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US08596673B2	Anti-ejection inflatable vehicle occupant protection device An apparatus (10) for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle (12) that has a side structure (16) and a window opening (28) includes an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (14) inflatable to a deployed condition in which the protection device is positioned between the side structure (16) and the vehicle occupant and covers at least a portion of the window opening (28). The protection device (14) when in the deployed condition has a first edge portion (70) connected to an adjacent portion of the vehicle and an opposite second edge portion (76) that is free from connections to vehicle portions adjacent the second edge portion. At least one tether (100) has a first end connected to the vehicle proximate to the first end portion (70) of the protection device (14) and an opposite second end connected to the second edge portion (76) of the protection device. The at least one tether (100) maintains the second edge portion (76) of the protection device (14) in the deployed condition and resists outboard movement of the second edge portion through the window opening (28) in response to occupant movement toward the window opening to restrain the occupant from ejection through the window opening.
US08596672B2	Curtain airbag device placement structure A curtain airbag device placement structure has an airbag module that is structured to include a curtain airbag folded-up in an elongated shape and an inflator supplying gas to the curtain airbag at a time of a side collision or the like, and that is assembled in advance to a top surface of a side terminal portion of a roof head lining. The inflator is disposed directly above a center pillar, and a pair of front and rear mounting leg portions of an inflator mounting bracket for fixing the inflator to a vehicle body are extended further toward a vehicle lower side than the side terminal portion of the roof head lining, and further, the inflator mounting bracket is fixed to the center pillar at the mounting leg portions.
US08596671B2	Multi-functional collapsible wheeled apparatus A wheeled apparatus includes a base having sides, a front, rear, upper surface and lower surface, with a pair of leaves forming sides of the base and pivotally connected thereto and a pair of gates forming the front and rear and pivotally connected to the base and leaves. A handle subassembly and a leg subassembly are connected to the base, with a wheel subassembly connected to the leg subassembly. The apparatus is configurable in a cart mode, a table mode with gates and leaves oriented in a flat horizontal plane, a dolly mode with leaves and gates connected to form a cart but with leg subassembly lowered closer to the ground relative to the cart mode, and a stowage mode, where the leaves and gates collapse into the base, the handle subassembly retracts into the base, and the leg subassembly collapses up into the lower surface of the base.
US08596668B2	Rotationally adjustable adapter for sport boot binding An adapter enables a rider to adjust an angular orientation of a binding relative to a sport board without removing a foot, comprising a base plate, a top plate, and a locking mechanism supported by the top plate having a pair of insertion members configured to selectively engage a plurality of recesses formed in the base plate. The top plate and base plate can each have a center opening and a fastener supported by the center opening of each of the top plate and base plate to axially couple the top plate to the base plate.
US08596665B2	Trailer coupling The invention relates to a trailer coupling (1) for fastening to a towing vehicle, having a flange plate (2) and a hitch ball (3), wherein a neck (4) that connects the flange plate (2) and the hitch ball (3) is formed. For a high force load capacity, small installation space requirements, weight efficient constructability and assurance of large swivel angles, it is suggested, that the maximal extent of the neck (4) in a first direction (91) is smaller than in a second direction (92), which is normal to the first direction (91).
US08596662B2	Vehicle pedal A vehicle pedal includes a main plastic pedal, a decoration, at least an adhesive sheet and an anti-slipping rubber plate, and a rack. The main plastic pedal has at least a pedal portion having plural small recesses respectively bored with a through hole. The decoration also has plural small recesses respectively bored with a through hole, and plural projections formed in the bottom to correspond to the small concaves. Plural positioning blocks are fitted in the through holes of the decoration. The adhesive sheet is glued between the pedaling portion of the decoration and the anti-slipping rubber plate, having plural through holes, with two sides coated with a glue layer. The anti-slipping rubber plate has plural positioning bars inserted through the through holes of the adhesive sheet to be restricted by the positioning blocks.
US08596655B2	Parts securing mechanism and method thereof Is hereby provided a method of securing a plastic part to a composite structure, the method comprising providing a composite structure, performing at least one hole in the composite structure, providing a plastic part including a surface and at least one pin extending therefrom, the at least one pin being sized and designed to mate with the at least one hole to create a clamping force capable of temporarily securing the plastic part to the composite structure, applying bonding material between the surface and the composite structure to bond the surface to the composite structure, engaging the at least one pin with the corresponding at least one hole and adding pressure to engage the at least one pin with the corresponding at least one hole and spreading the bonding material between the plastic part and the composite structure, and curing the bonding material to permanently secure the additional part to the composite structure. A plastic part adapted to be secured to a composite structure with pins thereof and a composite materials galley cart comprising parts secured thereof with pins are also hereby provided.
US08596651B2	Height adjustable work seat A height adjustable work seat is disclosed. The work seat is collapsible and extendable, and has a base, a seat pan and four folding and lockable legs. Four wheels are mounted to the bottom of the base. The folding legs connect the seat pan to the base. Each folding leg pivots at the base, the seat pan and a center pivot. The seat pan is at a maximum height relative to the base with the four folding legs fully extended. The seat pan is at a minimum height relative to the base with the four folding legs fully folded. A releasable locking mechanism secures each of the folding legs in a fully extended condition. One or more crossbars may connect opposing sleeve locks, aiding in locking, unlocking, folding or extending the pair of legs between which each crossbar extends. The seat pan may have a seatback.
US08596646B2	Y-shaped gasket, a method of fabricating such a gasket, and the use of such a gasket for reducing the engagement forces of a connector The invention seeks to provide a gasket for a quick connector that is inexpensive to fabricate, providing sealing over a wide range of fluid pressures, while presenting engagement forces that are small for flow diameters of large size. More precisely, the present invention provides a sealing gasket of elastically deformable material having a Y-shaped longitudinal axial section for use in a quick coupling for a fluid duct, the gasket (10) comprising an I-shaped stem (1) and a V-shaped portion (2), flash (3p, 3s) of join plane (P1) of the gasket being located between the I-shaped stem (1) and the V-shaped portion (2), preferably substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis (P2) of the gasket (10). The invention also provides the use of such a gasket, and a mold and a method for fabricating such a gasket.
