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US08556149B2	Adjustable exhaust assembly for pneumatic fastener An adjustable exhaust assembly for a pneumatic fastening tool having body and a handle extending from the body, the handle defining an inlet channel for receiving input of pressurized gas and an outlet channel for outputting exhaust. The adjustable exhaust assembly includes a base non-rotatably attachable to an end of the handle opposite the body. The base has a plate and a boss extending from the plate. The boss is configured to receive an air hose and defining an inlet opening configured to direct compressed air to the inlet channel. The plate has an outlet opening in communication with the outlet channel. A substantially annular and cap is rotatably received about the boss. The cap defines a substantially annular channel in communication with the outlet opening of the base and an outlet port defined in a portion of a circumferential wall of the annular cap and in communication with the annular channel. Rotation of the cap about the boss moves the outlet opening among a plurality of radial positions relative to the boss.
US08556148B2	Fastener tool A fastener tool includes a housing comprising a nosepiece and a magazine connected to the housing for storing a fastener. A driving mechanism is disposed within the housing for driving the fastener into a workpiece. A trigger assembly is pivotally attached to the housing for activating the driving mechanism. A nosepiece cover is pivotally attached to the nosepiece. A latch is pivotally attached to the nosepiece cover. A latch wire is pivotally attached to the latch for engaging at least one hook disposed on the nosepiece. The latch wire has a portion extending between the latch and the hook, the portion having at least two bends.
US08556146B2	Boat rack A rack for carrying a boat on top of the vehicle is configured for clamping on a pair of crossbars. Each crossbar has a pair of saddle mounts facing each other on opposite sides of a cradle axis being defined perpendicular to the crossbar and equidistant from each saddle mount. Each saddle mount has a pliable upper platform which is conformable to different boat hull shapes.
US08556122B2	Apparatus for control of a volatile material dispenser A volatile material dispenser includes a housing adapted to receive a container, wherein the container includes a tilt-activated valve stem with a discharge end. The discharge end of the valve stem is adapted to be in fluid communication with a discharge orifice of the housing. A drive unit is disposed within the housing, wherein the drive unit includes a bi-metallic actuator, a piezo-linear motor, an electro-responsive wire, or a solenoid, which is adapted to impart transverse motion to a body of the container.
US08556121B2	Electronically keyed dispensing systems and related methods utilizing near field frequency response A refill container is disclosed which utilizes an enclosure with at least one orientational tab and a neck that carries a pump mechanism with a nozzle. The refill container provides a collar with a notch that receives the orientational tab and axially receives the neck. The refill container is axially received by a release mechanism of a dispenser housing.
US08556111B2	Biocontainer The present invention relates to a flexible, closed container with a bottom wall, a top wall and four side walls of a substantial rectangular configuration and made of a flexible plastic sheet material, said container comprising at least a first port, said bottom, top and side walls being provided by four separate sheets which are joined together at their edges, wherein a first sheet forms said bottom wall, a second sheet forms said top wall and a third and a fourth sheet form a first and a second side wall at two opposite sides of the container, said four sheets each comprising in addition to the portions forming the bottom, top and first and second side walls integrally formed triangular or trapezoid shaped wall portions at opposite ends thereof, said triangular or trapezoid shaped wall portions form when joined together a third and a fourth side wall, respectively, wherein said bottom wall accommodates said first port in an off-center position.The inventive container requires minimal operator attention during set up and filling.
US08556109B2	Opening structure of fuel tank and fabricating method thereof There are provided a structure of an opening portion for integrally forming an opening portion to a fuel tank main body made of a thermoplastic synthetic resin having at least an outer layer, an inner layer and a middle layer therebetween and its fabricating method. The opening portion is constituted by a cylindrical portion and a folded portion folded in a hairpin shape. At least a portion of the folded portion includes a compression portion compressed from a direction orthogonal to an opening face and more thin-walled than other portion. An outer layer of the cylindrical portion is integrally embedded with a portion of a lid lock member made of a metal in a ring-like shape having a plurality of lock holes, an engaging claw portion of an attaching member made of a metal in a ring-like shape having the engaging claw portion engaged with the lock hole of the lid lock member is engaged with the lock hole, and a lid member for closing the opening portion is clamped by the opening portion and the attaching member.
US08556106B1	Removable watertight end cap for oval housing A reusable oval cap for an oval container that is threaded for ease of removal and installation and provides a water tight seal when fully seated in the container. When the cap is removed, the full cross sectional area of the housing is open for inserting or removing the contents of the container.
US08556102B2	Sealing plug A sealing plug for sealing a hole in a wall, which sealing plug is insertable into the hole by access from only one side thereof, which sealing plug comprises: a radially expandable body which is radially expandable by access thereto from only one end thereof, and a sealing cap which covers the other end of the expandable body and extends therefrom along the exterior of the length of the body, the sealing cap being of a material which is fluid resistant; whereby, when the sealing plug has been inserted in the hole and has been radially expanded so that at least part of the sealing cap adjacent the wall of the hole expands and engages therewith, the sealing cap is secured in the hole with the sealing cap sealing the plug body against access thereto from outside the cap.
US08556100B2	Deployable and disposable container assemblies with bendable support members Collapsible containers and associated methods are disclosed herein. Certain aspects of the invention are directed toward a collapsible container assembly that includes a foldable support member that has a length and a width. The support member has a concave cross-section that causes the support member to resist bending until a threshold force is exceeded. The support member has a folded position and an extended position where the support member is unfolded. The assembly further includes at least one surface member carried by the support member. The assembly has a deployed position where the support member is in the extended position and the at least one surface member forms an enclosure with an interior. The assembly also has a collapsed position where the support member is in the folded position. The container assembly has less exterior volume in the collapsed position than in the deployed position.
US08556095B1	Threaded bottle cap having magnetically detachable decoration The replacement bottle cap according has a circular lid. An annular skirt extends downward from the lid to provide an opening for receipt of a threaded neck of a bottle. The skirt has internal threads to engage corresponding threads on an external portion of the neck of a bottle. The lid is permeable to a magnetic field.A magnet is located in the cylindrical opening adjacent the lid. A decorative object extends upwardly from the lid. A decorative object is attracted to the magnet so the object is securely held to the lid. The decorative object is detachable from the lid by pulling on the object sufficiently to overcome the force exerted by the magnet on the object. At least a first connector extends from the outside of the skirt for receipt of a mating connector.
US08556093B2	Supporting consumer products A device for supporting consumer products includes a transmission, a first end plate, a second end plate, and a shelf. The transmission includes a worm wheel coupled to a socket; a worm gear engaged to the worm wheel and coupled to a back axle shaft; a first pinion gear coupled to a first end of the back axle shaft; and a second pinion gear coupled to a second end of the back axle shaft. The first end plate is coupled to a first end of a back axle shaft shroud, where the back axle shaft shroud includes a first shelf hook and a second shelf hook. The second end plate coupled to the second end of the back axle shaft. The shelf is coupled to the first and second end plates and includes a first and a second shelf pin.
US08556087B2	Arrangement for the treatment of cellulose pulp in a washing apparatus arranged with a reinforcing frame The present invention relates to a washing apparatus for washing of cellulose pulp comprising: a rotatable drum (2), a stationary support (14), a stationary cylindrical casing (18), that encloses the drum, whereby an annular space (20) is defined between the casing and the drum, a number of seals (22) that are arranged on the casing and that seals between the casing and the drum, such that the annular space is divided in a formation zone (F), at least one washing zone (T1, T2), and a discharge zone (U), and at least a reinforcing frame rib (24), that is attached to the casing. The reinforcing frame rib (24) extends around the entire casing (18) for fixing the casing in a predetermined form, whereby detrimental deformation of the casing (18), when washing the paper pulp at overpressure, is prevented.
US08556086B2	Solid-liquid separator using roller system A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in the outer periphery thereof with plural pores for separating via the plural pores a solid substance from a solid-liquid substance disposed outside the rollers and filtering a liquid substance toward inside the rollers, inside drums each disposed along the inner circumference of each of the rollers, and a passageway which is formed by means of the screen and the inner drum and which is provided with an outlet. The liquid substance separated by means of the screen is allowed to flow along the passageway, collected at the outlet and discharged from the outlet.
US08556083B2	Shale shakers with selective series/parallel flow path conversion Methods and systems are disclosed employing a shale shaker for processing a mixture of drilling fluid and solids with multiple screen assemblies and conversion apparatus for switching flow to the screen assemblies between series flow and parallel flow; and in one aspect, a screen or screens for screening lost circulation material.
US08556082B2	Rotary particle separator A rotary particle separator for separating small particles from large particles is provided and includes an inclined rotary shaft having a first end and a second end. A particle bend is coupled to the elevated first end of the shaft. The particle bend has a bottom surface with a hole therethrough for gravity feed of material including the large particles and small particles from the bend along the shaft towards the second end. Annulae are spaced along the shaft with each of the annulae having a central aperture bounded by a ring that terminates in an annulae outer diameter. At least one paddle is interspersed between two adjacent annulae with at least one paddle positioned to rotate around the shaft. A screen mesh having a mesh size surrounds the annulae with a mesh size such that the small particles within the material are able to pass through the mesh and thereby leave larger particles preferentially segregated within the volume defined by the annulae spaced along the shaft. A large particle exhaust is provided proximal to the second end of the shaft after the particulate has traversed the annulae.
US08556077B1	Medication dispensing blister card package with adjustable mechanism that provides a custom patient schedule for complex medication regimens The present invention discloses an adjustable medication blister package that provides custom patient schedule of medications based on a future exam time. The adjustable medication blister package has multiple medications individually enclosed in blister packs where each blister pack is indicated with correct time to take each medication. A timing indicator which is populated with times is placed behind a base card where individual correct times can be seen through indicator apertures once a user selects the time of the future event using an adjustable time selector.
US08556069B2	Endostitch packages A suture package assembly is provided and includes a suture tray having a loading unit mounted thereon for supplying a surgical needle-suture assembly to a surgical instrument. A suture package cover is provided to protect the surgical needle-suture assembly prior to use. The suture package cover includes a disc engagable with the suture tray to protect the suture retained in the suture tray and an elongate flap configured to overlie the loading unit to protect the surgical needle contained therein. The elongate flap is bendable relative to the disk along a primary fold line and includes a nose portion removably engagable with the disk.
US08556068B2	Method and apparatus for tracking conveyor belts A conveyor belt tracking apparatus is provided for correcting the travel path of a laterally mistracking conveyor belt. In one form, an elongate tracking roller is rotatably mounted at end portions thereof to a pivotal support frame and extends across and below the belt. The pivotal support frame is mounted to a downstream pivot member so that belt mistracking toward one end portion of the tracking roller causes the one end portion to shift downstream and laterally outwardly to urge the belt toward the correct travel path. In one approach a downstream pivot connection between the pivot member and pivotal support frame is inclined upstream so that the end portion also shifts upwardly as it shifts downstream to urge the mistracking belt edge toward the correct travel path.
US08556058B2	Device for actuating a parking lock A device (1) for actuating a parking lock comprises an emergency release mechanism. The device (1) for actuating the parking lock comprises an electric actuator (2) with an actuator output element (3) which is moveable in translation, and the actuator output element (3), when moved in a first direction, disengages the parking lock and when moved in an opposite second direction, engages the parking lock. The actuator output element (3) is connected to the parking lock by a clutch (6), and the clutch is disengageable, by the emergency release mechanism, to permit manual movement of the clutch in the first direction to disengage the parking lock.
US08556047B2	Automobile hydraulic shock absorber An automobile hydraulic shock absorber includes a cylinder body, a piston, an upper support, a piston rod, a volume adjustment mechanism, first and second communicating passages, and a pressure-applying mechanism. The piston rod is attached to the upper support via a rubber cushion. The volume adjustment mechanism includes a free piston. The first and second communicating passages communicate the first oil chamber and second oil chamber with each other in the cylinder body via a diaphragm. The pressure-applying mechanism is disposed outside the cylinder body, movement thereof is restricted by the upper support, and the pressure-applying mechanism pushes the piston rod downward.
US08556044B2	Railway truck mounted brake rigging having raised connection of force-transmitting member with transfer lever A railway vehicle truck mounted brake rigging includes spaced apart first and second brake beams, a horizontally disposed first transfer lever having a pivotal connection with one brake beam and further having an upturned flange, a link seated horizontally on the shoulder, a horizontally disposed second transfer lever having a pivotal connection with another brake beam, a first force-transmitting member passing through the first opening of the bolster for pivotal connection with each of the link and the second transfer lever, the pivotal connection is offset in a vertical direction from a horizontal plane defined by the first transfer lever, and a second force-transmitting member passing through the second opening of the bolster for pivotal connection with opposed ends of the respective first and second transfer levers.
US08556040B2	Elevator load bearing member A load bearing member (34) for supporting an elevator car (10) has a plurality of tension members (38) that bear the weight and counterweight of the elevator car (10). The plurality of tension members extends along a length. An outer cover (42) envelopes the plurality of tension members and has a first surface and a second surface. The plurality of tension members are sandwiched between the first surface (46) and the second surf ace (48). The first surface is for traction on a sheave (22). The first surface and the second surface define a cross-section (52) transverse to the length of the load bearing member. The cross-section has a first end portion (56), a middle portion (60) and a second end portion (64). The middle portion has a first width (w1) between the first surface and the second surface which is smaller than a second width (w2) between the first surface and the second surface of one of the first end portion and the second end portion.
US08556028B1	Acoustic module for enclosure panel An acoustic panel for an enclosure includes a panel plate having opposite interior and exterior sides, and an acoustic module assembly including a plurality of acoustic modules secured on the interior side of the panel plate. Each acoustic module includes a retainer having a retainer base, spaced in generally opposing relationship with the panel plate, and upper and lower retainer walls extending outward from the retainer base toward the panel plate to define a horizontal channel-shaped cavity. An acoustic insulation member is received in the horizontal channel-shaped cavity of the retainer, such that the acoustic insulation member is positioned between the interior side of the panel plate and the retainer base.
US08556027B2	Eductor exhaust silencer assembly with bypass gasflow An exhaust silencer assembly for use with an auxiliary power unit includes an eductor and a discharge pipe. The eductor is disposed downstream of the auxiliary power unit and has an entrance opening at a forward axial end thereof. The entrance opening is configured to receive exhaust airflow from the auxiliary power unit. The discharge pipe extends from the auxiliary power unit and communicates with the exhaust silencer assembly downstream of the entrance opening of the eductor.
US08556018B2	Drive assembly for an electric motorcycle, and electric motorcycle incorporating same An electric motorcycle includes an electric motor for generating a traveling driving force, a battery for supplying electricity to the electric motor, and a case member for accommodating the electric motor and the battery therein. The battery includes a plurality of battery modules, which are disposed in the case member at positions forward of and above of the electric motor. Such arrangement of the electric motor and the battery in the case member helps to centralize mass in a vehicle body of the motorcycle, as well as simplifying assembly of the motorcycle.
US08556013B2	Air management system for heavy duty truck under-hood heat control A system for removing heat from the engine compartment (9) of a heavy duty truck. A first ventilating system removes heat from the radiator. It is isolated from a second ventilating system that removes heat from the engine compartment. The first system takes heat from the radiator through a plenum by centrifugal squirrel cage blowers, and is directs it out to ambient by ductwork. The second system draws ambient air generally from back to front of the engine compartment, preferably by cowl induction, without the use of ram air from the vicinity of the radiator. The exits of the two systems are into a slip stream of the heavy duty truck, and the exit of the second ventilating system is into a slip stream of the first, to scavenge air out of the engine compartment.
US08556010B2	Drive unit for a hybrid vehicle A drive unit includes an internal combustion engine with a driven shaft, a transmission with an input shaft, and an electric machine arranged between the internal combustion engine and the transmission and comprising a stator and a rotor which can be coupled at least indirectly to the driven shaft of the internal combustion engine and to the transmission input shaft in order to transmit torque. The drive unit includes a clutch arranged in the torque transmission path between the internal combustion engine and the transmission. To facilitate the decoupling of rotational irregularities occurring in the drivetrain of the hybrid vehicle the drive unit has a first torsional damper and a second torsional damper, and at least the rotor of the electric machine is arranged within a torque transmission path formed between the torsional dampers.
US08556001B2	Process for determining the presence and/or quantity of H2S in subsoil and related apparatus The present invention relates to a process and related apparatus for determining the presence and/or quantity of H2S in the drilling debris of a subsoil layer comprising the following working steps: recovering the drilling debris of a layer; degassing the drilling debris from the previous recovery step, and separating a gaseous phase from said debris; clearing the gas released in the step of degassing, and conveying towards an H2S detector; determining the possible presence and/or quantity of H2S in the gaseous phase from the steps of degassing and clearing by means of a suitable means of detection; possible repetition of the previous phases at two layers, at least of the subsoil at different levels of depth in relation to the surface, with consequent determination of a distribution profile of H2S in the subsoil.
US08555991B2	Process and device for fire prevention and extinguishing The instant invention relates to a process for preventing and extinguishing fires. Particularly to process capable of adding a dehydrated superabsorbent polymer to water in an amount sufficient to extinguish and prevent additional co.
US08555987B2	Method of creating a wellbore system A method of creating a wellbore system comprises arranging an expandable tubular element in a wellbore whereby a lower end portion of the wall of the tubular element extends radially outward and in an axially reverse direction so as to form an expanded section extending around a remaining tubular section of the tubular element, and axially extending the expanded section by moving the remaining tubular section downward relative to the expanded section so that said lower end portion of the wall bends radially outward and in an axially reverse direction, whereby an annulus is defined between said expanded and remaining tubular sections, the annulus containing a body of fluid. A volume of the fluid is replaced by pumping a replacement fluid into the annulus and discharging the volume of fluid from the annulus whereby at least one of the volume of fluid and the replacement fluid flows into the annulus.
US08555986B2	Actuation assembly and method for actuating a downhole tool An actuation assembly (100, 300) for actuating a downhole tool (200) having a tool housing (202) and an actuation member (208). The actuation assembly (100, 300) includes a downhole power unit (100) and a stroke extender (300). A power unit housing (150) is operably associated with an extender housing (302). A moveable shaft (130) of the power unit (100) is operably associated with an extender mandrel (304). The extender housing (302) is operably associated with the tool housing (202) and the actuation member (208). The extender mandrel (304) is operably associated with the actuation member (208) such that oscillatory movement of the moveable shaft (130) relative to the power unit housing (150) causes oscillatory movement of the extender mandrel (304) relative to the extender housing (302) which causes progressive movement in one direction of the actuation member (208) relative to the tool housing (202), thereby actuating the downhole tool (200).
US08555979B1	Blowout preventer with a bernoulli effect suck-down valve The present invention is a blowout preventer including a large funnel. The large end of the funnel is placed over a well pipe (or other pipe) through which oil (or other fluid) is blowing out. The small end of the funnel is connected to a return pipe. A high pressure pipe with a smaller diameter is inserted into the well pipe. Air is pumped under high pressure through the high pressure pipe, separating the oil and forcing the oil, that is not kept down in the well pipe by the pressure, up through the return pipe. The funnel can be moved into alignment with the well pipe using positioning arms. A stopper may be forced into the well pipe. There are propellers near an end of the high pressure pipe. There are stacked turbines in the return pipe. There is a gasket with pivoting overlapping plates, to seal the pipe.
US08555978B2	Dual pathway riser and its use for production of petroleum products in multi-phase fluid pipelines Disclosed is a tubing system for transporting a gas-liquid flow from a well to a production platform or processing facility. It includes a dual pathway section between the well and the production point having a first tubing portion and a second tubing portion. The second tubing portion includes a plurality of parallel channels so as to divide the multi-phase flow into a plurality of flows through individual channels. This is done to reduce flow slippage of the lower viscosity portion of the flow, which may lead to inefficiencies in flow characteristics, and often, undesirable cyclical variations in pressure and fluid volume. This is especially useful in inclined portions of the petroleum flow pipe system and along hilly terrain. The first round tubing portion is used for transporting the gas-liquid flow as well as for maintenance purposes, such as for pigging, fishing or coiled tubing operations.
US08555976B2	Emergency disconnect sequence timer display and method A rig control interface, system, and method. The rig control interface includes an emergency disconnect sequence button configured to initiate an emergency disconnect sequence signal to be sent to multiplex pods resulting in an emergency disconnect sequence including a plurality of functions being performed by devices in one or both of a lower marine riser package and a blowout preventer stack; and an emergency disconnect sequence timer display triggered by initiation of the emergency disconnect sequence signal, the emergency disconnect sequence timer display configured to indicate one or both of time elapsed after initiation of the emergency disconnect sequence signal and a status of the plurality of functions being performed by the devices in the one or both of the lower marine riser package and the blowout preventer stack.
US08555972B2	Multiple activation-device launcher for a cementing head A multiple activation-device launching system for a cementing head comprises a launcher body and at least one launching chamber that are sized to receive one or more activation devices therein. The activation devices are launched into the principal process-fluid stream inside the cementing head, and may be darts, balls, bombs, canisters and combinations thereof. The launching chambers are in fluid communication with an external power source for launching the activation device into the principal process-fluid stream.
US08555970B2	Accelerating the start-up phase for a steam assisted gravity drainage operation using radio frequency or microwave radiation A method for preheating a formation prior to beginning steam assisted gravity drainage production. The method proceeds by forming a steam assisted gravity drainage production well pair within a formation. A preheating stage is then begun by injecting an activator into the formation. The preheating stage is then accomplished by exciting the activator with radio frequencies. This is followed by beginning the steam assisted gravity drainage operation.
US08555964B2	Centraliser A centralizer (10) for centralizing a tubular in a conduit is described. The centralizer comprises a body comprising a upper body portion (12) and a lower body portion (14) and a plurality of arms (16) linking the upper body portion to the lower body portion. Relative movement of the upper and lower body portions towards each other causes the arms to buckle radially outwards into a set configuration in which the arms are engaged, in use, with a conduit.
US08555962B2	Downhole tool unit The invention concerns a unit for a down hole well tool comprising a tool unit comprising at least one first fluid conduit and a return fluid conduit in use forming a well annulus space between the tool unit and the well bore. The tool unit is arranged with at least one piston provided for dividing the well annulus space into at least two well annulus spaces. The communication of fluid between the adjacent well annulus spaces at each side of the piston is controlled by the relative movement between the first fluid conduit and a control element.
US08555957B2	Crude oil production equipment A crude oil production equipment includes a submersible pump coupled with a driving shaft, a linear motor, an oil pipe, a well casing, a filter pipe, an outer passage, an inner tube, an upper valve ball, a piston and a lower valve ball. During down stroke of the driving shaft, a suction force is produced to suck crude oil from the well casing into the upper chamber of the inner and the piston forces crude oil out of the lower chamber of the inner tube into the inner passage and then the outlet of the oil pipe. During up stroke of the driving shaft, the piston forces crude oil out of the upper chamber into the lower chamber, and the driving shaft enters the upper chamber and the lower chamber to force crude oil out of the lower chamber out of the oil outlet of the oil pipe.
US08555955B2	One trip multiple string section milling of subterranean tubulars Multiple section mills are run in a single trip with an intervening mill preferably a watermelon mill to grind up any cuttings that get past the first mill in a direction toward the second mill below it. The blades of the second mill are held by the innermost tubular until the location of the initial cut is reached at which point the longer arms of the second mill can be extended and its body centralizes due to the flexibility of the connection between the mills.
US08555953B2	Heat dissipation utilizing flow of refrigerant A heat pipe heat dissipating device includes a chamber; a rotary shaft positioned within the chamber; an isolating member affixed to the rotary shaft; and a nozzle provided on the isolating member, wherein the nozzle directs the flow of a refrigerant vapor and prompts the rotary shaft and the isolating member to rotate. The heat pipe heat dissipating device can operate with a self-driving operation. A heat pipe heat dissipating method is also provided.
US08555948B2	Multipurpose window A multipurpose window having various functions including ventilation, lighting, and security is provided. The multipurpose window includes: a frame; a plurality of doors configured to be arranged in a row in the frame; and a pair of link assemblies configured to be installed on both sides of each of the doors, configured to link the doors and configured to open or shut the frame by being folded or unfolded. Each of the link assemblies includes: a plurality of first link elements configured to be installed on one side of each of the doors and include an outermost first link element, and that is hinged to the frame and one or more other first link elements that are slidably supported by the frame; a second link element configured to be hinged to a center of the outermost first link element and configured to be hinged to a near end of a first link element that is adjacent to the outermost first link element; a third link element configured to be hinged to a center of another outermost link element and configured to be hinged to a near end of a first link element that is adjacent to the another outermost first link element; and a fourth link element configured to be hinged to a center of a central first link element and to near ends of a pair of first link elements adjacent to the central first link element.
US08555947B2	Device and method for applying elastic film sleeves to containers A device and method for applying elastic film sleeves to containers, where a plurality of stretching units for stretching the film sleeves and a plurality of removal units for removing the containers that have been provided with the film sleeves are mounted on a labeling carousel. Furthermore, a label dispenser is provided for equipping the stretching units with the film sleeves. Due to the fact that the removal units include gripping units that can be moved back and forth with respect to the labeling carousel between a gripping position for gripping the containers and an avoidance position for avoiding a collision with the label dispenser, the size and shape of the gripping units can be varied flexibly. Also, an evasion movement of the stretching units in the area of the label dispenser is dispensable.
US08555943B2	Method for printing individual labels A method and software for a consumer end user to print one or more, but generally less than all, labels of a label assembly without the need to run the label assembly though a printer multiple times. A boundary corresponding to the label is printed on a separate paper sheet to allow the label to be positioned for printing. The paper sheet with the label adhered within the boundary is run through a printer to print on the label. The printed label is removed from the paper sheet to applying to the intended object to be labeled. Software can be implemented on a data processor for printing the boundary and/or coordinating the label printing with the printed boundary.
US08555941B2	Non-pneumatic survivable tire, cover and fabrication processes A non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly incorporates a tire tread and a conventional vehicle wheel with an elastomer tire body element molded for engagement intermediate the tread and wheel. The tire body element includes multiple concentric layers with alternating spokes. A bonded multilayer cover may be employed which is received within a recess in an outer surface of the tire body element from the tire tread. A mounting plate is engaged to the cover and attached to the wheel.
US08555937B2	Structure for fuel filling opening of automobile A structure for a fuel filling opening of an automobile is configure such that, when fuel supplied from a fuel supply nozzle flows back to the fuel filling opening side, the fuel flowed back can be slowly discharged to the outside from the fuel filling opening. The structure is provided with ring recesses formed in a ring opening of an operation ring, and also with partitioning recesses formed in an opening in an outer tube partition. The recesses are arranged offset in the circumferential direction to form a labyrinth.
US08555936B2	Container for refill The invention aims at providing a container for refill that enables transfer of the contents with one action and successfully secure the self-supporting property of the container for allowing the safe transfer. The opening portion (2A) of body (2) of a cup-shaped container is provided internally with a hopper (3) tapering toward the opening portion (2A). Ribs (12) are integrally provided between the outside of the hopper (3) and the inside of a ring (3A) and arranged circumferentially at predetermined intervals. Height H from the top surface of the rib (12) to the opening (3C) of hopper (3) is approximately a quarter or more of diameter φ of the opening (3C) of hopper (3). A lid (4) tearable by pressing is attached to the opening portion (2A) so as to enable the instant coffee P to be directly supplied through the mouth (13A) of a refillable container (13) while being gathered to a central portion by the hopper (3) by inverting the container body (2) and pressing the lid (4) against the mouth (13A) of container (13) to tear the lid (4).
US08555930B2	Assembly of coaxial pipes including junction parts with sealed inner cavities, and method for making same An assembly of at least two coaxial pipes having at least two coaxial pipe assembly unit elements, one of which has, at one end, a first junction part assembled to a second junction part at the end of another said coaxial pipe assembly unit element, each of said first and second junction parts being a body of revolution, wherein the ends of the two non-welded-together inner second branches of said first and second junction parts are in metal-on-metal contact one on the other under elastic deformation stress via their contact surface as a result of the shrinking of the weld between the ends of the two outer second branches of the junction parts, such that the inner second cavities are leaktight relative to the inside of the inner pipe.
US08555927B2	Fluid divider block suitable for use at high pressures The invention is a divider block assembly suitable for use at high fluid pressures. Applicant has found that a sufficiently deep counterbored hole allows a mounting bolt to apply the sealing pressure well below the divider block surface, which can reduce or eliminate the compressive force on the metal around the piston bore, thereby reducing or eliminating distortion of the piston bore of the divider block and providing.
US08555925B2	Pressure relief valve for a packaging container The invention relates to a pressure relief valve for a packaging container (3), comprising a base body (4) with a central through opening (9), a sealing surface (14) and a peripheral region (18), wherein the peripheral region (18) may be sealingly connected to an inner side (3a) of the packaging container (3) and the sealing surface (14) has an inwardly tapering form and a membrane (6), making contact with the sealing surface (14) to permit a seal wherein a fluid (5) is arranged between the sealing surface (14) and the membrane (6). The membrane (6) is flexible and a recess (30) is made in the base body (4) into which the central through opening (9) opens out, wherein in the opening region of the central through opening (9), an annular bead (12) projecting in the direction of the membrane (6) is arranged, projecting into the recess (30).
US08555908B2	Support system for tents and shelters A system for structural support of light weight outdoor tents and shelters utilizing two or more hiking or trekking poles and a connecting light weight ridge pole assembly that serves as the roof support truss providing the occupant(s) will full head room use for the width of the ridge pole assembly.
US08555904B1	Umbrella stand that is movable on the ground An umbrella stand includes a housing and an operation mechanism mounted on the housing. The operation mechanism includes a support frame mounted in the housing and having two receiving slots, two mounting plates each pivotally mounted on the support frame, two pivot shafts each mounted in the support frame and each extended through a respective one of the mounting plates, two castors each rotatably mounted on a respective one of the mounting plates, two mounting tubes secured on the support frame, a driven rod rotatably mounted in the mounting tubes, two pressing plates secured on the driven rod and each pressing a respective one of the mounting plates, and a control handle connected with the driven rod to rotate the driven rod. Thus, the housing is movable freely on the ground by operation of the operation mechanism.
US08555902B2	High-pressure cleaning appliance with movable channel constriction section The invention relates to a high-pressure cleaning appliance, comprising a heatable heat exchanger for heating up a liquid dispensable by the high-pressure cleaning appliance, a blower with a flow channel connected thereto for supplying combustion air to the heat exchanger, and a setting member for setting the amount of combustion air suppliable to the heat exchanger, the setting member having a channel constriction section which is positionable in the flow channel and movable relative thereto for changing the free cross-sectional area of the flow channel. In order to develop a generic high-pressure cleaning appliance further so that the amount of combustion air suppliable to the heat exchanger can be better adjusted, it is proposed that the channel constriction section be configured so as to be slidingly displaceable relative to the flow channel.
US08555894B2	System for monitoring temperature A system for monitoring temperature in a body, the system comprising at least one implantable device, wherein the implantable device(s) is operable to sense temperature in the body and to generate status signals based on the sensed temperature in the body. The system further comprising a system control unit for wirelessly communicating with the implantable device(s), and the system control unit comprising a signal receiver for receiving the status signals, and also a programmable controller for producing notification signals based on the received status signals. A notification unit can alternatively communicate with the system control unit or the implantable device(s) for disclosing the sensed body temperature based on the notification signals.
US08555892B2	Mayo stand drape with self-disposing feature In certain embodiments, the present invention provides a protective sterile drape for a Mayo surgical tray stand that has a self-disposing feature, the ability at the end of a surgical procedure to draw the drape around the disposable instrument tray, disposable instruments and disposable surgical waste and secure the drape and its contents with a provided closure device to produce a closed container suitable for disposal. In preferred embodiments, the drape further includes a disposable instrument tray, consumable supplies and disposable instruments that are selected for a specific procedure.
US08555887B2	Tracheal tube with dividing membrane Various embodiments of a tracheal tube having a flexible membrane disposed therein for separation of a ventilation lumen of the tracheal tube into multiple channels are provided. The flexible membrane is configured to divide a main ventilation lumen of the tracheal tube into an inspiration channel and an expiration channel. In some embodiments, a volume of the inspiration channel is substantially equal to a volume of the expiration channel.
US08555881B2	Ventilator breath display and graphic interface The invention is directed to a ventilation control system for controlling the ventilation of a patient. The ventilation control system utilizes a user-friendly user interface for the display of patient data and ventilator status. The user interface includes a graphic representation of a breath cycle that displays the breath cycle currently being ventilated, and is also responsive to changes in ventilation settings to assist the user in evaluation the effect of those changes on the ventilator strategy before the changes are implemented.
US08555880B2	Variable transition pressure profiles for a bi-level breathing therapy machine A method for controlling the transitions between two different pressures supplied by a breathing therapy device using a transition pressure profile for which the basic shape, the magnitude and the duration may be controlled by a user of the device or the user's therapist.
US08555879B2	Integrated humidifier chamber and lid A blower unit for use as part of an integrated blower/humidification system is described. The blower unit has an outer casing, which encloses and forms part of the blower unit, the casing including an air inlet vent. The blower unit further includes a humidifier compartment for receiving a humidifier unit with a separate gases inlet and outlet, the compartment having a heater base for heating the contents of the humidifier unit. The compartment also has a blower inlet port which aligns with the humidifier unit inlet in use, the blower providing a gases path through the casing between the inlet vent and the inlet port. The blower unit also includes a fan for providing a pressurized gases stream along the gases path, and a power supply unit for powering the fan. The gases path is routed over the power supply unit in order to provide a cooling air flow.
