmetric session keys are described herein. A request for a short-term credential is received that is digitally signed with a different credential. In response to the request, short-term credential data is generated and populated with a public session key corresponding to a private session key. The short-term credential data is then encrypted with a session encryption key to produce the short-term credential token, which can then be used by the requester as a short-term credential for subsequent requests.
US09900157B2
A system and method for digitally signing an object. An object signing agent sends a signing request for an object to remote signing server, which, in response to receiving the request, generates a virtual machine executing code for signing the object. The object is signed within the virtual machine and returned to the object signing agent.
US09900155B2
Security techniques are provided for cooperative file distribution. An encryption key or a nonce (or both) are generated for a package containing one or more files that are to be sent in a cooperative file distribution system. Random access encryption techniques can be employed to encrypt a package containing one or more files to be sent in a cooperative file distribution system. One or more storage proxies are allocated to a package to be transmitted in a cooperative file distribution system, based on load. Access to trackers in the cooperative file distribution system is controlled using security tokens. Content can automatically expire using a defined expiration period when the content is uploaded into the system. Variable announce intervals allow the tracker to control how often the tracker will receive a message, such as an announcement or a heartbeat message, from peers in the system.
US09900141B2
A receiving apparatus for SNR estimation of a signal such as the LTE PUCCH, transmitted over a channel of an OFDM wireless communication system.The proposed apparatus brings determines the noise power level in the frequency domain based on a noise covariance matrix where timing errors are back compensated in the equation since timing error is expressed a complex exponential therein. Contrary to the common methods used for determining the noise power level, in the present invention deriving the channel estimate components from the pilot symbol(s) comprised in the received signal is not required.Based on the present invention, user's transmit power is reduced thereby improving battery power longevity. Further, since interference is reduced, more users may be multiplexed together in the same resources.A method and a computer program product are also claimed.
US09900135B2
The base station, receiving first pilot signals transmitted via each of multiple antennas of a user equipment (UE), selects one or more reference codebooks based on channel qualities of the received first pilot signals, and selects one or more sub-channels for each of the reference codebooks. Based on this, the base station determines one or more virtual channels, wherein each of the virtual channels comprises one reference codebook and the one or more sub channels selected for the one reference codebook, wherein the sub-channels are selected to minimum distance between corresponding virtual channel and corresponding reference codebook. And, the base station transmits antenna combining information to the UE, wherein the antenna combining information combines the multiple antennas of the UE into one or more antenna groups corresponding to the one or more virtual channels; and receive second pilot signals transmitted by the UE based on the antenna combining information.
US09900134B2
A user equipment device comprises physical layer circuitry configured to transmit and receive radio frequency electrical signals with one or more nodes of a radio access network, including monitor at least one of a communication channel unlicensed to a long term evolution (LTE) network (LTE-U) or a communication channel of a licensed assisted access (LAA) network and detect a reference signal (RS) of a subframe communicated using the at least one communication channel; and processing circuitry configured to measure a channel metric over at least a portion of the subframe that includes the RS, and process information included in the subframe according to an LTE communication protocol when the measured channel metric satisfies a specified channel metric threshold value.
US09900131B2
Flexible transmission of messages in a wireless communication system with multiple transmit antennas
Devices and methods for transmitting information in resource blocks between a base station and one or more communication devices are disclosed. In each resource block (RB) used for a data or control channel transmission, a plurality of non-overlapping regions of resource elements (REs) are defined. Each region is associated with one or multiple unique reference symbols (RSs), and may be further associated with one or more antenna ports. When user equipment (UE) demodulates the information it receives in a particular region of an RB, it uses the RS and/or antenna port associated with that region. The RS and/or antenna port information may be used, for example, to estimate a channel of the communication network or to demodulate and decode the data contained within the associated regions.
US09900129B2
Considering individual sequences T1, . . . , TK over N successive frames for performing K individual transmissions, one time and frequency resource is allocated to each individual transmission per frame. The time and frequency resources can be represented by a grid with time resources on one dimension and frequency resources on another dimension. A managing device: computes a figure of merit G(A, T1, . . . , TK) for each possible set of the individual sequences T1, . . . , TK over the N successive frames on which respective frequency hopping sequences [A1, . . . , AN]=A apply, the figure of merit G(A, T1, . . . , TK) being representative of transmission robustness to interference and/or noise and/or path loss, and being determined under a constraint such that the frequency hopping sequences A1, . . . , AN are defined among a predefined set of allowable frequency hopping sequences which is a subset of all the time and frequency resources sequences made possible by said grid; and selects the set of individual sequences T1, . . . , TK showing the best figure of merit G(A, T1, . . . , TK).
US09900120B2
The present disclosure provides a clock synchronization method and a clock synchronization apparatus. Herein the method includes: a physical layer device acquires a synchronization message used for a device to be synchronized to implement clock synchronization; and the physical side device transmits the synchronization message to the device to be synchronized. By means of the abovementioned technical solution provided by the present disclosure, the problems of small user capacity of the load and high synchronization cost resulted from the clock synchronization method in existing technologies are solved, the insufficient user capacity of the load caused by the limit of the CPU architecture is avoided, and the bandwidth resource of the Ethernet is utilized to the maximum extent.
US09900116B2
A testing system that provides a separate set of virtualization container probes for each of at least a subset of devices that is under testing can perform Wifi Layer 2 and Wifi Layer 3 tests in a manner that minimizes or avoids wireless interference is disclosed.
US09900106B2
The present invention discloses a signal modulation method, including: demultiplexing an input signal into 2N sub-signals; grouping every two of the 2N sub-signals into a pair; performing filtering on two sub-signals in each pair; performing carrierless amplitude phase (CAP) modulation on the two sub-signals in each pair; modulating the two sub-signals in each pair to a same frequency band, to generate N pairs of CAP signals, where frequency bands of different pairs of sub-signals are different, and a spacing between center frequencies of two neighboring frequency bands is greater than or equal to an average value of baud rates of sub-signals corresponding to the two neighboring frequency bands; and combining the N pairs of CAP signals, and performing electro-optic modulation on a signal obtained after the combining. A signal demodulation method corresponding to the signal modulation method is further disclosed.
US09900102B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus comprising an integrated circuit with a chip-on-chip and chip-on-substrate configuration. In one instance, the apparatus may include an optical transceiver with an opto-electronic component disposed in a first portion of a die, and a trace coupled with the opto-electronic component and disposed to extend to a surface in a second portion of the die adjacent to the first portion, to provide electrical connection for the integrated circuit and another integrated circuit to be coupled with the second portion of the die in a chip-on-chip configuration. The apparatus may include a second trace disposed in the second portion of the die to extend to the surface in the second portion, to provide electrical connection for the other integrated circuit and a substrate to be coupled with the second portion of the die in a chip-on-substrate configuration. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09900091B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, machine type communication (MTC), machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of an electronic device for pairing with a lighting device is provided. The method includes acquiring an image photographing the lighting device, acquiring identification data of the lighting device from the image, and pairing with the lighting device by transmitting the identification data to the lighting device. Further, a method of a lighting device for pairing with an electronic device is provided. The method includes outputting light based on first identification data, receiving second identification data, determining whether to pair with the electronic device, and pairing with the electronic device.
US09900090B1
An appliance receives packets that are part of a flow pair, each packet sharing an application protocol. The appliance determines the application protocol of the packets by performing deep packet inspection (DPI) on the packets. Packet sizes are measured and converted into packet size states. Packet size states, packet sequence numbers, and packet flow directions are used to create an application protocol estimation table (APET). The APET is used during normal operation to estimate the application protocol of a flow pair without performing time consuming DPI. The appliance then determines inter-packet intervals between received packets. The inter-packet intervals are converted into inter-packet interval states. The inter-packet interval states and packet sequence numbers are used to create an inter-packet interval prediction table. The appliance then stores an inter-packet interval prediction table for each application protocol. The inter-packet interval prediction table is used during operation to predict the inter-packet interval between packets.
US09900087B2
A multimode launch system to be connected to an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) for use in performing at least one OTDR measurement on a multi-fiber array Device Under Test (DUT), the multimode launch system comprising: an optical switch being connectable to the OTDR during use; a launch array device having an end being connectable to the optical switch and another end being connectable to the multi-fiber array DUT during use, the launch array device having a plurality of multimode launch optical fibers each having at least one first guidance parameter being smaller than a corresponding one of at least one second guidance parameter of at least one multimode optical fiber of the optical switch; and a multi-fiber mode conditioner along the launch array device for inducing a preferential attenuation of higher-order optical modes of test light propagated into the multi-fiber array DUT during use.
US09900082B1
In some implementations, a satellite communication system is a capable of utilizing converged data transmissions over a satellite network to improve various aspects of services provisioned through the satellite network. For example, the system includes multiple electronic components that operate within a common software application framework to enable the ability to perform monitored operations in real-time. The system uses the monitored data to dynamically and intelligently adjust network configurations of the satellite network configuration to dynamically and intelligently improve to the provisioning of network-based services under varying network conditions.
US09900079B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network sets a timer interval based in part on a distance between the device and a backbone of the network. The device receives a unicast communication destined for a remote destination that was sent via broadcast. The device determines a count of receipt acknowledgements of the communication sent by other devices in the network. At the end of the timer interval, the device sends a receipt acknowledgement of the communication via broadcast, in response to the count of receipt acknowledgements sent by other devices in the network being below a threshold amount.
US09900078B2
A data processing method, including performing, by a transmit end device, mapping processing on L layers of information bits to generate L layers of modulation symbol sequences, where each layer of modulation symbol sequence includes U modulation symbols, the L layers of modulation symbol sequences correspond to a same time-frequency resource, and the U modulation symbols include at least one non-zero modulation symbol and at least one zero modulation symbol, performing precoding processing on each layer of modulation symbol sequence according to a precoding matrix to generate L layers of modulation symbol sequence matrixes, and performing superposition processing on the L layers of modulation symbol sequence matrixes to generate a to-be-sent symbol sequence matrix, where the to-be-sent symbol sequence matrix includes T element sequences in a first dimension, and the to-be-sent symbol sequence matrix includes U element sequences in a second dimension.
US09900065B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a Radio Frequency (RF) front end system includes a first chip that includes a frequency multiplier coupled to a first input terminal. The frequency multiplier is configured to form an upscaled reference signal by upscaling in frequency an oscillating reference signal received at the first input terminal. The first chip also includes a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) configured to provide a first oscillating VCO signal, and an oscillator switch coupled to the VCO and the frequency multiplier. The oscillator switch is configured to select a Local Oscillator (LO) signal from between the first oscillating VCO signal and the upscaled reference signal. The first chip also includes a first phase shifter coupled to an output of the oscillator switch, and a modulator having an input coupled to an output of the first phase shifter.
US09900060B1
A tunable microwave network and its application in a radio transceiver transmit signal cancellation network is described. The tunable microwave network realizes a large set of reflection coefficients over a predefined area in the complex reflection coefficient plane for the purpose of reflecting a variable cancellation signal which, when properly configured, results in the substantial attenuation of transmit reflection and transmit leakage signal at the radio transceiver receiver input. A relevant building block of the proposed tunable microwave network is a shunt tunable capacitive element coupled to another shunt tunable capacitive element through a phase shifting element with phase shift greater than 30 degrees divided by a quantity substantially similar to the total number of said tunable capacitive elements and less than 60 degrees at a predefined frequency.
US09900054B2
Establishing a communication link may include transmitting by a first device an unmodulated first electromagnetic EHF signal and receiving by a second device the first electromagnetic EHF signal. The second device may determine whether the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that a first shield portion and a second shield portion are in alignment. The transmission of a modulated second electromagnetic EHF signal may be enabled when the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that both the shield portions are in alignment and may be disabled when the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that the first and second shield portions are not in alignment.
US09900053B2
A near-field communication (NFC) card reader may include a monitor configured to measure an amplitude of a magnetic field induced by an antenna; a gain controller configured to determine an amplification gain based on the measured amplitude of the magnetic field and output a gain control signal; a signal restoration unit configured to receive a carrier signal and a data signal that overlaps with the carrier signal via the antenna, and restore the data signal from the received signals; and a variable-gain amplifier configured to amplify the data signal restored by the signal restoration unit according to the gain control signal.
US09900051B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating an electronic system includes detecting an incoming transmission on a power line, and modifying a switching behavior of a switched-mode power supply coupled to the power line upon detecting the incoming transmission. Modifying reduces the level of interference produced by the switched-mode power supply.
US09900047B2
A return channel system for ultra-small aperture terminals has a spreader that receives an input signal and outputs a spread spectrum signal having multiple replicated signals with a lower power than the input signal. A de-spreader includes a de-multiplexer that receives the spread spectrum signal via satellite. The de-multiplexer separates the spread spectrum signal into a first channel having a first signal and a second channel having a second signal. The de-spreader also has an offset compensation circuit having a phase estimator configured to estimate a phase offset between a phase of the first signal and a phase of the second signal. And a phase adjustor that receives the second signal and adjusts the phase of the second signal to align with the phase of the first signal to provide a phase-adjusted second signal. A summer combines the first signal with the phase-adjusted second signal to provide a composite signal.
US09900044B2
A transceiver arrangement is disclosed. The transceiver arrangement comprises a receiver arranged for frequency-division duplex communication with a communication network and a transmitter arranged for frequency-division duplex communication with the communication network. The transceiver arrangement also comprises a transmission port anda phase shifter arrangement which comprises a first 180° phase shifter and a second 180° phase shifter. The transceiver arrangement further comprises a filtering arrangement. The filtering arrangement comprises filters of a first type and filters of a second type. The filtering arrangement and the phase shifter arrangement are arranged to connect the receiver, transmitter and transmission port forming a first signal path between the transmission port and the transmitter by a first one of the filters of the first type and the first phase shifter in series, a second signal path between the transmission port and the transmitter by a second one of the filters of the first type and a first one of the filters of the second type in series, a third signal path between the transmission port and the receiver by a second one of the filters of the second type and the second phase shifter in series, and a fourth signal path between the transmission port and the receiver by a third one of the filters of the second type and a third one of the filters of the first type in series. The filters of the first type are arranged to pass signals at transmitter frequency and attenuate signals at receiver frequency, and the filters of the second type are arranged to attenuate signals at transmitter frequency and pass signals at receiver frequency. A communication device capable of frequency division duplex communication comprising such a transceiver arrangement is also disclosed.
US09900042B2
The present portable computing device case is configurable for both carrying a portable computing device and for obstructing external lighting while using a portable computing device in an upright viewing position, particularly for augmented reality applications, outdoor gaming applications and for use of a digital camera housed within the portable computing device.
US09900038B2
A communication device includes an antenna unit, an adjustment unit and a sensing and processing unit. The sensing and processing unit is electrically coupled to the antenna unit and the adjustment unit. The antenna unit is configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal. The adjustment unit is configured to adjust a frequency and a bandwidth of the RF signal. The sensing and processing unit is configured to sense a capacitance, so as to control the adjustment unit to adjust the frequency of the RF signal according to the capacitance, and to control the adjustment unit to adjust the bandwidth of the RF signal according to a system signal.
US09900033B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described related to interference averaging to generate feedback information and interference averaging to demodulate receives signals. In embodiments, an evolved Node B (eNB) may transmit interference averaging information to a user equipment (UE) including a time domain averaging indicator indicating a time domain averaging window to be used by the UE for averaging interference measurements in a time domain or a frequency domain averaging indicator to indicate a frequency domain averaging window to be used by the UE for averaging interference measurements in a frequency domain. Additionally, or alternatively, the eNB may transmit an interference resource group (IRG) indicator to the UE to indicate an IRG over which the UE is to perform interference averaging to facilitate demodulation of signals received by the UE from the eNB.
US09900028B1
An example circuit includes: a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) receiving a respective plurality of analog signals and outputting a respective plurality of digital signals; a coefficient generator circuit outputting a coefficient signal; and a plurality of decimation filters each including a first input that receives a respective one of the plurality of digital signals and a second input that receives the coefficient signal, each of the plurality of decimation filters including a finite impulse response (FIR) filter having a multiplier and a single accumulator.
US09900012B2
Frequency divider techniques are disclosed which can be used to address two problems: when an incorrect division occurs if the modulus control changes before the divide cycle is complete, and when an incorrect division occurs due to a boundary crossing (e.g., power-of-2 boundary crossing in a fractional-N PLL application). In one embodiment, a frequency divider is provided comprising a plurality of flip-flops operatively coupled to carry out division of an input frequency, and configured to generate a modulus output and receive a divided clock signal of a previous cell. An additional flip-flop is selectively clocked off one of the modulus output or the divided clock of the previous stage, depending at least in part on a Skip control signal applied to a data input of the additional flip-flop, and is further configured to selectively reset the plurality of flip-flops to a state that will result in a correct divide ratio.
US09900010B2
A level shifter includes a first and a second transistor coupled to a first power supply voltage terminal supplied with a second power supply voltage in parallel, the first transistor having a first gate connected to a drain of the second transistor and a first gate insulating film, and the second transistor having a second gate connected to a drain of the first transistor and a second gate insulating film, a third and a fourth transistor coupled to a reference voltage terminal in parallel, the third transistor having a third gate supplied with a first control signal and a third gate insulating film, and the fourth transistor having a fourth gate supplied with a second control signal and a fourth gate insulating film, a first and a second depression transistor, and a timing control unit placed between a second power supply voltage terminal and the reference voltage terminal.
US09900007B2
An object is to provide a programmable logic device having logic blocks connected to each other by a programmable switch, where the programmable switch is characterized by an oxide semiconductor transistor incorporated therein. The extremely low off-state current of the oxide semiconductor transistor provides a function as a non-volatile memory due to its high ability to hold a potential of a gate electrode of a transistor which is connected to the oxide semiconductor transistor. The ability of the oxide semiconductor transistor to function as a non-volatile memory allows the configuration data for controlling the connection of the logic blocks to be maintained even in the absence of a power supply potential. Hence, the rewriting process of the configuration data at starting of the device can be omitted, which contributes to the reduction in power consumption of the device.
US09899999B2
An intelligent gate drive unit and related method for controlling one or more semiconductor switches of one or more power modules, the intelligent gate drive unit comprises at least a gate driver and an analog measuring circuit, wherein the gate driver facilitates control of the one or more semiconductor switches and wherein the analog measuring circuit facilitates measuring the switch voltage when the one or more semiconductor switches are in a conducting mode.
US09899990B2
A semiconductor circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit determines a logic level of a second node and a logic level of a third node, on the basis of a logic level of input data, a logic level of a clock signal, and a logic level of a first node. The second circuit determines the logic level of the first node, on the basis of the logic level of the clock signal, the logic level of the second node and the logic level of the third node. The first circuit comprises a sub-circuit and a first transistor. The first circuit determines the logic level of the second node, on the basis of the logic level of the input data and the logic level of the first node. The first transistor is gated to the logic level of the clock signal to connect the third node with the second node.
US09899986B2
Embodiments of a tunable radio frequency (RF) diplexer and methods of operating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the RF diplexer includes a first hybrid coupler, a second hybrid coupler, an RF filter circuit, and a phase inversion component. Both the RF filter circuit and the phase inversion component are connected between the first hybrid coupler and the second hybrid coupler. The phase inversion component is configured to provide approximately a differential phase. The RF filter circuit is configured to provide a passband and a notch. The RF filter circuit is tunable to provide the notch on both a high-frequency side of the passband and a low frequency side of the passband. Accordingly, the tunable RF diplexer provides lower insertion losses and higher isolation regardless of whether the one of the diplexed frequency bands is set at higher frequencies or lower frequencies than the other diplexed frequency band.
US09899982B2
An integrated circuit (IC) die for electromagnetic band gap (EBG) noise suppression is provided. A power mesh and a ground mesh are stacked within a back end of line (BEOL) region overlying a semiconductor substrate, and an inductor is arranged over the power and ground meshes. The inductor comprises a plurality of inductor segments stacked upon one another and connected end to end to define a length of the inductor. A capacitor underlies the power and ground meshes, and is connected in series with the inductor. Respective terminals of the capacitor and the inductor are respectively coupled to the power and ground meshes. A method for manufacturing the IC die is also provided.
US09899980B2
A method of controlling an audio system includes generating a situation response model for a situation parameter, determining a situation parameter value, and at least one of (1) providing an audio system output as a function of the situation response model and the situation parameter value and (2) receiving an audio system input as a function of the situation response model and the situation parameter value.
US09899979B2
A method for recording a playback setting of sound is disclosed. The method is applied to an electronic device having an equalizer and includes the following steps of: acquiring an archival data of a sound file played by the electronic device; receiving a set record command; acquiring a gain setting data of the equalizer according to the set record command; pairing the archival data with the gain setting data to generate a pairing data; and saving the pairing data.
US09899976B2
A power amplifier includes an outphasing amplifier. The outphasing amplifier includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier, and is configured to provide a first amplified RF signal and a second amplified RF signal that is phase shifted from the first amplified RF signal. The power amplifier further includes an output circuit that is configured to combine RF power of the first and second amplified RF signals at a summing node. The output circuit includes a first branch connected between the first amplifier and a summing node and a second branch connected between the second amplifier and the summing node. The first and second branches are each configured to match an output impedance of the first and second amplifiers and to phase shift the first and second amplified RF signals for an outphasing operation using common reactive components for the match of the output impedance and the outphasing operation.
US09899968B2
A low noise amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier including a first transistor and a second transistor that are cascode-connected to each other; a second amplifier including a third transistor and a fourth transistor that are cascode-connected to each other; a source terminal matcher connected to a source of the first transistor and a source of the third transistor; and an input matcher providing input that is impedance-matched by a first inductor and a second inductor to a gate of the first transistor and providing input which is impedance-matched by the first inductor to a gate of the third transistor. The circuit is able to operate in a dual-band and provide impedance matching, while being simpler than alternative circuits.
US09899966B2
A device, system and method for a wideband low noise amplifier is provided. The device may include a main amplifier and an error amplifier. In each amplifier is a phase inverter configured to invert the incoming signal. Additionally, rather than being formed from discrete components, the conductors of this wideband low noise amplifier are formed from microwave monolithic integrated circuits to provide for greater efficiency, which enables the low noise amplifier to operate in wideband rather than narrowband. A method of using the same is also provided.
US09899965B2
Disclosed herein are differential amplifiers for improved slew performance. In some embodiments, a differential amplifier may receive positive and negative input signals at first and second transistor branches, respectively; provide a dynamic bias current to the first and second transistor branches, responsive to the positive and negative input signals; and provide positive and negative output signals at the second and first transistor branches, respectively.
US09899962B2
er amplifier includes a power splitter that splits a first signal into a second signal and a third signal delayed from the second signal by about 90°, a first amplifier that outputs a fourth signal by amplifying the second signal when a power level of the first signal equals/exceeds a first level, a second amplifier that outputs a fifth signal by amplifying the third signal when the power level of the first signal equals/exceeds a second level higher than the first level, a first phase shifter that receives the fourth signal and outputs a sixth signal delayed from the fourth signal by about 45°, a second phase shifter that receives the fifth signal and outputs a seventh signal advanced from the fifth signal by about 45°, and a combining unit that outputs an amplified signal of the first signal by combining the sixth and seventh signals.