US08596640B1	Storytelling game and method of play A method of play, wherein play emphasizes storytelling and story recounting abilities, and wherein the method comprises: (a) providing a gaining device which provides for: a plurality of subject elements, wherein each subject element from the plurality of subject elements comprises a topic for a particular story; and a plurality of situational elements, wherein each situational element from the plurality of situational elements qualifies the subject element; (b) pairing a subject element from the plurality of subject elements with a situational element from the plurality of situational elements; and (c) providing a story based on the paired subject element and selected situational element.
US08596638B2	Rotatable hand grip system Safe and novel hand grip systems for manually gripping and spinning gaming wheels or rotatable gaming apparatus are improved by including a lightweight, spoked-frame, rotating-rim gaming wheel that may comprise “snap-fitting” and/or modular electronic-plug-in game play wedge pieces. As well, the improvements also encompass inclusion of a novel optional stationary gaming wheel frame in conjunction with the above said rotating hand grip systems, that itself may include several embodiments and modifications.
US08596627B2	Automobile rotisserie An automobile rotisserie may include a pair of support columns, a neck clamp clamped to each support column, a rotation assembly attached to each neck clamp, a swing arm clamp attached to each rotation assembly, a swing arm received in and clamped by each swing arm clamp, a balancing assembly effective for controlling the movement and positioning of the swing arm within the swing arm clamp, and a mounting arm extending from each swing arm. Each neck clamp and/or swing arm clamp may include an L-shaped outer clamp plate and a W-shaped inner clamp plate. Each rotation assembly may include an outer sleeve attached to a neck clamp, an inner insert sleeve attached to a swing arm clamp, a plurality of ball bearings between the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve to facilitate rotational movement of the inner sleeve within the outer sleeve, and a retainer bearing to retain the inner sleeve within the outer sleeve. The balancing assembly may include a threaded balancer block attached to a swing arm clamp, an unthreaded balancer block attached to a swing arm, a threaded rod extending through the threaded balancer block and through the unthreaded balancer block, a gripping head at one end of the threaded rod, a thrust bearing assembly sandwiching the unthreaded balancer block, and a locking collar fixed to the threaded rod adjacent the thrust bearing assembly and the unthreaded balancer block.
US08596615B2	Lifting or locking system and method A lifting mechanism or locking mechanism includes a housing, an axle attached to the housing, and an element including a cam surface mounted for rotation on the axle. The distance between the cam surface and the housing changes between a maximum clearance distance and a minimum clearance distance as the element rotates about the axle. The lifting mechanism also includes a line which can be moved between a first position over the cam surface and a second position.
US08596606B2	Automate fluid flow control system An automate fluid flow control system includes a relief valve for being sealedly disposed within a fluid chamber in an immovable manner to seal a flow of fluid flowing from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet, and an actuator. The relief valve has a fluid passage for controlling a flow rate of the fluid passing from the fluid chamber to the fluid outlet, and a valve stopper sealedly closing the fluid passage for controlling the fluid flowing from the fluid chamber to the fluid outlet, wherein the valve stopper is driven to move between a closed position that the valve stopper is sealedly retained to close the fluid passage for blocking said fluid passing to the fluid outlet, and an opened position that the valve stopper is moved to unseal the fluid passage for allowing the fluid passing to the fluid outlet through the fluid passage.
US08596605B2	Floor through-passage molding apparatus The present invention provides a floor through-passage molding apparatus adapted for a floor construction, which comprises a forming sleeve, a first covering plate assembly, a second covering plate assembly and a plurality of retaining assemblies. Said forming sleeve has a sleeve wall defining a hollow channel, a first opening and a second opening. Said first and second covering plate assemblies are respectively disposed on the first and second openings of said forming sleeve. Said plurality of retaining assemblies passes through the hollow channel of said forming sleeve, and are respectively retained with the first and second covering plate assemblies by a plurality of corresponding retaining holes formed on said first and second covering plate assemblies, wherein positions of the plurality of corresponding retaining holes distributed on said first covering plate assembly or said second covering plate assembly jointly define at least one plane.
US08596604B2	Apparatus, system and method for an entertainment and gaming machine base The invention disclosed herein is directed to a system, method and apparatus for a base used in connection with a device. In one embodiment of the invention, the base is used in connection with entertainment and gaming devices such as slot machines, video poker and blackjack, video games, and other entertainment and gaming devices. The base may support the entertainment or gaming device, and may comprise a top surface on which said device may be positioned, a first side panel positioned substantially perpendicularly to the top surface, a second side panel positioned substantially perpendicularly to the top surface and opposed to the first side panel, and a front panel positioned substantially perpendicularly to the top surface and the first and second side panels. In one embodiment of the invention, the base is modular and may be easily and repeatedly assembled and disassembled for servicing, maintenance, reconfiguration, shipping and/or relocation. The modular aspect of the bases of the instant invention also permit multiple bases to be arranged in numerous configurations.
US08596596B2	Motor support device for heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning system The invention relates to a support device (1) of a motor of a blower. The support device (1) comprises a base (2), a ring (3) which extends according to an axis and which is able to house the motor. The support device (1) also comprises at least a decoupling means (4) which connects the base (2) and the ring (3). The ring (3) comprises a first face (5) extending according to the axis and the base (2) comprises a second face (10) extending according to the axis. The decoupling means (4) is interposed between the first (5) and the second (10) faces. The decoupling means may have an “H” shape in order to absorb the vibrations caused by the motor.
US08596594B2	Compression mount for window coverings A compression mount assembly is provided for securing a window covering to a window frame by compression forces between vertical sides of the window frame on opposite sides of the window. A housing is coupled to the window covering and a slide translates linearly within a cavity in the housing away from the housing to abut the side of the window frame. A driver, such as a spring, is located between the slide and the housing to urge the slide away from the housing. A trigger is provided which holds the slide adjacent the housing, until the trigger is activated by pushing a button to release the slide from the housing and allow the slide to translate away from the housing. A fixed end cap is provided for an end of the window covering opposite the compression mount assembly and for abutting against an opposite side of the window frame.
