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US08201267B2	Cryptographic device having active clearing of memory regardless of state of external power A cryptographic device that will actively clear its memory even in the absence of external power when a security breach is detected is provided. The memory cell clusters of the cryptographic device are provided with an internal power source that provides sufficient energy for the memory cell clusters to perform a clearing operation. If the external power source for the memory is removed and a physical security breach is detected, the power from the internal power source will allow the memory cells to actively clear their contents, thereby rendering any attempt to obtain the contents of the memory cells fruitless.
US08201259B2	Method for evaluating and accessing a network address The invention relates to a method for evaluating or accessing a network address, comprising the steps of: receiving a network address (50); generating derivatives (60) of the received network address (50); assigning a trust level to the generated derivatives (60) and the received network address (50); comparing the trust levels of the derivatives (60) with the trust level of the received network address (50); and issuing a response based on the comparison.
US08201254B1	Detection of e-mail threat acceleration A plurality of queuing components each monitor an incoming email stream, and identify incoming email messages with suspicious attachments. Each queuing component generates signatures of the suspicious attachments, and submits periodic reports to a correlation component. The reports list signatures and receipt times for suspicious attachments received since a last submitted report. The queuing component queues the suspicious attachments for a specified hold time, and further processes queued attachments based upon information concerning attachment acceleration rates received from the correlation component. The correlation component receives reports from the plurality of queuing components, and uses information in the submitted reports to maintain a system wide receipt history for each suspicious attachment. The correlation component uses the receipt histories to calculate receipt acceleration rates for suspicious attachments, which it provides to the queuing components, to be used to manage the queued attachments.
US08201253B1	Performing security functions when a process is created A method and system in a computing device for performing security related functions as part of a process created to execute a software component that may be unrelated to security is provided. The security system provides security code that performs one or more security related functions. When a process is created to execute the code of a software component, the security system causes the security code to be executed before the execution of the code of the software component. One security related function of the security code may be to cause the operating system to maintain information about the process as long as the process exists. If the operating system later reports that the process no longer exists but the information is still being maintained, then the security system can assume that malware is attempting to hide the process.
US08201252B2	Methods and devices for providing distributed, adaptive IP filtering against distributed denial of service attacks The present invention provides systems and methods for providing distributed, adaptive IP filtering techniques used in detecting and blocking IP packets involved in DDOS attacks through the use of Bloom Filters and leaky-bucket concepts to identify “attack” flows. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a device tracks certain criteria of all IP packets traveling from IP sources outside a security perimeter to network devices within the security perimeter. The present invention examines the criteria and places them in different classifications in a uniformly random manner, estimates the amount of criteria normally received and then determines when a group of stored classifications is too excessive to be considered normal for a given period of time. After the device determines the criteria that excessive IP packets have in common, the device then determines rules to identify the packets that meet such criteria and filters or blocks so identified packets.
US08201244B2	Automated malware signature generation Automated malware signature generation is disclosed. Automated malware signature generation includes monitoring incoming unknown files for the presence of malware and analyzing the incoming unknown files based on both a plurality of classifiers of file behavior and a plurality of classifiers of file content. An incoming file is classified as having a particular malware classification based on the analyzing of incoming unknown files and a malware signature is generated for the incoming unknown file based on the particular malware classification. Access is provided to the malware signature.
US08201242B2	Method and apparatus for verifying content reuse rights and resolving rights in the presence of multiple licenses A small program in a browser that a knowledge worker uses to search for content can be activated when the worker wants to determine available rights for a publication that has been found. When activated, the program accesses a rights advisor website that converts the URL of the publication in the browser to standard publication identifiers. The publication identifiers are then used to access a rights database and extract all rights associated with the publication. Based on selected characteristics of the worker and the organization to which the worker belongs, the rights are filtered and placed into a decision tree. The tree is then traversed from its lowest level upward to locate the most favorable rights and the resulting rights are presented to the worker via the browser.
US08201241B2	Method and system for publishing presence information This invention relates to a method for publishing presence information, including: receiving, by a presence server, a message carrying presence information to be published sent from a delegated presentity client or application server; publishing the presence information in the message carrying presence information to be published according to delegation authorization rules upon determining that the presence information is published by delegation; sending the processed presence information to a watcher client. This invention also provides, a presence server and a presence information composing and publishing unit for publishing presence information. The invention makes it more flexible to publish presence information and enhances user' experience.
US08201235B2	System and method for reducing data stream interruption during failure of a firewall device A system includes first and second firewalls and a controller. The first firewall is configured to perform a firewall function on a first redundant input data packet and output the first input packet as a first redundant output data packet according to the firewall function. The second firewall is configured to perform the firewall function on a second redundant input data packet and output the second input packet as a second redundant output data packet according to the firewall function. The output packets are at least substantially similar when the firewall devices function properly. The controller is configured to receive the output packets from the firewalls, transmit at a given time one of the output packets, transmit the first output packet while the second firewall is failed, and transmit the second output packet while the first firewall is failed.
US08201231B2	Authenticated credential-based multi-tenant access to a service Associating a computing device with a group of other computing devices. A service receives a common credential from the computing device and associates the computing device with the other computing devices also associated with the common credential. The service generates a machine-specific credential for use by the computing device in subsequent communications with the service. The machine-specific credential is used to authenticate, identify, and group the computing device with the other computing devices in the subsequent communications.
US08201229B2	User authorization system and methods A slot management system including a download and configuration server-based sub-system and method is disclosed for use with game devices, systems, and methods is provided to enable users to monitor, control, and modify game devices and other related activities. A computerized authorization system authorizes users access to the slot management system.
US08201228B2	System and method for securing a network A method of securing a telecom network, the operation of the telecom network controlled using a plurality of telecom network commands, includes grouping at least some of the plurality of telecom network commands into a plurality of different task sets. Each task set includes one or more telecom network commands. The method further includes grouping at least some of a plurality of users into a plurality of different user groups. In addition, the method includes each user group to the plurality of task sets. The method also includes allowing the at least one user access to the plurality of telecom network commands based on the association of each user group to the plurality of task sets.
US08201226B2	Authorizing network access based on completed educational task In one embodiment, a method comprises authentication a user of a client device by a network access device; selectively sending an education assignment request to an authorization server, by the network access device, in response to receiving a request from a client device for access to a network and based on determining the user requires educational authorization to access the network, the education assignment request including an identifier for identifying the user; forwarding to the client device an educational assignment received from the authorization server for completion by the user of the client device; forwarding to the authorization server a response to the educational assignment and having been received from the client device; and selectively authorizing, by the network access device, the access to the network by the client device based on a received authorization message from the authorization server relative to the response to the educational assignment.
US08201225B2	Apparatus and method for managing access among devices Provided are an apparatus, system composed of apparatuses in a chassis, and a method for managing access among a plurality of devices accommodated in a chassis. Setting information by the user on access between a first management unit including at least one device of said plurality of devices and a second management unit including at least one device of said plurality of devices is accepted. The first attribute information is acquired designating at least any one of an instruction issuing function and an instruction receiving function among the functions of said first management unit and the second attribute information designating at least any one of the instruction issuing function and the instruction receiving function among the functions of said second management unit. A determination is made as to whether or not said setting information is consistent with a combination of said first attribute information and said second attribute information. Information is outputted based on a determination result of the determination.
US08201220B2	Network user usage profiling Methods, systems, devices, and software are disclosed for generating a network usage profile. Certain embodiments of the network usage profile include a devices-by-node profile, indicating the set of customer devices available for use in communicating with a customer-side network node located at a customer side of an access network over a period of time, where some of the customer devices are not in operative communication with the customer-side network node during a portion of that time. Other embodiments associate the network usage profile with customer information to generate device-by-customer profiles. Still other embodiments associate the network usage profile with network traffic information to generate traffic-by-device profiles. Even other embodiments associate the multiple sources and types of information to generate traffic-by-customer profiles and/or traffic-by-device-by-customer profiles. Any of the profiles may then be accessed by one or more parties for use in affecting various network services, including targeting content delivery.
US08201219B2	Systems and methods for server load balancing using authentication, authorization, and accounting protocols Systems and methods for dynamically load-balancing clients across available servers without the need for a load balancer in front of a network are provided. Exemplary methods assign servers to clients in wireless and wireline networks based on server load. Methods and systems for using the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) protocols to load-balance network servers are provided. The load-balancing systems and methods further include using the Diameter AAA protocol routing attribute value pairs (AVPs) to implement bootstrap functionality and load balancing. Methods and systems using the Diameter protocol to manage client assignments are disclosed. Methods and systems for dynamically load-balancing clients across available servers using an AAA protocol are further described. Methods and systems to redirect clients to available servers with the least load are disclosed.
US08201218B2	Strategies for securely applying connection policies via a gateway A strategy is described for securely applying connection policies in a system that includes a first entity (e.g., a TS client) connected to a second entity (e.g., a TS server) via a gateway using a remote-operating protocol (e.g., RDP). The strategy involves establishing a first secure channel between the gateway and the TS server and transmitting policy information from the gateway to the TS server. The strategy then involves deactivating the first secure channel and setting up a second secure channel between the TS client and the TS server. The strategy uses the second secure channel to transmit RDP data from the TS client to the TS server. The TS server uses the previously-transmitted policy information to determine whether to enable or disable a feature that affects the TS client, such as device redirection.
US08201217B1	Systems and methods for single sign-in for multiple accounts Systems and methods which facilitate single user sign-in for multiple accounts are shown. Embodiments create a single user base which maps users to multiple accounts. The use of a single set of credentials by the user is provided for according to embodiments irrespective of the applications associated with the various accounts having very different security protocols. A system hosting the shared user base preferably provides a single authentication point for multiple services. Embodiments an authenticator string, as may be passed between a client and bridge server and/or client and application, in order to enable user access, detect attacks with respect to a client conversation, etcetera. In addition to providing a shared user base for single sign-in, embodiments provide additional shared functionality and/or functionality not available from the applications themselves.
US08201216B2	Techniques for database structure and management An embodiment is related to a database system for protecting data privacy and efficient organization of data. An enhanced database system comprises a DBMS, a data classifier, a database of applications and a rules and policy unit. The DBMS includes a query processor for processing a query from a user. The rules and policy unit outputs a pointer to a node within the data classification tree based on several criteria. In accordance with another embodiment, a DBMS residing within a communication network organizes data related to the ID of mobile users. In accordance with another embodiment, an enhanced database system comprises a DRM user agent and a DBMS. The DRM user agent receives a CO protected by DRM. The DBMS stores the CO and controls access to the CO based on restrictions specified in an RO associated with the CO.
US08201210B2	Method and system for a media processor A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top box (STB) having a controller to manage power distribution in the STB from power supplied by a port of a presentation device, decode audio-visual information into a presentation format, and transmit a signal to the presentation device containing decoded audio-visual information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08201201B2	Inserting branding elements Techniques are described that permit the flexible introduction of branding elements into or around video rendered by a media player. One or more sets of metadata related to the presentation of branding elements may be collected, and then one or more sets of the metadata may be selected based on business rules when the media player requests a particular piece of content. The selected metadata may indicate what branding element is to be displayed, and how it is to be displayed (e.g., position of element in video rendering window). The media player is then instructed based on the metadata to access and appropriately place the branding elements in or outside of the video rendering window (e.g., overlayed on top of the video content).
US08201189B2	System and method for filtering components A system and method of starting or stopping components using filters. The filter including an action to be performed on a component, a component type, a vendor name, and a component name.
US08201182B2	Method of managing workloads A method of managing software application workloads starts, on a machine, a software application from startup script. The startup script includes startup tasks. The machine includes an operating system. The operating system includes a kernel. The method requests an application group identifier from the kernel. The method associates the startup tasks with the application group identifier until the startup script ends. The method requests application group identifiers from the kernel. If said application group identifier is a workload, the method requests the kernel to aggregate usage data for the application group identifier. If the application group identifier is not a workload, the method determines a set of application group identifiers that comprise a work load, and requests the kernel to aggregate usage data for the set of application group identifiers. The method receives the aggregated usage data from the kernel, and uses the aggregated usage data to manage the workload.
US08201177B2	Scheduling a workload based on workload-related variables and triggering values A mechanism is provided for scheduling a workload on a computer. The mechanism receives, in the computer, one or more workload-related variables. The mechanism further receives, in the computer, one or more trigger values for at least one of the one or more workload-related variables. Moreover, the mechanism determines, from the workload-related variables and their triggering values, one or more conditions under which one or more tasks are to be performed on the computer. In addition, the mechanism acquires a status value of at least one of the one or more workload-related variables at regular intervals and performs a task when a status value of a workload-related variable attains the triggering value for the task.
US08201159B2	Method and apparatus for generating data parallel select operations in a pervasively data parallel system An information handling system (IHS) employs a compiler methodology that seeks to improve the efficiency of code that executes in a multi-core processor. The compiler receives source code and converts the source code for execution using data parallel select operations that perform well in a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) environment. The compiler of the IHS may apply one or several optimization processes to the code to increase execution efficiency in a parallel processing environment.
US08201157B2	Dependency checking and management of source code, generated source code files, and library files An Integrated Design Environment (IDE) includes an on-the-fly compiler. The IDE does a first compiler pass that review code for dependencies. In the first compiler pass, the IDE compiles source files, where files having any unresolved types or errors are marked for a second pass recompilation. The IDE does a second compiler pass that does a multithreaded compilation of the code in an order determined using the dependencies. In the second compiler pass, any file that uses the files compiled in the first pass are recompiled. Additionally, any files marked for unresolved types or errors are also recompiled.
US08201155B2	Handling multiple definition of types User assemblies can be created by a compiler that can handle more than one type definition during execution. Local copies are created for respective authoritative types in a code library, and the local copies are marked with a local type identifier. An authoritative type identifier (e.g., a globally unique identifier (GUID)) is copied from the authoritative type to the local type, and functions and properties associated with the local type are also copied from the authoritative type. Authoritative types are resolved for requested types when a local assembly references a local type from a compiled user assembly. The local type can be identified by a local type identifier, and an authoritative type can be retrieved from the code library that has a same authoritative type identifier as the requested type. A local copy of the retrieved authoritative type can be copied to the local assembly under compilation. The compiler can then emit user assemblies that comprise merely local types.
US08201154B2	Multithread data processor An apparatus for processing digital audio-visual data including a module class manager configured to evaluate code to determine an interpretative language in which the code is written, wherein the interpretative language is selected from a plurality of interpretative languages, and an interpreter specific to the interpretative language, wherein the interpreter is configured to interpret and execute the code.
US08201152B2	Method and system for debugging a program in a multi-thread environment A method and system for debugging a program in multithread environment which interrupts the running of a debuggee program begins by replacing the instruction at the position at which a breakpoint for debugging is desired to be set with a breakpoint instruction. When the breakpoint instruction is replaced back with the instruction at the position at which the breakpoint for debugging is set, an instruction is set in front of the breakpoint for debugging as a fence breakpoint; and when the instruction at the position at which the breakpoint for debugging is set, is replaced again with the breakpoint instruction. On completion, the fence breakpoint is replaced with the original instruction of the debuggee program at that position.
US08201149B1	System and method for remote execution of a debugging utility using a remote management module A system and method enables remote execution of a program, such as a debugger, using a remote management module. A packet daemon executing on the remote management module packetizes data received from a client and forwards it to a packet daemon executing on a computer, which receives the packet and forwards data contained therein to the program. Data from the program is packetized by the packet daemon executing on the computer and transmitted to the packet daemon executing on the remote management module, which forwards the data to a program specific daemon on the remote management module for forwarding to the client.
US08201147B2	Generic XAD processing model Embodiments are directed to dynamically building software applications and dynamically updating software applications based on changed data values. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an indication that a software application is to be initiated. The computer system also receives an application description including tags describing software objects that are to be included in the software application, automatically maps portions of the application description identified by the tags to software objects using reflection, where the reflecting includes accessing properties associated with the software objects, and automatically binds properties of the software objects to the portions of the application description based declarative rules included in the software object properties associated with the software object.
US08201145B2	System and method for workflow-driven data storage Programs, systems and methods are described for efficiently storing data as used under a workflow-driven model. A workflow process is defined to control the processing of data objects through different states, e.g., such as an insurance claim document passing through different stages of processing. The workflow process is modeled and employed to manage the storage system based upon predicted state changes derived from state statistics that can be applied to enhance efficiency. For example, copies of the data object may be automatically made when the data object is expected to change state. Some anticipated states implicating high access may direct a storage location with low access time. Hints or requirements for the data object may be applied upon occurrence of an expected state change. Storage management of expected state changes may be further enhanced through dynamic adjustment of the state statistics using collected historical state information to further enhance efficiency.
US08201141B2	Apparatus and method for creating control code for home network appliance according to resolution of control device An apparatus and a method for creating a control code for a home network appliance according to resolution of a control device which can automatically create a control code for a home network appliance according to the resolution of the control device and can perform a testing of the device even in the case in which the home network appliance is not bound. The apparatus includes a first receiving unit to receive a first HTML file that provides a graphic user interface composed of fragmented images, a resource management unit to create a pseudo code that defines a matching relation between an image ID of the image and a behavior function for controlling the home network appliance or collecting a state of the home network appliance, a user interface (UI) code creating unit to create a second HTML file on which the matching relation is reflected with reference to the created pseudo code, and a script code creating unit to create a script code that is called by the second HTML file to control the home network appliance or collect the state of the home network appliance.
US08201130B1	Parallel signal routing A method is provided for routing a circuit design netlist. Nets of the netlist are grouped into a plurality of sub-netlists. For each sub-netlist, nets of the sub-netlist are routed as a function of congestion between nets of the sub-netlist. Congestion between nets of other sub-netlists in the plurality of sub-netlists is not taken into account. If two or more nets of the netlist are routed through the same routing resource, a global congestion history data set is updated to describe congestion between all nets in the netlist, and the two or more nets of the netlist are unrouted. The two or more nets are each rerouted as a function of the global congestion history data set and congestion between nets of the same sub-netlist as the net.
US08201126B1	Method and apparatus for performing hardware assisted placement A method for designing a system on a target device is disclosed. A first plurality of components in the system are assigned to be placed by an computer aided design (CAD) tool based on a criterion. A second plurality of components in the system are assigned to be placed by a hardware placement unit based on the criterion. Placement results from the CAD tool and the hardware placement unit are used to generate a placement solution for the system on the target device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08201125B1	Network mapping using edges as a parameter A method and apparatus for circuit design synthesis are described. An edge flow cost function is implemented to obtain edge flow costs for nodes of a network. A subject graph of the network is then mapped using the edge flow costs.
US08201124B1	System in package and method of creating system in package Some embodiments of the invention provide a system that includes a first defect tolerant configurable integrated circuit and a second IC communicatively coupled to the defect tolerant configurable first IC.
US08201123B1	Automatic input/output timing adjustment flow for programmable integrated circuits A method of tuning an input/output (I/O) interface of a circuit design for a selected programmable integrated circuit can include determining whether the I/O interface meets a timing requirement and when the I/O interface does not meet the timing requirement, automatically adjusting a first timing setting of the I/O interface of the circuit design. The method can include iteratively determining whether the I/O interface meets the timing requirement, and responsive to each iteration, adjusting the first timing setting. The circuit design, including the adjusted first timing setting, can be output.
US08201120B2	Timing point selection for a static timing analysis in the presence of interconnect electrical elements A method and a system for selecting timing points in an electrical interconnect network to be used in electrical simulations for a static timing analysis for improved accuracy. The present method includes discovering choke points in an electrical model of the interconnect for which all the paths from drivers to receivers must pass through on certain types of nets. The method then uses the choke point electrical nodes, where they exist, as an output timing point of the logic gate driving the net. The method solves the problem of inaccuracies due to resistances between different driver pins on the same interconnect net, though it can also be applied to solving analogous inaccuracies due to resistances between different receiver pins associated with the same receiver timing point. It further also applies to interconnect with other two-port parasitic elements, to cases where only a subset of receiver pins on the net require accurate timing, and to cases where a set of electrical nodes, rather than a single node, partition all paths from drivers to receivers on a net.
US08201118B2	Method and system for dynamic automated hint generation for enhanced reachability analysis Methods and systems are provided for dynamically generating a hint set for enhanced reachability analysis in a sequential circuitry design that is represented by a Binary Decision Diagram (BDD). After determining a ranking of the BDD variables, they are sorted in the order of the ranking. The ranking is used to select some of the variables for use in creating hints for more efficiently performing the reachability analysis in a creating an equivalent sequential circuitry design.
US08201108B2	Automatic communication notification and answering method in communication correspondance A communication correspondence notification and reply method is provided. The method is implemented as a software program with the objective to be less distractive and to increase work productivity compared to prior methods. In particular, a notification format for incoming communication correspondences is determined, without any guidance/input from the user, taking into account (i) monitored user activity and (ii) the type of incoming correspondence, i.e. the notification format is a function of tracked/monitored user activity and the message type with the objective to minimize distraction to the user. To further minimize user distraction, the software program determines an area on the display of the computer system where the incoming correspondence can be presented to the user. Once presented, the user then has the ability to reply with minimal effort by making a pointer-device gesture movement in reply to the presented notification.
US08201105B2	Electronic apparatus and image display control method of the electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus displays face images in each column of a plurality of face image display areas arranged in a matrix based on time stamp information, and displays thumbnail images in time-series in a thumbnail display area arranged at one side of a lower side or an upper side in the two dimensional display area. The apparatus displays one of the thumbnail images with a normal size and displays the others such that the lateral direction sizes are reduced in comparison with that of the thumbnail displayed in the normal size. And, the apparatus performs display control of the plurality of face images so as to make face images having times in a section corresponding to a selected thumbnail image as time stamp information distinguishable from the others, when the thumbnail image in the thumbnail display area is selected.
US08201104B2	Content player and method of displaying on-screen menu Favorable visual appearance and ease of operation are required in the user interface of digital home appliances using a television screen. An array of function icons including multiple function icons representing respective types of media that can be played and an array of content icons including multiple content icons representing items of contents that can be played are displayed practically at the center of an on-screen menu such that the arrays intersect. A moving image icon, which is a function icon displayed in an area of intersection in which the array of function icons and the array of content icons intersect, is highlighted by a color different from that of the other function icons and by an enlarged view. In the array of content icons, the hierarchy of the contents is visually represented.
US08201096B2	Browsing or searching user interfaces and other aspects User interfaces for browsing and/or searching are described. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a first display area for display representations of documents matching a search query, the first display area configured to display content of the documents which can have a plurality of different types of content including at least one of text-based content and a folder, and displaying a second display area for selecting a selected document to be displayed in the first display area. Other embodiments are also described, and computer readable media and apparatuses are also described.
US08201094B2	Method and apparatus for collaborative graphical creation An approach is provided for performing collaborative graphical creation. It is determined that a plurality of modifications are made within a collaborative environment to an area of an image. The modifications are initiated by a plurality of members of a social network service. A conflict rule specified by the social network service is retrieved. One of the modifications is selected based on the conflict rule.
US08201092B2	Theme creator A theme creator includes an input unit for selecting and/or activating the theme creator, and a control unit configured to control the theme creator. The control unit is configured to receive image data transmitted by the camera when the theme creator has been selected and/or activated, and to change an appearance of the desktop and/or stand-by image depending on the image data from the camera and/or user input. A user may create his/her own theme such that a large number of preset themes and/or the use of an external theme editor could be avoided.
US08201086B2	Spellchecking electronic documents A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for spellchecking an electronic document. In response to receiving the electronic document, the process parses the electronic document for a set of non-standard words that are absent from a dictionary used by a document editing program. In response to locating the set of non-standard words in the electronic document, the process generates an index that includes, but is not limited to, the set of non-standard words. The process then reviews the electronic document for spelling errors using the generated index.
US08201081B2	Systems and methods for processing inoperative document links A server computer performs multiple operations in response to a user-identified inoperative document link. The server computer extracts one or more query terms from the user-identified document link. At least one of the query terms is different from the user-identified document link. The server computer searches a set of operative document links for one or more candidate document links in accordance with the user-identified document link. The server computer queries a cached document server for a document link to a cached copy of a document corresponding to the user-identified document link. The server computer returns at least one of the extracted query terms, the candidate document links, and the document link to the cached copy to the client computer.
US08201073B2	System and method for automating the creation of customized multimedia content A method and system for enabling the creation of custom-choreographed multimedia content by combining content selected by a user with additional predefined content not selected by the user using an intelligent scripting and video rendering engine. The system and method reduce the user's involvement in preparing the multimedia content to simply selecting specific content the user wants to include in the final multimedia product and leaves the choreography and creation of the final product to the system and method, which intelligently script the final multimedia product based on the particular content selected by a user and/or any characteristics associated with the selected content.
US08201071B2	Information transmission and reception An information transmitting apparatus is described. An interface includes a first input for a valid data word, a second input for an information to be transmitted, and an output, wherein the interface provides the data word or a data word recognizable as an invalid data word at the output, depending on the information. Accordingly, an information receiving apparatus comprises an interface comprising an input for a data word and an output for an information, wherein the interface derives the information depending on whether the data word is a valid data word or an invalid data word.
US08201069B2	Cyclical redundancy code for use in a high-speed serial link A system and method for providing a cyclical redundancy code (CRC) for use in a high-speed serial link. The system includes a cascade interconnect memory system including a memory controller, a memory hub device and a downstream link. The downstream link is in communication with the memory controller and the memory hub device and includes at least thirteen signal lanes for transmitting a multiple transfer downstream frame from the memory controller to the memory hub device. A portion of the downstream frame includes downstream CRC bits to detect errors in the downstream frame. The downstream CRC bits capable of detecting any one of a lane failure, a transfer failure and up to five bit random errors.
US08201068B2	Method for generating parity-check matrix A method for generating a parity check matrix to decode a plurality of underdetermined nodes, includes the steps of: determining a plurality of specific nodes according to a predetermined parity check matrix; determining a plurality of weightings corresponding to the plurality of specific nodes; and sorting the plurality of specific nodes according to the plurality of weightings to generate the parity check matrix to store in a storage device.
US08201067B2	Processor error checking for instruction data A method for processor error checking including receiving an instruction data, generating a pre-processing parity data based on the instruction data, maintaining the pre-processing parity data, processing the instruction data, generating a post-processing parity data based on the processed instruction data, checking for an error related to processing the instruction data by comparing the post-processing parity data to the pre-processing parity data, and transmitting an error signal that indicates the error related to processing the instruction data occurred if the post-processing parity data does not match the pre-processing parity data, wherein checking for the error related to processing the instruction data is performed without using a duplicate processing circuitry.
US08201059B2	Method and apparatus of encoding and decoding data using low density parity check code in a wireless communication system A method of encoding data using low density parity check (LDPC) code defined by a m×n parity check matrix is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes encoding input source data using the parity check matrix, wherein the parity check matrix comprises a plurality of z×z sub-matrices of which row weights and column weights are ‘0’ or ‘1’.
US08201058B2	Method and apparatus for parallel ECC error location An invention is provided for parallel ECC error location in a memory. The invention includes partitioning a set of field elements into w partitions. Then, for each of the w partitions of field elements, i) providing a set of r different field elements of the partition to r parallel search element. Next, in operation ii), each parallel search element computes a sum that is based on a set of coefficients of an error locator polynomial and the field element provided to the particular parallel search element. The set of field elements is advanced r field elements in GF(2m), and operations i) through iii) are repeated using the next r different field elements of the partition.
US08201056B2	Anti-jamming piecewise coding method for parallel inference channels An encoding of K blocks of information for transmission on N subchannels, responsive to a number of redundant blocks M, employs one of multiple check codes depending on the number of redundant blocks M and employs multiple processes for determining a code for the K blocks of information depending on the number of redundant blocks M and K blocks of information together.
US08201053B2	Dynamic electronic correction code feedback to extend memory device lifetime Unrecoverable electronic correction code (ECC) errors in memory storage devices are usually preceded by recoverable ECC errors. A memory storage device controller is provided notice of the recoverable errors and associated information. The memory storage device controller can cause the data having the recoverable information to be rewritten on the memory storage device. Rewriting the data on the memory storage device (often in a different location) normally reduces the probability of encountering data with unrecoverable data errors.
US08201050B2	Broadcast transmitting system and method of processing broadcast data in the broadcast transmitting system A broadcast transmitting system and a method of processing broadcast data in the broadcast transmitting system are disclosed. Herein, the broadcast transmitting system includes a group formatting unit for mapping mobile service data into at least one region of a plurality of regions within a data group and adding a plurality of known data sequences to the data group, a deinterleaver for deinterleaving data in the data group, a first multiplexer for multiplexing mobile service data packets including the deinterleaved data with main service data packets including main service data, an interleaver for interleaving data in the multiplexed data packets, a trellis encoding unit for trellis encoding the interleaved data, a second multiplexer for multiplexing the trellis-encoded data with segment synchronization data and field synchronization data, and a modulator for modulating a broadcast signal including the multiplexed data.
US08201049B2	Low density parity check (LDPC) decoder Methods and apparatuses to perform iterative decoding of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes based on selecting a lambda number of minimum values. In one aspect, an LDPC decoder is configured for: sorting a plurality of incoming messages of a check node according to magnitudes of the incoming messages; identifying a predetermined number of unique message magnitudes from the incoming messages; and computing outgoing messages for a subset of the plurality of incoming message, where the messages of the subset have different magnitudes larger than the predetermined number of unique message magnitudes but the outgoing messages are computed to have the same magnitude. In at least one example, the decoder is further configured for computing outgoing messages that have magnitudes equal to any of the predetermined number of unique message magnitudes. In general, the magnitudes computed for all outgoing messages may not necessarily be the same.
US08201044B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting control message in a wireless communication system using relaying An apparatus and method for transmitting an ACK/NACK message from an RS in a wireless communication system using relaying is disclosed, in which the RS checks scheduling information for data transmission from a lower node, receives data from the lower node according to the scheduling information, checks errors in the data, generates error report information indicating whether the data has errors, and transmits the error report information to an upper node.
US08201036B2	IC with test and shadow access ports and output circuit The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for providing a shadow access port within a device. The shadow access port is accessed to perform operations in the device by reusing the TDI, TMS, TCK and TDO signals that are used to operate a test access port within the device. The presence and operation of the shadow access port is transparent to the presence and operation of the test access port. According to the disclosure, the shadow access port operates on the falling edge of the TCK signal while the test access port conventionally operates on the rising edge of the TCK signal.
US08201035B2	Testing system and method thereof Testing system capable of detecting different kinds of memory faults of a memory under I/O compression includes a data pattern selection circuit, writing pattern selection units, reading pattern selection units, and a data comparison circuit. The data pattern selection circuit converts a testing data into different data patterns by the writing pattern selection units and accordingly writes to the corresponding memory data ends in order to allow the corresponding memory cells to store the data with the corresponding data pattern. The data comparison circuit executes reverse-converting through the reading pattern selection units for comparing if the data stored in the memory cells corresponding to each memory data end are matched and accordingly determines if a failure memory cell exists in the memory.
US08201033B2	Memory having an ECC system An error correction code system for a memory is provided. The memory is provided with a parity array that is directly accessible. An embodiment of the error correction code system includes writing and reading test data directly to the parity array. The data read from the parity array is compared with the test data written to the parity array to detect errors.
US08201030B2	Method and apparatus for parallel structured Latin square interleaving in communication system A method and apparatus for parallel structured Latin square interleaving in a communication system are provided. The method includes dividing input information bits into sub-blocks according to a parallel processing order, generating a first Latin square matrix or a second Latin square matrix by comparing the parallel processing order with a predetermined threshold, and interleaving by reading out the information bits divided into the sub-blocks according to the generated Latin square matrix.
US08201029B2	Method and apparatus for operating system event notification mechanism using file system interface A method and structure for notifying operating system events, includes standard filesystem interfaces provided for event consumers to use for one or more of registering for event notifications of a set of events, receiving an event notification when each event occurs, and getting details of events that have occurred.
US08201027B2	Virtual flight recorder hosted by system tracing facility A method utilizes a virtual flight recorder to harvest a subset of events being collected by an active system tracing facility during operation of a computer system. The virtual flight recorder is “virtual” from the sense that it is not specifically instrumented into a component with which the virtual flight recorder is associated, which eliminates the burden on developers to specifically instrument components of interest, and minimizes the impact on system performance as a result of performance metric collection.
US08201026B1	Fault-resistant just-in-time compiler The present disclosure relates to techniques for potentially increasing the reliability and/or stability of systems having virtual machines that support multiple modes of execution. For example, as described herein, a virtual machine partitions a plurality of program instructions into a plurality of traces for execution by a virtual machine operating on a computing device, wherein the virtual machine has first and second modes of execution, and wherein each of the plurality of traces comprises one or more of the plurality of program instructions. The virtual machine applies the second mode of execution to a first trace in the plurality of traces and determines an error condition that is caused by the application of the second mode of execution to the first trace. After determining the error condition, the virtual machine applies the first mode of execution to the first trace to recover the virtual machine from the error condition.
US08201022B2	Method and system for data processing with high availability A server to be changed is added to a destination unit in terms of configuration. The server to be changed is started to restore the database in the database storage region to which the server has access and to restore the transaction for the process that was executed when the server failed. The destination of the failed server (a system destination unit) when failure occurs is determined to stabilize the throughput of the entire system after the switchover of the system in the event of failure. The destination server is determined according to an instruction given in advance by the user. The database management system statistically determines the destination server in accordance with a policy designated by the user. Alternatively, the database management system dynamically determines the destination server according to the policy designated by the user when failure occurs.