US09899960B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a cascode circuit electrically coupled between an amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal and different loads. The cascode circuit can function as a switch to selectively provide an output from the amplifier to a number of different loads. In certain embodiments, the cascode circuit can be electrically coupled between different stages of a multi-stage power amplifier. For instance, the amplifier can be a first stage of the multi-stage power amplifier and the different loads can include different power amplifier transistors of a second stage of the multi-stage amplifier. The cascode circuit can be implemented by bipolar transistors according to certain embodiments.
US09899959B2
An element, including: a first conductor layer extending in a first direction; a second conductor layer extending in the first direction; and a semiconductor disposed between the first and second conductor layers, the semiconductor including: a first semiconductor layer in contact with the first conductor layer; a second semiconductor layer in contact with the second conductor layer; and an active layer disposed between the first and second semiconductor layers, in which: the semiconductor has a width of 0.5 μm or more and 5 μm or less in a direction intersecting the first and second directions, and has a thickness of 0.1 μm or more and 1.0 μm or less in the second direction; the active layer includes a double-barrier resonant tunnel diode; and each of the two barrier layers has a thickness of 0.7 nm or more and 2.0 nm or less in the second direction.
US09899950B2
An inverter for an electric machine includes multiple phase systems, each including a high-side switching device and a low-side switching device, the high-side switching device being connected on one side to a first pole of an intermediate circuit and on another side to the low-side switching device, the low-side switching device being connected on one side to the high-side switching device and on the other side to a second pole of the intermediate circuit, the high-side switching device and the low-side switching device each having a circuit breaker which has a switching input, a power input and a power output, the power input and the power output being electrically connected with each other when the circuit breaker is closed and are electrically disconnected from each other when the circuit breaker is open. The inverter further has a control circuit and an intermediate circuit voltage limiting circuit.
US09899949B2
A system-specific interface module for a motor control subassembly for controlling operation of an electric motor within a larger system which uses a particular system communication method. The motor control subassembly includes a standard power module and the interface module. The power module includes a controller processor configured to receive input for controlling and to generate output regarding operation of the motor. The interface module includes a communication interface hardware block configured to exchange input and output signals with the larger system, and an interface processor configured to translate the input and output signals between the particular system communication method used by the larger system and a standard internal communication method used by the power module. Thus, the motor control subassembly can be configured to accommodate any of a variety of different system communication methods and other input/output options by selecting and inserting the appropriate interface module.
US09899941B1
A damping system can include a sensor disposed to measure an amplitude of a speed ripple of a drive shaft of a generator, and can include a feedforward circuit connected to the sensor and to the generator. The feedforward circuit can determine a phase angle formed by a load resistance and a load capacitance driven by the generator, calculate a voltage signal value based on the amplitude and the phase angle, and can adjust a DC link voltage provided by the generator and across the load resistance according to the voltage signal value.
US09899932B2
Methods and systems for transforming electric power between two or more portals. Any or all portals can be DC, single phase AC, or multi-phase AC. Conversion is accomplished by a plurality of bi-directional conducting and blocking semiconductor switches which alternately connect an inductor and parallel capacitor between said portals, such that energy is transferred into the inductor from one or more input portals and/or phases, then the energy is transferred out of the inductor to one or more output portals and/or phases, with said parallel capacitor facilitating “soft” turn-off, and with any excess inductor energy being returned back to the input. Soft turn-on and reverse recovery is also facilitated. Said bi-directional switches allow for two power transfers per inductor/capacitor cycle, thereby maximizing inductor/capacitor utilization as well as providing for optimum converter operation with high input/output voltage ratios. Control means coordinate the switches to accomplish the desired power transfers.
US09899930B2
Each phase of a multi-phase voltage converter includes a power stage, passive circuit, synchronous rectification (SR) switch, and control circuit. Each passive circuit couples its power stage to an output node of the voltage converter, and is switchably coupled to ground by the SR switch. The current through the SR switch has a half-cycle sinusoidal shape with a resonant frequency determined by the reactance of the passive circuit. The control circuit generates signals to control switches within the power stage and the SR switches. The control circuit measures current through the SR switch of each phase, and determines which of the phases has SR switch current which returns to zero the quickest. This phase is identified as a master, and the other phases of the voltage converter are aligned to this master phase such that none of the SR switches is turned off when negative current is flowing through it.
US09899924B1
A switching power converter converts power from an input source for delivery to a load at the converter output. The converter comprises at least two switches connected in series across either the input source or the output, and an inductor connected to a central node between the two switches. A controller operates the converter in a series of converter operating cycles, each operating cycle comprising an input phase, during which one of the two switches is conductive, the inductor receives energy from the input source, and a current in the inductor is increasing positively, phase. The controller is configured to adjust the duration of the input phase, and the amount of energy stored in the inductor at the end of the input phase, as a function of a an amount of energy required to charge or discharge the node capacitance during the energy recycling phase.
US09899923B2
Methods, devices, and integrated circuits are disclosed for controlling a buck-boost converter. In one example, a device is configured to compare an output voltage at a voltage output with a low reference voltage and a high reference voltage. The device may compare a current at an inductor with a low threshold current and a high threshold current. The device may, responsive to the output voltage at the voltage output being lower than the low reference voltage, charge the inductor. The device may, responsive to the current at the inductor reaching the high threshold current, couple the inductor to the voltage output to transfer charge from the inductor to the voltage output. The device may, responsive to either the current at the inductor reaching the low threshold current or the output voltage reaching the high reference voltage, stop transferring charge from the inductor to the voltage output.
US09899921B1
A current mode switching converter includes a transistor switch, an inductor configured to conduct a ramping inductor current as the transistor switch is turned on and off at a particular duty cycle, and an inductor current sensor generating a current sense signal. The current sense signal has an up-slope portion and a down-slope portion. A separate ramp generator generates a ramp voltage for each switching cycle. A slope compensation circuit compensates the ramp voltage, depending on the duty cycle and other factors, to create a compensated ramp voltage. The compensated ramp voltage is then summed with the current sense signal to create a compensated current sense signal for a comparator. The slope compensation circuit forces the compensated current sense signal to have an up-slope greater than an absolute value of its down-slope at least for duty cycles greater than 50% to rapidly dampen perturbations in the duty cycle.
US09899917B2
In a method for generating with a modular multilevel power converter (M2C) having a plurality of sub-modules a frequency-variable output voltage, the sub-modules are switched on and off to generate from an input voltage discrete voltage steps approximating an approximately sinusoidal alternating output voltage having a first angular frequency located between a zero frequency and a second angular frequency, and the input voltage is controlled or regulated as a function of the first angular frequency so as to be located between a lower angular frequency, which is equal to or greater than the zero frequency, and a third angular frequency, such that the input voltage increases with increasing first angular frequency, thereby reducing capacitor complexity in the power converter.
US09899914B2
A lighting device includes a DC/DC converter, a drive circuit, and a delay circuit. The drive circuit generates a feedback signal and a PWM signal. The feedback signal indicates whether or not a voltage required for a constant current to flow in a solid-state light emitting device is applied to the solid-state light emitting device. The PWM signal indicates a current supply period during which a current flows in the solid-state light emitting device. The delay circuit delays at least one of a start timing and an end timing of the current supply period with respect to the PWM signal. The DC/DC converter includes: a switching element, and a control circuit which performs control such that the switching element switches in accordance with the feedback signal generated by the drive circuit, during an on-duty period determined by the PWM signal the timing of which has been delayed by the delay circuit.
US09899912B2
A charge pump driven Linear Voltage Regulator (LVR) system with a cascoded n-type output pass device includes an error amplifier; a voltage feedback network; a dynamically controlled charge pump block that is ON only when required and OFF otherwise; a gate drive system configured to ensure that the charge pump drives only gate of a cascode transistor and no DC or static current load such that a voltage is preserved for a duration; and a filter at the charge pump output to reduce an impact of the switching noise of the charge pump on the regulator output, wherein the filter is outside a main servo loop of the regulator, wherein an n-type pass element and/or cascode element in the cascoded n-type output pass device comprises at least one of a Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Field Effect Transistor (FET), a bipolar junction transistor, an LDMOS, or a FinFET device.
US09899908B1
A rectifier circuit can include a plurality of FETs arranged as a rectifier; and a start-up circuit applied to each of the plurality of FETs that turn each of the FETs off during a circuit startup period, wherein the start-up circuit provides a large impedance for low power dissipation during normal operation of the rectifier.
US09899905B2
A compensating method for a ripple compensation circuit of a power supply is provided. The power supply includes an LLC resonant converter. The LLC resonant converter receives an input voltage and generates an output voltage. Firstly, the output voltage is subtracted from a reference voltage, so that a first error signal is generated. Then, a digital filter is provided to increase a low frequency gain of the first error signal, so that a second error signal is generated. Then, the first error signal and the second signal are added, so that a modulated error signal is generated. Then, a compensation signal is generated to control the LLC resonant converter according to the modulated error signal. Consequently, a low frequency gain of the input voltage is increased and a low frequency ripple of the output voltage is suppressed by an increased voltage loop compensator response.
US09899903B2
A switching pattern determination unit in a control unit includes a modulation rate ensuring unit, a harmonic reducing unit, and a function combining unit, and sets a function f prescribing the relationship between each switching phase and a modulation rate, a function Y prescribing the relationship between each switching phase and the sum of squares of values obtained by multiplying a harmonic component of each order by a weighting coefficient of each order, and an evaluation function X formed from the function Y, the function f, and a weighting variable. Then, by a switching phase calculation unit and a switching pattern storage unit, each switching pattern according to each modulation rate m and each number of pulses is obtained and stored which ensures the modulation rate and reduces an addition value of harmonic components of respective orders.
US09899894B2
The invention relates to a scalable device for storing and releasing energy, consisting of a housing that can be evacuated, a vacuum (12), at least one flywheel mass (2) on a shaft (17), at least one passive superconducting radial bearing and an electrical machine (24) that constitutes both a motor and a generator, wherein a cold surface is arranged in the vacuum container (11) for stabilizing the vacuum (12). The invention has the advantage that an energy store is provided that operates efficiently and cost-effectively with minimized energy losses, is scalable and also has sufficient safety elements to enable it to be used in industrial environments.
US09899891B2
The connection terminal and the power supply terminal are held by a common holding member made of a resin. The power supply terminal includes a press-fitting portion press-fitted into a press-fitted portion of the holding member. The press-fitted portion of the holding member has a shape that is long in a plate width direction of the power supply terminal and short in a plate thickness direction of the power supply terminal. Assuming that a dimension of each of both end portions of the press-fitted portion in the plate width direction of the power supply terminal is defined as L1, a dimension of a center portion of the press-fitted portion is defined as L2, and a plate thickness of the power supply terminal is defined as T, L2
US09899883B2
The present invention discloses a wireless power transfer system having positioning function, and a positioning device and a method therefor. In the positioning method, a power transmission side keeps generating a stable power; a power receiving side is moved relatively to the power transmission side and generates a corresponding induced voltage. An indication signal related to the induced voltage is generated by detecting the induced voltage, and the indication signal provides a suggestion to a user as to how the power receiving side should be moved relatively to the power transmission side to be closer to an optimal power transfer position.
US09899881B2
A wireless power transmitting device includes: a rectifier configured to rectify alternating current (AC) power; a capacitor configured to store the rectified AC power as direct current (DC) power; a voltage divider configured to divide a voltage of the DC power; and a wireless power transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit power using the voltage divided by the voltage divider.
US09899872B2
A power transmission device for wirelessly transmitting power to a power reception device includes a power transmission target determination unit configured to determine a power transmission target power reception device, a power transmission time determination unit configured to determine, if a power reception device to which power has already been transmitted is determined as the power transmission target power reception device, a time that is longer than a previously required power transmission time for transmitting power to the power transmission target power reception device as power transmission time therefor, and a power transmission unit configured to transmit power to the power transmission target power reception device for the power transmission time determined by the power transmission time determination unit.
US09899867B2
A direct current power server configured to serve a direct current microgrid of a building. The direct current power server includes a direct current bus having branch circuits that extend from the direct current power server to provide direct current power to direct current loads of the building. The direct current power server directly integrates a local energy source and local energy storage into the direct current microgrid without attachment to the alternating current electrical grid.
US09899841B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed that can intelligently invert DC power from single or multiple DC sources to single-phase, split-phase, or three-phase AC power, supply the AC power to the electric power grid when the grid is on, or supply AC power to electric devices or loads when the grid is down. A Smart and Grid-Flexible Power Inverter, or On/Off-Grid Power Inverter, is disclosed that can work in either the on-grid or off-grid mode, and switch back and forth between the two modes manually or automatically depending on the power grid conditions. The system provides a simple and cost-effective solution for areas where the power grid has frequent outages or long downtimes.
US09899839B2
A power system for providing a grid service to a power grid, said power system comprising: an energy resource controller (ERC) adapted to monitor a state of charge (SOC) of at least one energy storage device (ESD), wherein said energy resource controller (ERC) adjusts in a normal operation mode (NM) a power supplied by the energy storage device (ESD) to said power grid (PG) or a power received by the energy storage device (ESD) from said power grid (PG) in response to grid parameters or remotely generated control signals to stabilize said power grid (PG), wherein if the monitored state of charge (SOC) of said energy storage device (ESD) exceeds an upper state of charge limit (SOC-H) the energy resource controller (ERC) connects in a power absorption mode (PAM) a power absorbing load (PAL) to said power grid as long as the grid parameters or remotely generated control signals indicate that power is to be removed from said power grid (PG).
US09899836B2
A system and method for creating and making use of customer profiles, including energy consumption patterns. Devices within a service point, using the active load director, may be subject to control events, often based on customer preferences. These control events cause the service point to use less power. Data associated with these control events, as well as related environment data, are used to create an energy consumption profile for each service point. This can be used by the utility to determine which service points are the best targets for energy consumption. In addition, an intelligent load rotation algorithm determines how to prevent the same service points from being picked first each time the utility wants to conserve power.
US09899825B2
A current detector circuit includes a current sense amplifier, coupled to a sense resistor, to receive a pair of input voltages and to output a first indicator signal responsive to a sensed input voltage difference produced by a sensed current passing through the sense resistor. The current detector circuit includes a comparator coupled to the current sense amplifier, the comparator to compare the first indicator signal to a reference voltage signal and output an interrupt signal responsive to the first indicator signal exceeding the reference voltage signal; and a reference voltage generator circuit coupled to the comparator, the reference voltage generator circuit to select the reference voltage signal from a plurality of reference voltages according to a first selector signal received from a configuration channel of a serial bus connector device.
US09899809B2
A motor control center (MCC) unit includes a drawer having a space for accommodating a circuit breaker, a hinge bracket installed on one of left and right sides of the drawer, a base connected to the hinge bracket by a hinge shaft, and a display mechanism installation plate fastened to the base by a fastening member. Although a display mechanism or a display mechanism installation plates are different according to sizes or models of the MCC unit, a base and a hinge bracket may be commonly used.
US09899801B2
A semiconductor laser includes a main body, a strip having a narrower width provided on the main body, and an active zone that generates light radiation, wherein surfaces of the main body laterally with respect to the strip and side surfaces of the strip are covered with an electrically insulating protective layer, an electrically conductive layer as a contact is provided on a top side of the strip, a cavity is provided between a side surface of the strip and the protective layer at least in a delimited section.
US09899799B2
Provided are: an optical waveguide that relatively easily expands a spot size and that can suppress an increase in optical coupling loss with another optical waveguide element; and an optical component and variable-wavelength laser that use the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is provided with: a cladding member; and a core layer that is disposed within the cladding member and that is formed as an elongated body having a rectangular cross-sectional shape from a material having a higher refractive index than the material configuring the cladding member. Here, the cross-sectional shape of the core layer is characterized in having a rectangular shape in which the length in the lateral direction is at least 10 times the length in the vertical direction.
US09899795B2
The object is to provide a technique that allows a semiconductor laser to be efficiently cooled. A semiconductor laser light source device includes: a semiconductor laser; a cooler that cools the semiconductor laser; and a driving substrate that drives the semiconductor laser. The cooler is placed in contact with a surface of the semiconductor laser that is opposite to a light emitting surface of the semiconductor laser. Furthermore, the driving substrate is placed in contact with a surface of the cooler that is opposite to a surface of the cooler on which the semiconductor laser is placed.
US09899794B2
A optoelectronic package includes an inner package with a dielectric substrate having at least a first dielectric level with a photodetector (PD) die on a die attach area, first routing connecting a first contact to a first external bond pad (FEBP), and second routing connecting a second contact to a second external bond pad (SEBP). An outer package (OP) includes a ceramic substrate including a light source die on a base portion in direct line of sight with the PD including a first electrode and second electrode. A first wire bond connects the FEBP to a first terminal, a second wire bond connects the SEBP to a second terminal, a third wire bond connects the first electrode to a third terminal, and a fourth wire bond connects the second electrode to a fourth terminal.
US09899792B1
An array of optical amplifiers that recycles the unused pump power of some or all constituent amplifiers thereof, thereby beneficially improving pump-power utilization therein compared to that of conventional optical amplifiers. In an example embodiment, different amplifiers of the array can be configured to receive approximately equal pump power and be used to independently amplify different respective optical signals. In various embodiments, the unused pump power can be recycled using one or more optical couplers and/or optical paths that appropriately interconnect different amplifiers of the array. Some embodiments have one or more optical loops configured to operate as a ring laser that regenerates pump light in response to the unused pump power being coupled thereto. Some embodiments provide a spectral gain profile suitable for amplifying WDM signals in at least some of the constituent amplifiers of the array.
US09899791B2
A system for single pass amplification of dissipative soliton-like seed pulses of 1-20 ps to produce output pulses of 50-200 fs, without requiring a stretcher. Such an amplifier relies on the inherent chirp of the seed pulse out of the oscillator instead of pulse stretching.
US09899775B2
A connector insert is disclosed. The connector insert has a cable including a plurality of wires, a plurality of plug contacts, a housing including at least one reception chamber defining an inlet, and a stabilizer including a first fastening location at which the stabilizer is attached to the housing and a second fastening location at which the stabilizer is attached to the cable. Each plug contact is attached to a wire, and the reception chamber accepts the plug contacts through the inlet. The stabilizer is composed of a dimensionally stable material.
US09899764B1
The invention is a connector, which has an insulating housing, a female terminal, a guide needle and a waterproof structure. The insulating housing had a housing, a first and a second insulating sleeves. The first and the second insulating sleeves, and the waterproof structure are disposed in the housing. The first insulating sleeve is mounted with the second insulating sleeve in order to form a compartment space. The first insulating sleeve includes at least three fixing portions. The female terminal has a clamping portion, a securing portion and a guiding needle clamping portion. The clamping portion has at least three tighten portion and at least three slits, which forms at least three blades. The securing portion includes at least three convex portions, which disposed corresponding to the fixing portions. The guide needle buckles with the guiding needle clamping portion. The waterproof structure disposed against the second insulating sleeve.
US09899763B2
The disclosure discloses an industrial plug for a marine container, including a plug base. A plug sealing sheath component is screwed to an upper end of the plug base. An insertion core fixing plate is sleeved on the plug base. A plurality of wiring insertion core components are arranged on the insertion core fixing plate. A rotary braking pin penetrates through a central through hole from bottom to top. The rotary braking pin includes a braking pin base and a rotary base. A first and a second clamping grooves are respectively formed at an interval in an inner side of the plug base. The braking stopping block is lifted upwards and rotated to drive the rotary clamping block to switch between the two clamping grooves. The industrial plug is simple and flexible in switching, and has strong universality.
US09899761B2
A connector system is provided that includes an electrical connector having a housing, a connector position assurance (CPA) element, and an actuator. The housing defines a socket that receives a mating connector. The CPA element is slidable relative to the housing between a released position and a locked position. The actuator is mounted on the housing in operable engagement with the CPA element. The actuator is moved from a blocking position to a clearance position as the mating connector is loaded into the socket. The actuator in the blocking position mechanically blocks the CPA element from being moved between the released position and the locked position. The actuator in the clearance position allows the CPA element to be moved between the released position and the locked position. The actuator attains the clearance position responsive to the mating connector being fully loaded in the housing.
US09899742B2
An artificial microstructure used in artificial electromagnetic material includes a first line segment and a second line segment. The second line segment is perpendicular to the first line segment. The first line segment and the second line segment intersect with each other to form a cross-type structure. The present disclosure further relates to an artificial electromagnetic material using the artificial microstructure.
US09899735B2
An interface extension apparatus is presented, which includes N input interfaces and M output interface, where the input interfaces are connected to at least one base station, and the output interfaces are connected to an RET. The apparatus obtains device information of each RET control device in multiple RET control devices; creates an agent for each RET control device according to the device information, where a mapping relationship exists between each RET control device and the corresponding agent; then modulates, using the agent corresponding to the RET control device, a control signal that is received from the at least one base station; and further sends a modulated control signal to a corresponding RET. The embodiments of the present disclosure are used by the multiple base stations to simultaneously manage the multiband RET antenna.
US09899734B2
A front end circuit includes a variable matching circuit connected to a diplexer and a switch connector connected between an antenna port and the diplexer. The variable matching circuit selectively connects matching circuits to a signal path. When one of the matching circuits is connected, the impedance as viewed from the switch connector matches an impedance of a measurement circuit near a normalized impedance of 1 in a predetermined communication band, whereas when the other matching circuit is connected, the impedance viewed from the antenna port conjugate-matches the impedance of an antenna circuit in a predetermined communication band.
US09899730B2
Disclosed herein is a vehicle broadband antenna that is an antenna for LTE & V2X installed in the vicinity of a crash pad of a vehicle. The crash pad broadband antenna is installed in the vicinity of a vehicle crash pad and includes a main PCB, an LTE low-band antenna pattern formed on the main PCB to transmit and receive an LTE low-band signal, a first sub-PCB having LTE high-band antenna patterns configured to transmit and receive an LTE high-band signal, the first sub-PCB being vertically coupled to the main PCB, and a first terminal connected to an external communication module for transmitting and receiving the signals to/from the LTE low-band antenna pattern and the LTE high-band antenna patterns. It is possible to overcome existing spatial limitations by applying the broadband antenna to the vehicle, and to significantly reduce the time required to manufacture and develop an existing mold.
US09899728B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a mobile terminal, which relates to the field of communications technologies and is invented to enable the mobile terminal to have relatively good metal texture and appearance. The mobile terminal includes a metal rear cover used as a grounding component and at least one antenna, where the antenna includes a grounding pin, and the grounding pin is electrically connected to the metal rear cover. The present invention is mainly applicable to mobile terminal products.
US09899710B2
A method for producing a battery includes providing a battery having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte that includes a solvent and a salt. The capacity of the negative electrode is less than that of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes an active material having an average potential versus a lithium reference electrode of greater than approximately 0.2 volts. The method also includes applying an initial charge to the battery at a voltage that is greater than a fully charged voltage of the battery for a sufficient amount of time to cause at least a portion of the solvent to undergo a reduction reaction. The step of applying an initial charge to the battery acts to increase the irreversible capacity loss of the battery during the initial charge and provides the battery with enhanced tolerance to deep discharge conditions.