US08596592B2	Spray gun adjusting device A spray gun adjusting device for adjusting painting position of spray gun includes a first axis mechanism and a second axis mechanism slidably positioned on first axis mechanism. First axis mechanism includes a screw rod extending along first direction, a first sliding block, a screw nut sleeved on the screw rod, a first bevel gear fixed to screw nut, a second bevel gear meshing with first bevel gear, and a first driving shaft fixedly connected to second bevel gear, and the screw nut and first driving shaft are rotatably positioned on first sliding block. Second axis mechanism includes a sliding rod along second direction, a second sliding block slidably sleeved on sliding rod, a gear rack fixed to sliding rod, a gear meshing with gear rack, and a second driving shaft fixed to the gear, and second sliding block is fixed to first sliding block of first axis mechanism.
US08596588B1	Cable and wire management device A cable and wire management device comprises a track and a plurality of hook members defining a runway for supporting cables and wires parallel to a horizontal axis when mounted adjacent to one another within the track. Each of the plurality of hook members can comprise a first and second mounting tab for selectively mounting the hook member to the track by at least one of the first and second mounting tabs. One of the first and second mounting tabs can be positioned on the plurality of hook members to mount the hook members to the track when the track is mounted to a vertical surface and the other of the first and second mounting tabs mounts the hook members to the track when the track is mounted to a horizontal surface such that the runway is parallel to the horizontal axis.
US08596582B2	Aircraft control surface operating device An aircraft control surface operating device is provided for operating a control surface on an aircraft body portion to move between a retracted position and an extended position. The aircraft control surface operating device includes a control surface mounting assembly which movably secures the control surface to the aircraft body portion, a drive arm rotatable about a drive axis relative to the aircraft body portion, an actuator for rotating the drive, and a drive link connecting the drive arm to the control surface mounting assembly. The drive link has a control end connected to the control surface mounting assembly and a driven end connected to the drive arm via a drive bearing joint. The drive link connects the drive arm and the control surface mounting assembly such that rotation of the drive arm is causes extending or retracting movement of the control surface.
US08596579B2	Procedure and device for optimizing the quantity of fuel transferred on an aircraft during at least one in-fligh fuel transfer A procedure and device optimize the quantity of fuel transferred on an aircraft during at least one in-flight fuel transfer. The optimization device includes a section that makes a prediction to determine a first quantity corresponding to the quantity of fuel remaining on board the aircraft at a first flight point in the flight plan of the aircraft, taking into account the current status of the aircraft and the current flying conditions. The device further includes a section that makes an estimation to determine a second quantity corresponding to the quantity of fuel enabling the aircraft to fly from the first flight point to a second flight point later in the flight plan. The device further includes a section that determines, from the first and second quantities, a third quantity corresponding to the quantity of fuel to be transferred at the first flight point. The device further includes a display that presents the third duly determined quantity to at least one pilot of the aircraft.
US08596578B2	Pressure bulkhead for purposes of arrangement in an aircraft fuselage A pressure bulkhead for a fuselage of an aircraft is configured for bounding a fuselage interior relative to an external environment. The pressure bulkhead includes a flat skin configured to span a cross-section of the fuselage and having a cavity disposed at a core region of the skin. The core region is radially bounded by a ring element. A plurality of radial stiffeners extend on the skin and provide stabilization of the skin. Each radial stiffener is fixed at an end to the ring element. A reinforcement element extends over the ring element.
US08596576B1	Method and apparatus for automated launch, retrieval, and servicing of a hovering aircraft Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus configured to automatically retrieve, service, and launch an aircraft. For retrieval, the aircraft drops a weighted cable, and pulls it at low relative speed into a broad aperture of the apparatus. In certain instances, the cable is dragged along guiding surfaces of the apparatus into and through a slot until its free end is captured. The aircraft becomes anchored to the apparatus, and is pulled downward by the cable into a receptacle. Guiding surfaces of the receptacle adjust the position and orientation of a probe on the aircraft, directing the probe to mate with a docking fixture of the apparatus. Once mated, the aircraft is automatically shut down and serviced. When desired, the aircraft is automatically started and tested in preparation for launch, and then released into free flight. A full ground-handling cycle is thus accomplished with a simple, economical apparatus.
US08596575B2	Aircraft actuator A plurality of tandem actuators including piston rods in each of which two pistons are provided in series are disposed in parallel. A rod end portion couples the piston rods of the plurality of tandem actuators on the outside of case portions and can be rotatably linked to a control surface. For each of the tandem actuators, first hydraulic chambers on the side opposite to the rod end portion side are in communication with each other in the two piston movement areas, respectively, and second hydraulic chambers on the rod end portion side are in communication with each other in the two pistons areas, respectively.
US08596566B2	Biomedical homogenizing device A biomedical homogenizing device a seat, a rotational module, and at least one holding module. The seat has at least one driving wheel set, with each driving wheel set having at least one driving wheel. The rotational module is rotatably mounted on the seat and has a driving shaft and two rotating disks. The driving shaft extends through the at least one driving wheel set, the two rotating disks are respectively and firmly coupled to two ends of the driving shaft, and at least one driven wheel is rotatably mounted on at least one of the two rotating disks to be driven by the driving wheel of the driving wheel set. The at least one holding module is arranged between the two rotating disks and coupled with the at least one driven wheel.
US08596553B2	Ergonomic spray can adapter and positioning apparatus An ergonomic adapter for an aerosol spray can. The ergonomic adapter has an elastomeric collar that fits around a body of an aerosol spray paint can such that a front portion of the collar is facing in front of the can just below the interface between the body and the domed top of the spray can. The front of the adapter includes a compartment that houses a polychromatic light source for lighting the surface and/or a light beam arrangement for targeting and positioning the spray can with respect to the surface.
US08596551B2	Humidity control system A humidity control system includes three dehumidifiers. Each of the dehumidifiers alternately switches between first batch operation in which air whose moisture has been adsorbed in a first adsorption component is supplied to a room and air heated in a heat exchanger is exhausted to outside the room through a second adsorption component, and second batch operation in which air whose moisture has been adsorbed in the second adsorption component is supplied to the room and air heated in the heat exchanger is exhausted to outside the room through the first adsorption component. The system further includes: a controller allowing the switchings of the dehumidifiers to be performed at different timings; and a chamber collecting air to be supplied from the dehumidifiers to the room.
US08596546B2	System for verifying an item in a package A system verifying an item in a package comprises a package producer and a verifier. The package producer produces a package with a label, wherein the package includes an item each with one or more selected tag identifiers that are placed in a location on the item. The verifier verifies the item using 1) the one or more selected tag identifiers as detected using a spectral measurement or 2) a location or a shape of the one or more selected tag identifiers on the item, and 3) the label as read using a label reader.