US08555877B2	Nasal delivery device A delivery device (20, 22) for and a method of delivering a substance to the nasal airway (1) of a subject, in particular the posterior region of the nasal airway, the delivery device comprising: a closure unit for causing the closure of the oropharyngeal velum of the subject; and a delivery unit for delivering a gas flow entraining a substance to one of the nostrils of the subject at such a driving pressure as to flow around the posterior margin of the nasal septum and out of the other nostril of the subject, wherein the delivery unit comprises a nosepiece (30, 40, 58, 82, 102, 132) which includes an outlet through which the gas flow is in use delivered to the one nostril and a sealing member for sealing the one nostril to the outlet such as in use to prevent the escape of the gas flow through the one nostril.
US08555869B2	Saw chain with defined pitch Embodiments of the disclosure provide a saw chain having a pitch in the range of approximately 0.440 to approximately 0.450. Embodiments also include tie straps and/or other components having fluid distribution features.
US08555868B2	Variable pneumatic sear for paintball gun An improved paintball gun uses a low-pressure pneumatic sear to hold the firing valve closed against the high pressure gas occupying the other side of the valve. In this manner, only one operation is required between depressing the trigger and the firing of the paintball gun because a double-acting cylinder is not required as an interface between the trigger depression and actuation of the valve. The paintball gun is also substantially faster than existing electro-pneumatic paintball guns because it uses a blow forward bolt, in which higher-pressure gas is held directly behind the bolt and has only one direction to travel during the firing of the paintball gun.
US08555864B2	Internal combustion engine with an exhaust-gas recirculation and method for operating an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine has a high-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line and a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line with a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve. The low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line branches off from the exhaust-gas system downstream of a turbine of an exhaust-gas turbocharger and opens into a fresh-air system upstream of a compressor of the exhaust-gas turbocharger. An exhaust-gas flap is disposed in the exhaust-gas system downstream from where the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line branches off from the exhaust-gas system. At least one pressure sensor is disposed in the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line and configured such that the at least one pressure sensor determines a pressure difference in the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line between a point upstream of the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve and a point downstream of the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve. A method for operating an internal combustion engine is also provided.
US08555856B2	Engine speed control apparatus for outboard motor In an apparatus for controlling a speed of an internal combustion engine installed in an outboard motor and having an actuator connected to a throttle valve of the engine to open and close the throttle valve, and up/down command signal outputting devices that output an up/down command signal to increase/decrease the engine speed when manipulated by an operator, the engine speed is controlled to change in response to the up or down command signal with an engine speed change amount per unit time made different depending on whether the detected engine speed exceeds a reference speed or not, thereby enabling to finely and precisely control the engine speed in the low speed range, while facilitating speed regulation.
US08555850B2	Two-piece compression piston ring of an internal combustion engine A compression ring assembly for a piston of an internal combustion engine includes a first compression ring and a second compression ring, with the second compression ring overlaid adjacent to and in abutting engagement with the first compression ring. When both the first compression ring and the second compression ring are uncompressed and in a free state, the second compression ring includes an outer second ring diameter that is greater than an outer first ring diameter of the first compression ring. Additionally, the first compression ring includes a first radial width that is greater than a second radial width of the second compression ring. A first gap of the first compression ring is positioned relative to a second gap of the second compression ring in a non-overlapping orientation.
US08555834B2	Device and method configured to control valve operation in a piston engine A method of operating an internal combustion engine includes moving an exhaust valve to a first open position to enable an exhaust product to flow through an exhaust port of the internal combustion engine. The method also includes maintaining the exhaust valve at the first open position for a predetermined time period. The method also includes moving an intake valve to a second open position during the predetermined time period to enable an intake product to flow through an intake port of the internal combustion engine. Additionally, the method includes preventing at least a portion of the intake product from flowing through the exhaust port during the predetermined time period with a first blocking member and a second blocking member.
US08555832B2	Spark-ignited internal combustion engine and method of controlling the same A spark-ignited internal combustion engine includes a variable compression ratio mechanism that changes a mechanical compression ratio, and a variable valve timing mechanism that controls a valve closing timing at which an intake valve is closed, in which the amount of intake air that is supplied into a combustion chamber is controlled by changing the valve closing timing of the intake valve, and when an air-fuel ratio is increased from a first desired air-fuel ratio to a second desired air-fuel ratio, the valve closing timing of the intake valve is brought close to an intake bottom dead center until the air-fuel ratio becomes equal to the second desired air-fuel ratio, without changing a fuel injection amount.
US08555822B2	Waste-heat boiler for partical-laden gases A boiler for cooling waste gases has side walls including a pair of opposite side walls defining a passage through which the waste gases flow, cooling-tube sections in the passage against the walls, and at least one tubular tie rod having outer ends anchored in the opposite side walls and extending transversely through the passage, A coolant is pumped through the cooling-tube sections and through the tubular tie rod. The tie rod extends straight through the passage and is braced at its ends under tension against the opposite side walls.
US08555821B2	Heat exchanger for a boiler A heat exchanger for a boiler, comprising, within a monolithic structure, at least one pair of mutually opposite manifolds connected by perforated pins inserted within a portion of space which is delimited by the structure and is designed to convey the products of combustion, the manifolds being adapted to provide the circulation of the fluid to be heated between an inlet connector and an outlet connector.
US08555817B2	Feline exudate apparatus and method A method including removing feline exudates from litter, washing and drying the litter, wherein the litter is agitated during drying thereof. Feline exudate apparatus is also described that includes a vessel for containing therein litter, apparatus for washing the litter; and apparatus for drying the litter, wherein the litter is agitated during drying thereof.
US08555813B2	Animal feed/water dispenser with dual-use invertible base An animal food/water dispensing apparatus provides a base that is invertible for alternative use as a water bowl or a feed bowl in conjunction with a single reservoir container design that is adapted to supply either water or feed to the base, so that a minimum of components are required to assemble an animal waterer or animal feeder. Each face of the base has a container mounting ring and a water trough or feed basin for presenting the flowable material from the reservoir container.
US08555810B2	Plasma dry etching apparatus having coupling ring with cooling and heating units A plasma dry etching apparatus includes a pedestal in a process chamber, the pedestal being configured to support a wafer, a cathode electrode and a plate electrode in the process chamber, the cathode and plate electrodes being configured to apply radio-frequency (RF) power, an edge ring on an edge of the pedestal, a coupling ring having a first side on the pedestal and a second side on the edge ring, an edge cooling unit in the coupling ring, the edge cooling unit being configured to cool the edge ring to drop a temperature of an extreme edge of the wafer, and an edge heating unit in the coupling ring, the edge heating unit being configured to heat the edge ring to raise the temperature of an extreme edge of the wafer.
US08555805B2	Pan coating apparatus A spray gun (31) is attached to a multi-function unit (32) movable in a horizontal direction and a perpendicular direction. The spray gun (31) is mounted to a support holder (33), and the support holder (33) is connected to a support arm (35) of the multi-function unit (32). The support arm (35) is attached to a unit cover (36) which is openable/closable with respect to a casing (2). The support holder (33) and the support arm (35) can hide and house a liquid hose and an air hose therein so that the hoses and the like are arranged in an apparatus in such a state as to be completely free from being exposed. An installation position of the spray gun (31) can be finely adjusted by the multi-function unit (32) during a coating process, thereby enabling a control for keeping constant distances between tablet surfaces and the spray gun (31).
US08555803B2	Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring the status of a dishwashing machine The present disclosure describes various embodiments of devices and systems for monitoring the clean/dirty status of dishes inside a dishwashing machine. In one embodiment, for example, a dishwasher status indicator can include one or more vessels for holding water to visibly indicate that a dishwashing cycle is complete. In another embodiment, the indicator can include an attachment feature or portion, such as a hook attached to the vessel. The hook can be configured to removably attach the indicator to a dishwasher frame or rack. A user can quickly determine the clean/dirty status of dishes in the dishwasher by observing whether the vessel is holding water.
US08555802B2	Water sports foldable towing apparatus and method A towing apparatus comprises a structural assembly extending between opposing first and second bases for pivoting between operating and stored positions. A locking assembly includes a pin in each base and a hook carried at opposing ends of the structural assembly. A cam is pivotally connected to the hook for movement between locked and released positions. In the locked position, the hook is secured to the pin for preventing rotation of the structural assembly. In the released position, the hook is spaced from the pin to permit rotation of the structural assembly. The hook is rotatable with the cam from the released position to adjacent the pin by rotation of a shaft and slidable along the pin into the locking position by a continued shaft rotation. A cable is attached between the base and a spring within the structural assembly for biasing the structural assembly toward the operating position.
US08555799B2	Personal watercraft A personal watercraft includes a hull, a deck disposed above the hull, and a seat supported on the deck. The deck includes a platform disposed at a stern of the personal watercraft, an outer wall disposed between the seat and the platform, and an inner wall disposed forward relative to the outer wall. The outer wall defines an opening accessible to an article storage space provided between the outer wall and the inner wall. The outer wall includes a lid arranged to open and close the opening.
US08555795B2	Pulverized coal concentrator and pulverized coal burner including the concentrator A pulverized coal concentrator for a pulverized coal burner, the concentrator is fixedly arranged inside the pulverized coal burner and comprises a front part (102) and a rear part (101), wherein the front part (1020 is designed as a bowl-shaped structure, for guiding and concentrating an air-pulverized coal flow, and the rear part (101) is designed as a cylinder-shaped structure, for maintaining a proper extension of the dense phase zone of the air pulverized coal flow. Also a pulverization coal burner is provided comprising the pulverized coal concentrator, in particular an internal combustion-type pulverized coal burner. The pulverized coal concentrator increases the adaptability of burner to coal quality, air velocity and pulverized coal density.
US08555794B2	Casing The fusion of a side wall may be made difficult by using a fusion-resistant material having light weight. Provided is a casing including a side wall having a multi-layer structure. In the casing, the side wall includes an outer wall, a fusion-resistant material provided at an inner side of the outer wall with a predetermined gap with respect to the outer wall, and an inner wall provided at an inner side of the fusion-resistant material with a predetermined gap with respect to the fusion-resistant material.
US08555787B2	Shuttle pallet for a storage system A shuttle pallet for a high rack storage facility has three longitudinal supports extending parallel to each other. Load bearing bridges orthogonally extend relative to the longitudinal supports. The longitudinal supports and the load bearing bridges are connected to one another in an articulated fashion. The longitudinal supports are made of a wear-resistant and bending-resistant semi-finished product and are form-fittingly and exchangeably connected to the load bearing bridges. The longitudinal supports have in cross-section an area with a circular ring-shaped cross-section. The load bearing bridges have legs. Snap-on-connectors with a circular segment-shaped cross-section are formed on the legs. The longitudinal supports are supported with the circular ring-shaped cross-section rotatably about an axis of rotation and exchangeably in the snap-on connectors, respectively. The axis of rotation extends in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal supports.
US08555775B2	Method for operating of a boiler of a device such as a coffee maker A method for operating a boiler of a device, such as a coffee maker, includes initial steps aimed at determining whether the boiler is filled with water or not. In the process, the insight that the thermal behavior of an empty boiler differs from the thermal behavior of a filled boiler is applied. A heating element of the boiler is used to generate heat during a predetermined length of time. As a result, the temperature inside the boiler starts to change. At a certain point, the temperature change over a time interval having a predetermined length is measured. Subsequently, the measured temperature change is compared with a reference temperature change. In case the measured temperature change is larger than the reference temperature change, it is concluded that the boiler is empty and needs to be filled before the heating element is activated again.
US08555773B2	Retaining segment A retaining segment for retaining a back-up plate of a hydrostatic piston machine is disclosed. The retaining segment has a recess for an actuating element of an adjusting device and a retaining surface that extends along an arc section. A stop surface is formed on the retaining segment. The stop surface and the receiver for an actuating element are formed on opposing ends of the retaining segment and are oriented towards a side remote from a mounting surface.
US08555755B2	Fastening apparatus with interchangeable programmable inserts An electronic apparatus for controlled fastening, comprises a body (11) coupled to which is one of different removable inserts (17, 17′, 17″). The insert comprises a transponder (18) which sends setting signals to the apparatus when it is mounted on the apparatus. The apparatus in turn comprises transmission means for programming into the transponder (18) information which shall be inserted into the signals which shall subsequently be sent by the transponder to the apparatus.
US08555754B2	Biased pliers A tool, such as fixed-joint pliers, has first and second levers which are movably joined. The levers are joined at a joint comprising a housing and a coupler. The housing is defined by a first housing portion of the first lever and a second housing portion of the second lever. The housing has an interior area which houses a biasing member, such as a torsion spring. The coupler may comprise first and second bushings which extend through a passage through the housing and the torsion spring therein, and a male fastener which extends through one of the bushings and into engagement with the other bushing. The pliers have a thin profile and are biased to an open position for use.
US08555750B2	Auto-Adjustable bearing wrench A bearing wrench comprising a casing as main support, with at least one piston coupling hole, a synchronizing device, and closing caps, power cylinder, a cylinder thrust spring and a connection screw between the boxes, wherein the synchronizing device with the help of the cylinders exert force on the bolts for the securing thereof and with the advantage of being able to releasing by the same synchronizing device housed in the nut driving wrench which may be hydraulically and manually used.
US08555743B2	Shifting apparatus for manual transmission A shifting apparatus for a manual transmission automatically performs a selecting operation and a shifting operation through the driving of one motor according to a shift step level of a shift lever at the time when a driver operates the shift lever. The apparatus includes a driving motor with a rotation shaft on which a main gear is mounted, a connecting gear unit disposed in front of the rotation shaft of the driving motor and selectively transferring rotation of the driving motor according to a position signal of the shift lever, a selecting unit disposed at one side of the connecting gear unit to correspond to a shift fork connected with the shift fork mounted at one side of the control shaft and selectively connected with the connecting gear unit to selectively move the shift fork on the control shaft, and a shifting unit disposed at the other side of the connecting gear unit to correspond to the selecting unit, connected to the other side of the control shaft and selectively connected with the connecting gear unit to rotate the control shaft.
US08555742B2	Gearbox for adjustment devices, especially in motor vehicles The invention involves a gearbox, especially for adjustment devices in motor vehicles, with a plastic worm drive. The invention provides that the worm drive has an encircling, circular flat contact surface perpendicular to the worm axle and a number of removal pockets in the form of recesses that are interposed axially between contact surface and the worm axle and at the same time arranged in a level recessed to the level of contact surface, whereby an encircling bevel is formed in the transition area from level of removal pockets to the level of the circular contact surface.
US08555736B2	Drive system for hermetic applications and device having such drive system A drive system including a partition wall; a drive device positioned on a first side of the partition wall, wherein the drive device includes at least one first member positioned on said first side of said partition wall. An actuator for actuating the drive device, where the actuator is positioned on a second side of the partition wall so that the partition wall is between the drive device and the actuator, and where the actuator includes at least one second member positioned on the second side of said partition wall. The second member of the actuator is magnetically coupled to the first member of the drive device, where movement of the second member causes movement of the first member, and to a device including a drive system.
US08555730B2	Measuring transducer having a securement element and an add-on part on the flow tube acting as a cancelling mass A measuring transducer of vibration type, especially a Coriolis mass flow meter, having a housing and a mass flow tube, wherein the mass flow tube is formed into a helix having a first loop and a second loop; wherein the mass flow tube has a securement element which affixes a peripheral point of the first loop relative to a neighboring peripheral point of the second loop; and wherein the mass flow tube has an oscillation exciter on a side lying opposite the securement element along the mass flow tube. The mass flow tube has provided between the oscillation exciter and the securement element at least one add-on part acting as a canceling mass.
US08555728B2	Method and installation for exposing the surface of an integrated circuit The invention relates to a method for exposing an integrated circuit by ablating the polymer coating initially covering the integrated circuit, characterized in that it includes the combined application of a laser radiation and a plasma onto the coating initially covering the integrated circuit.
US08555727B2	Integrated vacuum gauge and regulator An integral regulator and gauge for a vacuum device consists of a circular regulator having the vacuum gauge inside thereof such that the regulator and gauge rotate about a common radial axis. An opening defined in a boss extending from the bottom of the regulator engages a sloped shoulder defined on the inside surface of a circular port in which the regulator is disposed, varying the size of an opening which allows air to bleed into the vacuum chamber to regulate the strength of the vacuum.
US08555720B2	MEMS device with enhanced resistance to stiction A MEMS device (20) includes a substrate (24) and a movable element (22) adapted for motion relative to the substrate (24). A secondary structure (46) extends from the movable element (22). The secondary structure (46) includes a secondary mass (54) and a spring (56) interconnected between the movable element (22) and the mass (54). The spring (56) is sufficiently stiff to prevent movement of the mass (54) when the movable element (22) is subjected to force within a sensing range of the device (20). When the device (20) is subjected to mechanical shock (66), the spring (56) deflects so that the mass (54) moves counter to the motion of the movable element (22). Movement of the mass (54) causes the movable element (22) to vibrate to mitigate stiction between the movable element (22) and other structures of the device (20) and/or to prevent breakage of components within the device (22).
US08555716B2	Device for measuring foamed media A device for measuring the fill level in a container has an ultrasound sensor and a damping beaker with at least one antechamber. The antechamber has an inlet opening to the container and an outlet opening to the damping beaker, and has a geometric structure, which guides a fluid at least once around the midpoint of the damping beaker. The antechamber has at least two planes lying horizontally over each other. Each plane has a geometric structure, and the geometric structures of the planes are designed so that the fluid streams through the planes in opposite directions. As a result, the path to be traversed in the antechamber is lengthened, and the inflowing medium is additionally swirled. Even foamed media that quickly flow into the antechamber are effectively retained, and degassing is possible prior to entry into the measuring section of the ultrasound sensor.
US08555705B2	Fluid storage and dispensing system including dynamic fluid monitoring of fluid storage and dispensing vessel A monitoring system for monitoring fluid in a fluid supply vessel during operation including dispensing of fluid from the fluid supply vessel. The monitoring system includes (i) one or more sensors for monitoring a characteristic of the fluid supply vessel or the fluid dispensed therefrom, (ii) a data acquisition module operatively coupled to the one or more sensors to receive monitoring data therefrom and responsively generate an output correlative to the characteristic monitored by the one or more sensors, and (iii) a processor and display operatively coupled with the data acquisition module and arranged to process the output from the data acquisition module and responsively output a graphical representation of fluid in the fluid supply vessel, billing documents, usage reports, and/or resupply requests.
US08555702B2	Method for recognizing at least one feature of the fuel in an internal combustion engine A method recognizes at least one feature of fuel in an internal-combustion engine (1). The method comprises steps of: detecting, by at least one sensor, intensity (S) of vibrations generated by the internal-combustion engine (1) within a measurement-time window; determining a value of at least one synthetic index (I) by processing the intensity (S) of the vibrations generated by the internal-combustion engine (1) within the measurement-time window; comparing a synthetic index (I) with at least one predetermined comparison quantity (TH); and recognizing the feature of the fuel as a function of the comparison between the synthetic index (I) and comparison quantity (TH).
US08555686B2	Mechanical pushbutton locking arrangements A lock includes a housing, a keypad disposed on the housing, and a latch assembled with the housing. The keypad includes a plurality of button assemblies, each including an axially depressible button member including a camming surface, a lock wheel having a plurality of camming teeth, and a latch releasing feature secured to the lock wheel for rotation therewith. Pressing the button member causes the camming surface to engage one of the plurality of calming teeth, thereby incrementally rotating the lock wheel between a plurality of rotational positions. When the button members of a predetermined one or more of the plurality of button assemblies are depressed a predetermined number of times, the latch releasing features of each of the plurality of button assemblies align with a plurality of blocking features of the latch to permit lateral sliding movement of the latch from a locked condition to an unlocked condition.
US08555685B2	Electrically controlled door lock An electrically controlled door lock device with a lockset with an inside handle, an outside handle, a spring loaded continuous spindle, biased to maintained a lockset's latch in a projected position and connecting the lockset and the outside handle, a first half and a second half of a clutch connecting the continuous spindle and the inside handle with a spring maintaining the second half of the clutch in predetermined position relative to the first half of the clutch. There is also a mechanical means blocking the first half of the clutch from rotation and electromechanical means controlling the blocking means, the mechanical means built into the second half of the clutch, allowing the second half of the clutch a predetermined degree of free rotation before it engages with the first half of the clutch, the mechanical means built into second half of the clutch, mechanically inhibiting the blocking means.
US08555678B2	Washing machine system and washing method A system including an enclosure of a washing machine, a drum within the enclosure, a mixing unit, within the enclosure but separate from the drum and in fluid communication with the drum, a water supply unit coupled to the mixing unit, a reservoir having a conduit fluidly coupled to the mixing unit, and a container connecting assembly configured to fix a spout of a container to the reservoir. An apparatus including a reservoir, external to a washing machine, to receive a liquid wash aid, a container connecting assembly coupled to the reservoir and configured to fix a spout of a container containing liquid wash aid to the reservoir, a flexible conduit to pass liquid wash aid from the reservoir to the washing machine, and a wash aid control unit connected to the flexible conduit and adapted to meter a flow of liquid wash aid from the reservoir to the washing machine.
US08555671B2	Method of conditioning natural gas in preparation for storage A method of conditioning natural gas in preparation for storage, involves taking an existing stream of continuously flowing natural gas flowing through a gas line (12) on its way to end users and diverting a portion of the stream of continuously flowing natural gas to a storage facility through a storage diversion line (22). The pressure of the natural gas is lowered, as is the temperature by the Joule-Thompson effect. The natural gas is passed in a single pass through a series of heat exchangers (18, 28,30, 32) prior to resuming flow through the gas line (12) at the lowered pressure. The diverted natural gas is liquefied in preparation for storage by effecting a heat exchange with the natural gas.
US08555664B2	Condenser/compressor fan control for refrigerator A refrigerator is provided that includes a chilled interior and a cooling circuit for a coolant, the cooling circuit being provided with an evaporator, a compressor, and a condenser. The refrigerator further includes a controller as well as a fan for cooling the condenser and the compressor. The controller controls the fan to operate during an idle phase of the compressor.
US08555649B2	Fuel nozzle swirler assembly A fuel nozzle air swirler assembly has a slotted cap to provide stress-relief. The stress-relief slits in the cap have an axial and a tangential component to impart a swirl to the air leaking therethrough in the same direction as that of the air exiting the swirler body.
US08555637B2	Work vehicle An air supply pipe includes a curved pipe portion having a first end and a second end, a first straight pipe portion extended along a first direction and a second straight pipe portion extended along a second direction. The cross-sectional shape of the curved pipe portion is a rectangular shape having longer sides in a third direction.
US08555633B2	Vehicle energy harvesting device having a continuous loop of shape memory alloy material An energy harvesting system includes a heat engine and a component. The heat engine includes first and second regions, a conduit, and a shape memory alloy (SMA) material. The conduit extends along a central axis. The SMA material surrounds the conduit and is disposed in one of the regions. The SMA material is radially spaced from a secondary axis that surrounds the central axis. A localized region of the SMA material changes crystallographic phase from martensite to austenite and contract in response to exposure to the first temperature. The localized region of the SMA material also changes crystallographic phase from austenite to martensite and expands in response to exposure to the second temperature. The SMA material rotates about the secondary axis in response to the contraction and expansion of the localized region of the SMA material. Rotation of the SMA material about the secondary axis drives the component.
US08555630B2	Fluid pressure actuator unit A fluid pressure cylinder (3) is connected to a discharge port (24) of a fluid pressure pump (2). A suction port (25) of the fluid pressure pump (2) is connected to a tank (10) via a suction passage (11) in which a flow restrictor (15) is provided. A change-over valve (4) changes over operation modes of the fluid pressure cylinder (3) between a load mode in which the pressure cylinder (3) is driven by the fluid pressure pump (2) and an unload mode in which the fluid pressure cylinder (3) elongates and contracts according to an external force exerted thereon in response to a differential pressure between the discharge port and the suction port. Automatic change-over of the operation modes of the pressure cylinder (3) in response to an operation of the fluid pressure pump (2) is thereby realized.
US08555629B2	Hydrostatic pump A hydrostatic pump (1) with a variable delivery volume can be operated in a closed circuit. An electrically controllable actuator device (4) is provided for the control of the delivery volume of the pump (1). The electrically controllable actuator (4) has an electrically actuatable control valve device (6) which generates a positioning pressure which actuates a positioning piston device (5) which is in an operative connection with a delivery volume control device (3) of the pump. An electrical position feedback circuit (21) of the delivery volume control device (3) is provided and the actuator device (4) is provided with a switchable hydraulic neutral position control system (25), by means of which a restoring movement can be generated that acts on the positioning piston device (5) and places the delivery volume control device (3) into a neutral position.
US08555625B2	Exhaust system for firefighting vehicle An after treatment exhaust system is provided. The after treatment exhaust system includes a diesel particulate filter configured to be supported at a first lateral side of a vehicle chassis and a selective catalytic reduction device configured to be supported at a second lateral side of the vehicle chassis opposite the first lateral side. The after treatment exhaust system also includes a first conduit configured to be in fluid communication between an engine and the diesel particulate filter, a second conduit configured to be in fluid communication between the diesel particulate filter and the selective catalytic reduction device and a third conduit having a first end coupled to the selective catalytic reduction device and at least one second end configured to be open to the environment.
US08555624B2	Connection device for media lines The present invention relates to a connection device (1) for at least one media line (2), such as for a urea-water solution for exhaust gas after-treatment in a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine. The connection device comprises a connection part (4) having a socket (6) for the circumferentially sealed insertion of a line-side plug section (8), and retention means (10) for locking the inserted plug section (8) in place to prevent detachment. The retention means (10) is configured in such a way that starting from a normal operating position the inserted and locked plug section (8) can be moved over a specific travel path relative to the connection part (4) in opposition to a return force (F), in order to enlarge an internal volume inside the connection part (4) to which the medium is admitted.
US08555621B2	Exhaust gas purification apparatus for internal combustion engine A NOx storing and reducing catalyst is disposed in an engine exhaust gas passage in which the catalyst stores NOx contained in the inflow exhaust gas when an air-fuel ratio of inflow exhaust gas is lean and releases and reduces the stored NOx when the air-fuel ratio of the inflow exhaust gas is rich. A stored NOx amount of the NOx storing and reducing catalyst is calculated and an exhaust gas purification operation is controlled based on the stored NOx amount. When the air-fuel ratio of inflow exhaust gas is lean, a ratio of NOx components in the inflow exhaust gas is calculated. An increment of the stored NOx amount per unit time is calculated based on the ratio of NOx components.
US08555613B2	Model-based diagnostics of NOx sensor malfunction for selective catalyst reduction system Methods and systems for detecting faults with nitrogen oxides sensors used to detect the presence of nitrogen oxides in an exhaust effluent gas stream emitted from a combustion engine during its operation include providing a virtual nitrogen oxides sensor measurement compared with actual nitrogen oxides content measured by nitrogen oxides sensors.
US08555609B1	Chain tool A chain tool can be used to assemble or disassemble links on a chain, in particular a bicycle chain. The chain tool can be shaped and sized to be received within a component of a bicycle. For example, the chain tool can be received into a steerer tube at the head tube of the bicycle. The chain tool can also serve as a part of a headset, such as being a top cap of the headset.
US08555605B2	Method of cigarette packaging and cigarette packaging system A method of cigarette packaging, the method comprising the steps of: Packing at least a first cigarette packet (52a) labeled with a first unique code (I2a) and a second cigarette packet (52b) labeled with a second unique code (I2b) into a first carton (10) and recording an information (56) that at least the two cigarette packets (52a,52b) with the first unique code (I2a) and the second unique code (I2b) are packed into the same carton (10) in a database; Packing the first carton (10) into a case (20); Detecting the first unique code (I2a) in the case (20) and reading from the database all the unique codes (I2b) of the cigarette packets (52b) that are packed into the same carton (10) as the detected first unique code (I2a). Furthermore, a method for tracking cigarette packets (52a,52b) and a cigarette packaging system is described.
US08555599B2	Method for the construction of a civil engineering structure and associated system A method of construction of a civil engineering structure that includes first and second superimposed components is described. According to one embodiment of the method: the second component is positioned beneath a fixed lifting structure that includes a lifting device, the second component is lifted using the lifting device, the first component is positioned beneath the fixed lifting structure substantially below the second component, and the second component is substantially placed on the first component using the lifting device, while the second component remains substantially in place.
US08555583B2	Reinforced insulated concrete form The invention comprises a foam insulating panel having an outer surface and a reinforcing member adhered to at least a portion of the outer surface of the foam insulating panel. An insulated concrete form and a method of using the insulated concrete form are also disclosed.
US08555577B2	Panel mounting system and method A paneling system for external building walls includes: panels; bottom and top panel adapters attached to the panels with anchor plates; sill, head and wall girts; top and bottom panel shelves; and panel alignment mechanisms. The top panel shelves are configured for complimentary engagement with the top panel adapter and with the head and wall girts; and the bottom panel shelves are configured for complimentary engagement with the bottom panel adapters and with the sill and wall girts. A method for installing the paneling system includes attaching the sill, head wall girts to the wall; attaching the top and bottom panel shelves to the corresponding head girt, sill girt or wall girt; attaching the top and bottom panel adapters to each panel; attaching top panel adapters to the top panel shelves; attaching the bottom panel adapters to the bottom panel shelves; and aligning the panel using the adjustment mechanism.
US08555569B2	Structure for rigidly connecting solar panels to a fixture A device for integrating solar panels on a fixture, in particular a roofing framework, that includes a plurality of frames intended to accommodate the solar panels, added to the fixture, said frames being defined by a peripheral edge fitted with linear elements that project relative to the plane in which the frames are set; tightening means for holding said panels on the frames; and means for securing the frames to the fixture. The frames are openwork and cover or partially overlap each other on the edges which define them, laterally on the one hand and in the direction of the roof pitch on the other hand, the projecting linear elements with which they are fitted cooperating with each other to form a barrier seal.
US08555559B2	Foldable transportable structure Disclosed is a foldable transportable structure with a three dimensional rectangular shed roof shape having improved component and structural properties, and improved shipping and deployment capabilities. The integrated unique geometric folding pattern means provides enhanced folding accuracy and correct placement of interactive panels during collapse or assembly of the structure, and also greatly increases the flexibility for multiple unit combinations and component materials selection. The folding transportable structure provides a strong, safe, insulated weatherproof structure with a quick setup time, and requires NO tools or separate loose components for assembly.
US08555555B2	Automatic retractable hatch guard An automatic retractable hatch guard provides enhanced safety and security to hatch openings and comprises retractable assistive handrails and a retractable access step that retracts to fit within a hatch opening and beneath a hatch cover and automatically extends upwards and beyond the hatch opening.
US08555554B2	Seating system An example of the disclosed seating system includes a plurality of seating risers configured to telescope relative to one another, and at least one of the seating risers is a powered seating riser configured to deploy and retract the seating risers. Further included is a control pendant. The powered seating riser is drivable in response to said control pendant.
US08555552B2	Inflatable door seal A vehicle and method of operation having a first door, a second door, an inflatable door seal assembly and an inflator assembly. The first door has a first opening side and a first seal mount extending along the first opening side. The second door has a second opening side adjacent to the first opening side to define a gap and a second seal mount extending along the second opening side. The door seal assembly has a first seal assembly mounted to one of the first or second seal mounts, the first seal assembly inflatable to extend into the gap toward the other of the seal mounts when the first and second door are closed and deflatable to retract from the gap. The inflator assembly pumps a fluid into the seal assembly to inflate the seal assembly and pumps the fluid out to deflate the seal assembly.
US08555551B2	Corner pad for a door assembly A door assembly for disposition in a building includes a vertical member, a weather strip adjacent the vertical member, and a door selectively moveable to be adjacent the weather strip. A threshold extends below the door and the vertical member extends upwardly from a lower end and a corner pad is mounted to the lower end. The corner pad includes a base surface abutting the threshold, a first edge surface extending upwardly from the base surface between the vertical member and the weather strip, and a lower reservoir surface extending upwardly from the first edge surface. The lower reservoir surface extends inwardly into the corner pad defining a reservoir between the vertical member and the weather strip. The corner pad includes a second reservoir surface extending angularly from said lower reservoir surface for preventing the water from splashing out of said reservoir and into an interior of the building.
US08555550B2	Window regulator and method of fabricating a window regulator A method of fabricating a window regulator includes the step of providing a cable, a window connection on the cable, sheaths for protecting the cable, cable direction-changers, a cable winding drum, a drum support plate, and springs. The method further includes the steps of passing the cable between the direction-changers, inside the springs, inside the sheaths, and around the drum. The method further includes the steps of tensioning a first cable run extending through a first sheath between a first direction-changer and the drum, tensioning the first cable run urging the first sheath against the drum support plate, and compressing a first spring between the first sheath and the support plate. The method further includes the steps of locking the drum against rotation, compressing a second spring between a second sheath and the support plate, and locking the second spring. A window regulator can include the above features.
US08555545B2	Enhanced vegetative roof system A vegetative roof system includes modules for holding growth media in which plants can grow. The modules can communicate with each other, sharing moisture/nutrients, increasing airflow to enhance plant respiration, allowing soil-borne animals/insects to travel between modules, etc. A rooting channel and/or a scalloped sidewall allow the roots of plants in the module to extend to adjacent modules. Alignment notches in sidewalls facilitate alignment of rooting channels between adjacent modules. Vertical zones help facilitate placement of abutting modules flush with each other. The rooting channels may be formed at the vertical zones to enhance continuity between and among modules. Sheet inserts can control rooting between modules and restrict undesired spillage through rooting channels (temporarily if biodegradable). Module inserts help control the quantity and depth of growth media, affecting module weight and rooting levels. An elevated connector can secure two or more modules together using downwardly-radiating prongs.