US08201020B2	Method apparatus and system for a redundant and fault tolerant solid state disk A redundant and fault tolerant solid state disk (SSD) includes a determination module configured to identify a first solid state disk controller (SSDC) configured to connect to a flash array and a second SSDC configured to connect to the flash array. A capture module is configured to capture a copy of an I/O request received by the first SSDC from a port of a dual port connector, and/or capture a copy of an I/O request received by the second SSDC from a port of the dual port connector, and identify a write I/O request from the I/O request. A detection module is configured to detect a failure in the first SSDC. A management module is configured to manage access to a flash array by the first SSDC and the second SSDC. An error recovery and failover module is configured to automatically reassign work from the first SSDC to the second SSDC.
US08201017B2	Method for queuing message and program recording medium thereof According to an aspect of the embodiment, a message queuing unit of the message processing apparatus stores received messages. A message reception control unit receives a notification of destinations of messages, extracts only the messages for current processes based on a process control table recording current or standby of processes, and transmits the messages to corresponding applications as current processes. On the other hand, the message reception control unit does not transmit the messages to the applications as standby processes.
US08201013B2	Memory controller, system including the controller, and memory delay amount control method A memory controller transmits and receives data to and from a memory. The memory controller includes a delay control section deciding a set value indicative of a determined delay amount in response to a result of a comparison between a test data transmitted to the memory and test data received from the memory, and transmitting the decided set value to the memory, a taking-in section receiving the set value stored in the memory, and a delay adjustment section receiving data from the memory, and arranging a delay amount of the received data in response to the set value received by the taking-in section.
US08201012B2	Load adaptive EMI reduction scheme for switching mode power supply The present invention relates to a frequency jittering device and method, and a switching power supply employing such frequency jittering device. Said method comprises: S1 generating a variable logic number; S2 generating a delay signal; S3 generating a PWM control signal according to the variable logic number and the delay signal; S4 generating an output signal according to the PWM control signal; and S5 generating a clock signal with variable frequency according to the output signal; wherein, the clock signal is fed back to update the variable logic number, and a jittering clock signal modified in each clock cycle is produced. The benefit of the present invention is not only can apply small low cost EMI filter but also can keep the noise floor level low enough at light load condition.
US08201011B1	Timing optimization for paths in a processor A system and method for efficient timing optimization for asymmetric paths to replicated units. A microprocessor may include multiple instantiations of a processing core. Chip-level interconnects may have asymmetric routing paths to the multiple cores. The interconnect routes may need to be stable early in the design cycle and yet possess multiple timing paths to the multiple instantiated cores. Modifications to the input/output ports of the cores may provide the necessary timing requirements for the cores without dynamically altering the chip-level interconnects.
US08201008B2	Battery module, computer system and power supply method thereof A battery module usable with a computer system includes a circuit to generate a power, and a controller to output the power of the circuit to an external device, for example, the computer system, and to prevent the power from being output from the circuit to the external device according to an external signal received from the external device. The computer system includes a circuit to receive the power from the battery module, a second circuit to generate another power other than the power of the battery module, and a second controller to generate a detection signal as the external signal according to existence of the another power of the second circuit. The circuit may include an adapter to receive an extern power from an external power source and a battery to receive the external power from the adapter or to generate an auxiliary power and the power.
US08201001B2	Method for optimizing performance and power usage in an archival storage system by utilizing massive array of independent disks (MAID) techniques and controlled replication under scalable hashing (CRUSH) The present invention is a method for drive management and data placement in an archival storage system having a set of drives. The method includes mapping redundant data stripes onto the drives. A first active data stripe, located on a first subset of the drives, is then selected from the mapped data stripes. The first subset is placed into a normal power state and a second subset of the drives is placed into a low power state. Data is then written to the first active data stripe. Before the first active data stripe is fully used, the method includes selecting a next active/second active data stripe from the mapped data stripes, the second active data stripe being at least partially located on the second subset. The method may be performed by a system which implements MAID techniques for drive management and CRUSH for data placement.
US08200999B2	Selective power reduction of memory hardware Managing delivery of power to one or more hardware memory devices in a computer system. The computer system is configured with a processor and at least two hardware memory devices. An energy exchange threshold for the computer system is set, and management of one or more of the hardware memory devices is employed when the computer system exceeds an energy exchange threshold.
US08200998B2	Method of controlling power saving mode used in SATA interface A method of controlling a power saving mode used in a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) interface. The method of controlling a power saving mode used in a SATA interface for data transmission between a transmitter and a receiver includes: requesting the receiver to enter one of a plurality of power saving modes in a SATA protocol using the transmitter; and selecting one of the power saving modes using the receiver. In the method of controlling a power saving mode in a SATA interface, since a power saving mode can be selected independently of a power saving mode requested by a transmitter, a system can operate in a power saving mode that is suitable for the required properties of the system in accordance with a SATA protocol. Furthermore, the properties of the system required by a user can be realized by selecting a user-defined power saving mode.
US08200990B2	Apparatus, system, and method for a high efficiency redundant power architecture An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing regulated electric power. At least two power buses transfer regulated direct current (“DC”) power from at least four power supplies to an electric load. The power supplies receive electric power from one or more electric sources and convert the electric power to the regulated DC electric power. A switch is connected between each of the power buses and the electric load. Each switch connects and disconnects a power bus to the electric load and transfers the regulated DC electric power from the buses to the electric load. An output power bus connection is disposed on each of the power supplies. Each of the power buses is connected to at least two power supplies and each output power bus connection connects the corresponding power supply upon which the output power bus connection is disposed to exactly one power bus.
US08200988B2	Firmware security key upgrade algorithm A portion of a firmware program may be automatically upgraded during power on of a processor-based system. A firmware upgrade file signed by a private key is authenticated using a public key accessible to the firmware program. The authentication and upgrade is performed automatically. Interrupted upgrades are anticipated and resolved by the firmware program. The public key is duplicated and is itself upgradable, in case the private key changes. The firmware program may be locked to prevent both viewing and unauthorized upgrades of the public keys or other parts of the firmware program.
US08200987B2	Dynamic object-level code translation for improved performance of a computer processor A system and method for improving the efficiency of an object-level instruction stream in a computer processor. Translation logic for generating translated instructions from an object-level instruction stream in a RISC-architected computer processor, and an execution unit which executes the translated instructions, are integrated into the processor. The translation logic combines the functions of a plurality of the object-level instructions into a single translated instruction which can be dispatched to a single execution unit as compared with the untranslated instructions, which would otherwise be serially dispatched to separate execution units. Processor throughput is thereby increased since the number of instructions which can be dispatched per cycle is extended.
US08200973B2	Method and apparatus for encrypted authentication A sink device including a first data processing unit and a second data processing unit authenticates the processing units, when turned on, to generate first authentication keys having the same data. When a data request is issued from the sink device to the source device, device authentication is made between the source device and the first data processing unit to generate second authentication keys having the same data. The source device encrypts an exchange key using the second authentication key, and sends the encrypted exchange key to the first data processing unit. The first data processing unit decrypts the encrypted exchange key using the second authentication key, encrypts the decrypted exchange key using the first authentication key, and sends the encrypted exchange key to the second data processing unit. The second data processing unit decrypts the encrypted exchange key using the first authentication key to obtain an exchange key.
US08200972B2	Encryption of security-sensitive data by re-using a connection Techniques are provided for processing data. Connections having different security properties are stored, wherein each of the connections allows applications at the client computer to access data sources at a server computer. A request is received from an application to access a data source, wherein the request has associated security properties. In response to the client computer requesting establishment of a connection on behalf of the application, it is determined whether there is a stored connection that used a same set of security properties as are associated with the request from the application and that connected to the data source that the application requests access to. In response to determining that there is a stored connection that used the same set of security properties and that connected to the data source, the connection and an associated client encryption seed, client encryption token, server encryption seed, and server encryption token are re-used. In response to determining that there is not a connection that used the same set of security properties and that connected to the data source, a new client connection key, client encryption seed, client encryption token, sever connection key, server encryption seed, and server encryption token are generated.
US08200967B2	Method of configuring a node, related node and configuration server A method for configuring a node using a configuration server, as well as the node and the configuration server, are disclosed. The node holds a public key, a related secret key and an address of a configuration server. The node transmits the public and secret keys to the configuration server, which identifies the node by use of an identity based identification algorithm taking account of the public and secret keys. When the node has been successfully identified, the configuration server retrieves a set of configuration parameters stored for the node and transmits this set to the node. Accordingly, the node does not have to store much information. The use of identity-based identification algorithms to identify the node is advantageous regarding nodes that may have very low power/memory which might prevent them from embedding a heavy X.509 certificate traditionally used for identification or authentication purposes.
US08200963B2	Combination-based broadcast encryption method A combination-based broadcast encryption method includes: assigning by a server a base group of different combinations to each user; producing and sending secret information for each user by using as a base the base group allocated to each user; producing and sending an inverse-base parameter value through calculations with integers used to produce the base group and key value information of one or more privileged users; and deriving a group key by using the key value information of the privileged users, encrypting a session key by using the derived group key, and sending the encrypted session key to each user. Accordingly, each user is assigned a different base through a combination, thereby having security against collusion attacks.
US08200961B2	Securing a flash memory block in a secure device system and method A technique for securing a flash memory block in a secure device system involves cryptographic techniques including the generation of a Message Authentication Code (MAC). The MAC may be generated each time a file is saved to one or more data blocks of a flash memory device and stored with the file's metadata and to each of the data blocks. A technique for reading and storing versioned files may be employed when applications utilize versioning.
US08200957B1	Using SYN-ACK cookies within a TCP/IP protocol A method, apparatus, and system are directed toward managing a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) handshake. A SYN-ACK cookie is determined based on a cryptographic operation using a secret key and at least one network characteristic. The SYN-ACK cookie is provided in a SYN message's field. The SYN message is sent from a client to a server. Another sequence number based on the received SYN-ACK cookie is included in a SYN-ACK message. The SYN-ACK message is sent to and received by the client. The other sequence number is validated based on the secret key to generate at least another network characteristic. A TCP/IP connection is established if the network characteristic matches the other network characteristic. In one embodiment, the component sending the SYN message may be a different component than the component receiving the SYN-ACK message. In this embodiment, the secret key may be shared between the two components.
US08200956B2	Efficient method for operating system deployment Method and computer storage media for efficiently deploying an operating system are provided. A virtual hard drive file is communicated by a computing device, such as a server. The virtual hard drive file may be compounded with a boot manager enhancer and/or a translator. Upon receipt of the virtual hard drive file, a computing device is enhanced to expose and mount the virtual hard drive as a drive and boot option for the computing device. Thereafter, an initial boot sequence may be commenced utilizing the virtual hard drive file as the boot source. In some embodiments, a boot manager enhancer and a translator are utilized to do one or more of expose, mount, and translate the virtual hard drive file. In some embodiments, a virtual SCSI miniport driver is utilized to do one or more of expose, mount, and translate the virtual hard drive file.
US08200954B2	Multi-stage boot pin sampling In accordance with embodiments, a method for configuring an electronic device during a power-on sequence includes sampling a boot pin state multiple times. The method also includes storing a value corresponding to each sampled boot pin state, wherein the stored values comprise one of four different states for a single boot pin.
US08200936B2	Systems and methods for recording information to a memory card A recording area of an information recording medium is divided into a plurality of management areas. In the case where one of the management areas is selected and first file data are requested to be written, the scalability of file data that are lastly written in the selected management area is determined. If the scalability is high, the file data are written in the next management area, and, if the scalability is low, the first file data are written in succession to the file data.
US08200934B2	Data transfer unit in multi-core processor To reduce overhead of data transfer between processor cores and improve a processing capability of a processor, there is provided a processor including: a CPU for performing computing processing; an internal memory for storing data; and a data transfer unit for performing data transfer between the internal memory and a shared memory, in which: the data transfer unit includes: a command chain module for executing a command sequence formed of a plurality of commands including a data transfer instruction; and a monitor module for reading data set in advance in the internal memory and repeatedly monitoring the data until a comparative value and a value of the data become equal to each other, when one of the plurality of commands of the command sequence thus read is a predetermined command; and the command chain module executes a next command in the command sequence after the monitor module has finished monitoring.
US08200932B2	Managing memory systems containing components with asymmetric characteristics A memory controller (MC) is associated with a remapping table to enable access to content in a memory system that includes asymmetric memory. The MC receives a request for a memory read or an Input/Output (I/O) write from a central processing unit (CPU) for a physical address specified by the system's memory management unit (MMU). The CPU uses the MMU to manage memory operations for the CPU, by translating the virtual addresses associated with CPU instructions into physical addresses representing system memory or I/O locations. The MC for asymmetric memories is configured to process the MMU-specified physical addresses as an additional type of virtual addresses, creating a layer of abstraction between the physical address specified by the MMU and the physical memory address with which that address is associated by the MC. The MC shields the CPU from the computational complexities required to implement a memory system with asymmetric components.
US08200911B2	Device having shared memory and method for controlling shared memory A device having a shared memory and a shared memory controlling method are disclosed. A digital processing device can include a shared memory, having a storage area including at least one common section, coupled to each of the processors through separate buses and outputting access information to whether a processor is accessing a common section. With the present invention, each processor can efficiently use or/and control a shared memory by using access information.
US08200904B2	System and method for clearing data from a cache A system and method for clearing data from a cache is disclosed. The method may include the steps of receiving data at a cache of a self-caching storage device, determining a cost-effectiveness of flushing a logical block from the cache and, if the current available capacity of the cache is greater than a minimum capacity parameter, only flushing the logical block if a predetermined criteria is met, regardless of whether the storage device is idle. The system may include a cache storage, a main storage and a controller configured to only flush a logical block from the cache if a determined cost effectiveness meets a predetermined criteria when the current available capacity of the cache is greater than a minimum capacity parameter.
US08200902B2	Cache device for coupling to a memory device and a method of operation of such a cache device A cache device is provided for use in a data processing apparatus to store data values for access by an associated master device. Each data value has an associated memory location in a memory device, and the memory device is arranged as a plurality of blocks of memory locations, with each block having to be activated before any data value stored in that block can be accessed. The cache device comprises regular access detection circuitry for detecting occurrence of a sequence of accesses to data values whose associated memory locations follow a regular pattern. Upon detection of such an occurrence of a sequence of accesses by the regular access detection circuitry, an allocation policy employed by the cache to determine a selected cache line into which to store a data value is altered with the aim of increasing a likelihood that when an evicted data value output by the cache is subsequently written to the memory device, the associated memory location resides within an already activated block of memory locations. Hence, by detecting regular access patterns, and altering the allocation policy on detection of such patterns, this enables a reuse of already activated blocks within the memory device, thereby significantly improving memory utilization, thereby giving rise to both performance improvements and power consumption reductions.
US08200896B2	Increasing remote desktop performance with video caching Described techniques improve remote desktop responsiveness by caching an image of a desktop when the host operating system running on the remote desktop server stores graphics output in video memory. Once cached, a Tile Desktop Manager may prioritize the scanning of regions or tiles of the cached image based data received from the operating system. Once regions or tiles that have changed are detected, the changed tiles are copied from the cached desktop image and transmitted to the remote desktop client. The cached desktop image is refreshed based on a feedback loop.
US08200891B2	Memory controller, memory system with memory controller, and method of controlling flash memory In the control of the number of program-erase cycles, physical blocks (PBs) are divided into plural groups on a basis of the number of program-erase cycles and a search for a free PB is performed in the groups when assigning a logical block (LB) to the free PB. In the search, a free PB among a group covering a small number of program-erase cycles precedes that among a group covering a large number of program-erase cycles. Further, when searching out a free PB in the search, data stored in a PB (source PB) included in a group covering a smaller number of program-erase cycles than that covered by a group including the free PB searched out are transferred to the free PB if there is the source PB. The source PB is a PB to which a LB is assigned earliest among a group including it.
US08200885B2	Hybrid memory system with backup power source and multiple backup an restore methodology A memory subsystem includes a volatile memory and a nonvolatile memory. A controller includes logic to interface the volatile memory to an external system, so that the volatile memory is addressable for reading and writing by the external system. The controller includes logic to back up data from the volatile memory to the nonvolatile memory upon receiving a backup signal from the external system. A power controller includes logic to detect when power from the external system fails, and when power from the external system fails, to provide backup power for long enough to enable the controller to back up data from the volatile memory to a first region of the nonvolatile memory. The controller, upon receiving the backup signal from the external system, backs up data from the volatile memory to a second region of the nonvolatile memory different that the first region used to back up data from the volatile memory to the nonvolatile memory when power from the external system fails.
US08200884B2	Reconfigurable memory module and method A computer system includes a controller coupled to a plurality of memory modules each of which includes a memory hub and a plurality of memory devices divided into a plurality of ranks. The memory hub is operable to configure the memory module to simultaneously address any number of ranks to operate in a high bandwidth mode, a high memory depth mode, or any combination of such modes.
US08200878B2	Multi-processor device with groups of processors consisting of respective separate external bus interfaces The present invention intends to provide a high-performance multi-processor device in which independent buses and external bus interfaces are provided for each group of processors of different architectures, if a single chip includes a plurality of multi-processor groups. A multi-processor device of the present invention comprises a plurality of processors including first and second groups of processors of different architectures such as CPUs, SIMD type super-parallel processors, and DSPs, a first bus which is a CPU bus to which the first processor group is coupled, a second bus which is an internal peripheral bus to which the second processor group is coupled, independent of the first bus, a first external bus interface to which the first bus is coupled, and a second external bus interface to which the second bus is coupled, over a single semiconductor chip.
US08200874B1	Method and apparatus for arbitration among multiple ports A device has first circuitry and also second circuitry that includes an interface and command ports that can each receive commands from the first circuitry, each command requesting an information transfer through the interface. A technique relating to the device involves dynamically enabling and disabling at least one of the command ports under control of the first circuitry, and using a priority list specifying an order of priority for a group of the command ports to identify and cause a command to be accepted from the command port of highest priority that contains a command and is currently enabled.
US08200847B2	Voice actions on computing devices A computer-implemented method includes receiving spoken input at a computing device from a user of the computing device, the spoken input including a carrier phrase and a subject to which the carrier phrase is directed, providing at least a portion of the spoken input to a server system in audio form for speech-to-text conversion by the server system, the portion including the subject to which the carrier phrase is directed, receiving from the server system instructions for automatically performing an operation on the computing device, the operation including an action defined by the carrier phrase using parameters defined by the subject, and automatically performing the operation on the computing device.
US08200843B2	Method and device for establishing network connection service, and automatically switched optical network A method for establishing a network connection service includes: initiating a request for establishing a network connection service from the user side of a source end to the user side of a sink end; a network ingress node and network egress node of the network connection service communicating through message exchange to determine a network connection between the two nodes for supporting the network connection service and a protocol adaptation stack from the user side to the network side in the network connection service; and the network ingress node and the network egress node establishing the network connection supporting the network connection service and configuring the adaptation stack, so as to establish the network connection service. With the invention, no manual configuration is needed, and it is possible to reduce the time delay in the connection establishment and facilitate multi-service transport under a multi-service transport network condition.
US08200842B1	Automatic traffic control using dynamic DNS update Method and system for a domain name translation service. A plurality of application servers associated with at least one domain name corresponding to at least one Internet Protocol (IP) address are provided. A domain name system (DNS) server hierarchy is configured for providing, based on DNS translation information associated with the requested domain name stored therein, an IP address or a list of IP addresses of the associated application server(s) as a response to a DNS query for a domain name. In addition, a dynamic traffic controller is configured for monitoring the operational status of the application servers and requesting a DNS update to the DNS translation information stored in the DNS server hierarchy based on the operational status of the application servers.
US08200838B2	Data flow control with duplicate acknowledgement A method of controlling the flow of an amount of data from a sending peer to a receiving peer of a predetermined communication protocol is described. The method comprises dividing the amount of data into a plurality of data segments, where the data segments are ordered in a sequence. The segments are sent to the receiving peer in the order of said sequence. The receiving peer acknowledges the correct receipt of a data segment and identifies the last correctly received data segment of the sequence that was received in the proper order of the sequence. The sending peer is arranged such that if it receives a threshold number of duplicate acknowledgements, it performs a retransmission. The threshold number that trigger a retransmission is an adaptive parameter determined based on the size of a receive window, the size of the receive window representing a number of data segments which can be stored in a buffer space at the receiving peer.
US08200837B1	Method and system for maintaining a content server at safe load conditions A data service system in a data access network system is described. The data service system includes a content server that stores content files for access by external access requests. Each of the content files is stored in a full content format and an adapted or degraded content format which is less resource-intensive to serve than the full content format. The data service system also includes an adaptive load control system which is coupled to the content server to pass the access requests to the content server. The adaptive load control system modifies an access request to access the corresponding content file in the adapted content format when the content server is in an overload condition such that the content server can be maintained at safe load conditions. A method of maintaining the content server at safe load conditions is also described.
US08200833B1	Security mode based management of cookie data stores The subject technology provides a cookie data store with a unique identifier that is implemented for one or more web clients. Each browser can have different cookie storage schemes and limited access to cookie data. The cookie data store ID unifies disparate cookie storage schemes in one or more different web clients in order to perform one or more different operations on one or more cookie data stores in a particular web client.
US08200831B2	Fast setup response prediction Mechanisms are provided to accelerate Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) setup messages. A client transmits an RTSP request to a server. The server responds to the request and preemptively responds with acknowledgements for messages not yet received. For example, a server responds to an RTSP describe message with an RTSP describe acknowledgement, an RTSP setup acknowledgement, and an RTSP play response before setup and play messages are received by the server or even transmitted by the client. The client processes the anticipatory responses and transmits setup and play responses when the anticipatory responses are processed.
US08200829B2	System and method for re-directing requests from browsers for communications over non-IP based networks A method and system for deploying content to client applications is provided. Inbound messages are accepted from a client application running on a client device via a proxy IP/port. The inbound messages are packaged into an internal message format with an HTTP redirector. The packaged message is forwarded to a back-end server via a message router. A response is received form from a web server. The response is packaged into the internal message format with the back-end server. The response is then forwarded to the HTTP redirector via a message router. The response can then be transferred to the client application running on the client device, via the proxy IP/port.
US08200819B2	Method and apparatuses for network society associating The method of the invention applies employing token, public key, private key and ad hoc technology to associate members who are interested to join a specific society, with which the member's privacy can be protected and the trust between members can be build. The apparatus is directed to a social network which is responsible for communications and association of a specific society.
US08200806B2	Automated discovery and configuration of components on a computer network A method for autodiscovery of components on a network without requiring that the components have built-in knowledge of the discovery method is set forth. The method uses a combination of attempting broadcast discovery as well as listening to network traffic. More specifically, a substantially continuously executing program is executed on a management console of the network that performs the broadcast and listening functions. The autodiscovery uses these methods in combination to identify systems that are included within the VTS system.
US08200797B2	Systems and methods for automatic profiling of network event sequences Systems and methods are disclosed that profile event sequences by creating a mixture model from the event sequences; estimating parameters for the mixture model; and applying the mixture model to profile the event sequences.
US08200791B2	Instant messaging based file sharing An instant messaging system generates an instant messaging application user interface display object enabling the user to select one or more buddies, or a predefined group from their buddy list, and then to select a file to share with the selected buddies or group. The instant messaging system then controls sharing of the file within the selected buddies or group, by allowing only one of the sharing users to check out and modify the shared document at a given time. The instant messaging system user interface displayed to each user also displays the list of files that are shared with that user. The instant messaging system user interface further provides a current status for each shared file, including an indication of one of the sharing users that currently has the shared file checked out.
US08200786B2	Methods and systems for distributing software Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to the distribution of software. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for distributing software from a first system to a second system may comprise determining a software object to be transported and storing the software object in a database. The method may then create, on the first system, a transport request comprising an object list. The method may also define, on the first system, a transport container and include the software object in the transport container. Further, the transport container may be included in the object list of the transport request. The transport request may then be provided to the second system.
US08200785B2	Efficient use of networked computing resources An apparatus and method for computing resources existing in domestic network systems to be utilized with maximum efficiency. Condition of the connection of client apparatuses to a domestic network and overall computing resources of the domestic network are controlled by a personal computer functioning as a private server. When a personal digital assistant (PDA) outputs a request to a personal computer for downloading image data on a server, the image data is downloaded and stored in a hard disk area owned by the personal computer and offered to the PDA. A connection between the client apparatuses and the domestic network is constantly monitored. Even when any of the client apparatuses is provisionally disconnected from the network, proper service is continuously rendered by applying the computing resources offered to the client apparatus.
US08200782B2	Communication with a mobile device An embodiment of a synchronizer for a mobile device comprises memory for containing identification data and message data. The synchronizer is operative at least part of the time when the mobile device is inactive to establish communication with a base station, to provide from memory identification data enabling the base station to establish communication between the synchronizer and a server and, where message data is waiting to be transferred between the server and the mobile device, to enable transfer of message data waiting to be transferred. The synchronizer is operative when the mobile device is active to transfer message data between the mobile device and the memory of the synchronizer.
US08200780B2	Multiple bindings in web service data connection The invention features a method, system, and computer program product. User input defining a form that has one or more fields is received. User input defining a set of entries associated with the form is also received, the set of entries identifying available connections to data repositories and fields of the form that are associated with the connections. Each data repository is connected with the fields associated with the data repository using one or more declarative statements that enable one-to-many mappings from fields in the form to data repositories as defined by the set of entries.
US08200774B1	System and method for resource locking A server system includes a processor and a data structure having an entry for a resource, the entry including a first sequence number. The server has communication procedures for receiving a request from a client to access the resource, where the request includes a second sequence number obtained from a service, and a resource request handling program. Upon receiving the request, the resource request handling program determines whether the server has any record of having previously received a request to access the resource. If not, the server returns a provisional rejection to the client, requiring the client to verify that it holds a lock on the specified resource. A provisional bit in the entry is initially set to indicate that the resource has not been accessed since the system was last initialized. The provisional bit is reset when a request to access the resource is granted.
US08200772B2	Media streaming of web content data Methods for streaming web content data via a computer-readable medium. The web content data comprises one or more media samples. The media samples are encoded in a streaming media format as a web component stream. The web component stream is combined with other component streams comprising additional data other than web content data into a presentation stream. The presentation stream is transmitted via a media server to a client. Rendering commands, which are included in one or more rendering samples encoded in the web component stream along with the media samples, coordinate synchronization between the media samples and the additional data when the client renders the presentation stream.
US08200771B2	Workload migration using on demand remote paging In one embodiment a method for migrating a workload from one processing resource to a second processing resource of a computing platform is disclosed. The method can include a command to migrate a workload that is processing and the process can be interrupted and some memory processes can be frozen in response to the migration command. An index table can be created that identifies memory locations that determined where the process was when it is interrupted. Table data, pinned page data, and non-private process data can be sent to the second processing resource. Contained in this data can be restart type data. The second resource or target resource can utilize this data to restart the process without the requirement of bulk data transfers providing an efficient migration process. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US08200770B2	Information exchange tool Mining human capital information includes defining one or more attributes of a communication group, extracting a target group by searching one or more of explicit and implicit data sources according to the defined attributes, communicating with the extracted target group, logging at least some of the communications, and analyzing the logged communications.
US08200758B2	Management of organizational boundaries in unified communications systems In general, this disclosure describes techniques of controlling communications occurring in a unified communications system. As described herein, a directory is established at a server system that hosts the unified communications system. The directory includes a plurality of hierarchically-organized categories. Each category specifies a set of users. One or more conferences may be associated with each of the categories. All communications occurring in the unified communications system occur within the context of one of the conferences. A user can only communicate within a conference if the conference is associated with the category that specifies a set of users that includes the user. By appropriately structuring the categories in the directory and the sets of users specified by the categories, the techniques of this disclosure may serve to prevent a user from using the unified communications system to communicate with certain other individuals.
US08200755B2	Presence administration method and device In a presence system in which one user users a plurality of terminals, dynamically changing buddy lists are synchronized between the terminals. A presence notification message is sent to all the terminals of the user. The timing of sending includes, for example, when the presence information of a buddy is updated, when a new buddy is set, when display attribute information is updated, when a buddy is cancelled, and when a presence notification of unknown presentity is made. Thus, when one user uses a plurality of terminals in the presence system, dynamically changing buddy lists can be synchronized between the terminals. In addition, the display formats of the buddy lists do not differ from one terminal to another, and the same display format is attained.
US08200750B2	Data communication apparatus, control method thereof, computer program and storage medium A data communication apparatus that reduces erroneous transmission, together with allowing an operator to confirm destinations registered as data transmission destinations. To accomplish this, the data communication apparatus includes a destination registering unit adapted to register at least one or more destinations, a data acquisition unit adapted to acquire data to transmit to the registered destinations, a destination list print unit adapted to print a destination list showing the registered destinations to allow an operator to confirm the registered destinations, an operation acquisition unit adapted to acquire, via an operation unit, a first operation operated by the operator if the destinations shown on the destination list are confirmed by the operator, and a transmission unit adapted to transmit, if the first operation is acquired, the acquired data to the destinations shown on the destination list.
US08200746B2	System and method for territory-based processing of information A system and method for processing information leverages territory-based processing capabilities to provide efficient distributed processing of processing jobs. For example, hive engines can be organized into territories based on their physical locations to support the distributed processing of processing jobs within particular territories.
US08200741B1	System for pause and play dynamic distributed computing A distributed computing system includes a memory storing execution state collected prior to an operator pause state. A controller modifies, during the operator pause state, characteristics of the distributed computing system. The controller invokes execution of the operator after the pause state such that the operator accesses the execution state to complete an operation.
US08200740B2	Retained publish/subscribe system Disclosed is a method comprising steps of: a broker software application receiving a first published message on a topic from a publisher application and storing the first published message in a local storage location along with an indicator which indicates that the first published message originated from a publisher application that is local to the broker software application; the broker software application receiving a second published message on the topic from another broker software application and storing the second published message in the local storage location in place of the previously stored first published message, along with an indicator which indicates that the second published message originated from a publisher application that is remote to the broker software application; and the broker software application delivering the second published message, from the local storage location, to a requesting subscriber application which has requested a last retained publication message on the topic.
US08200736B2	Virtual SIM card for mobile handsets A system and method for providing a capability to backup cellular telephone provisioning information and personal data from a mobile handset on a server. A user initializes an account with a service provider with authentication credentials and backs up provisioning information and personal data stored within a mobile handset to server for safe keeping. The provisioning information and personal data can be accessed via the cellular telephone network so that the provisioning and personal data can be transferred among mobile handsets. This allows a user to restore personal data quickly and easily if a mobile handset replaced, lost or destroyed. The system and method further provide the capability to remotely provision new mobile handsets.
US08200731B1	Device for determining a coherence measurement for a digital signal that does not require spectral estimation A device for and method of determining a coherence measurement for a signal that includes a digitizer for digitizing the signal, a transformer connected to the digitizer, a first squarer connected to the transformer, a second squarer connected to the digitizer, an adder connected to the first squarer and the second squarer, a subtractor connected to the first squarer and the second squarer, a standard-deviation function block connected to the subtractor, a mean generator connected to the adder, a first multiplier connected to the standard-deviation function block, and a divider connected to the output of the mean generator and the first multiplier.
US08200730B2	Computing circuits and method for running an MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-4 AAC audio decoding algorithm on programmable processors The present invention relates to computing circuits and method for running an MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-4 AAC algorithm efficiently, which is used as an audio compression algorithm in multi-channel high-quality audio systems, on programmable processors. In accordance with the present invention, the IMDCT process which takes large part of the amount of the operations in implementation of an MPEG-2/4 AAC algorithm can be performed in efficient. In addition, while the architecture of the existing digital signal processor is still used, the performance can be improved by means of the addition of the architecture of the address generator, Huffman decoder, and bit processing architecture. After all, to design and change the programmable processor is facilitated.
US08200726B2	Method and structure for producing high performance linear algebra routines using streaming A method (and structure) for executing a linear algebra subroutine on a computer having a cache, includes streaming data for matrices involved in processing the linear algebra subroutine such that data is processed using data for a first matrix stored in the cache as a matrix format and data from a second matrix and a third matrix is stored in a memory device at a higher level than the cache, the streaming providing data from the higher level as the streaming data is required for the processing.
US08200717B2	Revision of multimedia content A system and method for revision of multimedia content is provided. For example, in one embodiment, among others, a computer readable medium comprises instructions for revising a multimedia content. The multimedia content includes a first server multimedia content and an optical disc multimedia content. The instructions are executable on a computer and control the computer to perform retrieving, using an optical disc drive, a first association content included in an instructional content stored on an optical disc. The optical disc multimedia content includes the instructional content. The instructions further control the computer to perform importing the first server multimedia content from a first server according to the retrieved first association content. The first server multimedia content is a previously-authored content. The instructions further control the computer to perform updating the first server multimedia content and exporting the updated first server multimedia content.
US08200716B2	Method and system for automatically defining organizational data in unified messaging systems A method and system for automatically defining and provisioning organizational data in a unified messaging (UM) platform are disclosed. An adapter in a unified messaging platform connects to at least one client human resources database. Human resources information that is organized in an organizational hierarchy is retrieved from the human resources database, and hierarchical organizational data is automatically generated in the UM platform based on the organizational hierarchy of the human resources information retrieved from the human resources database. UM mailboxes are provisioned to messaging centers in the UM platform based on the hierarchical organizational data.