US09899708B2
The present invention relates to an electrode assembly of a porous structure and a secondary battery including the same. In an electrode assembly including a plurality of cathodes, anodes, and separators, the present invention provides a secondary battery including an electrode assembly including one or more through holes, and a passing sealing portion supplementarily sealed on positions corresponding to the through holes. The secondary battery according to the present invention may prevent the inner short and increase safety by including the fused portion of an electrode assembly and a battery case, stably fixing them, and holding back the movement of the electrode assembly. In addition, the present invention has an effect of being capable of greatly enhancing impregnation on electrolyte since the electrode assembly has a porous structure.
US09899698B2
An electrode assembly according to the present disclosure includes an electrode stack part formed by stacking at least one radical unit having a four-layered structure of a first electrode, a separator, a second electrode and a separator, and an electrode fixing part for wrapping and fixing the electrode stack part. The electrode assembly according to the present disclosure may be fabricated by means of a stacking process other than a folding process, and may accomplish accurate alignment and stable fixing.
US09899693B2
A fuel cell is disclosed with a self-regulated oxygen supply used in conjunction with a self-pumping fuel supply (e.g., a self-pumping anode). The cathode side of the fuel cell includes a gas diffusion electrode interposed between the fuel chamber and the oxidant chamber (e.g., H2O2), the gas diffusion electrode having a catalyst layer formed thereon. An oxygen gas capturing substrate is disposed in the oxidant chamber and is spaced apart from the gas diffusion electrode. The gas capturing substrate has first and second sides containing a plurality of holes extending there between. The first side of the substrate faces the oxidant and the second side faces the gas diffusion electrode. The substrate contains a catalyst on the second side of the substrate or within an inner surface of the holes.
US09899689B2
An electrode plate, method for manufacturing an electrode plate, and method of testing an electrode plate enable efficient production of robust flowing electrolyte batteries. The method of testing an electrode plate includes forming a frangible portion in the electrode plate; providing a seal around a periphery of the electrode plate, wherein the periphery extends across the frangible portion; applying a gas adjacent a surface on a first side of the electrode plate; and detecting whether there is a presence of the gas adjacent a surface on a second side of the electrode plate, if the electrode plate passes testing, the frangible portion is removed from the electrode plate to define a cut-away region. The electrode plate is then positioned in a battery cell stack including a plurality of other electrode plates. A manifold is then attached to the cell stack adjacent the cut-away region of the electrode plate.
US09899685B2
One embodiment includes a method comprising the steps of providing a first dry catalyst coated gas diffusion media layer, depositing a wet first proton exchange membrane layer over the first catalyst coated gas diffusion media layer to form a first proton exchange membrane layer; providing a second dry catalyst coated gas diffusion media layer; contacting the second dry catalyst coated gas diffusion media layer with the first proton exchange membrane layer; and hot pressing together the first and second dry catalyst coated gas diffusion media layers with the wet proton exchange membrane layer therebetween.
US09899680B2
The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material composed of a lithium-containing transition metal oxide having a layered crystal structure. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material composed of a Ti-based oxide and an additive composed of fluorinated carbon that reacts with lithium at a more noble potential as compared to the negative electrode active material. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention, the battery voltage reaches a discharge cut-off voltage by a potential change in the negative electrode.
US09899675B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a precursor of lithium composite transition metal oxide for lithium secondary batteries, using a reactor having a closed structure including an outer stationary cylinder; an inner rotary cylinder on the same axis; and a rotation reaction area disposed between them, wherein ring-shaped vortex pairs that are uniformly arranged in a rotation axis direction and rotate in opposite directions are formed in the rotation reaction area. According to the method of the invention, raw materials comprising an aqueous solution of two or more transition metal salts, an aqueous solution of a complex forming additive, and a basic aqueous solution for maintaining pH are fed through an inlet into the rotation reaction area where a coprecipitation reaction is performed under a non-nitrogen atmosphere to form lithium composite transition metal oxide particles which are then discharged through a reactor outlet.
US09899674B2
[Object] Provided is a means which is capable, with respect to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, of suppressing a decrease in capacity when the battery is used for a long period of time, and improving cycle characteristics.[Solving Means] Provided is a positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the positive electrode active substance being a lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide and having true density of 4.40 to 4.80 g/cm3.
US09899672B2
Provided is a simple, fast, scalable, and environmentally benign method of producing graphene-embraced or encapsulated particles of a battery electrode active material directly from a graphitic material, the method comprising: a) mixing graphitic material particles and multiple particles of a solid electrode active material to form a mixture in an impacting chamber of an energy impacting apparatus, wherein the graphitic material has never been intercalated, oxidized, or exfoliated and the chamber contains therein no previously produced graphene sheets and no ball-milling media; b) operating the energy impacting apparatus with a frequency and an intensity for a length of time sufficient for transferring graphene sheets from the graphitic material to surfaces of electrode active material particles to produce graphene-embraced electrode active material particles; and c) recovering the particles from the impacting chamber. Also provided is a mass of the graphene-embraced particles, electrode containing such particles, and battery containing this electrode.
US09899671B2
Provided herein is a method for preparing a metal oxide nanoparticle/graphene composite using a supercritical fluid and the metal oxide nanoparticle/graphene composite prepared thereby, the method including preparing a dispersed solution by dispersing graphene oxide and a metal oxide precursor in an organic solvent and forming the metal oxide nanoparticle/graphene composite by reacting the dispersed solution under a supercritical condition, thereby uniformly dispersing the metal oxide nanoparticles on a graphene sheet.
US09899663B2
Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery including: an electrode assembly including a cathode including a cathode mixture layer formed on a cathode current collector, an anode including an anode mixture layer formed on an anode current collector, and a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode; and an electrolyte, wherein the anode includes lithium titanium oxide (LTO) as an anode active material, and four planes of the cathode mixture layer have the same or greater length than four planes of the anode mixture layer and thus the cathode mixture layer has the same or greater area than the anode mixture layer.
US09899660B2
An object is to suppress electrochemical decomposition of an electrolyte solution and the like at a negative electrode in a lithium ion battery or a lithium ion capacitor; thus, irreversible capacity is reduced, cycle performance is improved, or operating temperature range is extended. A negative electrode for a power storage device including a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer which is over the negative electrode current collector and includes a plurality of particles of a negative electrode active material, and a film covering part of the negative electrode active material. The film has an insulating property and lithium ion conductivity.
US09899657B2
A current interruption device includes a first conductive member, a second conductive member, a first deformable member, and a second deformable member. The first conductive member is fixed to a casing. The second conductive member is disposed at a position opposed to the first conductive member. The first deformable member is in contact with the second conductive member when pressure in the casing is equal to or less than a predetermined value. Further, the first deformable member is brought out of contact with the second conductive member when the pressure in the casing exceeds the predetermined value. A plastic deformation portion deformed in a manner of projecting toward the second conductive member is provided on a center portion of the second deformable member.
US09899655B2
An electrochemical cell comprising an electrode assembly having a plurality of cathodes in which the plurality of cathodes is electrically connected together at a connection tab junction is disclosed. The junction preferably comprises a plurality of cathode connection tabs that are folded over each other to construct a junction that is mechanically and electrically robust. The junction is comprised of a plurality of connection tabs that each extend from a cathode. Each of the respective tabs is folded over each other to form a compact electrode junction having redundant connections. An elongated lead extends from the junction to provide an electrical connection to the plurality of cathodes. The junction is welded together such as by a laser, resistance or ultrasonic weld joint. The cathode junction is suitable for either primary or secondary cells, particularly those powering implantable biomedical devices.
US09899654B2
In a metal-air battery (1), an interconnector (24) formed of ceramic having alkali resistance is provided on the surface of a porous positive electrode layer (2) on the side opposite to the surface that is in contact with an electrolyte layer (4). A liquid repellent layer (29) having liquid repellency to an electrolyte solution is further provided on the surface of the positive electrode layer (2) on which the interconnector (24) is formed, and covers this surface along with the interconnector (24). The metal-air battery (1) using an alkaline electrolyte solution can thus easily prevent leakage of the electrolyte solution by the interconnector (24) and the liquid repellent layer (29) while suppressing degradation of the interconnector (24).
US09899651B2
A power storage device includes a case and a pressure release valve. The pressure release valve includes arcuate portions, intersecting grooves, and arcuate grooves that are connected to the ends of the intersecting grooves and extend along the arcuate portions. When imaginary straight lines extend along the intersecting grooves and intersect the circumferential edge of the pressure release valve, a first region, which is surrounded by the imaginary straight lines and the circumferential edge of the pressure release valve, and a second region, which is surrounded by the imaginary straight lines and the circumferential edge of the pressure release valve, are defined. The part of the first region that is in contact with the arcuate portions is larger than the part of the second region that is in contact with the arcuate portions. The area of the first region is greater than the area of the second region.
US09899649B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, when using an aqueous binder as a binder for a negative electrode active material, effectively exhausts the gas generated from an electrode, and thus, even when using it for a long period of time, a decrease in battery capacity is low. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material layer on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer comprising an aqueous binder on a surface of a negative electrode current collector, a separator for maintaining an electrolytic solution, and a gas releasing means for releasing a gas generated within the power generating element to an extra space inside of the outer casing, and in which the ratio value of a volume of the extra space to a volume of pores included in the power generating element is 0.5 to 1.0.
US09899641B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.
US09899639B2
A technique relates to a packaging material for a battery, including a laminate of film form including at least a base material layer, an adhesive layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer, laminated in that order, the packaging material being resistant to cracks or pinholes occurring during molding, and having exceptional moldability. The packaging material for a battery is characterized by including a laminate of at least a base material layer, an adhesive layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer, laminated in that order, the metal layer being aluminum foil having 0.2% proof stress of 55-140 N/mm2 when subjected to tensile testing in a parallel direction to the rolling direction, and the ratio of thickness of the base material layer and the metal layer (base material layer thickness:metal layer thickness) being within the range 1:1 to 1:3.
US09899638B2
A rechargeable battery includes a conductive case including a bottom part and a wall part extending from a periphery of the bottom part, an electrode assembly including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and accommodated in the case, a cap plate opposite to the bottom part and electrically connected to the case, a positive terminal fixed to the cap plate and electrically connected to the cap plate, a negative terminal fixed to the cap plate and electrically insulated from the cap plate, a positive electrode tab extending from the positive electrode and electrically connected to the bottom part, and a negative electrode tab extending from the negative electrode, facing the positive electrode tab, and electrically connected to the negative terminal, wherein a length of the cap plate in a first direction is less than a height of the wall part in a second direction.
US09899633B2
The present disclosure provides an OLED display and display module thereof. The OLED display module includes: a cathode plate, an anode plate and a luminance function layer sandwiched in between the cathode plate and the anode plate, and characterized in that multiple reflectivities among multiple layers of the luminance function layer are satisfied with a following relationship, which is a reflectivity of the material of the luminance function layer near to the cathode plate is greatly higher than a reflectivity of another material of the luminance function layer distant from the cathode plate. The display module solves the technical problem of decreasing the contrast and sharpness of the OLED display caused by the cathode plate with the high reflectivity.
US09899623B2
A display device a display region arranged with a plurality of pixels in a matrix shape, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a first electrode including a first conducting layer on the first conducting layer and comprised from Mo or a Mo alloy, a second conducting layer comprised from Ag or an Ag alloy, and a third conducting layer on the second conducting layer and comprised from a metal oxide having conducting properties, the first electrode being arranged corresponding to each of the pixels respectively, a light emitting layer above the third conducting layer and emitting light according to a current supply, and a second electrode above the light emitting layer and allowing at least a part of the light from the light emitting layer to pass through.
US09899621B2
The present application discloses an organic light emitting diode comprising a cathode; an anode; a plurality of light emitting layers connected in series between the cathode and the anode; and a charge generation layer between at least one pair of adjacent light emitting layers. At least one light emitting layer comprises a host layer having charge transport property.
US09899619B2
The present invention relates to a delayed fluorescence-quantum dot (QD) electroluminescent diode, the delayed fluorescence-quantum dot electroluminescent diode includes an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting layer located between the anode and the cathode, and the light emitting layer includes a QD and a delayed fluorescence material which supplies energy to the QD.
US09899610B2
An organic light-emitting device including: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes a compound represented by Formula 1: When the compound of Formula 1 is used as an electron transport material, an organic light-emitting device including the compound may have high efficiency, low driving voltage, high brightness, and long lifespan.
US09899609B2
The present disclosure provides a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound having a general formula (I) and an organic photoelectric apparatus thereof. The general formula (I) is: wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, and A10 are independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a nitrile group and a function group having a general formula (II), and A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, and A10 include at least one nitrile group and at least one function group having the general formula (II),the general formula (II) being: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 are independently selected from hydrogen atoms, deuterium atoms, C6-30 aromatic group and C2-30 heterocyclic aromatic group.
US09899608B2
An object is to provide a novel heterocyclic compound which can be used for a light-emitting element, as a host material of a light-emitting layer in which a light-emitting substance is dispersed. Other objects are to provide a light-emitting element having low driving voltage, a light-emitting element having high current efficiency, and a light-emitting element having a long lifetime. Provided are a light-emitting element including a compound in which a dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline ring and a hole-transport skeleton are bonded through an arylene group, and a light-emitting device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each using this light-emitting element. The heterocyclic compound represented by General Formula (G1) below is provided.
US09899606B2
The invention relates to a composition for organic electroluminescent element, which comprises: a solvent; and a compound group α for organic electroluminescent element that is constituted of at least two kinds of compounds which each have a molecular weight of 3,000 or less and have a structure comprising a plurality of aromatic ring groups linked to each other, wherein the compound group α comprises: a compound α1; and another compound αn satisfying a specific condition.
US09899603B2
An organic compound that emits blue light with high color purity and has a long lifetime is provided as a novel substance. The organic compound is a fluorescent organic compound having a structure in which benzonaphthofuranylamine is bonded to the 1-position and the 6-position of a pyrene skeleton.
US09899599B2
A manufacturing method of flexible display panels and the substrate components thereof are disclosed. The method includes: providing a rigid substrate and a flexible substrate; forming a sealed plastic frame on the rigid substrate and/or flexible substrate; within a vacuum environment, bonding the rigid substrate with the flexible substrate and curing the sealed plastic frame to fix the flexible substrate on the rigid substrate, after taken out from the vacuum environment, an area of the flexible substrate within the sealed plastic frame is adhered to the rigid substrate due to negative pressure; forming at least one display component on the flexible substrate; and cutting the rigid substrate and/or the flexible substrate to separate the flexible substrate and the rigid substrate. In this way, the components are prevented from being failed when the flexible substrate is stripped during the manufacturing process of the flexible substrate.
US09899597B2
A manufacturing method of electroluminescent devices includes: providing a first electrode; electrically depositing a first carrier injection layer on the first electrode to form a first electrode component; adopting a multiple transfer-print method to form a plurality of functional layers on the first electrode component in turn, one functional layer is manufactured by executing the transfer-print method once; and arranging a second electrode on the farthest functional layer away from the first carrier injection layer. The manufacturing method is capable of manufacturing the electroluminescent devices having a plurality of functional layers. The material utilization rate is high and the cost is low.
US09899591B2
There are provided a piezoelectric actuator having reduced noise caused by the vibration of a piezoelectric element is reduced, a piezoelectric vibration apparatus and a portable terminal. A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element which includes a stacked body in which internal electrodes and piezoelectric layers are laminated, and a surface electrode disposed on one main surface of the stacked body so as to be electrically connected to the internal electrodes; and a flexible substrate electrically joined to the surface electrode; and a reinforcing plate fixedly attached to a region of the flexible substrate where the flexible substrate overlaps with the piezoelectric element, the reinforcing plate being provided with a bend portion.
US09899587B2
A lead frame for an LED package includes a substrate and a bonding electrode, a first connecting electrode, and a second connecting electrode embedded in the substrate. A top surface of the bonding electrode includes a first bonding surface and a second bonding surface spaced from the first bonding surface. A top surface of the first connecting electrode includes separated first and second connecting surfaces. Top surfaces of the bonding electrode, the first connecting electrode, and the second connecting electrode are exposed, and support and electrically connect with light emitting chips. LED packages can be mounted on the lead frame and electrically connect with each other. The conductive layout of the lead frame further permits installation of a zener diode which can be connected to the LED packages in series or in parallel.
US09899578B2
A process for preparing a semiconductor structure for mounting to a carrier is disclosed. The process involves causing a support material to substantially fill a void defined by surfaces formed in the semiconductor structure and causing the support material to solidify sufficiently to support the semiconductor structure when mounted to the carrier.
US09899569B2
The present invention provides a patterned substrate for gallium nitride-based light emitting diode, comprising: a patterned substrate having patterns, wherein the plurality of patterns are circle type having diameters (d) and the distances between the centers of the patterns are pitches (p), and the cross sections of the patterns are extruded shapes and have heights (h), and wherein the value of [diameter (d)/pitch (p)] is larger than (2.6)/3, and equal or smaller than 3/3.
US09899567B2
A light emitting device includes a metal layer, a light emitting structure, an electrode disposed on a first upper portion of a second conductive type semiconductor layer, a current spreading portion disposed on a second upper portion of the second conductive type semiconductor layer, an adhesive layer disposed under a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an insulating layer disposed between the electrode and the adhesive layer, a passivation layer disposed on a side surface of the light emitting structure and on a at least one upper surface of the light emitting structure, and a reflective layer disposed between the metal layer and the first conductive type semiconductor layer.
US09899564B2
A Group III nitride semiconductor containing: a RAMO4 substrate containing a single crystal represented by the general formula RAMO4 (wherein R represents one or a plurality of trivalent elements selected from the group consisting of Sc, In, Y, and a lanthanoid element, A represents one or a plurality of trivalent elements selected from the group consisting of Fe(III), Ga, and Al, and M represents one or a plurality of divalent elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Mn, Fe(II), Co, Cu, Zn, and Cd), and a Group III nitride crystal disposed above the RAMO4 substrate, having therebetween a dissimilar film that contains a material different from the RAMO4 substrate, and has plural openings.
US09899561B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a compound semiconductor (2), which comprises the following steps: Producing at least one precursor layer stack (11), consisting of a first precursor layer (5.1), a second precursor layer (6), and a third precursor layer (5.2), wherein, in a first stage, the first precursor layer (5.1) is produced by depositing the metals copper, indium, and gallium onto a body (12), and, in a second stage, the second precursor layer (6) is produced by depositing at least one chalcogen, selected from sulfur and selenium, onto the first precursor layer (5.1) and, in a third stage, the third precursor layer (5.2) is produced by depositing the metals copper, indium, and gallium onto the second precursor layer (6); Heat treating the at least one precursor layer stack (11) in a process chamber (13) such that the metals of the first precursor layer (5.1), the at least one chalcogen of the second precursor layer (6), and the metals of the third precursor layer (5.2) are reactively converted to form the compound semiconductor (2).
US09899539B2
An EPROM cell includes a semiconductor substrate, having source and drain regions, a floating gate, including a semiconductive polysilicon layer electrically interconnected with a first metal layer, and a control gate, including a second metal layer. The floating gate is disposed adjacent to the source and drain regions and separated from the semiconductor substrate by a first dielectric layer, and the second metal layer of the control gate is capacitively coupled to the first metal layer with a second dielectric layer therebetween.
US09899527B2
Integrated circuits and methods of producing such integrated circuits are provided. In one example, an integrated circuit has a working layer that includes a semiconductor substrate. A handle layer underlies the working layer, where a gap is defined in the handle layer such that an upper gap surface underlies the working layer. The gap has a gap area measured along a first plane at the gap upper surface. A switch directly overlies the gap, where the switch has a switch area measured along a second plane parallel with the first plane. The switch area is less than the gap area.
US09899526B2
A fin-type field effect transistor comprising a substrate, fins, insulators, at least one gate stack and strained material portions is described. The insulators are disposed in trenches of the substrate and between the fins. The upper portion of the fin is higher than a top surface of the insulator and the upper portion has a substantially vertical profile, while the lower portion of the fin is lower than the top surface of the insulator and the lower portion has a tapered profile. The at least one gate stack is disposed over the fins and on the insulators. The strained material portions are disposed on two opposite sides of the at least one gate stack.
US09899519B2
MOSFET transistors having localized stressors for improving carrier mobility are provided. Embodiments of the invention comprise a gate electrode formed over a substrate, a carrier channel region in the substrate under the gate electrode, and source/drain regions on either side of the carrier channel region. The source/drain regions include an embedded stressor having a lattice constant different from the substrate. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is silicon and the embedded stressor is SiGe. Implanting a portion of the source/drain regions with Ge forms the embedded stressor. Implanting carbon into the source/drain regions and annealing the substrate after implanting the carbon suppresses dislocation formation, thereby improving device performance.
US09899516B2
Coupling of switchable ferroelectric polarization with the carrier transport in an adjacent semiconductor enables a robust, non-volatile manipulation of the conductance in a host of low-dimensional systems, including the two-dimensional electron liquid that forms at the LaAlO3—SrTiO3 interface. However, the strength of the gate-channel coupling is relatively weak, limited in part by the electrostatic potential difference across a ferroelectric gate. Compositionally grading of PbZr1-xTixO3 ferroelectric gates enables a more than twenty-five-fold increase in the LAO/STO channel conductance on/off ratios. Incorporation of polarization gradients in ferroelectric gates can enable significantly enhanced performance of ferroelectric non-volatile memories.
US09899515B1
A method of fabricating a vertical fin field effect transistor with a merged top source/drain, including, forming a source/drain layer at the surface of a substrate, forming a plurality of vertical fins on the source/drain layer; forming protective spacers on each of the plurality of vertical fins, forming a sacrificial plug between two protective spacers, forming a filler layer on the protective spacers not in contact with the sacrificial plug, and selectively removing the sacrificial plug to form an isolation region trench between the two protective spacers.
US09899506B2
Provided is a semiconductor device in which electron mobility is improved by applying sufficiently large tensile stress in a predetermined direction without occurrence of cracks in a nitride semiconductor. The semiconductor device includes: substrate (101), electron transit layer (103) that is disposed on substrate (101) and is formed by GaN; and electron supply layer (104) that is disposed on electron transit layer (103) and is formed by AlGaN. A coefficient of thermal expansion of substrate (101) is different between a first direction in a main surface of substrate (101) and a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction in the main surface, and tensile stress occurs in electron transit layer (103).
US09899505B2
Conductivity improvements in III-V semiconductor devices are described. A first improvement includes a barrier layer that is not coextensively planar with a channel layer. A second improvement includes an anneal of a metal/Si, Ge or SiliconGermanium/III-V stack to form a metal-Silicon, metal-Germanium or metal-SiliconGermanium layer over a Si and/or Germanium doped III-V layer. Then, removing the metal layer and forming a source/drain electrode on the metal-Silicon, metal-Germanium or metal-SiliconGermanium layer. A third improvement includes forming a layer of a Group IV and/or Group VI element over a III-V channel layer, and, annealing to dope the III-V channel layer with Group IV and/or Group VI species. A fourth improvement includes a passivation and/or dipole layer formed over an access region of a III-V device.