US08596545B2	Component of wireless IC device and wireless IC device A component of a wireless IC device includes a wireless IC chip and a feeding circuit substrate including a plurality of laminated resin layers. The wireless IC chip is included inside the feeding circuit substrate, and an annular electrode is arranged inside the feeding circuit substrate. The component of a wireless IC device and the radiation plate define the wireless IC device.
US08596542B2	Apparatus operative for capture of image data There is set forth an apparatus for capture of image data. In one embodiment an apparatus is operative for capture of a first frame of image data and a second frame of image data. In one embodiment, an apparatus is operative for processing the first frame of image data and the second frame of image data.
US08596538B2	Barcode decoding chip An exemplary barcode decoding chip includes a scan module, a boundary identification module, a direction identification module, a bar space boundary processing module, a symbol parameter identification module, a symbol character extraction module, and a decoding module.
US08596536B1	Methods and systems for transferring information between a movable system and another system An image forming apparatus, which may be a printer, includes an image acquisition subsystem and a processing subsystem. The image acquisition subsystem includes an imager and a source. The imager is configured to scan an image while the image acquisition subsystem moves with respect to the image forming apparatus and configured to provide electrical signals including information related to the scanned image. The source is configured to emanate electromagnetic radiation based on the electrical signals. The processing subsystem includes a receiving component configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation emanated from the source of the image acquisition subsystem. The image forming apparatus also includes a structure supporting both the image acquisition subsystem and the processing subsystem.
US08596534B2	Interface system between a terminal and a smart card, method for same, and smart card applied to same The present invention provides a system and method for interfacing between a terminal and a smart card, and a smart card applied to the same. In other words, by presenting the configuration including a terminal equipped with several device resources requested for interworking during the execution of the service applications stored in a smart card, and a Universal Subscriber Identification Module (USIM), and a smart card to prepare the selective execution of the application considering the service supportable terminal based on a device resource list created by the terminal, it is possible to provide suitable services to the terminal performance considering the difference in the mounted terminal model and manufacturer due to the selective executability according to the device resources with which the terminal is equipped with a number of service applications stored in the smart card.
US08596522B2	Method for making at least one identifier and securing the reading thereof by a digital pen associated with a screen sheet, and means for implementing same The invention relates to a method for identifying sheets on which is added one identifier or more comprising a combination of juxtaposed screen cells. The method comprises two parts. The first part describes a means for making the differentiating identifiers and the addresses associated with the content areas forming the sheets. The second part describes a means for processing the information of the digital pen transmitted to the computer processing unit by one or more automatic or semiautomatic post-processing operations. The two non-separable parts of this method thus compensate for the potential handling errors of a user who must write or transcribe information onto screen sheets using a digital pen.
US08596519B2	Frame face display and shipping container The present invention is directed to an open-top container for shipping and displaying products which comprises a plurality of side walls. Bottom wall flaps are foldably joined to bottom edges of the side walls and are folded inwardly therefrom into overlapping relationship with one another to form a bottom wall closure. A respective plurality of triangularly-shaped beams foldably joined to upper edges of the respective plurality of side walls. Each of the plurality of the triangularly-shaped beams is defined by a shoulder panel and a flange panel foldably joined to one another. A bumper sticker panel is foldably joined to upper edge of one of the plurality of side walls forming a partial top closure when the open-top container is in the shipping position and partially prevents products from falling out when the open-top container is in the displaying position.
US08596518B2	Carton with reinforced hand holes A carton has a lifting panel, at least one alternate lifting panel, side, front and rear panels that collectively define an interior space for receiving a heavy weight of non-reel coil of filamentary material or coil products such as wire. The panels may include three hand holes, two of which are reinforced by two adapters insertable into the interior space. One form of adapter is assembled from a blank of foldable material and has top, front, bottom and back walls reinforced by gusset plates which are located remotely from the side edges of the top and bottom walls. The maximum width of the adapter top and bottom walls is less than the distance between opposed side panels of the carton. First and second retention members are formed in the panels and extend into the interior space of the carton where they are engageable with the adapters to support them adjacent a hand hole.
US08596515B2	Staple position sensor system A surgical stapling instrument includes a handle assembly, an elongate shaft extending distally from the handle assembly, and a tool assembly coupled to a distal end of the elongate shaft. The tool assembly includes a cartridge assembly including a plurality of surgical staples each including a code embedded portion and a first sensor for detecting the position of the surgical staples prior to and during a formation of the staples. The tool assembly further includes an anvil assembly including a second sensor that detects the position of the surgical staples after the formation of the surgical staples.
US08596510B2	Pneumatic nailing machine with a winding air channel for exhaust A pneumatic nailing machine includes a striking cylinder accommodated in a main housing to permit a piston and driver assembly to be moved for driving a nail when compressed air is supplied into the cylinder. A valve member is movable relative to the cylinder between an air-supplying position and an air-exhausting position. A winding air channel has an intake port disposed downstream of a head valve zone, an outflow port angularly displaced from the intake port, and a channel body which extends radially from the intake port, axially into a mounting shell mounted on the main housing, and circumferentially toward the outflow port. Compressed air exhausted from the cylinder can expand in the air channel and the flow rate of the compressed air is reduced so as to efficiently attenuate noise.
US08596508B1	Adjustable vehicle carrier for a rollator A rollator carrier is operable to quickly support and secure a rollator. The carrier includes a pair of cradles to support the rollator, and an arm that rotates between a horizontal and vertical position. With the arm down, a user can easily lift the rollator into the relatively low cradles. The user can then rotate the arm up to the vertical position and secure the rollator to the carrier with a clamp of the carrier extending from the top end of the arm.
US08596507B2	Storage apparatus for vehicle A storage apparatus for a vehicle may include a rear bumper having a back beam mounted under an inner space thereof, and a storage case provided in a space above the rear bumper, having a portion exposed to the outside formed so as to coincide with an outer surface of the rear bumper, and drawn-out/drawn-in by being slid to the outside in a state in which a load is supported above the back beam.