US08555536B2	Art frames An art frame includes a three-dimensional supporting frame, which includes an image receiving surface and an opposed back surface, a center portion defining a perimeter, and at least three foldable extensions extending from the perimeter. Each foldable extension includes two folds to be folded toward the back surface to form a frame portion. Abutting frame portions form respective corners of the three-dimensional supporting frame. A corner mount is to be inserted into the abutting frame portions at the respective corners. Each corner mount includes first and second opposed surfaces, a shaped portion, and two corner mount foldable extensions extending from two sides of the shaped portion. Each corner mount foldable extension includes two tabs to be folded toward the first opposed surface. An adhesive layer is established on the second opposed surface and is to be adhered to the back surface of the three-dimensional supporting frame at the respective corners.
US08555535B1	Traffic sign holder and method of use A traffic sign holder includes a first side for night use and an opposite second side for day use. Both sides of the traffic sign holder removably accept traffic signs which contain traffic control instructions. The first side contains a selectively energizable light and at least one reflector. The second side also includes at least one reflector, and is colored a bright color. Two base members are pivotally connected to the bottom of the traffic sign holder, and are selectively positionable to a locked extended position for placement on the surface of a road, and to a collapsed position for storage. Weights can be selectively connected to the traffic sign holder to provide stability.
US08555532B2	Detachable fastening system between a male piece and a female piece, pin and female piece Detachable fastening system between a male piece (2) and a female piece (1), pin (3) and female piece (1), specifically for use in machines for moving earth and stones. It is formed by a tooth (2) with a transverse aperture, a tooth holder (2) with another transverse aperture, a pin with an intermediate nipple, and an elastic tensor (4) located in a complementary cavity of the tooth holder (2). The penetration and subsequent rotation of the pin (3) immobilizes it axially, as it is held in said angular position by the action of the tensor (4). In addition, the pin (3) has at one end a projection that interacts with a groove ramped helicoidally and fitted in the aperture of the tooth in order to absorb the axial forces, by unloading the tensor (4) thereof, and also in order to limit the angular distance travelled by the pin between the blocking and unblocking positions, and in order to facilitate possible extraction thereof.
US08555526B2	Resilient shoe with pivoting sole An improved resilient shoe sole includes an outsole having a substantially inelastic side wall with a heel cavity. A substantially inelastic platform is located below the heel cavity, and a connector connects the platform with the side wall. The connector has a particular length and thickness to maintain the platform substantially below the sidewall when the shoe sole is not under a wearer's weight. When brought under forces of a wearer's weight, the connector bends and stretches as the spring compresses to allow the platform to deflect into the heel cavity. As weight is removed, the connector and spring cause the platform to deflect out of the heel cavity, biasing the platform below the side wall.
US08555523B2	Condensation dryer A method carried out without sealing elements inside fixed parts in the front area of a condensation dryer. A process air channel arranged in a shield is made of a plastic material and is provided with a vertical dividing surface which is placed at the level of a heat exchanger reception area in front of a base module. Said base module and the shield are assembled without additional sealing means. The tightness of the process air guide along the passage from the shield to a condenser is obtainable by supporting surfaces devoid of welds and hitches on the edges of the heat exchanger insertion opening, sealing elements placed on the circumference of a heat exchanger are pressed to each other when the dryer is prepared to operate.
US08555521B2	Method of treatment of wooden items An improved method for the treatment of wood in preparation for manufacture of wooden items comprising the steps of first heat treating the wood and then fashioning the wood into a finished item, whereby the resulting wooden item is darker, harder, more weather and rot resistant, and more stable than items fashioned from untreated wood.
US08555516B2	Pivoting blade retainer A saw blade clamping arrangement for a power can include a clamp support base that is operatively coupled for movement with a drive shaft and has a first and a second, saw blade slots. First and second locking members can be operatively associated with the clamp support base and be movable between a locked position that selectively locks the blade in one of the corresponding first and second slots, and an unlocked position that releases the blade. A release member can rotate to cause the first cam surface to urge the first locking member at least partially into the first slot and the second cam surface to concurrently urge the second locking member at least partially into the second slot. In another configuration, the release member can alternatively urge the first or second locking member into the respective slots.
US08555514B2	Collapsible multiblade throwing weapon A collapsible multiblade throwing weapon incorporates a first blade having a shank from which a blade portion extends with a butt portion extending from the shank opposite the blade portion. The shank incorporates an aperture for a first axle and an eyelet extending from the butt portion for a second axle. Second and third blades each have an aperture which receives the first axle for rotation of the blade on the axle and each blade has a closed position engagement cutout and an open position engagement cutout. First and second pawls, associated with the second and third blades respectively, each have an eyelet receiving the second axle. The pawls rotate about the second axle for resiliently engaging the closed position engagement cutout with the associated blade in a closed position and the open position engagement cutout with the associated blade in an open position.
US08555513B2	Hand held rotary cutting devices A hand held rotary cutting device having an annular cutting blade with an interior diameter entirely protectively enclosed by a housing, and with a sharpened periphery partially protectively enclosed by the housing, wherein the housing has similarly configured front and rear components that are movable between an open position that permits removal of the cutting blade for cleaning, and a closed position wherein the front and rear components cooperate to rotatably support the cutting blade, and to define an elongate handle that overlies a housed portion of the cutting blade. Cutting pressure, stability and unusually effective guidance are supplied to the cutting blade by novel C-shaped lower portions of the front and rear components of the housing that extend continuously along opposite sides of the cutting blade just above and quite near to where selected portions of a long, exposed C-shaped reach of the sharpened periphery of the cutting blade is available to sever thin food such as pizza.
US08555512B2	Handle of tool Each of handles of a pair of scissors includes a hard core member and a soft member softer than the core member and including a contact face portion with which a finger of a user comes in contact, a bottomed recessed hole portion adjacent to the contact face portion and thinner than portions around it, and a through hole portion continuous with the bottomed recessed hole portion. When the user inserts and removes his/her fingers into and from finger rings, the contact face portions escape while compressing the through hole portions and the contact face portions tilt by using the bottomed recessed hole portions as fulcrums. Moreover, the bottomed recessed hole portions and the through hole portions continuous with each other are molded, which allows an elastic deformation property and a shape retaining property of the contact face portions to go together and also contributes to durability of the soft members including the contact face portions.
US08555509B2	Shaving unit for an electric shaver A shaving unit for an electric shaver which comprises an outer cutter and an inner cutter associated to that outer cutter. The cutters are mounted so as to be movable relative to each other and adapted to be set in a relative motion by a drive mechanism. The inner cutter provides a plurality of cutting edges and abuts with its outer face on the inner face of the outer cutter. The outer cutter provides a plurality of teeth equipped with cutting edges. The outer cutter provides two comb elements which are disposed opposite one another and which extend according to the direction of the relative motion. The two comb elements are aligned with respect to one another such that the tips of the teeth of the first comb element are facing the tips of the teeth of the second comb element, the tips of the teeth spaced from one another.
US08555503B2	Casting-integrated control body processing A method for forming a valve includes forming a valve body; machining a bore by passing a tool having cutting edges along an axis into the valve body; machining a groove and face in the bore at axially spaced locations by revolving the tool about a circular circumference whose center is aligned with the bore; and supplying lubricant in a pneumatic stream through the tool to the cutting edges.
US08555500B2	Method of producing or repairing turbine or engine components, and a component, namely a turbine or engine component A method of producing or repairing single-crystalline turbine or engine components by the following steps: heating of braze filler metal to a temperature which is greater than or equal to the melting temperature of the braze filler metal; introducing the molten mass of the braze filler metal produced through the heating process into a crack formed in the turbine or engine component, or into the gap formed between two turbine or engine components, or into a damaged area of a turbine or engine component; and non-isothermal control or regulation of the temperature of the braze filler metal or turbine or engine component during an epitaxic solidification process of the braze filler metal.
US08555492B2	Method for manufacturing a conductive substrate structure with conductive channels formed by using a two-sided cut approach A conductive substrate structure includes a substrate unit, a conductive pad unit, and a conductive layer unit. The substrate unit has a top surface, a bottom surface, two opposite lateral surfaces, and a front surface. The conductive pad unit has at least two first conductive pads separated from each other and disposed on the top surface, and at least two second conductive pads separated from each other and disposed on the bottom surface. The conductive layer unit has at least two first conductive layers formed on the front surface and respectively electrically connected to two front sides of the two first conductive pads, and at least two second conductive layers respectively formed on the two opposite lateral surfaces and respectively electrically connected to two opposite lateral sides of the two second conductive pads. The two first conductive layers are respectively electrically connected with the two second conductive layers.
US08555490B2	Joining means In the invention, a joining means having a ram tool, a countertool and a holder with an opening to accommodate the ram tool or the countertool, is described. The two tools are arranged coaxial with each other at different ends of a C-bracket. The invention is distinguished in that the holder comprises at least one plane contact surface arranged on the outer surface of the holder, resting in contact with at least one plane face of the corresponding end of the C-bracket and detachably fastened thereto. Between the contact surface and the face, at least one interlay is arranged, determining the information and/or the distance of the contact surface from the face.
US08555489B2	Crimp assembly for a terminal crimping machine A crimp assembly for a terminal crimping machine that crimps a terminal to a wire includes a crimper frame having opposed ends and a longitudinal axis extending between the opposed ends. The crimper frame has a jaw mount chamber therein being open at one of the ends of the crimper frame. The crimper tame has abutment surfaces defining portions of the jaw mount chamber. Crimp tooling is held within the jaw mount chamber. The crimp tooling has terminal engagement surfaces configured to engage the terminal to form a wire crimp during a crimping process. The crimp tooling has outer surfaces, wherein the abutment surfaces of the crimper frame engage the outer surfaces of the crimp tooling during the crimp process to move the crimp tooling in a first direction generally along the longitudinal axis and in a second direction transverse to the first direction. Optionally, the crimp tooling may constitute split-jaw crimp fooling having a pair of crimper jaws movable with respect to one another.
US08555488B2	Tools for seating connectors on substrates The present invention relates to connector tools for seating connectors on a substrate such as a printed circuit board. In various embodiments, the connector tool has guiding skirts and surfaces to capture the connector in position then seat the connector. In the embodiments, the connector tools can be made by wire electrode discharge machining (VVEDM) process. Thus, the invention reduces connector and substrate damage during manufacturing, reduces tool damage, and lowers product costs by boosting manufacturing yields.
US08555485B2	Method for noise reduction in transformers A method for reducing noise in an electric transformer uses a rigid fastening member during transportation which is uncoupled during its operation, leaving the live part of the transformer coupled to a tank through damper elements reducing vibration transmission from the live part to the tank, reducing the noise emitted by the transformer.
US08555484B2	Method of manufacturing a yoke of a rotating electric machine A method for manufacturing a yoke includes forming a through-hole that is open in a yoke bottom surface and a cylindrical bearing support portion by burring an edge of the through-hole using a burring punch, wherein the burring punch is located on a base end side at a distance from a cylinder front-end portion of the bearing support portion so as to form a ring-shaped flange portion inclined toward an inner radial side on the cylinder front-end portion of the bearing support portion.
US08555470B2	Magnetic carabiner system One embodiment of the present invention relates to an automatic locking carabiner including a frame, a gate, a gate biasing system, and a gate locking system. The gate is pivotably coupled to the frame including a closed configuration within which the gate and frame form a continuously enclosed inner region, and an open configuration within which the gate is pivotably rotated within the inner region so as to form an opening. The gate locking system includes an engaged state within which the gate is locked in the closed configuration, and a disengaged state within which the gate is pivotably rotatable with respect to the frame. The gate locking system is biased toward the engaged state when the gate is in the closed configuration. The functionality and operation of the gate locking system is independent of the gate biasing system. The engaged state of the gate locking system includes a releasable magnetic coupling between the gate and the frame.
US08555469B2	Clip A clip may include an anchor portion having a plurality of flexible strips and at least one support strip. Each of the flexible strips is integrally connected to the at least one support strip only via a connecting portion corresponding to a distal end portion of the anchor portion and a connecting portion corresponding to a proximal end portion of the anchor portion. When the anchor portion is pushed into an insertion hole formed in a subject member, the anchor portion is inserted into the insertion hole while each of the flexible strips are flexed toward a longitudinal axis of the anchor portion. Each of the flexible strips is formed such that the difference between a second moment of area of the anchor distal end side connecting portion and a second moment of area of the anchor proximal end side connecting portion is 0-15%.
US08555467B2	Pull tight seal or cable tie with break-away tail A flexible tie including a head having a first cross-sectional geometry and a tail extending from the head in a longitudinal direction and having a second cross-sectional geometry different from the first cross-sectional geometry. The tie includes a lock disposed on the head and including a passage configured to receive the tail and a plurality of barbs disposed on the tail and configured to pass through the passage in the lock in a first direction, and configured to be restricted from retreating through the passage in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The tie also includes a tail break-point disposed on the tail and including a first cross-sectional area, as viewed along the longitudinal direction, smaller than any other cross-sectional area of the tail as viewed along the longitudinal direction. In some configurations, the tie includes a visual indicator in the head.
US08555466B1	Panel carrying handle A panel carrying handle includes two mounting barrels respectively affixed to respective first mounting through holes in a border area of a first panel member, two couplings respectively coupled to the mounting barrels and axially movable between a top flange and a bottom flange of the associating mounting barrel, a handle having two brackets located on two downwardly curved distal ends thereof and respectively pivotally connected to the couplings, and two fasteners floatably supported in the couplings and the mounting barrels and fastenable to respective second mounting through holes in a second panel member to detachably lock the first panel member to the second panel member.
US08555460B2	Apparatus for cleaning substrate A substrate cleaning apparatus includes: a substrate entering guide unit for entering a substrate from outside in a proper direction; a foreign material removing unit for receiving the substrate from the substrate entering guide unit and removing debris formed on the substrate; a foreign material cleaning unit for receiving the substrate from the foreign material removing unit and cleaning to remove debris remaining on the substrate; and a position controller for controlling the position of the substrate carried out of the foreign material cleaning unit, wherein the foreign material cleaning unit includes: a manifold including a plurality of deionized water holes, suction holes and air holes; and a porous cleaning plate combined to the manifold by an upper fastening screw including a through hole communicating with the plurality of deionized water holes and suction holes.
US08555456B2	Beam blade windshield wiper assembly The present invention relates to a wiper blade system that includes a wiper blade assembly having a wiping element, at least one elongated beam and a carrier that is operatively engaged to the elongated beam. The wiper blade assembly further includes an airfoil and a coupler that is removably engaged to the carrier and adapted to releasably attach the wiper blade assembly to a wiper arm attachment member. The coupler is universal in that it is used for connecting the wiper blade assembly to various styles of wiper arms.
US08555453B2	Device for removing residue in a furnace chamber The invention relates to a device for removing residue in a furnace chamber of a furnace, in particular a sintering furnace, comprising a scraper frame which is designed in such a way that it can be inserted into the furnace chamber and moved in the latter, and also at least one scraper element, which is arranged on the scraper frame in such a way that, by means of the scraper element, the residue can be removed at least on side walls and/or a ceiling of the furnace chamber when the scraper frame is moved. With said device, it should be possible to remove deposits in the furnace chamber in a simple and efficient manner without substantially impairing the progress of production.
US08555441B2	Therapeutic mattress system and methods of fabricating same A cellular structure includes a base, a plurality of hollow cells coupled to the base, a sealing layer, and a pressurization system. The base includes at least a first layer and a second layer. The cells each extend outwardly from the base, and are grouped together in at least a first zone, a second zone, and a third zone. The cells in each of the first, second, and third zones are only coupled in flow communication with the cells in that respective zone. The pressurization system is coupled to the first, second, and third zones for selectively and independently pressurizing each of the zones. The pressurization zone is configured such that in a first mode of operation, the first zone is pressurized and the second and third zones are depressurized, and in a second mode of operation, the first zone is depressurized while the second and third zones are pressurized.
US08555438B2	Anthropometrically governed occupant support An articulable occupant support system for supporting an occupant, includes an upper frame, an articulable assembly comprising at least one section articulable relative to the upper frame and a motion control system. The motion control system is arranged to govern motion of the articulable assembly based on a relationship relating scheduled motion of the sections to anthropometric information.
US08555434B2	Reconfigurable child retaining structure A child retaining structure includes a wall assembly defining a child receiving area, a platform disposed within the child receiving area, and a support member connected to the wall assembly and supporting the platform. The support member and the platform are reconfigurable between a raised position so that the child retaining structure functions as a bassinet, and a lowered position so that the child retaining structure functions as a playpen, or alternatively, as a playhouse.
US08555428B2	Plumbing fixture with flush valve actuator and methods of calibrating same Plumbing fixtures with a valve actuator for automatically controlling pivoting of a flush valve, and methods of calibrating movement of the flush valve, are disclosed. The motor of the valve actuator may be positioned between the bowl of the fixture and a leg of a trapway to provide compact assembly. A belt drive laterally extending along the trapway links the motor to the flush valve. The method of calibrating includes establishing stop points which are at positions of less resistance than hard stop positions.
US08555421B2	Undergarment suspenders attached to hips at two locations Suspenders having a pair of strap members particularly for wearing under outer garments. At least one side of each of the strap member has loop members thereon which mate with pieces of hook-type material secured adjacent one end of each of the strap members. The pair of strap members are connected together to allow fasteners to the wearer's pants with just two fastener members. Adjustment buckles are eliminated.
US08555416B1	Gloves for forming a figure Gloves for forming a figure are designed to represent a figure such as an animal with one glove forming a first portion of the figure and a second glove forming a second portion of the figure. For example, for a pair of shark gloves, one glove is the top of the shark's mouth with upper teeth and the second glove is the bottom of the shark's mouth with lower teeth. When worn by a user, the user is able to move the two gloves in an open and closed motion so that the shark appears to be opening and biting down. The gloves provide entertainment as well as motivation for the fans and players.
US08555413B2	Flexible nose guard In accordance with the present invention, a flexible nose guard is provided for protecting the nose from sunlight, the cold, and other outdoor elements. The nose guard is configured to cover the bridge and sides of a user's nose. In a preferred embodiment, the nose guard has a pentagonal body, resembling an upside-down pentagon with rounded corners. The top portion of the nose guard is substantially flat and sized to conform around the bridge of the nose. The bottom portion of the nose guard is a rounded corner or hyperbolic-shape configured to rest on top of the bridge of the nose. In a preferred embodiment, the nose guard is composed of an outer first layer of spandex having a sun protective factor, an intermediate second layer of open-cell foam, and a third, skin-facing layer of micro-suede material that contacts the skin. The nose guard offers different means of attachment to a user's face.
US08561211B1	System and method for enhanced piracy protection in a wireless personal communication device A key-sharing scheme is used to control distribution and use of video and audio content in personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other wireless devices. A private key is split into key-shares using a Blakley-Shamir key splitting technique and the key-shares are distributed to various network entities including a finance server and security server. Key-shares are also stored in a user's subscriber identity module (SIM) and a security processor of the PDA. The key-shares from the network entities are provided to the PDA after the user requests specific video or audio content and credit verification is performed. The PDA's security processor combines the key-shares to form the decryption key for use in playing the content by the PDA's communications processor. When a service limit is reached, the PDA's security processor purges the key-shares to prevent further use of the content.
US08561190B2	System and method of opportunistically protecting a computer from malware The present invention provides a system, method, and computer-readable medium that opportunistically install a software update on a computer that closes a vulnerability that existed on the computer. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, when antivirus software on a computer identifies malware, a method causes a software update that closes the vulnerability exploited by the malware to be installed on the computer. The method includes identifying the vulnerability exploited by the malware, using a software update system to obtain a software update that is configured to close the vulnerability; and causing the software update to be installed on the computer where the vulnerability exists.
US08561187B1	System and method for prosecuting dangerous IP addresses on the internet A method and system for prosecuting threatening IP addresses on the Internet and publishing a list of these threatening IP addresses for users to block is disclosed herein. If the IP address behaves properly according to a policy adhered to by the users, then the IP address may be paroled and removed from the list.
US08561186B2	Detection circuit, detection method thereof, and memory system including the detection circuit A detection circuit, including a sensing circuit configured to sense whether there is an external attack and generate second data from first data, a data conversion circuit configured to convert the first data to third data, and a comparator configured to compare the second data with the third data.
US08561182B2	Health-based access to network resources A protection system is described herein that dynamically determines whether a computer system can access a particular resource based on a combination of a dynamic health state of the computer system and a dynamic reputation of the resource. When a user attempts to access a resource, the protection system intercepts the request. The protection system determines the reputation of the resource that the user is attempting to access and the health of the computer system through which the user is attempting to access the resource. Based on the determined resource reputation and the determined computer system health, the protection system determines whether to allow the requested access to the resource.
US08561181B1	Detecting man-in-the-middle attacks via security transitions A page list comprising a list of transitions between network resources is established. Subsequently, a transition is detected between a first network resource and a second network resource. An expected security level associated with the transition is identified based on the page list. Responsive to the detected security level being determined to be lower than the expected security level, a remedial action is performed.
US08561180B1	Systems and methods for aiding in the elimination of false-positive malware detections within enterprises Methods and systems for aiding in the detection of false positives generated by security systems are disclosed. One exemplary server-side method may comprise: 1) building a database containing a copy of, and metadata for, each file within an enterprise that is capable of posing a security risk, 2) identifying a determination by a security system that at least one of the files within the enterprise poses a security risk, and then 3) assisting a user to evaluate whether the security system has generated any false positives by presenting to the user both a list of each file within the enterprise that the security system determined poses a security risk and metadata for each file on the list. Corresponding client-side methods and systems are also disclosed.
US08561173B2	Authentication processing apparatus, authentication processing method, recording medium storing authentication processing program, recording medium storing information processing program and information processing system An authentication processing apparatus, which includes: an authentication processing section that performs authentication using an authentication method selected from authentication methods provided; a storage section that stores authentication information indicating whether or not the authentication succeeds; a determination section that, when an operation on electronic information associated to one or more authentication methods is performed, determines whether the operation on the electronic information is permitted or not, on the basis of the one or more authentication methods associated to the electronic information and the stored authentication information; and an authentication request section that, when the determination section determines that the operation on the electronic information is not permitted, detects from among the one or more authentication methods associated to the electronic information an authentication methods for which it is not indicated in the authentication information that an authentication succeeds, and requests the authentication using the detected authentication method.
US08561162B2	Systems and methods for unified login to multiple networked services Embodiments relate to systems and methods for unified login to multiple networked services. A user operates a browser to access a Web site, such as an email portal. The user is presented with a query box to input login information such as a user name and password to view email from an email account. Upon entry of login information to the email or other site, a login manager captures the login information to automatically transmit that information to a local program and associated networked sites or services, such as messenger or media services, that accept the same login information. The login manager logs the user into that program and additional services without the user having to re-enter the same login information. The additional services can be accessed via an online desktop, and the user can configure the additional local programs or registered services via that desktop or other interface.
US08561156B2	Server apparatus, and control method and computer-readable storage medium therefor A server apparatus capable of preventing unauthorized use of services by a third party through an electronic appliance that stores information used for user authentication by the server apparatus. The server apparatus receives, from an information processing apparatus, pieces of user identification information, pieces of appliance identification information, and pieces of use permission/prohibition information representing on a per service type basis whether uses of services are permitted or prohibited, and stores them so as to be associated with one another. When determining based on use permission/prohibition information, which is associated with a combination of user identification information and appliance identification information that are accepted from an electronic appliance, that use of a service represented by service type information accepted from the electronic appliance is permitted, the server apparatus transmits screen information for use of the service to the electronic appliance.
US08561152B2	Target-based access check independent of access request A context of a principal is built, at a target system controlling access to a resource, independently of the principal requesting access to the resource. An authorization policy is applied, at the target system, to the context to determine whether the principal is permitted to access the resource, and an indication of whether the principal is permitted to access the resource is provided (e.g., to an administrator). Modifications can be made to the context and the authorization re-applied to determine whether a principal having the modified context is permitted to access the resource.
US08561150B2	Method and system for supporting mobility security in the next generation network A method and system for supporting mobility security in a next generation network are provided. A Transport Authentication and Authorization Functional Entity (TAA-FE) and a mobile agent functional entity are configured in the network, and a reference point for transmitting key material is established between the TAA-FE and the mobile agent functional entity; when a terminal moves, the mobile agent functional entity receives the key material from the TAA-FE, and performs security protection for signaling between the terminal and the mobile agent functional entity.
US08561138B2	System and method to provide added security to a platform using locality-based data In some embodiments, the invention involves protecting a platform using locality-based data and, more specifically, to using the locality-based data to ensure that the platform has not been stolen or subject to unauthorized access. In some embodiments, a second level of security, such as a key fob, badge or other source device having an identifying RFID is used for added security. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08561134B2	Policy-based selection of remediation Methods and systems for automatically determining one or more remediations for a remotely monitored host asset are provided. According to one embodiment, a policy database, having stored therein policies defines at least one parameter condition violation of which is potentially indicative of unauthorized activity or manipulation of the host asset, is maintained by a remote server. The remote server receives via a network, a value of a parameter of the host asset. The parameter value is one of multiple parameter values that collectively characterize an operational state of the host asset. A determination is made whether there is a policy violation based on the parameter value by retrieving and evaluating one or more policies with reference to the parameter value. When a policy violation is confirmed, a remediation is retrieved from a remediation database associated with the remote server and the remediation is deployed to the host asset.
US08561132B2	Access control apparatus, information management apparatus, and access control method An access control apparatus that controls access to an information management apparatus that stores configuration elements and relationship elements indicating relationships between the configuration elements, includes a storage unit that stores one or more predetermined configuration elements in association with user information that identifies a user and stores one or more combinations of a type of a configuration element and a type of a relationship element in association with the user information, as an access control rule set for each user, and a determining unit that determines that, when a combination of a type of a configuration element stored in the storage unit in association with user information and a type of a relationship element indicating a relationship between the configuration element and another configuration element is stored in the storage unit in association with the user information, the another configuration element is accessible.
US08561130B2	Personal license server and methods for use thereof A personal license server and methods for use thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a personal license server is provided comprising a memory and circuitry operative to receive a digital rights management (DRM) license from a license server, store the DRM license in the memory, and provide the DRM license to a personal license server client, wherein the personal license server client receives the DRM license without communicating with the license server. In another embodiment, a personal license server client is provided that receives, from a license requester, a request for a digital rights management (DRM) license from a license server; in response to the request, communicates with a personal license server instead of the license server to receive the DRM license; and provides the DRM license to the license requester. Other embodiments are provided, and each of these embodiments can be used alone or in combination with one another.
US08561126B2	Automatic enforcement of obligations according to a data-handling policy Methods, systems and computer program products for automatically enforcing obligations in accordance with a data-handling policy are disclosed. Requests by users for accessing data stored in a data repository are intercepted. A determination is made whether any obligations apply to each data item requested in accordance with the data handling policy. The determination may relate to whether rules having associated obligations identified in the data-handling policy apply to data items requested by a user. The obligations are automatically executed at an appropriate time after access of the data. Association of a data item requested by the user with an obligation may be recorded and tracked to determine the appropriate time for executing the obligation.
US08561125B2	Home network frequency conditioning device and method An in-home entertainment network conditioning device for use with a coaxial device in a CATV network includes an input node adapted to conduct CATV signals in a first and second frequency range, and in-home entertainment signals in a third frequency range that is different from the first frequency range and the second frequency range. The device includes a first signal path branched from the input node that includes a low-pass filter adapted to conduct the CATV signals and reject the in-home entertainment signals. A second signal path in parallel electrical communication with the first signal path includes a high-pass filter in series electrical connection with a signal conditioning circuit. The high-pass filter is adapted to conduct the in-home entertainment signals and reject the CATV signals. The signal conditioning circuit attenuates and equalizes the in-home entertainment signals when coupled to the coaxial device.
US08561124B2	Information-processing system, information-processing apparatus, and information-processing method In an information-processing system shown in FIG. 1, a server (106) for delivering remote-operation control information in accordance with an audio/video instrument (110) and an information-processing apparatus (103) with a remote-operation screen display function for remote-controlling the audio/video instrument (110) based on control information acquired from this server (106) are connected to each other through the Internet (105) etc. The information-processing apparatus (103) makes a request to the server (106) to deliver the remote-operation control information in accordance with this audio/video instrument (110) and, based on the control information delivered from the server (106) owing to this delivery request, performs display processing of a remote-operation screen and, based on remote-operation information input by operations on the remote-operation screen, remote-controls the audio/video instrument (110).
US08561123B2	Smooth still image capture A live video is directed to a display buffer of the device. The device is preferably a set top box and a live video frame stored in the display buffer is preferably displayed by a display device coupled to the set top box. The display device is preferably a television. A capture command preferably signals the set top box to store one or more frames of the currently displayed live video. Upon receiving the capture command, the live video is paused, thereby preventing the display buffer from loading subsequent live video frames. The live video is then re-directed to a capture buffer, the live video is un-paused, and a current live video frame is captured from the capture buffer. The captured frame is then stored using a conventional storage medium. After the frame is captured, the live video is re-directed from the capture buffer to the display buffer to resume display of the live video.
US08561122B2	Video test process integrated in a set-top-box A device, such as a set-top box, may include logic to allow television customers to automatically test and adjust the quality of the displayed video signal. A set-top box may receive a user selection of whether to perform a video test using an automatic loopback test sequence or a user subjective test sequence. The set-top box may perform, when the automatic loopback test sequence is selected, a video quality test that may include transmitting a signal from the set-top box, receiving a loopback version of the video signal, and comparing the received loopback version of the video signal to the transmitted signal. The set-top box may perform, when the user subjective test sequence is selected, a video quality test that may include displaying one or more test patterns to a user and receiving feedback from the user relating to a quality of the displayed test patterns.
US08561114B2	Method and system for ordering video content from a mobile device A method and system for ordering content includes a mobile device having an ordering interactive interface having available content including linear content and on-demand content. The interactive interface receives a content selection corresponding to the on-demand content from the interactive interface and communicates the selection to a content processing system. The content processing system communicates a control word to the user device. A user device receives the on-demand content corresponding to the selection in response to the control word.
US08561109B2	Method and system for aggregating TV program information from different live TV feeds A method for processing event information from a plurality of different live TV feeds comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is provided for receiving a plurality of different live TV feed data streams. Each one of the live TV feed data streams include program content and event information corresponding to the program content. An operation is provided for extracting the event information from each one of the live TV feed data streams and an operation is provided for aggregating the event information from all of the live TV feed data streams.
US08561092B2	Disc loading mechanism and disc drive apparatus A disc loading mechanism includes a turntable on which a disc is mounted and a chucking pulley that sandwiches the disc together with the turntable. The chucking pulley includes a pulley engaging member on which a plurality of engaging protrusions are formed. The turntable includes a table engaging member on which a plurality of engaging pieces are formed, the plurality of engaging pieces each having an engaging surface that hangs over a chucking pulley-facing surface of one of the plurality of engaging protrusions in a rotation direction of the disc.
US08561086B2	System and method for executing commands that are non-native to the native environment of a mobile device A system and method for translating, synthesizing and acting upon disparate event sets is provided. The disclosed cross-platform event engine comprises an event module with information pertaining to various event inputs as they relate to different operating platforms and devices. Logic utilized by the cross-platform event engine determines how to handle a particular event within an operating environment. Methods of updating and training the engine are also provided.
US08561077B1	Binder for a multi-threaded process to access an un-shareable resource The present invention allows a multi-threaded process to access an un-shareable resource without modifying the multi-threaded process. A binder is created for the multi-threaded process to access the un-shareable resource. All requests from the multi-threaded process to access the un-shareable resource are intercepted by the binder and the binder decides how to redirect or reformulate the requests to access the un-shareable resource. The present invention allows a process to dynamically bind to an interface at run time to establish communication channels among multiple concurrent computing resources in a concurrent computing environment. Hence, a user can choose to change to use a different interface during run time of the process without terminating the execution of the process.
US08561068B2	Optimizing processor-managed resources based on the behavior of a virtual machine monitor In one embodiment, a predefined behavior of a virtual machine monitor (VMM) with respect to one or more virtual machines (VMs) is identified, and processor-managed resources associated with the one or more VMs are utilized based on the predefined behavior of the VMM.
US08561061B2	Adaptive dynamic selection and application of multiple virtualization techniques Autonomous selection between multiple virtualization techniques implemented in a virtualization layer of a virtualized computer system. The virtual machine monitor implements multiple virtualization support processors that each provide for the comprehensive handling of potential virtualization exceptions. A virtual machine monitor resident virtualization selection control is operable to select between use of first and second virtualization support processors dependent on identifying a predetermined pattern of temporally local privilege dependent instructions within a portion of an instruction stream as encountered in the execution of a guest operating system.
US08561055B2	Method, system and apparatus for management of push content A method, system and apparatus for management of push content is provided. An intermediation infrastructure mediates traffic from a push content server that is addressed to a computing device. The intermediation infrastructure enforces various policies such that, for example, unwanted communications are not pushed to the computing device.
US08561049B2	Method and system for updating content stored in a storage device Method and system for in-place updating original content of an original version stored in a non-volatile storage device and for yielding updated content of an updated version. At least part of content of each one of n (n>1) blocks of the original version is modified in the updated version. The non-volatile storage device includes blocks. The method includes obtaining an update package. It also includes performing m block storage operations, wherein each block storage operation includes writing content to a block in the non-volatile storage device. The block storage operations include update block storage operations storing updated content of the updated version in the non-volatile storage device, while the updated content is generated in accordance with at least the update package, wherein 2<=m<2n.
US08561045B2	Constructing runtime state for inlined code Techniques for processing computer code are disclosed. In one example, an indication that a computer code is to begin execution at a portion of code other than a starting portion of the code is received, and a runtime state associated with the portion of the code at which execution is to begin is constructed. In some examples, execution of the portion of code is initiated. In some examples, a program counter associated with the portion of the code is used to initiate execution of the code. In some examples, the computer code comprises a fallback code associated with a previously executing code.