US09899504B2
A transistor includes first and second load terminals and a semiconductor body coupled to both terminals. The semiconductor body includes: a drift region having dopants of a first conductivity type; a transistor section for conducting a forward load current and having a control head coupling the first load terminal to a first side of the drift region; and a diode section for conducting a reverse load current. A diode port couples the second load terminal to a second side of the drift region and includes: a first emitter electrically connected to the second load terminal and having dopants of the first conductivity type for injecting majority charge carriers into the drift region; and a second emitter having dopants of a second conductivity type for injecting minority charge carriers into the drift region. A pn-junction transition between the first and second emitters has a breakdown voltage of less than 10 V.
US09899492B2
A compound semiconductor device includes: an electron transit layer; an electron supply layer formed over the electron transit layer; and a GaN cap layer formed over the electron supply layer, wherein the electron supply layer includes a first layer made of i-type AlxGa1-xN (0
US09899491B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device include a substrate, and a first gate structure and a second gate structure disposed on the substrate. The first gate structure includes a barrier layer, a first work function layer, a second work function layer and a conductive layer stacked one over another on the substrate. The second gate structure includes the barrier layer, a portion of the first work function layer and the conductive layer stacked one over another on the substrate, wherein the portion of the first work function layer has a smaller thickness than a thickness of the first work function layer.
US09899490B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a nanowire structure formed over the substrate. In addition, the nanowire structure includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The semiconductor structure further includes a gate structure formed around the third portion of the nanowire structure and a source region formed in the first portion of the nanowire structure. In addition, a depletion region in the nanowire structure has a length longer than a length of the gate structure and is not in contact with the source region.
US09899485B2
A method includes forming a tunneling dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate, a first portion of the tunneling dielectric layer is directly above a channel region in the semiconductor substrate and a second portion of the tunneling dielectric layer is directly above source-drain regions located on opposing sides of the channel region, the second portion of the tunneling dielectric layer is thicker than the first portion of the tunneling dielectric layer, forming a floating gate directly above the first portion of the tunneling dielectric layer and the second portion of the tunneling dielectric layer, and forming a control dielectric layer directly above the floating gate.
US09899484B1
A transistor device includes a field plate extending from a source contact layer and defining an opening above a gate metal layer. Coplanar with the source contact layer, the field plate is positioned close to the channel region, which helps reduce its parasitic capacitance. Meanwhile, the opening allows a gate runner layer above the field plate to access and connect to the gate metal layer, which helps reduce the resistance of the gate structure. By vertically overlapping the metal gate layer, the field plate, and the gate runner layer, the transistor device may achieve fast switching performance without incurring any size penalty.
US09899463B2
A display device including a substrate, a display portion positioned on the substrate and a pad portion positioned outside the display portion, a jumping portion positioned between the display portion and the pad portion, at least two power lines positioned on the substrate, a connection pattern connecting the at least two power lines to each other in the jumping portion, and an insulating layer spaced apart from the connection pattern and surrounding the connection pattern to prevent residue defects and short circuit defects at the jumping portion.
US09899459B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting device, (OLED) comprising a substrate on which a driving transistor is formed, a bank formed on the substrate providing a boundary for a pixel region, a first electrode formed on the substrate and electrically connected with the driving transistor, the first electrode comprising a first and second cross sectional area both oriented in a direction perpendicular to a vertical direction of the substrate, the first area adjacent to the bank, the second area surrounded by the first area, an organic layer formed on the first electrode within the boundary provided by the bank, and a second electrode formed on the organic layer, wherein during operation of the OLED a first electric field between the first area of the first electrode and the second electrode is greater than a second electric field between the second area of the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09899456B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device is provided having a color emission layer including a plurality of organic light-emitting elements in a first arrangement and an electronics layer. The electronics layer includes a plurality of pixel drive circuits each including an electrode contact. The electronics layer includes a plurality of independently addressable sub-regions each sub-region including an identical pattern of electrode contacts created using a single reticle exposure. Each sub-region is orientated differently within a plane such that the first arrangement of light-emitting elements is electrically connected to the patterned electronics layer.
US09899445B2
A method for manufacturing a solid-state image pickup apparatus includes forming a first insulating film over a substrate after forming a gate electrode of a first transfer transistor and a gate electrode of a second transfer transistor, forming a second insulating film on the first insulating film, forming a first structure and a second structure on side surfaces of the gate electrodes of the first and second transfer transistors, respectively, via the first insulating film by etching the second insulating film in such a manner that the first insulating film remains on a semiconductor region of a photoelectric conversion unit and a semiconductor region of a charge holding unit, and forming a light shielding film that covers the gate electrode of the first transfer transistor, the semiconductor region of the charge holding unit, and the gate electrode of the second transfer transistor.
US09899436B1
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate with at least one recess disposed on its surface and in the photosensitive area defined on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first-conductivity-type doped region disposed in the semiconductor substrate and in the photosensitive area, and a second-conductivity-type doped region disposed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type doped region and on the surface of the recess. A photosensitive device of the image sensor is formed of the first-conductivity-type doped region and the second-conductivity-type doped region.
US09899435B2
A solid-state imaging device in which a pixel circuit formed on the first surface side of a semiconductor substrate is shared by a plurality of light reception regions and second surface side of the semiconductor substrate is the light incident side of the light reception regions. The second surface side regions of the light reception regions are arranged at approximately even intervals and the first surface side regions of the light reception regions e are arranged at uneven intervals. Respective second surface side regions and first surface side regions are joined in the semiconductor substrate so that the light reception regions extend from the second surface side to the first surface side of the semiconductor substrate.
US09899430B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a GOA unit and a method for producing the same and a gate driver circuit, which are directed to a field of display technique. The GOA unit includes: a TFT module and a capacitor structure formed on a substrate. The TFT module includes a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode, and the capacitor structure includes a first electrode and a second electrode configured to form a first capacitor. The gate of the TFT module is located in a same layer as the first electrode of the capacitor structure, the source electrode and the drain electrode of the TFT module are located in a same layer as the second electrode of the capacitor structure, and the second electrode has a groove. Embodiments of the present application are used for a display apparatus.
US09899429B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display region, and a peripheral region that is outside of the display region, a plurality of dummy pads at the peripheral region, an insulating layer covering the plurality of dummy pads, wherein top surfaces of first portions of the insulating layer above the plurality of dummy pads are higher than top surfaces of second portions of the insulating layer between the plurality of dummy pads, and a plurality of pads over the second portions of the insulating layer at the peripheral region.
US09899427B2
A self-emission type display including a carrier substrate, a light-emitting element, a first electrode, and a second electrode is provided. The light-emitting element is disposed on the carrier substrate and has a first pad and a second pad. The first electrode has a plurality of first stripe portions electrically connected to a first electric potential. The first pad of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to the carrier substrate through at least one first strip portion. The second electrode has a plurality of second stripe portions electrically connected to a second electric potential. The first electrode and the second electrode are separated from each other. The second pad of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to the carrier substrate through at least one second strip portion. The first electric potential is different from the second electric potential.
US09899424B2
Decrease of the output voltage of the logic circuit is inhibited by raising the gate voltage using a capacitor. In a first transistor, a drain and a gate are electrically connected to a first wiring, and a source is electrically connected to a first node. In a second transistor, a drain is electrically connected to the first node, a source is electrically connected to a second wiring, and a gate is electrically connected to a second node. In a third transistor, a drain is electrically connected to a third wiring, and a source is electrically connected to a third node, and a gate is electrically connected to the first node. In a fourth transistor, a drain is electrically connected to the third node, a source is electrically connected to a fourth wiring, and a gate is electrically connected to the second node. In a capacitor, one electrode is electrically connected to the first node, and the other electrode is electrically connected to the third node. OS transistors are preferably used as the transistors above.
US09899417B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a layer of electrically insulating material above the semiconductor substrate, and a layer of semiconductor material above the layer of electrically insulating material. A first transistor includes a first source region, a first drain region, and a first channel region formed in the semiconductor substrate, a first gate insulation layer positioned above the first channel region, and an electrically conductive first gate electrode, wherein the first gate insulation layer includes a first portion of the electrically insulating material. A second transistor includes a second source region, a second drain region, and a second channel region formed in the layer of semiconductor material, a second gate insulation layer positioned above the second channel region, and an electrically conductive second gate electrode, wherein a second portion of the layer of electrically insulating material is positioned below the second channel region.
US09899406B2
Provided is a vertical NAND flash memory device. The vertical NAND flash memory device may include word lines formed on a substrate, a plurality of pads horizontally extending from the word lines, and contact plugs connected to respective pads. The contact plugs may include a first contact plug connected to a lowermost pad that is closest to the substrate, and a set of second contact plugs each second contact plug connected to a corresponding pad of the plurality of pads. A first distance between the first contact plug and a second contact plug of the set of second contact plugs that is adjacent to the first contact plug may be different from second distances between adjacent contact plugs of the set of second contact plugs. The second distances may be substantially the same as each other.
US09899391B2
A high-k dielectric metal trench capacitor and improved isolation and methods of manufacturing the same is provided. The method includes forming at least one deep trench in a substrate, and filling the deep trench with sacrificial fill material and a poly material. The method further includes continuing with CMOS processes, comprising forming at least one transistor and back end of line (BEOL) layer. The method further includes removing the sacrificial fill material from the deep trenches to expose sidewalls, and forming a capacitor plate on the exposed sidewalls of the deep trench. The method further includes lining the capacitor plate with a high-k dielectric material and filling remaining portions of the deep trench with a metal material, over the high-k dielectric material. The method further includes providing a passivation layer on the deep trench filled with the metal material and the high-k dielectric material.
US09899389B2
A two-transistor memory cell based upon a thyristor for an SRAM integrated circuit is described together with a process for fabricating it. The memory cell can be implemented in different combinations of MOS and bipolar select transistors, or without select transistors, with thyristors in a semiconductor substrate with shallow trench isolation. Standard CMOS process technology can be used to manufacture the SRAM.
US09899384B2
A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the device. The method includes: forming a STI in a substrate having a nFET and a pFET region; depositing a high-k layer and a TiN layer; depositing a polycrystalline silicon layer; forming a block level litho layer; removing a portion of the polycrystalline silicon layer; removing the block level litho layer; forming a first protective layer; depositing a fill layer above the pFET region; removing the first protective layer; cutting the TiN layer and the high-k layer to expose a portion of the STI; depositing a second protective layer on the STI; removing the fill layer; removing the TiN layer above the pFET region; treating the high-k layer with a work function tuning process; removing the polycrystalline silicon layer and TiN layer; and depositing a metal layer on the high-k layer and the second protective layer.
US09899379B2
A semiconductor device includes a first fin on a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate to intersect the first fin, an epitaxial layer on both sides of the gate electrode to contact side surfaces of the first fin, and a metal alloy layer which contacts an upper surface of the first fin and part of the epitaxial layer, wherein a first region of the first fin has a higher doping concentration than a second region of the first fin which is located under the first region.
US09899374B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including, on a first surface, first trenches and a second trench linked to each of the first trenches. The semiconductor substrate includes: a p-type end layer extending from the first surface to a position closer to a second surface of the semiconductor substrate than an end of each of the first trenches on a second surface side and including a longitudinal end of each of the first trenches in a plan view of the first surface; a first p-type layer provided in a region between adjacent first trenches, and contacting the first electrode provided on the first surface; an n-type barrier layer; a second p-type layer. The second trench separates the p-type end layer from the first p-type layer and the second p-type layer.
US09899372B1
A method is presented for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a plurality of fins on a first region of the semiconductor substrate, forming a bi-polymer structure, selectively removing the first polymer of the bi-polymer structure and forming deep trenches in the semiconductor substrate resulting in pillars in a second region of the semiconductor structure. The method further includes selectively removing the second polymer of the bi-polymer structure, doping the pillars, and depositing a high-k metal gate (HKMG) over the first and second regions to form the MIS capacitor in the second region of the semiconductor substrate.
US09899371B2
Micromachined ultrasonic transducers formed in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) wafers are described, as are methods of fabricating such devices. A metallization layer of a CMOS wafer may be removed by sacrificial release to create a cavity of an ultrasonic transducer. Remaining layers may form a membrane of the ultrasonic transducer.
US09899365B1
A layout of a semiconductor device includes a first active area, a second active area, plural gates, a first conductive layout and plural plugs. The first and the second active areas are disposed on a substrate and surrounded by a shallow trench isolation (STI). The plural gates are parallel with one another and cross the first and the second active areas. The first conductive layer covers the plural gates, and the plural gates are electrically connected to each other through the first conductive layer. The plural plugs are disposed on the first conductive layer to electrically connect the plural gates.
US09899361B2
A semiconductor package includes a logic chip mounted on a substrate, a first memory chip disposed on the logic chip, which includes a first active surface, and a second memory chip disposed on the first memory chip. The second memory chip is disposed on the first memory chip in such a way that the first memory chip and second memory chip are offset from each other. The second memory chip has a second active surface. The first active surface and the second active surface face each other and are electrically connected to each other through a first solder bump.
US09899360B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a conducting portion, and a sealing resin. The substrate has a main surface and is formed with a recessed portion in the main surface. The conducting portion is formed on the substrate. The sealing resin is disposed in the recessed portion. The conducting portion includes a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer both formed in the recessed portion. The second wiring layer is closer to the main surface than is the first wiring layer in the normal direction of the main surface.
US09899345B2
An electrode terminal includes: a first drawn-out part to be bonded to a main electrode; and a second drawn-out part that is formed of a plate member in a continuous fashion from one end portion to be positioned opposite to the main electrode with a gap therebetween until another end portion to be connected to an external circuit, so that a portion in the first drawn-out part that is adjacent to a portion therein to be bonded to the main electrode, is bonded to an opposing surface to the main electrode in said one end portion; wherein the first drawn-out part is formed so that the portion to be bonded to the main electrode is away from the opposing surface; and wherein an opening portion corresponding to the main electrode is formed in the second drawn-out part.
US09899343B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a bonding pad structure for a trench-based semiconductor device. The bonding pad structure reduces a peak magnitude of the electric field between a metal bonding pad and the underlying semiconductor. The bonding pad structure includes a plurality of trenches vertically extending from a top surface of a semiconductor. Each of the plurality of trenches has dielectric sidewalls and a dielectric bottom, the dielectric sidewalls and dielectric bottom electrically isolating a conductive core within each of the trenches from a region of semiconductor outside of and adjacent to each of the plurality of trenches. The bonding pad structure includes a metal bonding pad disposed above the plurality of trenches, the metal bonding pad electrically isolated from the region of semiconductor outside of the trenches. The conductive core can be biased to reduce the magnitude of the field between adjacent trenches.
US09899338B1
Methods for enhancing mechanical strength of back-end-of-line (BEOL) dielectrics to prevent crack propagation within interconnect stacks are provided. After forming interconnect structures in a dielectric material layer, a pore filling material is introduced into pores of a portion of the dielectric material layer that is located in a crack stop region present around a periphery of a chip region. By filling the pores of the portion of the dielectric material layer located in the crack stop region, the mechanical strength of the dielectric material layer is selectively enhanced in the crack stop region.
US09899335B2
A package structure includes a carrier, an electronic component disposed on the carrier, an encapsulant formed on the carrier for encapsulating the electronic component, a first shielding layer formed on the encapsulant, and a second shielding layer formed on the first shielding layer. The first and second shielding layers are made of different materials. With the multiple shielding layers formed on the encapsulating layer, the electronic component is protected from electromagnetic interferences. The present invention also provides a method for fabricating the package structure.
US09899332B2
Systems and methods for visual identification of semiconductor dies are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: receiving a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of dies and printing a unique visual identification mark on each of the plurality of dies. In other embodiments, a method may include receiving an electronic device comprising a die and a package surrounding at least a portion of the die and reading, from the electronic device, a unique visual identification mark that encodes a Cartesian coordinate of the die relative to a reference point on a semiconductor wafer.
US09899328B2
A power semiconductor module includes: a positive arm and a negative arm that are formed by series connection of self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements, the positive arm and the negative arm being connected at a series connection point between the self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements; a positive-side electrode, a negative-side electrode, and an AC electrode connected to the positive arm and the negative arm; and a substrate on which a plurality of wiring patterns are formed, the wiring patterns connecting the self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements of the positive arm and the negative arm to the positive-side electrode, the negative-side electrode, and the AC electrode. Respective directions of current flowing in adjacent wiring patterns are identical to each other, and one of the adjacent wiring patterns is arranged in mirror symmetry with the other of the adjacent wiring patterns.
US09899315B2
A method for forming a wiring for a semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: forming a predetermined pattern on a first surface of a silicon substrate by selectively etching the first surface; coating, with a metal layer, a selected area of the first surface, including an area whereat the predetermined pattern is formed; forming organic material in the first surface to fill an etched portion and cover the coated metal layer; forming a plurality of via holes in the organic material and connecting the metal wiring to the coated metal layer through the via holes; and grinding a second surface corresponding to the first surface to remove a part of the metal layer formed in the etched portion.
US09899313B2
A semiconductor package, e.g., wafer, chip, interposer, etc., includes a multi terminal capacitor within an input output (IO) path. The multi terminal capacitor is electrically attached directly upon a first IO contact of the semiconductor package. There is no inductance between the multi terminal capacitor and an interconnect that electrically connects the first IO contact with a second IO contact of a second semiconductor package and no inductance between the multi terminal capacitor and the first IO contact. The multi terminal capacitor may serve as a power source to cycle the turning on and off of the various circuits within a semiconductor chip associated with the semiconductor package. Because the distance between the multi terminal capacitor and semiconductor chip is reduced, inductance within the system is resultantly reduced. The multi terminal capacitor may be a decoupling capacitor that decouples one part of semiconductor chip from another part of semiconductor chip.
US09899312B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for reducing power consumption or signal distortions in a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a semiconductor device, a first electric path, a second electric path, and an isolation element in the first electric path. The second electric path is electrically connected to the first electric path and a functional unit of the device. The isolation element separates an isolated portion in the first electric path from the second electric path, where the isolation element is configured to reduce current in the isolated portion when a signal is passing through the second electric path.
US09899311B2
A hybrid pitch package includes a standard package pitch zone of the package having only standard package pitch sized features that is adjacent to a smaller processor pitch sized zone of the package having smaller processor pitch sized features. The package may be formed by obtaining a package having standard package pitch sized features (such as from another location or a package processing facility), forming a protective mask over a standard package pitch zone of the package that is adjacent to a smaller processor pitch sized zone on the package, and then forming smaller processor pitch sized features (such as contacts, traces and interconnects) in the smaller processor pitch sized zone at a chip fabrication processing facility. The smaller processor pitch sized features can be directly connected to (thus reducing the package connection area needed) a chip or device having processor pitch sized features (e.g., exposed contacts).
US09899306B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an anisotropic conductive member capable of achieving excellent conduction reliability and a multilayer wiring substrate using the same. The anisotropic conductive member of the present invention includes an insulating base which is made of an inorganic material, a plurality of conductive paths which are made of a conductive member, penetrate the insulating base in a thickness direction thereof and are provided in a mutually insulated state, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer which is provided on a surface of the insulating base, in which each of the conductive paths has a protrusion which protrudes from the surface of the insulating base, and an end of the protrusion of each of the conductive paths is exposed or protrudes from the surface of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer.
US09899289B2
A printed circuit module having a protective layer in place of a low-resistivity handle layer and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The printed circuit module includes a printed circuit substrate with a thinned die attached to the printed circuit substrate. The thinned die includes at least one device layer over the printed circuit substrate and at least one deep well within the at least one device layer. A protective layer is disposed over the at least one deep well, wherein the protective layer has a thermal conductivity greater than 2 watts per meter Kelvin (W/mK) and an electrical resistivity of greater than 106 Ohm-cm.
US09899277B2
A method of manufacturing a wafer. The method includes providing a wafer and testing the wafer. Based on a test result, a substance is selectively provided on the wafer to obtain an altered wafer that has at least one selected portion altered. The method includes forming a structural layer over the altered wafer.
US09899273B1
Semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming an N-well region in a substrate and forming a first protection layer over the N-well region. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes forming a P-well region in the substrate and forming a second protection layer over the P-well region. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes growing a first channel layer over the first protection layer and a second channel layer over the second protection layer and forming a first gate structure over the first channel layer and a second gate structure over the second channel layer.
US09899270B2
There is disclosed a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising two opposite types of MOSFETs formed on one semiconductor substrate, the method comprising: forming a portion of the MOSFET on the semiconductor substrate, said portion of said MOSFET comprising source/drains regions located in the semiconductor substrate, a dummy gate stack located between the source/drain region and above the semiconductor substrate and a gate spacer surrounding the dummy gate stack; removing the dummy gate stack of said MOSFET to form a gate opening which exposes the surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming an interfacial oxide layer on the exposed surface of the semiconductor structure; forming a high-K gate dielectric on the interfacial oxide layer within the gate opening; forming a first metal gate layer on the high-K gate dielectric; implanting doping ions in the first metal gate layer; forming a second metal gate layer on the first metal gate layer to fill up the gate opening; and annealing to diffuse and accumulate the doping ions at an upper interface between the high-K gate dielectric and the first metal gate layer and at a lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric and the interfacial oxide, and generating an electric dipole at the lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric and the interfacial oxide by interfacial reaction.
US09899265B2
Embodiments of a semiconductor device structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and a first metal gate structure formed over the substrate. The first metal gate structure has a first width. The semiconductor device structure further includes a first contact formed adjacent to the first metal gate structure and a second metal gate structure formed over the substrate. The second metal gate structure has a second width smaller than the first width. The semiconductor device structure further includes an insulating layer formed over the second metal gate structure and a second contact self-aligned to the second metal gate structure.
US09899264B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor fin arranged on a substrate, the first semiconductor fin having a first channel region, and a second semiconductor fin arranged on the substrate, the second semiconductor fin having a second channel region. A first gate stack is arranged on the first channel region. The first gate stack comprises a first metal layer arranged on the first channel region, a work function metal layer arranged on the first metal layer, and a work function metal arranged on the work function metal layer. A second gate stack is arranged on the second channel region, the second gate stack comprising a work function metal arranged on the second channel region.
US09899251B2
Techniques are described for holding a wafer or wafer sub-stack to facilitate further processing of the wafer of sub-stack. In some implementations, a wafer or wafer sub-stack is held by a vacuum chuck in a manner that can help reduce bending of the wafer or wafer sub-stack.
US09899250B2
A method of collective fabrication of 3D electronic modules, each 3D electronic module comprising a stack of at least two, surface transferable, ball grid electronic packages, tested at their operating temperature and frequency comprises: a step of fabricating reconstituted wafers, each reconstituted wafer being fabricated according to the following sub-steps in the following order: A1)) the electronic packages are placed on a first sticky skin, balls side, B1) molding of the electronic packages in the resin and polymerization of the resin, to obtain the intermediate wafer, C1) thinning of the intermediate wafer on the face of the intermediate wafer opposite to the balls, D1) removal of the first sticky skin and placing of the intermediate wafer on a second sticky skin, side opposite to the balls, E1) thinning of the intermediate wafer on the balls side face, F1) formation of a balls side redistribution layer, G1) removal of the second sticky skin to obtain a reconstituted wafer of smaller thickness than the original thickness of the electronic packages, several reconstituted wafers having been obtained on completion of the previous sub-steps, stacking of the reconstituted wafers, dicing of the stacked reconstituted wafers to obtain 3D modules.