US08596502B2	Two-component barometric cell having a sealed triggering mechanism The invention relates to a pressurized can comprising a body (2), a dome (3) accommodating a valve (4), a concavely shaped bottom (5), an inner casing (7) attached to a cup (6) located in bottom (5), a push rod (9) arranged in the inner casing (7), said push rod (9) being actuated through the cup (6) and intended to force open the inner casing (7), with said inner casing (7) being joined to the cup (6) via a spring cage (11), said spring cage (11) containing a spring-loaded trigger (12) the bottom-side end of which extending through the cup (6) and acting on the push rod (9), said push rod (9) acting on a membrane (8) arranged at the valve-side end of inner casing (7), said membrane at its valve-side end sealing off the inner casing (7) hermetically against the contents of the pressurized can (1) and being forced open by the push rod (9) actuated by means of trigger element (12), with the spring cage (11) being designed so as to be closed off at its valve side and the trigger element (12) being provided at its bottom side with a sealing element (26) acting against the inner wall of the spring cage.
US08596493B2	Safety closure with lock, and attachment system for safety closure A safety closure secured against accidental opening or opening by small children comprises a lid and a cap interconnected by a hinge made of a single piece and having a single wall, the lid having a lateral skirt, a top surface with a pouring opening and an outer lateral grip that delimits a slot for engagement with the lock provided in the cap. The continuous lateral skirt has an internal thread, and a flap or ring is provided at the lower edge of the skirt for attaching the lid to the neck of a container. The inwardly extending flap secures the lid against axial movement when the lid is rotated in order to unscrew it. The cap has a sealing plug that closes the pouring opening and an external flap from which a locking body protrudes, the locking body having a central cutout that forms a spring blade that extends outwards from the locking body.
US08596488B2	Tank for construction machine Provided is a tank comprising a tank body and first and second reinforcement members. The tank body includes a first wall portion, a first opposing wall portion opposing to the first wall portion in a first direction, a second wall, and a second opposing wall portion opposing to the second wall in a second direction. The first reinforcement member is disposed across the first wall portion and the first opposing wall portion, the first reinforcement member having opposite ends welded to the first wall portion and the first opposing wall portion, respectively. The second reinforcement member is disposed across the second wall and the second opposing wall portion while spatially crossing the first reinforcement member, the second reinforcement member having opposite ends welded to the second wall and the second opposing wall portion, respectively.
US08596487B1	Carrier unit for carrying parts boxes A carrier unit for carrying boxes includes at least one carrier having multiple holes defined therethrough and two first engaging portions are provided on two insides of each of the holes. Multiple parts boxes are engaged with the holes and each box has a body and a cover which is pivotably connected to the body. The body has two second engaging portions which can be engaged with the first engaging portions when the body is installed in one of the holes. The cover has two protruded portions which contact the carrier when the cover is opened so that the second engaging portions can be disengaged from the first engaging portions.
US08596486B2	Washing liquid tank for automobile A washing liquid tank for a vehicle, includes a vertically extending wall (1) that divides the tank into a first chamber (2) including at least one liquid filling opening (4) in the lower portion thereof, and a second chamber (3) including at least one pumping opening (5) in the lower portion thereof, the second chamber having a wall that is common with a reheating body (6), the first and second chambers communicating together through a communication opening (7) formed in the lower portion of the wall (1) in order to allow the filling of the second chamber (3). The tank is characterized in that the second chamber has a volume lower than that of the first chamber and in that the first and second chambers (2, 3) further communicate together via an air passage (8) provided at the upper portion of the second chamber (3).
US08596483B2	Rotatable access closure element The present invention relates to a closure for an aperture. More specifically, the present invention relates to a closure for an access aperture in a panel, such as a closure for an oil filter access aperture in an engine cover. The present invention comprises a single-piece rotatably-engageable access closure element having a plurality of tension arms and adapted to seal an access aperture having cutouts corresponding to each of the plurality of tension arms.
US08596477B2	Retortable package with plastic closure cap Retortable packages including plastic closure caps are disclosed. The closure cap includes an end panel and a liner applied to the end panel. The finish contacting surface of the liner has a profile that is generally arc-shaped or torroidal-like prior to contact with the finish.
US08596474B2	Crane A crane, in particular a vehicle crane, includes a first crane arm and at least one second crane arm which are connected together by a joint. The crane arms are pivotable relative to each other by a drive having a piston-cylinder unit, in each case starting from one of the two end positions in which the crane arms are in substantially mutually parallel relationship until reaching a dead point when the longitudinal axis of the piston-cylinder unit is substantially on a line with the joint. There is provided at least one second drive by which it is possible to go beyond the dead point position of the piston-cylinder unit relative to the joint.
US08596466B2	Production of single-walled carbon nanotube grids A method of forming a nanotube grid includes placing a plurality of catalyst nanoparticles on a grid framework, contacting the catalyst nanoparticles with a gas mixture that includes hydrogen and a carbon source in a reaction chamber, forming an activated gas from the gas mixture, heating the grid framework and activated gas, and controlling a growth time to generate a single-wall carbon nanotube array radially about the grid framework. A filter membrane may be produced by this method.
US08596458B1	Traveler's hygienic tote A portable, sanitary, and self-closing carrier for having all hygienic supplies required by a traveler using a public toilet readily accessible to the traveler in one convenient place. The carrier includes a tote bag, a tray, and a handle. The tote bag is portable and sanitary. The tray is replaceably contained within the tote bag and has all of the hygienic supplies required by the traveler using the public toilet readily accessible to the traveler in the one convenient place. The handle extends from the tote bag and is so configured so as to allow the tote bag to close when the tote bag when the handle is lifted during carrying so as to allow the tote bag to be self-closing.
US08596450B2	Serving assembly The present disclosure provides a serving assembly that comprises multiple components suitable for different food products, but which connect together easily into one unit. The components can be, in one embodiment, a cutting board, a bowl, and a tray. The tray can have a compartment for storing utensils.
US08596449B2	Case for enclosing a personal electronic device and a card Cases for enclosing a personal electronic device may also enclose one or more cards, such as credit cards, payment cards, coupons, receipts, identification cards, merchandise credit cards, gift cards, or business cards through the use of a retaining system. Exemplary cases may include a personal device portion and a card portion that may be co-molded into a one-piece device for holding the personal electronic device and the inserted cards.