US08561041B1	Parallel execution of function calls in a graphical model A method, tangible computer-readable medium and apparatus for concurrently executing subsystems in a graphical model is provided. An embodiment can transform a conventional graphical model supporting single threaded execution into a model supporting multi-threaded execution through the replacement of a single block. The transformed model may support concurrent execution of a plurality of subsystems using a plurality of threads when the graphical model executes. An embodiment provides a user interface that allows a user to intuitively configure a model for current execution of the subsystems.
US08561034B2	Software fault injection in java enterprise applications A method and system for injecting exceptions into a JAVA enterprise application during execution of the JAVA enterprise application is disclosed. The Java enterprise application includes multiple Enterprise JAVA Bean (EJB) classes. The EJB classes include one or more EJB methods. Each EJB is scanned for exceptions, and corresponding interface points of the EJB. The exceptions are automatically injected at the corresponding interface points based on scanning the EJB. The exceptions are then thrown to callers of the EJB methods. The exceptions are thrown before beginning execution of business logic of the EJB methods. Finally, the response of the JAVA enterprise application to the injected exceptions is analyzed.
US08561030B2	Synchronization coverage in logic code A method for enhancing synchronization coverage for a logic code is provided. The method comprises tracking whether one or more code sections in the logic code are blocked by at least another code section in the logic code, or whether one or more code sections in the logic code are blocking at least another code section in the logic code, during one or more test runs; and including one or more delay mechanisms in the logic code to introduce a delay in execution of a first code section in the logic code, wherein length of introduced delay is dependent on whether the first code section was blocked by a second code section or whether the first code section was blocking the second code section.
US08561029B2	Precise thread-modular summarization of concurrent programs Methods and systems for concurrent program verification. A concurrent program is summarized into a symbolic interference skeleton (IS) using data flow analysis. Sequential consistency constraints are enforced on read and write events in the IS. Error conditions are checked together with the IS using a processor.
US08561017B2	Methods and apparatus for generating a web site based on a use case A system obtains at least one requirement for the application. They system defines at least one interaction, as a use case, associated with the application that satisfies at least one requirement. The system creates at least one file associated with at least one interaction, and processes at least one file with a code-generating engine to automatically generate at least one interactive component of the application.
US08561008B2	Presentation of hierarchical software structures A method, a computer product and a device for presentation of elements of a software environment arranged in a hierarchical structure are provided. To allow an easy-to-understand and user-friendly navigable presentation of the elements, the following steps are proposed for the presentation: displaying a linear chain of precisely one representative element of each hierarchy level in each case, with the representative elements being arranged within the linear chain in accordance with their hierarchy level, and display of further elements of a first hierarchy level after the user has selected a first representative element of the linear chain which is assigned to the first hierarchy level.
US08560999B2	Routing A method for designing an electronic circuit including determining at least one hold violation in a net routing; inserting a routing blockage associated with each at least one hold violation; de-routing the determined net-routing and re-routing the determined net-routing dependent on at least the routing blockage.
US08560997B1	Conditional cell placement Among other things, one or more techniques for conditional cell placement are provided herein. In an embodiment, a conditional boundary is created for a first cell. For example, the conditional boundary enables the first cell to be placed relative to a second cell based on a conditional placement rule. In an embodiment, the first cell is placed in a first manner relative to the second cell based in a first scenario. In a second scenario, different than the first scenario, the first cell is placed in a second manner relative to the second cell. In this manner, conditional cell placement is provided, thus providing flexibility and improved layout efficiency with regard to semiconductor fabrication, for example.
US08560993B2	Semiconductor device and method of testing the same An object is to provide a semiconductor device in which it is possible to determine whether or not a minute delay time given by a delay circuit is within a specified value or not, and a method of testing the semiconductor device. In response to a data strobe signal TDQS for testing, the delay circuits DC0 and DC1 produce delay data strobe signals IDQS0 and IDQS1 delayed by delay times DT0 and DT1. Outputted as a reverse signal from the inverter INV0, is a reverse data strobe signal RIDQS0 in response to the delay data strobe signal IDQS0, and delayed by an allowable delay time IT. Inputted into the NAND gate ND0, are the reverse data strobe signal RIDQS0 and the delay data strobe signal IDQS1. When, in comparison with the phase of the delay data strobe signal IDQS0, the phase of the delay data strobe signal IDQS1 is delayed by the allowable delay time IT or more, a pulse signal PL0 is not outputted from the NAND gate ND0.
US08560989B2	Statistical clock cycle computation Systems and methods for statistical clock cycle computation and closing timing of an integrated circuit design to a maximum clock cycle or period. The method includes loading a design and timing model for at least one circuit path of an integrated circuit or a region of the integrated circuit into a computing device. The method further includes performing a statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) of the at least one circuit path using the loaded design and timing model to obtain slack canonical data. The method further includes calculating a maximum circuit clock cycle for the integrated circuit or the specified region of the integrated circuit in linear canonical form based upon the slack canonical data obtained from the SSTA.
US08560981B2	Segmenting integrated circuit layout design files using speculative parsing A method of parsing integrated circuit layout design data. According to some implementations, the segment boundaries are designated by first identifying data in the integrated circuit layout design data that matches a cell record start value. Next, the subsequent data is parsed, until a threshold amount of subsequent data has been parsed without identifying another cell record start value. When the threshold amount of subsequent data has been parsed without identifying another cell record start value, the next data in the integrated circuit layout design data matching a cell record start value is designated as a segment boundary. Integrated circuit layout design data can be segmented sequentially, or by using dyadic division. Once the integrated circuit layout design data has been broken up into segments, the segments can be provided to a parallel processing computing system for parsing in parallel.
US08560970B2	Hierarchical tag based browsing of media collections A method of browsing a plurality of media items is disclosed. At least one of the media items being associated with a plurality of tag values, each tag value having a level. The method constructs a hierarchical tree structure of tag values according to the levels of the tag values, such that any tag value on any branch of the tree structure from a first tag value is associated with a media item with which said first tag value is associated. At least a first portion of the constructed tree structure is displayed in a graphical user interface. User input is detected to change the level of a second tag value in the displayed portion. The tree structure is reconstructed according to the changed levels of the tag values, such that any tag value on any branch from a third tag value remains associated with a media item with which said third tag value is associated. At least a second portion of the reconstructed tree structure is then displayed in the graphical user interface.
US08560966B2	User interface widget for selecting a point or range A technique for selecting and/or displaying an exact point or a range is provided wherein a slider widget comprising a thumb with a left edge and a right edge lying in proximity to the left and right edges of the thumb is provided such that a user may utilize the widget to display an exact point or a range.
US08560963B1	Providing notifications of wireless data consumption in a wireless communication device A wireless communication device communicates with a data network in response to data access operations generated by a plurality of applications operating within the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device displays a plurality of framed icons based on icons individually associated with each of the applications and monitors the applications to determine a frequency and data throughput for the data access operations on a per-application basis. The wireless communication device processes the frequency to select numeric indicators on a per-application basis, processes the data throughput to select frame colors on a per-application basis, and directs the wireless communication device to display the framed icons with the selected frame colors and with bubbles having the numeric indicators.
US08560962B2	Promoting participation of low-activity users in social networking system Method or system for allowing a social networking system to retain users of a social networking system by identifying low-activity users who are likely to become inactive/dormant users and prompting users to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. The low-activity users are identified by monitoring activities and interactions of the users via the social networking system. If the pattern of activities and interactions satisfy one or more criteria, a computer device for providing the social networking system initiates an intervention scheme where users are induced to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. In response to the interactions, the low-activity users are likely to resume interactions via the social networking system.
US08560954B1	Displaying social annotation data Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may enable social annotation data to be displayed based on an ordered arrangement. In one example, a method includes receiving an indication of a selection of a social annotation field displayed at a graphical user interface (GUI), and updating the GUI to include social information associated with a portion of the plurality of other users and a plurality of graphical indications selectable by the user to change an order of the social information, wherein the social information is based on the social annotation data and is output in an ordered arrangement associated with a graphical indication displayed at the GUI. The method may also include receiving an indication of a selection of another graphical indication, and updating, based on the selection, the GUI to include the social information associated with another portion of the plurality of other users in another ordered arrangement.
US08560953B2	Provisioning a portlet viewer for viewing drag-and-drop content in a portal environment Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to drag-and-drop operations for content in a portal view and provide a method, system and computer program product for provisioning a portlet viewer for viewing drag-and-drop content in a portal environment. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for provisioning a portlet viewer for viewing drag-and-drop content in a portal page can include determining a content type for content selected externally to the portal page subsequent to rendering the portal page, locating a portlet viewer associated with the determined content type, provisioning the located portlet viewer in the portal page, and rendering the provisioned portlet viewer in the portal page with the content.
US08560952B2	Adding an arbitrary number of placeholders to a custom layout A custom layout may be created that includes an arbitrary number of placeholders. Instead of having to use one of the predefined slide layouts available from a presentation program, a user may create their own set of custom layouts that may be used in zero or more presentations and applied to zero or more slides. A custom layout may include title placeholders, header/footer placeholders, as well as body placeholders. The custom layouts may contain both typed and un-typed placeholders. The placeholders on the custom layout may be positioned and formatted as desired by the user. A user may also create and include customized backgrounds on the custom layout. The custom layout may be edited in the same manner as a slide. The user may utilize the interface to copy, move, delete, and edit the custom layouts.
US08560948B2	User support system integrating FAQ and helpdesk features and FAQ maintenance capabilities A user support system provides a user interface that integrates FAQ features and helpdesk features and a user support request handling interface that integrates user support request handing and FAQ database maintenance. The user interface screen allows a user to select one or more levels of categories of support topic, and displays a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) based on the user-selected categories. Once the categories are selected, a message input window is displayed on the user interface screen to allow the user to send a support request to the support provider. The user support request handling interface allows a support staff to select from a database a template answer to the user's request; it also provides means for the support staff to directly edit the template answer in the database, add new questions and answers to the database, or assign a question to a category.
US08560939B2	Instant messaging system and method Methods and apparatuses for processing an instant message from a source wireless communication device to a destination device are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving the instant message from the source wireless communication device, the instant message having a source wireless communication identifier, a destination instant messenger identifier, and data contents; extracting the source wireless communication identifier, the destination instant messenger identifier and the data contents from the instant message; retrieving a source instant messenger identifier corresponding to the source wireless communication identifier; binding the source instant messenger identifier with the source wireless communication identifier; and transmitting the data contents with the source instant messenger identifier to the destination device over a communication network, based on the destination instant messenger identifier. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08560936B2	Methods and computer systems for displaying time variant tabular data The present invention relates to methods and systems for displaying tabular data. The tabular data comprises first data descriptive of instances of an entity and second data comprising time variant parameter values. The parameter values are analyzed to identify time intervals, where none of the parameter values of any of the instances changes. These time intervals form the basis for the generation of subsets of the tabular data to be displayed on a graphical user interface.
US08560933B2	Merging and fragmenting graphical objects Object merging in an electronic document may be provided. First, a selection of at least two objects within the electronic document may be received. Then, in response to the received selection of the at least two objects, a menu listing a plurality of merge operations configured to be performed on the selected at least two objects may be provided. A merge operation may then be selected, previewed, and applied to the selected at least two objects.
US08560931B2	Low power retention random access memory with error correction on wake-up Solid-state random access memory including error correction capability applied to memory arrays entering and exiting a data retention mode. Error correction coding of the data to be retained is performed upon determining that a portion of the memory is to enter data retention mode; the parity bits (i.e., bits in addition to those required for storage of the payload) are stored in available memory cells within or external to the retention domain. Upon exit from retention mode, the code words are decoded to correct any errors, and the payload data are returned to the original cells. Error correction encoding and decoding is not performed in the normal operating mode.
US08560924B2	Register file soft error recovery Register file soft error recovery including a system that includes a first register file and a second register file that mirrors the first register file. The system also includes an arithmetic pipeline for receiving data read from the first register file, and error detection circuitry to detect whether the data read from the first register file includes corrupted data. The system further includes error recovery circuitry to insert an error recovery instruction into the arithmetic pipeline in response to detecting the corrupted data. The inserted error recovery instruction replaces the corrupted data in the first register file with a copy of the data from the second register file.
US08560923B2	Semiconductor memory device The invention realizes a semiconductor memory device that can efficiently execute a detection of a data error that might possibly occur in a continuous reading action, and a correction of the error data. The semiconductor memory device uses a variable resistive element made of a metal oxide for storing information. During a reading action of coded data with an ECC in the semiconductor memory device, when a data error is detected by an ECC circuit, a writing voltage pulse having a polarity opposite to a polarity of a reading voltage pulse is applied to all memory cells from which the error is detected so as to correct bits from which the error is detected, on an assumption that an erroneous writing has occurred due to the application of the writing voltage pulse having the polarity same as the polarity of the applied reading voltage pulse.
US08560920B2	Error correction via lookup in compressed error location data An error correction apparatus comprises an input for receiving data. The received data includes error-check data. The apparatus also includes a processing resource arranged to calculate parity check data. A data store is coupled to the processing resource for storing look-up data for identifying, when in use, a location of an error in the received data. The look-up data is a compressed form of indexed error location data.
US08560919B2	System and method of interleaving data according to an adjustable parameter A method in a data storage device with a memory includes receiving bit values to be stored at a set of cells of the memory and interleaving the received bit values to form multiple interleaved groups of data bits according to an adjustable parameter. The method also includes writing the multiple interleaved groups of data bits to the set of cells.
US08560915B2	2D product code and method for detecting false decoding errors The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for performing forward error correction with a multi-dimensional Bose Ray-Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) product code, and a method for detecting false decoding errors in frame-based data transmission systems.
US08560912B2	Method and apparatus for erasure decoding an ECC coded bitstream The error correction capability of block codes can be doubled if error locations are known. Prior art approaches for error location detection always involve adding dedicated redundant data which then are evaluated to yield error location information. The present invention proposes and describes how error location information in the form of clues is derived from given DC control bits that are anyway present in a data stream.
US08560909B2	Method for effectively transmitting control signal in wireless communication system A method of performing HARQ performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a bundling indicator which indicates the number of bundled downlink subframes, determining whether at least one bundled downlink subframe is missed by comparing the bundling indicator with the number of detected bundled downlink subframes, generating a representative ACK/NACK signal when no bundled downlink subframe is missed, and transmitting the representative ACK/NACK signal on an uplink channel. Recovery capability is maximized and the packet loss is reduced in such a situation that less number of ACK/NACK signals are fed back than that of downlink packets.
US08560908B2	Methods and systems for ARQ feedback message improvement Certain embodiments of the present disclosure propose techniques for improving automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback messages to reduce unnecessary transmissions by notifying the transmitter of the last acknowledged block in the ARQ feedback message.
US08560904B2	Scan chain fault diagnosis Embodiments related to identifying a reference scan cell locationally related to a fault condition exhibited by a scan chain in which the reference scan cell is included are provided. A method for identifying a reference scan cell is provided, the method including, in a capture mode, outputting combinational logic values to scan cells in the scan chain so that scan cell values for the scan cells are based on respective combinational logic values, the combinational logic values electrically connected with the scan chain. The method further includes, in a shift mode, sequentially determining the scan cell value for each scan cell, and identifying as the reference scan cell a scan cell last determined to be at an expected logical state for that scan cell.
US08560897B2	Hard memory array failure recovery utilizing locking structure A technique for managing hard failures in a memory system employing a locking is disclosed. An error count is maintained for units of memory within the memory system. When the error count indicates a hard failure, the unit of memory is locked out from further use. An arbitrary set of error counters are assigned to record errors resulting from access to the units of memory. Embodiments of the present invention advantageously enable a system to continue reliable operation even after one or more internal hard memory failures. Other embodiments advantageously enable manufacturers to salvage partially failed devices and deploy the devices as having a lower-performance specification rather than discarding the devices, as would otherwise be indicated by conventional practice.
US08560895B2	Distillation and reconstruction of provisioning components Disclosed is a method for archiving provisioning errors that may occur during provisioning of a computing environment having configurable components. The method may comprise distilling a provisioning request, wherein the distilling the provisioning request includes recording, in a provisioning archive, a provisioning request component, and filtering the provisioning request component. The provisioning request component may comprise a component requested to be added to, removed from, and/or updated in the computing environment. The method may further comprise distilling a provisioning target, wherein the distilling the provisioning target includes recording, in the provisioning archive, a target environment, and filtering an existing component of the target environment. Additionally, the method may comprise applying the provisioning request to the provisioning target, including provisioning the target environment, resulting in an updated provisioning target. Furthermore, the method may comprise determining if a provisioning error occurred, and adding the provisioning error, if any, to the provisioning archive.
US08560889B2	Adding scalability and fault tolerance to generic finite state machine frameworks for use in automated incident management of cloud computing infrastructures A scalable and fault tolerant finite state machine engine, for example, for use in an automated incident management system, logs or records data in persistent storage at different points or levels during various internal processing of an event associated with an information technology element, and action taken associated with the event, by executing a finite state machine instance that encodes policies for handling incidents on such types of information technology elements. In the event that the finite state machine engine is shutdown during processing, the finite state machine engine is able to pick up from where it left off when it was shutdown, for each abnormally terminated finite state machine instance, by using the data logged in the persistent storage and determining a point of processing from where it should continue its execution.
US08560881B2	FLASH-based memory system with static or variable length page stripes including data protection information and auxiliary protection stripes Methods and apparatuses for enhanced protection of data stored in a FLASH memory system involve a controller capable of protecting data using page stripes and auxiliary protection stripes. The controller stores the data in a manner such that the pages making up each page stripe include a plurality of data pages and at least one data protection page and the pages making up each auxiliary protection stripe include a plurality of data pages and an auxiliary protection page. At least a plurality of data pages are within one page stripe and one auxiliary protection stripe such that each data page is protected both by a data protection page in the page stripe and an auxiliary protection page in the auxiliary protection stripe.
US08560874B2	Method and system for power saving management The present invention discloses a method and a system for power saving management. The method includes: a new power consuming state attribute added for existing device object of the communication network management system is configured, wherein the power consuming state attribute is used for indicating the power consuming state of the electrical energy; performing the power saving management on the device by setting the power consuming state of the object corresponding to the device. With the above technical solution, the division of the state information could be clearer and more efficient, meanwhile, the redundancy can be eliminated, in addition, has the feather of wide adaptability.
US08560863B2	Systems and techniques for datapath security in a system-on-a-chip device Various embodiments for providing datapath security in a system-on-a-chip (SOC) device are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a security controller to configure one or more functional units connected to a shared on-chip bus embedded in an SOC device to communicate with other functional units through one or more secure datapaths. The one or more functional units may be arranged to encrypt clear data, send encrypted data out through a secure datapath, receive encrypted data in from a secure datapath, and decrypt the encrypted data to recover clear data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08560862B1	Efficient data transfer in a virus co-processing system Circuits and methods are provided for detecting, identifying and/or removing undesired content. According to one embodiment, a method for virus co-processing is provided. A general purpose processor stores a data segment to a system memory of the general purpose processor using virtual addresses. A virus processing hardware accelerator coupled to the general purpose processor via an interconnect bus accesses the data segment by performing direct virtual memory addressing of the system memory using the virtual addresses. The virus processing hardware accelerator scans the data segment for viruses by executing pattern comparisons against the data segment. The virus processing hardware accelerator returns a result of the scanning to the general purpose processor by writing the result to the system memory. The general purpose processor may scan the data segment for viruses of a first type in parallel or serially with virus processing hardware accelerator scanning for viruses of a second type.
US08560850B2	Establishment method and device for link between access point and repeater in wireless distribution system The present invention provides an establishment method and device for a link between an access point and a repeater in a wireless distribution system. The method comprises: starting the access point and the repeater in the wireless distribution system; the access point and the repeater transmitting an interactive message to each other, and obtaining channel information, channel encryption mode, cipher key information, and address information of an opposite end about the link between the access point and the repeater from the interactive message; the access point and the repeater establishing the link between the access point and the repeater according to the channel information, the channel encryption mode, the cipher key information, and the address information of the opposite end. The device comprises: a starting module, an interactive module, and an establishment module. The present invention overcomes the problem of the establishment method for a link between the access point and the repeater in a wireless distribution system, that is, it needs a user's manual input to determine the channel of the WDS link establishment, which causes the procedure of the link establishment is relatively troublesome. Furthermore, the present invention achieves the automatic optimal configurations on the channel of the WDS link, such that the operation of the user is more convenient and quicker, and the quality and the rate of the link are increased.
US08560842B2	Communication apparatus A communication apparatus includes: a first storage unit registering a plurality of addresses of a plurality of communication apparatuses; a command sending unit sending a first command for requesting a first public key, which corresponds to a first secret key of the first communication apparatus, to the address of the first communication apparatus; a response receiving unit receiving from the first communication apparatus a first response including the first public key; a storage control unit associating the first public key the address of the first communication apparatus and registering the first public key; an encrypted data generating unit encrypting first data, which is to be sent to the first communication apparatus, using the first public key registered in association with the address of the first communication apparatus to generate first encrypted data; and a data sending unit sending the first encrypted data to the address of the first communication apparatus.
US08560836B2	Method and system for dynamically implementing an enterprise resource policy A rules evaluation engine that controls user's security access to enterprise resources that have policies created for them. This engine allows real time authorization process to be performed with dynamic enrichment of the rules if necessary. Logging, alarm and administrative processes for granting or denying access to the user are also realized. The access encompasses computer and physical access to information and enterprise spaces.
US08560832B2	Information processing apparatus To efficiently perform encryption/decryption and message authentication processing for a plurality of messages in parallel, an information processing apparatus includes a plurality of encryption/decryption and message authentication units which can perform encryption/decryption processing and message authentication processing by switching between them in a predetermined block unit, and are configured to be operable in parallel, and a data transfer control unit which distributes processing target data associated with an encryption/decryption and message authentication processing request to the plurality of encryption/decryption and message authentication units. The data transfer control unit distributes the processing target data so that each of the plurality of encryption/decryption and message authentication units alternately performs the encryption/decryption processing and the message authentication processing in the predetermined block unit for each processing request included in a plurality of processing requests.
US08560831B2	Data broadcasting system, server and program storage medium A data broadcasting system includes a user device and a data broadcasting server. The device includes: a transmission requesting section transmitting the own model information and a request to transmit a content; and a content reproduction section reproducing the requested encoded content by decoding the content using key information for decoding the content. The server includes: a qualification storage section storing correspondence information where model information and reproduction qualification information are associated with each other; a reproduction qualification determination section referring to the correspondence information upon receiving the model information and the request from the user device, obtaining the reproduction qualification information corresponding to the model information, and determining whether the user device is qualified to reproduce the content; and a content transmission section transmitting, to the user device, the content and the key information when the user device is determined as being qualified by the reproduction qualification determination section.
US08560827B1	Automatically determining configuration parameters for a system based on business objectives In one aspect, a method includes using a processor to generate system configuration parameters that include using the processor to receive a business input from a user, convert an abstract model into a concrete model based on the business input and optimize the concrete model to solve for system configuration parameters of the system. The abstract model includes a business goal.
US08560826B2	Secure virtualization environment bootable from an external media device Methods and systems for creating a secure virtualization environment on a host device, without modifying the host device, the secure virtualization environment bootable from an external media device. A host computing device loads and boots a common operating system image stored on an external media device. A client agent stored on the external media device and executing in the common operating system image creates an adapted operating system image by copying the operating system of the host computing device, eliminating all unnecessary files and data and storing the adapted operating system image to the external media device. The host computing device provides a secure virtualized environment by booting the adapted operating system image.
US08560825B2	Streaming virtual machine boot services over a network Embodiments of the invention are directed to streaming virtual machine boot services over a network. An aspect of the invention includes booting a first virtual machine and recording data and metadata from a virtual machine boot image into a virtual machine boot file. The data and metadata are accessed in the process of booting the first virtual machine. The virtual machine boot image has setup information of the virtual machine type of the first virtual machine. The virtual machine boot file is configured for the virtual machine type of the first virtual machine. A descriptor is added to metadata of the virtual machine boot image, which references a location of the virtual machine boot file for the virtual machine type of the first virtual machine. When subsequently booting a second virtual machine of the same type of virtual machine as the first virtual machine, data are streamed from the virtual machine boot file to a virtual machine monitor of a second virtual machine without the need to stream data from the virtual machine boot image.
US08560808B2	Dynamically updating current communication information A method, system and computer readable media for dynamically updating current communication information, for enabling access to current communication based upon biometric information and/or for allowing communication information to be associated with biometric information and then allowing this communication information to be provided to desired recipients.
US08560798B2	Dispersed storage network virtual address space A dispersed storage network utilizes a virtual address space to store data. The dispersed storage network includes a processing unit operable to slice a data segment of a data object into data slices and create a slice name for each of the data slices. The slice name includes an identifier of the data object and a virtual memory address of a virtual memory associated with the dispersed storage network. The processing unit further outputs each of the data slices and the respective slice names to a corresponding storage unit for storage of the data slices therein.
US08560794B2	Dispersed storage network for managing data deletion A dispersed storage device manages deletion of data objects stored within a dispersed storage network by receiving a data delete request to delete a data object stored throughout a set of dispersed storage units within a dispersed network memory of the dispersed storage network, determining a deletion policy for the data object and selectively generating and transmitting, based on the deletion policy, a delete command to the set of dispersed storage units.
US08560793B2	Synchronous extent migration protocol for paired storage Extent migration is provided in a data storage environment configured for synchronous replication between a primary and secondary pair of storage entities, each having tiered storage devices. In one embodiment, by way of example only, a migration instruction is sent, by the primary storage entity, to the secondary storage entity, the migration instruction including a relative priority based on a primary ordered heat map of the tiered storage devices of the primary storage entity. The relative priority is used against a secondary ordered heat map of the tiered storage devices of the secondary storage entity to perform the extent migration, regardless of whether the primary and secondary storage entities are identical.
US08560783B2	Tracking ownership of memory in a data processing system through use of a memory monitor Ownership of a memory unit in a data processing system is tracked by assigning an identifier to each software component in the data processing system that can acquire ownership of the memory unit. An ownership variable is updated with the identifier of the software component that acquires ownership of the memory unit whenever the memory unit is acquired.
US08560758B2	Mechanism for out-of-synch virtual machine memory management optimization In one embodiment, a mechanism for out-of-synch virtual machine memory management optimization is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for out-of-synch virtual machine memory management optimization includes receiving a memory management unit (MMU) synchronization event issued from a VM virtualized by a VM monitor (VMM) of a host server device, and synchronizing one or more unsynchronized page tables (PTs) of a shadow PT hierarchy maintained by the VMM with one or more corresponding guest PTs of a guest PT hierarchy maintained by the VM, wherein the one or more unsynchronized PTs include an unlimited number of unsynchronized PTs in a visible address space of the shadow PT hierarchy that is determined by a current CR3 register address of the shadow PT hierarchy.
US08560754B2	Fully integrated, low area universal serial bus device transceiver A transceiver apparatus includes a process, a first type of transceiver circuit for data transmission, a second type of transceiver circuit for data transmission, and a communications interface for communicating between the first type of transceiver circuit and an external device. The first type of transceiver circuit is co-located with a physical layer associated with the first type of transceiver circuit. In some embodiments, the first type of transceiver circuit can be, for example, a USB 2.0 transceiver circuit, and the second type of transceiver circuit can be a USB 3.0 transceiver circuit. The aforementioned external device can be an external USB device.
US08560749B2	Techniques for managing power consumption state of a processor involving use of latency tolerance report value Techniques are described for determining a temporary latency tolerance report (tLTR) value. A processing unit has to respond to a device interrupt within a duration specified by tLTR to ensure no incoming data is lost due to device buffer overflow. The tLTR value can be used to prevent the processing unit from entering too deep a sleep state when a device driver anticipates multiple sequential interrupts for a transaction.
US08560744B2	Input interface providing USB apparatus and interface providing method The present invention relates to an input interface providing USB apparatus which is capable of providing an input interface for a variety of external devices in Bluetooth communication with the USB apparatus without a separate input means by connecting the USB apparatus to USB ports of a terminal and sharing an input means of the terminal with the external devices, and an interface providing method. The input interface providing USB apparatus and method in accordance with the present invention is capable of providing an input interface for a variety of external devices in Bluetooth communication with the USB apparatus without a separate input means by connecting the USB apparatus to USB ports of a terminal and sharing an input means of the terminal with the external devices, thereby providing excellent user convenience.
US08560741B2	Data processing system comprising a monitor A data processing system 100 comprising a monitor 120 is provided and corresponding system-on-chip, method for monitoring and computer program product. The data processing system comprises multiple processing devices 104, 106, 116, 116 and a monitor 120. The monitor is configured to monitor characteristics of the data streams 102, 112, occurring among the plurality of data processing devices. The monitor comprises a means to determine whether a system characteristic substantially deviates from an expected system characteristic and to raise an anomaly signal if so. The system characteristic depends on the first characteristic and the second characteristic. In this way the monitor increases robustness by monitoring for problems related to deviations in the relation between multiple data streams.
US08560739B2	Methods and systems for regulating operation of one or more functions of a mobile application Various embodiments include a method for regulating operation of mobile applications executing on a nomadic device. Signals for determining a speed of travel may be received at the nomadic device. The speed may be determined based on the one or more signals. If the determined speed exceeds a speed threshold, a speed restriction flag may be set and one or more functions of the mobile applications may be restricted. If, after setting the speed restriction flag, a speed cannot be determined, the application functions may be continually restricted until a speed can be determined.
US08560734B2	Secure communication port redirector A method and system that allows a host system application to securely communicate with a legacy device is provided. A redirector software module receives data that is destined for a host system serial COM port. Data is secured and re-directed to a legacy device via a network port instead of the serial COM port. Conversely, data destined for the host system is provided to a device server via a server COM port by the legacy serial device. The data can be encrypted and sent to the host system via the network. The redirector software module decrypts the encrypted data and presents it to the consumer application as if the data had arrived via the local COM port.
US08560731B2	Subscription-based dynamic content optimization Content is received from a content source that is to be converted and provided to a subscriber. The subscriber is then associated with a document object model and rules for transforming the content according to the document object model. The content is mapped to the document object model using the rules to result in modified content so that the modified content can be provided to the subscriber. In one arrangement, an accompanying architecture includes a mobile device, an intelligent content gateway server (or group of servers), and one or more remote content sources. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US08560709B1	System and method for dynamic policy based access over a virtual private network An apparatus and method are directed to managing access to an enterprise resource over a virtual private network by employing a dynamic policy. A client device is configured to log into a network device. The network device receives information about the client device, including information about its configuration and environment. Based, in part, on received information a policy for access is applied to the client device. For example, in one embodiment, the policy may allow only email access from a public kiosk client device, but full intranet access from an enterprise configured client device. The policy may further enable a restriction for the client device that may restrict, for example, what documents may be saved by the client device. In one embodiment, the restriction is enabled using a virtual sandbox.
US08560700B2	IMS media codec negotiation method and system The present disclosure provides an IMS media codec negotiation method, which is used in an IMS network. The method comprises: when forwarding a media resource request, a first signaling media network element carries a media address of a second media gateway and a codec supported by the second media gateway into the media resource request, wherein the second media gateway is controlled by the first signaling media network element and is used for code transition; when receiving a media resource response, the first signaling media network element takes the second media gateway as a node of a media path in the case that the media resource response information related to the second media gateway. An IMS media codec negotiation system is also provided by the present disclosure. The method and system mentioned in the present disclosure can realize media codec negotiation via interaction of the media resource request and response for only one time, therefore, the signaling overhead is reduced, and the user experience is improved.
US08560699B1	Enforceable launch configurations Users intending to launch instances or otherwise access virtual resources in a multi-tenant environment can specify a launch configuration. For each type of instance or each type of user, at least one launch configuration is created that includes parameters and values to be used in instantiating an instance of that type, the values being optimized for the current environment and type of instance. Launch configurations can be optimized for different types of users, such as to account for security credentials and access levels. Such an approach enables users to launch instances by contacting the resource provider directly without need for a proxy, which can function as a choke point under heavy load. The use of an appropriate launch configuration can be enforced for any type of user at any level, such as at the sub-net level, by modifying a request that does not specify an appropriate launch configuration.
US08560691B2	Relocating item in distributed storage system Techniques are provided for moving an item from one item server to another item server in a distributed storage system, using a location service, APIs, and item states. There are three parties that transact with each other: a source item server, a destination item server, and a location service. Each item stored at the source has a move status, e.g., “stationary”, “source attempting transfer”, “destination accepting transfer”, or “destination attempting transfer”. Similarly, each item stored at the destination also has a move status, e.g., “stationary”, “source attempting transfer”, “destination accepting transfer”, or “destination attempting transfer”. The location service desirably has an entry for every item stored by the storage system. An item's entry may comprise the item's current location (e.g., an identifier of an item server) together with a state, such as “stable” or “attempting transfer”.
US08560690B2	Automatic assignment of services to servers in a multi-server system Groups of services are created based on one or both of the following: (a) what is accessed by each service, and (b) a likelihood of conflicts between accesses (e.g., a database object read operation or a database object write operation) performed by each service and accesses performed by each other service. Groups of services, which may be the groups created or subsets of those groups, are assigned to run on particular servers based on the processing power requirements of each group and the processing power available to each server. In the grouping process, accesses can be biased by giving more weight to object write operations than to object read operations, and to access operations on an index or dictionary than to access operations on a table.