US09899246B2
The present invention relates to gas distributors used in wafer carriers. The gas distributors comprise a body having an interior space, a separator configured at the front side of the body in the interior space, and an air inlet connected with the body. One edge of the separator and the front side of the body together form a passage. The configuration of the passage in the gas distributors enables the gas distributors to evenly distribute gases.
US09899233B2
The present invention discloses a manufacturing method to reduce the surface roughness of the low temperature poly-silicon, including: a surface pretreatment is performed to a substrate with a a-Si layer on it, to form an oxidation layer on the a-Si layer. A first excimer laser annealing is performed on the substrate to make the a-Si layer into a poly-silicon layer; an acid liquid clean is used on the poly-silicon layer to remove the protrusions on the poly-silicon layer; a second excimer laser annealing is performed to the poly-silicon layer to obtain a low temperature poly-silicon layer with lower surface roughness. The manufacturing method is easy to operation and reduce the surface roughness of the low temperature poly-silicon layer with efficiency to obtain a low temperature poly-silicon layer with low roughness, uniform surface and well crystallization. A low temperature poly-silicon layer formed according to the present invention is also provided.
US09899226B2
Provided herein is a semiconductor device including a substrate; an active layer formed on top of the substrate; a protective layer formed on top of the active layer and having a first aperture; a source electrode, driving gate electrode and drain electrode formed on top of the protective layer; and a first additional gate electrode formed on top of the first aperture, wherein an electric field is applied to the active layer, protective layer and driving gate electrode due to a voltage applied to each of the source electrode, drain electrode and driving gate electrode, and the first additional gate electrode is configured to attenuate a size of the electric field applied to at least a portion of the active layer, protective layer and driving gate electrode.
US09899224B2
A method is provided for forming an ultra-shallow boron doping region in a semiconductor device. The method includes depositing a diffusion filter layer on a substrate, the diffusion filter containing a boron nitride layer, a boron oxynitride layer, a silicon nitride layer, or a silicon oxynitride layer, and depositing a boron dopant layer on the diffusion filter layer, the boron dopant layer containing boron oxide, boron oxynitride, or a combination thereof, with the proviso that the diffusion filter layer and the boron dopant layer do not contain the same material. The method further includes heat-treating the substrate to form the ultra-shallow boron dopant region in the substrate by controlled diffusion of boron from the boron dopant layer through the diffusion filter layer and into the substrate.
US09899220B2
A method for patterning a substrate is disclosed. The method includes applying a first directed self-assembly (DSA) patterning process that defines a first patterned layer on top of the substrate. The pattern of the first patterned layer is to be transferred into the substrate. The method also includes applying a planarizing layer on top of the first patterned layer. The method further includes applying a second DSA patterning process that defines a second patterned layer on top of the planarizing layer, thereby not patterning the planarizing layer. A pattern of the second patterned layer is to be transferred into the substrate. Projections of the pattern of the second patterned layer and the pattern of the first patterned layer on the substrate have no overlap. Additionally, the method includes transferring the patterns defined by the first patterned layer and the second patterned layer into the substrate.
US09899219B2
Provided is a method of trimming an inorganic resist in an integration scheme, the method comprising: disposing a substrate in a process chamber, the substrate having an inorganic resist layer and an underlying layer comprising an oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer, and a base layer, the inorganic resist layer having an inorganic structure pattern; performing an inorganic resist trimming process to selectively remove a portion of the inorganic resist structure pattern on the substrate, the trimming process using a first etchant gas mixture and generating a first pattern; controlling selected two or more operating variables of the integration scheme in order to achieve target integration objectives; wherein the first etchant gas mixture comprises a fluorine-containing gas and a diluent gas; and wherein the target integration objectives include a target critical dimension (CD), a target line edge roughness (LER), a target line width roughness (LWR) and a target substrate throughput.
US09899202B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to time of flight tubes comprising a cylindrical tube comprising an inner surface and an outer surface, the cylindrical tube comprising an effective thickness and sized and arranged to couple to and support a reflectron assembly inside the cylindrical tube. In some configurations, the cylindrical tube further comprises a conductive material disposed on the inner surface of the cylindrical tube, the conductive material present in an effective amount to provide a field free region for ions when the conductive material is charged.
US09899201B1
The invention relates to the linear dynamic range of ion abundance measurement devices in mass spectrometers, such as time-of-flight mass spectrometers. The invention solves the problem of ion current peak saturation by producing a second ion measurement signal at an intermediate stage of amplification in a secondary electron multiplier, e.g. a signal generated between the two multichannel plates in chevron arrangement. Because saturation effects are observed only in later stages of amplification, the signal from the intermediate stage of amplification will remain linear even at high ion intensities and will remain outside saturation. In the case of a discrete dynode detector this could encompass, for example, placement of a detection grid between two dynodes near the middle of the amplification chain. The invention uses detection of the image current generated by the passing electrons.
US09899200B2
A sub-ambient gas pressure ion separation device is disclosed comprising: an ion entrance aperture having an axis therethrough that extends in a first direction, and an ion exit aperture; wherein the entrance aperture and exit aperture are spatially separated from each other in the first direction and in a second, orthogonal direction; and means for urging ions in said second direction as the ions travel in the first direction, said means for causing ions to separate in said second direction according to a physicochemical property such that ions having a first value, or first range of values, of the physicochemical property exit the device through the exit aperture and other ions having a different value, or different range of values, of said physicochemical property do not exit the device through the exit aperture.
US09899194B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a chamber, a support and a liner. The chamber is configured for plasma processes and includes a chamber wall. The support is configured to hold a wafer in the chamber. The liner is configured to surround the support and includes a top side and a bottom side. The top side is detachably hung on the chamber wait. The bottom side includes gas passages for plasma particles to pass through the liner.
US09899187B2
A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a processing circuitry configured to calculate a third proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient where at least one correction irradiation coefficient term up to k-th order term, in correction irradiation coefficient terms of from a first order term to a n-th order term for a first proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient which does not take account of a predetermined effect, are replaced by at least one correction irradiation coefficient term up to the k-th order term, for a second proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient which takes account of the predetermined effect; and a processing circuitry configured to calculate a dose by using the third proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient.
US09899186B1
A charged-particle beam microscope is provided for imaging a sample. The microscope has a vacuum chamber to maintain a low-pressure environment. A stage is provided to hold a sample in the vacuum chamber. The microscope has a compact evaporator in the vacuum chamber to evaporate and deposit a coating onto a surface of the sample. The microscope also has a charged-particle beam column is provided to direct a charged-particle beam onto the coating on the surface of the sample. The charged-particle beam column includes a charged-particle beam source to generate a charged-particle beam and charged-particle beam optics to converge the charged-particle beam onto the sample. A detector is provided to detect charged-particle radiation emanating from the coating on the surface of the sample to generate an image. A controller analyzes the detected charged-particle radiation to generate an image of the sample.
US09899183B1
Various embodiments include measurement structures and methods for measuring integrated circuit (IC) images. In some cases, a measurement structure for use in measuring an image of an IC, includes: a first section having a positive shift spacing pattern; a second section, on an opposite side of the measurement structure, having a negative shift spacing pattern; and a third section having a reference spacing pattern for calibrating a measurement from at least one of the first section or the second section.
US09899180B2
Fuse assemblies in the form of fuse blocks and fuse holders include embedded permanent magnet arc suppression features that facilitate higher voltage operation of fusible circuit protection without increasing the size of the fuse assemblies. The embedded magnets apply an external magnetic field upon an overcurrent protection fuse and produce an arc deflection force to enhance arc quenching capability of the fuse without increasing its form factor.
US09899178B2
An electronic control device includes one or more substrates, a casing, a plurality of circuit blocks, a common wire, a plurality of branch wires and two interrupt wires. The circuit blocks are disposed on the substrates and the substrates are disposed in the casing. The common wire is shared by the circuit blocks. The branch wires are respectively coupled between the circuit blocks and the common wire. The two interrupt wires are respectively coupled with two of the common wire and the branch wires for overcurrent protection of the circuit blocks.
US09899171B2
In order to provide a method for isolating a circuit and a thermal link, wherein the link has a very low resistance and is suitable for high currents, in particular very high short load currents, and also has a high degree of reliability, in particular under difficult conditions, such as thermal and mechanical loading which lasts for a relatively long time, for example, the invention proposes that, during the phase transition of the material of the fusible element (10) from the solid to the liquid state, the volume of the fusible element (10) increases and the pressure increases and, owing to the increase in volume and the increase in pressure, the fusible element (10) is dislodged so as to break the electrical connection.
US09899167B2
An electrical switching device is filled with a dielectric insulating medium comprising an organofluorine compound, in particular a fluoroether, a fluoroarnine, a fluoroketone or a fluoroolefin, and comprises at least an arcing contact arrangement with a first arcing contact and a mating second arcing contact. At least a first intermediate volume is provided downstream from the first arcing contact, and/or at least a second intermediate volume is provided downstream from the second arcing contact. The intermediate volumes are for intermediate pressure enhancement and exhaust gas jet formation for turbulent convective heat transfer to metal walls of the exhaust system. In embodiments, the first and/or second intermediate volume is delimited by at least one moveable wall arranged transversally to the longitudinal axis and shiftable parallel to it by an actuation device.
US09899165B2
An interface test device for testing a circuit, the interface test device including a module configured to open and close a medium to high voltage monitoring circuit, the module having at least one pair of contacts biased towards each other that are electrically connected and in line with the medium to high voltage monitoring circuit; at least one pair of insulated jacks, wherein the at least one pair of insulated jacks is connected to the medium to high voltage monitoring circuit before or substantially simultaneously with the medium to high voltage monitoring circuit being opened; at least one disconnect plug that is insertable into the module through at least one parking opening into at least one parking position and insertable into the module through at least one disconnect opening into at least one disconnect position.
US09899162B2
A keyboard includes a base plate, a pressure sensing layer, a first key structure and a second key structure. The pressure sensing layer includes plural pressure sensing regions. Each of the first key structure and the second key structure corresponds to a pressure sensing region. Moreover, the first key structure and the second key structure are located over the corresponding pressure sensing regions. In response to different magnitudes of the depressing force, the corresponding pressure sensing regions are pushed by the first key structure and the second key structure. Consequently, the corresponding pressure sensing regions generate different pressure sensing signals. The pressure sensing layer can replace plural pressure sensing element. Consequently, the assembling process is simplified, and the assembling cost is reduced.
US09899161B2
A method controls a switching device having at least one phase comprising at least one couple of contacts which can be actuated for switching between a closed condition and an open condition. The method provides control means for controlling the actuation of the at least one couple of contacts, such control means being adapted to operate using time cycles; set the time cycles with a predetermined time duration; detects a difference of a value of a parameter associated to the phase with respect a preset value.
US09899157B1
A key device includes a base plate, a key cap and at least one balance bar. The at least one balance bar is with a tabular body and is disposed between the base plate and the key cap. The at least one balance bar has an elongated rod and a plurality of supporting legs connected to the elongated rod and protruded from a lower edge of the elongated rod. The elongated rod is connected to the key cap. The plurality of supporting legs is connected to the base plate.
US09899154B2
A Dense Energy Ultracapacitor DEUC preform, thin film, and module and methods of fabrication therefor, are provided. The DEUC thin film includes: a multilayer polymer thin film (2210) including a plurality of matched polymer layers (2215) having DEUC structural features resulting from drawing, by a draw process, and/or stretching, of a multilayer polymer DEUC preform (2201) having size, shape, and an arrangement of matched polymer layers (2205), where the multilayer polymer thin film (2210) having DEUC structural features in at least one dimension proportionally reduced in comparison to the same features in the Preform (2201). The multilayer polymer thin film includes negative and positive electrodes (903) made from conducting polymer and spaced apart by suspended particle high dielectric energy storage media (904) including high dielectric nano and/or micro sized particles (901, 902) suspended in a binder (904) including at least one of a polymer, a copolymer, and a terpolymer. All the layers (903, 904) are bound and unified together.
US09899152B2
An electronic component capable of suppressing variations in dimension of plating growth of a plating film serving as an external electrode. The external electrodes include plating films formed so as to extend from each of end surfaces to side surfaces of an electronic component body by electrolytic plating. Underlying main electrodes in which the degree of plating growth is relatively high, and underlying sub-electrodes in which the degree of plating growth is relatively low, are formed as a seed electrode serving as a starting point of plating growth for forming a plating film.
US09899147B2
Embodiments provide a wireless power transfer technology, and more particularly, provide a method of mounting a transmission coil, which wirelessly transmits power, in a wireless power transmitter. The transmission coil module includes a transmission coil for wirelessly transmitting power, a coil frame including a receptacle for insertion of the transmission coil, a support unit for surrounding the receptacle, and a central fixing plate formed inside the receptacle and corresponding to an inner shape of the transmission coil, and a connector for electrically connecting the transmission coil to a control circuit board, and the support unit and the central fixing plate are integrally formed with each other.
US09899137B2
The subject matter of the invention relates to a method of producing a coil integrated in a substrate, using the following steps: creating the cavity in a substrate, said cavity having an open end which interrupts a surface of the substrate, introducing a paste containing ferromagnetic particles into the cavity so as to produce a coil core, closing the cavity by applying a cover layer so as to bridge the interruption in the surface of the substrate, introducing first winding portions of the coil which are vertical with respect to the surface, with a plurality or all of the first winding portions passing through the coil core contained inside the cavity, and applying second winding portions of the coil onto the surfaces of the substrate, with the second winding portions contacting the first winding portions so as to create the windings of the coil.
US09899135B2
Provided is a device that reduces loss by means of a large-capacity, three-phase reactor device that eliminates high-frequency components arising in a power controller system used in solar power generation and the like. The present invention is provided with: a yoke core that uses an amorphous ribbon; magnetic leg cores formed into a fan shape using an amorphous ribbon; and a coil wound around the magnetic leg cores. The yoke core is disposed in an approximately hexagonal bottom fastening fixture, the magnetic leg cores are disposed stacked at three equally spaced locations on the inner peripheral surface of the yoke core, the coil is inserted and disposed at the stacked magnetic leg cores, the yoke core is disposed above the magnetic leg cores, the yoke core is covered by an approximately hexagonal top fastening fixture, studs are disposed at the center of the outer periphery of three respectively corresponding sides of the bottom fastening fixture and the top fastening fixture, studs are further disposed at the center of the bottom fastening fixture and the top fastening fixture, the bottom fastening fixture and the top fastening fixture are clamped and affixed by the studs, and furthermore the coil is affixed by a coil affixing fixture disposed at the studs of the three sides.
US09899117B2
A transparent flexible nanomesh having at least one conductive element and sheet resistance less than 300Ω/□ when stretched to a strain of 200% in at least one direction. The nanomesh is formed by depositing a sacrificial film, depositing, etching, and oxidizing a first metal layer on the film, etching the sacrificial film, depositing a second metal layer, and removing the first metal layer to form a nanomesh on the substrate.
US09899114B2
A scintillator for imaging using X-rays or gamma rays or charged particles, includes a network of glass capillaries with an inner diameter no greater than 500 micrometers. The capillaries are filled with a polymer material made up of at least: (i) a monomer selected from the group including vinyltoluene, styrene and vinylxylene and the isomers thereof, (ii) a cross-linking agent made up of a dimethacrylate having a central chain which includes 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and (iii) lead dimethacrylate. The cross-linking agent is provided to make up 17 wt % to 60 wt % of the mixture thereof with the monomer, and the lead dimethacrylate makes up at least 5 wt %. The cross-linking agent is provided in a ratio of 1.75 to 2.25 times the weight content of the lead dimethacrylate.
US09899113B2
A method for producing a scintillator dual array comprising the steps of bonding first and second scintillator bar arrays having different sensitivity distributions of X-ray energy detection and pluralities of parallel grooves with equal gaps, via an intermediate resin layer, such that both scintillator bars are aligned in a lamination direction, cutting the integrally bonded bar array in a direction crossing the scintillator bars, and coating one cut surface of each bonded bar array piece with a resin.
US09899111B2
The method for the long-term storage of waste nuclear fuel of a nuclear reactor consists in that, first, prior to the waste fuel assembly of the nuclear reactor being disposed in a steel case and the latter being hermetically sealed with a cover, a material which is chemically inert in relation to the material of the casing of the fuel elements of the waste fuel assemblies, to the material of the body of the case, to air and to water, is arranged in the steel case, the steel case is mounted in a heating device, the steel case is heated along with the material arranged in said steel case until said material passes into a liquid state, and then the waste fuel assembly which has been extracted from the nuclear reactor is arranged in the steel case in such a way that the fuel part of the fuel elements of the waste fuel assemblies is lower than the level of the liquid material in the steel case, the waste fuel assembly is fixed in this position, and the case is hermetically sealed by the cover, whereupon the hermetically sealed steel case is extracted from the heating device and mounted in a storage facility which is cooled by atmospheric air. This technical solution makes it possible to ensure long-term safe storage of waste fuel assemblies of a nuclear reactor in storage facilities with cooling using atmospheric air, in particular with natural circulation of atmospheric air, and also to transport the waste fuel assemblies to a factory for processing so as to ensure an increased level of safety.
US09899108B2
A remote seal connection includes an outer sleeve, configured to be inserted through a penetration in a wall and having an outer surface. A capillary is within the outer sleeve and carries a fluid configured to communicate a pressure from a remote seal to a pressure transmitter. A space is provided about the capillary and is positioned between the capillary and the outer sleeve.
US09899102B2
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes applying a program pulse at least once to each of a plurality of pages; performing a pre-read operation on a reference page among the plurality of pages through an initial test voltage; repeating the pre-read operation by controlling the initial test voltage until a result of the pre-read operation is a pass; setting the initial test voltage of when the result of the pre-read operation is the pass as a reference test voltage; and detecting a defective page among the plurality of pages by performing read operations on the plurality of pages through the reference test voltage.
US09899083B1
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for operation of non-volatile memory devices. In one aspect, a read operation or a particular write operation may be performed on a correlated electron switch (CES) device by coupling a terminal of the CES device to a particular node through any one of multiple different resistive paths.
US09899082B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first memory cell including a first variable resistance element; a first buffer coupled to the first memory cell; a second memory cell including a second variable resistance element; and a second buffer coupled to the second memory cell. In data write, first data is stored in the first buffer and is transferred to the first memory cell, and second data is stored in the second buffer and is transferred to the second memory cell, and a start of the transferring the first data and the second data is based on a first data transfer signal.
US09899059B2
The invention relates to a method for managing a multimedia program, played back by a terminal of a user.According to the invention, such a method comprises the following steps: playback (201) of said multimedia program, by a terminal; obtaining (205) of a marking cue relating to an instant of playback of said multimedia program, associated with a marking request generated by order of a user of said terminal; use (209) of said marking cue to play back said multimedia program later starting from said instant of playback.
US09899051B2
An information recording and playback device includes a recording and playback unit, and a controller. The controller divides a recording area of an optical disk into a first recording area which is at an inner circumference side, and a second recording area which is at an outer circumference side. The controller controls the recording and playback unit such that the unit records or plays back data in the first recording area at a first speed, and records or plays back data in the second recording area at a second speed slower than the first speed. The predetermined radius is set to a boundary between an area in which a control residual exceeds a predetermined reference value when servo control related to focusing and tracking is performed on the recording area of the optical disk, and an area in which the control residual does not exceed the predetermined reference value.
US09899042B1
A data storage device data writer may arrange a write pole to be positioned uptrack from a front shield on an air bearing surface. The front shield can consist of a lamination of a first magnetic alloy material and a second magnetic alloy material. The second magnetic alloy material may be NiFe that has 80% iron by weight.
US09899041B1
A write pole of a data writer may have at least one rotational milling operation conducted on a write pole blank followed by first and second static milling operations executed at different first and second angles with respect to an air bearing surface. The combination of rotational and static milling operations can form a write pole with body and tip regions defined by a continuous pole sidewall extending perpendicularly from the air bearing surface up to a body taper portion angled at approximately 14.5° with respect to the air bearing surface.
US09899040B2
Computationally implemented methods and systems include managing adaptation data, wherein the adaptation data is correlated to at least one aspect of speech of a particular party, facilitating transmission of the adaptation data to a target device, in response to an indicator related to a speech-facilitated transaction of a particular party, wherein the adaptation data is correlated to at least one aspect of speech of the particular party, and determining whether to update the adaptation data, said determination at least partly based on a result of at least a portion of the speech-facilitated transaction In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US09899032B2
A method of performing gain adjustment in an electronic device includes determining a first set of spectral frequency values and determining a second set of spectral frequency values. The first set of spectral frequency values corresponds to a high-band portion of an audio signal received at the electronic device. The second set of spectral frequency values approximates the first set of spectral frequency values in the high band portion of the audio signal. The method includes estimating a spectral distortion corresponding to a difference between the first set of spectral frequency values and the second set of spectral frequency values and adjusting, based on the spectral distortion, a gain value corresponding to at least a portion of the audio signal. The method also includes transmitting an encoded bitstream that includes information corresponding to the adjusted gain value and the second set of spectral frequency values.
US09899029B2
There are provided decoding and encoding methods for encoding and decoding of multichannel audio content for playback on a speaker configuration with N channels. The decoding method comprises decoding, in a first decoding module, M input audio signals into M mid signals which are suitable for playback on a speaker configuration with M channels; and for each of the N channels in excess of M channels, receiving an additional input audio signal corresponding to one of the M mid signals and decoding the input audio signal and its corresponding mid signal so as to generate a stereo signal including a first and a second audio signal which are suitable for playback on two of the N channels of the speaker configuration.
US09899025B2
Non-acoustic data from a vicinity of speech input is obtained. A subject speaker is identified as the source of the speech input from the obtained non-acoustic data by detecting mouth motion on one or more faces segmented from the non-acoustic data by comparing a first pixel intensity associated at a first time with a second pixel intensity at a second time, and selecting a face corresponding to the subject speaker from the one or more faces in response to a determination that a number of significantly changed pixels between the first pixel intensity and the second pixel intensity exceeds a threshold. A demographic is assigned to the subject speaker based on an analysis of one or more non-acoustic attributes of the subject speaker extracted from the non-acoustic data. The speech input is processed using a speech recognition system adjusted using a model selected based on the demographic.
US09899024B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for inducing a user of a speech recognition system to adjust their own behavior. For example, in one implementation, a speech recognition system that allows children to control electronic devices can improve the child's speech development, by encouraging the child to speak more clearly. To do so, the speech recognition system can generate a phonetic representation of a term spoken by the child, and can determine whether the phonetic representation matches a particular canonical pronunciation of the particular term that is deemed age-appropriate for the child. Upon determining that the particular canonical pronunciation that matches the phonetic representation of the term spoken by the child is not age-appropriate, the speech recognition system can select and implement a variety of remediation strategies for inducing the child to repeat the term using a pronunciation that is considered age-appropriate.
US09899020B2
Technology is disclosed for creating and tuning classifiers for language dialects and for generating dialect-specific language modules. A computing device can receive an initial training data set as a current training data set. The selection process for the initial training data set can be achieved by receiving one or more initial content items, establishing dialect parameters of each of the initial content items, and sorting each of the initial content items into one or more dialect groups based on the established dialect parameters. The computing device can generate, based on the initial training data set, a dialect classifier configured to detect language dialects of content items to be classified. The computing device can augment the current training data set with additional training data by applying the dialect classifier to candidate content items. The computing device can then update the dialect classifier based on the augmented current training data set.