US08596446B2	Method and device for producing formatted packagings A method and a device for generation formatted total packages 29 comprising a defined number of adjoining equally sized individual pieces 10 formed in particular of a food product, whereby the individual pieces 10 are transported along the conveyor lines laying on conveyor belts,Whereby the individual pieces 10 on a first conveyor belt B1 are supplied at a mutual distance and at a speed VB1 to a second conveyor belt B2, B3, which forms a buffer line and which adjoins the first conveyor belt B1 in transport direction, whereby the individual pieces 10 at the beginning of the second conveyor belt B2, B3 are accumulated to a buffer stack 21 of adjoining individual pieces 10, whereby the buffer stack 21 is transported on the second conveyor belt B2, B3 at the speed VB2 which is lower than VB1, whereby at the end of the second conveyor belt B2, B3 total packages 29 are separated from the buffer stack 21 by means of a discharging conveyor belt B4 which, during the process of separating from the buffer stack 21, has a speed VB4 that is higher than VB2, and whereby transitions 18, 24 are located between the conveyor belts B1, B2, B3, B4 which, during the process of accumulating and/or separating of the individual pieces 10, are displaced in relation to the transport direction A.
US08596444B2	Paper bill depositing/dispensing apparatus In a paper bill depositing/dispensing apparatus, when a roof plate and a stage plate move from a depositing/dispensing unit to a temporarily accumulating unit along with a deposited bill, rotations of a pick roller, a separator, a feed roller and a conveyance roller are driven to carry a bill to a conveyance path that connects to a bill storing unit, and a partial paddle wheel stops by orientating its round surface, not provided with paddles, toward a path of the carried bill. When a bill is dispensed, the separator, the feed roller and the conveyance roller rotate in a bill carry-in direction to carry the bill conveyed from the conveyance path in the temporarily accumulating unit, and the partial paddle wheel beats a rear end of the carried bill with paddles to align the rear end of the bill at a bottom position d.
US08596443B2	Goods feeding system for receiving and presenting goods This invention relates to a goods feeding system for receiving and presenting goods and for receiving goods feeding attachments for automatic forwarding of goods in a goods feeding direction W with a support surface for receiving and holding goods feeding attachments, whereby the goods feeding system has a support surface length (L) along the goods feeding direction (W), and the support surface can be pulled out at least partially along the support surface length (L) in the goods feeding direction (W).
US08596440B2	Engine start stop applications for solenoid pumps A solenoid pump and associated hydraulic circuitry are intended for use in automatic transmissions capable of engine start stop (ESS) operation. In a first embodiment, a solenoid pump provides pressurized hydraulic fluid to respective inputs of two way check valves. The other inputs are provided with controlled hydraulic fluid from a transmission valve body. The outputs of the check valves are provided to those hydraulically operated torque transmitting devices associated with first gear. The solenoid pump is activated when the transmission is in gear and the engine is stopped to maintain hydraulic pressure in those actuators associated with first gear. A second embodiment provides hydraulic fluid to actuators associated with reverse. A third embodiment includes a solenoid pump and latching solenoid valve both communicating with a hydraulic supply In a fourth embodiment, a solenoid pump provides hydraulic fluid to the exhaust backfill circuits of hydraulic operators in an automatic transmission.
US08596437B2	Synchronizing device for manual transmission A synchronizing device of a manual transmission may include a clutch hub splined on a rotation shaft, a sleeve engaged to an external circumferential portion of the clutch hub by interposing a blocking key therebetween, the sleeve being movable axially, a clutch gear having a cone portion and disposed at both sides of the sleeve without an interference with the rotation shaft, a blocker ring frictionally engagable to the cone portion of the clutch gear, and a normal gear and a groove gear formed at an interior circumference of the sleeve, wherein a width of a middle portion of the groove gear may be wider than that of the normal gear, and the middle portion of the groove gear has a key supporting portion and a locking groove formed on the key supporting portion and engaged to an exterior circumference of the blocking key.
US08596421B2	Stopper apparatus for roller wheel Provided is a stopper apparatus for a roller wheel in which a braking force is not created by an adhesion of a push plate with respect to the surface of a roller wheel, but is generated by a stopper wheel that is connected with the roller wheel, to thereby make a rolling operation of the roller wheel stopped by a stop operation of the stopper wheel, and to thus solve a problem of a conventional braking device that is caused by a surface frictional force of the roller wheel, and a braking operation is also performed and released by a locking and unlocking operations between a locking key and the stopper wheel, to thereby enhance a braking capability, increase a convenience of use, and allow the roller wheel to be easily braked by simple manipulation.
US08596419B2	Divider device for flow of lubricant and lubrication system Divider device for a flow of lubricant carried by a gas, typically air, comprising a distribution barrel (4) having an end face (5) into which run longitudinal distribution channels (6, 7) communicating with outlet orifices (8, 10) and a connection piece (18) mounted upstream of the distribution barrel (4) and comprising a hollow body with a bore (20) through which the flow of lubricant and gas can pass. The bore (20) of the connection piece (18) has a localized throttling region (26) of reduced cross section followed by a region (22) of enlarged cross section, and there is a gap defining a chamber (25) between the connection piece and the distribution barrel.
US08596413B2	Acoustic array of polymer material The invention is an acoustic liner for attenuating noise in rotating machinery. The acoustic liner may include a plurality of cells coupled together to form an annular cell matrix, the plurality of cells being made of a non-metallic material, for example, plastics, polymers, thermoplastics, or thermosets. Each cell of the acoustic liner may be hexagonally-shaped such that the annular cell matrix forms a honeycomb structure.
US08596410B2	Solid-state acoustic metamaterial and method of using same to focus sound A phonemic crystal is made of a first solid medium having a first density and a substantially periodic array of structures disposed in the first medium, the structures being made of a second solid medium having a second density different from the first density. The first medium has a speed of propagation of longitudinal sound waves and a speed of propagation of transverse sound waves, the speed of propagation of longitudinal sound waves being approximately that of a fluid, and the speed of the propagation of transverse sound waves being smaller than the speed of propagation of longitudinal sound waves.