US08200713B2	Database exploration for building wireless component applications A method is disclosed for facilitating development of an application having access to a database data-source. The method comprises the following steps. At least one subroutine that is a candidate for potentially including hidden information is identified. A definition document for the subroutine is generated using information available from its available schema metadata. The subroutine is executed via the database data-source. A result set of the executed subroutine is analysed for exposing any hidden information. The analysis is used to supplement the definition document with additional schema information to describe a structure of the exposed information. The definition document can then be used in developing the application. A development tool and computer readable medium configured to implement the method are also disclosed.
US08200710B2	System and method for runtime rendering of web-based user interfaces for master data management One or more embodiments enable a system and method for creation and runtime rendering of web-based user interface applications for a master data management applications. The system and method comprise acquiring metadata of a schema of a master data management database at initialization, the metadata identifying a plurality of schema elements; selecting a schema element of the plurality of schema elements in the schema metadata; identifying a set of all appropriate Web UI element options for the schema element; presenting to a UI designer a graphic user interface populated with the schema element and the set of all appropriate Web UI element options for the schema element; accepting from the UI designer a selected Web UI element from the set of all appropriate Web UI element options; generating a Web UI component definition comprising a link between the schema element and the selected Web UI element; storing the Web UI component definition related to the link in the master data management database.
US08200702B2	Independently variably scoped content rule application in a content management system A content management system (CMS) synchronization mechanism synchronizes content attributes, preferably in metadata, with content documents. For each of one or more content attributes (e.g. metadata fields), a respective content document context is associated. Each attribute is synchronized to content in the content document according to the associated context. Preferably, the content document contains multiple nested files, and context limits synchronization to a subset of files. Synchronization rules, enforced by a synchronization engine, define respective attributes and content to be synchronized, each rule having an associated context in the content document. Rules are preferably created in XML format, and parsed to produce a document object model upon which the synchronization engine operates.
US08200700B2	Systems and methods for use of structured and unstructured distributed data The invention relates to hardware, software and electronic service components and systems to provide large-scale, reliable, and secure foundations for distributed databases and content management systems, combining unstructured and structured data, and allowing post-input reorganization to achieve a high degree of flexibility.
US08200699B2	Secured and filtered personal information publishing Selectively shared and filtered personal information collections are provided. Personal information collections include calendars, task lists, address books, and other collections of information that may be provided by personal information manager (PIM) software. Personal information collections published on a server may be limited on a user-by-user basis as to who may access the collections. Furthermore, collections may be automatically filtered based on a rolling window of dates, reducing file size and maintaining privacy of items outside the rolling window.
US08200695B2	Database for uploading, storing, and retrieving similar documents Provided is a system of retrieving a document. The system includes a DB storing a document, a document feature writing unit, a query input unit, a keyword extraction unit, a weighting unit, a document retrieving unit, and an output unit. The document feature writing unit extracts attribute information of the document stored in the document DB and writes an index for the document based on the attribute information. The query input unit receives a query input by a user. The keyword extraction unit extracts a keyword from the query. The weighting unit assigns a weight to the extracted keyword using the index. The document retrieving unit retrieves a similar document using the keyword with the assigned weight. The output unit displays the similar document retrieved by the document retrieving unit to a user.
US08200690B2	System and method for leveraging historical data to determine affected entities Systems and methods for leveraging historical data to determine affected entities is provided. In exemplary embodiments, a current matter is created. When creating the current matter, at least one initial scope parameter for the current matter is known. Historical data associated with the at least one initial scope parameter may then be accessed and review. Based on the historical data, one or more refined scope parameter may be determined. A list of affected entities based at least on the one or more refined scope parameter is provided.
US08200688B2	Method and system for facilitating information searching on electronic devices A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. Facilitating searches involves obtaining information about the user interests, identifying potential data of interest to the user, extracting data related to said data of interest to the user, and collecting the extracted related data for presentation to the user on the device.
US08200676B2	User interface for geographic search A computer-implemented method of processing a geotext query, said method involving: receiving a first free-text query string from a user; and decomposing the first free-text query into a non-geographic query and a geographic query, wherein the non-geographic query is a second free-text query string derived from the first free-text query string and the geographic query is a geographical location description.
US08200671B2	Generating a dictionary and determining a co-occurrence context for an automated ontology According to one embodiment, generating a dictionary and determining a co-occurrence context includes accessing a domain corpus comprising articles. Each article corresponds to a particular topic and comprises one or more terms that link to one or more other articles corresponding to one or more other topics. Each topic is designated as a term to yield a dictionary. A co-occurrence context is defined for the domain corpus. At least two terms appearing in the co-occurrence context are considered co-occurring. Co-occurrences among the terms are calculated according to the co-occurrence context.
US08200667B2	Method and apparatus for constructing user profile using content tag, and method for content recommendation using the constructed user profile A method of and apparatus for constructing a user profile using a content tag, a method of recommending digital content by using a user profile including a tag included in the digital content and a preference value for the tag. According to the methods and apparatus, a user profile is generated by using a content tag, and thus the taste of the user according to digital content consumption can be expressed in more varied ways. Also, by suggesting a method of generating a tag from web content, construction of a user profile for digital content having no tag is enabled. Furthermore, a tag extracted from digital content used by a user is included in a profile and it can be used for a variety of purposes, such as expansion of a comparison scope, use of preference keywords, providing of content links, and expansion of search scope.
US08200665B2	Method, apparatus, and program for capturing data changes utilizing data-space tracking A method, apparatus, and program for reorganizing a database while concurrently providing access to the database for updates. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, an on-line reorganization facility (ORF) uses index data-spaces that point to other data-spaces, referred to as data data-spaces, to efficiently track and coordinate information about the data-elements in an original data-space operated upon by a reorganization process. A relative base address of a data-element in an index data-space can be derived from a relative base address of a data-element in an original data-space, and vice versa. An index data-space data-element contains a location of a data-element in a data data-space that tracks change information related to a corresponding data-element in the original data-space. Tracked changes are later applied to the newly reorganized data-space to assure consistency and integrity of the data. Tracked changes include the location in the original data-space where the change occurred and a flag indicting the type of change.
US08200655B2	Query-based generation of data records A method and apparatus for generating at least one data record in respect to a database query comprising a fetch command. A database may be updated according to the at least one data record. In an exemplary embodiment, a database management system may be tested by performing the database query against the database. In another exemplary embodiment, a data record that satisfies the database query is generated in order to increase coverage when testing a database management system.
US08200649B2	Image search engine using context screening parameters An image search engine server that comprises an image search engine, capable of performing image searches based on the context of a search operation. The context of the search is derived from a built-in thesaurus and/or a dictionary. For a thesaurus-based algorithm, the approach is to send a query back to the user, who can select the image search domain, sub-domain, and other hierarchical search refinements from one or more dropdown menus. The items in the dropdown menus that the user selects during the “query back” are used to augment the search string entered by the user to better refine the image search. If the user entered search string is a single string of dictionary word or words or the dictionary mode is elected, then synonyms for that search string are used to generate the augmented search string for the final context-based search operation. By using the dictionary or thesaurus approach, a user search string can be augmented to result in improved image search results.
US08200647B2	Methods and apparatus for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data sources Improved descriptive query techniques are provided. More particularly, techniques are provided for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data providers grouped into provider kinds with hierarchical containment relationships. The query may include arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on the values of attributes of the data providers.
US08200645B2	System and method for executing multiple concurrent index-driven table access operations An index scan processor and method to perform concurrent scans of stored indexed data. An indexed data scanner performs a first scan of stored data by sequentially scanning through an index data structure and maintains, over a duration of the first scan, a first scan current scan location within the index data structure that indicates a currently accessed record within the stored data structure for the first scan. A scan manager accepts a request for a second scan of the stored data, determines, during the performing the first scan, a starting index scan location within the index data structure for the second scan that is sufficiently near the first scan current index scan location to cause records indicated by the starting location index to be stored within a buffer due to the performing the first scan, and starts the second scan at the starting location and proceeding to the second end key.
US08200634B2	Zero downtime maintenance using a mirror approach The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing software updates. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include copying an application to a shadow system, the application used to upgrade the shadow system rather than a production system; copying data from the production system to the shadow system; selecting whether to lock changes to data in the production system or record changes to the data in the production system; recording one or more changes to data in the production system, the changes recorded in a container, when record changes has been selected; migrating recorded data in the container to the shadow system, so that the shadow system and production system are in a similar data state; and using the shadow system, upgraded with the application and at least one of data copied from the production system and recorded data from the container, for production rather than the production system. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.
US08200633B2	Database backup and restore with integrated index reorganization According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for reorganizing a source index tree of a database table resulting in a target index tree of the database table is provided. A backup process reads source leaf pages of the source index tree in a logical order defined by a sequence of index keys. The logical order can be different from a physical order of the source leaf pages defined by a sequence of respective storage locations. The backup process constructs target leaf pages of the target index tree maintaining the logical order. A restore process constructs target non-leaf pages of the target index tree based on the distribution of the index keys among the constructed leaf pages and stores the target leaf and non-leaf pages.
US08200614B2	Apparatus and method to transform an extract transform and load (ETL) task into a delta load task A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to support the definition of an Extract Transform and Load (ETL) task. An evaluation of source table structures, source data change indicators, and target table structures is performed. The ETL task is converted to a delta load task in accordance with the evaluation.
US08200610B1	System and method for supporting the utilization of machine learning A system and method is disclosed which integrates a machine learning solution into a large scale, distributed transaction processing system using a supporting architecture comprising a combination of computer hardware and software. Methods of using a system comprising such supporting architecture provide application designers access to the functionality included in a machine learning solution, but might also provide additional functionality not supported by the machine learning solution itself.
US08200609B2	Construction of decision logic with graphs Data characterizing a plurality of related action graphs is received. Thereafter, the plurality of related action graphs are transformed into a logically equivalent structure so that rendering of the logically equivalent structure can be initiated. Related interfaces, apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US08200606B2	Alert management system and method A system and related method for automating alert decision-making in a computer network are disclosed. The system and method act to receive an alert request from an event management system, and then carries out operations using several sets of inference rules, associating the alert request to a generic conceptual data model of alert request and alert resolution. The generic model is specialized to represent the specific environment being monitored. The alert request is enriched with contextual and network information in order to generate one or several alert resolution actions.
US08200603B1	Construction of an agent that utilizes as-needed canonical rules A method for constructing an agent that utilizes an as-needed canonical rule set in a first execution environment comprising requesting the as-needed rule set for the agent, supplying the agent with the as-needed rule set and requesting compilation of the as-needed rule set.
US08200602B2	System and method for creating thematic listening experiences in a networked peer media recommendation environment Systems and methods for providing a thematic playback experience in a peer-to-peer media recommendation system are disclosed.
US08200595B1	Determing a disposition of sensor-based events using decision trees with splits performed on decision keys Data characterizing a plurality of sensor generated events is received. Thereafter, analysis of the plurality of events is initiated using a decision tree with splits performed on decision keys. A first portion of the decision keys comprising analyst-selected splits can be derived from user-generated domain knowledge regarding a first plurality of historical events. A second portion of the decision keys comprising software-driven splits can be derived from a predictive model trained using a second plurality of historical events. Later, a disposition is determined for each event based on a traversal of at least one of the decision keys in the decision tree and such disposition is later initiated. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US08200588B2	Information processing device, method and program for selecting expression candidates An information processing device includes: a candidate generating unit employing a user evaluation matrix of evaluation values indicating evaluations as to multiple contents for multiple users to generate multiple estimated expression candidates which are candidates of an estimated expression employed for estimating an evaluation as to a content of a user; an estimation results computing unit computing the user evaluation matrix by the respective estimated expression candidates to generate an estimation result configured of a predictive evaluation value which is the estimation value of an evaluation value; and an estimated expression selecting unit, in a case where several estimation results are employed, and several estimated expression candidates are employed as estimated expressions, obtaining linear combination coefficients employed for obtaining a final estimation result, and selecting an estimated expression candidate and linear combination coefficient having the highest evaluation as the estimated expression and linear combination coefficient of the next generation.
US08200575B2	Secure electronic payment system and methods The invention provides a system and method for ensuring secure payment transactions. The invention provides for a chargeable and dischargeable security (CDS) system that allows users/account holders to have greater control over access to their accounts. The CDS-system may include a CDS-instrument, such as a credit or debit card that can be charged with funds located in a first account and then discharged either automatically or manually so that the potential for fraud and misuse are significantly reduced.
US08200572B2	System and method for displaying and/or analyzing a limit order book Various systems and methods for determining information about limit orders is provided. Data regarding a plurality of limit orders entered onto an electronic market is received and stored. For each of a subset of the plurality of limit orders, a market distance is determined. The market distance comprises the difference between the price of the respective limit order and a market price. A weighting of the respective limit order is determined based at least on the determined market distance for the respective limit order. One or more market indicators is determined based at least in part on the weighting of each of the at least two limit orders. The one or more market indicators are caused to be displayed in a graphical user interface.
US08200571B2	Margin trading system, computer program and storage medium Extensibility of a margin trading system is provided for and improvement of processing quality can be achieved easily. The margin trading system comprises a plurality of processing unit for receiving and processing order information from a plurality of trading terminals, a calculation unit for calculating a second sum value based on a first sum value which is the sum value of the order information received within a predetermined duration by each processing unit, an ordering unit for ordering each processing unit such that at least one of the first sum value is not less than the threshold value when the second sum value is not less than the threshold value and a cover-ordering unit for making a covering order to a transaction-covering bank terminal.
US08200567B2	Method of computerized monitoring of investment trading and associated system A method of computerized monitoring of investment trading includes providing historic trading data for a specific trader, selecting a plurality of trading parameters for the specific trader and obtaining current information regarding the selected parameters, and/or providing historic trading data and applying rules to the current information and/or historic trading data to determine if behavior of interest which may involve a rules violation, a departure from the rules which is not technically a violation or a potential departure from the rules which might make desirable further investigation has occurred. The system may be employed to monitor whether market timing of mutual fund investments has occurred. A corresponding computerized system is disclosed.
US08200548B2	Recipe engine system and method Disclosed is a system and method for providing electronic meal information to a user. At least one database stores recipe information, recipe attribute information process information and time information for recipes. A web site linked to the Internet includes a prompt for a user to submit at least one characteristic of a meal and another prompt for available ingredient information. Recipe information is generated by a selection of at least some of the stored electronic recipe information that corresponds to the characteristic of the meal and the available ingredients. An electronic list of ingredients is generated that includes the difference between ingredients for the meal, and the at least one ingredient that the user has available for the meal.
US08200546B2	System and method for distributing media content A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a registration system having a controller to register a purchase of media content housed in a physical medium with one or more media sources to authorize a consumer of the purchased media content to electronically access from the one or more media sources at least a portion of media content that is similar to or a replica of the purchased media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08200545B2	Multi-Merchant payment system A method of payment for mufti-vendor gift cards, that performs actions including maintaining a merchandise database comprising records for merchandise and services for a plurality of merchants, enabling a gift card giver to interactively purchase a gift card for a gift card recipient, entitling the gift card recipient to redeem the gift card for items up to a specified spending limit, electronically transferring the money used to purchase the gift card into a card funding account that is used to pay for purchases by the gift card recipient, enabling the gift card recipient to interactively select one or more items from the merchandise database, thereby generating an aggregated selection of items for each merchant, issuing orders to each merchant in accordance with the aggregated selected items corresponding to each merchant and paying each merchant the amount of their respective order from the card funding account.
US08200543B2	Methods and systems to supplement a listing via a third party trust provider Various embodiments include a method and system to supplement a listing via a third party trust provider. Responsive to an event associated with an item listing, supplemental trust information is requested from a third party trust provider using at least one predetermined criterion from the item listing. At least a portion of the supplemental trust information may be stored in the item listing. A notification may be presented in response to a trigger based on the at least a portion of the STI stored in the item listing.
US08200537B2	Integrated retailer process In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a set of API's for integrated retailers to perform standard order fulfillment operations to fulfill and return products on behalf of their clients is described. A common catalog on a software platform is intended be a flexible common hub around which many different commerce models can be implemented. Integrated retailer is one such model on which e-commerce occurs. Integrated retailers are permitted to sell product from the common catalog with another company providing back-end fulfillment. The common catalog infrastructure's pre-existing XML catalog export facility provides product information to the retailer. The Retail Web Service (RWS) provides the fulfillment functions as a REST-style web service.
US08200529B2	Random and deterministic travel fees Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for randomly setting a travel fee. A usage attribute of vehicle traffic travelling upon a toll thoroughfare is observed and compared to a threshold. As a function of comparing the attribute to the threshold, a plurality of different toll rates are randomly assigned to each of a plurality of vehicles, each of the vehicles either travelling upon the toll thoroughfare or potentially entering the toll thoroughfare. An occupant of a vehicle is notified of a toll rate randomly assigned, and fees or credits associated with travel by the occupant's vehicle are charged (levied or awarded) at the randomly assigned toll rate.
US08200527B1	Method for prioritizing and presenting recommendations regarding organizaion's customer care capabilities Enhancements to customer care capabilities can be prioritized and presented using a repeatable methodology which allows information to be collected, processed, and utilized in a uniform fashion across engagements. Such a methodology can be designed so as to be flexible enough for any customization which is required in particular circumstances. Various tools which can be used in such a methodology include computerized surveys, evaluation formulae, prioritization graphs, and weighing scales.
US08200526B2	Method and system for collecting stakeholder relationship data A system for compiling and presenting data collection instruments associated with a plurality of stakeholder relationship causality models, managing data collection processes, conducting statistical tests, variable analytics and impacts calculations, and generating action plans and reports associated with a plurality of stakeholder experiences, stakeholder attitudes and stakeholder behavioral intentions for use in assessing the state of stakeholder relationships and planning for performance optimization, the system comprising: a) a user interface software module, b) a stakeholder model library, c) a variables database, d) a stakeholder profile database, e) an action plan library, f) a reports library, g) a language conversion engine, h) a stakeholder survey software module, i) a variable analytics software module, j) an impact calculation software module, k) an action plan generation software module, and l) a report generation software module.
US08200525B2	Process and system for integrating information from disparate databases for purposes of predicting consumer behavior A process and system for integrating information stored in at least two disparate databases. The stored information includes consumer transactional information. According to the process and system, at least one qualitative variable which is common to each database is identified, and then transformed into one or more quantitative variables. The consumer transactional information in each database is then converted into converted information in terms of the quantitative variables. Thereafter, an integrated database is formed for predicting consumer behavior by combining the converted information from the disparate databases.
US08200523B2	Procedure generation apparatus and method A procedure generation apparatus has, in a storage unit thereof, a database in which a name of input information and a name of output information name are stored, associated with a name of a work. The procedure generation apparatus retrieves one or more candidate work names associated with an input information name from the database, displays the retrieved one or more work names, receives a selection of a work name from among the displayed one or more work names, retrieves one or more candidate output information names associated with the selected work name from the database, displays the retrieved one or more output information names, receives a selection of an output information name from among the displayed output information names, retrieves one or more candidate input information names each having a similar name to the selected output information name, from the database, and displays the retrieved input information name.
US08200509B2	Masked data record access A computer based method and system for masked data record access are presented in which data masks are applied to sensitive personal information so that non-masked portions of that information can be used in the selection of products, services and service providers for a consumer. In one application the method and system are utilized in the selection of healthcare products, services and providers based on pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) and non-pangenetic information associated with the consumer.
US08200506B2	Integrated health management platform Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for supporting health needs of a consumer by processing input data. An integrated health management platform supports the management of healthcare by obtaining multi-dimensional input data for a consumer, determining a health-trajectory predictor from the multi-dimensional input data, identifying a target of opportunity for the consumer in accordance with the health-trajectory predictor, and offering the target of opportunity for the consumer. Multi-dimensional input data may include claim data, consumer behavior marketing data, self-reported data, and biometric data. A consumer may be assigned to a cluster based on the multi-dimensional input data and a characteristic of the consumer may be inferred. A cluster may be associated with a disease progression, and a target of opportunity is determined from the cluster and the disease progression. An impact of the target of opportunity may be assessed by delivering treatment to a consumer at an appropriate time.
US08200504B2	Facilitating and encouraging caregroup communications via a closed communication service and hardcopy-based email appliances Methods and systems are provided for promoting and managing communications among members of a caregroup. Potential recipients of digital gifts are limited to targets of caregroups in which the members participate. An indication of a digital gift to be delivered in hardcopy form to a hardcopy-based email appliance of the target is received. The email appliance is operable to receive digital gifts and produce hardcopy output of the digital gifts. For each content-containing component of the digital gift, default content items are selected based upon one or more of biographical information previously supplied information regarding communications history with the target, ascertained preferences of the target, and the digital gift type. The member of the caregroup is allowed to initiate delivery of the digital gift with the selected default content items or is allowed to personalize the digital gift prior to delivery within a digital gift editor.
US08200496B2	Audio signal decoder and method for producing a scaled reconstructed audio signal A set of peaks in a reconstructed audio vector Ŝ of a received audio signal is detected and a scaling mask ψ(Ŝ) based on the detected set of peaks is generated. A gain vector g* is generated based on at least the scaling mask and an index j representative of the gain vector. The reconstructed audio signal is scaled with the gain vector to produce a scaled reconstructed audio signal. A distortion is generated based on the audio signal and the scaled reconstructed audio signal. The index of the gain vector based on the generated distortion is output.
US08200494B2	Speaker intent analysis system A speaker intent analysis system and method for validating the truthfulness and intent of a plurality of participants' responses to questions. A computer stores, retrieves, and transmits a series of questions to be answered audibly by participants. The participants' answers are received by a data processor. The data processor analyzes and records the participants' speech parameters for determining the likelihood of dishonesty. In addition to analyzing participants' speech parameters for distinguishing stress or other abnormality, the processor may be equipped with voice recognition software to screen responses that while not dishonest, are indicative of possible malfeasance on the part of the participants. Once the responses are analyzed, the processor produces an output that is indicative of the participant's credibility. The output may be sent to proper parties and/or devices such as a web page, computer, e-mail, PDA, pager, database, report, etc. for appropriate action.
US08200493B1	System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation are disclosed. The method includes receiving speech data from the user to yield received speech data and analyzing the received speech data according to a prosodic characterization of the speech data to yield the speech data analysis. The method further includes controlling listening movement of the agent according to the speech data analysis, wherein the listening movement of the agent occurs while the user is speaking the received speech data to the agent such that the agent appears to respond to the specific received speech data.
US08200490B2	Method and apparatus for searching multimedia data using speech recognition in mobile device A method of searching music using speech recognition in a mobile device, the method including: recognizing a speech signal uttered by a user as a phoneme sequence; and searching music information by performing partial symbol matching between the recognized phoneme sequence and a standard pronunciation sequence.
US08200475B2	Phonetic-based text input method A method for transliterating languages in a computer system is disclosed. The method includes using a phonetic mapping engine to map languages to phonetic strings and vice versa. A user unfamiliar with a keyboard layout for a particular language may type phonetic strings using a known keyboard layout of a language known to the user. The typed input is captured by a keyboard hook, and based on a predefined phonetic mapping scheme, can be converted to the desired language.
US08200471B2	Apparatus and methods for modeling power characteristics of electronic circuitry Apparatus and methods for calculating power consumption of circuitry within integrated circuits (ICs), such as programmable logic devices (PLDs) are disclosed and described. A method of estimating power consumption of a circuit in an IC includes decomposing the IC into a plurality of overlapping blocks. Each block in the plurality of blocks includes a portion of the circuitry in the IC. The method further includes estimating power consumption of each block in the plurality of blocks, and estimating power consumption of the IC based on the power consumption of the plurality of blocks.
US08200468B2	Methods and system for lithography process window simulation A method of efficient simulating imaging performance of a lithographic process utilized to image a target design having a plurality of features. The method includes the steps of determining a function for generating a simulated image, where the function accounts for process variations associated with the lithographic process; and generating the simulated image utilizing the function, where the simulated image represents the imaging result of the target design for the lithographic process. In one given embodiment, the function for simulating the aerial images with focus and dose (exposure) variation is defined as: I(x,f,1+ε)=I0(x)+└ε·I0(x)+(1+ε)·a(x)·(f−f0)+(1+ε)·b(x)·(f−f0)2┘ where IO represents image intensity at nominal focus and exposure, fO represents nominal focus, f and ε represent an actual focus-exposure level at which the simulated image is calculated, and parameters “a” and “b” represent first order and second order derivative images with respect to focus change.
US08200467B1	Adaptive solver for cyclic behavior of a circuit A method of determining values for a circuit over a cycle includes: specifying first-cycle values for the circuit in a first cycle, the first-cycle values including voltage or current values for the circuit and providing reference cyclic values for characterizing a cyclic behavior of the circuit in the first cycle with a reference cyclic dimension; determining, from the first-cycle values, path-following values for the circuit in a second cycle, wherein the path-following values include transient values for characterizing a transient behavior of the circuit and cyclic-correction values for characterizing the cyclic behavior of the circuit relative to the reference cyclic values from the first cycle, wherein a cyclic-correction dimension of the cyclic-correction values is less than the reference cyclic dimension; and saving at least some values based on the path-following values in the second cycle.
US08200462B2	Dental appliances Electronic models of components of dental appliances can be generated based on the outer surface of an electronic model of the dental appliance. The outer surface may be generated based on the dentition and anatomy of the patient. For example, automated processes may identify landmarks in the anatomy and define the outer surface based on the identified landmarks. Alternatively, the outer surface may be generated based on statistical data. A management system coordinates automated processes with interactive processes to facilitate collaboration of remotely located technicians and equipment in generating electronic models.
US08200460B2	Method of designing a multi-winding device A method for designing a transformer using three secondary winding phase shift angles and a minimized core cross-sections. The method includes receiving an indication of an acceptable level of total harmonic distortion (THD) for the transformer, identifying a desired number of secondary windings per output phase of the transformer, simulating performance of various models for the transformer various potential phase shift angles, wherein each of the various models includes a set of phase shift angles for the secondary windings of the transformer. The method further includes identifying, based on the simulation, a transformer model that both has no more than three unique phase shift angles in the set and exhibits a primary side THD that is within the acceptable level, identifying an optimized core cross-sections, and reporting the identified transformer model having the three unique phase shift angle and the optimized core cross-sections.
US08200456B2	System for multidimensional data-driven utility baselining A system for utility base lining records historic values of utility loads for regions within a facility. The system also records historic values of independent variables such as outside temperature, time, date, workday versus non-workday, and occupancy. A similar data selector seeks out similar times in the past and submits the data from those times to a base line estimator which produces a baseline estimate. Differences between the current load and the estimated load can trigger alarms or investigations to determine why the utility load has changed. False alarms can occur when the utility load drifts over time. Detecting drift can help reduce false alarms or help in the investigation of alarms. A graphical user interface (GUI) can present an easily understood representation of the regions, load estimation errors, alarms, and detected drift.
US08200455B2	Diagnosis function detection apparatus of vehicle and detection method thereof A diagnosis function detecting apparatus of a vehicle is configured to detect a diagnosis function for diagnosing a malfunction of the vehicle, and a detecting method thereof. A method for detecting a malfunction diagnosis function of a vehicle may include detecting the operation condition of the engine of a vehicle, determining whether the accumulated operation time of the engine or the accumulated fuel consumption amount exceeds a predetermined value, determining whether the malfunction diagnosis function is in a normal condition when the accumulated operation time or the accumulated fuel consumption amount exceeds the predetermined value, and restricting the output torque of the engine or lighting a warning lamp when the malfunction diagnosis function is in an abnormal condition, or sustaining the normal driving condition when the malfunction diagnosis function is in a normal condition.
US08200452B2	Attitude-angle detecting apparatus and attitude-angle detecting method To provide an attitude-angle detecting apparatus, which detects an attitude angle of a mobile object during movement with good accuracy by correcting an output value from an acceleration sensor, and to provide a method for the same. It is characterized in that it comprises an acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration being applied to a mobile object, a yaw-rate sensor for measuring a yaw rate of the mobile object, a speed sensor for measuring a speed of the mobile object, a mobile-component acceleration calculating means for calculating an actual acceleration from the speed, calculating a centrifugal force from the yaw rate and the speed and calculating a mobile-component acceleration, a resultant force of the actual speed and the centrifugal force, and an attitude-angle calculating means for calculating an attitude angle from a gravitational acceleration, which is obtainable by correcting the acceleration with the mobile-component acceleration.
US08200443B2	Adjustment device of rotary machine, adjustment method of rotary machine, and manufacturing method of rotary machine An adjustment device of a rotary machine including a movable base formed rotatable around an axis, vibration sensors formed so that the sensors can measure amplitudes of longitudinal vibration and transverse vibration of the rotary machine, an adjustment weight to be arranged on the movable base, and a PC including a control section for calculating a position and weight of the adjustment weight, a storage section, and an amplifier are provided, an approximate expression is obtained by the PC from an amplitude measured by the vibration sensor, and a predetermined function, an optimum change amount x and position θ of the adjustment weight are calculated from the approximate expression, whereby the adjustment weight is arranged.
US08200441B2	Method for identifying nucleotide sequence, method for acquiring secondary structure of nucleic acid molecule, apparatus for identifying nucleotide sequence, apparatus for acquiring secondary structure of nucleic acid molecule, program for identifying nucleotide sequence, and program for acquiring secondary structure of nucleic acid molecule The object of the present invention is to provide a method for identifying a nucleotide sequence necessary for expressing affinity for a target substance with respect to a nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid molecule such as an aptamer having such affinity for the target substance, based on similarity between nucleotide sequences and an evaluated value of the affinity of the nucleotide sequence, and a method for predicting a secondary structure of the nucleic acid molecule including the identified nucleotide sequence. The method of present invention includes the steps of extracting a single-stranded region by excluding based capable of forming a stem structure from the nucleotide sequence of the nucleic acid molecule; and searching a motif sequence from the single-stranded region, based on an evaluated value of the affinity.
US08200437B2	Method for borehole correction, formation dip and azimuth determination and resistivity determination using multiaxial induction measurements A method for determining electromagnetic induction properties of subsurface rock formations includes determining an eccentering angle of a well logging instrument disposed in a wellbore. The instrument includes at least one triaxial induction transmitter and at least one triaxial induction receiver. The eccentering angle is determined from symmetric cross component measurement differences. The triaxial induction measurements made from the at least one receiver are rotated to an apparent eccentering angle of zero. At least one electromagnetic induction property is determined from the rotated triaxial induction measurements.
US08200434B2	Tsunami detection method and system A method of detecting a tsunami by using the global positioning system (GPS) is provided. The method includes distributing multiple GPS receivers over a sea surface in a target area, receiving signals from GPS satellites by the GPS receivers, and transmitting the signals and coordinates of the GPS receivers to a computer. The signals are then processed to acquire real-time monitoring data including the distribution of electrons in the ionosphere above the target area, and the occurrence of a tsunami is then determined based on the distribution of electrons.
US08200430B2	Method and apparatus for providing integrity information for users of a global navigation system In a method for providing integrity information for users of a global navigation system, which comprises several space vehicles like satellites transmitting information to a device for position detection, the transmitted information comprises first information from the global navigation system about the accuracy of a signal in space error SISE of a faulty space vehicle, and second information whether or not the global navigation system assesses the faulty space vehicle as faulty. The invention is based on the assumption how exact a fault can be detected, so that performance the global navigation system can be increased; and no unfounded assumption is used which improves the quality of service.
US08200415B2	Method and device for controlling the operating mode of an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a method for controlling the operating mode of an internal combustion engine (1) comprising several cylinders (3) and an injection system (4) with one injection unit (5) per cylinder (3). According to said method: a digital measuring signal, which characterizes the combustion of fuel (6) in the internal combustion engine (1), is first determined; said digital measuring signal is then transformed into a frequency range; a misfiring of the ignition is detected using the amplitude information of the transformed measuring signal and if a misfiring has occurred, the injection of the individual cylinders (3) is deactivated sequentially for a predefined period and for each cylinder the corresponding digital measuring signal that characterizes said cylinder is determined and transformed into the frequency range and a misfiring cylinder (3) is identified during the evaluation of the transformed measuring signal using the amplitude information. The invention also relates to a device for controlling the operating mode of an internal combustion engine (1) using a method of this type.
US08200413B2	Powerplant and related control system and method A hydrogen fueled powerplant including an internal combustion engine that drives a motor-generator, and has a two-stage turbocharger, for an aircraft. A control system controls the operation of the motor-generator to maintain the engine at a speed selected based on controlling the engine equivalence ratio. The control system controls an afterburner, an intercooler and an aftercooler to maximize powerplant efficiency. The afterburner also adds power to the turbochargers during high-altitude restarts. The turbochargers also include motor-generators that extract excess power from the exhaust.
US08200411B2	Method and system for fuel vapor control A method and system for fuel vapor control in a hybrid vehicle (HEV). The HEV fuel vapor recovery system includes a fuel tank isolation valve, which is normally closed to isolate storage of refueling from storage of diurnal vapors. The method for fuel vapor control includes selectively actuating the fuel tank isolation valve during interrelated routines for refueling, fuel vapor purging, and emission system leak detection diagnostics to improve regulation of pressure and vacuum the HEV fuel vapor recovery system.
US08200408B2	System and method for active traction control of a vehicle A method for active traction control of a vehicle can be performed to optimize corner exiting performance of a vehicle that is operating in a high performance or racing environment. The method estimates a real-time tire traction value during operation of the vehicle, computes a remaining tire traction value based upon a comparison of the estimated real-time tire traction value to a total available tire traction value, and calculates a traction system torque limit from the remaining tire traction value. The calculated torque limit can then be used to limit the actual traction system torque of the vehicle as needed in a real-time manner.