US08560672B2	Methods and apparatus for bandwidth efficient transmission of usage information from a pool of terminals in a data network Methods and apparatus for bandwidth efficient transmission of usage information from a pool of terminals in a data network. A device includes transceiver logic to receive usage tracking and reporting parameters, wherein the usage tracking parameters identify events to be tracked and the reporting parameters identify reporting criteria for each event, scheduling logic to track the events based on the usage tracking parameters to produce a tracking log, reporting logic to process the tracking log based on the reporting parameters to produce a reporting log, and the transceiver logic to transmit the reporting log. A server includes processing logic to generate usage tracking parameters that identify events to be tracked and reporting parameters that identify reporting criteria for each event and a transceiver to transmit the usage tracking parameters and the reporting parameters to one or more terminals.
US08560670B2	System and method for characterizing communication network capacity in a geographic area A system for characterizing network capacity that stores premise addresses of subscribers and weighted values for the corresponding capacity of the network. Geographic areas containing subscribers are displayed and portions or all of them may be selected by a user. The system generates first descriptors for the selected geographic areas. The system generates an average capacity for the premise addresses for the selected geographic areas and the first descriptors are assigned to corresponding elements of a first matrix based on the weighted value for the calculated average capacity for the premise addresses. The system generates a second matrix representing the relationship of all of the premise addresses and their respective capacity in the selected geographic area based on spatial population descriptors. The system further generates a third matrix using mathematical DCT formulas representing the overall capacity of the network in a geographic area.
US08560664B2	Method and apparatus for providing peer selection in a network A method and apparatus for providing peer selection in a network are disclosed. For example, the method requests peer information from an application server supporting a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) service, and receives the peer information comprising a plurality of peer endpoint devices. The method then selects a peer endpoint device from the plurality of peer endpoint devices based on at least one preference.
US08560663B2	Using MPLS for virtual private cloud network isolation in openflow-enabled cloud computing Embodiments of the invention include a method performed by a cloud network manager flow entries in a cloud network. The CNM is coupled to virtualized servers for hosting virtual machines (“VM”) that each comprise a virtual switch coupled to a top of rack switch (“TORS”). The CNM receives notification messages that indicate virtual machines have been scheduled for activation on virtualized servers. The CNM determines a VM media access control (“MAC”) address associated with the VM and a virtual switch MAC address associated with that virtualized server's virtual switch. The CNM records an association between the VM MAC address and the virtual switch MAC address. The CNM further determines a label that associates the TORS with the virtual switch. The CNM sends a modifies flow entries in the virtual switch to indicate data packets matching the MPLS label and the VM MAC address should be forwarded to the VM.
US08560654B2	Change management A system for providing a change management service (CM) to at least one client therein is provided. The system includes a peer-to-peer (P2P) system imposed on the network system, wherein the at least one client is a peer in the P2P system, a syndication feed operable to provide a notification of the CM service to the at least one client, and at least one host operable as a source in the P2P system to provide the CM service to the at least one client through the imposed P2P system.
US08560649B2	Virtual appliance automation tool A method and apparatus are provided for creating a virtual machine installer for use in a multi-tier computer system. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of interactive applications operating together to achieve a predetermined enterprise objective, providing a plurality of substantially identical virtual appliances, modifying the plurality of virtual appliances by installing a respective interactive application into each of the plurality of virtual appliances (VAs), generating a catalog of the modified virtual appliances, and saving the modified virtual appliances and the catalog on a medium.
US08560640B2	Systems and methods for packaging and distributing information A system (190) provides information to multiple subscribers (105-125). The system (190) receives requests for different types of information from the subscribers (105-125) and stores rules for delivering the requested information. The system (190) gathers information from multiple information sources (145-155), packages at least some of the gathered information into customized bundles according to the received requests and the stored rules, and delivers the customized bundles to the subscribers (105-125) according to the stored rules.
US08560630B2	Sharing data over trusted networks Data is automatically shared over one or more contact networks which are interrelated by a trust relationship. The data can be shared using a network-based communication service and is stored as a data record in a local data store. The communication service may be implemented as an instant messaging, electronic mail, mobile phone or some other type of communication service. The data record can include data created by a user, a relevance value, a maximum share count and/or other data. The number of times that data may be shared may be configured by the user that generates the data. The relevance of the data may be updated each time the data is shared.
US08560615B2	Displaying conversation views in a conversation-based email system A method and system of processing messages is described that includes receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user, wherein each message has a unique message identifier. Each of the received messages is associated with a respective conversation to which it belongs. Each conversation includes a respective conversation identifier and a set of one or more messages which share a common set of characteristics that meet certain predefined criteria. A list of conversations to which the various messages belong is displayed in an order determined in accordance with other predefined criteria, such as ordering the conversations by the last date a message was received in a particular conversation. Each conversation is represented as a single item in the list. Other information displayed relating to the conversation includes labels, senders, date/time values, recipients, number of message in a conversation, and whether or not the conversation contains any unread messages.
US08560614B2	Scanner-driven email message decomposition A method, system, and computer program product for scanning emails by reducing the amount of decomposition processing that is performed to only the minimum necessary to fully scan the emails. This reduces the server resources needed, which improves server throughput and reduces costs. A method for processing email messages comprises the steps of receiving an email message comprising a plurality of items, scanning the email message with at least one scanner software, determining with each of the at least one scanner softwares what items of the plurality of items the email message is to be decomposed into, decomposing the email message to obtain the items determined by each of the at least one scanner software.
US08560613B1	Collaborative workflow through messaging conversations A networked application and email application were described herein that provide for an intuitive system by which users can participate in collaborative workflow relating to a network document. In one implementation, a system includes a messaging server component to provide messaging services and an application server component to provide a networked application. The application server component interacts with the messaging server component in response to a user command to initiate collaboration on the network document. The interaction with the messaging server component includes providing a link that refers to a version of the network document as created or edited by the user.
US08560612B2	Dynamic adjustment of user-received communications for a real-time multimedia communications event A real time communication session can be defined in which more than two participants communicate with each other using at least two different types of bidirectional communication. In one embodiment, the different types of bidirectional communication can include audio and video. During communication session, demoting one of the participants can be demoted so that the demoted participant is still a participant of communication session but communicates using at least one less than the two different types. Responsive to the demoting, one of the participants can be promoted so that the promoted participant is permitted to participate in the communication session using at least two different types of bidirectional communication. The promoting would not be permitted due to a system constraint on the real time communication session in absence of the demoting.
US08560611B2	Network driven actuator mapping agent and bus and method of use A network driven actuator mapping agent is provided. A system includes a sensor configured to sense an event in a first environment. The system also includes an actuator configured to perform an action in a second environment. Moreover, the system further includes a mapping manager configured to map the sensed event to the actuator to provide a custom interaction in the second environment.
US08560607B2	Method based on the combination of the UPnP and STUN for NAT traversal The present invention relates to a method based on the combination of UPnP and STUN for NAT traversal. The method of the present invention effectively takes the advantages of UPnP and STUN. In particularly, when UpnP fails to traverse NAT, STUN is applied to perform the NAT traversal for the second time, so that the efficiency of the successful traversal is effectively improved. For the symmetric NAT traversal, a Port-Adding Sample Estimation method based on NAT adding port mapping is provided for port estimation, to avoid the defects resulted from the third-party agent and the blindness of the speculation approach. And, where both of the communication peers in the P2P streaming media system are behind NAT, the method that the part of the ordinary outer peers with the sufficient bandwidth acts as the Auxiliary-Relay peers is provided to release the pressure of the relay server so that the bottle-neck of the communication is broken through.
US08560601B2	Server method and system for executing applications on a wireless device A server implemented method for facilitating execution of an application for a wireless device. The server selects a plurality of scene components, which comprise at least one functional unit operable to execute functions associated with the scene components. The functional units may be a portion of an application operable to be executed by the wireless device. The server selects a plurality of assets, which may be used in rendering a scene utilizing the plurality of scene components. The server determines a partition of functionality of the application which defines a server behavior module for executing on the server and a client behavior module for executing on the wireless device. The server customizes the plurality of scene components and the plurality of assets for the wireless device, which are then sent to the wireless device for execution and rendering.
US08560600B2	Managing map elements using aggregate feature identifiers To provide map data to a client device for rendering a raster map image including map elements corresponding to various physical entities, map data is generated in a non-raster format. A method includes generating a description of a map feature that includes two or more of the map elements and does not include at least one of the map elements, where the map elements included in the map feature correspond to related physical entities or portions of a same physical entity. Generating a description of the map feature includes providing an indication of a portion of the map data corresponding to the map feature providing a map feature identifier that uniquely identifies the map feature. The method further includes causing the map data and the description of the map feature to be transmitted to the client device via a communication network.
US08560599B2	Automatic content composition generation The invention discloses methods, algorithms, and the related systems and services of generating contents from a body of knowledge.
US08560595B2	Virtualization of mobile device user experience A device virtualization service (DVS) is provided that uses a generalized thick client resident on a mobile device to provide user interface generation support to a myriad of services providing mobile device content. The DVS abstracts device specifics from services to provide device independent user experiences to be described by the service and then rendered on the device.
US08560588B2	Digital pulse reject counter A system and method are provided for filtering noise from a pulsed input signal comprising cyclically producing a change in an output signal only if changes in an input signal occur at least a desired time after a respective immediately previous change in the input signal, and otherwise rejecting the changes in the input signal; and counting the rejected changes in the input signal. More than one duration or frequency may be used for the filtering, enabling classification of noise by frequency. Resulting counts may be used to determine rates of occurrence of noise for evaluation of performance of equipment, installation of the equipment, and changes in performance over time.
US08560586B2	Linear bit counting implementations Counting the number of set and unset bits in an n-bit data word or stream of data is most efficient in applications where the data can be characterized as sparsely populated (bits mostly or all unset/0) and/or heavily populated (bits mostly or all set/1). In these populations, processing can be linearly proportional to the smaller number of differing bit values resulting in compute time and resource savings. In any population, the operations of the bit counting methods, systems, apparata and computer program products described are bounded by the number of bits counted in the data word/stream. The described operations can be used for determining whether further processing of the data stream is required as well as the extent of that processing.
US08560583B2	Media fingerprinting for social networking Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify media, such as movies, television shows, and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user then can share this information with other users, such as by uploading to a social networking site or passing the information to peers on a peer network as part of a container. Users can have the ability to add tagged content, provide comments and ratings, and otherwise interact based at least in part upon the tagged media content.
US08560572B2	System for lightweight objects Creating an object is disclosed. An instance of a sharable type is created. An instance of a lightweight type is created. The sharable type is designated as a parent of the lightweight type. The instance of the sharable type is designated as a parent of the instance of the lightweight type. The instance of the sharable type may be shared by one or more other instances of the lightweight type.
US08560571B1	System, method and computer program product for sharing tenant information utilizing a multi-tenant on-demand database service In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for sharing tenant information utilizing a multi-tenant on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for sharing tenant information utilizing a multi-tenant on-demand database service can allow automatic sharing of information owned by a first tenant with other tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service. In this way, collaboration among tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service may be enabled via the sharing of the tenant information.
US08560570B2	Automated propagation of non-conflicting queries in distributed databases A logical table definition is received as part of a database query within a distributed database system. A determination is made as to whether the received logical table definition matches a local logical table definition. The query is processed in response to determining that the received logical table definition matches the local logical table definition. The query is forwarded to at least one other distributed database node.
US08560568B2	Remote data collection systems and methods using read only data extraction and dynamic data handling Remote data collection systems and methods retrieve data including financial, sales, marketing, operational and the like data from a plurality of databases and database types remotely over a network in an automated, platform-agnostic manner. A remote data collection system includes a network interface, a connection to a data source, a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface and the connection, and memory storing instructions for remote data collection that, when executed, cause the processor to: receive a request to extract data from the data source; extract the data in a non-intrusive manner from the data source using a two phase process comprising a reconciliation phase and a collection phase; and transmit one of an entire set and a subset of the extracted data based on the request.
US08560567B2	Automatic question and answer detection Automatic detection of question and answer pairs contained in electronic communications channels is provided. Communications channels for a given enterprise, for example, emails, text message strings, and discussion forum strings are analyzed according to one or more features or patterns that are indicative of questions for detecting whether one or more questions are posed in a given communication. Next, answers that are relevant to identified questions are similarly identified by analyzing one or more communications for features and patterns that are indicative of answers to a question, and more particularly, to an identified question. Once an identified question is linked to an identified answer, the linked question and answer pair is stored in a publicly available repository for future reference by users having access to the repository.
US08560566B2	Search capability enhancement in service oriented architecture (SOA) service registry system A system and associated method for searching a web service registry system by use of a search controller. The web service registry system has components of the search controller, a service registry, a name parser, a dictionary, and a name composer. The search controller receives a service name from a user of the web service registry system. The service registry is searched with the service name to find a service description associated with the service name. If the service description is not found, the search controller coordinates another search with a candidate service name that substitutes the service name for searching the service registry. The candidate service name is generated by use of the name parser, the dictionary, and the name composer. The search controller discovers the service description associated with the candidate service name and returns to a user of the service registry system.
US08560564B1	Hypertext browser assistant A system facilitates a search by a user. The system detects selection of one or more words in a document currently accessed by the user, generates a search query using the selected word(s), and retrieves a document based on the search query. When the document includes one or more links corresponding to a linked document, the system analyzes each of the links, prefetches the linked documents corresponding to a number of the links, and presents the document to the user. The system receives selection of one of the links and retrieves the linked document corresponding to the selected link. The system identifies one or more pieces of information in the retrieved document, determines a link to a related document for each of the identified pieces of information, and provides the determined links with the related document to the user.
US08560563B2	Apparatus and method of semantic service correlation system A correlation-based service mediator consists of Semantic Query Generator, Service Query Manager, Service Invocation Flow Generator, Service Invocation Manager, Expression Interpreter and Service Invocation Result Cache. The Semantic Query Generator handles service requests. It generates Semantic Query statements. Basically, the generator converts service request to Semantic Query based on input/output parameters in the service request. The Service Query Manager interfaces with an Ontology Engine, in order to execute the semantic queries. It will pass the query results to Service Invocation Flow Generator. The Service Invocation Flow Generator creates service invocation flow definition based on query results passed from Service Query Manager. The Service Invocation Manager executes the flow definitions. It also manages a service invocation result cache, so that invocation results can be saved and reused for later service request. When the execution results are not available in cache, the Service Invocation Manager invokes service according to flow definition. It should be noted that when attribute dependent functions are invoked Expression Interpreter compute the execution results. The service mediator possesses two major functionalities: service matching and service invocation.
US08560560B2	Device and method for distributed processing A distributed processing device includes a searching unit that searches, in accordance with attribute names identifying a plurality of records stored on a database, a process group for a second process having as a process target a record of an attribute name different from an attribute name included in a process request of a first process selected from among the process group to the database, a determining unit that determines the first process and the second process as execution targets to be executed by a plurality of nodes when the second process is hit by the searching unit, and an allocation unit that allocates the execution target determined by the determining unit to the plurality of nodes that execute the processes in parallel to the database.
US08560558B2	Computer product, search apparatus, management apparatus, search method, and management method A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores therein a search program that causes a computer having access to a data block set that includes data groups respectively registered in data blocks, and a Bloom filter row of n Bloom filters that each have m bits indicating negativity in a given number of the data blocks, to execute a process that includes receiving a transposition request for the Bloom filter row; transposing the Bloom filter row into a transposed Bloom filter row of m transposed Bloom filters respectively of n bits gathered from the Bloom filters according to arrangement position in the Bloom filters; and storing the transposed Bloom filter row to a storage device, if a transposition request has been received at the receiving.
US08560555B2	Information processing method, information processing program and information processing device Provided are an information processing method, an information processing program, and an information processing device for copying or moving a file. The method includes a step for comparing file information and judging whether the file information coincide. The comparison element of the file information contains a file content. That is, the method includes: a step for comparing the file names of the copy source and copy destination or the movement source and the movement destination and judging whether a file of the same name exists in the copy destination or the movement destination; a step for comparing the file contents if a file of the same name exists in the copy destination or the movement destination so as to judge whether the file contents are identical; and a step for outputting the comparison results of the file contents.
US08560551B2	Image search apparatus and image search method An image search apparatus has: a dimension reducing unit for reducing dimensions of multidimensional feature data to be produced as approximate data; an approximate-data storing unit for storing the produced approximate data with corresponding to the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction; a search request receiving unit for receiving an identifier which identifies multidimensional feature data of a person to be searched, at least as a search key; an approximate-space searching unit for calculating distances between approximate data corresponding to the received search key, and plural approximate data stored in the approximate-data storing unit, and for arranging the distances in order of similarity; and a real-space final ranking unit for again performing a distance calculation with using the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction, on a group of results in which the similarity is high, and for determining final rankings.
US08560544B2	Clustering of analytic functions A method, system, and computer program product for improved clustering of analytic functions in a data processing environment are described. A set of instances of an analytic function receiving data input from a set of data sources is identified. A first subset of instances is configured to receive input from a first subset of data sources, and a second subset of instances is configured to receive input from a second subset of data sources. The set of instances is assigned to a cluster. The cluster begins executing in a computer in the data processing environment, when the first subset of data sources begins transmitting time series data input to the first subset of instances in the cluster.
US08560543B2	Configuration item reconciliation This document discusses, among other things, a method for reconciliation of a configuration item with a configuration management database. Properties of the configuration item are divided into a plurality of classes. Different classes correspond to properties having a different relationship with a corresponding configuration item. At least one property of the configuration item is compared to properties of configuration items in a configuration management database. Different actions are taken with respect to the configuration item based on the class of the property being compared.
US08560532B2	Determining concepts associated with a query Determining one or more concepts associated with a query is disclosed. A query is received. A list of concepts and associated scores is received. The concepts fit within a concept hierarchy. A density function is used to evaluate the received concepts. One or more concepts are associated with the query based at least in part on the results of the density function.
US08560527B2	Management system for processing streaming data Techniques are disclosed for evaluating tuples for processing by a stream application having a plurality of process elements. In one embodiment, at least one tuple to be processed by at least one processing element of the stream application is identified. A maximum duration for which the at least one processing element is allowed to process the at least one tuple is determined. A duration for which the at least one processing element is likely to process the at least one tuple is also estimated. Processing of the at least one tuple is managed based on a comparison between the maximum duration and the estimated duration.
US08560525B2	Query translation for searching complex structures of objects Searching stored content is disclosed. A first mapping is created from an object to one or more stored relational database tables. A second mapping is created from the object to an indexer schema. One or both of the following is done: 1) using the first mapping to translate a search request expressed in an abstract query language to a first query language associated with the relational database; and 2) using the second mapping to translate the search request to a second query language associated with the indexer schema.
US08560521B2	System, method, and computer program product for processing a prefix tree file utilizing a selected agent A system, method, and computer program product are provided for processing a prefix tree file utilizing a selected agent. In use, a file including a prefix tree is identified. Additionally, an agent is selected from a plurality of agents to process the file. Further, the file is processed utilizing the agent.
US08560517B2	Object retrieval using visual query context Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to perform image retrieval. For example, some implementations identify an object of interest and a visual context in a first image. In some implementations, a second image that includes a second object of interest and a second visual context may be compared to the object of interest and the visual content, respectively, to determine whether the second image matches the first image.
US08560515B2	Automatic generation of markers based on social interaction Aspects relate to observing various activities, interactions, behaviors, and other factors associated with a data exchange and creating one or more markers based on significant details associated with the observance. The one or more markers are retained and selectively rendered as a function of one or more conditions that should be satisfied before the marker is presented to the user. Some markers can contain parameters that should be satisfied in order for the marker to be considered complete. If a parameter is not satisfied, subsequent markers can be created as a function of the rendered marker. The subsequent markers can be rendered when a condition associated with the subsequent marker is satisfied.
US08560514B2	Adaptive routing of resource requests for multiple back-end systems A system receives a request from a client relating to an account associated with the client, and values associated with a set of parameters relating to the request. The system matches the values to a structure that includes cases of the set of parameters to determine one or more cases similar to the values associated with the set of parameters. The system accesses information for the account based on routing information corresponding to the determined one or more similar cases.
US08560504B2	Web service performance index A system for providing a web service performance index is operable to collect service metric data from each of a plurality of web services, with at least one of the web services comprising a remote web service. A web service performance index is generated based on the collected service metric data. The web service performance index is then published to a website.
US08560490B2	Collaborative networking with optimized inter-domain information quality assessment A method for implementing inter-domain information quality assessment includes calculating relationships among domains in a knowledge base by identifying features that respectively define each of the domains and identifying domains having correlating features. The method also includes assigning values to pairs of the domains that reflect a closeness of the relationships based upon the correlating features. The method further includes evaluating a reputation of an entity in one domain based on past performance of the entity with respect to another domain where the other domain is determined, via the assigned values, to be related to the domain. The past performance of the entity indicates capabilities of the entity to render accurate predictions about events in a particular domain. The method also includes calculating a value representing the reputation of the entity with respect to the domain based upon the evaluation and assigning the value representing the reputation to the entity.
US08560481B2	Method and apparatus for analyzing system events An apparatus and an associated method facilitate analysis of events associated with a network system. Event occurrence items are compared with event rules of an event rule set to determine whether the items are potentially significant. If considered to be potentially significant, a scorer assigns a score to the event occurrence item to provide a relative indication of the potential significance of the event occurrence item.
US08560477B1	Graph-based semi-supervised learning of structured tagging models Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for graph-based semi-supervised learning of structured tagging models. In one aspect, a method includes creating a graph having a plurality of unique vertices in which vertices in a first set of vertices represent n-grams that are each associated with a respective part-of-speech and that were derived from labeled source domain text, and in which vertices in a different second set of vertices represent n-grams that are not associated with a part-of-speech and that were derived from unlabeled target domain text. A respective measure of similarity is calculated between the vertices in each of the pairs based at least partially on a distance between the respective features of the pair used to weight a graph edge between the pair.
US08560475B2	Content search mechanism that uses a deterministic finite automata (DFA) graph, a DFA state machine, and a walker process An improved content search mechanism uses a graph that includes intelligent nodes avoids the overhead of post processing and improves the overall performance of a content processing application. An intelligent node is similar to a node in a DFA graph but includes a command. The command in the intelligent node allows additional state for the node to be generated and checked. This additional state allows the content search mechanism to traverse the same node with two different interpretations. By generating state for the node, the graph of nodes does not become exponential. It also allows a user function to be called upon reaching a node, which can perform any desired user tasks, including modifying the input data or position.
US08560465B2	Execution allocation cost assessment for computing systems and environments including elastic computing systems and environments Techniques for allocating individually executable portions of executable code for execution in an Elastic computing environment are disclosed. In an Elastic computing environment, scalable and dynamic external computing resources can be used in order to effectively extend the computing capabilities beyond that which can be provided by internal computing resources of a computing system or environment. Machine learning can be used to automatically determine whether to allocate each individual portion of executable code (e.g., a Weblet) for execution to either internal computing resources of a computing system (e.g., a computing device) or external resources of an dynamically scalable computing resource (e.g., a Cloud). By way of example, status and preference data can be used to train a supervised learning mechanism to allow a computing device to automatically allocate executable code to internal and external computing resources of an Elastic computing environment.
US08560458B2	Method and system for making transactions through electronic portable devices which can be connected to a communication network, and associated portable electronic device A method and system for making transactions with at least one merchant site through an electronic portable device which can be connected to a communication network, comprising a connection of an electronic device to an intermediary site through the communication network. The said intermediary site being connectable to at least one merchant site, and a transmission to the said electronic portable device of information coming from at least one merchant site in a format which is adapted to the resources of the said electronic portable device.
US08560454B1	Systems and methods for providing users with customized renewal policies A computer-implemented method for providing users with customized renewal policies may include 1) determining that a license for a software product installed on a user's computing system has expired or will expire within a predetermined amount of time, 2) in response to determining that the license for the software product has expired or will expire, monitoring, via a local module installed on the computing system, computing activities of the user, 3) evaluating the user's computing activities to determine that the user is investigating a competitor's software product that is capable of performing one or more functions performed by the installed software product, 4) creating, based on the user's investigation of the competitor's software product, a customized renewal policy for renewing the license to the installed software product, 5) inviting the user to renew the license under the customized renewal policy.
US08560445B2	Methods and systems for managing transaction card accounts A method and system for managing transaction card accounts involves providing a customer a transaction card account by a financial institution against which the customer can charge predetermined types of transactions during predefined account statement periods and sending a statement of charges against the account to the customer at an end of each account statement period specifying a due date, after which a predefined late fee is assessed on the account if the statement is not paid. However, the late fee is automatically waived on the account within specified products if the customer makes a purchase or secures a cash advance during the account statement period for which the payment is due. Further, a voice response unit of the financial institution gives the customer a first menu option to opt out of a voice response unit scripted call and speak directly to a live representative about the account at any time during the call.
US08560433B2	System and method for creating a market map in an electronic trading environment A market map interface displays market information and trader-related information associated with at least two tradable objects. In one embodiment, the at least two graphical interfaces may be linked, and a user may define one or more adjustment parameters to be used to adjust the view of information being displayed via the linked graphical interfaces. For instance, a user may initiate repositioning of one of the linked graphical interfaces, thus, effectively, causing other linked graphical interfaces to be repositioned according to the defined adjustment parameters.
US08560432B1	System and method for creating a spot market Techniques for soliciting and receiving bids for goods or services necessary to satisfy a spot need of a buyer are disclosed. A request to procure goods or services is received. At least one aspect associated with the request is a requirement that the requested goods or services be available for immediate delivery. Potential bidders are electronically notified. An auction is conducted. One or more winning bidders are selected in accordance with received bids.
US08560425B2	Method and system for adding liquidity to alternative investment transactions The invention provides a method and system for providing liquidity to an alternative investment fund, such as to address the problem of illiquidity for investors in primary funds such as alternative investment funds. The transaction system includes investors in an alternative investment fund, a manager of the fund, and a structure that provides liquidity to investors who are otherwise saddled with illiquid ownership interests in the fund. The structure provides a fund investor with an option to designate some of the investor's interest in the fund to the structure, which will provide a preferred cash flow to the structure and which will provide immediate funds to the investor. In one aspect of the invention, the liquidity-providing structure is implemented using a trust to which the investor assigns his interest. The goal of the invention is to provide liquidity to investors of otherwise illiquid assets.
US08560424B2	Method and a system for improved trading of combinations and baits generated thereof In automated exchange system, a single matching unit is supplemented with a calculation unit and a global memory accessible by both the calculation unit and the matching unit. Such a computer architecture will make it possible to perform some of the calculations related to the volume and/or prices of the baits needed in the matching to be performed in advance. The matching process is able to use the values resulting from the pre-calculation when needed, and since no or few calculations are done in one of the most critical parts of the system, i.e. the matching unit, the process of matching combination contracts can be performed at a much higher rate. Hereby the performance of the matching process will be significantly increased. The provision of one or several calculation units will make it possible to perform even very complex calculations can be performed since most calculations need not be performed in real time.
US08560411B2	Computerized system for managing communications between a buyer, seller, and lender A computerized system and method are presented for exchanging information between a buyer, a seller, and a lender. The system permits sellers and lenders to input buyers that are then submitted for activation. The buyers use the system to obtain information about items, while the sellers and lenders make consistent contact with the buyer in order to work with the buyer. Information about the buyers is shared with both the sellers and the lenders. A business plan is also input into the computerized system by the financial institution employing the lender. This business plan includes goals for numbers of sellers and buyers using the system, and for loan officer candidates to be recruited. Activity on the computerized system is calculated for compliance with the business plan. Feedback is provided to management relating to whether the business plan is being met.
US08560402B2	System and method of shopping by color System and method for shopping for products based on color of the product, time of product listing, and/or location of the seller of the product. Seller submits a representation of the product to be listed with an Internet-based shopping site that may include an image of the product. The site may determine one or more color of the product based on a submitted image by examining image pixels. The pixels examined may be chosen to accurately reflect the color of the product rather than the color of an image background or other image element. The color may include a set of the significant colors of the product or a single most significant or average color of the product. Shoppers may then search for products based on a color selected from a color search interface, a time selected from a time search interface, and/or a location selected from a location search interface.
US08560397B2	Methods and systems to facilitate a purchase of an item on a network-based marketplace A method and system to the generation of a virtual gift on a network-based marketplace platform. The network-based marketplace platform receives a request from a second user. The request identifies an item that is published-on a user interface that is hosted by the network-based marketplace platform. The item is also offered for sale on the network-based marketplace platform. The network-based marketplace platform generates a virtual gift based on the item. The virtual gift includes an image of the item. Finally, the network-based marketplace platform communicates interface information that includes the virtual gift to a network-based social platform.
US08560395B2	Systems and methods wherein a buyer purchases products in a plurality of product categories Systems and methods are provided wherein an indication of a plurality of product categories is received, each product category being associated with a plurality of products. For example, the indication of the plurality of product categories may be received from a buyer. Buyer offer information, including an indication of an offer amount associated with the plurality of product categories, is also received. A subset of the plurality of products is selected for each of the product categories, and an indication of the selected products is provided. The buyer's offer may then be evaluated. If the buyer's offer is accepted, the selected products may be provided to the buyer in exchange for payment of the offer amount.
US08560393B2	Interactive interchange rate decisioning Apparatus and methods for providing transaction fee information to a customer. The apparatus and methods may provide to a customer at a merchant point of sale terminal information regarding a transaction fee. The transaction may be based on the customer's credit card or other purchasing instrument. The transaction fee may be imposed by an issuer of the credit card. The merchant may be required to pay the fee. The point of sale terminal may be configured to provide an opportunity for the customer to decide, based on the transaction fee, whether to continue the transaction or obtain information about fees associated with other credit cards.
US08560388B2	Using location information from a request to control ad serving The usefulness, and consequently the performance, of advertisements are improved by allowing businesses to better target their ads to a responsive audience. For example, location information may be used in ad relevancy determination, and in attribute (e.g., position) arbitration. Such location information may be associated with price information, such as a maximum price bid, and/or with ad performance information. Ad performance information may be tracked on the basis of location information. The content of an ad creative, and/or of a landing page may be selected and/or modified using location information. Tools may be provided to enter and/or modify location information, such as location-dependent targeting information and price information. The location information used to target and/or score ads may be, include, or define an area. The area may be defined by at least one geographic reference point (e.g., defined by latitude and longitude coordinates) and perhaps additional information.
US08560385B2	Advertising and incentives over a social network A method whereby advertisers wish to deliver at least one of offerings and advertising messages relative to at least one of a product and a service to a target audience of users selected by a system operator during an advertising campaign. The method includes defining the users within the context of a social network, selecting the users from among the users of the social network, storing the information relevant to the defined users and utilizing the information stored/defined within the social network to deliver the messages to the users in an optimal manner.
US08560381B2	System and method for elections and government accountability A method for a voter to vote using an electoral system. An electoral system includes a computing system for accessing a database having first and second data sets correlated to a roster of eligible voters and to a voting record that is associated with each of those eligible voters. The method of voting includes the voter providing indentifying information, which causes the computing system to verify that the voter is on the roster of eligible voters and eligible to vote in the election. The voter interacts with the computing system to cast a preliminary vote and then commits the preliminary vote. The voter may also interact with the computing system to perform a government accountability program in which elected officials may be voted on for sanctions or removal from office when the elected official has lost the confidence of the associated electoral district.
US08560380B2	Cycle planning tool with event conflict resolution for territory management Electronically creating a schedule plan of events which replicates one or more previously scheduled events. A source date range is acquired into a memory of a machine. A set of previously scheduled events within the source date range is identified. A target date range is received through a user interface. At least a portion of the previously scheduled events is assigned to a date within the received target date range to create the schedule plan. The schedule plan is posted to a calendar. Another method creates a schedule plan on the basis of one or more search criteria used for identifying any match from a database. At least a portion of any matches are assigned a time slot within a target date range of a calendar program.
US08560377B2	Computer-based rating system and method having mid-quartile filter A method for a rating system identifies user-selected performance indicators associated with one or more properties. A rating is computed for each of the user-selected performance indicators and for each entity in an entity class by applying at least the user-selected performance indicators to a rating algorithm. The entity class is divided into at least three approximately equal numbers of entity. For each of the performance indicator rating, the method sorts the performance indicator relative to a respective performance indicator of the other entity in the entity class, maps the sorted results to one of the at least three divisions of the entity class, and identifies and presents a portion of the user-selected performance indicators that represent indicators that outperform or underperform the entity class.
US08560375B2	Monitoring object system and method of operation A system for monitoring objects comprises a first database, a second database, and a processor coupled to both the first and second databases. The first database comprises information representing monitoring requirements for a plurality of monitoring targets in an enterprise. The second database comprises information representing the actual state of monitoring for the monitoring targets in the enterprise. The processor is operable to compare the monitoring requirements for the plurality of monitoring targets in the enterprise with the actual state of monitoring for the monitoring targets in the enterprise, and determine any gaps in monitoring for the monitoring targets in the enterprise based at least in part on the comparison. The processor generates at least one monitoring deployment request identifying one or more monitoring tools to be deployed for the monitoring targets in the enterprise based at least in part on any determined gaps in monitoring.
US08560371B2	Suggesting things to do during time slots in a schedule Architecture for suggesting activities to be performed during time slots of a user schedule, such as a calendar application. In one implementation, a personal activity is suggested for a free time slot. In another implementation, a personal activity can be suggested for both a free time slot and a full time slot. The architecture can also apply filtering to generate suggestions based on user location, preferences (stated or learned), user history, user interaction with content and candidate activities, targeted advertising, and so on. The filtering can be applied to disparate sources of activity information to provide relevant activities for suggestion to the user. Revenue models can be applied as well. The architecture can be deployed as a client/server topology or solely on the client.