US09899018B2
An apparatus and system for addressing road noise are provided. The apparatus is configured to determine at least one from among a location of a vehicle and a noise feature of a road on which the vehicle is traveling, retrieve road noise cancellation information based on the determined at least one from among the location of the vehicle and the noise feature of the road on which the vehicle is traveling, and output a signal to cancel road noise based on the road noise cancellation information. The apparatus may be installed in vehicle to address road noise heard by occupants of the vehicle.
US09899016B2
An electronic musical instrument includes a storage unit storing waveform data WD constituted by a plurality of sample values, the waveform data expressing an acoustic waveform of a musical sound emitted from a speaker while a rotor rotates about a rotation axis by a predetermined angle, and a reproduction unit configured to sequentially read out the sample values from the storage unit and generate a musical sound signal based on the read-out sample values, the reproduction unit being configured to change a reproduction speed of the musical sound expressed by the plurality of sample values, without changing a pitch and formant of the musical sound.
US09899012B2
A thumb-mountable support is disclosed for use on a support hand of a musician while playing an instrument of the violin-family. The thumb-mountable support includes a thumb ring and a saddle. The thumb ring is configured to at least partially surround the thumb of the support hand to facilitate securement of the thumb-mountable support to the thumb of the support hand. The saddle extends from the thumb ring and includes a lower surface configured to engage a generally V-shaped region formed between a thumb and body of the support hand, and also includes an upper surface configured to support a rear portion of a neck of the instrument.
US09899002B2
The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device, solving the technical problem that it needs to write additional special codes to enable executing an application program in two or more electronic devices simultaneously and enable displaying output content collectively on two or more display units. The method includes: acquiring data of a first part of a first object needed to be displayed on the first display unit, wherein, data of a second part in the first object different from the data of the first part is determined to be displayed on a second display unit; synchronizing, by the first electronic device, with the second electronic device; and displaying the data of the first part on the first display unit by the first electronic device synchronously executing a first application program corresponding to the first object while displaying the data of the second part on the second display unit by the second electronic device executing the first application program.
US09899001B2
The present application discloses a display panel comprising a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and an organic light emitting structure on a side of the second substrate distal to the liquid crystal layer. The organic light emitting structure comprises a light reflective layer for reflecting ambient light.
US09898994B1
The present invention provides a voltage generation circuit, comprising a control unit, a controlled unit and an output unit, and the control unit receives a trigger signal to generate a control signal having a preset delay, and the control unit is further coupled to the controlled unit to control the controlled unit to be in a first state in a duration of the preset delay and to be in a second state in a duration of a non-preset delay, and the output unit outputs a first drive voltage to the drive unit as the controlled unit is in the first state and to output a second drive voltage to the drive unit as the controlled unit is in the second state, and the first drive voltage is smaller than the second drive voltage to achieve decreasing the drive voltage to lower power consumption of the data drive chip.
US09898993B2
The present disclosure provides method for controlling a message signal within a timing controller integrated circuit, the timing controller integrated circuit and a display panel. The method includes: receiving a low voltage differential signaling signal; decoding the low voltage differential signaling signal to obtain a transistor-transistor logic RGB data signal and a control signal, wherein the control signal comprises: a start signal, a horizontal synchronization and a vertical synchronization; processing the transistor-transistor logic RGB data signal to obtain an input RGB data; controlling a timing of the start signal before a timing of the input RGB data; and processing the input RGB data to obtain a mini-low voltage differential signaling data. Therefore, the technical scheme provided by the present disclosure has an advantage of the low cost.
US09898989B2
The disclosure discloses a GOA circuit and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The GOA circuit includes a number of GOA unit in cascade connection, wherein the Nth level GOA unit includes a common signal point control module, a gate signal point control module, and a GAS signal operation module; wherein the common signal point control module is used to pull up the electrical level of the common signal point after the period of all gate on; a gate signal point control module is used to pull down the electrical level of a gate signal point after the period of all gate on; the GAS signal operation module is used to achieve the all gate on function by a first GAS signal and a second GAS signal to control the output of the Nth level gate driving signal in the touch panel scanning period.
US09898983B1
A source driving device for a display system includes a receiving module, for receiving display data; a register module, for sorting pixel data included in the display data to generate sorted pixel data; a latch module, for outputting sequenced display data to the level shifting module; a level shifting module, for adjusting the sequenced display data from a low voltage range to a medium voltage range; a converting module; for converting the sequenced display data to analog display voltages; a buffer module, for generating a plurality source driving signals according to the analog display voltages; and an output switching module, for outputting the plurality source driving signals to a display device of the display system operating in a high voltage range; wherein circuit components in the source driving device operating in different voltage ranges have different gate oxide thicknesses.
US09898980B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and rows in a display area, a data line extending in a first direction and connected with pixels of a k-th column (‘k’ is a natural number) and a (k+1)-th column, a gate line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and connected with ones of the pixels, a gate signal line extending in the first direction and connected with the gate line, and a gate driver in a first peripheral area adjacent to a first longer side of the display area and having a first width, and configured to apply a gate signal to the gate line.
US09898975B2
A display device includes: a curved display panel; at least one light source module configured to provide light to the display panel; a bottom case configured to accommodate the light source module; and at least one signal transmission unit connected to an end portion of the light source module, the signal transmission unit including at least one driving line transmitting a driving signal to the light source module and at least one base line transmitting a base signal.
US09898971B1
The disclosure relates to a system, a method, and an apparatus to selectively control brightness of information displayed on a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). A graphics layer can be provided in a display area of the LCD, and a semi-transparent mask layer can be provided above the graphics layer. An information graphics layer can be provided above the semi-transparent mask layer. The information graphics layer can be controlled to selectively display predetermined information on the LCD at an intended brightness, while remaining information from the underlying graphics layer can be dimmed relative to the brightness of the display predetermined information by activation of the semi-transparent mask layer.
US09898966B2
A method for driving a display device includes: dividing static frames displayed by the display device into a first frame and a second frame, which comprises a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame; outputting grey-scale images during the display period of the first frame and the first sub-frame; outputting dark state images during the display period of the second sub-frame, where the length of the display period of the second sub-frame is proportional to that of the static frames. The present invention also proposes a display device using the method. The brightness of the display device can be dynamically adjusted, preventing the device from operating in high brightness for a long period of time, and prolonging its lifespan.
US09898961B2
A data processing method and an apparatus for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device are provided. The method includes modulating input data using a maximum degradation compensation gain, compensating degradation of the modulated data using a degradation compensation gain, accumulating the degradation-compensated data, determining a degree of degradation of each of sub-pixels, based on the accumulated data, detecting a degradation compensation gain in accordance with the determined degradation degree, storing the detected degradation compensation gain, and outputting the stored degradation compensation gain, detecting a maximum one of degradation compensation gains of respective sub-pixels, and outputting the detected maximum degradation compensation gain, analyzing the input data, thereby setting a peak luminance control (PLC) gain, and modulating the PLC gain, using the output maximum degradation compensation gain, and analyzing the degradation-compensated data, thereby detecting a peak luminance, and adjusting the detected peak luminance, using the modulated PLC gain.
US09898958B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit and a shift register, a gate driver circuit and a display apparatus where the shift register unit can be applied. A signal amplification module including two transistors each having a small channel width is added at an output node of the shift register unit. In this way, the output capability can be improved significantly with the same design parameters in case of a high load.
US09898935B2
A language system having an image library and a text and/or audio library for enabling a user with a user device to form words, phrases and sentences by selecting by selecting images and to provide the user with text and/or audio representations thereof in a chosen language.
US09898926B2
Techniques are described for controlling electronic devices via a plurality of communication channels. For example, a control device may undergo a programming process to enable communication between the control device and a particular electronic device via a first communication channel. After programming is complete, the control device is configured to transmit command(s) to the particular electronic device via the first communication channel. The control device is further configured to perform a pairing sequence with the particular electronic device via the first communication channel to enable control of the particular electronic device via the second communication channel. The control device may determine the proper pairing sequence to be performed and monitor whether the user has performed the proper pairing sequence using the control device. Upon successful completion of the pairing process, the control device is configured to transmit command(s) to the particular electronic device via the second communication channel.
US09898922B2
Systems and methods for self-administering a sound test to verify operation of a speaker and/or alarm within a hazard detection system are described herein. The sound test can verify that the audible sources such as the alarm and speaker operate at the requisite loudness and frequencies. In addition, the sound test can be self-administered in that it does not require the presence of a person to initiate or verify that the audible sources are functioning properly.
US09898921B2
An apparatus, method and system for installation and testing of a system at a premises is provided. The apparatus is configured to communicate with an installer interface device. The apparatus includes a communication subsystem that provides at least one communication protocol. The communication subsystem is configured to receive data from the installer interface device and communicate with a plurality of premises devices. The apparatus includes a processor in communication with the communication subsystem. The processor is configured to automatically configure at least one life safety feature of the system at a premises. The automatic configuration includes at least configuring a plurality of premises devices based at least in part on the received data. The process is configured to test the configuration of at least one of the plurality of premises devices.
US09898909B2
An apparatus secured to a device includes a fastener, an adhesive secured to the fastener, an electric circuit configured to measure a property, a memory configured to store the property, and at least one Key to access the stored property, wherein the apparatus is configured to detect an unauthorized opening of the device.
US09898896B2
A card game is played against a pay table, wherein a player receives a partial hand that is preferably completed by community cards, but may be completed by cards dealt directly to a hand or a combination of cards dealt directly to a hand and at least one community card or wild card. After placement of an ante wager, each player will have an opportunity to place a game wager before receiving another card for the player's hand (whether dealt directly to the player or as a community card revealed to all players). At least some or all game wagers may be an amount within a range of multiples of the player's ante wager, such as one times, two times, three times, four times, or five times the amount of the ante wager. The range of wagers may remain the same or vary with the number of dealt cards or community cards revealed to the players.
US09898891B2
A gaming system that is controlled by a central controller and includes a plurality of gaming machines. Each of the gaming machines includes a game operable upon a wager by a player, a plurality of winning symbol combinations including a designated winning symbol combination and a probability of achieving the designated winning symbol combination. At least two of the gaming machines have different probabilities of achieving the designated winning symbol combination. The gaming system includes a designated award and a triggering event. After an occurrence of the triggering event, the central controller is programmed to change the probability of achieving the designated winning symbol combination for at least one of the gaming machines such that each gaming machine has an equal probability of generating the designated winning symbol combination.
US09898885B1
A prize-dispensing apparatus includes a casing unit, a preloading unit, a pulling unit, a feed-measuring unit and a grabbing unit. The preloading unit is partially inserted in and movably connected to the casing unit. The pulling unit is inserted in and connected to the casing unit. The grabbing unit includes claws and links. Each claw incudes an upper end pivotally connected to the preloading unit and a lower end for contact with a prize. Each link includes an upper end pivotally connected to the casing unit and a lower end pivotally connected to a portion of a corresponding claw. The claws are closed to grab the prize when the pulling unit is actuated. The claws are opened by the preloading unit when the pulling unit is not actuated. The feed-measuring unit is inserted in the casing unit and used to measure feed of the pulling unit.
US09898883B1
A dual-passage auto-search bill acceptor includes an acceptor housing including a lower bill-inlet passage, an upper bill-outlet passage, a bill-presser and a bill-transfer mechanism mounted for transferring a bill through the bill-inlet passage to the bill-presser, a cash box mounted in a rear bottom side of the acceptor housing, and a bill dispenser mounted at a top side of the acceptor housing and including a bill-return passage in communication with the bill-inlet passage and the bill-outlet passage, a storage module with a first bill-receiving wheel, a register module with a second bill-receiving wheel and a control gate biasable to open and close a bill passage between the storage module and the register module for enabling the first bill-receiving wheel to take up bills for storage or the second bill-receiving wheel to take up bills for giving change.
US09898881B2
Communications over short-range connections are used to facilitate whether access to resources is to be granted. For example, upon device discovery of one of an electronic user device and an electronic client device by the other device over a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, an access-enabling code associated with a user device or account can be evaluated for validity and applicability with respect to one or more particular resource specifications. User identity can be verified by comparing the user against previously obtained biometric information.
US09898876B2
A computer-implemented method of providing suggested entries for a candidate journey in a vehicle logbook, comprising selecting one or more neighbour journeys based on a location of one or more end-points of the candidate journey and the one or more neighbour journeys, determining an accuracy value indicative of a match between each neighbour journey and the candidate journey based on one or more attributes of each neighbour journey and the candidate journey, and providing at least one suggested entry for the candidate journey in the vehicle logbook based on the accuracy value associated
US09898875B2
A maintenance system is provided for an environment conditioning element of an environmental control system (ECS) of a vehicle. The system includes a data collection module configured to receive geographical areas of travel for the vehicle over respective periods of time. The data collection module is configured to determine a pollution value and a time value for each of the geographic areas of travel. The system further includes a pollution count module coupled to the data collection module and receiving the pollution values and the time values. The pollution count module is configured to determine a pollution count for the environment conditioning element based on the pollution values and the time values. The system further includes a reporting module coupled to the pollution count module and receiving the pollution count. The reporting module is configured to generate a report for a user that includes the pollution count.
US09898872B2
Techniques for displaying an augmented reality environment. Embodiments capture a visual scene for display. An embedded symbol associated with a garment worn by the first user within the visual scene is identified. Embodiments generate a virtual augmentation corresponding to the first user that is animated based on the captured visual scene. The virtual augmentation alters an appearance of the first user, such that the first user is depicted as wearing a virtual costume, the virtual costume determined to have a predefined relationship with the identified embedded symbol. A sequence of frames is rendered that depicts the first user augmented with the virtual augmentation in the augmented reality environment and depict at least a portion of the first user as wearing the virtual costume.
US09898855B2
The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the layout of the images, as well as the rendering parameters and styles can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with images displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters.
US09898842B2
In one aspect, a method can include a computing system receiving data for rendering as a plurality of objects in a chart, and rendering the plurality of objects in a first order in a first graph in a virtual display. The method can include swapping a first object and a second object in the first order of the plurality of objects creating a second order of the plurality of objects, rendering the objects in a second graph in the virtual display based on the second order, determining that a number of visible objects in the first graph is less than a number of visible objects in the second graph, and outputting the second order of the plurality of objects for rendering on a display device based on determining that a number of visible objects in the first graph is less than a number of visible objects in the second graph.
US09898835B2
A method for creating a face replacement database includes steps of creating a face database for storing a plurality of replaced images with a face image rotation angle by using a method for estimating a 3D vector angle from a 2D face image, and defining a region to be replaced in the replaced image. The method for estimating a 3D vector angle from a 2D face image includes the steps of creating a feature vector template; detecting a corner of eye and mouth in a face image; defining a sharp point in a vertical direction of the quadrilateral plane, and converting the vertices into 3D coordinates; computing the four vectors from the sharp point to the four vertices to obtain a vector set, and matching the vector set with the feature vector model to obtain an angle which is defined as a rotation angle of the input face image.
US09898832B1
A non-destructive method for assessing the “degree of sensitization” of ship structures formed from aluminum-magnesium marine service alloys. Features of the method include (1) selective etching of beta phase in a sensitized aluminum-magnesium alloy (2) metallographic recording of the etched surface; (3) image enhancement to produce high-contrast binary images of etched and unetched areas; (4) image analysis of the enhanced images using line segments along grain boundaries to provide statistical information about the grain boundary beta phase percentage and (5) calibration, whereby the grain boundary beta phase percentage is converted to an expression of the degree of sensitization in the sample.
US09898831B2
Digital image processing circuitry converts a macro-pixel of an image in a color filter array (CFA) color space to a macro-pixel in a luminance-chrominance (YUV) color space. Chrominance filtering is applied to chrominance components of the converted macro-pixel in the YUV color space, generating a filtered macro-pixel in the YUV color space. The filtered macro-pixel in the YUV color space is converted into a filtered macro-pixel in the CFA color space.
US09898827B2
A high-speed automatic multi-object tracking method with kernelized correlation filters is provided. The method includes obtaining an image frame from a plurality of image frames in a video, extracting a foreground object sequence from the obtained image frame, and determining similarity between each foreground object of the extracted foreground object sequence and a tracked object. The method also includes calculating HOG features of the foreground objects with a lower similarity, obtaining training samples for each of the foreground objects with the lower similarity using a circular matrix, obtaining a classifier via a kernel method accelerated by FFTW, and obtaining tracking points using a sparse optical flow. Further, the method includes detecting object matching responses using a detection response function, performing multi-scale analysis for the object based on an optical flow method, and processing a next image frame of the plurality of image frames in the video until the video ends.
US09898823B2
A disparity deriving apparatus for deriving disparity of an object includes a calculator to calculate costs between a first reference area in a reference image and each one of corresponding areas corresponding to the first reference area in the comparison image, and costs between a second reference area, surrounding the first reference area in the reference image, and each one of corresponding areas corresponding to the second reference area in a comparison image; a synthesizer to synthesize the costs of the first reference area and the second reference area as synthesis costs; a deriving unit to derive a disparity value of the object captured in the first reference area based on the synthesized synthesis costs; and a correction unit to apply a spatial filter to a local region, composed of a plurality of areas, in the first reference image to correct a disparity value of the local region.
US09898820B2
A method for analyzing biological reaction systems is provided. The method includes receiving an image of a substrate including a plurality of reaction sites after a biological reaction has taken place. Next, the method includes removing a noise background from the first image. The method includes determining an initial position of each reaction site based on an intensity threshold to generate a initial position set, then refining the initial position set of each reaction site based on an expected pattern of locations of the plurality of reaction sites to generate a first refined position set. The method further includes determining a presence or absence of a fluorescent emission from each reaction site based on the first refined position set and the first image.
US09898818B2
A method for automatically measuring changes in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease includes retrieving a set of images of a fundus and selecting a plurality of images from the set of images. The plurality of images are co-registered and pre-processed such that the quality, contrast, and gain of each of the plurality of images is made similar. Then, a comparison is made between the plurality of images to determine a change in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease, wherein the change in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease is determined based on various disease metrics. Finally, an indication of the change in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease is generated for display to a user on a computing device.
US09898815B2
A fault diagnostic device comprises an arithmetic processing device configured to judge a fault on the basis of an image captured by the camera. The arithmetic processing device includes an imaging command part configured to transmit a command for capturing the image of a diagnosis portion and a judgement part configured to judge whether or not the diagnosis portion has the fault. A storage part stores a reference image when the diagnosis portion is in a normal state. The imaging command part transmits an imaging command so as to capture the image of the diagnosis portion after changing a position and a posture of the robot. The judgement part compares the image of the diagnosis portion captured by the camera with the reference image and judges the fault in the diagnosis portion.
US09898814B2
An image inspection apparatus for inspecting an output image on a recording medium by scanning the output image as a scanned image includes an inspection reference image generator to generate an inspection reference image using data of an output-target image; an image inspection unit to determine whether the scanned image includes a defect by comparing a difference between the inspection reference image and the scanned image with a given threshold; and a threshold determiner to determine the given threshold. The threshold determiner computes a difference between the inspection reference image and the scanned image. The threshold determiner determines the given threshold based on the difference between the scanned image and the inspection reference image.
US09898811B2
Defect classification includes acquiring one or more images of a specimen, receiving a manual classification of one or more training defects based on one or more attributes of the one or more training defects, generating an ensemble learning classifier based on the received manual classification and the attributes of the one or more training defects, generating a confidence threshold for each defect type of the one or more training defects based on a received classification purity requirement, acquiring one or more images including one or more test defects, classifying the one or more test defects with the generated ensemble learning classifier, calculating a confidence level for each of the one or more test defects with the generated ensemble learning classifier and reporting one or more test defects having a confidence level below the generated confidence threshold via the user interface device for manual classification.
US09898805B2
A method is disclosed for efficiently calculating a median value of a high-order array in a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) processor. Values of the high-order array are sorted vertically in each column followed by sorts on each individual row. After the sort, selective diagonal values of the sorted high-order array are used to form a low-order array to calculate the median of the high-order array. The median calculation using selective diagonal values of the high-order array in a low-order array significantly improves SIMD processor efficiency and throughput.
US09898803B2
An image processing apparatus including: an image obtaining unit that obtains low-resolution (LR) images acquired in time series; a position alignment unit that aligns the LR images on the basis of a movement between the LR images to generate a high-resolution (HR) image; a correlation calculating unit that calculates correlation information between areas of the LR images, the areas corresponding to partial area in the HR image; a compositing-ratio calculating unit that calculates, for each partial area, a ratio between the HR image and an image to be composited which is generated from the LR or HR images and has a lower resolution than the HR image, such that the proportion of the HR image becomes smaller as the correlation of the area decreases; and an image compositing unit that composites the HR image and the image to be composited according to the ratio.
US09898793B2
First and second patterns are formed on a substrate. A spatial offset between the patterns is determined, and stored for later use in authenticating the substrate. (One or both of the patterns may convey steganographic information. One pattern may be printed, while the other may be embossed.) A smartphone can sense these patterns, determine the spatial offset, and check whether the determined offset matches the earlier-stored offset, to judge whether the substrate is authentic. Another arrangement effects serialization of product packaging by use of paired patterns (at least one of which is typically a watermark pattern) applied in a manner causing a spatial offset between the patterns to progressively vary along a length of a printed web. Still other arrangements involve substrates conveying patterns that degrade over time, e.g., indicating freshness or pressurization condition. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09898786B2
A semi-tractor trailer for distribution of natural gas and a system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semi-tractor trailer supported fuel receptacle has a plurality of metered fuel dispensers along the sides thereof to permit customers to park along side the semi-tractor trailer and fuel their vehicles with clean natural gas, which may be compressed natural gas or liquid natural gas, for example. The semi-tractor trailer is filled at a central filling location and transported by a tractor to a convenient retail location. A volume monitor monitors the volume of clean natural gas in the semi-tractor trailer and transmits this information to the central filling location, which may dispense a replacement semi-tractor trailer upon the volume of clean natural gas reaching a pre-determined threshold and retrieve the spent semi-tractor trailer in one trip.
US09898785B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect one or more user-generated comments from each of a plurality of computing devices, detect a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, and establish a social network between the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation. The one or more user-generated comments can be temporally associated with media content presented at the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09898782B1
Systems, methods, and program products for providing an exchange traded product holding digital math-based assets are disclosed. Shares based on digital math-based assets may be redeemed using one or more computers by determining share price information based upon quantities of digital math-based assets held by a trust, electronically receiving a request from an authorized participant user device to redeem a quantity of shares, electronically transmitting a quantity of digital math-based assets from one or more origin digital asset accounts to one or more destination digital asset accounts associated with the authorized participant, and canceling the quantity of shares from the authorized participant.
US09898781B1
A system and method for issuing, circulating and trading financial instruments with smart features is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, a financial instrument having smart features may comprise a document portion and a token device attached to or embedded in the document portion. The token device may comprise a storage device and a communication interface, wherein the token device is configured to provide a unique address for the financial instrument, the unique address including a device identifier that matches at least in part the document portion and a network address that changes based on a network location of the financial instrument and to communicate securely with an external entity at least to report an identity or a status of the financial instrument.