US08200406B2	Reducing brake noise during low pressure braking A mechanism for reducing brake noise during braking of a vehicle. The mechanism includes controllers and methods that “hold” a currently applied braking torque rather than applying the operator-requested braking torque when a vehicle is traveling at a low speed and the operator-requested braking torque is within a predetermined range. The controllers and methods “release” the previously “held” braking torque and apply the operator-requested braking torque once the operator-requested braking torque is outside the predetermined range.
US08200399B2	Method of controlling a baler and a baler A baler (1) composed of a pick-up device (4) for picking up a crop string (12), a compression device for compressing the crop in a compression direction to form a bale, the compression device having components (19) for measuring a distribution of a charging degree transversely to the compression direction. The baler (1) also has a 3D imaging device (11) for recording a 3D image (23) of the field and the crop string (12) in front of the baler (1), and a control device including a data processor (13) for controlling the baler (1) in dependence on data from the 3D image (23) and the charging degree (25).
US08200398B2	Automated control of boom and attachment for work vehicle A first sensor detects a boom position of a boom based on a first linear position of a first movable member of a first hydraulic cylinder. A second sensor detects an attachment position of an attachment based on a second linear position of a second movable member of a second hydraulic cylinder. An accelerometer detects an acceleration or deceleration of the boom. A switch accepts a command to enter a ready position state from another position state. A controller controls the first hydraulic cylinder to attain a target boom position and for controlling the second cylinder to attain a target attachment position associated with the ready position state in response to the command in conformity with at least one of a desired boom motion curve and a desired attachment motion curve.
US08200396B2	Apparatus for controlling lighting angle of headlights of vehicle An apparatus is provided to control a lighting angle of headlights installed in a vehicle. In the apparatus, a curve of the road is calculated and the radius of the curve is obtained, based on the current position and the road information. The curve is located ahead of the vehicle. A distance from the current position to a starting point of the curve is calculated based on the current position and the road information. Determination is made as to whether or not the curve is an S-shaped curve based on the road information, and line-shape information showing a line shape of the S-curve is set in response to the determination results of the curve. A lighting angle of the headlights is calculated based on the radius of the curve, the distance and the line-shape information, and the lighting angle of the headlights is controlled based on the calculated lighting angle.
US08200392B2	Vehicular steering control device A vehicle steering control apparatus (10) is provided with: a steering force applying device (15, 30) for applying a steering force front wheels (5, 6); and a lateral force detecting device (42) for detecting a lateral force of each of the front wheels and rear wheels (7, 8), the steering force applying device applying, to the front wheels, a convergent steering force which steers the front wheels in a direction in which yaw oscillation converges, if a ratio of the lateral force (Fr) of the rear wheels to the lateral force (Ff) of the front wheels becomes a ratio of possibly causing the yaw oscillation in a vehicle (1).
US08200386B2	Control device of a four-wheel drive electric vehicle and method thereof A method of controlling an accelerator of a four-wheel drive electric vehicle comprises the steps of controlling power output of the vehicle by a sum of an output torque of a main drive motor and an output torque an auxiliary drive motor with the output torque of the main drive motor being determined by a position of the accelerator pedal. The output torque T0 of the auxiliary drive motor is determined by: obtaining a torque calculation factor GainAccSum that a cumulative value of the acceleration GainAcc of the accelerator pedal; determining a maximum output torque T of the auxiliary drive motor at a current speed of the vehicle; and calculating the output torque T0 of the auxiliary drive motor varying between 0 and T based on the torque calculation factor GainAccSum and the maximum output torque T of the auxiliary drive motor at the current speed of the vehicle.
US08200381B2	Component vehicle According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for determining whether first and second components of a vehicle are physically coupled together, the method comprising: transmitting a first signal from the first component of the vehicle; receiving a second signal from the second component of the vehicle; processing the second signal to determine whether the first and second components of the vehicle are coupled.
US08200378B1	System, module, and method for presenting NOTAM information on an aircraft display unit A present novel and non-trivial system, module, and method for presenting NOTAM information are disclosed. A plurality of sources may be used for providing navigation data, terrain data, NOTAM data, and object data. After receiving this data, a NOTAM display generating processor may generate a NOTAM image data set as a function of the navigation data, terrain data, NOTAM data, and object data. The NOTAM image data set may be representative of NOTAM information presented in a three-dimensional perspective of a scene outside an aircraft, where NOTAM information may comprise non-textual NOTAM information, textual NOTAM information, or both. After being generated, the NOTAM image data set may be provided to a presentation system where NOTAM information may be presented on at least one tactical display unit such as a head-down display unit and/or a head-up display unit.
US08200375B2	Radio controlled aircraft, remote controller and methods for use therewith A radio controlled (RC) aircraft includes a receiver that is coupled to receive an RF signal from a remote control device, the RF signal containing command data in accordance with a first coordinate system, wherein the first coordinate system is from a perspective of the remote control device. A motion sensing module generates motion data based on the motion of the RC aircraft. A processing module transforms the command data into control data in accordance with a second coordinate system, wherein the second coordinate system is from a perspective of the RC aircraft. A plurality of control devices control the motion of the RC aircraft based on the control data. In an embodiment, a remote control device commands the RC helicopter to substantially a hovering state when no force is applied to each of a plurality of spring-loaded interface devices.
US08200371B2	Prediction engine to control energy consumption In a particular embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one controllable energy consuming module and a prediction engine. The prediction engine includes detection logic configured to determine a historical usage pattern of the at least one controllable energy consuming module, prediction logic configured to create a prediction rule that predicts future usage of the at least one controllable energy consuming module based on the historical usage pattern, control logic configured to selectively control an energy level of the at least one controllable energy consuming module based on the prediction rule, and learning logic configured to update the prediction logic in response to detecting usage of the at least one controllable energy consuming module in a manner that differs from the usage predicted by the prediction rule.
US08200369B2	Use of statistical analysis in power plant performance monitoring A technique of implementing performance monitoring in a power plant is appropriate to control operating parameters and factors connected with the efficiency of the energy production process in an energy marketplace that is more complex than in the past, and that takes variable costs besides the cost of fuel into account, e.g., environmental credits, equipment degradation and repair costs, electrical energy trade market factors like ramp rate, LMP (Locational Marginal Pricing) factors, the ability to deliver contracted power levels and spot transactions, etc. The technique applies a statistical analysis to collected power plant data to determine the factors that are best controlled or changed to affect (increase) the efficiency or other primary performance indication of the plant, as well as to establish baseline or best-possible operational constraints to be used to control the plant in the future.
US08200359B2	Method for machining slide core hole A method for machining a slide core hole in a mold and a measurement/correction system for use in machining of a slide core hole. A spindle head is pivoted to meet the inclination angle of the slide core hole to be machined in the mold. A shallow flat-bottomed spot-faced hole is spot-faced in the surface of the mold. A guide hole is drilled in the bottom surface of the spot-faced hole. A rod hole is drilled using the guide hole as a guide. An intermediate pocket hole is formed while expanding the spot-faced hole. A reference point is corrected based on measurement of the shape of the intermediate pocket. A corrected machining program is executed with the corrected reference point to carry out precision shaping machining of the core pocket while expanding the intermediate pocket.
US08200357B2	Embroidery data creation apparatus and computer-readable recording medium storing embroidery data creation program An embroidery data creation apparatus including an angle information calculation device that calculates an angle characteristic and an angle characteristic intensity for each of the pixels constituting image data, an angle information storage device that stores the angle characteristic and the angle characteristic intensity as angle information, a region specification device that specifies a change region in which the angle information is to be changed, an angle characteristic specification device that specifies a post-change angle characteristic, an angle characteristic change device that changes the respective angle characteristics of pixels included in the change region based on the post-change angle characteristic, a line segment data creation device that creates line segment data, a color data creation device that creates color data, and an embroidery data creation device that creates the embroidery data based on the line segment data and the color data.
US08200356B2	Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus data acquisition apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing system A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus data acquisition apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a production management system interface unit which may communicate with the production management system, an apparatus interface unit which communicates with the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a production management system substitution unit which may communicate with the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus via the apparatus interface unit. When the production management system can communicate with the production management system interface unit, the production management system and the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus communicate with each other via the production management system interface unit and the apparatus interface unit to receive process data output from the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. When the production management system cannot communicate with the production management system interface unit, the production management system substitution unit and the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus communicate with each other via the apparatus interface unit to receive process data output from the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus.
US08200351B2	Low power downmix energy equalization in parametric stereo encoders A method and audio device are presented that preserve mono energy during downmixing of a hybrid coding process of an audio signal. The method includes calculating a stereo scaling factor in a group level that is definable within a stereo band. The method may also include updating the stereo scaling factor using an update rate and synchronizing the update rate of a spatial parameter during a fast changing transient portion of the signal. A number of groups in a first stereo band may be greater than a number of groups in a second stereo band, and the first stereo band may be a lower frequency band than the second band or may be perceptually more important than the second band.
US08200350B2	Content reproducing apparatus, list correcting apparatus, content reproducing method, and list correcting method A content reproducing apparatus includes: a recording unit that records content impression values obtained by digitizing impressions of plural contents, respectively, and a list for registering the plural contents corresponding to the plural content impression values in a selection area with a reference impression value set as a reference and causing a user to use the contents; a reproducing unit that reproduces the contents; an evaluation-value detecting unit that detects evaluation values of the plural contents registered in the list according to reproduction of the contents by the reproducing unit; a selection-area changing unit that changes the selection area on the basis of the evaluation values detected by the evaluation-value detecting unit; and a list correcting unit that corrects the list according to the selection area changed by the selection-area changing unit and the plural content impression values.
US08200349B2	Integrated audio video signal processing system using centralized processing of signals Integrated processing of audio/video signals can eliminate unnecessary signal processors and converters without losing the functionality of typical home entertainment system components. The integrated system includes a main player that captures and processes signals digitally, a dummy display, and a dummy speaker. The dummy display may only have a display panel and a panel driver. The dummy speaker may only have a driving unit and no crossover logic. The main player may have a PC architecture and process all signals digitally for outputting signals tailored for the display device and the individual driving units of the dummy speaker. The integrated system may also provide dynamic signal adjustments based on the surrounding environment. The main player may include a storage device and can process media content stored therein to produce supplemental information to provide an optimal audiovisual experience. This supplemental information can be shared among users over a network connection.
US08200343B2	Implantable medical electrical stimulation lead fixation method and apparatus The invention includes a implantable medical electrical lead for electrical stimulation of body tissue that includes at least one electrode; a lead body; and at least one modifiable portion, wherein the at least one modifiable portion has a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein the first configuration exists when axial tension is exerted on the at least one modifiable portion, and wherein the second configuration exhibits a greater resistance to movement of the lead within the body tissue than does the first configuration. Kits, and systems and methods of using the lead are also included.
US08200339B2	Implantable microphone for an implantable hearing prothesis An implantable microphone for a hearing prosthesis. The microphone comprises: a housing having a diaphragm chamber formed therein, and an aperture extending from the exterior surface of the housing to the chamber; a diaphragm disposed on the exterior of the housing so as to seal the aperture, and configured to vibrate in response to sound signals; a sensor positioned adjacent an end of the chamber opposing the diaphragm, and configured to detect vibration of the diaphragm, and to generate electrical signals based thereon; and a stiffening material substantially filling the regions of the housing external to the sensor and the diaphragm such that that air gaps within the filled regions of the housing are substantially eliminated, wherein the stiffening material has an elastic modulus that enables the housing to substantially resist deformation there of in response to body-noise.
US08200338B2	Flexible circuit electrode array for improved layer adhesion Present invention is a method of improving circadian rhythms in blind people by stimulation the visual neural system. Ideally a retinal prosthesis of the type used to restore vision can be used to restore normal circadian rhythms. Additionally, brightness on the prosthesis can be increased in the morning and decreased in the evening to stimulate normal Circadian rhythms. Alternatively, if a retinal prosthesis is not preferable, the retina can be stimulated externally, during the day and not at night. While such eternal stimulation can not produced artificial vision, it can stimulate normal circadian rhythms.
US08200331B2	System and method for filtering neural stimulation Various aspects of the present subject matter provide a filter module. In various embodiments, the filter module comprises an input, an output, a signal path from the input to the output, a filter and a switch. The filter has a transfer response to attenuate a frequency of a neural stimulation signal. The switch is adapted to place the filter in the signal path when the neural stimulation signal is applied and to remove the filter from the signal path when the neural stimulation signal is not applied. Other aspects are provided herein.
US08200328B2	Tank filters placed in series with the lead wires or circuits of active medical devices to enhance MRI compatibility A TANK filter is provided for a lead wire of an active medical device (AMD). The TANK filter includes a capacitor in parallel with an inductor. The parallel capacitor and inductor are placed in series with the lead wire of the AMD, wherein values of capacitance and inductance are selected such that the TANK filter is resonant at a selected frequency. The Q of the inductor may be relatively maximized and the Q of the capacitor may be relatively minimized to reduce the overall Q of the TANK filter to attenuate current flow through the lead wire along a range of selected frequencies. In a preferred form, the TANK filter is integrated into a TIP and/or RING electrode for an active implantable medical device.
US08200322B2	Electrogram storage for suspected non-physiological episodes Techniques for storing electrograms (EGMS) that are associated with sensed episodes or events that may be non-physiological and, instead, associated with a sensing integrity condition are described. In some examples, a device or system identifies suspected non-physiological NSTs, and stores an EGM for the suspected non-physiological NSTs within an episode log. In some examples, a device or system determines whether to store an EGM for a suspected non-physiological episode or event based on whether an impedance integrity criterion has been satisfied. For example, a device or system may store an EGM for a detected short interval if the impedance integrity criterion has been met. In some examples, a device or system determines whether to buffer EGM data based on whether an impedance integrity criterion or other sensing integrity criterion has been met.
US08200317B2	Method and apparatus for amplifying multiple signals using a single multiplexed amplifier channel with software controlled AC response A device for amplifying multiple signals includes a plurality of sensors, where a plurality of lead signals are derived from the plurality of sensors, a plurality of low-pass filter and buffer amplifiers for filtering and buffering the plurality of lead signals, one or more multiplexers, where outputs from the plurality of low-pass filter and buffer amplifiers are input to one of the one or more multiplexers, a single amplifier channel, where the outputs of the one or more multiplexers are input to the single amplifier channel and a microcontroller which controls the one or more multiplexers, wherein the microcontroller stores software which selects, in sequence, one at a time, one out of each of the lead signals to be connected to inputs of the single amplifier channel, wherein the single amplifier channel amplifies all of the lead signals. The single amplifier channel has a software programmable AC response.
US08200316B2	Opposed view and dual head detector apparatus for diagnosis and biopsy with image processing methods The invention relates generally to biopsy needle guidance which employs an x-ray/gamma image spatial co-registration methodology. A gamma camera is configured to mount on a biopsy needle gun platform to obtain a gamma image. More particular, the spatially co-registered x-ray and physiological images may be employed for needle guidance during biopsy. Moreover, functional images may be obtained from a gamma camera at various angles relative to a target site. Further, the invention also generally relates to a breast lesion localization method using opposed gamma camera images or dual opposed images. This dual head methodology may be used to compare the lesion signal in two opposed detector images and to calculate the Z coordinate (distance from one or both of the detectors) of the lesion.
US08200315B2	Patient visual instruction techniques for synchronizing breathing with a medical procedure A method of prompting a patient includes informing a patient a relationship between a result of an activity being performed by the patient and a first target result to be achieved by the activity. A method of prompting a patient includes informing a patient a relationship between a time and a target result to be achieved by an activity. A method of prompting a patient includes informing a patient a relationship between a position of a portion of the patient and a first target position for the portion.
US08200313B1	Application of image-based dynamic ultrasound spectrography in assisting three dimensional intra-body navigation of diagnostic and therapeutic devices Using Image-based Dynamic Ultrasound Spectrography (IDUS®) technology, the intrabody monitoring and positioning of an inserted catheter is achieved by coupling a thin micron-size polymeric wire to the catheter with 100-500 micron metallic cylinder attached to the tip of the wire. The area of interest is imaged and subsequently stimulated using specialized stimulation schemes delivered by an imaging ultrasound transducer. The targeted metallic tip is stimulated and emanates a unique acoustic response (signature) corresponding to its mechanical and material properties. Because of the fundamental structural differences between the targeted metallic tip and its surroundings, its unique resonant frequency signature can be analyzed and differentiated relative to the surrounding soft tissue, the wire and the catheter itself so that the location of the catheter in the body can be determined.
US08200310B2	Spinal injury imaging by magnetically levitated sensors A system for detecting a spinal injury region containing injured spinal nerve cells may include a swarm of nanosensors that are configured to detect chemical signals released by the injured spinal nerve cells, and are coated with a magnetic material. A magnetic field generator may controllably generate a magnetic field so as to magnetically levitate the magnetically coated nanosensors. An imaging subsystem may detect the positions of the nanosensors. A controller may control the intensity and direction of the magnetic field in a feedback loop, in response to the detected positions of the nanosensors, so that the attractive force that attracts each nanosensor toward the injured spinal cell as a result of the chemical affinity of the nanosensor is iteratively supplemented by the magnetic levitation force applied to that nanosensor, until substantially all of the nanosensors are agglutinated around the spinal injury region.
US08200296B2	Foldable mobile equipment Foldable mobile equipment is provided with a first housing 3 including a liquid crystal display part (display part) at the front face thereof, a second housing 5 including an operation part at the front face thereof, and a hinge portion 6 connecting the first housing 3 and the second housing 5 to each other foldably about an open/close axis X and supporting the first housing 3 so that the first housing 3 can be flipped over about a vertical axis Y vertical to the open/close axis X. The liquid crystal display part is supported on the first housing 3 by means of a cam mechanism 10 (a support mechanism) so as to be switchable between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation.
US08200284B2	Communication device and method for managing multimedia files A communication device and method for managing multimedia files include creating a multimedia file, and establishing communication between the communication device and a server through a base station, the server providing a region name of a region corresponding to each base station. The communication device and method further include searching the server for a region name of a region corresponding to the base station, creating a folder and naming the folder with the searched region name, and storing the created multimedia file into the folder.
US08200274B2	Method of controlling power of access uplink using relay station and system thereof Provided are a method of controlling power of an access uplink using a relay station (RS) and a system thereof. When a base station (BS) decides that the subject of power control of the access uplink is itself, the BS generates a message for power control of the access uplink based on channel quality measurement information reported from the RS and transmits the power control message to a subscriber station (SS), and when the BS decides that the subject of power control of the access uplink is the RS, the RS generates a message for power control of the access uplink based on channel quality measurement information and transmits the power control message to the SS. Thus, fast power control of the access uplink can be performed.
US08200273B2	Binding wireless devices in a building automation system On a first level of the wireless building automation architecture, sensors and associated actuators communicate directly. The sensor performs control processes appropriate for the sensor and regardless of the type of actuator being used. The actuator performs control processes specific to the actuator regardless of the type of sensor being used. By direct wireless communication between sensors and actuators, the opportunity for a failed communications link using a hub and spoke arrangement may be avoided. Communication redundancy is provided by receiving the outputs of sensors at a controller, such as a controller on a second high speed or high bandwidth tier of the architecture. Regional control is implemented in the higher level tier. The higher level tier may override or control operation of components of the lower level tier as needed. The distributed control processing allows for more convenient room level integration. Where a problem is detected, such as a fire, corrective action begins within the immediate region of the sensor generating an alarm signal. The corrective action occurs without routing the alarm signal to upper levels of control processes or across different systems. The alarm signal is also propagated to upper level control systems for generating appropriate responses in other zones. To provide the different zones and avoid interference, the transmit power of the sensors and actuators is controlled as a function of two or more other devices.
US08200270B2	Method for adusting power at a node In one embodiment, a method for distributed power control in a network is provided. The method determines a transmit power for a plurality of transmitting nodes such that signals sent from each of the transmitting nodes are received at a receiving node at a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) set point. Additionally, the method increases the SINR at the receiving node of one or more transmitting nodes of the plurality of transmitting nodes, and decreases the SINR at the receiving node of one or more other transmitting nodes of the plurality of transmitting nodes; wherein a total increase in SINR by the one or more transmitting nodes is substantially equal to total decrease in SINR by the one or more other transmitting nodes.
US08200263B2	Apparatus and method for providing uplink interference coordination in a radio communication system An apparatus and a method provide for uplink interference coordination in a radio communication system, such as a cellular communication system. Measurements are made at mobile stations associated with uplink-channel interference conditions. Reports are made to the network when a mobile station experiences interference conditions beyond a measurement threshold. If greater than a group-threshold number of mobile stations experience high levels of uplink-channel interference, communication resources are reallocated in compensation for the high interference conditions.
US08200251B2	Determining a location of a mobile device using a location database Methods, program products, and systems for determining a location of a mobile device using a location database are described. The mobile device can host the location database, which can store locations associated with access points. The locations can be distributed in a group of cells of a geographic grid. When the mobile device moves and connects to an access point associated with a location that is outside the group of cells, the mobile device can request an update of the location database. The mobile device can calculate a current location of the mobile device using current access points that are within a communication range of the mobile device by performing a lookup in the location database using identifiers of the current access points. The mobile device can calculate the current location using the locations corresponding to the current access points in the location database.
US08200242B2	Enhanced wireless node location using differential signal strength metric A wireless node location mechanism that employs a differential signal strength metric to reduce the errors caused by variations in wireless node transmit power, errors in signal strength detection, and/or direction-dependent path loss. As opposed to using the absolute signal strength or power of an RF signal transmitted by a wireless node, implementations of the location mechanism compare the differences between signal strength values detected at various pairs of radio receivers to corresponding differences characterized in a model of the RF environment. One implementation searches for the locations in the model between each pair of radio receivers where their signal strength is different by an observed amount.
US08200239B2	Femto-cell location by proxy methods Location of small, consumer deployed femto-cells cannot be determined by the usual site survey methods. Location of attached mobiles allows for a proxy location of the femto-cell that can then be used for wireless network planning including the provisioning of a calculated default emergency services location for the femto-cell.
US08200234B2	Method and apparatus for allocating radio resource in wireless sensor network A method and apparatus for allocating a radio resource in a wireless sensor network are provided, in which a signal requesting a radio resource allocation is received from any one of sensors included in the wireless sensor network, an amount of remaining energy is compared with respect to each zone where a sensor transmitting the signal is included, an order of zones, from a zone comprising a greatest amount of remaining energy to a zone having a least amount of remaining energy, is determined as a result of the comparison, and a time slot is allocated to a sensor of each zone according to the determined order of zones, when transmitting a frame for the radio resource allocation.
US08200230B2	Method and means for reducing interference peaks during soft handover The invention relates to a method for reducing the number of uplink interference peaks during soft handover from a radio base station (RBS A) providing a source cell (12) to a radio base station (RBS B) providing a target cell (13) in a cellular mobile communication system. The invention also relates to radio base station (RBS) and a radio network controller (RNC) specifically designed for carrying out the method. The RNC orders RBS B of the target cell to set up a link to a mobile (MS) involved in the soft handover procedure. Further the RNC orders the mobile to start listening for RBS B of the target cell and to synchronize to RBS B. RBS B synchronizes with the mobile in a downlink (6) but not in the uplink. The invention is characterized in that the RNC orders RBS A to set a RF transmission power floor below which its transmission power must not fall when the mobile receives RBS B in the target cell stronger than RBS A and perceives the signal in the downlink from RBS B too strong. Further the RNC orders RBS A to set said floor active for a predefined period of time.
US08200227B2	System and method for resumable data transmission A method for resuming data transmission in a data transmission system including multiple information processing units and at least one mobile device, the multiple information processing units and the mobile device each including a wireless communication component, the method includes: transmitting data, by a first one of the multiple information processing units, to the mobile device; recording a transmission status of the mobile device, the transmission status including information regarding an unfinished data transmission by the first information processing unit to the mobile device; and resuming transmitting data relating to the unfinished data transmission, by a second one of the multiple information processing units, to the mobile device based on the recorded transmission status.
US08200224B2	Handover method and apparatus thereof The invention relates to a handover method in a base station of a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system further comprising a plurality of base stations. A telecommunication link being established between a user equipment and the base station, the method comprises: receiving a first measurement report from the user equipment; selecting a first candidate base station using the evaluation of the signal quality from the first measurement report; initiating a first handover preparation by transmitting a first request to the first candidate base station; determining if the first handover preparation has failed; selecting a set of candidate base stations including at least some of the candidate base stations identified in the first measurement report; initiating a second handover preparation by transmitting a second handover request to at least one of the set of candidate base stations, if the first handover preparation has failed; selecting a target base station from the set of candidate base stations, if the second handover preparation has not failed; initiating the handover of the user equipment from the base station to the target base station.
US08200186B2	Emergency control in a multi-dimensional space A geographical zone, which can be multi-dimensional, such as in three dimensions, can be utilized to regulate the location of a movable user within the geographical zone. A mobile device associated with a user located in a specific area of a geographical zone is in communication at least one node, which is, in turn, in communication with at least one control center. Detailed local information from the location nodes is downloaded. The nodes communicate with each other wirelessly via radio frequency (RF) using Bluetooth™ protocol. Mobile devices interact with location nodes that are in communication range. A messaging system is used to send emergency and security communications to users associated with mobile devices in particular locations.
US08200182B2	System and method for standby mode in directional signal receiver A wireless receiver of a directional signal such as a 60 GHz signal can have a low power standby mode in which the linear oscillator (radio) portion of the receiver is deenergized. A DC detect circuit can detect the DC portion of an incoming signal, at which time the DC detect circuit energizes the remaining portions of the receiver.
US08200180B2	System and method for enhancing sensitivity of narrow information bandwidth receivers A radio frequency (RF) receiver having enhanced sensitivity is provided. In one embodiment, the receiver comprises at least one antenna, a preselector unit operative to receive an RF signal from the at least one antenna and output a preselected RF signal, and a frequency synthesizer operative to generate a signal at a predetermined synthesizer frequency. A mixer is operative to multiply the preselected RF signal and the predetermined synthesizer frequency and output a product signal. The receiver also includes an intermediate frequency (IF) filter unit that is operative to receive the product signal from the mixer and output an IF signal. The IF filter unit includes one or more narrow bandwidth filters having a bandwidth adequate to transmit information of interest. At least one of the narrow bandwidth filters comprises a carrier filter.
US08200179B1	Combined variable gain amplifier and analog equalizer circuit In one embodiment, a combined VGA-and-equalizer (VGA-EQ) circuit for a communication link includes a current-mode logic (“CML”) amplifier with an inductive load circuit. The CML amplifier has a gain control terminal and is operable to amplify, with an adjustable gain, a signal received at an input terminal and provide the amplified signal at an output terminal. The CML amplifier has a first gain at frequencies below a predetermined frequency value and a second gain at frequencies in a predetermined frequency range above the predetermined frequency value, wherein the second gain is higher than the first gain. The higher second gain of the VGA-EQ circuit causes a reduction in inter-symbol interference in a signal received by the receiver.
US08200174B2	Systems and methods for controlling a transmitter A power detection circuit is described that provides for a wide dynamic range power detection. In one embodiment, a system comprises a transmitter, a diplexer, an antenna, a detector module, a signal converter and a microprocessor. The transmitter may be configured to transmit an output signal. The diplexer electrically may be coupled to the transmitter and may be configured to provide the output signal. The antenna may be electrically coupled to the diplexer and may be configured to transmit the output signal from the diplexer. The detector module may be electrically coupled to the diplexer and the antenna. The detector module may be configured to detect a power level of the output signal. The signal converter may be electrically coupled to the detector module. The signal converter may be configured to convert the output signal to a digital signal. The microprocessor may be electrically coupled to the signal converter. The microprocessor may be configured to control an input into the transmitter based on the digital signal.
US08200165B2	Techniques for transmission of channel quality data in wireless systems An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, including a transceiver adapted for use in a wireless network using a fast feedback channel design that incorporates a 2-two level adaptive fast feedback channel framework separating uplink (UL) fast feedback channels into primary and secondary UL fast feedback channels.
US08200164B2	Wireless communication system, associated methods and data structures A wireless device, a system and a method to establish a wireless communication channel with one or more remote device(s) by generating and/or receiving a protocol data unit(s) (PDU) including a control field including one or more of link adaptation control information, calibration control information and feedback request information.
US08200154B2	System, apparatus and method to control output of radio frequency signal A system, apparatus and method to control the output of a radio frequency signal in a wireless local area network (LAN) system having an infrastructure. The system includes an access point which periodically transmits a frame including output control information used to control the output of the radio frequency signal, and a wireless terminal apparatus including a wireless transceiver module which receives the frame and a control module which extracts the output control information from the received frame, and controls the output of the radio frequency signal by the wireless transceiver module according to the extracted output control information.
US08200145B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a housing; a sheet discharging tray; a discharge unit, provided within the housing, the discharge unit configured to discharge a sheet into the sheet discharging tray; a pressing member, provided at a position downstream of the discharge unit in a conveying direction of the sheet, the pressing member configured to apply a pressing force to a surface of the sheet at a pressing position; and a pressing force changing unit which is configured to change the pressing force of the pressing member against the surface of the sheet.
US08200136B2	Image transfer roller (ITR) utilizing an elastomer crown Disclosed is an image transfer roller (ITR) utilizing an elastomer crown, imaging devices and imaging apparatus using the disclosed ITR. According to one exemplary embodiment, an ITR includes a cylindrically shaped conductive shaft and an elastomer material covering all or a portion of the conductive shaft. The profile of the outer surface of the elastomer material includes a substantially quadratic crown profile.
US08200126B2	Toner cartridges for an image forming device A toner cartridge for use with image forming devices according to one example embodiment includes an interior to contain toner that is transferred to the image forming device and used during image formation and includes one or more engagement features that interact with the image forming device during insertion. The engagement features may include one or more alignment features that align the cartridge during insertion into the image forming device. The engagement features may also include one or more functional features that allow the cartridge to effectively transfer the toner to the image forming device.
US08200112B2	Fuser assembly heater setpoint control A fuser assembly and a method of controlling a temperature in a fuser assembly are provided. The fuser assembly comprises a heat transfer member, a heater to heat the heat transfer member, and a backup member. The heat transfer member and the backup member define a fusing nip. A first temperature setpoint corresponding to a first thermal load for the heat transfer member is defined. A second temperature setpoint corresponding to a second thermal load for the heat transfer member is defined. The heater is maintained at or near the first temperature setpoint during at least a substantial portion of the time when the heat transfer member is operating at the first thermal load. The heater is maintained at or near the second temperature setpoint during at least a substantial portion of the time when the heat transfer member is operating at the second thermal load.
US08200111B2	Prevention of deformation of fixing unit in image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus capable of satisfactorily maintaining the durability of a separating mechanism while preventing deformation of rubber layers of parts of a fixing unit and at the same time achieving a power saving effect. The image-forming apparatus is shifted into a power saving state without a fixing part and a pressurizing part of the fixing unit being separated. The fixing part and the pressurizing part are separated, if a return condition from the power saving state is not satisfied even after elapse of a predetermined time period from when the apparatus has been shifted into the power saving state.
US08200110B2	Printing apparatus which reduces initial printing time and printing control method A printing apparatus includes a detection unit which detects a rotation period of a transfer belt, and a printing control unit which performs a printing preparation operation, and detects the rotation period if the printing preparation operation is started, and performs printing in the detected rotation period if the printing preparation operation is completed. Accordingly, a rotation period of the transfer belt is detected while performing the printing preparation operation, so that an initial printing time can be reduced.
US08200108B2	Dynamic donor loading control for development system A method and apparatus transfer a material from first roller within a container to at least one second roller, and transfer the material from the second roller to at least one third roller. The second roller and the third roller form a loading nip at a location where the second roller is closest to the third roller. The method and apparatus transfer the material from the third roller to at least one recipient device, and measure current flow between the second roller and the third roller using a measurement device. Then, the method alters the relative rotation rate difference between the first roller and the second roller based on the current flow to maintain a predetermined density of the material at the loading nip using a controller.
US08200107B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor drum, a developing roller, and a control section. The photoreceptor drum is configured to form an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof in accordance with image data. The developing roller has a surface for bearing a two-component developer at least a partial region of which faces the photoreceptor drum and is configured to be driven so as to feed the developer to the photoreceptor drum. The control section is configured to detect a print coverage for image data to be used during continuous formation of images in accordance with plural image data items and then set a relative velocity of the developing roller to the photoreceptor drum to a higher value when the print coverage is relatively high and set the relative velocity to a lower value when the print coverage is relatively low.
US08200101B2	Condition determining system, method of detecting abnormality of condition determining system, and image forming apparatus A system abnormality determining method comprises the steps of transmitting fake abnormal information representing an abnormal condition of the target instrument from the target instrument to a condition determination device via a network during a test operation of the target instrument instead of condition information, determining if the condition determination device can determine the target instrument as being abnormal based on the fake abnormal information, and operating the target instrument in a normal operation condition when the condition determination device can determine the target instrument as being abnormal.
US08200098B2	Method and arrangement for controlling a regenerator for data burst signals of a system comprising point-to-multipoint connections, transmission system comprising point-to-multipoint connections, and regenerator A system which comprises point-to-multipoint connections and in which a portion of a downstream signal is extracted at a point located between a central network unit and a plurality of user network units, a header of the downstream signal is read and analyzed, and the header data obtained in this manner is used for controlling a regenerator provided in the upstream path for the data burst signals. The header data contains the beginning and end of the burst of the data burst signals, thus making it possible to reliably generate a temporal triggering signal for the regenerator.