US08560347B1	Method and system for calculating an alignment date for prescriptions A system and method facilitate alignment of refill dates associated with a plurality of prescriptions, such that each of the plurality of prescriptions requires a refill on the same date, thus limiting the number of occasions on which a customer must visit the pharmacy to retrieve refills of the aligned prescriptions, and increasing the likelihood that the customer will comply with the prescribed medication regimen. The system and method facilitate the alignment of the refill dates while complying with one or more rules governing the adjudication of the prescriptions.
US08560336B2	System and method for increasing compliance with a health plan System and method to determine user compliance with personalized diet and exercise plans by analyzing responses to messages about the plans. An expert system has a number of stored messages and display characteristics from which it chooses. The expert system generates message relating to the user's diet or physical activity that are sent to a user's mobile device and analyzes responses. Display characteristics change periodically and compliance data relating to the user's adherence to the plan when certain display characteristics are used is stored (e.g., meal plan adherence, acceptance of specific food selections, and adherence to instructions and advice in messages). The expert system then determines which messages and display characteristics achieve the greatest compliance to the dietary and physical activity schedule and goals.
US08560328B2	Encoding device, decoding device, and method thereof A decoding device is capable of flexibly calculating high-band spectrum data with a high accuracy in accordance with an encoding band selected by an upper-node layer of the encoding side. In this device: a first layer decoder decodes first layer encoded information to generate a first layer decoded signal; a second layer decoder decodes second layer encoded information to generate a second layer decoded signal; a spectrum decoder performs a band extension process by using the second layer decoded signal and the first layer decoded signal up-sampled in an up-sampler so as to generate an all-band decoded signal; and a switch outputs the first layer decoded signal or the all-band decoded signal according to the control information generated in a controller.
US08560319B1	Method and apparatus for segmenting a multimedia program based upon audio events The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events. In an embodiment a method of classifying an audio stream is provided. This method includes receiving an audio stream. Sampling the audio stream at a predetermined rate and then combining a predetermined number of samples into a clip. A plurality of features are then determined for the clip and are analyzed using a linear approximation algorithm. The clip is then characterized based upon the results of the analysis conducted with the linear approximation algorithm.
US08560297B2	Locating parallel word sequences in electronic documents Systems and methods for automatically extracting parallel word sequences from comparable corpora are described. Electronic documents, such as web pages belonging to a collaborative online encyclopedia, are analyzed to locate parallel word sequences between electronic documents written in different languages. These parallel word sequences are then used to train a machine translation system that can translate text from one language to another.
US08560284B2	System and method for alternative simulation of logistics infrastructure A future amount is created through demand estimation by rectifying data administrated in a logistics infrastructure through a system and a method for alternative simulation of a logistics infrastructure. In addition, an infrastructure load by a future year amount is analyzed and an alternative is selected through the load analysis.
US08560281B2	Methods and systems for utilizing prediction models in healthcare A method for providing decision support includes using a programmed computer to input a regression model specification, and to repeat the input a plurality of times to obtain and store a plurality of regression model specifications. The method further includes using the programmed computer to analyze selected regression model specifications to determine at least one of common variables and functions of common variables, to thereby determine a reduced-redundancy request for input of variables, when a plurality of the stored regression model specifications are selected for use.
US08560278B2	MRI gradient coil A method for designing an electromagnetic gradient coil for magnetic resonance imaging systems. The method includes the steps of: choosing a set of objectives Li, whereby the objectives Li are combined to one weighted-sum objective function; choosing a design variable ψ for modifying the value of the objectives L; making an initial guess of the value of the design variable ψ; simulating the magnetic field in a computational domain with respect to the distribution of the surface current density; carrying out a sensitivity analysis by calculating a sensitivity vector G=∂L/∂ψ; updating the design variable ψ, whereby the value of the design variable ψ is changed in order to decrease the value of the objective L; determining whether convergency is achieved by either determining whether the value of the objective function does not decrease or the whether the Euclidian norm of the sensitivity vector G approximate to zero; and reconstruction of a discretized coil. The simulation of the magnetic field in a computational domain is effected using a least square finite element analysis. The steps are repeated prior to reconstruction of a discretized coil until convergency is achieved. An effective and improved design for irregular surfaces is thereby created.
US08560268B2	System and method for sensing a liquid level A system, method and device may be used to monitor fluid levels in a borehole. The system includes a pulse generator to generate a pulse of electromagnetic energy to propagate along the wellbore towards a surface of the fluid, a detector to detect a portion of the electromagnetic pulse reflected from the surface of the fluid and propagated along the wellbore towards the detector, a processor to analyze detected signals to determine a level of the surface of the fluid. In an embodiment, the system includes a pump controller to control the operation of a pump located in the wellbore based on the fluid surface level.
US08560267B2	Identifying one or more activities of an animate or inanimate object Methods, systems and apparatus for identifying an activity of an animate or inanimate object are disclosed. One method includes identifying each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of a device attached to the animate or inanimate object. The activity of the animate or inanimate object can be identified by matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the device with a library of stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity.
US08560264B2	Direct current circuit testing device and method for using same A method for testing electronic devices that are correspondingly connected to test units includes generating control signals for the electronic devices that are connected to one or more test units selected from the test units. A control unit adds ID codes corresponding to the selected test units to the control signals, and wirelessly transmits the control signals with the ID codes to all of the test units. Each of the test units compares the ID codes added to the control signals with its own stored ID code. When the ID code added to a control signal is in accordance with the ID code stored in one of the test units, the test unit controls the electronic device connected thereto to be turned on and off according to the control signal.
US08560248B2	Systems and methods for extending the dynamic range of mass spectrometry Systems and methods are used to predict intensities for points not measured or not measured with a high degree of confidence of a peak using a peak predictor. A set of data is selected from the plurality of intensity measurements that includes a peak. Confidence values are assigned to each data point in the set of data producing a plurality of confidence value weighted data points. A peak predictor is selected. The peak predictor is applied to the plurality of confidence value weighted data points of the peak that have confidence values greater than a first threshold level using the prediction module, producing predicted intensities for data points of the peak not measured and/or measured data points of the peak that have confidence values less than or equal to a second threshold level. The confidence values can include system confidence values, predictor confidence values, or any combination of the two.
US08560247B2	Multi-stage, regression-based PCR analysis system Systems and methods are provided for analyzing data to determine properties of a PCR process or other process exhibiting amplification or growth. Data representing an amplification can be distinguished from data representing a jump or other error. A modified sigmoid function containing a drift term may be used in determining the properties. A multi-stage functional fit of the amplification data can provide increased accuracy and consistency of one or more of the properties. A baseline of the amplification data can be determined by analyzing an integrated area of a first derivative function of the data. A reference quantitation value can also be determined from locations of maxima of different derivative functions of the amplification data, e.g., a weighted average of the maxima locations for the second and third derivatives may be used.
US08560229B1	Sensor based activity detection A sensor is used to detect movement of a mobile device. For example, data received from an accelerometer may be averaged together and compared to a threshold value. If the average of the data is greater than a threshold value, the mobile device may be assumed to be moving. This information may be used to control the frequency of data collection by, for example, a GPS receiver in order to maximize utility and minimize power use.
US08560226B2	Navigation device and navigation method Provided is a technology of a navigation device which is capable of identifying an intersection or the like based on designation of an incomplete name of a street in which an input of a first keyword and an input of a second keyword are received, and a connection point of a first street having a street name which includes at least in part the first keyword and a second street having a street name which includes at least in part the second keyword is identified, to thereby save the user, who is not always familiar with the geography of a search target area, from the inconvenience of inputting a complete name of the first street, based on which the second street is retrieved and selected and an intersection point of the first street and the second street is identified.
US08560220B2	Method and apparatus for determining a plausible lane for guiding a vehicle and an automobile A method for determining a lane on a roadway for a vehicle having at least two independent sensors includes the steps of obtaining with a first sensor data for a first area surrounding the vehicle, obtaining with at least two additional sensors data for at least two additional areas surrounding the vehicle, determining a first lane based on the data for the first area, determining at least two additional lanes based on the data for the at least two additional areas, and determining a resulting lane from the first and the at least two additional lanes, wherein when two of the least three lanes are identical and a third of the at least three lanes is not identical with the two identical lanes, the third lane is not taken into account when determining the resulting lane.
US08560204B2	Method and apparatus for arbitrating torque reserves and loads in torque-based system An engine control system includes an air control module, a spark control module, and a reserves module. The air control module controls a throttle valve of an engine based on an adjusted predicted torque request. The spark control module controls spark timing of the engine based on an adjusted immediate torque request. The reserves module determines an arbitrated reserve based on a maximum one of a minimum reserve and an additive reserve sum. The reserves module also generates the adjusted predicted torque request based on a sum of an arbitrated predicted torque request and a requested reserve, wherein the requested reserve is based on the arbitrated reserve.
US08560203B2	Aircraft engine control during icing of temperature probe Methods for controlling an aircraft turbofan engine during icing of a temperature probe and devices for carrying out such methods are described. The methods may comprise: using one or more signals representative of temperature received from a heated temperature probe to generate one or more control signals for use in controlling the engine; determining that an icing condition associated with the probe exists; and using data representing one or more substitute signals in place of signals representative of temperature received from the heated temperature probe to generate the one or more control signals for use in controlling the engine.
US08560202B2	Method and apparatus for improved climate control function in a vehicle employing engine stop/start technology An internal combustion engine has an engine shut-down system that automatically interrupts engine operation when vehicle operation indicates that no torque is required from the engine. An air conditioner compressor operates to cool a passenger compartment of the vehicle and is actuated in a first phase time, and is not actuated in a second phase time. An override system compares the time the compressor is in the enabled first phase time to the time the compressor is in the disabled second phase time. The override system disables the engine shut-down system unless it is determined that a ratio of the disabled second phase time to the enabled first phase time has a low rate of change, that the ratio is greater than a predetermined value, and that the time the compressor is in the disabled second phase is greater than a predetermined value.
US08560192B2	Control system and method for shift fork position in dual clutch transmissions A control system includes a pressure control solenoid and a flow control solenoid having an input in fluid communication with the pressure control solenoid. A piston adjusts a position of a shift fork and includes a first area in fluid communication with the pressure control solenoid and a second area in fluid communication with the flow control solenoid. A fork sensor senses a position of a shift fork. A flow determining module determines a fork velocity for the shift fork, adjusts the fork velocity to generate an adjusted fork velocity based on the position, and generates a flow command for the flow control solenoid based on the adjusted fork velocity. A pressure determining module generates a pressure command for the pressure control solenoid. The shift fork is at least one of moved from a sync position to an engaged position and from an engaged position to a neutral position.
US08560191B2	Method and apparatus to control clutch pressures in an electro-mechanical transmission A method for reducing occurrence of clutch slip in electromechanical transmission adapted to selectively transmit mechanical power to an output member through selective application of a hydraulically actuated clutch includes monitoring operation of said clutch, identifying an indication of clutch wear based upon said monitoring said operation, and increasing a minimum clamping force applied to said clutch based upon said indication of clutch wear.
US08560188B2	Control apparatus for vehicle automatic transmission A sport running estimated value LEVELSP obtained by searching a value on a map prepared in advance based on an average values AGYAVE of lateral accelerations GY of a vehicle and on average values of vehicle speed changes is calculated, and a vehicle speed on a shift map is searched based on the sport running estimated value LEVELSP and an estimated value DA of a vehicle gradient, whereby a downshift vehicle speed VA at which a downshift is implemented is calculated. Then, the downshift is implemented in a case where actuation of a brake is detected, deceleration of the vehicle is a predetermined value or more, and a current vehicle speed is a downshift vehicle speed VA or more. In such a way, running on a meandering road, for which the downshift and a subsequent shift hold should be implemented, is sensed appropriately.
US08560183B2	Controlling a digging operation of an industrial machine Systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for controlling a digging operation of an industrial machine. A method includes determining a hoist bail pull associated with the industrial machine, determining a crowd torque limit value for a crowd drive based on the determined hoist bail pull of the industrial machine, and setting a crowd torque limit of the crowd drive to the crowd torque limit value to limit a torque associated with a crowd motor to the crowd torque limit value.
US08560164B2	Systems and methods for complex event processing of vehicle information and image information relating to a vehicle A vehicle-based complex event processing (CEP) engine executes on a hardware computer processor in a vehicle. The CEP engine receives a first input stream onto which vehicle information related to the vehicle is published, and applies at least one query to the first input stream. The CEP engine then assesses, based on application of the query/queries, if a vehicle-related event has occurred and, if so, the CEP engine publishes an indication of occurrence of the vehicle-related event on at least one output stream of the CEP engine. In one example, the CEP engine may receive a second input stream onto which image information is published, wherein the image information is based at least in part on data provided by at least one on-board vehicle camera.
US08560161B1	System and method for monitoring and predicting vehicle attributes One embodiment of the system and method described herein provides a vehicle monitoring system that gathers reported data on a selected vehicle and alerts a user to selected events reported for that vehicle. In an embodiment, vehicle attributes are processed into a score for the vehicle, such as representing the likely life remaining, and changes in a score trigger alerts to the user.
US08560158B2	Method and apparatus for engine control module wake-up test A fuel system diagnostic wakeup system for a vehicle includes a first control module. The first control module generates a wakeup request, powers off when the vehicle powers off, and powers on and performs a fuel system diagnostic in response to a wakeup signal while the vehicle is powered off. A second control module independent of the first control module receives the wakeup request and generates the wakeup signal after the vehicle powers off based on the wakeup request.
US08560153B2	Vehicle battery state of charge hold function and energy management A method and a system for controlling a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has first and second propulsion devices. The vehicle determines a calculated decline in state of charge (SOC) for a charge depleting mode for a battery coupled to the first propulsion device. The vehicle is operated to achieve the calculated decline in SOC. The vehicle operates the second propulsion device for at least a predetermined time after the second propulsion device is turned on during the charge depleting mode.
US08560151B2	Dynamic monitoring of mobile railway car undercarriage What is disclosed is a mobile railway car monitoring system. The mobile railway car monitoring system includes a plurality of sensor nodes coupled to an undercarriage portion of a railway car, and a control node coupled to the railway car. Each of the plurality of sensor nodes is configured to monitor the undercarriage portion of the railway car when in motion and transmit information about the undercarriage portion to the control node. The control node is configured to receive the information about the undercarriage portion, process the information to determine a fault condition for the undercarriage portion, and wirelessly report the fault condition to a collection system.
US08560148B2	Method and apparatus for air traffic trajectory synchronization According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided an apparatus and method to synchronize the distinct trajectories predicted by a flight management system and air navigation service provider. A comparison model is generated that indicates differences between an aircraft trajectory and a ground trajectory. The aircraft trajectory is updated to reflect identified discrepancies and restriction violations between the trajectories. Upon successful completion of the first designated change, a notification manager is used to issue a notification of the designated change to the flight plan trajectory. A modified ground trajectory is produced that incorporates the designated change to the flight plan trajectory. The comparison is repeated until the discrepancies of the trajectories are operationally insignificant.
US08560147B2	Apparatus, method and article for physical security of power storage devices in vehicles A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). To avoid theft and tampering of the portable electrical energy storage devices, by default, each portable electrical energy storage device is locked in and operably connected to the vehicle to which it provides power unless the vehicle comes within the vicinity of a collection, charging and distribution machine or other authorized external device such as that in a service center. Once within the vicinity of a collection, charging and distribution machine or other authorized external device a locking mechanism in the vehicle or within the portable electrical energy storage device unlocks and allows the portable electrical energy storage device to be exchanged or serviced.
US08560144B2	Output torque rate limiting based on a request busyness indicator that considers the recent time history of the output torque request A method for controlling torque in a vehicle including monitoring a plurality of factors associated with an output torque request in response to an output torque request rate of change exceeding a predetermined threshold, and controlling rate limiting of a delivered output torque to achieve the output torque request rate of change based on the plurality of factors associated with the output torque request.
US08560139B2	Automatic flow control apparatus An automatic flow control apparatus includes a solar cell module that provides a received light signal, an energy storage module, a charging circuit, a regulating module, a control module, a rainfall detection module for generating a detected rainfall signal, and a pair of conductors. The control module converts the received light signal and the detected rainfall signal into measured light data and measured rainfall data, and stores a measured data set that includes the measured light data and the measured rainfall data. The controller determines based on at least the measured data set whether to output a control signal to the regulating module for controlling regulation of fluid flow.
US08560127B2	HVAC control with comfort/economy management A programmable thermostat may be configured to control one or more pieces of HVAC equipment in accordance with a programmable schedule. The HVAC equipment may be capable of modifying a temperature of an inside space with at least a primary stage and an auxiliary stage. The programmable thermostat may include a memory for storing operating parameters of the programmable thermostat, a user interface configured to accept modification of operating parameters, including one or more droop values, and a controller coupled to the memory and the user interface. The controller attempts to control the temperature of the inside space with the primary stage of the HVAC equipment, but if the temperature of the inside space deviates from a desired setpoint temperature value by more than or equal to a programmed droop value, the controller may activate the auxiliary stage. In some instances, the user interface of the programmable thermostat may be configured to allow a user to selectively override one or more of the applicable droop values. In some instances, the droop value that is used may depend on the current operation condition of the controller.
US08560124B2	Idle control system and method for adaptive temperature control A computer readable medium containing instructions that when executed by a computer performs steps to affect temperature. The steps include defining a desired temperature as a first value; activating an HVAC device if a current temperature achieves a first condition relative to the desired temperature; deactivating the HVAC device if the current temperature achieves a second condition relative to the desired temperature; and defining the desired temperature as a second value if the current temperature does not achieve the second condition within a first time period.
US08560121B2	Vacuum gripping apparatus A gripper grasps irregular and deformable work pieces so as to lift and hold packaged, processed, or raw, and manipulate the work pieces for the purpose of material handling, assembly, packaging, and other robotic and automated manipulative functions. A vacuum is induced at multiple points through a flexible gripping hood to provide lifting force to, and facilitate rapid movement of, work pieces. An array of lighting devices and a double ring array of segmented mirrors provide uniform illumination to ensure accurate positioning of the gripping hood with respect to the work piece to be manipulated.
US08560109B1	Method and system for bi-directional communication between an integrated circuit (IC) layout editor and various IC pattern data viewers Various embodiments of the present invention relate to bi-directional communication between an Integrated Circuit (IC) layout editor and various generic layout and/or pattern data viewers. Further, the present invention provides a bi-directional control between the IC layout editor and the various generic layout and/or pattern data viewers and allows substantially simultaneous display of an IC design in various IC mask layout data formats. The IC layout editor and the various generic layout and/or pattern data viewers include various tools. The bi-directional communication connects these tools to form connected tools. Subsequently, the actions performed by a connected tool in response to user interactions are synchronized with the actions performed by other connected tools.
US08560106B2	Predictive maintenance for third party support equipment A server receives equipment data from third party support equipment during operation of the third party support equipment in a manufacturing environment. The server receives the equipment data via a first port on the third party support equipment. The third party support equipment communicates with a process tool via a second port on third party support equipment. The server determines a future state of the third party support equipment based on the equipment data and notifies a user of the future state of the third party support equipment.
US08560100B2	Combination multimedia, brain wave and subliminal affirmation media player and recorder System, method, and application to integrate a web browser and/or search engine with multiple media players-recorders into an Internet web virtual application, which a user can use to control features such as, file browsing, media recording, file creation, editing, sequencing and storing and/or file sharing. A user can select, organize, record and manage information/data/content as multimedia files or media files (MMF), create user defined media libraries to store MMF, select or create brain wave patterns, organize and make a secure personal affirmations, harmonize and blend brain wave patterns with personal affirmations a single secure subliminal file and stored in a library, select one or more MMF from playlists to be synchronized with one or more secure subliminal affirmation tracks as separate and parallel synchronized media files. The synchronized MMF and the secure affirmation track can be saved as separate but parallel media files in user defined media playlists, for parallel playback on analog or digital devices.
US08560097B1	Computer assisted method for remotely monitoring a site for anticipated failure and maintenance with a plurality of controls A computer assisted method to monitor a status from a secondary location of a plurality of equipment on a drilling site, while simultaneously enabling preventive maintenance is described herein. A user can view at least one cycle, at least one control state, and at least one pressure. The user can also view equipment information, equipment repair history, and other information necessary to ensure that a piece of equipment has minimal down time.
US08560095B2	Changeable BACnet interface A changeable BACnet interface system having a workstation and a controller. The system may allow a controller object interface to be engineered and downloaded to the controller via configuration files, rather than as individual objects created at run time. A BACnet network may be connected to the workstation and controller. BACnet objects may be designed to constitute an interface to the control application, and be stored in the controller. The BACnet interface may be presented to the BACnet network.
US08560094B2	Safety controller and method for controlling an automated installation A safety controller for controlling an automated installation which has a plurality of sensors and a plurality of actuators, comprises a control unit to which a plurality of control input signals are supplied by the sensors. The control unit produces a plurality of control output signals in an automatic mode on the basis of the control input signals in accordance with a user program running in said control unit. The plurality of control output signals is used to actuate the plurality of actuators. The safety controller also has a diagnosis evaluation unit to which a number of diagnoses input signals are supplied. The diagnosis evaluation unit takes the diagnosis input signals as a basis for ascertaining which of a plurality of operating states is present at a defined instant of time. The diagnosis evaluation unit produces an operating state data record which represents an ascertained operating state. The safety controller also has an interface for a display unit in order to display diagnosis reports. The operating state data record includes a plurality of diagnosis data and a Boolean status indicator. The control unit actuates at least one actuator on the basis of the Boolean status indicator contained in the operating state data record.
US08560088B2	Medical device, in particular for electroporation treatment A medical device, in particular for electroporation treatment, characterized by having: a thimble-like main body fitted, in use, to a hand of an operator; and a member connected to the main body and fitted with needles by which the operator performs the therapeutic treatment.
US08560085B2	Methods for making leads with segmented electrodes for electrical stimulation systems One embodiment is a stimulation lead including a lead body comprising a longitudinal surface, a distal end, and a proximal end; and multiple electrodes disposed along the longitudinal surface of the lead body near the distal end of the lead body. The multiple electrodes include multiple segmented electrodes. At least a first portion of the lead body, proximal to the electrodes, is transparent or translucent and at least a second portion of the lead body, separating two or more of the segmented electrodes, is opaque so that the segmented electrodes separated by the second portion of the lead body are visually distinct. Alternatively or additionally, the stimulation lead can include an indicator ring, a stripe, a groove, or a marking aligned with one or more of the segmented electrodes.
US08560080B2	Programming techniques for controlling rate of change of electrical stimulation therapy Techniques are described, for medical devices that deliver electrical stimulation therapy, for controlling a transition from an initial stimulation location or initial stimulation shape to a user-specified target stimulation location or target stimulation shape in order to limit the rate of change of stimulation. One example method includes receiving, via a programmer for an electrical stimulator, user input indicating a target stimulation zone, and controlling the electrical stimulator to transition electrical stimulation from an initial stimulation zone to the target stimulation zone via one or more intermediate stimulation zones.
US08560073B2	System and apparatus for automated quantitative assessment, optimization and logging of the effects of a therapy A method for assessment, optimization and logging of the effects of a therapy for a medical condition, including (a) receiving into a signal processor input signals indicative of the subject's brain activity; (b) characterizing the spatio-temporal behavior of the brain activity using the signals; (c) delivering a therapy to a target tissue of the subject; (d) characterizing the spatio-temporal effect of the therapy on the brain activity; (e) in response to the characterizing, optimizing at least one parameter of the therapy if the brain activity has not been satisfactorily modified and/or has been adversely modified by the therapy; (f) characterizing the spatio-temporal effect of the at least one optimized parameter; and (g) logging to memory the at least one optimized parameter. A computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, performs the method.
US08560072B2	System for neural control of respiration A system, device and method for neural control of respiration are provided. One aspect of this disclosure relates to an implantable medical device for sensing and controlling respiration during incidence of central respiratory diseases. According to various embodiments, the device includes a sensing circuit to receive sensed signals representative of an incidence of a central respiratory disease. The device also includes a neural stimulator adapted to generate neural stimulation signals, and a controller to communicate with the sensing circuit and to control the neural stimulator to stimulate a desired neural target in response to the detection of the incidence of a central respiratory disease. In an embodiment, the device includes a plurality of sensors which are adapted to monitor physiological parameters to detect the incidence of a central respiratory disease and to send signals to the sensing circuit. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US08560056B1	Intracardiac device and method for storing cardiac test results and associated EGM data In a possible implementation, a method for cardiac testing is provided which includes measuring test data associated with cardiac events and storing the test data in an intracardiac stimulation device. The method further includes acquiring event electrograms corresponding with the test data and storing the event electrograms corresponding with the test data in the intracardiac stimulation device. In a possible implementation, marker data is stored associating event electrograms with measured test data, which may identify the event electrograms used for measuring the test data and/or identify when adjacent event electrograms are not contiguous. In some implementations, the test data may be measured and stored in an out-of-clinic test, and the test data and the corresponding event electrograms may be later retrieved from the intracardiac stimulation device and presented on a visual display.
US08560049B2	Magnetic resonance imaging system A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system obtains an MR image of an object. The system detects an ECG signal and performs a pulse sequence of RF gradient magnetic fields toward the object. Imaging defined by the pulse sequence is longer in temporal length than one heartbeat. The system further acquires an MR signal from the object in response to performance of the pulse sequence and produces the MR image based on the acquired MR signal. Also possible are: a plurality of divided MT pulses instead of the conventional single MT pulse, an SE-system pulse sequence having a shorter echo train spacing, and the generation of sounds by applying gradient pulses incorporated in an imaging pulse sequence so as to automatically instruct a patient to perform an intermittent breath hold.
US08560048B2	Optical ultrasound receiver An imaging guidewire can include one or more optical fibers communicating light along the guidewire. At or near its distal end, one or more blazed or other Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) can direct light to a photoacoustic transducer material that provides ultrasonic imaging energy. Returned ultrasound can be sensed by an FBG sensor. A responsive signal can be optically communicated to the proximal end of the guidewire, and processed such as to develop a 2D or 3D image. In an example, the guidewire outer diameter can be small enough such that an intravascular catheter can be passed over the guidewire. To minimize the size of the guidewire, an ultrasound-to-acoustic transducer that is relatively insensitive to the polarization of the optical sensing signal can be used. The ultrasound-to-optical transducer can be manufactured so that it is relatively insensitive to the polarization of the optical sensing signal.
US08560044B2	Garment accessory with electrocardiogram sensors A garment accessory includes a member having first and second ends, with the length of the member between the first and second ends being less than the circumference of a subject that the member is configured for and a pair of fastener mechanisms disposed in proximity to the first and second ends of the member, the fastener mechanisms configured to attach the member to an article of clothing worn by a subject. The garment accessory also includes at least a pair of sensors supported by the member with the sensors being at least one of ECG sensors, motion sensors, body temperature sensors and impedance plethysmography sensors.
US08560043B2	ECG lead wire organizer and dispenser An ECG lead set including an ECG electrode assembly and a lead set hub. ECG electrode includes at least one electrode configured to receive biopotential signals from a patient, a plug connector for connecting said ECG electrode assembly, a web, connected between the at least one electrode and the plug connector and configured to form an electrical connection therebetween. The lead set hub includes at least one receptacle configured to receive the plug connector of the ECG electrode assembly.
US08560040B2	Shielded biomedical electrode patch A biomedical electrode patch having improved resistance to capacitive coupling to extraneous electric fields. The patch includes a conductive shield and a contact portion formed on an upper surface thereof. The contact portion extends through the film layer and contacts an electrode formed of a material suitable for conducting electrical signals from a patient. Conductive traces formed on the lower surface of the tab extend to contact pads. A nonconductive layer is printed over the traces and can have a shield formed thereon.
US08560038B2	Method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in a medical communication system Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided.
US08560026B2	Methods and devices for power-aware data synchronization in wireless devices Disclosed are devices and methods of a communication device including initiating an initial communication via a modem in response to a data pull communication event or a data push communication event and determining by the controller a measured network condition associated with transmitting the initial communication as well as determining by the controller the power consumption of the initial communication based on a measured network condition value processed by monitoring the modem. Methods of a communication device further include comparing the power consumption value with a predetermined power consumption value stored in the memory related to a predetermined acceptable measured network condition value for this type of communication event, and terminating by the controller, the communication when the power consumption value exceeds the predetermined power consumption value based upon the acceptable measured network condition value for this type of communication event.
US08560020B2	Apparatus and method for controlling a touchscreen in a wireless terminal An apparatus and method for controlling a touchscreen in a wireless terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a display unit which is activated when the wireless terminal is in a first operation state, a touchscreen unit which is activated and displays an icon for performing a corresponding function at a current mode when the wireless terminal is in the first operation state, and a control unit which activates the display unit and controls the icon for performing a corresponding function at a current mode to be displayed on the touchscreen unit when the wireless terminal is in the first operation state. The method includes activating a display unit and displaying an icon for performing a corresponding function at a current mode on a touchscreen unit when the wireless terminal is in a first operation state, and deactivating the display unit and converting a function of the touchscreen unit into a function of the display unit or activating the display unit when the wireless terminal is in a second operation state contrary to the first operation state.
US08560018B2	Flexible sectorization in wireless communication systems A system, apparatus and method for flexible sectorization in a wireless communication system are disclosed. For example, a system for flexible sectorization in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The system includes a base communication unit, a plurality of first communication link sector generation units coupled to the base communication unit, and at least a second communication link sector generation unit coupled to the base communication unit. Each communication link sector generation unit is configured to generate at least one associated sector for radio coverage, and the number of first communication link sector generation units is not equal to the number of second communication link sector generation units.
US08560011B2	Terminal device with image display function [Object]To provide a terminal device with an image display function that enables to effectively enhance viewability of image contents and operability of the terminal device.[Constitution]In response to input of image contents to a CPU 100 through a TV module 200, a determining section 110 acquires genre information of the image contents. The determining section 110 determines the genre based on the acquired genre information, and transmits the determination result to a display control section 120. The display control section 120 reads out, from a memory 700, a screen mode and a disposition pattern corresponding to the genre determined by the determining section 110 in accordance with the contents of a screen setting table; and sets a display area R1 and an operation area R2 in accordance with the readout screen mode. Then, the display control section 120 displays function buttons in the operation area R2, and at the same time, displays the image contents in the display area R1 in accordance with the readout disposition pattern.
US08560000B2	Transmit power control method for reducing cellular interference in cellular radio communication system and radio base station device for implementing the same A communication device includes pilot signal sending part and transmit power control part and holds a criterion value indicating target channel quality for mobile stations within the area covered by the base station. It creates quality data from reports from one or plural mobile stations, stores the quality data, creates a first representative value indicating average channel quality for the mobile station(s) from the stored quality data, and changes the transmit power depending on the result of comparison between the first representative value and the criterion value. It creates a second representative value indicating distribution of low channel quality from the stored quality data and updates the criterion value depending on the result of comparison between the second representative value and the criterion value.
US08559989B2	Emergency alert initiation via a mobile device Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for initiating an emergency alert system alert from a mobile device. In addition to the general system, methods and computer readable medium for such initiating of an emergency alert system alert from a mobile device the process may further implement receiving multiple such emergency alert system alert initiation messages and combining them to determine a more accurate location area of the emergency.
US08559988B2	System and method for subscription management A subscription manager module or message processing engine operating within a messaging inter-carrier vendor (MICV) provides value added services to both service users (e.g., mobile telephone users) and service providers (e.g., information brokers, vendors, news sources, etc.). The MICV is disposed between a plurality of service users and a plurality of service providers and messages sent between these parties are processed by a subscription manager module, or message processing engine, which is configured to, among other things, manage short codes, detect undesirable spam messages, operate service user opt-in and opt-out processes, and perform billing functions.
US08559987B1	Wireless bidirectional communications between a mobile device and associated secure element In some embodiments, a system includes a mobile communication device and a secure element physically coupled to the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device includes a first wireless transceiver, first processor, and first memory. The secure element includes a second wireless transceiver, second processor, and second memory. The mobile communication device is configured to transmit data via the first wireless transceiver to the secure element in packets, using a packet protocol. The secure element is configured to transmit data via the second wireless transceiver to the mobile communication device in messages, using a messaging protocol distinct from the packet protocol.
US08559986B2	Method and system for changing access service network of mobile station in communication system A method and a system for relocating an Access Service Network (ASN) of a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system are provided. In the method, when an MS that operates in an idle mode moves from a first ASN to a second ASN, the MS transmits a ranging request message to a base station of the second ASN in order to update a location. The base station transmits a location update request message to an ASN-GateWay (GW) of the second ASN according to the ranging request message. When the location update request message is received, the ASN-GW transmits a relocation notify message including type information for location update to the first ASN. The first ASN transmits a relocation notify response message including paging information to the ASN-GW according to the relocation notify message.
US08559976B2	System and method for population tracking, counting, and movement estimation using mobile operational data and/or geographic information in mobile network Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for population tracking, counting and/or movement estimation. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, where the event data includes location area update messages and periodic registration messages; and performing travel estimation based on the mobile phone operation data, including performing interpolation on data associated with one or more individuals in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals for a specified time period based on a shortest path mesh sequence estimation algorithm.
US08559972B2	Method and system for automatically identifying wireless signal quality of a region A method for automatically identifying wireless signal quality of a region includes receiving signal quality information associated with wireless signals received by each of a plurality of mobile endpoints and receiving location information identifying locations of each of the plurality of mobile endpoints. The method also includes, based on the received signal quality information and the received location information, identifying a first region of an area, the first region having a first signal quality.
US08559968B2	Location-based targeting One embodiment of the present is a method of using location history to optimize communications with perspective customers. Such a method comprises analyzing a user's location history over a period of time; detecting an indication of user interest in sellable items based on at least the location history; and sending a message to the user about a sellable item that is determined to be of interest to the user. Other methods and systems are also provided.