US09898780B2
A method and system for the issuance of Instant Credit has an Instant Credit engine that performs instantaneous analyses. The method and system can operate along side existing “batch” processes. In addition, the method and system offer various channels of distribution for the Instant Credit products. With the present invention, Instant Credit and other Instant services (e.g., instant account balance transfers, etc.) can be obtained via, Internet, point-of-sale and other distribution channels. The present system also enables highly dynamic product offerings, which can be generated “instantaneously” based on a variety of factors, such as, for example, the channels of distribution (e.g., telephone or Internet), the product sought and/or even the particular individual and/or entity that is applying for a line of credit.
US09898772B1
Techniques for providing a recommendation for an item may be provided. In particular, a system can provide a recommendation for one or more items based at least in part on how easily a system can fulfill the recommended item. The ease of fulfillment may be affected by one or more items selected or selected by the user, so that when two potential items can be recommended for the user, the item that is easier to provide to the user with the selected item can receive a better recommendation by the system (e.g., through a ranked or scored recommendation list, by limiting the recommended items provided to a user).
US09898771B2
A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product.
US09898768B2
A method and system for identifying and discouraging predatory and uncompetitive sales practices includes identifying at least one base cost for at least one product, determining at least one current cost for the at least one product from at least one retailer displaying or selling products and services through online or mobile channels, and determining if the at least one product sold by the at least one retailer displaying or selling products and services through online or mobile channels is a loss-leader based at least partially on the at least one base cost and the at least one current cost. At least one of the at least one product may be automatically purchased from the at least one retailer displaying or selling products and services through online or mobile channels if the at least one product sold by the at least one retailer is determined to be a loss-leader. A system for implementing the aforementioned method includes appropriately communicatively connected hardware components.
US09898764B2
A video playback system includes a video distribution server and at least one information processing device. The video distribution server includes a video distribution portion that performs streaming distribution of a video stream, an alternative video distribution portion that distributes an alternative video, and a control information distribution portion that distributes control information. The information processing device includes a receiving portion that receives the video stream, the alternative video, and the control information, a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information, a video stream playback portion that performs streaming playback of the video stream, an alternative video playback portion that plays back the stored alternative video, and a playback switching control portion that, based on the stored control information, controls switching between the streaming playback and the playback of the alternative video.
US09898761B2
A method and apparatus for advertising on a mobile phone. In one embodiment the method includes the steps of downloading an advertisement to the mobile phone using an advertisement server; selecting the downloaded advertisement on the mobile phone by a user of the mobile phone; providing by a server additional information in response to the user selection; and tracking the selection and additional information by the server. In another embodiment the compensation provided is in response to the display screen of said advertisement. In another embodiment the step of providing additional information includes the step of using space reserved, in the user interface of the mobile phone, for advertisements. Another aspect the invention relates to a system for displaying advertisements on a mobile phone. In one embodiment the system includes a server; and a mobile phone in communication with said server.
US09898759B2
Systems and methods for efficiently addressing technical and privacy/authorization obstacles associated with tracking of individuals in a vehicle, and enabling route-based analysis to determine driving behavior, socio-demographics, future profitability, and interests of individuals or self-driving systems. Driving information is collected using a device associated with a driver and a vehicle or using data collected by systems of self-driving vehicles. The frequency and methods used for the collection of driving information can be modified based on location and movement of the device and based on previous classification of the driver or self-driving system, thereby enabling efficient use of bandwidth and battery and increasing accuracy of the classification. The driving information is encoded and transmitted to a server, where future typical route segments that the driver is likely to travel are predicted, and the driver, or the self-driving system, is classified into one or more groups based on the encoded driving information.
US09898753B2
In another embodiment, a computer-implemented method for processing and optimizing selection of placement, of advertising content related to a brand, in websites of a network is provided. The computer-implemented method is processed by a server in response to communication from a user that is connected to the server over the Internet. The method includes receiving from the user, attributes of an advertisement to be placed on a brand-centric website that relates to the brand, and also receiving selections for types of websites to place the advertisement. The types of websites do not have to be brand-centric websites, but should include content related to the brand. Then, the method includes obtaining metrics from selected websites and historical performance for similar advertisements when placed on the selected websites. The method includes processing the obtained metrics and historical performance to preliminarily define an advertising model. The advertising model defines a score correlated to effectiveness of the advertisement. Optimizing the advertising model is then performed to define a recommended advertising model, where the recommended advertising model defines optimal selections of websites for placement of the advertisement. The optimizing uses multivariable optimization to correlate the obtained metrics to a desired optimization criteria.
US09898747B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a first controller which controls the nonvolatile memory, a wireless antenna, a memory, a second controller, and a third controller. The wireless antenna generates electric power based on a radio wave from a first external device. The memory is operable based on the generated electric power. The second controller is operable based on the generated electric power and controls communication using the wireless antenna. The third controller controls data copy or transfer between the nonvolatile memory and the memory. The third controller receives, from a second external device, identification information and stores the identification information in the memory. The second controller transmits login information and identification information stored in the memory to the first external device via the wireless antenna.
US09898739B2
Online transaction security is improved by detecting a start of an online financial transaction between a user-controlled online transaction application and a remote payment service. A protected data input module, a protected environment module, and a safe data transfer module each provides a corresponding set of protection operations. A risk level of conducting the financial transaction is assessed based on a vulnerability assessment and on present condition of the local computing system. An initial degree of protection for each of the modules is set, and subsequently adjusted based on the risk level.
US09898733B1
A single swipe system is constructed that allows a person to use a single financial card to receive loyalty benefits (or conduct other non-payment operations) concurrently with a payment transaction. In one embodiment, the user simply swipes his/her financial card and the processing system then concurrently processes a non-payment transaction along with a payment transaction. In some situations, the non-payment transaction can be blended into the payment transaction to allow for discounts and other awards from one or more databases other than the payment processing database. In one embodiment, a single swipe of a financial card connects the consumer with one or more loyalty systems and the consumer can select from the ones desired during the course of payment processing. Discounts and other advantages can be applied to the payment transaction, all based upon a single entry of the consumer's ID.
US09898730B2
A credit card system is provided which has the added feature of providing additional limited use credit card numbers and/or cards. These numbers and/or cards can be used for a single or limited use transaction, thereby reducing the potential for fraudulent reuse of these numbers and/or cards. The credit card system finds application to “card remote” transactions such as by phone or Internet. Additionally, when a single use or limited use credit card is used for “card present” transactions, so called “skimming” fraud is eliminated. Various other features enhance the credit card system which will allow secure trade without the use of elaborate encryption techniques. Methods for limiting, distributing and using a limited use card number, controlling the validity of a limited use credit card number, conducting a limited use credit card number transaction and providing remote access devices for accessing a limited use credit card number are also provided.
US09898728B2
A system for using a dynamic temporary credential with a portable communication device for use in a transaction with an electronic control point (e.g. point of sale, NFC access point) wherein the portable communication device has a geo-location module (e.g. GPS). The system has a centralized module that receives the portable communication device's current geo-location and transmits the dynamic temporary credential to the portable communication device and provides predictive transaction information—including the dynamic temporary credential and portable communication device's geo-location—to an authorization system operably associated with the electronic control point. The dynamic temporary credential has a predetermined time to live, which allows for the recycling of the dynamic credential, such recycling may take into account the geo-location for which the credential has been recently issued. A method for using a dynamic temporary credential with a portable communication device is also disclosed.
US09898726B2
A terminal for use in a retail banking system comprises an interface for receiving multiple types of personal authentication elements. An authentication request for a user is associated with one or more of these types of element. The terminal also comprises a security module for providing access to a plurality of different access spaces of the system, each space comprises a different respective function or combination of functions of the system. For each access space, the security module provides a mapping between that access space and a respective one or more of the types of personal authentication element. Based on this mapping, the security module is thus configured to grant the user with access to one of the access spaces on condition of being mapped to the one or more types of personal authentication element associated with the authentication request for the user, and on condition those elements are verified.
US09898725B2
A method and system utilizes an interface for the blind and low vision passengers in a touch screen passenger information module (PIM). The PIM is enabled to operate in at least two modes. A low vision mode provides different user input framework on the touch screen as well as appropriate audio prompting. The interface enables a blind or low vision person to interact with the PIM easily, including using the PIM to pay for the fare. The low vision mode can be initiated by the passenger.
US09898719B2
In electronic financial transactions a receiver, or targeted recipient of funds, provides account information to a transmitter, or sender of funds. The transmitter initiates a push of funds from a transmitter funding source to the receiver's funding source processor. In some embodiments the receiver provides a payment card, similar to a credit card, which is read by an electronic device of the transmitter, such as a smart phone. In some embodiments, the receiver provides the account information by way of a bar code, such as a QR code, which is scanned and read by the transmitter's electronic device.
US09898717B2
An online remittance service system with a methodology for predicting disbursement times of online electronic funds transfers is disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a method includes storing in computer memory a model of a disbursement process performed by one or more partners of the online remittance service for disbursing funds to payees in the destination country; based on the model, scheduling one or more computer-executable jobs with a job scheduling module representing one or more steps of the disbursement process; for each job of the one or more jobs, determining a next execution time for the job, the next execution time representing a time at which the job scheduling module will next execute the job after a specified time; and based on the next execution times for the one or more jobs, determining a predicted time of disbursement of the online electronic funds transfer.
US09898708B2
The present disclosure improves upon existing systems and methods by providing a tool for managing processing resources. For instance, the presently described tool may be used to time replacement, plan for uplifts, budget for uplifts/decommissioning of hardware, and/or maintain a plurality of servers. This tool may lead to increased satisfaction, uptime, and a reduction of unexpected costs. The system may include initiating collection of variables to compile a prioritized list of servers, executing, a calculation application for determining a prioritized list of servers' end of life targets based on both technical and business parameters based on the entered variables, and prioritizing uplifts of the servers based on the technical and the business parameters.
US09898700B2
According to methods, apparatus and AI servers for determining an AI behavior, a protocol-requesting command sent by an application logic server can be received. The protocol-requesting command can contain an application identifier, a notification message, and current environment data. From a plurality of preset AI systems, an AI system corresponding to the application identifier can be found. The AI system can be formed by a preset plurality of components that include one or more classifying components. From the AI system, a classifying component corresponding to the notification message can be found. The classifying component can be mounted with at least one behavior component. From the classifying component corresponding to the notification message, a behavior component matching the current environment data can be obtained. An AI behavior can be determined based on the obtained behavior component matching the current environment data.
US09898693B2
An electronic image in a first color space, used by image acquisition devices, is obtained and converted into a second color space with a larger gamut, to produce a second color space image. Corrections are made to the second color space image to produce a corrected image, without performing background suppression. The corrected image is converted into a third color space, used by printing devices, to produce a third color space image, and this process of converting the corrected image into the third color space includes performing background suppression. This process of converting the corrected image into the third color space samples nodes of the second color space values, classifies the nodes as background nodes or non-background nodes, multiplies the second color space values of the background nodes by a percentage less than 100%, and after multiplying, interpolates values between the nodes.
US09898686B2
A method of identifying an object in an image is disclosed. At least one feature map for each of a plurality of cells in the image is determined. A self-dissimilarity between a first feature map associated with a first one of said cells and a second feature map associated with a second cell, is determined. The self-dissimilarity is determined by determining a sum over thresholds of a difference in area between the first feature map and the second feature map. An appearance signature for the object is formed based on the determined self-dissimilarity. A distance between the appearance signature of the object in the image and appearance signatures of each of a plurality of further objects is determined. The object in the image is identified based on the determined distances.
US09898680B2
A feature image generation apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry generates, on the basis of a processing target image in which an object appears, a first image showing the object, and generates, as a feature image showing a feature of the object, at least a part of a rotational composite image obtained by composition of a plurality of rotated images obtained by rotating the first image.
US09898679B2
A method and apparatus for resolving a set of objects in an image of an area. A partition that captures a set of objects is identified using the image. The partition is comprised of a group of contiguous object pixels. A number of local max pixels are identified from the group of contiguous object pixels in the partition. A quantitative resolution of the set of objects captured in the partition is performed based on the number of local max pixels identified.
US09898675B2
Technology is presented for providing feedback to a user on an ability of an executing application to track user action for control of the executing application on a computer system. A capture system detects a user in a capture area. Factors in the capture area and the user's actions can adversely affect the ability of the application to determine if a user movement is a gesture which is a control or instruction to the application. One example of such factors is a user being out of the field of view of the capture system. Some other factor examples include lighting conditions and obstructions in the capture area. Responsive to a user tracking criteria not being satisfied, feedback is output to the user. In some embodiments, the feedback is provided within the context of an executing application.
US09898674B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a method of analyzing an image of a user to determine whether the image is authentic, where a first image of a user's face is received with a camera. Four or more two-dimensional feature points can be located that do not lie on the same two-dimensional plane. Additional images of the user's face can be received; and, the at least four two-dimensional feature points can be located on each additional image with the image processor. The image processor can identify displacements between the two-dimensional feature points on the additional image and the two-dimensional feature points on the first image for each additional image. A processor can determine whether the displacements conform to a three-dimensional surface model. The processor can determine whether to authenticate the user based on the determination of whether the displacements conform to the three-dimensional surface model.
US09898659B2
A system for use in remote medical diagnosis of a biological subject, the system including one or more electronic processing devices that receive image data indicative of at least one image of part of the subject's eye from a client device via a communications network, review subject data indicative of at least one subject attribute, select at least one analysis process using results of the review of the subject data, use the analysis process to quantify at least one feature in the image data and generate an indicator value indicative of the quantified at least one feature, the indicator value being used in the assessment of a condition status of at least one condition.
US09898655B2
A system and method of for describing target data as a sequence of pattern elements and pattern element groups that comprise an overall target pattern is described. Pattern elements may utilize regular expression syntax along with other metadata that describe the behavior of the element. A pattern element group may be a collection of fully defined pattern elements where at least one pattern element from the group must have a match for the overall pattern to match. Patterns contain both pattern elements and pattern element groups. The general process involves first performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the document, which in turn produces a sequence of text tokens representing the lines of text on each page of the document. The search algorithm may then apply each defined pattern to the entire document capturing and/or extracting data that match each pattern's required elements and element groups.
US09898653B2
A method for image processing includes obtaining a mask of a stroke from an image; determining a plurality of cross edges for the stroke based on the mask; generating a histogram comprising a plurality of widths of the cross edges and a plurality of frequencies of the plurality of widths from the cross edges; estimating a lower bound of a width range for the stroke based on a mode width of the plurality of widths, a first subset of the plurality of widths below the mode width, and a first plurality of weights assigned to the first subset of the plurality of widths; and estimating an upper bound of the width range for the stroke based on the mode width, a second subset of the plurality of widths above the mode width, and a second plurality of weights assigned to the second subset of the widths.
US09898651B2
A method for processing data includes receiving a depth map of a scene containing at least an upper body of a humanoid form. The depth map is processed so as to identify a head and at least one arm of the humanoid form in the depth map. Based on the identified head and at least one arm, and without reference to a lower body of the humanoid form, an upper-body pose, including at least three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of shoulder joints of the humanoid form, is extracted from the depth map.
US09898635B2
Point-of sale (POS) devices and checkout devices are provided. An exemplary checkout apparatus includes a plurality of sensing elements arranged in fixed relationship with each other at the mouth of a bag. At least one of the sensing elements senses a code arranged on a product as the product is being placed into the bag.
US09898630B2
A controller in an interrogation device performs, for each RF tag passing through an interrogation zone that is defined near an interrogation unit, an integration process of integrating a strength of a reception signal from the RF tag received by the interrogation unit. The integration process includes weighting of an integral value of the strength of the reception signal in a manner to cause an integrate value calculated for each reception signal to be larger than an integral value calculated for a preceding reception signal. When an RF tag moves to a predetermined position in the interrogation zone, the controller transmits, to a host device, an identifier of an RF tag having a maximum integral value selected from the integrated value calculated for each RF tag.
US09898628B1
In an approach to managing a quick response code branding device and management of a quick response code branding device, one or more computer processors receive one or more quick response code configuration parameters. The one or more computer processors determine one or more program instructions corresponding to the one or more quick response code configuration parameters based on one or more task-specific factors. The one or more computer processors send the one or more program instructions to a quick response code branding device. The one or more computer processors receive quick response code branding device status data. The one or more computer processors determine whether the quick response code branding device status data meets the one or more quick response code configuration parameters.
US09898625B2
A method and apparatus for limiting access to an integrated circuit (IC) upon detection of abnormal conditions is provided. At least one of abnormal voltage detection, abnormal temperature detection, and abnormal clock detection are provided with low power consumption. Both abnormally low and abnormally high parameter values (e.g. abnormally low or high voltage, temperature, or clock frequency) may be detected. Abnormal clock detection may also detect a stopped clock signal, including a clock signal stopped at a low logic level or at a high logic level. Furthermore, abnormal clock detection may detect an abnormal duty cycle of a clock signal. A sampled bandgap reference may be used to provide accurate voltage and current references while consuming a minimal amount of power. Upon detection of an abnormal parameter value, one or more tamper indications may be provided to initiate tampering countermeasures, such as limiting access to the IC.
US09898619B1
A computer-implemented method may conceal sensitive data displayed within a viewport of a display of a client computing device, such as sensitive data relating to auto, home, life, or renters insurance, banking, and/or vehicle loans. In one aspect, the method may receive a user credential authenticating a user of the computing device and determine that a sensitive data flag has been triggered. The sensitive data flag may indicate that sensitive user data is displayed within a viewport of the computing device. The method may also initiate a biometric detection service, application, and/or functionality in response to determining that the sensitive data flag has been triggered and detect a first biometric identifier belonging to the user of the computing device. The method may further detect a second biometric identifier belonging to someone other than the user, and obscure the sensitive user data displayed within the viewport of the computing device.
US09898618B1
A database access system may protect a field by storing the field as one or more underlying fields within a database. The database engine may not have access to keys used to protect the underlying fields within the database, such as by encryption, while the database access system may have access to the keys. Underlying fields may be used to store protected data and aid in the querying of protected data. The database access system may modify queries to use the underlying fields, which may include encrypting query terms and/or modifying query terms to fit the use of the underlying fields. The database access system may modify query results to match the format of the original query, which may include decrypting protected results and/or removing underlying fields.
US09898615B1
A processor-based method to defeat file and process hiding techniques in a computing device is provided. The method includes generating one of a path permutation, a symlink, or an address, for a path to open or obtain status of a tool or function in a library in a mobile computing device and making an open or status call for the tool or function, using the one of the path permutation, symlink or address. The method includes avoiding a pattern match and blocking, by an injected library, of the open or status call, the avoiding being a result of making the open or status call using the path permutation, symlink or address.
US09898613B1
The disclosed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented method including steps for aggregating privacy setting information for one or more networking associates, generating data based on the aggregated privacy setting information and providing a privacy setting recommendation for display to a user based on the data. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
US09898610B1
A computer-implemented method may conceal sensitive data displayed within a viewport of a display of a client computing device, such as sensitive data relating to auto, home, life, or renters insurance, banking, and/or vehicle loans. In one aspect, the method may receive a user credential authenticating a user of the computing device and determine that a sensitive data flag has been triggered. The sensitive data flag may indicate that sensitive user data is displayed within a viewport of the computing device. The method may also initiate a biometric detection service, application, and/or functionality in response to determining that the sensitive data flag has been triggered and detect a first biometric identifier belonging to the user of the computing device. The method may further detect a second biometric identifier belonging to someone other than the user, and obscure the sensitive user data displayed within the viewport of the computing device.
US09898609B2
A method, system and program product for performing a trusted boot of a virtual machine comprises the steps of executing, in turn, a series of components of the trusted boot, performing a function on each component prior to the execution of the respective component, storing the output of the functions in a virtual trusted platform module, detecting that the virtual trusted platform module has not responded to the storing of the output of a function in the virtual trusted platform module, and generating a request that the virtual trusted platform module be disabled.
US09898600B2
A method for managing application data of a portable terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of: allocating a plurality of data areas required for a data management policy for an application program; when the application program is executed, permitting connection to a specific data area of the plurality of data areas allocated for the application program on the basis of the data management policy; and executing the application program while performing the permitted connection to the specific data area.
US09898599B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing block extent granularity authorization and deauthorization processing for a Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) adapter. The Application Client, such as an Application Child Client sends a Delete Authorizations command to the CAPI Adapter via the Client CAPI Server Registers assigned to the specific Application Client. The CAPI Adapter deletes the Authorizations in all Lists in the Delete Authorizations command.
US09898596B2
A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for performing eye tracking during authentication. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: receiving a request to authenticate a user; presenting one or more screen layouts to the user; capturing a sequence of images which include the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are displayed; and (a) performing eye movement detection across the sequence of images to identify a correlation between motion of the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are presented and an expected motion of the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are presented and/or (b) measuring the eye's pupil size to identify a correlation between the effective light intensity of the screen and its effect on the user's eye pupil size.
US09898594B2
User identities, password, etc. represent the barrier between a user's confidential data and any other third party seeking to access this data. As multiple software applications, web applications, web services, etc. embody this confidential data it is a tradeoff between easy recollection of said identities, passwords, etc. and data security. Generally for most users the balance is too far to convenience and ease of recollection such that the probability of third party illegally accessing the confidential data increases. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for users as well as organizations providing/controlling access to systems, resources, and data to be provided with an automatic means of entering password and/or security credential information without the user, for example, selecting the password, knowing the password, having access to the password, or entering the password where the organizations providing/controlling access can establish geo-fences relating to the credential information.
US09898590B2
Systems and methods for monetizing the reproduction of digital media content for the rights-holders of the digital media content. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to determining whether a user of a media content item has a license to reproduce the media content item. In one embodiment, the media content item may be reproduced when the user is licensed. The user is prompted to select to acquire a license to reproduce the media content item or to decline the license to reproduce the media content item when the user is not licensed. Further embodiments determine whether a user may receive a license when the user wishes to acquire a license. In an embodiment, the user is declined a license when not approved for the license.
US09898588B2
A method for providing a Digital Rights Management (DRM) service in a network is provided. The method includes receiving a request message for device registration, which includes DRM-related identification information, from a user device; and registering registration information of the user device, which is distinguished according to a corresponding user account and according to a corresponding DRM solution, based on the DRM-related identification information.
US09898577B2
The invention relates to a method for identifying one or more polymorphisms in nucleic acid samples, comprising: (a) performing a reproducible complexity reduction on a plurality of nucleic acid samples to provide a plurality of libraries of the nucleic acid samples comprising amplified fragments, wherein the reproducible complexity reduction comprises amplifying fragments of the nucleic acid samples using one or more primers to obtain the amplified fragments, and wherein the amplified fragments in each library comprise a unique identifier sequence to indicate origin of each library obtained by the reproducible complexity reduction; (b) combining the plurality of libraries to obtain a combined library and sequencing at least a portion of the combined library to obtain sequences; (c) aligning the sequences to obtain an alignment; and (d) identifying one or more polymorphisms in the plurality of nucleic acid samples.