US08200097B2	Optoelectronic module form-factor adapter In one example embodiment, an adapter module includes a body having a first form-factor and multiple receptacles extending into the body. Each of the receptacles is configured to receive an optoelectronic module having a second form-factor. The second form-factor is smaller than the first form-factor. The first form-factor may substantially conform to the CFP MSA, for example. The second form-factor may substantially conform to the SFP+ or QSFP MSA, for example.
US08200096B2	Optical transceiver An optical transceiver which converts a plurality of optical signals input from a first side into electrical signals so as to output the electrical signals to a second side and converts a plurality of electrical signals input from the second side into optical signals so as to output the optical signals to the first side.
US08200095B2	Multi-level memory access in an optical transceiver A mechanism that enables an optical transceiver to grant access to its memory on a per-segment basis. The optical transceiver includes a processor, system memory and a memory access table. The memory access table is comprised of access entries, each of which defines the access condition for a corresponding segment of memory. The processor reads the access entries for a particular segment of the memory. The processor or other optical transceiver component then determines whether or not to grant access to the memory segment based on the access entry read by the processor. Different levels of access control may be accommodated.
US08200090B2	Optical transmission apparatus, optical transmission method, and optical transceiver An aspect of the embodiments utilizes an optical transmission apparatus which includes a rough adjustment execution portion that monitors a bit error rate of an optical signal for set values of a dispersion compensator where the set values have been set less closely to each other within a dispersion compensation control range than when a wavelength dispersion value set in the dispersion compensator is determined, and carries out a rough adjustment to determine a comparison threshold value used to set the wavelength dispersion value based on the monitored bit error rate, and a fine adjustment execution portion that monitors the bit error rate for the dispersion compensator the set values have been set more closely to each other, and carries out an adjustment to determine a wavelength dispersion value corresponding to the midpoint between the two acquired bit error rates as the wavelength dispersion value of the dispersion compensator.
US08200079B2	Camera module There is provided a camera module. The camera module includes a housing accommodating a lens barrel in which a lens is arranged, a close range lens provided in the housing and covering the lens at the time of shooting at close range, and a driving unit driving the close range lens to cover the lens.
US08200076B2	Estimating gender or age of a photographer A method of estimating the gender or approximate age of a photographer, includes: determining a steadiness signal related to movement of a camera held by a photographer while capturing an image or video, wherein the steadiness signal identifies the motion of the camera in at least two dimensions as a function of time. Then using a processor for determining a demographic classification for the photographer based on an analysis of the steadiness signal, wherein the demographic classification includes the approximate age or the gender of the photographer.
US08200069B2	Data indicating method, reproducing device, recording device A BD media with different formats such as BDMV and BDAV having been recorded. In a data indicating method of list-indicating data recorded on a recording medium, the data includes a first data group and a second data group, the first data group is recorded onto the recording medium according to a first recording format, the second data group is recorded according to a second recording format different from the first recording format, the first recording data group includes first list indication data for a first list indicating method, the second group includes second list for a second list indicating method different from the first method, the first list indication data indicates the first data group, the second list indication data indicates the second data group, and the first group and the second data group are collectively list-indicated.
US08200068B2	Digital television When recording image data inputted from a plurality of data ports and a clock port, for a data port at which the data value has not changed over a predetermined time period, the data value at that data port and a data item which indicates that this data value has continued unchanged are recorded. Furthermore, time instant information is recorded for such a data port at which the data value has ceased to change. Moreover, the value of the transfer rate of the clock signal is recorded. By doing this, the transfer rate is substantially enhanced, and it is possible to anticipate effective utilization of the storage capacity due to elimination of the recording of useless image data.
US08200063B2	System and method for video summarization The subject invention relates to a system and method for video summarization, and more specifically to a system for segmenting and classifying data from a video in order to create a summary video that preserves and summarizes relevant content. In one embodiment, the system first extracts appearance, motion, and audio features from a video in order to create video segments corresponding to the extracted features. The video segments are then classified as dynamic or static depending on the appearance-based and motion-based features extracted from each video segment. The classified video segments are then grouped into clusters to eliminate redundant content. Select video segments from each cluster are selected as summary segments, and the summary segments are compiled to form a summary video. The parameters for any of the steps in the summarization of the video can be altered so that a user can adapt the system to any type of video, although the system is designed to summarize unstructured videos where the content is unknown. In another aspect, audio features can also be used to further summarize video with certain audio properties.
US08200060B2	Brightness enhancement sheet A brightness enhancement sheet including a light transmissive substrate, a plurality of strip prisms, and a plurality of protruding structures is provided. The light transmissive substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The strip prisms are disposed on the first surface. Each of the strip prisms has two prism surfaces, and a junction of the two prism surfaces forms a crest line, and a valley line is formed between each of the two adjacent strip prisms. Each of the protruding structures has two wing portions. The two wing portions are respectively disposed on two prism surfaces of the corresponding strip prism. A junction of the two wing portions forms a protruding end. The protruding end protrudes from the crest line of the corresponding strip prism. Each of the wing portions extends from the protruding end to the valley line.
US08200059B2	Adhesive composition for optical waveguide, adhesive film for optical waveguide and adhesive sheet for optical waveguide each using the same, and optical device using any of them The present invention provides an adhesive composition for an optical waveguide which comprises (a) an epoxy resin, (b) a curing agent and (c) a high molecular compound, in which a total light transmittance and a light transmittance in a wavelength of 700 to 1600 nm in a cured matter of the adhesive composition are 80% or more and in which a transparency is consistent with a heat resistance, an adhesive film for an optical waveguide prepared by forming the above adhesive composition into a film form, an adhesive sheet for an optical waveguide comprising the above adhesive composition and a supporting base material and an optical device produced by using them.
US08200058B2	Light guide and light guide structure An optical waveguide structure has excellent heat resistance and a low water absorbing property and can be manufactured with a low material cost. Such an optical waveguide structure includes: an optical waveguide having two surfaces, a core layer including core portions and cladding portions each having a refractive index lower than that of each of the core portions, the core layer having two surfaces, and cladding layers provided so as to make contact with the two surfaces of the core layer and having a refractive index lower than that of each of the core portions; and conductor layers provided on the two surfaces of the optical waveguide. In the optical waveguide structure, each of the cladding layers is formed of a norbornene-based polymer as a major component thereof. Further, it is preferred that the norbornene-based polymer is composed of molecules each represented by the following formula 1 as a major component thereof: wherein R is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 10, “a” is an integer of 0 to 3, “b” is an integer of 1 to 3, and “p”/“q” is 20 or less.
US08200056B2	Multi-fiber interface to photonic subassembly A multiple piecepart alignment and attachment configuration for mating a fiber array (or even a single fiber) with a silicon photonic subassembly utilizes ever-tightening alignment tolerances to align the fiber array with a similar array of waveguides (or other devices) formed within the photonic subassembly. A box-shaped fiber holder is formed to include a plurality of grooves within its bottom interior surface to initially support the fiber array. A separate piecepart in the form of a lid is mated to, and aligned with, the silicon photonic subassembly. The lid is formed to include registration features on its underside that fit into alignment detents formed in the top surface of the silicon photonic subassembly upon attachment. The lid also includes a number of grooves formed on its underside that will capture the top surface of the fibers as the fiber holder is slide into place over the lid. The grooves within the lid function to tighten the pitch of the fiber array and ultimately control the lateral and vertical alignment between the fiber array and the subassembly. The subassembly is also formed to include etched channels along the endface (the channels aligned with optical waveguides/devices in the substrate) to mate with the fiber holder, where the optical fibers are ultimately positioned within the channels so as to be in alignment with the optical waveguides/devices.
US08200054B1	High efficiency grating coupling for light delivery in EAMR A magnetic head comprising a waveguide coupler for coupling incident electromagnetic (EM) radiation into a waveguide is disclosed. The waveguide coupler includes a bottom clad layer and a waveguide core layer formed above the bottom clad layer. An interface between the bottom clad layer and the waveguide core layer includes a first grating having a first period and a first etch depth, which are configured to couple a first portion of the incident EM radiation into the waveguide core layer. The waveguide coupler can further comprise a top clad layer formed above the waveguide core layer. An interface between the waveguide core layer and the top clad layer includes a second grating having a second period and a second etch depth. The second period and the second etch depth are configured to couple a second portion of the incident EM radiation into the waveguide core layer.
US08200047B1	True time delay photonic circuit Described are systems and methods that provide tunable true time delay of a signal using a compact photonic circuit. The photonic circuit comprises a plurality of waveguides, in which each waveguide corresponds to a different time delay. A particular one of the waveguides corresponding to a desired time delay is selected by tuning the wavelength of a tunable laser. Additional photonic circuits can be used to provide additional selectable time delays.
US08200036B2	System and method for adjusting sensitivity of camera module A system for adjusting a sensitivity of a camera module includes a memory unit configured for storing a plurality of pre-initialized pixel adjusting maps; an image capturing unit configured for capturing an image from the camera module and acquiring pixel values of the image to determine a pixel value range of the pixel values; a comparison unit configured for comparing the pixel range with the input-ranges of the pixel adjusting maps to determine which one of the input ranges of the pixel adjusting maps the pixel value range of the image; and an adjusting unit configured for adjusting the pixel value of the image to adjusting the sensitivity of the camera module according to the determined pixel adjusting map and outputting adjusted pixel values. The system can not only breakthrough the limit of the self-character of the amplifier, but also decrease noise in course of adjusting the sensitivity of the camera module.
US08200035B2	Method and apparatus for correcting quantized coefficients in decoder Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting quantized coefficients. In the method, statistical values of coefficients and quantized coefficients are extracted from a received video data stream, coefficient correction values for each pixel position in blocks are determined by using the statistical distribution of the coefficients depending on the statistical values, and then the coefficients are corrected by respectively adding the coefficient correction values to corresponding coefficients of respective pixel positions.
US08200027B2	Methods and apparatus for retrieving images from a large collection of images An image retrieval program (IRP) may be used to query a collection of digital images. The IRP may include a mining module to use local and global feature descriptors to automatically rank the digital images in the collection with respect to similarity to a user-selected positive example. Each local feature descriptor may represent a portion of an image based on a division of that image into multiple portions. Each global feature descriptor may represent an image as a whole. A user interface module of the IRP may receive input that identifies an image as the positive example. The user interface module may also present images from the collection in a user interface in a ranked order with respect to similarity to the positive example, based on results of the mining module. Query concepts may be saved and reused. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08200025B2	Image classification and search An electronic image classification and search system and method are provided. Images are processed to determine a plurality of simple feature descriptors based upon characteristics of the image itself. The simple feature descriptors are grouped into complex features based upon the orientation of the simple feature descriptors. End-stopped complex feature descriptors and complex feature descriptors at multiple orientations are grouped into hypercomplex feature descriptors. Hypercomplex resonant feature descriptor clusters are generated by linking pairs of hypercomplex feature descriptors. Feature hierarchy classification can then be performed by adaptive resonance on feature descriptors and classifier metadata associated with the image can then be generated to facilitate indexing and searching of the image within a hierarchical image database.
US08200016B2	Method and apparatus for character string recognition A method for character string recognition may include processing image data into black-and-white binary image data, calculating vertical projection data of the binary image data in a vertical direction perpendicular to a direction of the character string while shifting the binary image data, detecting positions exceeding a prescribed border judgment threshold value in the vertical projection data, judging validity of the border judgment threshold value, and deciding whether to segment characters out of the character string based on whether the border judgment threshold value is valid.
US08200009B2	Control of optical character recognition (OCR) processes to generate user controllable final output documents An optical character recognition (OCR) system that includes a user-input function for receiving a user input sample for executing said OCR system for optically recognizing a document to generate an output file using the user input sample as a reference.
US08200000B2	Microbead automatic recognition method and microbead A microbead automatic recognition method includes the steps of: acquiring an image of a circular surface of a cylindrical microbead having a recognition pattern created on the circular surface and a plurality of reference points also created on the circular surface; and acquiring information on the rear/front and/or orientation of the cylindrical microbead from the acquired image on the basis of the positions of the reference points.
US08199994B2	Automatic analysis of cardiac M-mode views Automated analysis of M-Mode images are provided based on the separation of M-Mode images into tissue layers and motion curves by simultaneously aligning all layers and extracting the motion curves from the alignment. Also provided is the ability to search for similar M-Modes using a representation comprised of tissue layers and motion curves and a similarity measure thereof.
US08199993B2	Method for defining an individual coordination system for a breast of a female patient A method is provided for determining a position of an object within a breast of a female patient in a simple manner from a three-dimensional image taken of the breast. A simplified model is made of an internal structure of a breast having glandular bodies leading via lactiferous ducts to an outlet at a nipple. A particularly advantageous model is a tree-type structure in which branches correspond to lactiferous ducts and leaves correspond to glandular bodies. Furthermore, a determination is made of whether the object has contact with an element of the tree-type structure. Alternatively, a distance to an element of the tree-type structure is established. By correlating tree-type structures derived from various images taken on the same breast, the location of the object can be unequivocally established.
US08199987B2	Acoustographic diagnosis of abnormalities An arrangement and method are provided for acoustographic diagnosis of abnormalities of a product, such as motor vehicle, that includes associating psychoacoustic vector beam data with a three-dimensional graphic surface model, and analyzing the three-dimensional graphic surface model to identify at least a portion thereof associated with unacceptable psychoacoustic levels.
US08199986B2	Vertebra center detection apparatus using spinal-cord region detection, method and recording medium storing a program A plurality of medical images showing transverse cross-sections of vertebrae that have been imaged in advance are obtained. A spinal-cord region in at least one of the plurality of medical images is detected. A spinal-cord center-line based on a center point in the detected spinal-cord region is generated. A longitudinal cross-sectional image of the vertebrae is generated. Further, a center-line of the vertebrae is obtained based on a positional relationship between the spinal-cord center-line and the vertebrae.
US08199982B2	Mapping of literature onto regions of interest on neurological images A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for analyzing neurological images. A set of brain scans for a patient is compared to a set of baseline control scans to automatically identify regions of interest in the set of patient scans. A region of interest is an area in a scan that shows an indication of a potential abnormality. A set of electronic medical literature sources is searched for medical literature relevant to the regions of interest in the set of patient scans. The relevant medical literature is correlated to the medical literature describing the regions of interest in the set of patient scans to the regions of interest in the set of patient scans. A result is generated. The result comprises the regions of interest and a set of links to the correlated portions of the relevant medical literature are outputted.
US08199975B2	System and method for side vision detection of obstacles for vehicles This invention provides a system and method for object detection and collision avoidance for objects and vehicles located behind the cab or front section of an elongated, and possibly tandem, vehicle. Through the use of narrow-baseline stereo vision that can be vertically oriented relative to the ground/road surface, the system and method can employ relatively inexpensive cameras, in a stereo relationship, on a low-profile mounting, to perform reliable detection with good range discrimination. The field of detection is sufficiently behind and aside the rear area to assure an adequate safety zone in most instances. Moreover, this system and method allows all equipment to be maintained on the cab of a tandem vehicle, rather than the interchangeable, and more-prone-to-damage cargo section and/or trailer. One or more cameras can be mounted on, or within, the mirror on each side, on aerodynamic fairings or other exposed locations of the vehicle. Image signals received from each camera can be conditioned before they are matched and compared for disparities viewed above the ground surface, and according to predetermined disparity criteria.
US08199974B1	Identifying a target object using optical occlusion Methods are apparatuses are described for identifying a target object using optical occlusion. A head-mounted display perceives a characteristic of a reference object. The head-mounted display detects a change of the perceived characteristic of the reference object and makes a determination that a detected object caused the change of the perceived characteristic. In response to making the determination, the head-mounted display identifies the detected object as the target object.
US08199970B2	Moving amount calculation system and obstacle detection system An arithmetic device (400) calculates a moving amount based on an image sensed before movement and an image sensed after movement. The arithmetic device (400) generates a difference image with minimum noise using the calculated moving amount. The arithmetic device (400) removes noise from the difference image by performing image processing of the difference image. The arithmetic device (400) determines based on the size of a binarized region in a binarized difference image whether an obstacle exists. This makes it possible to accurately calculate the moving amount and accurately determine whether an obstacle exists.
US08199965B1	System, method, and computer program product for preventing image-related data loss A system, method, and computer program product are provided for preventing data loss associated with an image. In use, an image is identified, and it is determined whether the image includes predetermined data. In addition, an action is performed based on the determination, for preventing data loss.
US08199964B2	Speaker diaphragm, speaker dust cap, speaker sub-cone, speaker using these components, and electronic apparatus using the same A loudspeaker of high sound quality is achieved by improving rigidity of a material used for a diaphragm, a dust cap and a sub-cone. The diaphragm, the dust cap and the sub-cone of the loudspeaker are made of a paper beaten with the material containing bamboo fibers obtained from a bamboo tree aged one year or older, of which the fibers are finely beaten to an extent of micro-fibrillated form. The diaphragm and the dust cap are also made with a beaten paper containing at least 2 wt % of “A fibers” having stems of no greater than 30 μm in diameter, and surfaces of the stems are fibrillated into shaggy branches having diameters of 1 μm or less.
US08199959B2	Card-type device and method for manufacturing same In a display panel (1) performing sound generation/sound pickup through vibration, total thickness of a pair of transparent substrates (104, 105) constituting its base is set suitably for a predetermined sound quality required as an acoustic device. Consequently, a card-type device for generating sound and/or picking up sound by vibrating the display panel itself and ensuring a desired sound quality without sacrificing the setup as a display is realized.
US08199955B2	Headphones with a pressure controlling mechanism A headphone with a configuration that prevents breaking of components and failure to play sounds properly due to a pressure change within spaces in the headphone, comprising: a baffle board; an ear pad provided at a periphery of the baffle board and surrounding an area around an auricle of a user; an electro-acoustic transducer provided at a central portion of the baffle board and including a diaphragm and a magnetic pole that oscillates the diaphragm, as major components; and a headphone housing forming a rear space on a side opposite to the ear pad of the baffle board and covering the electro-acoustic transducer: and the electro-acoustic transducer is supported by a frame member arranged in an opening of the baffle board and integrally combined with the baffle board, and the frame member includes a valve that eliminates a pressure difference between a space around the auricle and the rear space.
US08199949B2	Processing an input signal in a hearing aid A method for processing at least one first and one second input signal in a hearing aid, with the input signals being filtered to create intermediate signals, the intermediate signals being added to form output signals, the input signals being assigned to a defined signal situation, and with the signals being filtered as a function of the assigned defined signal situation.
US08199945B2	Hearing instrument with source separation and corresponding method The selection of a plurality of sound sources for the purposes of preferential presentation should be structured to be more convenient for hearing instrument wearers. For this purpose, provision is made to separate the signals of the plurality of sources picked up and present them one after another with the aid of a corresponding control unit. On the basis of the presentation, the user can, likewise by means of the control units, select one of the plurality of signals for the purposes of further processing. The selection is preferably effected by pressing a button or by looking in the direction of the desired source plus pressing a button by way of acknowledgment.
US08199935B2	Method, a system and an apparatus for delivering media layers A system for facilitating access to multiple layer media items over communication network. The system comprises a media database which is used for storing multiple layer media items as independently accessible channels. The system further comprises plurality of subscriber applications which are connecting via a communication network, e.g. The Internet, to the media database. Users can use the subscriber application to access to each channel of the multiple layer media items independently.
US08199926B2	Attachment structure for a sound generating apparatus An object is to enhance workability in attachment in a sound generating apparatus that generates sound by vibrating a vibration plate with a vibrator while ensuring acoustic performance as good as that achieved by fastening with fine screw threads. Workability in attaching operation is improved while ensuring acoustic performance as good as that provided by fastening with fine screw threads, by providing first fixing portion that brings engagement portions into screw engagement with each other by rotation by a predetermined angle that can be attained by a user without taking his/her hand that holds a coupler off it and second fixing portion for fixing the coupler to a bracket so as to prevent the coupler from rotating relative to said bracket in a direction to loosen the engagement achieved by said first fixing portion.
US08199920B2	Personal computer based audio frequency impedance analyzer An apparatus, method, and system for analyzing the response of a device under test using a signal generated by an audio card comprises a housing. The apparatus comprises a first connector coupled to the housing and configured to couple electrically with an output of the audio card and to receive a first signal from the audio card. The apparatus also comprises a second connector being electrically coupled with the first connector and configured to interface with the device under test in order to transmit the first signal to a device under test. The apparatus also comprises a third connector configured to receive a second signal from the device under test. The apparatus also comprises a fourth connector being electrically coupled with the third connector and configured to transmit the second signal to an input of the audio card.
US08199916B2	Selectively loading security enforcement points with security association information A method, network element, and computer storage program product, are provided for selectively loading a communication network security enforcement point (“SEP”) with security association (“SA”) information for inspection of encrypted data in a secure, end-to-end communications path. At least one encrypted data packet is received. It is determined that SA information for decrypting the at least one encrypted data packet fails to exist locally at the SEP. A request is sent to a communication network key server for SA information associated with the at least one encrypted data packet. The SA information associated with the at least one encrypted data packet is received from the communication network key server.
US08199914B2	Detection of a change of the data of a dataset An undesired change of encrypted data words of a stored encrypted dataset may be concluded from the fact that redundancy information is associated with the data words of a dataset prior to encryption, wherein the redundancy information is also encrypted and stored at least partially together with the encrypted data words of the encrypted dataset as an encrypted redundancy data word. The change of the stored encrypted data words may be concluded from the fact that the decrypted data words resulting from decrypting the encrypted data words are used to form a new redundancy data word which is encrypted into a new encrypted redundancy data word. A comparison of the new encrypted redundancy data word to the encrypted redundancy data word enables to examine whether the encrypted data was changed.
US08199905B1	Systems and methods for identifying subscriber lines The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for identifying subscriber lines coupled to transceivers of interest. In one exemplary embodiment, an end of a subscriber line is coupled to and terminated by a transceiver of interest. The other end of the subscriber line is coupled to a speaker. The transceiver is then selectively activated and deactivated causing it to transmit its normal frequency spectrum in a predefined pattern. The frequency spectrum includes frequencies audible to humans. Thus, the speaker produces sound capable of being heard by a human, and the sound exhibits periods of noise followed by periods of silence. Indeed, the periods of noise and silence are in a pattern according to the activation/deactivation pattern of the transceiver. Thus, a user can identify the subscriber line that is coupled to the transceiver by identifying which of the lines is coupled to the speaker when the speaker emits noise and silence according to the predefined pattern.
US08199900B2	Automated performance monitoring for contact management system The computer-implemented method includes automatically determining typical behavior pertaining to at least one system parameter of a contact management system. The typical behavior is determined from performance data of the contact management system captured over a first predetermined time period. A deviation from the typical behavior of at least one system parameter of the contact management system is automatically reported.
US08199893B2	System and methods for disclosing call destination characteristic A system is provided for use by a caller placing a call with a calling device over a communications network linking a plurality of call destinations. The system includes a call-destination information source containing one or more call-destination characteristics associated one or more call destinations. The system further includes a processing unit communicatively linked to the call-destination information source. The processing unit generates one or more call-destination character indicators based on the one or more call-destination characteristics. A call-destination character indicator is generated in response to the system receiving call-destination identifier that identifies a particular call destination.
US08199890B2	Camp on location In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a request for a notification regarding an event associated with a first party and a first location. The request is received or otherwise obtained from a second party. The method also includes determining whether the second party is permitted to receive the notification, determining whether the event has occurred, sending the notification if the event has occurred and the second party is permitted to receive the notification. Sending the notification regarding the event includes sending the notification to the second party.
US08199889B2	Visual voicemail unavailability solution A solution for notifying a user of alternate means of accessing voicemail data utilize a timer that can be set on a user device upon receipt of a message waiting indicator. When the timer expires, if no data communications connection has been established between the user device and a voicemail server, the user device can present alternate voicemail access instructions to the user. These instructions may be obtained from the message waiting indicator or may be stored on the user device. In another embodiment, a voicemail server sets a timer after sending a message waiting indicator to a user device. The voicemail server sends a message containing alternate voicemail access instructions if no connection has been established between the voicemail server and the user device upon expiration of the timer.
US08199887B2	Phone call management A method of operating a phone is provided and includes receiving input to set a phone in a do-not disturb mode and to set a time period during which the do-not-disturb mode is activated and setting the phone accordingly, upon reception of an incoming call from a caller during the time period, activating a caller ID function of the phone, detecting a caller ID of the caller and searching for the caller ID in black- and white-lists. In an event the caller ID of the caller is stored in the blacklist, the voicemail function is activated or the incoming call is ended. In an event the caller ID of the caller is stored in the whitelist, an input of the password associated with the caller ID is requested, and, in an event the caller inputs the password, the ringing function is activated.
US08199863B2	Multiple-antenna space multiplexing system using enhancement signal detection and method thereof The multiple-antenna space multiplexing system using enhancement signal detection comprising: a code modulation module for coding and modulating bit information; a signal transmission module for transmitting the modulated signals; a signal reception module for receiving the signals; a signal form transform module for transforming form of a channel matrix H and the received signal vector r; a signal detection module for detecting the received signals; a signal reconstruction module for reconstructing the detection results of in the signal detection module, and obtaining a detected signal; a demodulation decoding module for demodulating and decoding the output of the signal reconstruction module, and outputting bit information. Compared with the conventional detection methods, the system performance is improved in considering the realization complexity.
US08199851B1	Systems and methods for increasing communications bandwidth using non-orthogonal polarizations Systems and methods for increasing communications bandwidth using non-orthogonal polarizations are provided herein. Under one aspect, a method of transmitting M independent signals, where M is at least 3, includes receiving the M signals from respective sources; at a transmitter polarization module, obtaining first and second linear combinations of the M signals; providing the first and second linear combinations to first and second input ports of a transmitter antenna; and transmitting with the transmitter antenna the first linear combination at a first polarization and the second linear combination at a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization. The method may further include receiving at a receiver antenna the first linear combination at the first polarization, and the second linear combination at the second polarization; obtaining at receiver circuitry the M signals based on the received first and second linear combinations; and outputting the M signals on respective output ports.
US08199849B2	Data transmitting device, data receiving device, data transmitting system, and data transmitting method Provided are a data transmitting device transmitting data through a delay insensitive data transmitting method and a data transmitting method. The data transmitting device and the data transmitting method use the delay insensitive data transmitting method supporting a 2-phase hand shake protocol. During data transmission, data are encoded into three logic state having no space state through a ternary encoding method. According to the data transmitting device and the data transmitting method, data are stably transmitted to a receiver regardless of the length of a wire, and provides more excellent performance in an aspect of a data transmission rate, compared to a related art 4-phase delay data transmitting method.
US08199847B2	Method and apparatus for providing higher order modulation that is backwards compatible with quaternary phase shift keying(QPSK) or offset quaternary phase shift keying (OQPSK) A method and apparatus for providing an asymmetrical backwards compatible communications signal that is capable of being decoded by QPSK and OQPSK receivers as well as PSK and QAM receivers is provided. The invention comprises a timing error accumulator coupled to a first bit stream. The first bit stream includes content that is common to the QPSK/OQPSK receiver and to the PSK/QAM receiver. A phase error accumulator is coupled to a second bit stream and adjusts the phase of symbols in the second bit stream. A phase and timing error compensator is coupled to the phase error accumulator and the timing error accumulator and adjusts the first and second bit streams received from the phase error accumulator and the timing error accumulator in order to reduce timing and phase errors. A higher order modulator coupled to the phase- and timing error compensator is also provided. The higher order modulator processes the first and second bit streams to provide the asymmetrical backwards compatible signal.
US08199844B2	Apparatus and method for canceling inter-antenna interference of orthogonally coded signals An apparatus and a method for canceling inter-antenna interference are provided. The apparatus to cancel inter-antenna interference includes a reception unit to receive, from a transmitter, first data and second data orthogonally coded with the first data, and to generate a received vector including the first data and the second data, a channel estimation unit to generate a channel state matrix with respect to a radio channel from a plurality of transmission antennas of the transmitter to the reception unit, a detection unit to detect the first data based on the channel state matrix and the received vector, a pseudo interference signal-generation unit to generate pseudo interference signals based on the channel state matrix and the detected first data, and an interference signal-canceling unit to cancel the pseudo interference signals from the received vector.
US08199834B2	Frame decimation through frame simplification System and method of providing improved signal compression using frame decimation through frame simplification and generating an encoded bitstream of video frames therefrom are disclosed. The encoding method comprises zeroing a difference frame generated by an encoder by using a feedback loop that injects a reconstructed frame, generated by the encoder of the difference frame, as a next frame of the video frames to be processed by the encoder. The encoding system comprises an input configured to provide a stream of video frames; a first process configured to generate a difference frame, and a second process configured to generate a reconstructed frame. A feedback loop of the system is configured to inject a generated reconstructed frame from the second process of a generated difference frame from the first process as a next frame of the video frames in the stream to be processed into the encoded bitstream by the encoding system.
US08199827B2	Method of processing a signal and apparatus for processing a signal A method and apparatus for processing a signal compressed in accordance with a specific alternative coding scheme are disclosed. In detail, a coding method for signal compression and signal restoration using a specific alternative coding scheme, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding according to the present invention are executed under the condition in which they have a co-relation with each other. Grouping is executed for an enhancement in coding efficiency. The method for signal processing includes obtaining data coding identification information from a signal, and data-decoding data in accordance with a data coding scheme indicated by the data coding identification information. The data coding scheme includes at least a pilot coding scheme. The pilot coding scheme includes decoding the data using a pilot reference value corresponding to a plurality of data and a pilot difference value. The pilot difference value is generated using the data and the pilot reference value.
US08199818B2	Intra prediction system of video encoder and video decoder There is provided an intra prediction system having high prediction performance and satisfactory encoding efficiency in a pattern image in which pixel value is periodically changed and a pattern image in which pixel value has a constant change tendency like gradation effect. A frequency component extraction unit allows a pixel value of an encoded MB to be made one-dimensional for one-dimensional orthogonal conversion. A frequency component-considering prediction value calculation unit receives, as inputs, a pixel value of an encoded adjacent MB and an alternating current frequency component output to create an orthogonal conversion coefficient. The orthogonal conversion coefficient then is subjected inverted orthogonal conversion (IDCT) to generate a prediction value p(i). A prediction direction determination unit selects and outputs a prediction value p′(i) in a prediction direction having the highest encoding efficiency among a conventional prediction value calculation unit and a prediction value calculation unit according to the present invention.
US08199817B2	Method for error concealment in decoding of moving picture and decoding apparatus using the same A method and apparatus for error concealment in decoding of a moving picture. The method includes the steps of determining an erroneous macro block in a present frame when the moving picture is decoded, finding a first macro block having a highest similarity to the erroneous macro block and a second macro block having a next highest similarity to the erroneous block in a previous frame by comparing adjacent pixels of respective blocks in the previous frame with adjacent pixels of the erroneous block in the present frame; and replacing the erroneous block by using an average between the found macro blocks having the highest similarity and the second highest similarity to thereby conceal the erroneous macro block. The apparatus includes a parser, an entropy decoder, an inverse quantizer, an inverse converter, and a concealment unit that uses motion compensation from a previous frame to correct a macro block in a current frame.
US08199809B2	Method and apparatus for providing prediction mode fine granularity scalability In an encoding process, video data are represented as a bitstream of a quantized base layer and at least two enhancement layers, with each picture in each layer identified by a start code. The base layer, plus a number of enhancement layers capable of being transmitted by the communication channel's bandwidth, are transmitted on the communication channel.
US08199792B2	Radio communication apparatus and response signal spreading method A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation in separation characteristic of a code multiplexed response signal. In this apparatus, a control part (209) controls both a AC sequence to be used in a primary spreading in a spreading part (214) and a Walsh sequence to be used in a secondary spreading in a spreading part (217) so as to allow a very small circular shift interval of the ZC sequence to absorb the interference components remaining in the response signal; the spreading part (214) uses the ZC sequence set by the control part (209) to primary spread the response signal; and the spreading part (217) uses the Walsh sequence set by the control part (209) to secondary spread the response signal to which PC has been added.
US08199786B2	Laser diode structure with reduced interference signals A laser diode structure for generating a collimated or divergent laser beam, preferably for application in gas detection, with a laser diode arranged in a closed housing, with the housing comprising a housing bottom, an exit window, electrical connections, a temperature control device for the laser diode, and an optical element for influencing the laser beam. The temperature control device carrying the laser diode is arranged on the housing bottom and the optical element is positioned at a distance from the laser diode. The invention proposes an electrically controllable power device for the cyclic alteration of the position and/or alignment of the optical element in relation to the laser diode so that the optical path length for the laser beam in the housing changes periodically. The oscillating motion of the optical element has the effect of time-averaging the etalon and/or self-mixing effects caused by the back-reflections of the laser beam in the housing, thereby reducing the optical noise of the laser diode structure.
US08199783B2	Method and device for transmitting signal between devices The transmission side device 10 is provided with a memory MT for holding a plurality of transmission signals transmitted last time and the reception side device 20 is provided with a memory MR for holding a plurality of reception signals received last time, thereby checking existence/non-existence of a change of a transmission signal to be transmitted this time by a comparator C. The transmission unit 103 transmits the changed part signal SL for discriminating a changed signal and the change end signal SE. The reception side device 20 equivalently receives a transmission signal as of this time by detecting and changing a changed signal among signals held in the memory MR based on the changed part signal SL. The clock generation unit 30 changes the circuit operation clock CLKC to advance the transmission circuit 101 and the reception circuit 201 by one cycle by receiving the change end signal SE. This enables data transmission/reception between devices to be sped up, as well as enabling high-speed operation of the entire system.