US08559962B2	Method and apparatus for improving reconfiguration procedure for scheduling request The present invention provides a method for improving a reconfiguration procedure for Scheduling Request (SR) in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The method includes steps of receiving an upper layer request for reconfiguring an SR parameter of the UE, and applying new configuration provided by the upper layer request to the SR parameter when an SR is triggered and there is no other SR pending in the UE.
US08559959B2	Handoff access method and device based on random access channel A handoff access method and device based on a random access channel is provided, the method comprising: a source BS sends a handoff request message to a target BS; the target BS sends a handoff response message to the source BS, and then the source BS forwards a handoff command with the content of the handoff response message to the mobile terminal, wherein a sequence number of a reserved character code allocated by the target BS to the mobile terminal and a random access sub-channel that the reserved character code is located in are contained in the handoff command message; after receiving the handoff command message, the mobile terminal selects the reserved character code and the random access sub-channel that the reserved character code is located in; and a handoff access procedure is initialized on the random access sub-channel by the target BS and the mobile terminal.
US08559946B2	Discontinuous transmission signaling over an uplink control channel Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate signaling and detecting discontinuous transmission (DTX) in a wireless communication environment. A DTX indicator and Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) feedback can be multiplexed within a common uplink control channel subframe and transmitted to a base station when the access terminal is operating in DTX mode for an Acknowledgement Channel. Further, when operating in non-DTX mode, the access terminal can multiplex an ACK indicator or a NAK indicator with the CQI feedback within a common uplink control channel subframe, which can thereafter be transferred to the base station. Accordingly, the base station can detect DTX operation or non-DTX operation of the access terminal. For example, reference signal symbols can carry one of the DTX indicator, the ACK indicator, or the NAK indicator. Pursuant to another example, the CQI feedback and the DTX indicator can be combined and carried jointly by non-reference signal symbols.
US08559944B2	System and method for identifying roaming-specific cost saving usage patterns Apparatus located at a first mobile telephony network, said network comprising a detector for detecting at least one of roaming registration signals and session management signals of roaming mobile telephony users of said first mobile telephony network who are roaming at another mobile telephony networks; and an analytics unit, associated with said detector, for analyzing said detected signals per individual roaming users, and identifying, from said signals, any one of a plurality of predefined cost saving behaviors of respective individual roaming users. The analytics unit provides an identification output for any of said individual roaming users who is identified to be engaging in one of said predefined cost saving behaviors.
US08559941B1	Using the maintenance channel in a mobile data network to provide subscriber data when a cache miss occurs A mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation. When data is broken out by the first service mechanism, the data is delivered at the edge, which means the true activity of the channel is not visible to the core network. In order to maintain the high-speed channel, channel maintenance data packets are sent to and from the radio network controller on the network tunnel. The maintenance channel is also used to send cache miss data to a subscriber when a cache miss occurs at the edge of the mobile data network, without regard to a need for channel maintenance data packets.
US08559912B2	System and method for providing contact information of an out of area mobile device to a reverse 911 database A system and method for registering the contact information of mobile devices with a service 911 service is presented. In one embodiment, a mobile switching center receives the contact information of a mobile device. If the mobile switching center determines that the mobile device is not located within a particular wireless sub-network, such as, but not limited to, a wireless sub-network associated with an area code registered to the mobile device, the mobile switching center generates a reverse 911 registration text message and transmits the reverse 911 registration text message to the mobile device. A user of the mobile device may then transmit the reverse 911 registration text message to a local reverse 911 database to have the contact information associated with the mobile device added to the local reverse 911 database.
US08559909B2	Techniques for supporting emergency communications in wireless communication system Methods and apparatus for supporting emergency communications are provided. A method for a Radio Access Network (RAN) serving at least one Core Network (CN) to support emergency communications of a User Equipment (UE) includes determining whether at least one CN in a shared network environment supports emergency communications, if it is determined that the at least one CN in the shared network environment supports emergency communications, transmitting an emergency call support indication to the UE indicating that emergency communications are supported, receiving a request for emergency communications from the UE, and routing the request for emergency communications to another CN that supports emergency communications in the shared network environment, if a given CN does not support emergency communications.
US08559908B2	Jamming graph and its application in network resource assignment A wireless communication network uses backhaul negotiation based upon static and dynamic resource assignment on jamming graphs. Static reuse factor design methods including fractional frequency reuse (FFR) are addressed. The jamming graph is used to summarize the interfering relationship between transmitters (nodes in the jamming graph). Negotiation-based algorithm is used to arrive at a static resource assignment so that a large reuse factor can be achieved while jamming scenario can be avoided. As a result of such algorithm, each transmitter is assigned some resources, over which traffic transmission can be done instantaneously to reduce the packet delay for short packets. Based on the result of static resource negotiation algorithm, a dynamic resource algorithm can be run, such that the resources assigned to different nodes can be share in a bursty traffic scenario to further reduce packet delay for larger packet size cases, while jamming be also avoided.
US08559907B2	Integrated RF front end with stacked transistor switch A monolithic integrated circuit (IC), and method of manufacturing same, that includes all RF front end or transceiver elements for a portable communication device, including a power amplifier (PA), a matching, coupling and filtering network, and an antenna switch to couple the conditioned PA signal to an antenna. An output signal sensor senses at least a voltage amplitude of the signal switched by the antenna switch, and signals a PA control circuit to limit PA output power in response to excessive values of sensed output. Stacks of multiple FETs in series to operate as a switching device may be used for implementation of the RF front end, and the method and apparatus of such stacks are claimed as subcombinations. An iClass PA architecture is described that dissipatively terminates unwanted harmonics of the PA output signal.
US08559906B2	System and method for providing a carbon nanotube mixer An embodiment of a system and method provides a carbon nanotube transistor (CNT) mixer with a low local oscillator power requirement and no inter-modulation products. Specifically, an embodiment of the system and method provides two kinds of device current-voltage (I-V) characteristics on the same integrated circuit: exponential and linear. The CNT I-V characteristics support both the ideal exponential control characteristic (determined by physics constants) and the ideal linear control characteristic (also determined by physics constants), resulting in an ideal multiplier. In other words, the CNT mixer is mathematically equivalent to an ideal multiplier. Such an ideal multiplier can be used as a mixer with low local oscillator power requirement and virtually no inter-modulation products.
US08559893B2	Front end module A front end module includes an antenna path and a diplexer that is connected to the antenna path, to a first signal path, to a second signal path, and to a third signal path. The first signal path is for transmitting transceiver signals in at least two first frequency bands that are assigned to different transmission systems. The second signal path is for transmitting transceiver signals in at least two second frequency bands that are assigned to different transmission systems. The third signal path is for transmitting reception signals in a third frequency band.
US08559886B2	Device, method and system for aligning an antenna The present invention relates to a communication transmission field, and particularly provides a device, a method, and a system for aligning an antenna. The method includes steps as follows. An input signal is received, and a receiver signal strength indication (RSSI) value is output according to a strength of the input signal. The RSSI value is received, and a practically received power value corresponding to the input signal is acquired by looking up a corresponding table between the RSSI and power. An antenna rotation signal and an alignment indication signal are output. The antenna is adjusted according to the antenna rotation signal so as to change a receiving angle of the antenna. Then, it is displayed that the antenna is aligned according to the alignment indication signal. In the present invention, the man-made operation errors are reduced, thus the network quality is effectively ensured.
US08559883B2	Wireless device and signal path configuration method thereof A signal path configuration method and apparatus of a wireless device are provided for avoiding radiation performance degradation caused by holding a specific part of the wireless device. A wireless device of the present invention includes a Radio Frequency (RF) unit that includes a plurality of antennas, an RF connector for RF calibration, and a detection unit for detecting connection of an RF cable, a switch for switching a signal path to one of the plurality of antennas, and a control unit for distinguishing between communication modes based on a detection signal output by the detection unit and for generating a control signal for controlling the switch to connect the signal path to one of the antennas according to the communication mode.
US08559881B2	Method and system for dynamic selection of a coexistence method and transmit power level based on calibration data Aspects of the invention may comprise a control system in communication with a radio frequency (RF) front-end subsystem. The RF front-end subsystem comprises a plurality of antennas coupled to a plurality of wireless transmitters or receivers. Each of the wireless transmitters or receivers is operable to communicate via one or more of a plurality of wireless interfaces in the communication device. The control system is configured to detect, based on interference data provided by the RF front-end system, potential interference by an interfering one of said plurality of wireless transmitters or receivers with operations of an interfered-with one of said plurality of wireless transmitters or receivers. The control system is further configured to mitigate said detected interference operation by providing calibration data to said interfered-with one or more of said plurality of wireless transmitters or receivers.
US08559878B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium A term for interrupting communication caused by operation of a DFS function is reduced for a wireless communication apparatus having the DFS function and a wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication system corresponding to the DFS function of the wireless communication apparatus. In the wireless communication apparatus and the wireless communication system having a frequency changing function for changing a using frequency upon detecting out-of-target electrical waves such as electrical waves of a weather radar on a specific using frequency, information about a connection destination having a different using frequency is notified upon detecting the out-of-target electrical waves, and the connection destination is changed by switching the frequency on the basis of the information about the connection destination.
US08559875B2	Communication device, data processing device, near field communication device, and method and program for communication A communication device for performing near field communication, includes: a near field communication device having a near field communication section for performing near field communication in either one of an active mode and a passive mode, and an interface section for supplying the near field communication section with data from a data processing device for processing data targeted by communication of the near field communication section, and supplying the data processing device with data from the near field communication section; and one or more of the data processing devices connected to the interface section by one output bus on which the data output by the interface section is transmitted, and one input bus on which the data input to the interface section is transmitted, wherein the data processing device includes bus right management means.
US08559874B2	System and method for providing identifying information related to an incoming or outgoing call A method is provide that comprises detecting an incoming or outgoing call; and sending data to a paired device for displaying a plurality of elements associated with the call in a user interface on the paired device prior to connecting the call, the plurality of elements having been obtained from a plurality of sources accessible to the mobile device. Another method is provided, which comprises receiving data from the mobile device for displaying a plurality of elements associated with the call in a user interface on a paired device prior to connecting the call, the plurality of elements having been obtained from a plurality of sources accessible to the mobile device; and displaying the plurality of elements in a user interface on the paired device using the data received from the mobile device.
US08559873B2	Forward link signaling within a wireless power system Exemplary embodiments are directed to forward link signaling. A method may include modulating an input bias signal of a power amplifier according to data to be transmitted on a wireless power transmit signal. The method may further include modulating an amplitude of the wireless power transmit signal generated by the power amplifier in response to the modulated input bias signal.
US08559871B2	Dual mode satellite very small aperture terminal apparatus and controlling method thereof Provided are a satellite VSAT apparatus and a control method thereof. The satellite VSAT apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention can switch a modulation type of a signal to be transmitted from an indoor unit (IDU) to the outdoor unit to a linear or non-linear type in a case in which outputting of a transmitted signal is not controlled to an outdoor unit due to limitations, that is, there is no function such as an automatic signal level control in a block up-converter (BUC), a case in which transmission output limitation is large due to a lot of interference requirements for an adjacent channel, a case in which the number of adjacent channels (carriers) is large, or a case in which adjacent channel interference is large due to a frequency in a satellite multi-beam environment and polarization reuse, in a satellite VSAT apparatus system which aims at a low-priced user terminal.
US08559870B2	Method and system for acquiring and repatriating satellite data A method of acquiring and repatriating satellite data representative of a zone in space, termed the target zone, and an instrument for acquiring and repatriating satellite data including a plurality of satellites (1, 100), a plurality of terrestrial receiving stations (50, 51, 52, 53, 54), the instrument includes, for each item of data received by a receiving station (50, 51, 52, 53, 54), termed the receiving station, originating from the space layer: elements for determining a receiving station (50, 51, 52, 53, 54) intended for storing this item of data, termed the receiving station competent in respect of this item of data, and a terrestrial digital network for routing this item of data from the station receiving this item of data to the receiving station competent in respect of this item of data.
US08559867B2	Load status indicator for multihop relay system using distributed scheduling A method includes receiving at a relay node a load status indicator from a subordinate relay node, determining a load status of the relay node and forwarding the received load status indicator to a super-ordinate node if the determined load status does not indicate an overload condition, otherwise if the determined load status does indicate an overload condition sending a load status indicator of the relay node to the superordinate node. Another method includes, in a multihop relay network having a plurality of relay nodes, receiving over a communication link at a network access node a load status indicator from a relay node, the load status indicator identifying a nearest relay node, if any, at which a current load exceeds a threshold; and using the received load status indicator at least when making a network admission decision for a user equipment.
US08559861B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus having the same A fixing device includes a fixing belt to transmit a heat to a print medium, a pressing unit to apply a pressure on the print medium, a heating unit surrounded by the fixing belt to generate the heat and a nip plate disposed against the fixing belt and facing the pressing unit, to form a fixing nip. The fixing device further includes a support element to support the nip plate, and a reflection unit disposed within the fixing belt to reflect the heat radiated from the heating unit toward the support element. The reflection unit is connected to the nip plate to conduct the heat from the reflection unit to the nip plate.
US08559860B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus including same A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressing member, a stationary member, a metal member, flanges, a first heater, and a second heater. The pressing member is rotatably pressed against an outer circumferential surface of the fixing member to form a nip therebetween. The metal member is fixedly disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member over an area other than the nip. The flanges are disposed at axial edges of the metal member in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the metal member. The first heater is disposed opposite the inner circumferential surface of the metal member to heat an axial middle portion of the metal member. The second heater is disposed opposite the inner circumferential surface of the metal member to heat axial end portions of the metal member. The first heater is disposed farther from the nip than the second heater.
US08559856B2	Development device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A development device includes a developer bearer to carry the developer to a development range, a magnetic field generator disposed inside the developer bearer for generating magnetic force, a developer regulator for adjusting an amount of the developer, a developer supply compartment disposed adjacent to the developer bearer, separated by a side wall from a portion where the developer bearer is provided, a developer agitator provided in the supply compartment, and a blocker disposed above the side wall of the supply compartment across a supply gap through which the developer moves from the supply compartment. The magnetic field generator has an attraction magnetic pole and a regulation magnetic pole. The blocker prevents the developer blocked by the developer regulator from moving along a magnetic force line of the regulation magnetic force toward the circumferential surface of the developer bearer.
US08559848B2	Charging member assembly usable with body to be charged and charging apparatus for image forming apparatus Disclosed is a charging apparatus usable with an image forming apparatus that includes a body to be charged; a housing to rotatably support the body to be charged, a charging member to charge a surface of the body to be charged to a predetermined electric potential, a cleaning member to clean foreign materials remaining on the surface of the body to be charged, and a cleaning member supporting bracket disposed in the housing to support the cleaning member and the charging member.
US08559841B2	Multiple-output power supply unit including voltage generation circuits for applying voltages to loads and image forming apparatus having the power supply unit A multiple-output power supply unit includes: a first voltage generation circuit that generates a first voltage applied to a first load; a first output terminal that outputs a second voltage corresponding to the first voltage to a second load; a first constant voltage element that is connected to the first output terminal; a second constant voltage element that is provided between the first constant voltage element and a ground; and a second output terminal that is connected between the first constant voltage element and the second constant voltage element so as to output a third voltage having a predetermined potential difference from the second voltage to a third load that is provided in a state of being electrically connected to the second load.
US08559840B2	Image removal from a belt of an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier rotates in a predetermined direction; a correction image forming unit forming correction images on the image carrier in the predetermined direction; and a cleaning roller configured to clean the correction images on the image carrier. With respect to all values ranging from 1 to an arbitrary value n, a positive integer N which satisfies following expression for each of n exists: (T×N+L)/n≦R/V≦(T×(N+1)−L)/n, where R represents a circumferential length of the cleaning roller, L represents a length of each of the correction images in a moving direction of the image carrier, T represents a formation interval of the correction images in the moving direction of the image carrier, and V represents a ratio of a peripheral speed of the cleaning roller to a moving speed of the image carrier.
US08559830B2	Lockout device and an indicator to ensure that the correct consumable is replaced in a printing device According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided methods of replenishing at least one consumable in a printer system having at least one channel with a lockout device and an indicator. The embodiments incorporate a solenoid latch on the channel, a channel closed switch and an attention light. When a consumable needs to be replaced, the user scans the new consumable label against a CRUM reader. If it is valid consumable for the printing system, the attention light above the low or empty channel is lit and its solenoid latch is released. The attention light and solenoid latch would be wired in parallel so that whenever the solenoid is energized to allow the channel to be opened, the attention light will illuminate.
US08559828B2	Frame formatting for high rate optical communications Methods, systems, and devices are described for formatting of data streams to be transmitted over fiber optic channels, and for processing received optical signals. A data transmission device may include a digital coding and modulation module that encodes a digital data stream, inserts unique words into the digital data stream, and modulates the encoded data stream and unique words onto optical channels for transmission over an optical fiber. A demodulation and decoding device may include a unique word identification module that identifies the unique words inserted in each optical channel stream, determines one or more characteristics of the plurality of optical channels based on the unique words, and provides the one or more characteristics to one or more other modules in the demodulator and decoding device.
US08559823B2	Multi-aperture three-dimensional beamforming In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes: a mode-locked laser source configured to provide a pulsed multi-frequency laser output signal having spectrum with a plurality of comb lines, wherein one of the comb lines is a reference comb line, the comb lines forming a plurality of comb line pairs comprising the reference comb line and selected ones of the remaining comb lines; a plurality of optical-electronic (OE) conversion circuits, each OE circuit corresponding on a one-to-one basis to the plurality of comb line pairs, wherein each OE circuit is configured to provide an electrical output signal having a frequency corresponding to a heterodyning of the comb lines in its corresponding comb line pair; a plurality of amplifiers corresponding on a one-to-one basis with the OE conversion circuits, each amplifier configured to amplify a version of the electrical output signal from its corresponding OE conversion circuit so as to provide an amplified output signal; and an array of antennas corresponding on a one-to-one basis to the plurality of amplifiers, each antenna configured to transmit the amplified output signal from the corresponding amplifier, whereby the array of antennas transmits a coherent and multi-frequency signal output pulse.
US08559822B2	Optical fiber hub including optical booster amplifier An optical fiber hub includes an upstream interface for inputting a laser beam, an optical booster amplifier, a splitting element, and N downstream interfaces. The optical booster amplifier is optically communicated with the upstream interface, and configured for amplifying the laser beam. The splitting element is optically communicated with the optical booster amplifier, and configured for splitting the amplified laser beam into N laser beams. The N downstream interfaces are optically communicated with the splitting element. Each of the N downstream interfaces is configured for outputting one of the N laser beams, wherein N is an integer which is equal to or greater than 2.
US08559815B2	Optical transmission apparatus and fault detection method An optical transmission apparatus includes a non-reciprocal device including first to second ports, an optical signal input from the first port being provided to the second port, an optical signal input from the second port being provided to the first port, a dispersion compensator that is coupled to the first port of the non-reciprocal device and that conducts given processing to an optical signal input from the first port of the non-reciprocal device to provide the optical signal subjected to the given processing to the second port of the non-reciprocal device, a first monitor, a second monitor, and a fault determination device that compares a value monitored by the first monitor with a value monitored by the second monitor to determine one of a connection failure, at least at one of the first port, the second port, of the non-reciprocal device and a connection state of the dispersion compensator.
US08559811B1	Flashlight module, lens module and image capturing device A flashlight module adapted to be disposed on an image capturing device is provided. The image capturing device has a main body, a lens disposed on the main body and a lens ring disposed around the lens. The flashlight module includes a body and a flashlight. The body has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, and the body is pivoted to the lens ring through the first end. The flashlight is disposed in the body. When the body is in a first status, the first end and the second end are adapted to be attached to the lens ring. When the body is in a second status, the second end is popped up to a predetermined distance.
US08559808B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes an imaging sensor, a reticle, a focus detection unit, a spectroscopic member, and a diffusion coefficient controller. The imaging sensor is configured to receive light from a lens unit. The reticle is capable of changing a diffusion coefficient. The focus detection unit is configured to detect a focus state of an imaging surface based on a signal from the imaging sensor. The spectroscopic member is configured to split the light from the lens unit to the reticle and the focus detection unit. The diffusion coefficient controller is configured to change the diffusion coefficient of the reticle. The diffusion coefficient controller controls a diffusion coefficient of a portion of the reticle corresponding to a defocus range to be higher than a diffusion coefficient of a portion of the reticle corresponding to a focusing range according to the focus state detected by the focus detection unit.
US08559804B1	Wireless camera flash synchronizer system and method An external device for wirelessly synchronizing a remote device to image acquisition of a camera with switching of a transceiver from receive mode to transmit mode in response to receipt of a first signal by the external device generated after a trigger of the camera is activated. The external device includes a wireless communication functionality and a connector for connecting the external device to a port of the camera providing access to the first signal. The external device includes auto mode switcher for switching the transceiver from a receive mode to a transmit mode. A system including a camera and an external device configured to switch from receive mode to transmit mode in response to a signal from the camera generated after a trigger of the camera is activated.
US08559800B2	Heated fluid conduit end covers, systems and methods A fluid conduit body having a semi-conductive material disposed therein and at least one wire coupling an electrical power supply to the conduit to provide an electrical current therethrough to heat the fluid conduit also has an end cover molded over a fitting fitted to an end of the conduit and over an end of the wire coupling the power supply to an end of the conduit. Alternatively, a fluid conduit heating system employs a semi-conductive sleeve disposed over a fluid conduit with the sleeve extending at least partially over a fitting fitted to an end of the conduit. An electrical power supply is coupled to each end of the sleeve to provide an electrical current through the semi-conductive sleeve to heat the sleeve and the fluid conduit. An end cover is molded over at least a portion of the fitting and the sleeve extending thereover.
US08559797B2	System and method for personal video recording A system and method for personal video recording (PVR) is provided for recording digitally encoded streams, and for playing back and decoding the recorded streams. The PVR system may receive the digitally encoded streams from a digital cable box or a network server. The system enables trick modes including fast forward and reverse mode displays at various speeds. The system an method for PVR may also be applied to digitally encoded streams without I-pictures, such as, for example, progressive refresh streams or HITS streams. Reverse decode and display may be implemented by starting at a suitable entry point, decoding quickly up to the point of the desired picture, and displaying the result, and repeating the process. Index tables of entry points may be used for proper operation in some modes where the entry points are entry pictures (E-pictures) which start a pattern of progressively refreshing I-slices.
US08559779B2	Transparent composites with organic fiber A composite article comprises a substantially transparent matrix and at least one substantially transparent organic fiber embedded within the matrix. The matrix and the organic fiber may have substantially equivalent refractive indices within a wavelength band of interest.
US08559777B2	Optical device and optical modulation apparatus Provided is an optical modulator that modulates input light with a high frequency and low half-wave voltage. An optical device comprises a substrate; a dielectric film that is formed on the substrate and includes a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide that run parallel to each other; an insulating film formed on the dielectric film; a coplanar line that is formed on the insulating film and includes a signal line arranged between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide, a first ground line arranged in a first region, and a second ground line arranged in a second region; and auxiliary electrodes that are arranged in the first region and the second region, are formed in contact with the dielectric film or within the insulating film, and apply bias voltages to the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide.
US08559768B2	Traveling wave optical modulator An object of the invention is to provide a traveling-wave-type optical modulator capable of adjusting the frequency characteristics of an electric/optical conversion response over a wide frequency band, preventing the occurrence of jitter, and improving optical transmission characteristics.A traveling-wave-type optical modulator 20 includes: a substrate that has an electro-optical effect; an optical waveguide that is formed on the substrate; a modulating electrode that controls the modulation of a light wave traveling through the optical waveguide and includes a signal electrode portion 21 and a ground electrode portion; an input interface 22 that is connected to an input side of the signal electrode portion; a terminator 23 that is connected to the end of the signal electrode portion; and an adjustment filter 31 that is provided between the input interface and the signal electrode portion and adjusts frequency characteristics.It is preferable that the adjustment filter 31 be a passive filter.
US08559766B2	Automatic image capture An improved automatic image capture system for an intelligent mobile device having a camera guides a user to position the camera so only a single image needs to be automatically captured. A trapezoidal view finder on a display of the intelligent mobile device may be used to orient the camera with respect to a target document so there is an appropriate pitch and roll angle between the camera and the target document to avoid shadows caused by the camera or user. Further the user is guided to maximize the occupancy of the view finder with the document so that the document is maximized within the view finder. When all requisite conditions are satisfied, the camera automatically captures the image of the document for post-processing.
US08559765B2	System and method for image storage and analysis An image storage and retrieval system is provided with means for matching and retrieving images based on image content, rather than image file names. In one embodiment, an image storing tool is configured to store an image in a relational database table. The image storing tool converts a compressed image back to the original image with the actual pixel values block-by-block until the entire image line as derived by the width has been decoded for one component or all interleaved components. In another embodiment, an image matching tool is configured to retrieve a stored image in a relational database table and return data values associated with the image. The image matching tool matches image content of an input image against each retrieved image in the relational database table on a line-by-line basis from top to bottom within the same image number and component number.
US08559763B2	Method and apparatus for motion-compensated interpolation (MCI) with conservative motion model Motion compensated interpolation (MCI) methods and apparatus are presented for constructing interpolation image frames by computing at least one interpolated motion field at a temporal interpolation time using a conservative motion equation system, and computing at least one interpolation image frame based on the computed interpolated motion field using an MCI equation system.
US08559760B2	Spectral image dimensionality reduction system and method Methods for reducing dimensionality of hyperspectral image data having a number of spatial pixels, each associated with a number of spectral dimensions, include receiving sets of coefficients associated with each pixel of the hyperspectral image data, a set of basis vectors utilized to generate the sets of coefficients, and either a maximum error value or a maximum data size. The methods also include calculating, using a processor, a first set of errors for each pixel associated with the set of basis vectors, and one or more additional sets of errors for each pixel associated with one or more subsets of the set of basis vectors. Utilizing such errors calculations, an optimum size of the set of basis vectors may be ascertained, allowing for either a minimum amount of error within the maximum data size, or a minimum data size within the maximum error value.
US08559758B2	Apparatus for determining a modification of a size of an object The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining a modification of a size of an object. The apparatus comprises a registration unit (13) for registering with respect to each other a first region of interest in a first image data set showing an object at a first time and a second region of interest in a second image data set showing the object at a second time being different from the first time, wherein the registration unit is adapted to generate a scaling value by performing at least a scaling transformation for registering the first region of interest and the second region of interest with respect to each other. The apparatus further comprises a modification value determination unit (14) for determining a modification value, which indicates the modification of the size of the object, depending on the generated scaling value.
US08559757B1	Photogrammetric method and system for stitching and stabilizing camera images A system for registration of images includes a processor for receiving a temporal sequence of frames from multiple cameras viewing a region of interest. The temporal sequence of frames obtained by one camera is precisely timed to the temporal sequence of frames obtained by the other cameras. The processor modifies the temporal sequence of frames into a hierarchical sequence of frames. The hierarchical sequence of frames includes at least first and second levels. The processor registers frames belonging in the first level separately from frames belonging in the second level. The first level includes frames having a first amount of pixel overlap between one frame and another frame, and the second level includes frames having a second amount of pixel overlap between one frame and another frame. The first amount of pixel overlap is greater than the second amount of pixel overlap. The system may also include a third level of frames, in which the third level includes frames having a third amount of pixel overlap between one frame and another frame. The third amount of pixel overlap is smaller than the first amount or the second amount.
US08559748B2	Edge detection An edge detection method and apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: calculating a pixel gradient value for each of a plurality of pixels of a digital image, the pixel gradient value representing the difference of a pixel value with respect to at least one neighboring pixel; for each of a plurality of binarization threshold values, determining a corresponding edge map representing the location of pixel gradient values exceeding the binarization threshold value with respect to a side of the digital image; for each edge map, computing a measure of linearity; determining an optimal binarization threshold value based on the computed measures of linearity; and selecting the edge map corresponding to the optimal binarization threshold value.
US08559737B2	Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus An image coding method includes: (i) determining, for each of one or more associated blocks, whether to add a motion vector of the associated block to a list, and (ii) adding the motion vector of the associated block to the list when determining that the motion vector of the associated block is to be added to the list; selecting, from the list, a motion vector which is to be merged to a current block; and (i) merging the selected motion vector to the current block, and (ii) coding the current block using the merged motion vector as a motion vector of the current block, and in the determining, it is determined that the motion vector of the associated block is not to be added to the list when an associated picture and an associated reference picture match temporally or when a current picture and a current reference picture match temporally.
US08559733B2	Methods and systems for approximating progressive image encoding using image partitioning An image partitioner that executes on a local computer to vertically partition pixels of an original image into one or more non-overlapping vertical rows of image pixels, and horizontally partition the original image pixels into one or more non-overlapping horizontal rows of image pixels. The image partitioner can then separate the original image into a first sub-image that includes pixels of a first horizontal row and pixels of a first vertical row. The image partitioner can then separate the original image into a second sub-image that includes pixels of either the first horizontal row and a second vertical row, or a second horizontal row and the first vertical row. The first sub-image and second sub-image are then transmitted to a remote computer that interlaces the first sub-image with the second sub-image to create a first combined image which approximates the original image on the local computer.
US08559726B2	Image analysis based on pixel brightness grouping A method and system for analyzing an image made up of a plurality of pixels includes identifying a subset of the pixels, and for each identified pixel a local patch of pixels surrounding the identified pixel is defined and the pixels in the local patch are grouped into bins. The local patch is divided into a plurality of sub-patches, and for each sub-patch the method includes determining how many pixels in each sub-patch fall into each of the bins to create an intermediate vector, and the intermediate vectors are concatenated to form a feature vector and describe the local patch.
US08559724B2	Apparatus and method for generating additional information about moving picture content An apparatus and method for generating additional information about moving picture content, including: comparing image feature information about each image frame in moving picture content with image feature information about each image frame in web information, searching for an image frame in the moving picture content, the image frame matching the image frame in the web information, determining location information about the found image frame in the moving picture content, and generating additional information by use of the determined location information and the web information.
US08559723B2	Letter model and character bigram based language model for handwriting recognition A handwriting recognition system is described that includes a language model with scoring to improve recognition accuracy, such as for words outside of a selected language model. The handwriting recognition system increases the accuracy of handwriting recognizers that perform segmentation of ink into atomic elements (segments) and then classify each ink segment separately. After segmentation, a shape classifier estimates the class (letter) probabilities for each segment of ink by producing a corresponding score. The system applies the language model scoring to the shape classification results and typically selects the class with the highest score as the recognition result. Because the language model is not too restrictive, it works well for recognizing any word, even those that would not be in a dictionary for the current language. Thus, the handwriting recognition system produces better recognition results and can often recognize words that dictionary-based language models would not recognize correctly.
US08559706B2	Fraud detection using image analysis In one embodiment, a method executed by at least one processor includes receiving an image associated with a user and analyzing, by the at least one processor, the image. The method also includes determining a set of colors of the image based on the analysis of the image and generating a representation of the image based on the determined set of colors. The method further includes comparing the representation of the image to one or more stored representations of a first set of images. The stored representations of the first set of images are based on sets of colors of the first set of images. The first set of images are associated with known users. The method also includes, in response to comparing the representation of the image to the one or more stored representations of the first set of images, determining that the user is a suspected fraudulent user.
US08559699B2	Methods and apparatus to facilitate operations in image based systems Vision based systems may select actions based on analysis of images to redistribute objects. Actions may include action type, action axis and/or action direction. Analysis may determine whether an object is accessible by a robot, whether an upper surface of a collection of objects meet a defined criteria and/or whether clusters of objects preclude access.
US08559689B2	Medical image processing apparatus, method, and program A method of detecting a pleural plaque candidate from a medical image, which includes the steps of obtaining a medical image representing a subject, extracting a lung field area from the obtained medical image, comparing a contour of the extracted lung field with a comparison contour obtained by causing an active curve, having an initial shape in the lung field area and repeats deformation according to a certain deformation trend, to converge after repeating the deformation and detecting a depressed portion of the lung field, and determining the detected depressed portion as a first pleural plaque candidate.
US08559687B2	Method for circular scan reconstruction in computed tomography and computed tomographic device A method of computed-tomography and a computed-tomography apparatus where the portion of the field of view of a subject were full scan data is available is reconstructed using a full-scan algorithm. In the areas where full scan data is not available, half-scanning is used. Data is also extrapolated from the full scan data. The extrapolated data overlaps a portion of the half-scanning data. The extrapolated data and the overlapped portion of the half-scanning data are feathered. The image is reconstructed using the full-scan, half-scan and feathered data. Corner regions in an image are exposed and reconstructed to produce more uniform z-coverage of the reconstruction field of view.
US08559680B2	Method and device for computer-aided segmentation of an environment into individual objects The invention relates to a method for computer-aided segmentation of an environment into individual objects, in particular of a wood into individual trees, in which signals (SIG_R) backscattered by the objects are recorded by measurement technology, wherein the backscattered signals (SIG_R) result from the irradiation of the environment to be segmented with electromagnetic radiation. Furthermore, in the method according to the invention, spatial co-ordinates (x, y, z) of points which cause the backscattering and represent the object parts (X1, X2, . . . , X5) are determined from the backscattered signals (SIG_R), and a feature vector (f) is assigned to each of the points (P; P1, P2), which feature vector comprises at least the spatial co-ordinates (x, y, z) of the point in question (P; P1, P2). Then a distance measure (d) is determined for each of the feature vectors (f), which represents a similarity between the feature vectors (f) of two points (P; P1, P2). Finally the feature vectors (f) assigned to the points (P; P1, P2) are allocated to disjoint segments (A, B) in such a manner that a cost function (E) which takes into account the distance measures (d) of all the feature vectors (f) to each other is minimized, as a result of which the segmentation of the environment into individual objects is provided.