US08596409B2	Systems and methods for producing directed seismic waves in water A disclosed seismic source assembly includes a body having a cavity and a seismic source positioned in the cavity. The cavity is in fluid communication with the water via an aperture oriented in a first direction. One or more surfaces of the body define a water contact significantly larger than an area of the aperture and on a side opposite the first direction. A described method includes forming a source assembly by: providing a cavity having an aperture for transmitting seismic waves; rigidly attaching a base to a side of the cavity opposite the aperture, where a transverse area of the base is significantly larger than an area of the aperture; and positioning a seismic source in the cavity. The source assembly is submerged in the water and triggered.
US08596408B2	Torque sensor, torque detector, and electric power steering device An electric power steering device includes a torque detector that includes a torque sensor and a control unit. When abnormality has not occurred in a torque signal, an output section in the torque sensor transmits a normal signal that is a value based on the torque signal and is between a second lower limit that is greater than a first lower limit and a second upper limit that is less than a first upper limit. When abnormality has occurred in the torque signal, the output section transmits a first fault notification signal that is a value between the first and second lower limits or a second fault notification signal that is a value between the first and second upper limits. The control unit identifies a fault and calculates an amount of assist for reducing steering torque based on a signal transmitted from the output section.
US08596401B2	Electric motorcycle In a electric motorcycle including a power unit having a motor whose revolving shaft is oriented in the vehicle width direction, and a centrifugal clutch configured to transmit a rotary drive force of the motor to an output shaft, the centrifugal clutch is arrange coaxially with the motor. A primary driven gear arranged coaxially with the output shaft and configured to transmit a drive force transmitted from the centrifugal clutch to the output shaft is provided. The primary driven gear is arranged so as to be interposed between the centrifugal clutch and the motor in the axial direction of the revolving shaft. A clutch outer is fixed to a clutch outer holder which is relatively rotatable with respect to the revolving shaft, and the primary driven gear is engaged with a primary drive gear formed on the outer periphery of the clutch outer holder.
US08596400B2	Motorcycle In a motorcycle, a seat frame portion connects to a main frame portion and extends rearward. A seat is arranged above the seat frame. A rear wheel is arranged below the seat frame portion. A rear arm supports the rear wheel in a vertically moveable fashion. A rear fender connects to the rear arm. The rear fender is situated at least partly between the seat frame portion and the rear wheel in the vertical direction. A sari guard is arranged at least partly to the side of the rear wheel. The rear end of the rear fender is situated rearward from the upper end of the rear wheel. The lower portion of the sari guard connects to the rear arm. The upper portion of the sari guard connects to the rear fender.
US08596393B2	Drive unit and control apparatus thereof A drive unit is provided. The drive unit forms a power transmitting path that includes a driving shaft between a wheel/tire assembly and a driving power source provided separately for each wheel/tire assembly, and transmits power via the driving shaft. The drive unit has a weak portion, which is less durable than any other portion in the power transmitting path with respect to external force applied to the wheel/tire assembly, formed on the driving shaft.
US08596390B2	Torque control for hybrid electric vehicle speed control operation A method for operating a vehicle hybrid propulsion system is described. During a vehicle speed control operation where a speed of the vehicle is maintained at a desired speed, in response to acceleration resulting in vehicle speed beyond the desired speed, the acceleration not caused by vehicle operator input, the torque output of an upstream and/or downstream electric energy conversion device provides brake torque to a drive wheel to decelerate the vehicle to the desired speed. The selection of the electric energy conversion device may be based on an operating condition to achieve improved control and efficiency.
US08596387B1	Polycrystalline diamond compact including a non-uniformly leached polycrystalline diamond table and applications therefor Embodiments relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) including a non-uniformly leached polycrystalline diamond (“PCD”) table, and methods of fabricating such PDCs. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a substrate and a PCD table integrally formed with and bonded to the substrate. The PCD table defines an upper surface and at least one peripheral surface. The PCD table includes a plurality of bonded diamond grains. The PCD table includes a first region adjacent to the substrate that includes metal-solvent catalyst disposed interstitially between the bonded diamond grains thereof, and a leached second region extending inwardly from the upper surface and the at least one peripheral surface that is depleted of the metal-solvent catalyst. The leached second region exhibits a leach depth profile having a maximum leach depth that is measured from the upper surface. A leach depth of the leach depth profile decreases with lateral distance from a central axis of the PCD table and toward the at least one peripheral surface.
US08596382B2	Magnetic ranging while drilling using an electric dipole source and a magnetic field sensor A system and methods for drilling a well in a field having an existing well are provided. Specifically a method of drilling a new well in a field having an existing well includes drilling the new well using a bottom hole assembly (BHA) having a drill collar divided by an insulated gap, generating a current on the drill collar of the BHA while drilling the new well, and measuring from the existing well a magnetic field caused by the current on the drill collar of the BHA. Using measurements of the magnetic field, a relative position of the new well to the existing well may be determined.
US08596373B2	Method and apparatus for retrofitting work vehicle with blade position sensing and control system A work vehicle comprises a blade and a hydraulics system for controlling operation of blade and non-blade functions of the work vehicle. The work vehicle is configured to be retrofitted with a blade position sensing and control system having cooperating onboard and vehicle-remote instrument packages without modification of the hydraulics system. An associated method is disclosed.
US08596367B2	Process for producing mineral oil using surfactants based on C16C18-containing alkyl propoxy surfactants A process for mineral oil production by means of Winsor Type III microemulsion flooding and an aqueous surfactant formulation are disclosed. The aqueous surfactant formulation containing at least one ionic surfactant of the general formula R1—O—(CH2C(CH3)HO)m(CH2CH2O)n—XY−M+ is injected through injection boreholes into a mineral oil deposit, and crude oil is withdrawn from the deposit through production boreholes.
US08596361B2	Proppants and uses thereof Compositions comprising a proppant core having an outer surface and polymeric microspheres attached to at least a portion of the outer surface are described. The compositions are useful, for example, to increase the productivity of a hydrocarbon oil or gas bearing well.
US08596360B2	Gravel pack carrier fluids A method of gravel packing a hole in a subterranean formation having a filter cake coated on the surface thereof is disclosed. The method may include: injecting into the hole a gravel pack composition comprising gravel and a carrier fluid comprising a base fluid and at least one alkyl glycoside. Also disclosed is a solution including an aqueous fluid, at least one alkyl glycoside, and gravel which may be used as a composition for a gravel pack operation, for example.