US08199782B2	Method of multiple lane distribution (MLD) deskew The present invention discloses a method of detecting and correcting skew across a plurality of transmitting lanes. Through the use of an N framer system, including a frame start signal and a frame synchronization signal, skew can be detected and corrected by writing data from a plurality of framers into offsetting bit locations of a plurality of buffers. The present invention also provides a method of transmitting data in a multiple lane distribution (MLD) transmission system.
US08199777B2	Radio communication apparatus A radio receiving apparatus for receiving the variable-length RLC PDU data in an RLC layer includes the buffer memory sectioned into a plurality of areas having a predetermined maximum data length of the RLC PDU data. By referring to a sequence number SN included in each received RLC PDU data, the radio receiving apparatus stores the RLC PDU data having an identical sequence number SN into an identical area, and assembles an RLC SDU data on a basis of the RLC PDU data stored in each area.
US08199768B1	Dynamic spectrum allocation and access Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which access allocations to a spectrum band and transmit rights to the access allocations are defined. Real-time auction bids for the transmit rights to the access allocations to the spectrum band are received, and the transmit rights are awarded to biding devices based on the real-time auction bids.
US08199765B2	Interference-detecting wireless communication method and apparatus In a wireless communication system, the communicating stations reduce their transmitting power level when they detect interference exceeding a certain level. Interference is detected by down-shifting the received signal to place the desired signal in the baseband, then sampling the down-shifted signal, first at a sampling frequency high enough to catch the interference, then at a lower sampling frequency that excludes the interference. This system is useful for vehicle-to-vehicle communication in an environment in which vehicle-to-roadside communication may also be present at various nearby frequencies, because it does not require exact knowledge of the interfering frequencies and allows communication to continue even when interference is present.
US08199762B2	Method of sizing packets for routing over a communication network for VoIP calls on a per call basis A method for reducing latency of VoIP communications while efficiently using network resources and maintaining voice quality. This is achieved by managing packet size on a per-call basis, using factors such as distance between gateways, current backbone network status, service requested or access mechanism for a given call is disclosed. Packet size is selected on a per-call basis based on the distance between endpoints in the call. If the endpoints are far apart, the selected packet size is small. If the endpoints are close together, the selected packet size is large.
US08199758B2	Variable abort timer Depending on channel conditions, a variable abort timer can be set in relation to wireless communication of data packets. Additionally, available buffer size can be evaluated and used to set a length of the variable abort timer. When a packet sequence is sent, packets can become lost in communication. When a lost packet is recognized, the timer can be initiated and a request for re-transmission of the lost packet can is sent. If the lost packet does not arrive during running of the variable abort timer, then the packet sequence can be processed without the missing packet.
US08199753B2	Forwarding frames in a computer network using shortest path bridging Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for forwarding frames in a computer network using shortest path bridging (‘SPB’). The network includes multiple bridges, and each edge bridge is assigned a unique service virtual local area network (‘VLAN’) identifier. One of the bridges receives a frame for transmission to a destination node. The received frame includes a service VLAN identifier for the ingress bridge through which the frame entered the network and a customer VLAN identifier. The one bridge identifies an SPB forwarding tree in dependence upon the service VLAN identifier. The SPB forwarding tree specifies a shortest route in the network from the ingress bridge through the one bridge to the other bridges in the network. The one bridge then forwards the received frame to the egress bridge without MAC-in-MAC encapsulation in dependence upon the SPB forwarding tree and the customer VLAN identifier.
US08199752B2	Enhanced anycast for edge server selection Systems and methods for gathering distributed information to improve routing that uses Anycast for assigning deliveries between a number of geographically-distant points of presence (POPs) are disclosed. The POPs share the same Internet protocol (IP) address. According to Anycast resolution, the Internet aids in assigning a content request initially to a POP. Delivery statistics are gathered from deliveries a the number of POPs and possibly other sources. Where it is determined that Anycast found the wrong POP, the content request is reassigned to another POP.
US08199746B2	Using PSTN reachability to verify VoIP call routing information A system for verifying VoIP call routing information. In particular implementations, a method includes verifying one or more Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) call agents for respective destination telephone numbers based on demonstrated knowledge of previous public switched telephone network (PSTN) calls to the respective destination telephone numbers; receiving a call initiation message identifying a destination telephone number; and conditionally initiating a call over a VoIP network to a target VoIP call agent, or over a circuit switched network, based on whether the target VoIP call agent has been verified for the destination telephone number identified in the call initiation message.
US08199732B2	Efficient multicast control processing for a wireless network According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises an exchange of messages between an access point and a wireless network switch. One message, a PROXY IGMP JOIN message, is transmitted to the access point for propagation to a multicast router. This is performed so that multicast data associated with the multicast group identified by the PROXY IGMP JOIN message is routed to the access point without any unnecessary involvement by the wireless network switch.
US08199727B1	Call delivery in a CDMA legacy MS domain for SIP call origination A system and a method in a wireless network utilizing session initiation protocol (SIP) for call control. The SIP payload (SDP) contains a list of available transcoders (codecs) to coordinate transcoder selection to allow for the minimization of transcoders. An additional aspect of the embodiment of the present invention includes a serving MSCe that is operable to determine whether to initiate ringback to the calling party. If ring back is to be initiated, ringback can be initiated from the serving MSCe or from a network element supporting the calling party. The call negotiation process according to the described embodiment of the invention eliminates the requirement for any transcoding in specific situations to result in the number of transcoders used in the voice bearer path to be reduced to 0 (TrFO, Transcoder Free Operation) or to 1 (RTO, remote transmitter operation).
US08199724B2	Multiple beam antenna base station Systems, devices and method are provided in association with a multiple beam antenna base station. One system embodiment includes a multiple beam antenna base station configured to communicate data to a number of subscriber stations using a number of multiple antenna beams. The multiple beam antenna base station is implemented with an independent receiver for each of the number of multiple antenna beams. In various embodiments, each of the independent receivers of the multiple beam antenna base station is configured to determine signal quality of a preamble of an uplink transmission from a subscriber station via the number of multiple antenna beams.
US08199720B2	Method for handover between heterogenous radio access networks A method for handover between heterogeneous radio access networks is disclosed. When a multi-mode mobile station performs Inter-RAT handover, pre-authentication is performed before implementing a link layer handover procedure with a target access point. The pre-authentication method has as little an effect on currently served quality of service as possible and the handover is efficiently performed using the pre-authentication method. The pre-authentication is performed through medium independent handover (MIH) and various MIH primitives for pre-authentication are provided.
US08199716B2	Method and system for performing handoff in wireless communication systems The structure of a time-multiplexed physical channel is used to time inter-frequency or inter-system search excursions. A mobile station that receives an instruction to perform a search excursion prepares for the search excursion by detecting the first radio frame of a message frame. Transport format combination indicator bits are extracted from the first radio frame and stored. After the search excursion is performed, the mobile station recalls the stored indicator bits and uses the indicator bits to decode other radio frames of the message frame.
US08199714B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A method of transmitting a broadcast signal in a transmitter includes transmitting a transmission frame including a plurality of slots during which data groups of mobile data are transmitted, the mobile data being encoded through a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame and each row of a payload of the RS frame including a transport packet of the mobile data.
US08199709B2	Method and apparatus for wireless communication A method for operating an electronic device using a first and a second communication protocols is provided. The electronic device includes an arbitrator to determine whether to communicate in accordance with the first or second communication protocol. The method estimates a period for transmitting a trigger frame by the electronic device, a period for receiving a first acknowledgement (ACK) frame by the electronic device, a period of a backoff procedure, a period for receiving a predetermined number of delivered frames by the electronic device, and a period of transmitting a second ACK frame by the electronic device. All the above estimated periods are added to be a predetermined time period. The trigger frame is transmitted to initiate the electronic device to communicate in accordance with the first communication protocol. The arbitrator determines whether to grant the electronic device to communicate in accordance with the second communication protocol based on the predetermined time period.
US08199706B2	Random access design for high doppler in wireless networks UE-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for Doppler shift. A user equipment (UE) receives information that designates a particular access slot as high-speed and designates another access slot as low-speed within a given cell. The UE determines its relative speed to a serving base station (NodeB) within the cell. The UE selects either a baseline structure or an alternate structure if the relative speed is less than a threshold value or only an alternate structure if the relative speed exceeds the threshold value. The UE transmits a signal to the NodeB using the selected structure, such that the baseline structure is transmitted only in the designated low-speed access slot and that the alternate structure is transmitted only in the designated high-speed request slot.
US08199704B2	Method of encoded channel acquisition A method of scanning for an encoded signal, such as a GSM encoded signal, in a frequency band is disclosed herein. The disclosed method provides either more rapid acquisition of a signal, or increased battery life for mobile devices in regions without service. A corresponding mobile device that performs the method is also disclosed.
US08199695B2	Clock signal synchronization among computers in a network Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for clock signal synchronization among computers in a network, including designating, as a primary clock signal for all the computers in a network, a clock signal from one of the computers in the network; providing the primary clock signal, simultaneously and in parallel, from the computer whose clock signal is designated as the primary clock signal to all the other computers in the network; and providing the primary clock signal, simultaneously and in parallel, from each computer in the network to all computers in the network through multiplexers and phase locked loops, with the primary clock signal locked in phase across all the computers by a phase locked loop on each computer.
US08199694B2	Method for switching service option to circuit data This invention discloses a method for switching SO (Service Option) to circuit data, including the following steps: step 1, a mobile station notifies a source BS (Base Station) and/or a target BS to switch SO to circuit data during a session; step 2, the source BS and/or the target BS negotiates with a mobile switching subsystem about switching SO to circuit data, and determines the bearer format parameters of the session through the negotiation; step 3, the source BS and/or the target BS makes a secondary service negotiation with the mobile station after the negotiation with the mobile switching subsystem succeeds; and step 4, after the negotiation with the mobile station succeeds, the source BS and/or the target BS conducts user interface service layer encapsulation on the circuit data according to a certain load format, and then transmits the encapsulated Real Time Transfer Protocol packets to the other BS.
US08199692B2	Method and device for efficient dissemination of information in a satellite navigation system A system and method for the efficient dissemination of information in a satellite navigation system is provided. The system includes a satellite system comprising a plurality of satellites, a network of observation stations for observing the signals of the satellites, one or more redundant central processing center(s) for evaluating the observations of the observation stations and for generating information, based on the observations, for the dissemination to utilization systems, and a communication network for transmitting the observations from the observation stations to the one or more redundant central processing center(s). The one or more redundant central processing center(s) send(s) the information to the selected satellites, and upon receiving the information, each of the selected satellites sends this information to the neighboring satellites.
US08199691B2	Mobile communication system, wireless controller, and extension transmitting/receiving server device selecting method An appropriate selection is controlled for selecting an extension transmitting/receiving server device for transmitting or receiving user data, to be transmitted or received between mobile station devices, to or from a radio base station device by employing extension transmission or reception of data, in a radio access network relaying data between a core network having a mobile switch station and the mobile station devices. While referring to a management table for managing statuses of extension transmitting/receiving server devices 30a to 30c, at least one of the extension transmitting/receiving server devices 30a to 30c is selected. The user data transmitted or received between mobile station devices through the selected extension transmitting/receiving server device is transmitted. This allows the control of an appropriate selection from the extension transmitting/receiving server devices.
US08199687B2	Information-communication terminal having function of controlling electric power consumption A terminal connected to a wireless communication network includes a BU processor used in wireless communication. An operation mode of the BU processor is switched to one of a sleep mode, a standby mode, and an active mode in a state in which an electric power is supplied to the BU processor. In the sleep mode, a PLL circuit stops a clock supplied to each circuit in the BU processor. In the standby mode, an operating frequency is set at a predetermined first frequency. In the active mode, the operating frequency is set at a second frequency higher than the first frequency. Accordingly, in the state in which the electric power is supplied, the operating frequency is switched and the number of operating circuits is switched, thereby reducing electric power consumption in the terminal.
US08199684B2	Broadband local area full-service backbone network A point-to-multipoint broadband local area network (BLAN) system comprising a local area modem controller (LAMC) and plurality of local area modems (LAMs) is capable of voice, video and data communications. The medium is capable of reliably supporting multiple downstream and upstream channels to meet the need of high-capacity and QoS of digital entertainment. Media-access-control (MAC) functions in the LAMC and the LAMs coordinate packet stream transmissions. The shared medium can be a tree-branch coaxial cable; the LAMs can be legacy DOCSIS or EuroDOCSIS cable modems or enhanced cable modems with multiple channels; the MAC can be a DOCSIS MAC or an enhanced multi-channel full-service MAC (fsMAC). The physical layer of each channel can be that of DOCSIS, wideband, or other technologies. Residential gateway and wide-area broadband modem functions can also be incorporated into the LAMC. Cable TV programming channels and the BLAN can shared the same cable spectrum.
US08199672B1	Method and apparatus for power reduction in network Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for reducing power consumption in a network switch. The method includes detecting a traffic load on a network link system coupled to the network switch. The network switch can include a first power consumption configuration providing a first link capacity for the network link system, and a second power consumption configuration, which is lower than the first power consumption configuration, providing a second link capacity that is lower than the first link capacity. The method further includes determining whether the traffic load on the network link is lower than a first boundary threshold, and reconfiguring the network switch from the first power consumption configuration into the second power consumption configuration if the traffic load is lower than the first boundary threshold.
US08199668B2	Method for attaching to a partitioned queue spread across a plurality of messaging servers There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for an application instance to request attachment to a queue partition on a messaging server within a plurality of messaging servers, each messaging server holding at least one queue partition, the set of queue partitions together forming a single queue. An application instance requests attachment to a queue partition, the request requesting exclusivity with regard to other application instances having a common identifier. Responsive to an indicating that the request has been successful, the application instance interacts with the queue partition.
US08199666B2	Transmission of acknowledge/not-acknowledge with repetition In ACK/NAK responses with repetition, the ACK/NAK response from the user equipment to a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH) transmission is repeated in consecutive frames a predetermined number of frames following receipt. This repeat ACK/NAK causes a problem when a PSCCH transmission directed to the same user equipment occurs in consecutive subframes. In a first embodiment, the first ACK/NAK response repeats preempting any ACK/NAK response to the later PDSCH transmission. In a second embodiment, the first ACK/NAK response does not repeat and the ACK/NAK response to the later PDSCH transmission occurs.
US08199655B2	Optimized layer-2 network switching systems and methods An exemplary method includes monitoring a performance of at least one of a plurality of layer-2 network paths connecting a layer-2 network switch device to another layer-2 network switch device and selecting an optimal one of the plurality of layer-2 network paths over which to forward data traffic based on a path selection heuristic and the monitored performance of the at least one of the plurality of layer-2 network paths. At least a portion of the exemplary method may be performed by a layer-2 network switching system. In certain embodiments, the selecting of the optimal one of the plurality of layer-2 network paths over which to forward the data traffic is based on at least one of a latency parameter, a congestion parameter, and a cost parameter associated with the at least one of the plurality of layer-2 network paths. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US08199650B2	System for permitting control of the purging of a node B by the serving radio network controller A system and method which permit the RNC to control purging of data buffered in the Node B. The RNC monitors for a triggering event, which initiates the purging process. The RNC then informs the Node B of the need to purge data by transmitting a purge command, which prompts the Node B to delete at least a portion of buffered data. The purge command can include instructions for the Node B to purge all data for a particular UE, data in one or several user priority transmission queues or in one or more logical channels in the Node B, depending upon the particular data purge triggering event realized in the RNC.
US08199648B2	Flow control in a variable latency system A device and method for packet flow control is described. The method may comprise, at a packet sender device, adding a flow control identifier to a packet and transmitting a packet with the packet flow control identifier to a packet receiver device over a data path. Thereafter, the packet receiver device may receive, from the packet receiver device, flow control data that includes a received flow control identifier generated in response to the sent flow control identifier. The sent flow control identifier may then be compared with the received flow control identifier and a state of a receiver buffer at the receiver packet device may be estimated based on the comparison. In an example embodiment, at the packet sender device, a flow control instruction may be added to the packet to instruct the packet receiver device to enter a “no transmit” state.
US08199638B2	Method and system for automatically rerouting logical circuit data in a data network A method and system are provided for automatically rerouting logical circuit data in a data network. A failure is identified in a logical circuit in a data network. The logical circuit may include a communication path for communicating data. Once the failure in the logical circuit is determined, a logical failover circuit is then identified. The logical failover circuit includes an alternate communication path for communicating the data for the failed logical circuit. After the logical failover circuit has been identified, the data from the failed logical circuit is rerouted to the logical failover circuit without manual intervention. After the data has been rerouted the logical failover circuit, a determination is made as to whether the failure in the logical circuit has been corrected. If it is determined that the failure in the logical circuit has been corrected, then the data from the logical failover circuit is rerouted back to the logical circuit in the data network without manual intervention.
US08199634B2	Signaling method in an OFDM multiple access system A method for reducing the peak-to-average ratio in an OFDM communication signal is provided. The method includes defining a constellation having a plurality of symbols, defining a symbol duration for the OFDM communication signal, and defining a plurality of time instants in the symbol duration. A plurality of tones are allocated to a particular communication device, and a discrete signal is constructed in the time domain by mapping symbols from the constellation to the time instants. A continuous signal is generated by applying an interpolation function to the discrete signal such that the continuous signal only includes sinusoids having frequencies which are equal to the allocated tones.
US08199633B2	Base station and wireless communication method A base station is provided. The base station conducts wireless communication with one or more terminal devices using an OFDMA system, and has: a channel assigning unit that assigns PRU an extra channel used for data communication and an anchor channel including a map indicating the position of PRU to which the extra channel is assigned, wherein the channel assigning unit assigns the anchor channel to PRU of a predetermined frequency domain and assigns the extra channel to PRU of a domain other than the predetermined frequency domain.
US08199624B2	Optical disc, optical disc unit and method of controlling the optical disc unit When a laser light focal point, driven by an objective lens, passes through each of a plurality of recording layers of an optical disc, data recorded on the recording layers through which the focal point passes may be deteriorated due to a difference in optical sensitivity for each recording layer or the like. In a focal point position movement in which switching of recording layers is made by a focus error signal, when the focal point position moves from a recording layer on which a laser light is focused to another recording layer which is not adjacent, light intensity or light density at the focal point is reduced in accordance with the recording layer to be passed through, thus deterioration of the data on the optical disc being prevented.
US08199623B2	Optical pickup An optical pickup includes a semiconductor laser, a beam splitter, a collimating lens, an objective lens, an aperture and a front monitor. The beam splitter splits a light beam emitted by the semiconductor laser into transmitted light and reflected light. The front monitor detects luminous energy of the transmitted light. The front monitor is disposed near an optical axis of the transmitted light so that the following is satisfied: 1≦(S×L)/(s×f)≦6.8. S is an area of an entrance pupil of the objective lens, f is an optical distance from an emission portion of the semiconductor laser to the collimating lens, s is an effective receiving area of the front monitor, and L is an optical distance from the emission portion of the semiconductor laser to the front monitor.
US08199620B2	Method for performing servo defect compensating operation by compensating servo-related signal derived from reading optical medium and related optical disc drive system with DSP A method for performing a servo defect compensating operation by compensating a servo-related signal in an optical disc drive and a related optical disc drive system with a DSP is provided. The method comprises: reading an optical medium by an optical pick-up unit; detecting whether a defect exists by monitoring a side beam signal; when the defect on the optical medium is detected, determining a new compensation value based on a servo error signal; and compensating the servo-related signal with the new compensation value during defect crossing to adjust servo control when the optical pick-up unit passes the defect.
US08199613B2	Objective lens actuator and a thin-sized optical pickup with magnetic circuit having different lengthed magnets An objective lens actuator, being suitable for a thin-sized optical pickup and a thin-sized optical disc apparatus, comprises: an objective lens for focusing a light upon a recording surface of an optical disc; and a driving mechanism including a focusing coil, tracking coils, and a magnetic circuit, for operating the objective lens into a focusing direction of approaching/receding to/from the optical disc, and into a tracking direction of a radius of the optical disc, wherein the magnetic circuit has a first magnet and a second magnet putting the objective lens therebetween, and one of the magnets is short of length in the focusing direction and is long in length in the tracking direction, comparing to the other magnet, thereby bringing an unnecessary moment, which is applied upon a moving part including the objective lens therein, to be small, and suppressing inclination or tilt and vibration of the objective lens.
US08199612B2	Timepiece with variable hour circle Timepiece including indicator members actuated or not actuated by the movement. These indicator members are composed of movable hour marks represented by the faces of the studs (30, 40) mounted on staffs having planet wheels (34) driven by a rack (50). The faces of the studs carry stones of various colors. When the movement operates the rack, it determines the change of the hour marks. When operation by the movement is disengaged, manual control elements allow the hour marks appearing on the dial to be changed.
US08199609B2	Multi-mode downhole acoustic source A multimode acoustic source device for disposition in a borehole formed in a subterranean formation is aligned along an axial axis of the borehole and has a plurality of radiating plates circumferentially disposed about the axial axis. A drive mechanism is proposed to independently and reversibly move each radiating plate from a first position to a second position in a direction transverse to the axial axis. This enables the multimode source to generate each of several azimuthal modes for logging a subterranean formation.
US08199605B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor memory integrated circuit having an X-row controller which includes a high-speed-operation control circuit by which when receiving a bank active signal, a period for stopping a latch circuit from receiving the X address is produced after a predetermined time has elapsed, and in the other periods, the latch circuit receives and holds the X address; a low-current-operation control circuit by which when receiving no bank active signal, the latch circuit stops receiving the X address, and when receiving the bank active signal, the latch circuit holds the X address after a predetermined time has elapsed; a circuit for selecting whether the bank active signal is output to the high-speed-operation control circuit or the low-current-operation control circuit; and a circuit for selecting whether the latch-circuit control signal from the high-speed-operation control circuit or the latch-circuit control signal from the low-current-operation control circuit is output to the latch circuit.
US08199603B2	Nonvolatile memory devices having variable-resistance memory cells and methods of programming the same Nonvolatile memory devices include an array of variable-resistance memory cells and a write driver electrically coupled to the array. The write driver is configured to drive a bit line in the array of variable-resistance memory cells with a stair-step sequence of at least two unequal bit line voltages during an operation to program a variable-resistance memory cell in said array. This stair-step sequence of at least two unequal bit line voltages includes a precharge voltage (e.g., Vcc-Vth) at a first step and a higher boosted voltage (e.g., Vpp-Vth) at a second step that follows the first step.
US08199600B2	Voltage generator for peripheral circuit A voltage generator for a peripheral circuit, the voltage generator includes: a voltage supplier supplying a peripheral circuit voltage having a voltage level maintained at a reference voltage level, the peripheral circuit voltage outputted in response to a driving signal; and a voltage level compensator increasing the voltage level of the peripheral circuit voltage in response to a column path command.
US08199598B2	Memory with output control An apparatus, system, and method for controlling data transfer to an output port of a serial data link interface in a semiconductor memory is disclosed. In one example, a flash memory device may have multiple serial data links, multiple memory banks and control input ports that enable the memory device to transfer the serial data to a serial data output port of the memory device. In another example, a flash memory device may have a single serial data link, a single memory bank, a serial data input port, a control input port for receiving output enable signals. The flash memory devices may be cascaded in a daisy-chain configuration using echo signal lines to serially communicate between memory devices.
US08199594B2	Semiconductor memory device The SRAM cell is formed by an inverter circuit (P1, N1) using a storage node V2 as an input and a storage node V1 as an output, a load transistor P2 connected between a power source VDD and the storage node V2 using the storage node V1 as an input and the storage node V2 as an output, an access transistor N3 connected between a read bit line RBL and the storage node V1, and an access transistor N4 connected between a write bit line WBL and the storage node V2. When the access transistor N4 is controlled by a write word line WWL, the access transistor N4 can be used as holding control means and writing means for the memory cell, making it possible to obtain a semiconductor device capable of operating at a high speed with a small number of elements.
US08199581B2	Nonvolatile memory device, driving method thereof, and memory system having the same A nonvolatile memory device (NVM), memory system and apparatus include control logic configured to perform a method of applying negative voltage on a selected wordline of the NVM. During a first time a first high voltage level is applied to the channel of a transistor of a address decoder and a ground voltage is applied to the well of the transistor. And, during a second time a second high voltage level is applied to the channel of the transistor, and within the second time interval a first negative voltage is applied to the well of the transistor. The first high voltage level is higher than the second high voltage level, and a voltage applied on the selected wordline is negative within the second time interval.
US08199575B2	Memory cell array of memory A memory cell array of a memory comprises a main memory cell array, including local bit lines, word lines and memory cells, and a selected array, including a global bit line, a bit line transistor (BLT) control line, a transistor and a fixed value memory cell. The local bit lines comprise first and second local bit lines. Each memory cell for storing data corresponds and is connected to one local bit line and one word line. The transistor is coupled to the global bit line, first local bit line and BLT control line, and selectively turns on to connect the global bit line to the first local bit line. The fixed value memory cell coupled to the global bit line, second local bit line, and BLT control line is programmed to a fixed value so that a threshold voltage thereof is greater than a threshold voltage of the transistor.
US08199570B2	Multi-bit memory with selectable magnetic layer An apparatus and associated method for a multi-bit memory capable of being selected with a magnetic layer. Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to a first selection layer with a low coercivity that is disposed between first and second storage layers that each have a high coercivity. In response to magnetic saturation of the first selection layer, programming of a logical state to the second storage layer is allowed.
US08199566B1	Write performance of phase change memory using set-pulse shaping Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a memory device, and more particularly to write performance of a phase change memory.
US08199565B2	Magnetic random access memory with dual spin torque reference layers A magnetic data storage cell, applicable to spin-torque random access memory (ST-RAM), is disclosed. A magnetic cell includes first and second fixed magnetic layers and a free magnetic layer positioned between the fixed magnetic layers. The magnetic cell also includes terminals configured for providing a spin-polarized current through the magnetic layers. The first fixed magnetic layer has a magnetization direction that is substantially parallel to the easy axis of the free magnetic layer, and the second fixed magnetic layer has a magnetization direction that is substantially orthogonal to the easy axis of the free magnetic layer. The dual fixed magnetic layers provide enhanced spin torque in writing to the free magnetic layer, thereby reducing the required current and reducing the feature size of magnetic data storage cells, and increasing the data storage density of magnetic spin torque data storage.
US08199559B2	Semiconductor device, semiconductor memory device and data processing system comprising semiconductor system A semiconductor device comprises a memory cell, a bit line, a sense amplifier operating between a first voltage and a second voltage higher than the first voltage, a transfer control circuit including a transfer transistor, and a write circuit writing data into the memory cell through the bit line based on the first voltage and a third voltage. The sense amplifier receives and amplifiers the signal voltage at a sense node when the transfer transistor controls the connection between the bit line and the sense node in response to a transfer control voltage. The third voltage is set to a voltage lower than the second voltage and higher than the transfer control voltage, and the sense node is set to a voltage higher than the transfer control voltage in an initial period of a read operation before the data of the memory cell is read out to the bit line.
US08199558B2	Apparatus for variable resistive memory punchthrough access method Variable resistive punchthrough access methods are described. The methods include switching a variable resistive data cell from a high resistance state to a low resistance state by passing a write current through the magnetic tunnel junction data cell in a first direction. The write current is provided by a transistor being electrically coupled to the variable resistive data cell and a source line. The write current passes through the transistor in punchthrough mode.
US08199554B2	Ferro-electric random access memory apparatus A ferro-electric random access memory apparatus has a memory cell array in which a plurality of memory cells each formed of a ferro-electric capacitor and a transistor are arranged, word lines are disposed to select a memory cell, plate lines are disposed to apply a voltage to a first end of the ferro-electric capacitor in a memory cell, and bit lines are disposed to read cell data from a second end of the ferro-electric capacitor in the memory cell. The ferro-electric random access memory apparatus has a sense amplifier which senses and amplifies a signal read from the ferro-electric capacitor onto the bit line. The ferro-electric random access memory apparatus has a bit line potential control circuit which exercises control to pull down a voltage on an adjacent bit line adjacent to the selected bit line onto which the signal is read, before operation of the sense amplifier at time of data readout.
US08199553B2	Multilevel frequency addressable field driven MRAM A three-dimensional nonvolatile memory array device includes a plurality of memory elements and a memory controller. The plurality of memory elements each have a stack of a plurality of bits, which in turn each include a magnetic free layer, a magnetic pinned layer, and a non-magnetic layer. The magnetic free layer is configured to alternate its magnetization orientation based on a radio frequency current being at a resonant frequency of the magnetic free layer and on a magnetic field being applied to the magnetic free layer. The magnetic pinned layer has a specific magnetization orientation. The non-magnetic layer is located in between the magnetic free layer and the magnetic pinned layer. The memory controller is in communication with each of the plurality of memory elements, and configured to write data to and read data from the plurality of bits in the memory elements.
US08199552B2	Unit cell of nonvolatile memory device and nonvolatile memory device having the same A One-Time Programmable (OTP) unit cell and a nonvolatile memory device having the same are disclosed. A unit cell of a nonvolatile memory device includes: an anti-fuse connected between an output terminal and a ground voltage terminal; a first switching unit connected to the output terminal to transfer a write voltage to the output terminal; and a second switching unit connected to the output terminal to transfer a read voltage to the output terminal.
US08199549B2	Semiconductor device The present invention provides a sense circuit for DRAM memory cell to cover the events that a sense time becomes remarkably longer when a power source voltage is lowered, a sense time under the low voltage condition becomes shorter when temperature rises and a sense time changes to a large extent for fluctuation of processes. The present invention provides the following typical effects. A switch means is provided between the bit line BL and local bit line LBL connected to the memory cells for isolation and coupling of these bit lines. The bit line BL is precharged to the voltage of VDL/2, while the local bit line LBL is precharged to the voltage of VDL. The VDL is the maximum amplitude voltage of the bit line BL. A sense amplifier SA comprises a first circuit including a differential MOS pair having the gate connected to the bit line BL and a second circuit connected to the local bit line LBL for full amplitude amplification and for holding the data. When the bit line BL and local bit line LBL are capacitance-coupled via a capacitor, it is recommended to use a latch type sense amplifier SA connected to the local bit line LBL.
US08199545B2	Power-conversion control system including sliding mode controller and cycloconverter A power-conversion control system includes an inverter, a cycloconverter, and a sliding mode controller. The inverter is operable to receive a DC voltage input and produce a first AC voltage output having a first frequency. The cycloconverter has a plurality of bidirectional switches, and is operable to receive the first AC voltage and to synthesize a second AC voltage having a second frequency that is lower than the first frequency. The sliding mode controller is operable to provide a control signal to command the plurality of bidirectional switches to turn OFF and ON when the first AC voltage is at a zero crossing condition. The sliding mode controller is also operable to selectively adjust the frequency and amplitude of the second AC voltage.
US08199544B2	Zero-voltage switching power converter The zero-voltage converter is able to perform at extremely high power levels and bares significant benefits to all levels; system, inverter and circuitry level. Power losses are avoided by using a new developed resonant topology. EMI problems are reduced by power module integrated capacitors as well as smart selection of the terminal technology and under full utilization of the analog components and their potentials. The power module developed for this specific application is designed under a maxim of gaining highest power density as well as lowest stray inductances. High switching frequencies enable even special electro motors with extremely low leakage inductance to perform well. This is in particular beneficial for ultra high speed drives or motors with a high pole pair number. The mechanical concept of the inverter can specifically be adopted to the referring vehicle and to its available installation space. Thus, also (hybrid) electrical vehicles can be designed based on such highly innovative conception.
US08199543B2	Power converter with extremely low standby power consumption The present invention relates to a power converter with extremely low standby power consumption. The power converter comprises a rectification module having at least one unilateral switch which has a control terminal, an anode terminal and a cathode terminal. The control terminal is coupled to a control signal, wherein when the control signal issues a first level, the channel between the anode terminal and the cathode terminal is enabled to act as a unilateral switch; and when the control signal issues a second level, the channel between the anode terminal and the cathode terminal is open circuited.
US08199542B2	Method and device for creating a direct voltage or a direct current A device, which functions to generate a DC voltage or a DC current, has at least one rectifier element (D) and at least one transformer (T) that has at least one primary winding (W1) connected through leads (PL1, PL2) of a power supply lead (PL) to an AC voltage source (Q) and has at least one secondary winding (W2) connected to a load (Z), the windings being disposed on an associated magnet frame (JK) that functions to carry a magnetic flux Φ. According to the invention, the primary winding (W1) is connected through the rectifier element (D) to the AC voltage source (Q) such that for each AC half-wave of corresponding polarity a current I1 is able to be carried through the rectifier element (D) and through the primary winding (W1), the current driving the magnetic flux Φ always in the same direction through the magnet frame (JK).
US08199537B2	Detecting light load conditions and improving light load efficiency in a switching power converter A switching power converter detects low load conditions based on the ratio of a first peak current value for peak current switching in constant voltage regulation mode to a second peak current value for peak current switching in constant current regulation mode. The power supply load is considered to have a low load if the ratio is lower than a predetermined threshold. Once a low load condition is detected, the switching frequency of the switching power converter is reduced to a level that minimizes switching loss in the power converter. In addition, the switching power converter also adjusts the switching frequency according to the sensed input line voltage. An offset is added to the switching period to reduce the switching frequency of the switching power converter, as the input line voltage is increased.