US08559676B2	Manipulation of virtual objects using enhanced interactive system The detection of motion of a user via a camera and the generation of a dynamic virtual representation of a user on a display, where the user's detected motion causes the dynamic virtual representation to interact with virtual objects on the display. The magnitude and direction of the user's detected motion is calculated to determine the magnitude and direction of a force applied by the dynamic virtual representation to the virtual object. Further arrangements include water or smoke fluid simulations, in order to enhance the user experience.
US08559674B2	Moving state estimating device A moving state estimating device (100) includes a feature point candidate extracting part (10) configured to extract feature point candidates in an image taken at a first time point by an imaging sensor (2) mounted on a vehicle, a positional relation obtaining part (11) configured to obtain a positional relation of an actual position of each feature point candidate relative to the vehicle, a feature point selecting part (12) configured to select a feature point candidate as a feature point based on the positional relation of the feature point candidate, a corresponding point extracting part (13) configured to extract a corresponding point in an image taken by the imaging sensor (2) at a second time point corresponding to the selected feature point, and a moving state estimating part configured to estimate a moving state of the vehicle from the first time point to the second time point based on a coordinate of the selected feature point and a coordinate of the corresponding point.
US08559668B2	Red-eye reduction using facial detection A computer-implemented method for detecting a red-eye artifact that includes receiving an image depicting a first eye and a second eye corresponding to a human face, and coordinates corresponding to a location of the first eye and the second eye in the image; calculating a distance between the first eye and the second eye using the received coordinates; obtaining a skin tone sample from the image based on the calculated distance and the received coordinates; generating a skin tone color region in a color space based on the obtained skin tone sample; classifying a pixel corresponding to the first eye as a red-eye pixel by comparing the pixel with the generated skin tone color region and a predetermined red-eye color region; and storing an indication of the classifying relative to the pixel.
US08559665B2	Headset and headphone There is provided a headset having a head band, at least one fork for receiving an earpiece and a receiving portion between an end of the head band and one of the forks. The fork is arranged pivotably about a pivot axis. The fork has a first end having a support element. The receiving portion has a slider having at least two receiving positions. The support element engages into one of the at least two receiving positions of the slider and thus limits the maximum deflection of the fork about the pivot axis.
US08559663B1	Method and apparatus for detecting cellular telephones for hearing assistance devices The present subject matter relates generally to methods and apparatus for detecting cellular telephones using hearing assistance devices. In an embodiment, a hearing assistance device includes a processor and a radio frequency transceiver connected to the processor. A detection circuit is connected to the processor, the detection circuit including a band pass filter and where the detection circuit is adapted to monitor a radio frequency signal to detect a cellular telephone in proximity to the hearing assistance device based on the monitored signal. The hearing assistance device includes an acoustic input, a magnetic input, and a switch for selecting between the acoustic input and the magnetic input. The processor is adapted to actuate the switch from the acoustic input to the magnetic input when a cellular telephone is detected in proximity to the hearing assistance device.
US08559660B2	Electrostatic electroacoustic transducers An electrostatic electroacoustic device comprising a first electrode configured to receive an audio signal, a second electrode configured to receive the audio signal, a first electret between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electret including at least one dielectric layer containing electrostatic charges, a second electret between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second electret including at least one dielectric layer containing electrostatic charges, and a conductive layer sandwiched between the first electret and the second electret, the conductive layer, the first electret and the second electret being capable of vibratory motion relative to the first electrode and the second electrode based on the audio signal.
US08559651B2	Synthetic stereo on a mono headset with motion sensing A system, processor implemented method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for playing a synthetic stereo on a mono headset with motion sensing. The method comprises a processor receiving movement data from an accelerometer detecting movement of the mono headset. In response to receiving movement data, the processor mixing an output audio signal comprising a left channel signal and a right channel signal and providing the output audio signal comprising a combination of the left channel signal and right channel signal based at least in part on detected movement of the mono headset. The output audio signal having either a substantially equal or unequal combination of the left channel signal and right channel signal based at least in part on detected movement of the mono headset.
US08559650B2	Circuit apparatus and method for detecting earphone in portable terminal A circuit apparatus and a method for detecting an earphone in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes an earjack, a first switch, a second switch, a comparator, and a main chip. The earjack outputs a signal informing whether an earphone is inserted, provides a signal input from a third pole of the inserted earphone to the first switch, and provides a signal input from a fourth pole to the second switch. The first switch outputs a signal provided from the earjack to one of a comparator and a ground depending on an input control signal. The second switch outputs a signal provided from the earjack to one of the comparator and the ground depending on the input control signal. The comparator compares a voltage of a signal provided from one of the first switch and the second switch with a reference voltage to output a signal representing a comparison result. The main chip outputs the control signal depending on the signal informing whether the earphone is inserted, and one of changes and maintains the control signal depending on an output signal of the comparator.
US08559633B2	Method and device for generating local interface key A method for generating a local interface key includes: generating a variable parameter; and deriving the local interface key, according to the variable parameter generated and related parameters for calculating the local interface key. The method simplifies the process in which the terminal obtains the local interface key and the system resources are saved. Moreover, the local interface key is derived through the variable parameter and the valid key information. Thus, the security level between the UICC and the terminal is ensured.
US08559630B2	Systems and methods for encrypting data Data encryption techniques are presented. According to an embodiment of a method, a cryptographic hash of unencrypted data for data block X−1 is generated, and a hash of an encryption key is generated. An initialization vector for data block X is generated using the cryptographic hash and the hash of the encryption key. Data block X−1 and data block X are logically contiguous and data block X−1 logically precedes data block X. Encryption data for data block X is generated from unencrypted data for data block X using the initialization vector.
US08559627B2	Sanctioned caching server and methods for use therewith A caching server includes a network interface receives first sanction data from the sanction server and transmits first cryptographic data to a client device, receives second cryptographic data from the device and that transmits scrambled media content to the client device. A random number generator generates a random number. A caching processing module, in response to the first sanction data, generates the first cryptographic data based on the random number and the first sanction data, generates a scrambling control word based on the first sanction data and the second cryptographic data and that generates the scrambled media content based on the scrambling control word.
US08559625B2	Elliptic curve point transformations In an elliptic curve cryptographic system, point coordinates in a first coordinate system are transformed into a second coordinate system. The transformed coordinates are processed by field operations, which have been modified for operating on the transformed point coordinates. In some implementations, the point coordinates are transformed using a linear transformation matrix having coefficients. The coefficients can be fixed, variable or random. In some implementations, the transformation matrix is invertible.
US08559622B2	Multifunctional keyboard for a mobile communication device and method of operating the same An apparatus and method for telephony tone signal and character code generation for QWERTY keyboards includes a QWERTY style keyboard, a processor and a keyboard mode control software module. The QWERTY style keyboard has a plurality of letter keys, wherein each letter key is configured to generate a unique input signal. The processor is coupled to the keyboard and is configured to convert each unique input signal generated by the letter keys into a character code and/or a telephony tone signal. The keyboard mode control software module operates on the processor, and controls whether the processor converts the unique input signals from the letter keys into character codes or telephony tone signals.
US08559618B1	Contact center call routing by agent attribute A system, method, and computer readable medium for contact center call routing by agent attribute, that comprises, detecting a caller voice attribute, sampling at least one agent voice attribute, storing the at least one agent voice attribute, matching the detected caller voice attribute to the stored voice attribute of the at least one agent, and routing a call based upon the matched agent voice attribute to the detected caller voice attribute.
US08559598B2	Miniature X-ray source device for effecting radiation therapy A miniature X-ray source device for effecting radiation therapy at least comprising a vacuum tube containing a cathode and an anode spaced apart at some distance from each other; emitting means for emitting free electrons from the cathode; electric field generating means for applying during use a high-voltage electric field between the cathode and the anode for accelerating the emitted free electrons towards the anode, as well as an exit window for X-ray radiation being generating at the anode. The present invention provides an improved miniature X-ray source device, that can also properly be used in treating skin cancer and which is easy to handle. The anode is provided with a flat X-ray emitting surface. In particular, the cathode exhibits a concave shaped surface having a center part surrounded by an upright circumferential edge, wherein the center part of the concave shaped surface is provided with an electron emitting material.
US08559596B2	Target Tracking for image-guided radiation treatment Systems, methods, and related computer program products for medical imaging and image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) are described. In one preferred embodiment, an IGRT system provides intrafraction target tracking based on a comparison of intrafraction x-ray tomosynthesis image data with initial x-ray tomosynthesis image data acquired with the patient in an initial treatment position, the initial x-ray tomosynthesis image data having an inherent registration with co-acquired image data from a setup imaging system integral with, or having known geometry relative to, the tomosynthesis imaging system. Repeated registration of intrafraction x-ray tomosynthesis image data with pre-acquired reference image data from a different frame of reference is not required during intrafraction radiation delivery. Advantages include streamlined intrafraction computation and/or reduced treatment delivery margins.
US08559587B1	Fractional-N dividers having divider modulation circuits therein with segmented accumulators Fractional-N divider circuits include a multi-modulus divider, which is configured to perform at least /N and /N+1 frequency division of a first reference signal received at a first input thereof. This division is performed in response to an overflow signal received at a second input thereof, where N is an integer greater than one. A phase correction circuit is configured to generate a second reference signal in response to a divider output signal generated by the multi-modulus divider. A divider modulation circuit is provided, which is configured to generate the overflow signal in response to a code that specifies a plurality of division moduli to be used by the multi-modulus divider. The divider modulation circuit includes a segmented accumulator, which is configured to generate a plurality of segments of a count value having at least one period of latency therebetween.
US08559584B2	Nuclear reactor automatic depressurization system A blocking device for preventing the actuation of an automatic depressurization system in a pressurized nuclear reactor system due to spurious signals resulting from a software failure. The blocking signal is removed when the coolant level within the core makeup tanks drop below a predetermined level.
US08559583B1	Passive cooling and depressurization system and pressurized water nuclear power plant A passive cooling and depressurization system for a pressurized water nuclear plant is provided with a cooling water pool, a steam supply piping, a heat exchanger, a steam supply valve, a coolant return pipe and an outlet valve. The steam supply piping extends from the gas phase of the pressurizer. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between water stored in the cooling water pool and steam flowing through the steam supply piping. The steam supply valve is equipped on the steam supply piping. The coolant return pipe extends from the heat exchanger to a liquid phase of the reactor pressure boundary. The outlet valve is equipped on the coolant return pipe.
US08559576B2	Adaptive synchronization circuit Embodiments of a synchronization circuit are described. This synchronization circuit includes multiple selectively coupled synchronization stages which are configurable to synchronize data and control signals between a first time domain and a second time domain, where the synchronization can be performed based on asynchronous or synchronous events associated with either the first time domain or the second time domain. Additionally, the synchronization circuit includes control logic, coupled to the synchronization stages, which is configured to adapt a number of synchronization stages used to synchronize the data and the control signals based on an estimate of a probability of metastability persisting to an output of the synchronization circuit during the synchronization.
US08559573B2	Communications circuit and method with re-positionable sampling span A communications circuit includes a filter module with a sampling window, a control module, and an input buffer. The control module has a ray parameter interface to obtain information regarding significant ray changes that make it desirable to re-position the sampling window. The control module determines re-positioning parameters, responsive to this information, which reflect the re-positioning of the sampling window. The input buffer obtains samples of a received signal and outputs received signal data to the filter module. The filter module obtains the re-positioning parameters from the control module, and the filter module and control module temporally re-position the sampling window in duration and/or location in accordance with the re-positioning parameters, and output a filtered chip.
US08559565B2	Wireless communication unit and method for DC offset estimation A method (500) for estimating at least one offset in a subcarrier that is subject to distortion in a multicarrier communication system. The method comprises receiving a plurality of subcarriers wherein the plurality of subcarriers contain the subcarrier that is subject to the distortion; and generating a plurality of first channel estimates for a respective plurality of received subcarriers that are not subject to the distortion. The method further comprises processing a number of the plurality of first channel estimates for the respective plurality of received subcarriers that are not subject to the distortion to generate a second channel estimate for the subcarrier that is subject to the distortion; and estimating an offset associated with the subcarrier that is subject to the distortion. Estimation of the offset comprises: receiving a known reference signal transmitted for the subcarrier that is subject to the distortion; multiplying the second channel estimate with the known reference signal to produce a first value; and subcarrier subtracting the first value from the received known reference signal to produce the estimated offset.
US08559561B2	Method and apparatus for symbol detection via reduced complexity sequence estimation processing Teachings presented herein offer the performance advantages of sequence estimation for received signal symbol detection, while simultaneously providing potentially significant reductions in computational overhead. Initial demodulation of a received signal identifies a reduced number of candidate symbol values for all or a subset of a sequence of symbols represented in a received signal. A sequence estimation process, e.g., an MLSE process, constrains its state spaces to the reduced number of candidate symbols values, rather than considering all possible symbol values.
US08559558B2	Reference voltage generator for single-ended communication systems In various embodiments, a reference voltage (Vref) generator for a single-ended receiver in a communication system is disclosed. The Vref generator in one example comprises a cascoded current source for providing a current, I, to a resistor, Rb, to produce the Vref voltage (I*Rb). Because the current source isolates Vref from a first of two power supplies, Vref will vary only with the second power supply coupled to Rb. As such, the Vref generator is useful in systems employing signaling referenced to that second supply but having decoupled first supplies. For example, in a communication system in which the second supply (e.g., Vssq) is common to both devices, but the first supply (Vddq) is not, the disclosed Vref generator produces a value for Vref that tracks Vssq but not the first supply.
US08559557B2	Telecommunication method and apparatus Methods of transmitting and receiving information in a telecommunications network are described. A method of transmitting, for example, includes identifying a message for transmission, the message selected from a plurality of predetermined messages, and selecting a code combination from a set of codes combinations, each code combination corresponding to a predetermined message. Data is encoded with the selected code combination, and the encoded data is transmitted. A method of receiving may include receiving the signal including data encoded for transmission with the selected code combination, and decoding the signal to retrieve unencoded data, the decoding including determining with which code combination selected from the set of code combinations the data is encoded. The data is decoded, and the message for transmission is selected from the plurality of predetermined messages, wherein the message is selected based on the code combination with which the data was encoded.
US08559555B2	Method of acquiring a received spread spectrum signal A method of acquiring a received spread spectrum signal comprises receiving a spread spectrum signal, analyzing the received signal to detect interference within the received signal, and adapting the baseband processing of the received signal to reduce power consumption during periods of detected interference. This allows the GPS processing resources to be focussed on areas of signal where there is little or no interference, and this is possible without modification to the source of interference. The interference is detected from an analysis of the received signal, and in particular before the baseband digital signal processing.
US08559547B2	Channel estimation utilizing control signals transmitted by an activating line during initialization An access node is configured to control crosstalk between an activating channel associated with a first terminal and active channels associated with respective other terminals. The access node detects a control signal sent by the first terminal over the activating channel in a designated phase of an initialization process of the first terminal, determines an error signal from the detected control signal, correlates the error signal with one or more corresponding signals sent by respective ones of the other terminals over the active channels, estimates crosstalk from the active channels into the activating channel based on the correlation, and configures a vectoring signal processing module to control the estimated crosstalk. The control signal sent by the first terminal comprises a value selected by the first terminal from a set of two or more values and prior to its detection the particular selected value is unknown to the access node.
US08559534B2	Method for data transmission within a communication system, subscriber and communication system The present invention is related to a method for data transmission via an interface between a communication pair of a transmitting subscriber and a receiving subscriber of a communication system, wherein a scrambled pilot signal is used both for channel measurement and for data transmission. The present invention relates further to a subscriber for data transmission and a communication system.
US08559527B2	Image display apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a technique of appropriately compensating for loss of even an entire image frame due to data error such as a transmission error to allow display of a high quality image. An image display apparatus of the present invention comprises: a decoding unit which decodes an encoded bit stream into an image signal; an interpolation image generating unit which generates an interpolation frame based on frames of the decoded image signal; and a control unit which detects an error in the encoded bit stream and controls the interpolation image generating unit; wherein when a frame of the encoded bit stream is lost (that is, it has not been able to be decoded) due to an uncorrectable error, the above interpolation frame is displayed instead of the lost frame.
US08559525B2	Apparatus and method for uncompressed, wireless transmission of video An apparatus and method for wireless transmission of uncompressed HDTV video overcomes the challenges of sending vast amounts of information over a wireless link. This is achieved by direct mapping of transformation coefficients of the video components to communication symbols, such as OFDM symbols. A main portion of the important transform coefficients, for example the MSBs of the coefficients representing lower frequencies of each of the video components, and in particular the quantized values of the lower frequencies components, are sent in a coarse representation using, for example, QPSK or QAM. The coefficients representing higher frequencies of the video components, and the quantization error values of the lower frequencies components, or some, non-linear transformation thereof, are sent as pairs of real and imaginary portions of a complex number that comprises a point in a fine constellation. The invention further provides a delay-less and buffer-less implementation of transmitter and receiver pairs.
US08559519B2	Method and device for video encoding using predicted residuals An encoder for encoding a video by performing motion estimation using predicted residuals in the rate-distortion cost expression. The predicted residuals are determined by finding a predicted motion vector with respect to the original reference frame and calculating the corresponding residual values. The actual motion vector is then selected based on minimization of the rate-distortion cost expression with respect to the reconstructed reference frame, where the rate-distortion cost expression includes the predicted residuals. In particular, the cost expression includes reconstructed predicted residuals within the distortion term.
US08559516B2	Video sequence ID by decimated scene signature A method for identifying video content consistent with certain embodiments involves, selecting a plurality pixels using a pixel selection algorithm, the pixels being selected to provide a repeatable selection of pixels in a selected frame in the video content; establishing a scene signature by: extracting a characteristic of each selected pixel that can be represented in a digital form for each pixel, and generating a digital stream by concatenating the digital form for the extracted characteristic of each pixel; transmitting the scene signature to an identification device for comparison with scene signatures in a database having a plurality of video content items to identify the video content; and receiving either the identification of the video content or an indication that no video content is uniquely identified by the scene signature. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08559513B2	Referenceable frame expiration Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation.
US08559512B2	Device, system, and method for predicting residual data for intra and inter frame encoding of image or video data A system, processor, and method are provided for encoding a data block, for example, of digital data. A processor may, from among a plurality of intra frame encoding modes each having a different direction for extrapolating already encoded pixels adjacent to the block, select an intra coding mode having a direction that most closely matches a direction of minimum pixel value change of the block. The processor may compute a predicted intra frame encoding residual data for the block associated with the selected mode based on the difference between the direction of the selected intra frame encoding mode and the direction of minimum pixel value change of the block. The processor may compute inter frame encoding residual data and compare the intra and inter frame encoding residual data. The processor may compress the data block using the intra or inter frame encoding having the smaller residual data.
US08559509B2	Wavelet transform apparatus and method based on prediction-update lifting scheme, and adaptive prediction apparatus and method and recording medium for the same The present disclosure relates to a wavelet transform apparatus and method based on a prediction-update lifting scheme, and an adaptive prediction apparatus and method and a recording medium for the same. The disclosure comprises the steps of: setting first updated even polyphase samples influenced when being updated from corresponding odd polyphase samples, setting plural candidate groups for prediction direction based on the set first updated even polyphase samples, selecting a first prediction direction from the candidate groups to minimize the energy in a high band, obtaining a first prediction value based on the first prediction direction and the updated even polyphase samples corresponding to the first prediction direction, and obtaining residual odd polyphase samples by deducting the first prediction value from the corresponding odd polyphase samples. Therefore, the present disclosure is able to increase encoding efficiency by minimizing energy transfer to a high band signal when removing the spatial correlation within an image using a directional wavelet transform designed based on the prediction-update lifting scheme.
US08559505B2	Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal The method includes the steps of obtaining identification information representing multi-view video data stream including initialization information of a reference picture list for a random access slice, obtaining initialization information of a reference picture list for the random access slice based on the identification information, the initialization information representing a reference relation between a plurality of views, initializing the reference picture list using the initialization information, obtaining modification information for the initialized reference picture list from a multi-view video data stream, modifying the initialized reference picture list for inter-view prediction based on the modification information.
US08559502B2	Method and device for minimizing a quantization error A device minimizes a quantization error in the inverse quantization of a quantized coefficient during a compression method, the quantization error describing a difference between the quantized coefficient after inverse quantization and an associated coefficient prior to quantization. According to the method, at least one parameter that is characteristic of the compression of the quantized coefficient is selected, (at least two characteristic parameters being selected if one of the two characteristic parameters corresponds to a temporal prediction mode), a correction value is chosen based on the selected characteristic parameter(s) and inverse quantization takes place after the correction value has been added to the quantized coefficient.
US08559489B2	Systems and methods for characterizing transmission lines using broadband signals in a multi-carrier DSL environment Using DSL modems as data collectors, the modems processes the data to, for example, allow easier interpretation of the line characteristics. In particular, the modems postprocess the data including calibration, filter compensation, determination of the SNR medley from the bits and gains tables and rate conversion. The interpretation process uses the postprocessed data and determines loop characterization, interferer detection, a data reduction estimation and a data rate estimation. The outputs of these determinations least allow for the characterization of the line conditions between the two modems.
US08559486B2	RF tag, RF tag reader, and pulse code key detecting circuit, and RF tag system using them An RF tag system is provided, in which in addition to a method of easily sending back MPSK modulated sub-carrier signals on the RF tag side, communication protocols and circuit systems for accurately demodulating modulated waves on the RF tag reader side can be implemented, data transmission from an RF tag to an RF tag reader can be realized over a long operating distance at high speed, and an RF tag can be operated for a long lifetime.
US08559482B1	Implementation of multi-channel intermediate frequency modem for radio communication with a programmable integrated circuit Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for implementing a digital up converter (DUC) in an integrated circuit (IC). The method includes serializing a plurality of inputs to obtain a serial output and then increasing the sample rate of the serial output. Additionally, the method generates signal pairs (sine, cosine) for the desired carrier frequencies using time division multiplexing (TDM). Some of the signal pairs are delayed by one period within the TDM cycle to generate delayed signal pairs. The serial output is distributed, after the increase of the sample rate, to a plurality of filters to further increase the sample rate, each filter outputting a subset of the plurality of inputs using TDM. In one embodiment, the plurality of inputs includes 8 input pairs and the plurality of filters includes 6 Cascaded Integrator-Comb (CIC) filters operating in three-fold TDM. Further, one operation of the method combines the outputs from the plurality of filters with one of the signals from a corresponding signal pair or delayed signal pair. The result of the combination is sent to a digital to analog converter for transmission by one or more antennas.
US08559468B2	Combining a GPS carrier with existing communication carriers over a common coaxial connection A method of combining a GPS carrier signal and a communication carrier signal over a common coaxial connection, the method comprising receiving a GPS carrier signal into a signal system using an antenna, which system is configured to receive a non-GPS communication carrier signal from a communication system, processing the GPS carrier signal with the signal communication system to produce a modified GPS carrier signal, the processing comprising at least: filtering the modified GPS carrier signal using a filter, and amplifying the GPS carrier signal using an amplifier; filtering, using a filter, and power combining using a power combiner, the GPS carrier signal and the non-GPS communication carrier signal, and transmitting, using a single coaxial cable, the combined GPS carrier and non-GPS communication carrier signals to a communication device.
US08559467B2	Method and device for allocating a broadcast channel in a wireless mobile communication system A method for receiving a superframe header at a mobile station in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a sub-frame including the superframe header and a first data channel and decoding the received superframe header. Herein, the superframe header is located within a predetermined physical frequency band and the predetermined physical frequency band includes a synchronization channel.
US08559461B2	Packet data transmission with optimum preamble length In a communication network, a sending node transmits a message with a multi-segment preamble and data to a receiving node. The receiving node calculates characteristics of the sending unit, channel, or transmitted signal by processing preamble segments. Once an unknown characteristic is determined, a segment of the preamble can be eliminated or reduced in length for subsequent messages, which increases efficiency of the message transmissions.
US08559458B2	Method and apparatus for uplink scheduling in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system A method and scheduler are provided that optimize utilization of an uplink (UL) data packet field of an UL sub-frame. In one embodiment, a request for an allocation of bandwidth is received from each of multiple mobile stations. The requests include requests for a bandwidth allocation of a first size range and requests for a bandwidth allocation of a second size range, wherein each request of the second size range requests more bandwidth than any request of the first size range. Bandwidth is allocated in a UL data packet field to the requests in order of priority, and when the allocated bandwidth does not fill the UL data packet field and a request of the second size range remains unallocated, an allocation of bandwidth to an unallocated request of the second size range is substituted for an allocation of bandwidth to a request of the first size range.
US08559453B2	Routing apparatus A routing apparatus couples to another routing apparatus using a trunk formed by a plurality of channels, and has a plurality of input and output cards to input and output frames. Each input and output card includes a management table registering a transmitting source address, destination information, and a trunk attribute indicating whether a channel used for a transmission has a trunk structure, a learning request part searching the management table using a transmitting source address within a frame that is transmitted via the channel, and generating and supplying learning request information having information that is obtained by searching the management table to another input and output card, if the channel used for the transmission has the trunk structure, and a registering part registering learning request information supplied thereto in the management table.
US08559452B2	Efficient memory allocation in a wireless transmit/receiver unit The present invention allows for effective sharing of the hardware memory of a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). The memory will be shared among various buffers of different entities. More particularly, memory will be shared among the MAC reordering buffers and the RLC reception buffers.
US08559450B2	Transmission apparatus for VPN optimization by defragmentation and deduplication and method A transmission apparatus for optimizing a virtual private network operates by defragmenting and deduplicating transfer of variable sized blocks. A large data object is converted to a plurality of data paragraphs by a fingerprinting method. Each data paragraph is cached and hashed. The hashes are transmitted to at least one satellite apparatus. Only data paragraphs which are not previously cached at each satellite are transferred.
US08559442B2	Diverse path forwarding through trial and error In one embodiment, a node determines an intention to transmit a diversely forwarded packet through a computer network, and as such, transmits a first version of the packet having a packet identifier (ID) and a first distinguisher value to a first next-hop node, and transmits a second version of the packet having the same packet ID and a second distinguisher value different from the first distinguisher value to a second next-hop node different from the first next-hop node. In another embodiment, a next-hop node that receives the packet determines whether any previously received packet at the next-hop node had a same packet ID and a different distinguisher value. In response to determining that no previously received packet has the same packet ID and different distinguisher value, the next-hop node stores the packet ID and the distinguisher value, and forwards the packet to a selected next-hop node.
US08559428B2	Network system MTID of a terminal apparatus is preliminarily registered into a database of an ISP. In step S2, when a power source of the terminal apparatus is turned on first, (MTID=B) is transmitted from the terminal apparatus to a router. A transmission signal is received by the router and (HGWID=A, MTID=B) is transmitted from the router to the ISP. If (HGWID=A, MTID=B) has been registered in the database, the ISP transmits a permission message in step S5. In step S6, an IP address for a new terminal apparatus is allocated and the new terminal apparatus can participate in a homenetwork. If (HGWID=A, MTID=B) is not registered, a refusal message is sent to the router.
US08559423B2	Method and apparatus for packet processing The present invention discloses a packet processing apparatus and method. The packet processing apparatus is applied to an L4˜L7 network device, including a plurality of interface processing units and a plurality of service processing units, the interface processing units are connected with the service processing units through a first connection unit; and each of the interface processing units is adapted to select, after receiving a packet from outside, a service processing unit from all the service processing units and transmit the packet to the selected service processing unit; and each of the service processing units is adapted to perform service processing to the packet after receiving the packet. The present invention improves packet processing capability and reliability of the L4˜L7 network device.
US08559421B2	Method and apparatus for calibrating sleep clocks Apparatus for use in a wireless network has a fast clock for operation in an active wakeup mode and a sleep clock for operation in a sleep mode. A calibration for the sleep clock is calculated based on the fast clock. A quality value for that new calibration is determined. If the quality value of the new calibration is higher than a quality value of an old calibration, the new calibration is used, and, if not, the new calibration is discarded and the old calibration is used. Alternatively or in addition, the length of time until the next calibration is estimated. It is then determined whether the new calibration is of sufficient quality to last for the estimated time until next calibration, and, if not, the calibration measurement period is extended.
US08559420B1	Method and apparatus for reducing control communication delay in a remotely controlled apparatus A scatterer gatherer method and device configured to remotely manipulate an apparatus. The scatterer sends a group of identical packets through a network. The route each packet takes through the network is determined by the network. The time taken for a first packet of a group to travel from origin to destination is unequal from that taken by a second packet of the group. A gatherer is configured to receive each packet, determine which is the first of the group of identical packets to arrive, store the first and discard the later arriving packets of the group. The gatherer further configured to interpolate to determine a value for a missing group of packets should none of the group arrives within a predetermined time. The method and device further configured to use the stored data to remotely manipulate an apparatus then provide feedback to the user through a return network path.
US08559418B2	Method, system, and device for setting up a call using a global registry A method, system, and device for establishing a call using a single identifier, which includes receiving contact information relating to the single identifier from an uploading device, the contact information identifying at least one protocol, storing the contact information received from the uploading device, retrieving the stored contact information and transmitting a message including the contact information, in response to a request from a call server for the contact information relating to the single identifier, receiving a request from a first communication device to establish a call to a second communication device associated with the single identifier, requesting the contact information relating to the single identifier, receiving the contact information relating to the single identifier, and establishing a call between the first communication device and the second communication device associated with the single identifier using the at least one protocol.
US08559417B2	Terminal, method for operating the terminal, and method for interworking in wireless communication system including 3GPP LTE network and 3GPP legacy network A terminal, a method for operation of the terminal, and a method of interworking in a wireless communication system including an advanced network and a legacy network are provided. The method for operating the terminal includes monitoring a paging channel of the legacy network for a data paging message and a Circuit Switched (CS) paging message, when the terminal is in an idle state, receiving one of the CS paging message and data paging message, establishing a connection with the legacy network corresponding to the received one of the CS paging message and data paging message, wherein a CS voice connection is established with the legacy network if the CS paging message is received and a Packet Switched (PS) data connection is established with the legacy network if the data paging message is received, and performing a handover to the advanced network from the legacy network, if the PS data connection is established with the legacy network.
US08559415B2	Method and apparatus for facilitating telecommunication network selection A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for facilitating a selection of a telecommunication network are provided. A request for a type of network associated with a called identifier is received from a calling communication device. A repository of information about caller identifiers is searched. Information corresponding to the called identifier is selected. The selected information includes the type of network associated with the called identifier. The selected information is returned to the calling communication device. The information in the repository is updated by adding information about new caller identifiers, updating information about the several caller identifiers existing in the repository, or both.
US08559414B2	Automatically detecting best paths from shadow route reflectors In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a path advertisement comprising information about an available path and a well-known community value associated with the available path. A modified best path calculation is performed in response to receiving the available path either from a higher-ranked device or from a device that is not participating in diverse path calculation, resulting in creating a particular best path. The particular best path is advertised to other routers with or without a restriction indicator based on whether it is a client learned path or non-client iBGP peer learned path and based on whether the advertisement is directed to a client or a non-client iBGP peer.
US08559411B2	Support of disparate addressing plans and dynamic HA address allocation in mobile IP Methods and apparatus for enhancing Mobile IP signaling and to support use of disparate addressing plans and dynamic Home Agent allocation in Mobile IP Regional Tunneling are described. The enhanced methods of signaling use an intermediate node, e.g., a Gateway Foreign Agent, straddling different addressing domains, when the signaling controls a process between the intermediate node and an upstream node. The specific intermediate node, its interfaces and upstream addresses can be dynamically selected. The Enhanced MIP signaling includes dynamic allocation of: a regional node at a Foreign Agent, the upstream address of a regional node by the regional node, a Home Agent for a regional node prior to dynamic allocation of the regional node. A method is supported to indicate to a Mobile Node that a dynamically allocated regional node has become invalid triggering enhanced MIP signaling dynamically allocating a new regional node and upstream interface address.
US08559405B2	Multicarrier wireless communications reference cell A base station configures a primary cell group and at least one secondary cell group in a wireless device. The wireless device transmits first uplink signals in the secondary cell group employing a reference secondary cell in the secondary cell group as a timing reference. The wireless device autonomously selects a new activated secondary cell in the secondary cell group as the timing reference. The new activated secondary cell is different from the reference secondary cell. The wireless device transmits second uplink signals in the secondary cell group employing the new activated secondary cell as the timing reference.
US08559391B2	Open wireless architecture (OWA) unified airborne and terrestrial communications architecture This invention relates to an Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) unified airborne and terrestrial communications architecture providing optimal high-speed connections with open radio transmission technologies (RTTs) between aircrafts and ground cells, and between different aircrafts in Ad-Hoc or Mesh network group, to construct the multi-dimensional unified information delivery platform across the airborne networks and the terrestrial networks wherein the same OWA mobile device or OWA mobile computer can be used seamlessly and continuously both in the aircrafts and on the ground.
US08559389B2	Wireless communication terminal, hand-off method in wireless communication terminal, and wireless communication system It is possible to provide a wireless communication terminal, a handoff method in the wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication system which can suppress the affect of an instantaneous disconnection in a hard handoff. The wireless communication terminal (10) includes a control unit (12) which executes a wireless communication by switching a frequency to be used by a communication unit (11). When the control unit (12) receives a search request which requests an acquisition of a handoff candidate frequency during a transmission of data formed by a plurality of continuous packets, the control unit (12) waits for completion of the transmission of the packets being transmitted. When the transmission is complete, the control unit (12) executes an inter-packet search process which controls the communication unit (11) to stop transmission of the subsequent packets and perform acquisition by switching from the currently used frequency to the handoff candidate frequency.

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