US09898576B2
The invention relates to a method for identifying one or more polymorphisms in nucleic acid samples, comprising: (a) performing a reproducible complexity reduction on a plurality of nucleic acid samples to provide a plurality of libraries of the nucleic acid samples comprising amplified fragments, wherein the reproducible complexity reduction comprises amplifying fragments of the nucleic acid samples using one or more primers to obtain the amplified fragments, and wherein the amplified fragments in each library comprise a unique identifier sequence to indicate origin of each library obtained by the reproducible complexity reduction; (b) combining the plurality of libraries to obtain a combined library and sequencing at least a portion of the combined library to obtain sequences; (c) aligning the sequences to obtain an alignment; and (d) identifying one or more polymorphisms in the plurality of nucleic acid samples.
US09898574B2
The invention provides a method for determining presence of a disease, comprising steps of; measuring the levels of expression of transcription products of genes in a biological sample obtained from a subject suspected of having a target disease, wherein the genes comprise at least one gene belonging to each of at least two disease-determining gene families related to the target disease; obtaining values representing deviations by standardizing the levels of the expression based on the levels of expression of transcription products of the corresponding genes in a plurality of healthy subjects; obtaining the average of values representing deviations with respect to the gene belonging to each of the disease-determining gene families; and determining whether or not the subject has the target disease by using the average; as well as a computer program product for determining presence of a disease.
US09898572B2
A method of Back-End-Of-Line processing of a semiconductor device is provided including providing a layout for metal lines of a metallization layer of the semiconductor device, determining a semi-isolated metal line in the provided layout and shifting at least a portion of the determined semi-isolated metal line.
US09898568B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reducing the load on the bitlines of a ROM bitcell array are described. The connections between nets of a ROM bitcell array may be assigned based on their programmed values using a traditional approach. Then, a plurality of optimizations may be performed on the assignment of nets to reduce the load on the bitlines of the array. A first optimization may swap the connections between ground and bitline for the nets of a given column responsive to detecting that the number of connections to the corresponding bitline is greater than the number of connections to ground for the given column. A second optimization may remove the connection of a net to a bitline if three consecutive nets of a given column are connected to the bitline.
US09898567B2
A method (and system) of automatically legalizing a circuit layout with layout objects in a presence of a plurality of non-uniform grids is disclosed. The method comprises generating a set of layout constraints comprising design rule constraints and gridding requirements based on the plurality of non-uniform grids. In addition, the method comprises processing the set of layout constraints to a feasible form using Boolean variables by determining infeasibility of the set of layout constraints, identifying infeasible layout constraints from the set of layout constraints, and resolving the infeasibility by a constraint relaxation process. Additionally, the method comprises generating an output circuit layout, for display to a user, by solving the set of layout constraints in the feasible form with standard linear program solvers.
US09898558B1
Disclosed systems and methods estimate a financial cost to remedy estimated damage to a building. A controllable inspection vehicle, such as an aircraft, may capture one or more images of the building. The one or more images may be utilized to generate a model of the building, which can be analyzed to estimate the damage to the building.
US09898549B1
A system for providing a tenant-aware database includes a relational database management system comprising a query engine, a transaction manager, a buffer manager, a recovery manager and a storage manager. The storage manager includes a tenant table, a tenant/user table, a tenant/object table, a multi-tenant table structure and multi-tenant index structure. The tenant table, the tenant/user table, the tenant/object table, the multi-tenant table structure and the multi-tenant index structure cooperate to provide a mechanism that has a single schema definition with multiple data instances for tables and their associated indexes, one for each tenant. The use of multi-tenant structures and associated components in the storage manager is advantageous because it provides: good isolation among tenant's data (each tenant's data can be stored in one or multiple storage areas independent of other tenants), simple schema updates as there is only one schema to update, easy maintenance that can be done for individuals tenant's data without affecting others, good performance and good scalability. The present invention also includes a variety of methods including: a method for reading or writing using the storage manager, a method for reading or writing using the multi-tenant table structure and the multi-tenant index structure, a method for determining the tenant of a user and a method for making multi-tenant schema changes.
US09898548B1
Conversion of text-based images to vector graphics (VG) is disclosed. The text-based images may include images of equations, custom typefaces, or other types of text that may not be included in a font selection of an optical character recognition (OCR) device or an application stored on a viewing device. A textual image may be converted from a raster graphics (RG) image to a VG image, which may enable resizing and alignment of the VG image with body text. In some aspects, the server may determine a body size of a reference character in the VG image. The server may determine a baseline of the VG image that may be used to align the image with the body text.
US09898546B2
A web service for pre-caching web content on a mobile device includes receiving a request from the mobile device for first web content, fetching the first web content, determining second web content to pre-fetch based upon the first web content, fetching the second web content, and causing the second web content to be stored in a content cache on the mobile device responsive to the request for the first web content. Pre-caching web content in this manner provides web content to the mobile device that the user of the mobile device is likely to access. Pre-caching of additional web content prior to receiving an explicit request improves web browsing performance of the mobile device.
US09898539B2
In a technology for allowing accurate and easy search of a device which satisfies a request of a user from among a large number of devices present at various places, an area ID capable of uniquely identifying a target area of the device is registered in a storage section as information on the device. A device search request from the user includes an area condition for identifying an area in which exertion of an operation by the device is desired by the user as a search condition. A matching process section determines the device to be extracted by comparing the target area identified by the area ID of each device with the area condition included in the device search request.
US09898538B2
A role-based social network follow request that identifies a specified user role to follow within a social network is received from a social network user. A social network role-based query, derived from the specified user role identified within the role-based social network follow request, is executed. In response to executing the social network role-based query, role-based information of social network users within the social network is retrieved. Another social network user that matches the specified user role is identified based upon the retrieved role-based information of the social network users. Role-based social network following of the matching other social network user is configured for the requesting social network user.
US09898528B2
Systems and techniques for indexing and/or querying a database are described herein. Discrete sections and/or segments from documents may be determined by a concept indexing system. The segments may be indexed by concept and/or higher-level category of interest to a user. A user may query the segments by one or more concepts. The segments may be analyzed to rank the segments by statistical accuracy and/or relatedness to one or more particular concepts. The rankings may be used for presentation of search results in a user interface. Furthermore, segments and/or documents may be ranked based on recency decay functions that distinguish between segments that maintain their relevance over time in contrast with temporal segments whose relevance decays quicker over time, for example.
US09898525B2
An information processing device includes: a unit configured to compute a service influence degree for each risk factor with respect to each service, on the basis of information which indicates a relation between components which have the risk factors and other components which are influenced by the state of the components, information which denotes characteristics of the respective risk factors, and information which denotes a correspondence between the services and these components; and a unit configured to compute, on the basis of the computed service influence degrees, similarities between specific risk factors and other risk factors, and for generating and outputting a set of component identification information on the basis of the computed similarities.
US09898521B2
Several different embodiments of a massively scalable object storage system are described. The object storage system is particularly useful for storage in a cloud computing installation whereby shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. In several embodiments, the object storage system includes a ring implementation used to associate object storage commands with particular physical servers such that certain guarantees of consistency, availability, and performance can be met. In other embodiments, the object storage system includes a synchronization protocol used to order operations across a distributed system. In a third set of embodiments, the object storage system includes a metadata management system. In a fourth set of embodiments, the object storage system uses a structured information synchronization system. Features from each set of embodiments can be used to improve the performance and scalability of a cloud computing object storage system.
US09898518B2
A computer system comprises a plurality of computers for executing a service by using databases constructed of storage areas included in the plurality of computers. Each of the plurality of computers is configured to hold performance management information for managing respective performances of the plurality of computers. The each of the plurality of computers is allocated master data and replicated data of the master data managed by one of the plurality of computers other than the each of the plurality of computers. The computer system comprises a performance information management part configured to update the performance management information; and a cluster configuration management part configured to determine, based on the performance management information, the management range of the master data managed by a computer and a sub-computers configured to hold the replicated data of the master data managed by the computer.
US09898513B2
The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program product that is a multi-dimensional data mining environment and that operable to apply a series of temporal and relative rules (i.e., STDMn0) and is further operable in at least one of the following ways: to incorporate a framework to support temporal abstractions and relative alignments to data (i.e., STDMn0); and to derive characteristics within the data (STDMn0). The present invention may incorporate data from multiple sources, and potentially multiple centers. The analysis and alignment of the data may involve both temporal dimensions and other dimensions (or relative aspects) of the data. The present invention may further be a data mining environment that is flexible enough to permit relatively open ended queries thereby enabling, for example, the detection of trends, including trends with new dimensions, or trends based on relatively small data sets.
US09898510B2
In some examples, a computing device may be configured to simulate the deduction process of human mind by generating new data based on existing data and newly received data that is semantically relevant to the existing data.
US09898501B2
A method and system for performing a transactional update of a plurality of values in a key-value store that includes a first writer starting a transaction, a second writer joining the transaction, the first writer and the second writer writing changes to the plurality of values in a temporary transaction area in a storage area, and after the first writer and the second writer complete writing the changes, moving the plurality of values from the temporary transaction area to a global area in the key-value store.
US09898499B2
A device and method for resolving a conflict in a chronological scheduling order for airplay while with constant order of the multimedia. A scheduling order can be designated for the delivery and playback of multimedia content (e.g., music, news, other audio, advertising, etc) with respect to particular slots within the scheduling order. Conflict resolution between multimedia content is based upon exchanging a slot position of either of one of a first set and one of a second set of a category of multimedia content identifiers with another corresponding one of either of the first set and the second set of the multimedia content identifiers based upon a predetermined number of slot value to resolve the conflict and to modify at least the portion of the chronological scheduling order while adhering to constant order for the multimedia content. Modified portions of the chronological scheduling order are produced for eventual airplay of multimedia content corresponding to the multimedia content identifiers.
US09898496B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for dynamic code loading.
US09898493B2
Techniques are described for mapping supplemental data from a data delivery package into data marts that are accessible to a software application. In some embodiments, new mappings can be dynamically generated for a mapping table when the data delivery package includes fields which do not have a corresponding mapping in the mapping table. The new mappings can be generated at runtime while the data delivery package is being processed. Once generated, the mapping table can be used to store the supplemental data into the data marts.
US09898492B2
The subject matter described herein relates to managing data with flexible schema. A method, computer storage medium, and system are provided for managing data with flexible schema. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a logical view for logical tables of a database; and managing mappings between the logical tables and a physical table according to predefined mapping constraints, each of the logical tables mapped as a part of the physical table. The mapping constraints at least specify that (i) a logical column in the logical tables is mapped to at least one physical column in the physical table, and (ii) distinct logical columns in one of the logical tables are mapped to distinct physical columns in the physical table. As a result, schema evolution may be done with minimized data migration.
US09898485B2
Systems and methods for storing data in a data storage system that allows dynamic context-based data protection and distribution are disclosed. The method includes receiving a storage request and evaluating whether a storage policy is specified in the storage request. When the storage request specifies a storage policy, the data is stored according to the specified policy. When the storage request does not specify a storage policy, meta data and/or the data item itself may be evaluated to identify a storage policy. When a storage policy has been identified, store the data is stored according to the identified policy. When a storage policy has not been specified and cannot be identified, an error is returned.
US09898476B2
Various disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for managing lock or latch chains in concurrent execution of database queries. A method includes receiving a plurality of transactions, each transaction associated with one or more queuing requests. The method includes, for each transaction, determining one or more partition sets. Each partition set corresponds to one or more database partitions needed for the transaction. The one or more database partitions are included within a partitioned database. The method includes, for each transaction, determining one or more queues needed for the transaction and storing a bitmap representation of the one or more queues needed for the transaction. The one or more queues needed for the transaction correspond to the one or more database partitions needed for the transaction.
US09898473B2
Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to improving security of data that is stored at a data store distributed over a computer network. In an example, source data to be protected is partitioned into multiple files, and each file is obfuscated, such as by being encrypted, to created multiple obfuscated data files. Information as to how each obfuscated data file was obfuscated is stored in an associated trace file. The multiple obfuscated data files are moved around a computer network via a data movement process that includes sending each of the multiple obfuscated data files to a different randomly selected computer, where the computer further obfuscates the obfuscated data the trace file, and sends the further obfuscated data and trace file to a next randomly selected computer.
US09898463B2
A document management server includes: a generation unit configured to generate, by using a request received from a client, a character string for identifying a requested document; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an image file of the document exists in a location represented by the character string by performing a check using the character string; a storage unit configured to, in a case that the determination unit determines that no image file of the document exists in the location, acquire an entity file of the document, generate an image file of the document by using the acquired entity file, and store, as cache data, the generated image file in the location; an acquisition unit configured to, in a case that the determination unit determines that an image file of the document exists in the location, acquire the image file of the document existing in the location.
US09898457B1
Examples for detecting and removing non-natural language within natural language to enhance performing content analysis on the natural language are provided herein. A plurality of terms is identified in a phrase, and a sliding window having a defined length is placed over a first sequence of terms from the plurality of terms. The first sequence of terms includes a first term, a second term, and a third term, the first term and the third term being adjacent to the second term. Based on the first term, the second term, and the third term, a determination is made as to whether the second term represents non-natural language. Upon determining that the second term is non-natural language, the second term is labeled as non-natural language and is removed from the plurality of terms based on determining the second term as non-natural language.
US09898449B1
In a method for processing electronic documents, an indication of a plurality of electronic source documents is received with one or more computing devices that each have a processor executing at least a portion of an electronic document processing application and a memory coupled to the processor to store associated data. An indication of an electronic destination location is received. An indication of particular source document content is received. An indication of one or more processing actions to be performed with respect to the particular source document content is received. One or more occurrences of the particular source document content within the plurality of electronic source documents are detected. The one or more processing actions are performed so as to generate the electronic output content, without presenting contents of the plurality of electronic source documents to a user. The electronic output content is written to the electronic destination location.
US09898448B2
Method for text processing executable at a computing device, comprising appreciating a source phrase comprised of source words; appreciating a target phrase comprised of target words; associating a respective source word feature set with each one of the source words; associating a respective target word feature set with each one of the target words; analyzing source word feature sets and target word feature sets; and based on the analysis, generating one or more phrase transformation rules for transforming the source phrase into the target phrase. Also a server and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions for carrying out the method.
US09898445B2
The aspects include browser systems and methods of loading/rendering a webpage by preprocessing scripts within the web document (HTML page) in a sandboxed script engine to discover resources not explicitly requested in the web document so such resources can be pre-fetched and downloaded speculatively. The sandboxed execution of scripts and downloading of discovered resources may proceed in parallel with the performance of other browser operations (e.g., HTML parsing) and other resource requests. The sandboxed script engine may be isolated or separated from the other browser components. The sandboxed script engine may operate to speedup the process of identifying resources inconsistent with standard script execution processes.
US09898439B2
A system for optimizing remote direct memory accesses (RDMA) is provided. The system includes a first computing device and a second computing device disposed in signal communication with the first computing device. The first and second computing devices are respectively configured to exchange RDMA credentials during a setup of a communication link between the first and second computing devices. The exchanged RDMA credentials include cache line size information of the first computing device by which a cache aligned RDMA write operation is executable on a cache of the first computing device in accordance with the cache line size information by the second computing device.
US09898433B2
A data interface circuit wherein calibration adjustments for data bit capture are made without disturbing normal system operation, is described. A plurality of DLL capture and delay circuits for sampling a trained optimal sampling point as well as leading and trailing sampling points are defined. A first stream of data bits is input to the data interface circuit and using a first calibration method and a first set of values is established. A second stream of data bits is input to the data interface circuit during normal system operation. A second calibration method is performed that is different from the first, establishing a second set of values. Several fringe timing points are sampled. A drift amount is compared with a drift correction threshold value and the first optimal sampling point is shifted in time by the drift amount to revise the first optimal sampling point.
US09898431B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit that includes a plurality of memory access circuits configured to access a memory to read or write data of a first width. The memory includes a plurality of memory banks that are organized in hierarchy. Further, the circuit includes a plurality of interface circuits respectively associated with the plurality of memory access circuits. Each interface circuit is configured to receive memory access requests to first level memory banks from an associated memory access circuit, segment the memory access requests into sub-requests to corresponding second level memory banks, buffer the sub-requests into buffers associated with the second level memory banks. In addition, the circuit includes arbitration circuitry configured to control multiplexing paths from the buffers to the second level memory banks to enable, in a same memory access clock, memory accesses by the memory access circuits.
US09898423B2
A memory swapping method and a data processing system using the same, the memory swapping method including receiving queue information for a memory swapping task from a host device; performing part of the memory swapping task in a storage device based on the queue information; receiving a command corresponding to the queue information from the host device after performing of the part of the memory swapping task is completed; and performing a remaining part of the memory swapping task according to the command by using a result of the part of the memory swapping task that had been previously performed.
US09898421B2
A memory access processing method is based on memory chip interconnection, a memory chip, and a system, which relate to the field of electronic devices, and can shorten a time delay in processing a memory access request and improve a utilization rate of system bandwidth. The method of the present disclosure includes receiving, by a first memory chip, a memory access request; and if the first memory chip is not a target memory chip corresponding to the memory access request, sending, according to a preconfigured routing rule, the memory access request to a next memory chip connected with the first memory chip, until the target memory chip corresponding to the memory access request is determined. Embodiments of the present disclosure are mainly used in a process of processing a memory access request.
US09898409B2
A multithreaded data processing system performs processing using resource circuitry which is a finite resource. A saturation signal is generated to indicate when the resource circuitry is no longer able to perform processing operations issued to it. This saturations signal may be used to select a scheduling algorithm to be used for further scheduling, such as switching to scheduling from a single thread as opposed to round-robin scheduling from all of the threads. Re-execution queue circuitry is used to queue processing operations which have been enabled to be issued so as to permit other processing operations which may not be blocked by the lack of use of circuitry to attempt issue.
US09898406B2
A disk drive is disclosed that varies its caching policy for caching data in non-volatile solid-state memory as the memory degrades. As the non-volatile memory degrades, the caching policy can be varied such that the non-volatile memory is used more as a read cache and less as a write cache. Performance improvements and slower degradation of the non-volatile memory can thereby be attained.
US09898401B2
Examples are disclosed for allocating a block of persistent storage or accessing a block of persistent storage based on a storage service string that includes a universally unique identifier and associated metadata.
US09898398B2
Reusing data in a memory buffer. A method includes reading data into a first portion of memory of a buffer implemented in the memory. The method further includes invalidating the data and marking the first portion of memory as free such that the first portion of memory is marked as being usable for storing other data, but where the data is not yet overwritten. The method further includes reusing the data in the first portion of memory after the data has been invalidated and the first portion of the memory is marked as free.
US09898397B2
A computer system can detect a request for status information relating to a particular deployment pattern; query, in response to the request, a deployment pattern registry for deployment configuration information about the particular deployment pattern; test deployment capabilities for the particular deployment pattern by: verifying installation files for the particular deployment pattern are accessible; identifying one or more candidate deployment components for a hypothetical deployment of the particular deployment pattern; installing, on the one or more candidate deployment components, a virtual machine that is configured to test computing resources of the one or more candidate deployment components; and receiving test results regarding the resources of the one or more candidate deployment components. The system can generate a notification in response to detecting a failure in the testing.
US09898383B2
Techniques and mechanisms for analyzing a plurality of database queries within a database environment. A first statistical evaluation of a first query plan is determined for a first database query with at least one computing device within the database environment. A second statistical evaluation for a second query plan is determined for a second database query. The first statistical evaluation and the second statistical evaluation are compared to determine whether the first query plan matches the second query plan with at least one computing device within the database environment. An indication is stored in a repository of the database environment that the first query matches the second query if the first hash value matches the second hash value. A function that provides the first query plan is determined. If the second query plan is provided by the function that provides the first query plan, data objects referenced by the first query plan and the second query plan if the function provides both the first query plan and the second query plan to determine if the first query plan and the second query plan are syntactically different versions of equivalent database queries. Query statistics are stored in the statistical repository if the first query plan and the second query plan are syntactically different versions of equivalent database queries.
US09898381B2
A signal detection system includes a motherboard and a signal detection card. The signal detection card includes a connecting plate, a first interface, and a detection module. The first interface is mounted in the connecting plate. The connecting plate includes a first signal detection terminal. The first interface is coupled to the first signal detection terminal of the connecting plate. The first interface is coupled to the motherboard to receive a signal from the motherboard. The detection module is configured to couple to the first signal detection terminal of the connecting plate and detect the signal via the first interface. A signal detection card is also provided.
US09898373B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN), when in a rebuilding mode, determining a level of rebuilding urgency, where the level of rebuilding urgency is based on an inversely proportional function of a level of error encoded redundancy for error encoded data giving rise to the rebuilding mode. When the level of rebuilding urgency is at or above a critical level, the method continues with the DS processing module placing a set of storage units of the DSN in a critical rebuilding mode, where, when in the critical rebuilding mode, the set of storage units prioritize rebuilding of the error encoded data giving rise to the rebuilding mode over other error encoded data operations.
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A tool for redundancy and recovery for a mobile device. The tool probes for one or more available resources on the mobile device, wherein probing for the one or more available resources includes gathering diagnostic information related to the one or more available resources. The tool determines a device functionality for the mobile device, wherein the device functionality is an energy conscious recovery plan including one or more features available on the mobile device. The tool scavenges for at least one resource to support the device functionality for the mobile device. The tool restores the device functionality for the mobile device, wherein restoring the device functionality includes utilizing the at least one resource and one or more energy conscious techniques.
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Methods and apparatus are provided for multi-tier detection and decoding in flash memory devices. Data from a flash memory device is processed by obtaining one or more read values for at least one bit in a given page of the flash memory device; converting the one or more read values for the at least one bit to a reliability value; performing an initial decoding of the at least one bit in a given page using the reliability value; and performing an additional decoding of the at least one bit in the given page if the initial decoding is not successful, wherein the additional decoding uses one or more of additional information for the given page and at least one value for at least one bit from at least one additional page.
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Environmental data, associated with a first computer, is received. Social media data, associated with the first computer, is also received. A first severity value, based on the environmental data, is determined. A second severity value, based on the social media data, is determined. A first weighted severity score is determined. The first weighted severity score is a combination of the first and second severity values. One or more actions is determined. The determined action is one of a recovery point objective action or a recovery time objective action. Each action has a threshold. Whether the first weighted severity score is equal to or greater than any threshold associated with any action is determined. In response to determining that the first weighted severity score is equal to or greater than one or more thresholds, each action associated with each threshold is implemented.
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Techniques for implementing operating system layering are described herein. In one example, a method includes managing one or more container temporary storage spaces and one or more container runtime environments. Furthermore, the method includes loading, one or more drivers to provide compatibility between a container operating system and a host operating system, the one or more drivers comprising application program interface (API) compatibility libraries to enable API compatibility between the container operating system and the host operating system; metadata arbitration logic to enable compatibility between the container operating system and the host operating system by modifying container operating system references; and file arbitration logic to modify operating system file locations accessed by the container operating system and the host operating system.
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Provided is a system and method for interface call, relating to the enterprise management technology field. The system includes: an interface management component which is configured to generate a description file and a call process indication of an interface according to an interface modification requirement of a user, and deploy the description file and the call process indication to an interface execution component, wherein the description file includes configuration replacement information of the interface; and the interface execution component, which is configured to configure the interface according to the description file, and call the interface according to the call process indication.