US08199530B2	Power supply unit, hard disk drive and method of switching the power supply unit Zero volt switching during a light load is performed in such a manner that through an ON/OFF control of switches provided for a full bridge circuit and the synchronous rectifier switches in a rectifier and smoothing circuit, a resonant peak voltage necessary for the zero voltage switching determined by the output current flowing to output terminals, a resonant inductor and a resonant capacitor capacitance is ensured so that an energy accumulated in the rectifier and smoothing circuit is returned to the full bridge circuit so as to act as equivalent as when the output current is increased and to increase the current flowing through the full bridge circuit.
US08199523B2	Server-based network appliance Communication apparatus includes a case including a front panel and having a rear side opposite the front panel. A computer motherboard includes a processor and a bus having bus slots, and is mounted in the case so that the bus slots are located adjacent to the rear side of the case. One or more communication adapter cards, each of which includes a bus connector compatible with the bus and one or more ports for receiving a communication cable, are mounted in the case so that the ports are accessible at the front panel. Bus extension circuitry is connected inside the case between the bus slots on the motherboard and the one or more communication adapter cards, and includes a backplane including at least one backplane slot, for receiving the bus connector of the one or more communication adapter cards.
US08199521B2	Memory module and method for operating a memory module A memory module includes an electronic printed circuit board with at least one contact strip, a plurality of integrated memory components, at least one first and one second buffer component, and a number of conductor tracks, which proceed from the contact strip and which are arranged on or in the printed circuit board. The conductor tracks include data lines, control lines and address lines. The conductor tracks lead from the contact strip to the buffer components or to one of the buffer components. The printed circuit board has conductor tracks that are interposed between the first buffer component and the second buffer component and that lead from the first buffer component to the second buffer component.
US08199514B2	Container unit for electrical device An electrical device storage unit includes a separation wall having a convex portion and a concave portion; a control unit having a printed circuit board whose front surface and back surface are mounted with an electronic component; an adhesive for joining the convex portion and the printed circuit board; and an electrical device that is electrically connected with the control unit by a conductor and arranged opposite the control unit with the separation wall disposed therebetween, wherein the conductor is provided passing through the separation wall and the printed circuit board, and an end of the conductor is soldered to the printed circuit board.
US08199511B2	Hot swappable computer card carrier Embodiments are described including a device comprising a carrier frame. The device includes a first connector on a first side of the carrier frame, and the first connector connects to a host system when the carrier frame is inserted into the host system. The device includes a second connector on a second side of the carrier frame, where the second side of the carrier frame is perpendicular to the first side. The second connector electrically couples to the first connector and connects to an input/output (I/O) adapter card inserted into a third side of the carrier frame, where the third side perpendicular to the first side. Consequently, the device has a flat structure that receives an adapter card and reorients the electrical connection of the adapter card. The device includes external visual status indicators and a switch for hot-swapping of the adapter card carrier in a running host system.
US08199505B2	Jet impingement heat exchanger apparatuses and power electronics modules A jet impingement heat exchanger includes an inlet jet, a target layer, a second layer, a transition channel, and a fluid outlet. The target layer includes an impingement region and a plurality of target layer microchannels that radially extend from the impingement region. The jet of coolant fluid impinges the target layer at the impingement region and flows through the radially-extending target layer microchannels toward a perimeter of the target layer. The second layer includes a plurality of radially-extending second layer microchannels. The transition channel is positioned between the target layer and the second layer to fluidly couple the second layer to the target layer. The coolant fluid flows through the transition channel and the plurality of radially-extending second layer microchannels. The fluid outlet fluidly is coupled to the second layer. Jet impingement exchangers may be incorporated into a power electronics module having a power electronics device.
US08199495B2	Fixing structure and electronic device using the same A fixing module and an electronic device using the same are provided. The fixing module includes a male housing and a female housing. The male housing disposed in a bottom cover includes a groove, cylinder and a first magnet. The cylinder is slidingly connected to the groove, and the first magnet is disposed in the cylinder. The female housing is disposed in a top cover, including a cavity and a second magnet. The cavity is disposed in correspondence to the cylinder, and the second magnet is fixed in the cavity.
US08199494B2	Thumbscrew for pluggable modules In one example, a pluggable module comprises a shell, a module connector, and one or more thumbscrews. The shell defines a cavity within which a PCB and one or more components are disposed and includes a front, back, first side, and second side. The module connector is operatively connected to the PCB near the back of the shell and extends from within the cavity to outside the shell through an opening defined in the back of the shell. The module connector is configured to operatively couple the pluggable module to a host device. The thumbscrews are housed within one or more portions of the shell and are configured to threadably secure the pluggable module to the host device. Each of the thumbscrews comprises a torque limiter. The pluggable module can further comprise protecting means for protecting a portion of the module connector extending outside the cavity from damage.
US08199492B2	Accessory strap fixing structure An accessory strap fixing structure is positioned on a portable electronic device to assemble an accessory strap. The accessory strap fixing structure includes an assembling space and a rotary element. The assembling space defined in the portable electronic device. The rotary element is rotatably assembled within the assembling space. The rotary element forms a projection for attaching an end of the accessory strap to allow the accessory strap to pass through the assembling space. The invention also discloses a portable electronic device having the accessory strap fixing structure.
US08199489B2	Handheld terminal with individually replaceable components A handheld terminal is provided. The handheld terminal includes a housing, a component for operating the handheld terminal, and a pocket for forming, in the housing, a space for holding the component individually and separating the space from a main logic circuit. The pocket has a window for a connection between the component and the main logic circuit. The handheld terminal includes a bezel placed on the component, and a combiner for removable engaging the bezel with the housing.
US08199486B2	Server cabinet A server cabinet includes a rack and an air baffle plate. The rack defines an interior space configured for accommodating a plurality of servers therein. The rack includes a top wall, an opposite bottom wall and two sidewalls respectively connected between left sides of the top and the bottom walls and right sides of the top and the bottom walls. The servers are arranged along a bottom-to-top direction. Each of the servers is fixed between the two sidewalls. A space is defined between a topmost server and the top wall. The air baffle plate is positioned in the space for blocking an airflow on a rear side of the servers from flowing back to a front side of the servers via the space.
US08199482B2	Peripheral device carrying apparatus and systems A peripheral device assembly is disclosed wherein the assembly includes a device bay for receiving a peripheral device carrier. An interior side surface of the device bay defines at least one extrusion portion surrounding a hole for receiving a first end of a lever arm of the peripheral device carrier, and the extrusion portion comprises edges protruding from the interior side surface of the device bay toward an exterior side surface of the device bay.
US08199475B2	Electronic device A handheld electronic device including a first body, a second body and a linkage is provided. The second body is stacked on the first body, and a first fulcrum at an end of the second body is slidably disposed on the first body. The linkage provided with an end pivotally connected to the first body via a pivot and another end slidably disposed on the second body via a second fulcrum is located between the first body and the second body. When the electronic device is transformed from a retracted state to an expanded state, the second body slides relative to the first body and then the second fulcrum is raised to form an included angle between the first body and the second body.
US08199472B2	Flat panel display with support providing pivoting An exemplary flat panel display includes a seat, a connection member, and a display module. The seat includes a supporting member having a first engaging portion at a top end thereof, and the first engaging portion includes two pins and two fixing holes. The connection member includes two fixing components. The display module is mounted on the supporting member, and includes a second engaging portion having two positioning slots. The pins of the first engaging portion are received in the second engaging portion, the fixing components are fixed in the fixing holes via the positioning slots, and the positioning slots provide paths for the fixing components when the display module is rotated about the pins.
US08199470B2	Cover mechanism and electronic device using the same A cover mechanism for an electronic device, and the cover mechanism includes a base member and a cover member. The base member defines an opening. The cover member includes a plate body and a pin positioned on the plate body. The plate body rotatably latches the base member by the pin, and covers the opening. The present disclosure further discloses an electronic device using the cover mechanism.
US08199469B2	Battery By being embedded in a portable computing device, a battery pack is made essentially inaccessible to unauthorized users, thereby allowing for a battery pack that can be made smaller and of lighter construction material, thereby facilitating greater component density within the portable computing device, lower cost to manufacture, and more environmentally secure. In another embodiment, the battery pack can take the form of a battery assembly formed of a single piece housing having a cantilever portion to provide additional stiffness.
US08199459B2	Energy device with a first and second separator material An energy storage device includes a first conductor having a first surface and a second surface. The energy storage device also includes a second conductor and a separator assembly that encloses the first conductor and that is disposed between the first and second conductors. The separator assembly also includes a first portion that covers the first surface and a second portion that covers the second surface. The first and second portions are attached to one another, and at least one of the first and second portions includes a first sheet and a second sheet that are attached to one another. The first sheet includes a first material, and the second sheet includes a second material that is different from the first material.
US08199455B2	Glass ceramic composition, glass ceramic sintered body, and multilayer ceramic electronic device A glass ceramic composition is provided which can be fired at a temperature of 1,000° C. or less to form a sintered body having a low relative dielectric constant, a small temperature coefficient of resonant frequency, a small change in capacitance before and after a loading test, a high Qf value, high electrical insulating reliability, and a high flexural strength. A glass ceramic composition forming glass ceramic layers laminated to each other in a multilayer ceramic substrate is also provided. The glass ceramic composition includes a first ceramic powder containing forsterite as a primary component; a second ceramic powder containing SrTiO3 and/or TiO2 as a primary component; a third ceramic powder containing BaZrO3 as a primary component; a fourth ceramic powder containing SrZrO3 as a primary component; and a borosilicate glass which contains Li2O, MgO, B2O3, SiO2, and ZnO, and also which contains at least one of CaO, BaO, and SrO.
US08199454B2	Electrostatic chuck and substrate temperature adjusting-fixing device There is provided an electrostatic chuck for placing an adsorption object or a base body having an electrostatic electrode embedded therein and generating a coulombic force between the adsorption object and the electrostatic electrode by applying a voltage to the electrostatic electrode so as to hold the adsorption object in an adsorption state, wherein the base body includes a upper surface of the base body opposed to the adsorption object and a protrusion portion provided in the upper surface of the base body so as to come into contact with the adsorption object, and wherein the protrusion portion is provided in a region except for an outer edge portion of the upper surface of the base body, and the outer edge portion is substantially formed in the same plane as that of the upper surface of the base body.
US08199450B2	ESD protection utilizing radiated thermal relief An ESD device with a protection structure utilizing radiated heat dissipation to prevent or reduce thermal failures. The device includes a voltage switchable polymer 10 between electrodes 11 and 12, which is configured to provide a heat radiating surface 40 for radiating heat when an ESD condition occurs. A radiation transmission material 19 is disposed between the heat radiating surface and the environment for radiating heat 20 when an ESD event occurs. One embodiment adds a spacer 50 for accurately spacing electrodes. A method for fabricating the device is further illustrated.
US08199445B2	Gas insulated circuit breaker system and gas insulated circuit breaker monitoring method A gas insulated circuit breaker system has: a container that encapsulates insulating gas; a main contact in the container that opens/closes the main circuit; a resistor contact in the container, connected in parallel to the main contact, to be opened after elapse of a predetermined time after the main contact is opened and to be closed at a predetermined time before the main contact is closed; a resistor in the container, serially connected to the resistor contact and connected in parallel to the main contact together with the resistor contact; a temperature sensor that measures temperature of surrounding of the resistor; and a temperature estimation section that estimates a temperature of the resistor based on a timing of opening/closing operation of the main contact, a current flowing through the main circuit and the measured temperature.
US08199437B1	Head with an air bearing surface having a particle fence separated from a leading pad by a continuous moat A novel head includes an air bearing surface having a trailing pad adjacent the read transducer and lying in a primary plane. The air bearing surface includes a sub-ambient pressure cavity recessed from the primary plane by at least 500 nm. At least one leading pad is disposed upstream of the sub-ambient pressure cavity and has a leading pad surface in the primary plane. A moat is disposed upstream of the leading pad and is recessed from the primary plane by at least 500 nm. The moat continuously spans the entire width of the slider. A particle fence in the primary plane is disposed immediately upstream of the moat and adjacent the leading face. The particle fence continuously laterally spans at least 70% of the width of the slider.
US08199434B2	High areal density tape format and head A magnetic recording tape according to one embodiment includes a plurality of servo tracks, each servo track comprising a series of magnetically defined bars, wherein an average height of the bars is less than about 50 microns, wherein about eight to about twenty six data bands are present on the tape. A magnetic recording tape according to another embodiment includes a plurality of servo tracks, each servo track comprising a series of magnetically defined bars, wherein an angle between at least some of the bars is greater than about 10 degrees, wherein an average height of the bars is less than about 50 microns. A magnetic recording tape according to another embodiment includes at least about eight data bands, the data bands being defined between servo tracks, wherein about eight to about twenty six data bands are present on the tape.
US08199432B2	Extended tape path length between nip point and guide in tape drive One embodiment is a method that extends a tape path to compensate for misalignment between tape on a reel and a head by exiting the tape twice from a tape pack of the reel before reading or writing data at the head.
US08199427B2	Disk drive including a shroud configured to overlap an actuator for removing debris from a head-slider A disk drive. The disk drive includes a head-slider, an actuator, a ramp and a shroud. The head-slider is configured to fly above the disk. The actuator is configured to support the head-slider and to swing about a pivot shaft to move the head-slider in a radial direction of the disk. The actuator may also be configured to rest on the ramp in a stand-by position. The shroud includes an inner peripheral side surface and an outer peripheral side surface. The shroud is configured to control an air-stream which flows in a direction from the pivot shaft toward the head-slider. The inner peripheral side surface and the outer peripheral side surface are configured to blast the head-slider with the air-stream upon spinning the disk when the head-slider is positioned away from the disk in the stand-by position.
US08199426B2	Method and system for providing hard disk shrouds with aerodynamic fences for suppressing flow induced disk excitation A system and method for stabilizing air flow in a shroud to disk region in a hard disk drive are disclosed. One embodiment provides a hard disk drive having a shroud with machined aerodynamic annulus insertions thereon for stabilizing the Ekman layer of air flow at the peripheral ends of the hard disks and the shroud. The aerodynamic annulus insertions are positioned in between disk pairs at approximately 1 mm from the peripheral ends of each disk to stabilize the air flow as the disk rotate and to ensure that the air flow leaves the hard disk drive at a fixed location.
US08199425B1	Method to replace gas in a disk drive A method to at least temporarily replace air with an alternative gas in a first disk drive having a breather filter port is disclosed. A first disk drive is placed in a chamber, which is then evacuated to establish a sub-ambient chamber air pressure. Air bleeds out of the first disk drive through its breather filter port during a first period, until an internal pressure within the first disk drive reaches a reduced internal air pressure that is less than one third the first disk drive's initial internal air pressure. The chamber is then filled with the alternative gas. The alternative gas bleeds into the first disk drive through the breather filter port during a second period, until the internal pressure within the first disk drive reaches a restored internal gas pressure that is in the range 0.5 to 1.25 times the initial internal air pressure.
US08199424B2	Library apparatus, library system and medium transportation method of library apparatus A library apparatus includes a housing having an opening, a cell unit including a plurality of cells for storing a storage medium, a drive unit for writing data into or reading data from the storage medium, a medium transportation unit for accessing each of the cells and the drive unit and for transporting the storage medium between the cells and between each of the cells and the drive unit, a cell unit driver for moving the cell unit in vertical direction, and a controller for driving the cell unit driver to move the cell unit through the opening to a position accessible by a medium transportation unit of another library apparatus stacked in vertical direction.
US08199411B2	Imaging lens, optical apparatus equipped therewith and method for manufacturing the imaging lens An imaging lens SL installed in an SLR camera includes a front group disposed to the most object side and having negative power, and a rear group disposed to an image side of the front group and having negative power. At least a portion of the rear group is movable perpendicularly to an optical axis. The rear group includes a first negative component having negative power, a second negative component having negative power, and a positive component having positive power. The second negative component is disposed between the first negative component and the positive component. The second negative component side surface of the first negative component faces the second negative component, and the second negative component having a negative meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the first negative component. Thereby providing an imaging lens having excellent optical performance, an optical apparatus equipped therewith, and a method for manufacturing thereof.
US08199408B2	Immersion microscope objective lens An immersion microscope object lens including, in order from an object: a first lens group having positive refractive power as a whole, and including a first lens component in which a meniscus lens having a concave surface facing the object and a meniscus lens having a convex surface facing an image are cemented, a second lens component constituted by a single lens having positive refractive power, and a third lens component in which a negative lens and a positive lens are cemented; a second lens group having positive refractive power as a whole, and including a lens component in which a negative lens and a positive lens are cemented; and a third lens group having negative refractive power as a whole.
US08199387B1	Phase addressed holographic associative memory The present invention provides a holographic storage apparatus comprising a polarizing beam splitter configured to split an incoming beam into an object beam and a reference beam; a first spatial light modulator configured to modulate the object beam with an array of data; a second spatial light modulator configured to phase modulate the reference beam with an orthogonal phase function; a holographic medium configured to record an interference pattern between the modulated object beam and the modulated reference beam; a first image sensor configured to read an image of the modulated object beam; and a second image sensor configured to read an image of the modulated reference beam.
US08199365B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus which forms a halftone image on a print medium (200) using multipass processing of scanning a single area on the print medium (200) by a printhead (220) N times and forming dots every scan operation includes a pass division table (410) used to set the print density ratio of each scan operation, a print data generation unit (370) which generates print data of each scan operation, a printer engine (180) which prints a halftone image on the print medium (200) on the basis of the generated print data, and a sensor (340) which detects the state of printing on the print medium (200) by the printer engine (180). The print data generation unit (370) corrects print data in synchronism with printing by the printer engine (180) on the basis of the set print density ratio and the detected printing state.
US08199362B2	Color conversion table creating device A color conversion table creating device includes a gray data creating unit, light and dark area data creating unit, first grid point correspondence relationship determining unit, second grid point correspondence relationship determining unit including gray-dark auxiliary line setting unit, intersecting point setting and signal determining units, interpolation coefficient determining unit, and second grid point interpolation unit, and color conversion table creating unit. The device sets a gray-dark auxiliary line gray and dark intersecting points, The device determines, based on gray data and dark area data, output color signals corresponding to the gray-dark auxiliary line gray and dark intersecting points determines light interpolation coefficient reflecting characteristic of light area data, and determines a relationship for the second grid point between an input color signal and an output color signal by performing interpolation between the output color signals corresponding to the gray-dark auxiliary line gray and dark intersecting points by using the light interpolation coefficient.
US08199358B2	Digital slide image analysis A system and method and non-transitory computer readable medium for processing and analyzing virtual microscopy digital images (“digital slides”) is provided. The non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions that implement an algorithm server that maintains or has access to a plurality of image processing and analysis routines and digital slides. The algorithm server executes a selected routine on an identified digital slide and provides the resulting data.
US08199355B2	Document management software, print control device, and document management method of print control device A document management software is executed in print control device connectable via a network to an information processing device that sends an instruction and document thereto. The software includes: a step of determining if a non-native document is selected, wherein the non-native document is stored in a detachable memory connected to the print control device; a step of sending to the information processing device the selected non-native document so as to convert the non-native document into a native document; and a step of receiving the converted native document from the information processing device for printing, wherein the native document is printable document.
US08199353B2	Displaying status icons of remaining consumables for plural image forming apparatuses An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to a network. Each image forming apparatus includes a remaining-toner sensor for detecting remaining amounts of toner in cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and black (K) toner cartridges. The information processing apparatus includes (i) a storage device for storing various types of information obtained from the image forming apparatuses, including apparatus status information such as the remaining amounts of toner, and (ii) a display device for displaying icons representing the remaining amounts of C/M/Y/K toners in a line on a respective apparatus basis, and displaying the icons representing the remaining amounts of C/M/Y/K toners for all of the plurality of image forming apparatuses in lines on a respective color basis so that said lines are perpendicular to said line in which the icons representing the remaining amounts of toner are displayed.
US08199349B2	Facsimile communication device and system for transmitting a transmission image with an embedded code data and information A facsimile communication device has a multicast function capable of sequentially transmitting a transmission image to a plurality of receiving devices. The facsimile communication device includes an origination information data generation unit for generating origination information data related to the facsimile communication device; a multicast destination information data generation unit for generating multicast destination information data related to a multicast destination to which the facsimile communication device transmits the transmission image; and a transmission image data generation unit for adding the origination information data generated with the origination information data generation unit and the multicast destination information data generated with the multicast destination information data generation unit to the transmission image.
US08199347B2	Determining if a broadcast print request ends before a print job is completed, and taking action in accordance with the determination A digital broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast signal including print information, the apparatus being configured to communicate with a printing apparatus and to receive a print request, is provided. The apparatus comprises: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain first information regarding a period of duration of a print process that is being executed by the printing apparatus; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain second information regarding an existing period during which print information that corresponds to the print request is included in the digital broadcast signal that is being received; a determination unit operable to determine whether or not the existing period ends earlier than the period of duration based on the first information and the second information; and a controller configured to control issuance of an instruction to suspend the print process that is being executed based on a determination result by the determination unit.
US08199342B2	Tailoring image data packets to properties of print heads Techniques, systems, and computer program products that facilitate tailoring image data packets to properties of print heads in a printing system. Control software in the printing system remote from the print head(s) may send a query to a print head over a control channel and receive a reply include information characterizing parameters of the print head, e.g., specific configuration information or a part number. The control software may use the information characterizing the properties of the print head to look up specification details of the layout of print elements in the print head and use that information to configure image data packet generating components in the control software for the particular print head layout.
US08199341B2	Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program for creating a copy prevention pattern that allows a copying machine with a copy guard function to read a special dot pattern An image area detecting portion detects an area (image area) in a sheet subjected to printing where characters and images take up. A pattern creating portion creates a copy prevention pattern in such a manner that a latent image is embedded only to a detected image area with respect to a mask pattern into which a dot pattern is incorporated. A print image creating portion superimposes the generated copy prevention pattern and the document image to each other. When the printed object is read in a copying machine having a copy guard function, detection of the dot pattern can be performed without being interfered by a latent image since only a mask pattern is printed in an area corresponding to a reading start position.
US08199340B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming system, recording medium, and method for controlling image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes image carriers on which latent images are respectively formed, development sections for respectively developing the formed latent images using development agents, a transfer section for superimposing and transferring the development agents developing the latent images formed on the image carriers on a sheet, an input section into which the image data are input, an analysis section for analyzing whether the image data input into the input section is monochrome image data, an identification information storage section for storing identification information capable of identifying the image data when the analysis section analyzes that the image data is monochrome image data, and a control section for prohibiting at least the operation of the development sections corresponding to some colors when the identification information of the image data input into the input section corresponds to the identification information stored in the identification information storage section.
US08199333B2	Optical scattering disk, use thereof, and wavefront measuring apparatus Optical scattering disk, use and wavefront measuring apparatus. The optical scattering disk includes a transparent substrate (1) and a light scattering layer (2) adjoining a surface of the substrate and having light-scattering-active particles (3). The light scattering layer has an embedding medium (4) which is optically denser than air and directly adjoins the facing surface of the substrate without intervening air gaps and by which the light-scattering-active particles are surrounded. Such optical scattering disks may be used, e.g., in apparatuses for wavefront measurement of high-aperture microlithography projection objectives employing lateral shearing interferometry.
US08199325B2	Apparatus for detecting biomaterials and method for detecting biomaterials by using the apparatus Provided are an apparatus and method for detecting biomaterials. The apparatus for detecting the biomaterials includes a light source unit, a biomaterial reacting unit, and a detection unit detecting. The light source unit provides incident light. The biomaterial reacting unit includes a substrate and metal nanoparticles spaced from the substrate. The surface plasmon resonance phenomenon is induced on surfaces of the metal nanoparticles by the incident light. First detecting molecules specifically binding to target molecules are immobilized to the surfaces of the metal nanoparticles. The detection unit detects a resonance wavelength of emission light emitted from the metal nanoparticles by the surface plasmon resonance phenomenon.
US08199320B2	Mounting test method A method for testing a part mounting status on a substrate, the method comprises preparing the part including a retroreflection portion for occurring reflect light by retroreflection; irradiating light onto the retroreflection portion; receiving the reflect light from the retroreflection portion; and determining whether the part exist by the use of the reflect light from the retroreflection portion.
US08199317B2	Reinforcement element with sensor fiber, monitoring system, and monitoring method A reinforcement element, comprises at least one sensor fiber adapted for strain measurements based on stimulated Brillouin scattering within said sensor fiber. Furthermore, a system for monitoring strain within a structure comprises a reinforcement element comprising at least one sensor fiber adapted for strain measurements based on stimulated Brillouin scattering within said sensor fiber, a pump laser for coupling in laser radiation of a pump frequency into said at least one sensor fiber, a Stokes laser for coupling in laser radiation of a Stokes laser radiation into said at least one sensor fiber, wherein the pump frequency and the Stokes frequency are different from one another and wherein the frequency difference between the pump and Stokes frequencies is within the range of acoustical phonons within said sensor fiber, a sensor adapted to obtain a stimulated Brillouin backscattering signal, and a network analyzer adapted for determining the complex transfer function of the sensor fiber to determine a spatially resolved strain measurement.
US08199308B2	Liquid crystal display having a chip on film structure with a plurality of input pads comprising a thin extending portion that extends to a cutting edge The chip on film structure for a liquid crystal display is disclosed. The chip on film structure includes a film substrate, a driver chip disposed on the film substrate, a plurality of the input pad, and a plurality of output pads. The input pads and the output pads are disposed on two opposite sides of the driver chip, and are electrically connect to the driver chip respectively. Each input pad comprises an extending portion extending from the input pads to a first cutting edge respectively, and a width of the extending portion is thinner than a width of the input pad, and the extending portions are cut along the first cutting edge.
US08199300B2	Liquid crystal device utilizing electric field parallel to substrate A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate with a gap therebetween, a thin film transistor formed over the first substrate, an interlayer insulating film formed over the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, at least one common electrode formed over the interlayer insulating film such that an electric field in parallel with the first substrate is produced by the common electrode and the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US08199296B2	Antiglare film An embodiment of the present invention is an antiglare film which includes an antiglare layer having particles A, particles B, and a binder matrix on a transparent substrate. A difference in refractive index between the particles A and the binder matrix (\|nA−nM\|) is 0.060 or less. A difference in refractive index between the particles B and the binder matrix (\|nB−nM\|) is in the 0.080-0.300 range. An average diameter (unit: μm) of the particles B (rB) is in the 0.5-5.0 μm range. The product value \|nB−nM\|wBH, which is obtained by multiplying a difference in refractive index between said particles B and said binder matrix (\|nB−nM\|) by a content (part by weight) of said particles B as against 100 parts by weight of said binder matrix (wB) and an average thickness (unit: μm) of said antiglare layer (H) is in the 10.0-15.0 range.
US08199293B2	Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes; disposing a thin film transistor having an output terminal on a first substrate, disposing a pixel electrode in connection with the output terminal, disposing an inorganic layer on the pixel electrode, and converting the inorganic layer to a first alignment layer by disposing a mask on the inorganic layer and radiating an ion beam in a plurality of directions.
US08199292B2	Liquid crystal display Disclosed is a liquid crystal display comprising a first substrate including wiring, which intersects to define unit pixels, and a first electrode formed in each unit pixel; a second substrate provided opposing the first substrate at a predetermined distance and including a second electrode formed over an entire surface of the second substrate, the second electrode generating an electric field with the first electrode; and a liquid crystal layer injected between the first substrate and the second substrate and including liquid crystal molecules that are horizontally oriented in one direction, the liquid crystal molecules, as a result of the electric field generated between the first and second substrates, having a symmetrically bent alignment about an imaginary center plane parallel to the first and second substrates at a center position therebetween, wherein the first electrode is protruded in a direction toward the second substrate at edges where orientation for the liquid crystal molecules starts.
US08199284B2	Ink composition for a color filter, a color filter substrate manufactured using the ink composition and method of manufacturing a color filter substrate using the ink composition An ink composition for a color filter includes about 100 parts by weight of a pigment dispersion, about 7 parts by weight to about 65 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin having hydroxyl group at a side chain of the thermosetting resin, about 0.015 part by weight to about 1.5 parts by weight of a thermal initiator, about 0.8 part by weight to about 15 parts by weight of an epoxy-based resin containing fluorine, and about 15 parts by weight to about 165 parts by weight of a solvent. A color filter substrate is manufactured using the ink composition for color filter. The ink composition for the color filter improves straightness of ink jetting through an ink-jetting nozzle and prevents the ink composition from spreading to neighboring pixels.
US08199276B2	Liquid crystal display and method thereof A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel displaying images, a light source supplying light to the liquid crystal panel, a circuit board including at least one of a brightness sensor and a temperature sensor, a frame including a plurality of sidewalls each including an inner surface, an outer surface and a top surface, the frame including a recess into which the circuit board is inserted downwardly, and the top surface including an open area through which the recess is accessible, and a blocking member covering the open area of the top surface where the frame recess is opened.
US08199274B2	Pixel structure A repairable pixel structure includes a substrate, at least a data line, at least a gate line, a transparent pixel electrode, a TFT, and a transparent pre-repair electrode. The TFT includes a gate, a drain, and a source. The transparent pre-repair electrode is disposed corresponding to the electrode in a vertical direction and is electrically connected to the drain. When a broken circuit occurs in the pixel structure, a laser beam is provided to perform a welding process on the transparent pre-repair electrode for repairing the pixel structure.
US08199271B2	Liquid crystal display device with active layer over the gate line, data line, gate electrode and source/drain electrodes An LCD device and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed that improves a yield by decreasing processing time. The LCD device includes gate and data lines formed substantially perpendicular to each other on a substrate and defining a unit pixel region; a thin film transistor formed at a crossing of the gate and data lines; an active layer formed over the gate line, the data line, and the thin film transistor; an organic resin formed on a portion of a gate insulating layer not including the gate line, the data line, and the thin film transistor; a passivation layer formed on an entire surface of the substrate including the thin film transistor; and a pixel electrode, formed in the unit pixel region, the pixel electrode being connected with a drain electrode of the thin film transistor.
US08199266B2	Pixel structure, driving method thereof, pixel array structure, and liquid crystal display panel A pixel structure electrically connected to a data line and a scan line, and including a first and a second active device, a first and a second pixel electrode, and a first and a second capacitance electrode is provided. The first pixel electrode electrically connected to the first active device includes a first and a second electrode block electrically connected to each other. The second pixel electrode electrically connected to the second active device is electrically insulated from the first pixel electrode and separates the first and the second electrode block. The first pixel electrode respectively forms a first and a second capacitor with the first and the second capacitance electrode. The second pixel electrode respectively forms a third and a fourth capacitor with the first and the second capacitance electrode. The first and the second capacitor have different capacitances. The third and the fourth capacitor have different capacitances.
US08199261B2	Projection display apparatus which enables misregistration between primary color lights projected on a screen to be reduced The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing easy recognition of the effect of registration adjustment. The projection display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, on the basis of a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; and correcting means for correcting, based on a given correction value, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. Validation/invalidation of correction on the video signal by the correcting means is switched in accordance with an operation from the user.
US08199260B2	Picture signal detecting apparatus In a VIF circuit for synchronously detecting a picture signal from an AM-modulated PIF signal, the accuracy of a picture signal to be demodulated is maintained even in a state of overmodulation. A comparator (68) determines whether the picture signal exceeds VTH, which is a state of overmodulation. In a period in which the signal is less than or equal to VTH, a switch circuit (56) inputs an output voltage of an APC filter (54) to a VCO (48), and a PLL is formed. The PLL operates so as to lock onto the PIF signal, and reproduces a carrier wave. On the other hand, in a period in which the signal exceeds VTH, the switch circuit (56) inputs an output voltage VSH of an SH circuit (58) to the VCO (48). The SH circuit (58) holds the voltage of the APC filter (54) that is in a locked state in a horizontal synchronizing period and uses the voltage to control the VCO (48), whereby free run and frequency drifting are minimized.
US08199245B2	Imaging device and focusing screen replacement mechanism Disclosed herein is an imaging device including a device main body, a focusing screen holding member configured to detachably hold a focusing screen, and a locking member configured to be provided between the focusing screen holding member and a lens attachment part of the device main body.
US08199243B2	Imaging device and camera body A digital camera comprises an interchangeable lens unit and a camera body. The interchangeable lens unit is provided to form an optical image of a subject. A flash memory is configured to hold a correction coefficient table used to electrically correct distortion produced by the optical system. The camera body has a CCD image sensor, a correction coefficient acquisition part, an operation part, and a correction processor. The correction coefficient acquisition part is configured to acquire the correction coefficient table held in the flash memory. The operation part is configured to produce correction data by performing an interpolation operation or an extrapolation operation on the information obtained from the correction coefficient table. The correction processor is configured to correct distortion in the image data on the basis of information produced by the operation part.
US08199237B2	Imaging device, control method therefor, and camera An imaging device includes: a pixel section having a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix form; and a signal processing section that processes an output signal read from the pixel section. The pixel section includes a first output signal line, at least one first color pixel circuit connected to the first output signal line, a second output signal line, and at least one second color pixel circuit adjacent to the first color pixel circuit in a row direction thereof and connected to the second output signal line. The signal processing section includes a first signal processing circuit, a second signal processing circuit, a selection circuit, a first current source, a second current source, a current source selection circuit, a first connection node, and a second connection node.
US08199236B2	Device and pixel architecture for high resolution digital The present invention discloses structure of a two-gate field effect transistor (FET), named as charge gated FET, and presents various active pixel sensor (APS) and multimode architectures using the device which has only one, or two on-pixel transistors for high resolution, high gain and fast frame rate APS arrays. It is also disclosed a new method of addressing pixels of an APS array by applying the addressing voltage pulse directly to the gate of the amplifying transistor of the pixel architecture, eliminating the row select transistor from the pixel circuit.
US08199232B2	Amplification-type solid-state image capturing apparatus and electronic information device An amplification-type solid-state image capturing apparatus according to the present invention, having a plurality of pixel sections each including a photoelectric conversion element for receiving light of a subject and performing a photoelectric conversion on the light of the subject and a transfer section capable of transferring signal charge from the photoelectric conversion element to a charge detection section, the plurality of pixel sections connected to each charge detection section, and the amplification-type solid-state image capturing apparatus amplifying and reading potential at the charge detection section as signal data for each of the pixel sections, includes: when one of the plurality of pixel sections which share the charge detection section performs an original shutter operation, a shutter control section for performing an additional shutter operation on the remaining pixel sections which share the charge detection section with the one pixel section and have not performed the original shutter operation yet.
US08199227B2	Image-signal processing apparatus for performing space-variant image-signal processing The object is to enable picture compositing having a balanced and uniform appearance over the whole image even when performing space-variant image-signal processing. Provided is an image-signal processing apparatus for performing image-signal processing on an input image signal, the image-signal processing apparatus comprising a first signal processing unit for performing first signal processing on the input image signal; a correction-coefficient calculating unit for calculating a first correction coefficient on the basis of the image signal after being subjected to the first signal processing by the first signal processing unit; and a second signal processing unit for performing second signal processing on the input image signal using the first correction coefficient.
US08199220B2	Method and apparatus for automatic image management Provided is a method and apparatus for automatic image management in an imaging device. The method and apparatus includes serially capturing and temporarily storing a predetermined number of still images in a predetermined time interval; and if the new still images are stored when all of the predetermined number of still images are stored, discarding oldest still images and temporarily storing new still images, wherein the predetermined number of newest still images are stored in real time.
US08199216B2	Apparatus and method for improving image quality of image sensor Provided are an apparatus and method for improving an image quality of an image sensor, capable of adaptively removing noise occurring in a de-mosaicking that is performed for generating three-channel data of R, G and B from a single channel pixel structure based on a bayer pattern. The apparatus includes a first converting unit for converting RGB color data into a YCbCr color data, the RGB color data being obtained from bayer data through a de-mosaicking, a noise removal unit for removing noise from a Cb and a Cr color data outputted from the first converting unit, and a second converting unit for converting the Cb and the Cr color data from the noise removal unit and a Y data from the first converting unit into the RGB color data.
US08199212B2	Image recording and playback device, and image recording and playback method An image processing device of the present invention comprises a storage section for storing first image data obtained by imaging in front of the imaging device body or using a telephoto lens, and second image data obtained by imaging behind the imaging device body or using a wide-angle lens; a movement pattern detection section for processing the first image data to detect a movement pattern of the first image represented by the first image data; a movement pattern determination section determining whether or not the movement pattern of the first image is unstable movement; and an image processing section for rewriting a part of the first image data, for which it has been determined by the movement pattern determination section that the movement pattern of the first image is unstable, using the second image data.
US08199209B2	Image capturing apparatus with correction of optical transfer function, image capturing method and computer readable medium storing thereon a program for use with the image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system that focuses light from a subject, a light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving the light from the subject that is focused by the optical system, a correcting section that corrects, in accordance with an optical transfer function of the optical system, a plurality of pixel values that are linearly related to amounts of the light received by the plurality of light receiving elements, and a non-linear processing section that converts the plurality of pixel values that have been corrected by the correcting section into a plurality of pixel values that are non-linearly related to the amounts of the light received by the plurality of light receiving elements.
US08199207B2	Image recording apparatus, image tilt correction method, and recording medium storing image tilt correction program An image recording device includes an obtaining module configured to obtain tilt information indicating a tilt direction and a tilt angle of an image with respect to a horizontal direction for a processing unit including frames, a rotational processing module configured to perform, in accordance with the tilt direction and the tilt angle indicated by the tilt information, a rotational process having a same rotational direction and a same rotational amount for correction of tilting with respect to images of the frames, and a storing module configured to store the images of the frames subjected to the rotational process.
US08199198B2	Bright spot detection and classification method for a vehicular night-time video imaging system Bright spots imaged by a forward-looking monochrome video camera during night-time operation of a host vehicle are detected and classified to determine the presence of leading and on-coming vehicles. A specified region-of-interest in each image frame is globally scanned to adaptively detect the bright spot contours, and search windows bounding the larger bright spot contours are locally scanned to adaptively detect individual bright spot contours that were fused in the global scan. A sensitive area within the region-of-interest is locally scanned to adaptively detect dim taillights of a leading vehicle, and path prediction of the host vehicle is used for frame-to-frame tracking of detected spots. Detected spots are classified depending on their location and frame-to-frame movement within the region-of-interest and their glare and pairing characteristics.
US08199194B2	Method and system involving controlling a video camera to track a movable target object Methods are described for controlling orientation of an aim point axis of a video camera having an instrument coordinate system to track a point of interest on a movable target object and calculating positions of the point of interest in a local coordinate system in which the target object is moving. The methods include measuring pan and tilt angles of the aim point axis and distance substantially along the aim point axis and calculating a calibration matrix which transforms a position defined in the instrument coordinate system to a position defined in the local coordinate system. A system is described including an instrument and at least one computer, wherein the instrument includes a video camera and a range finder, and wherein the video camera includes an aim point axis having an adjustable orientation. In one example, the target object is adapted to move on and inspect an airplane surface.
US08199191B2	Electron microscope for inspecting dimension and shape of a pattern formed on a wafer There is provided an electron microscope which is capable of making a significant contribution to accomplishment of efficiency in investigating causes for pattern abnormalities found out. The electron microscope including an I/O for capturing image data on a microscopic image acquired by another electron microscope, a computation processing unit for generating a display signal based on the image data on the microscopic image acquired by another electron microscope and captured via the I/O and image data on a microscopic image acquired by the electron microscope itself, in order that the microscopic image acquired by another electron microscope and the microscopic image acquired by the electron microscope itself are displayed at the same scale and under the same display condition, and a display unit for displaying both of the microscopic images based on the display signal from the computation processing unit.
US08199179B2	Image forming apparatus and scanning unit to scan a target surface using light fluxes A scanning unit in an image forming apparatus includes a light source, a coupling lens, an aperture, an image forming lens, and a polygon mirror. The light source includes a plurality of surface-emitting lasers. The coupling lens, the aperture, and the image forming lens are arranged on the optical path of light beams emitted by the light source. The polygon mirror deflects light beams of an image formed by the coupling lens towards a photosensitive drum for scanning. The focal length of the image forming lens in a sub-scanning direction is set to be equal to or smaller than an optical path length between the image forming lens and the aperture.
US08199175B2	Methods and apparatus for applying patterns of non-contiguous features A pattern of non-contiguous features that can be imaged in one pass of a multi-channel imaging head is divided into sets of the non-contiguous features. Each set of the non-contiguous features is imaged separately during a single scan of the multi-channel imaging head. The pattern can be completely imaged after all of the sets have been separately imaged. The non-contiguous features of one set may be interleaved with the non-contiguous features of another one of the sets.
US08199167B2	Diagnostic support device and diagnostic support system A diagnostic support device supports a diagnosis of a display state of a composite image displayed on a display device that is arranged to display a composite image obtained by combining a plurality of composite target images corresponding to pieces of information supplied from respective devices mounted on a vehicle, the plurality of composite target images being combined with reference to layout information, the diagnostic support device including a layout information obtaining section arranged to obtain the layout information, a layout information output section arranged to output to an image combining apparatus, the layout information, per composite target image, the image combining apparatus combining the plurality of composite target images, and the layout information being obtained by the layout information obtaining section.
US08199166B2	Visualization techniques for oilfield operations A method for visualizing oilfield data of an oilfield operation involves obtaining real-time data generated from a borehole, generating and updating a current position object, and displaying and annotating a representation of a first geology, geophysics, drilling, and production object in a display based on the oilfield data using a two dimensional (2D) callout having an attachment handle for adjusting the 2D callout according the updated location in an animation sequence in real-time responsive to updating the current position.
US08199162B2	Contrast increase in X-ray projection images and/or in tomographically reconstructed volumes by deconvolution of the projection images The invention relates to a method and a device for increasing contrast in medical images generated by an imaging system featuring an x-ray source and a detector. The detector detects x-rays of the x-ray source and converts image signals from the x-rays. The image signals are transferred to a control and processing unit for processing. Deconvolution of the image signals is carried out by application of an inverse modulation transfer function modified by a regularization. At least a volume image can be reconstructed from the deconvolved image signals.
US08199157B2	System on chip including an image processing memory with multiple access A system on chip (Soc) includes a system bus, a plurality of sub-systems, an image processing logic block, an image memory interface and an image processing memory block. The sub-systems are respectively connected to the system bus. The image processing logic block is connected to the system bus. The image processing logic block performs an image processing. The image processing logic block is included in a first power domain. The image memory interface is connected to the system bus and the image processing logic block. The image processing memory block is connected to the image memory interface. The image processing memory block is used for the image processing. The image memory interface and the image processing memory block are included in a second power domain different from the first power domain.
US08199156B2	Collaborative environments in a graphical information system Collaborative environments in a geographic information system (GIS) are disclosed. Collaboration between multiple processors can be provided within the GIS. A first processor can stream a scenario describing geo-spatial analysis of the image conducted by the first processor. The scenario can include a set of parameters executed by the first processor for review by a user of a second processor. The user of the second processor can transmit a response back to the first processor. The response can include an addition to the scenario, an edit to the scenario, a comment, or acceptance of the scenario. The server can stream the scenario, and/or the images as well as the response between the first and second processors. The image can include three dimensional data and streaming of data can occur across networks such as the Internet.
US08199151B2	Animation events A method of detecting an occurrence of an event of an event type during an animation, in which the animation comprises, for each of a plurality of object parts of an object, data defining the respective movement of that object part at each of a sequence of time-points for the animation, the method comprising: indicating the event type, wherein the event type specifies: one or more of the object parts; and a sequence of two or more event phases that occur during an event of that event type such that, for each event phase, the respective movements of the one or more specified object parts during that event phase are each constrained according to a constraint type associated with that event phase; and detecting an occurrence of an event of the event type by detecting a section of the animation during which the respective movements defined by the animation for the specified one or more object parts are constrained in accordance with the sequence of two or more event phases.
US08199149B2	Automatic generation of frequency domain mask Automatic generation of a frequency domain mask is achieved by drawing a reduced waveform representing frequency domain data for an input signal as a pixel map. The reduced waveform is blurred by applying a user selected frequency offset, and from the blurred waveform data points are selected to generate upper and lower limits. The selected upper limit data points form an upper limit mask and the lower limit data points form a lower limit mask. When the upper and lower limit data masks are combined and translated back to frequency/amplitude units from the pixel map, they form an envelope mask.
US08199139B2	Viewing angle control device and display provided with the same There are provided a viewing angle control device that can provide a pure black display without coloring and have a significantly improved shielding ability in the narrow viewing angle state, and a display using the viewing angle control device. To adjust the VT (voltage-transmittance) characteristics of a viewing angle control liquid crystal panel (2) that switches a viewing angle between a wide viewing angle state and a narrow viewing angle state by using birefringence of liquid crystal, translucent electrode films (205r, 205g, 206b), to which alternating-current voltages with different frequencies are applied, are provided on a portion of at least one of a pair of translucent substrates (201, 202) sandwiching the liquid crystal, the portion corresponding to at least one color of a picture element of a display liquid crystal panel (1), so that the voltage-transmittance characteristics of the liquid crystal are adjusted.
US08199136B2	Image data transmission apparatus and method for image display system An image display system comprises: a transmission device (PC) 10, for transmitting image data upon receiving a drawing command from an OS or an application; and a receiving monitor 40, for displaying, on a high-resolution panel 41, image data received via a monitor cable 39, wherein the transmission device 10 includes a drawing command analysis device 20, for detecting an area on a screen wherein the content is changed by the drawing command, and for employing the detected area to calculate an area to be transmitted, and a graphics card 12, for transmitting a packet that includes the calculated area to be transmitted, and control data provided as header data for the area to be transmitted, and wherein the receiving monitor 40 includes a packet reception device 50, for analyzing the header data in the received packet and for, based on the header data, rendering image data in an internally provided frame memory.
US08199134B2	Input device A thin input device can be made small and thin, and prevent an excessive force from acting on a connecting part with a substrate when an operating part is operated to detect deformation of an actuating member. An actuating member is received in a recess of a lower case, and a lid is fixed. The actuating member includes fixed parts provided at four corners and deformable parts thinner than the fixed parts. The fixed parts are fixedly sandwiched between a bottom surface of the recess of the lower case and the lid. The deformable parts, to which strain detecting elements are attached, are provided in four directions around the operating part. When the operating knob is operated to deform a deformable part, the force acts only on the case, and an excessive force does not act on connecting parts between the connecting terminals, and a substrate.
US08199130B2	Fixing structure, pen clipping set, and electronic device The fixing structure of the invention capable of connecting to a pen with a slot comprises a main body, a slide piece, and a push module. The main body comprises a slide slot and an opening. The slide piece can slide into the slide slot. The slide piece comprises a first slide unit and a second slide unit. The first slide unit comprises a first pressing element. The push module comprises a second pressing element, and the push module has a loose state and a tight state. When the push module is in the loose state, at least a portion of the first pressing element is in the opening; when the push module is in the tight state, the second pressing element connects to the second slide unit, and the first pressing element connects to the slot of the pen.
US08199129B2	Touch sensitive display device and method of determining touch In a method for determining a contact of a display device according to an exemplary embodiment, a covariance matrix is used to extract a unique vector and a unique value and to obtain the main component through the unique vector and the unique value. The value of the main component is analyzed to determine the contact existence. The unique vector and the unique value are used to extract the main component, and then the contact existence is determined such that the touch existence and the position thereof may be correctly determined without errors.
US08199120B2	Repairable touch control device and method of repairing touch control panel A repairable touch control device includes a substrate, a sensor circuit, and at least a repairing wiring. The substrate includes a sensor region, and a peripheral region. The sensor circuit, which includes sensor wirings, is disposed in the sensor region. The repairing wiring is disposed in the peripheral region for repairing the sensor wirings.
US08199113B2	Programmable on screen display and remote control Both an on screen display and a physical programmable remote control have buttons whose functionality may be dynamically reassigned in accordance with a user's navigation through menu levels, states or across different services. The physical programmable remote control, in conjunction with a TV or other video display, provides an intuitive, heads up experience for the user and eliminates the need for multiple physical remote controls. User profiles and zones may be used to customize a user's remote control functionality based on preferences, access controls, location and the like.
US08199110B1	Method and apparatus for detecting movements in an electronic device A motion detector includes a motion sensor that in one embodiment is an electrically conductive pin that has a fixed upper portion and a lower portion that swings from the upper portion while maintaining electrical conductivity. The lower portion of the pin is located within a hole that has conductive areas. A motion detection circuit identifies movements in a device containing the motion detector by monitoring the electrical contact status between the motion sensor and the conductive areas around the hole.
US08199108B2	Interactive directed light/sound system An interactive directed beam system is provided. In one implementation, the system includes a projector, a computer and a camera. The camera is configured to view and capture information in an interactive area. The captured information may take various forms, such as, an image and/or audio data. The captured information is based on actions taken by an object, such as, a person within the interactive area. Such actions include, for example, natural movements of the person and interactions between the person and an image projected by the projector. The captured information from the camera is then sent to the computer for processing. The computer performs one or more processes to extract certain information, such as, the relative location of the person within the interactive area for use in controlling the projector. Based on the results generated by the processes, the computer directs the projector to adjust the projected image accordingly. The projected image can move anywhere within the confines of the interactive area.
US08199106B2	Systems and methods of camera-based fingertip tracking Systems and methods for camera-based fingertip tracking are disclosed. One such method includes identifying at least one location of a fingertip in at least one of the video frames, and mapping the location to a user input based on the location of the fingertip relative to a virtual user input device.
US08199105B2	System and method for controlling cursor movement A system and method are provided for controlling the movement of a cursor relative to an image displayed in a video screen display by way of an operating element that is rotatable about its longitudinal axis, while being moveable is at least two additional degrees of freedom transverse to the longitudinal axis thereof from an initial position. The cursor can be moved in two mutually perpendicular directions, and, in the case of an additional rotation of the operating element, during the transverse movement of the cursor, the cursor can be moved in a direction diagonal thereto.
US08199099B2	Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel with pixels defined by data and gate lines. A gate driver provides different gate pulses to the odd-column pixels than to the even-column pixels. The gate pulses have different voltages and/or widths. Data drivers provide data voltages having a positive or negative polarity to the data lines. A timing controller controls the gate and data drivers and supplies gate clock pulses that have different voltages and/or widths to the gate driver.
US08199098B2	Driving device and driving method for liquid crystal display A driving device and a driving method for a liquid crystal display are provided. The driving device includes a memory unit, a comparator, a compensation unit, and a selector. The memory unit provides a previous image and a previous comparison result. The comparator compares a present image with the previous image and outputs a present comparison result. The compensation unit processes the present image according to the previous image to generate a plurality of processed present images. The selector selects and outputs one of the present image and the processed present images according to the previous comparison result and the present comparison result. Thereby, the space required in the memory unit is reduced and the image display quality is improved.
US08199096B2	Liquid crystal display, driver chip and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip.
US08199093B2	Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a timing signal multiplying circuit multiplying a frequency of a timing signal, a timing control signal generating circuit generating a polarity control signal based on the multiplied timing signal, a polarity control signal inverting circuit that inverts the polarity control signal in response to an inverse periodic signal, that is inverted every constant time interval, to generate an inverse polarity control signal, and a data drive circuit that respectively converts digital video data and digital black data into a video data voltage and a black gray level voltage, inverts polarities of the video data voltage and the black gray level voltage in response to the inverse polarity control signal, and supplies the video data voltage and the black gray level voltage to data lines.
US08199092B2	Liquid crystal display having common voltage modulator An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a common electrode capable of having a predetermined common voltage applied thereto, a first common voltage line connected to the common electrode, a second common voltage line connected to the common electrode, and a common voltage modulator connected to the first and second common voltage lines. The first and second common voltage lines have no overlap and being at opposite sides of the liquid crystal display. The common voltage modulator is configured to receive a distorted common voltage from the common electrode via the first common voltage line, and apply a corresponding compensating voltage to the common electrode via the second common voltage line.
US08199088B2	Array substrate, method of manufacturing the array substrate, and liquid crystal display device having the array substrate In an array substrate, a method of manufacturing the array substrate, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having the array substrate, a pixel electrode includes an outline portion, connection portions, and slit portions. The outline portion is arranged toward a data line and a gate line thereon, and the connection portions extend in a direction that crosses the data line and the gate line, respectively, to connect to the outline portion. The slit portions protrude from side surfaces of the connection portions to connect to the outline portion. A shielding electrode is arranged toward the outline portion between the data line and the outline portion, and the gate line and the outline portion.
US08199074B2	System and method for reducing mura defects A representative system for displaying images comprises a pixel array, a conversion circuit, a memory device, and a compensation circuit. The pixel array has a plurality of pixels, each having at least one organic light emitting element equipped with a sensing unit which retrieves display information when the organic light emitting element retrieves a test signal. The conversion circuit determines a display parameter of each organic light emitting element according to the test signal and the display information of each organic light emitting element. The memory device stores the display parameter of each organic light emitting element. The compensation circuit modifies a video signal in accordance with the display parameters stored in the memory device.
US08199070B2	Enhanced ZScreen modulator techniques A method and system for use in conjunction with a push-pull liquid crystal modulator system for creating circularly polarized light of alternating handedness is provided. The method and system comprise a pair of surface mode liquid crystal cells and a driver electrically coupled to the cells. The driver is configured to move an electrical charge using a quenching pulse comprising a relatively brief voltage spike at a beginning of a waveform period. Multiple additional improvements are provided, including reducing the thickness of the LC gap (the distance between cell electrode plates), creating a charge connection or wiring connection to the cell electrodes, employing anti-reflection coating technology, thinner ITO and ITO index matched to the LC material, bonding all possible air to material surfaces, using superior glass, employing more efficient polarizers, and reducing projector blanking time.
US08199068B2	Single plane spanning mode across independently driven displays A multi-layer display device having a first display screen having a first resolution and adapted to present a first visual image thereon, a second display screen having a second resolution and adapted to present a second visual image thereon, and a logic device configured to communicate with the first display screen and the second display screen and configured to receive a combined single plane visual image for display on the first and second display screen, the combined visual image having a first portion corresponding to the first visual image to be displayed on the first display screen and a second portion corresponding to the second visual image to be displayed on the second display screen, wherein the logic device is configured to transmit the first visual image to the first display screen and the second visual image to the second display screen.
US08199064B2	Omni directional broadband coplanar antenna element The present invention provides an omni-directional antenna element configuration having a compensated radiation pattern. Broadband antenna elements are coplanarly disposed on a suitable planar dielectric material. A single element omni-directional antenna comprises a pair of balanced fed radiating microstrip elements symmetrically disposed about the centerline of a balanced signal feed network. Additionally, a pair of pattern augmentation rods are positioned on each side of and proximate to the planar dielectric material running longitudinally to the centerline axis of a balanced feed network. Disposed proximate to each radiating element are partially coplanar, frequency bandwidth expanding microstrip lines. The combination of radiating elements together with pattern augmentation rods provides a broad bandwidth omni-directional radiating element suitable for use in multi-element antenna arrays.
US08199050B2	Hybrid GNSS and TDOA wireless location system A method and apparatus for position determination is provided using measurements from both Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and terrestrial-based Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (UTDOA) receivers. The method involves the transformation of downlink satellite measurements into equivalent UTDOA measurements by computing comparable cross-correlation coefficients and time differences of arrival with respect to a UTDOA reference station. The method includes a weighting operation whereby the relative weights of the UTDOA measurements and the relative weights of the GPS measurements are adjusted based on a theoretical scaling followed by empirical adjustments. The method further involves the efficient computation and combining of metrics that are used to minimize the weighted error between candidate location solutions and the UTDOA and GPS measurements.
US08199047B2	High-precision radio frequency ranging system Methods for estimating a distance between an originator and a transponder, methods for calculating a fine time adjustment in a radio, computer-readable storage media containing instructions to configure a processor to perform such methods, originators used in a system for estimating a distance to a transponder, and transponders used in a system for estimating a distance to an originator. The methods utilize fine time adjustments to achieve sub-clock cycle time resolution. The methods may utilize offset master clocks. The methods may utilize a round-trip full-duplex configuration or a round-trip half-duplex configuration. The method produces accurate estimates of the distance between two radios.
US08199045B1	Nickel nanostrand ESD/conductive coating or composite A polymer-based coating includes nickel nanostrands dispersed within a polymer, and a pigment that is conductive or semi-conductive dispersed in the polymer.
US08199043B2	Comparator based asynchronous binary search A/D converter An analog-to-digital converter that uses a comparator based asynchronous binary search is described. The architecture includes a self-clocked (asynchronous) hierarchical binary tree of comparators, each arranged for being provided with a predetermined threshold. The input signal is applied in parallel to all comparators as is the case with flash converters, but the clock is applied to (at least) one comparator only, for example to the first or root comparator. The at least one comparator is further arranged for controlling at least one other comparator of the plurality of comparators.
US08199040B2	Analog-to-digital converter A ΔΣ analog-to-digital converter includes a previous stage amplifier circuit which amplifies an input signal, a conversion circuit which converts an analog signal into a digital signal, where the analog signal is output from the previous stage amplifier circuit, an input node provided in the previous stage amplifier circuit, a plurality of capacitors provided in the conversion circuit, a first amplifier and a second amplifier, and a path switching circuit which connects the first amplifier to the input node in a first mode and connects the first amplifier to the plurality of capacitors in a second mode, where the first mode is for sampling the analog signal and the second mode is for performing an integration operation. The first amplifier forms the previous stage amplifier circuit in the first mode, and forms an integrator which carries out the integration operation performed in the conversion circuit in the second mode.
US08199037B2	ADC channel selection and conversion A microcontroller includes a microcontroller core and an analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”) coupled to said microcontroller core. The ADC has multiple input channel multiplexers that are configured to receive multiple analog input channels. The microcontroller further includes a selection register and a data structure. The data structure comprises a plurality of associated field sets. Each bit position in the selection register indexes to one of the associated field sets in the data structure, and the value contained in each such bit position indicates whether or not to select the corresponding associated field set for selection of an analog input channel. Each associated field set comprises one or more values collectively specifying an analog input channel to select for conversion to digital form.
US08199032B2	Handheld electronic device that has a keypad which can be rendered ineffective, and associated method An improved handheld electronic device is movable among a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration. Several different exemplary embodiments are described, some having two members, others having more. In one embodiment, certain features or objects are unavailable in a retracted configuration but are available in a deployed configuration or an overtravel configuration. A method of responding to predetermined events comprises detecting a movement of a handheld electronic device away from a first configuration toward a second configuration without reaching the second configuration.
US08199031B2	Input apparatus, control apparatus, control system, control method, and program therefor An input apparatus includes a first acceleration sensor, a second acceleration sensor, a first angular velocity sensor, a second angular velocity sensor, and velocity information output means. The first acceleration sensor detects a first acceleration value in a first direction. The second acceleration sensor detects a second acceleration value in a second direction different from the first direction. The first angular velocity sensor detects a first angular velocity value about a first axis in the first direction. The second angular velocity sensor detects a second angular velocity value about a second axis in the second direction. The velocity information output means calculates, based on the first and second acceleration values and the first and second angular velocity values, a first velocity value in the first direction and a second velocity value in the second direction, and outputs information on the first velocity value and the second velocity value.
US08199028B2	Protocol for map data transmission for infrastructure to vehicle communications A method is provided for selectively transmitting stop sign intersection data to a vehicle in an infrastructure-to-vehicle communication system. The infrastructure-to-vehicle system includes a fixed entity for broadcasting wireless messages to vehicles in a predetermined area. The local intersection data is broadcast from a local intersection device at a first repetition rate. The local intersection data relates to the intersection in which the vehicle is currently approaching. Remote intersection data, such as map GID, is broadcast from the local intersection device at a second repetition rate. The remote intersection data relates to intersections beyond the vehicle's current approaching intersection. The second repetition rate is lower than the first repetition rate.
US08199026B2	Quantification indicating circuit A quantification indicating circuit includes an indicating lamp set, a converting circuit, and an indicating lamp control circuit. The indicating lamp set has a plurality of indicating lamps. The converting circuit has a plurality of predetermined threshold values which are compared with a numerical signal of a circuit board to generate a comparison result. The comparison result is converted to be outputs of a plurality of control bits. The indicating lamp control circuit is coupled between the indicating lamp set and the converting circuit and is used for controlling the number of the indicating lamps which are brightened according to the outputs of the control bits.
US08199023B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for tapping a metal electrolysis cell The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for extracting molten liquid from an electrolysis cell. In one embodiment, a system includes a container and an electrical characteristic detector. The container comprises a body adapted to contain molten liquid and a spout. The spout includes a base portion, a tip portion and a passageway connecting the base portion to the tip portion. The electrical characteristic detector is coupled to the container and is configured to determine an electrical characteristic associated with the molten liquid as the molten liquid passes into the body of the container via the passageway. A process parameter associated with the removal of the molten liquid from the container may be changed when it is determined that an electrical characteristic associated with the molten liquid has achieved a predetermined threshold.
US08199020B1	Thermal cutoff fuse for arbitrary temperatures A temperature-sensitive thermal cutoff fuse RFID tag is provided with a bimorph element and thin conductive bridges positioned on an RFID tag substrate that can react to all changes in storage temperature conditions. The bimorph element is configured and positioned so that when it bends in response to one or more predetermined temperatures, the bimorph element will break one of the conductive bridges and cause an open circuit that can be detected when the RFID tag is interrogated by a sensor. The temperature-sensitive thermal cutoff fuse RFID tag can provide high and low temperature information about numerous stored objects such as food, medicine, chemicals, batteries, explosives and munitions. Multiple temperature conductive bridge cutoff fuse RFID tag arrangements and methods for notifying the user when a required storage temperature has been reached with a passive temperature-sensitive thermal cutoff fuse RFID tag.
US08199017B2	RFID integrated circuit with integrated antenna structure An integrated circuit for use in an RFID tag includes an integrated circuit die having a circuit, a radio frequency identification (RFID) interface for providing communication between the circuit and a remote RFID reader via RF signaling between the RFID interface and the remote RFID reader. An antenna section facilitates the RF signaling between the RFID and the remote RFID reader. A substrate is coupled to support the first integrated circuit die and at least a portion of the antenna section.
US08199011B2	Lock with electric locking function A lock includes a case receiving a driving device having a driving member. A connecting member is connected to the driving member to move therewith. The driving device can be actuated to move the connecting member between upper and lower positions to control alignment of a distal end of a locking member and a passageway of an unlocking member. A first detecting member is mounted in the case and operatively connected to the connecting member. A second detecting member is mounted in the space and connected to a burglar alarm system. When the distal end of the locking member is misaligned with the passageway, the first detecting member is in a conductive state and turns on the burglar alarm system. When the distal end of the locking member is aligned with the passageway, the first detecting member is in a non-conductive state and turns off the burglar alarm system.
US08199005B2	System and methods for using a wireless sensor in conjunction with a host controller Systems and methods for using a wireless sensor in conjunction with a host controller are described. An illustrative system can include a host controller, a wireless sensor device, and a decoder in communication with the wireless sensor device and the host controller. The host controller may include a remote sensor input that normally would be connected to a wired remote sensor having an expected sensor characteristic. The decoder may receive a wireless signal from the wireless sensor device, and may provide an output signal to the remote sensor input of the host controller that replicate or mimic signals that would be provided by a wired remote sensor having the expected sensor characteristic.
US08198999B2	Power line communication system and method of operating the same A system for operating a power line communications system is provided. One embodiment is comprised of a plurality of network elements, which may take the form of repeaters, bypass devices, backhaul devices, wireless backhaul devices, enhanced bypass device, communication interface devices and others. In one embodiment, two groups of network elements in the same electrical distribution system are isolated except selected communication link. The network elements respond to requests for data and send out of limit notifications to a remote computer.
US08198989B2	Method and apparatus for informing a user of the position of an information source relative to the user position In a process for informing a user regarding the position of an information source relative to the user's position, the position of an information source is first determined relative to the user. Thereafter, a tactile or electrical stimulus is generated, for directly affecting the user in a location that corresponds to the determined position of the information source. In one embodiment of the invention, tactile or electrical actuators are disposed at locations within a garment, such as a pilot's uniform at locations which correspond to possible locations of the information source.
US08198988B2	Secure link between controller and device In certain embodiments consistent with the invention, a method of associating a controlled device with a remote controller device involves providing a controlled device with a near field communication (NFC) module; providing a remote controller device with a near field communication (NFC) module; bringing the remote controller device into close enough proximity to the controlled device to establish an NFC communication link; communicating secret data between the remote controller device and the controlled device to establish an association between the remote controller device and the controlled device so that commands from the remote controller device to the controlled device will be accepted. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08198985B2	Automatic mode detection in a dual operating mode RFID tag A multi-mode, preferably dual mode, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is adapted for automatic detection of whether a RFID reader located within communication range of the RFID tag is transmitting a continuous wave (CW) or modulated wave types of RF signal, and accordingly, mandating a response from the tag in read-only (RO) mode or read/write (R/W) mode, respectively. The tag includes means for designating one of the RO and R/W operating modes as a default mode of the tag, and for switching the tag from its default mode to its other operating mode, and vice versa, according to a rule for determining the frequency of occurrence of a selected event related to signal type of the reader. A device-implemented method of this automatic detection, and a method of fabricating the tag, are also disclosed.
US08198983B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit and non-contact electronic device using the same Depending on the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device, the voltage suppression characteristic of the regulator function mounted in a power supply circuit is changed. When the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device is small, the voltage change amount of the voltage between antenna terminals for the current flowing in the antenna is increased, and when the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device is large, the voltage change amount of the voltage between the antenna terminals for the current flowing in the antenna is decreased. By this means, the current change of the entire consumption current for the current change of the load modulator (transmitting circuit) at the time of the long distance communication is increased.
US08198980B1	Numeric geodesic locator A geodesic locator system having an input for receiving a user-inputted numeric code in a format limited solely to digits and expressed by a fixed code length. The system associates the received numeric code with a unique geographical area on the Earth's surface and communicates that area to the user.
US08198979B2	In-molded resistive and shielding elements An article of manufacture having an in-molded resistive and/or shielding element and method of making the same are shown and described. In one disclosed method, a resistive and/or shielding element is printed on a film. The film is formed to a desired shape and put in an injection mold. A molten plastic material is introduced into the injection mold to form a rigid structure that retains the film.
US08198977B2	Resistor with temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) compensation A current sense resistor and a method of manufacturing a current sensing resistor with temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) compensation is disclosed. The resistor has a resistive strip disposed between two conductive strips. A pair of main terminals and a pair of voltage sense terminals are formed in the conductive strips. A pair of rough TCR calibration slots are located between the main terminals and the voltage sense terminals, each of the rough TCR calibration slots have a depth selected to obtain a negative starting TCR value observed at the voltage sense terminals. A fine TCR calibration slot is formed between the pair of voltage sense terminals. The fine TCR calibration slot has a depth selected to obtain a TCR value observed at the voltage sense terminals that approaches zero. The resistor can also have a resistance calibration slot located between the pair of main terminals. The resistance calibration slot has a depth selected to calibrate a resistance value of the resistor.

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