US08596359B2	Remotely controllable fluid flow control assembly Fluid flow control assemblies capable of being disposed in a wellbore for hydrocarbon fluid production are described. The fluid flow control assemblies can include valves that are actuated via controls from a component positioned at or near the surface to control direction of fluid flow downhole. Packers can be set, slurry can be circulated to screens, and hydrocarbons can be produced via a single trip through the wellbore.
US08596358B2	Well treatment The present invention provides a method for the treatment of a subterranean formation which contains sand particles, said method comprising contacting said formation with a material capable of increasing the residual matrix strength of said particulate fine whereby to reduce or prevent their migration while minimizing any decrease in their permeability. Preferred materials include organosilanes and enzyme systems.
US08596351B2	Horizontal in-well treatment system and source area bypass system and method for groundwater remediation The application relates to a sustainable and green remedial approach for in situ remediation. The system and method use directionally drilled horizontal wells filled with granular reactive media generally installed in the direction of groundwater flow for groundwater remediation. “Flow-focusing” behavior is leveraged to capture and passively treat proportionally large volumes of groundwater in situ. The system and method perform well in low hydraulic conductivity environments. Reactive media are selected according to the contaminants to be treated and site characteristics The application further relates to a source area bypass system comprising one or more horizontal wells, constructed in a manner to allow unimpacted or cleaner groundwater to bypass a nonaqueous phase liquid zone or high-concentration source area of contamination and discharge downgradient. Reactive media may or may not be used in a source area bypass system. In some configurations, groundwater pumps may be installed to enhance performance.
US08596349B2	Pulse fracturing device and method A method of inducing fracture in at least a portion of a geologic structure includes inducing acoustic waves into a fluid medium present in a borehole extending at least partially into the structure. Embodiments may include preheating or pressurizing the fluid medium prior to inducing the acoustic wave therein.
US08596348B2	Downhole connector maintenance tool A tool is run into a liner that holds an electrical or hydraulic connection for a downhole tool which preferably is an electric submersible pump (ESP). It is capable of cleaning the electrical contacts, replacing them, isolating them from well fluid if no ESP or other downhole tool is to be present for a long time or switching from a main to a backup supply cable or hydraulic line among other downhole functions. The liner with the exterior cable or hydraulic line attached remains in position. Applications to other tools that obtain power or hydraulic pressure in a downhole wet connection are contemplated.
US08596325B2	Labelling apparatus The invention relates to a labelling apparatus comprising a blow device which allows compressed-air controlled delivery of a label to an object to be labelled, wherein the blow device comprises a compressed-air providing device, a plurality of nozzles for applying compressed air to the label, a distribution space which is operatively connected for fluid communication with the compressed-air providing device and the nozzles, and at least one deflector which is arranged in the distribution space, wherein the distribution space has arranged therein a porous device which surrounds the at least one deflector.
US08596307B2	Method for filling containers with a filling material consisting of at least two components, filling point and filling machine for carrying out said method The invention relates to a method for filling containers (3) with a filling material consisting of at least two components that are introduced separately into the respective container (3), with the aid of a filling element (1, 1a).
US08596305B2	Method of weaving, processing and finishing a pile fabric Disclosed is a method of weaving, processing and finishing a pile fabric whose pile height (H) after processing and finishing is substantially increased, thus obtaining increased pile height (H) which may be multiple of the original pile height (H) of the woven fabric. Specifically, the pile fabric is manufactured with multiple loop heights combining the original woven pile heights and/or different multiples of the original pile heights. Further, a process results in a fabric having a combination of pile heights, and designs by weaving repeats in the conventional way without soluble yarns (Y) in conjunction with repeats woven with multiple soluble yarns (Y).
US08596300B2	At-surface tool for pulse-injection of liquids For pulsed injection of liquids into the ground, the tool has a rotating cylinder, having through-slots. The tool has an insert, which is pressed against the rotating cylinder. As the cylinder rotates, the slots in the rotor cover/uncover the slots in the insert, creating the required pulses. By suitably shaping the slots, the pulses can have a fast rise-time from closed to open. The insert is shaped to minimize flow interference.
US08596289B2	Pressure regulating float valve A fuel system for an aircraft has a vent system. The system has a conduit opening into the fuel section. The system has a member connected to the conduit at a proximal end. The member has a seal plate within the conduit sealing the opening into the fuel section when a buoyant section at a distal end rises along with the seal plate through the member with a rise in fluid level within the fuel section.
US08596287B1	Cross flow tank A cleaning tank apparatus and methods for cleaning workpieces are described. The cleaning tank may include an outlet plate having a top edge and a bottom edge, with the outlet plate having a plurality of rows of outlet openings. The plurality of rows of outlet openings including a first row of outlet openings being closest to the top edge of the outlet plate, and a second row of outlet openings below the first row of outlet openings, wherein at least one of the outlet openings of the first row is larger than the outlet openings of the second row.
US08596284B2	Eyelash adornment A method of adorning an eyelash of a wearer (the wearer having an eyelid with a natural lash line containing natural eyelashes) includes providing at least first and second lash subassemblies. Each lash subassembly includes an elongated mounting portion and a plurality of elongated lash filaments. Each lash filament has a filament base and an oppositely disposed filament tip. The filament base is attached to the mounting portion with the filament tip extending from the mounting portion. The first and second lash subassemblies are concurrently affixed to the eyelid. When concurrently affixed to the eyelid, the first and second lash subassemblies collectively provide a different appearance of the plurality of elongated lash filaments of the first lash subassembly than an appearance collectively provided by the plurality of elongated lash filaments of the second lash subassembly.
US08596283B2	Paired artificial nails A preformed artificial nail assembly comprising a pair of artificial nails sized to correspond to at least a portion of said natural nail, and an application tab assembly extending between the pair of artificial nails. The application tab assembly includes a body portion and a neck portion adjacent each said artificial nail, said neck portion being disposed between the body portion and the distal end of the artificial nail. The application tab assembly may include an area of weakness that allows the assembly to be separated into two separate tabs, one adjacent each of the artificial nails of the pair. The user my utilize the application tab assembly as a single unit to place the nails, or separate the assembly into to separate tabs to allow the user to place the nails utilizing separate tabs.
US08596276B2	Nasal respiratory mask system A light weight nasal respiratory mask system securing airtightness of a mounting section between a nasal mask and a frame is provided.A nasal respiratory mask system contacting the face of a user to supply respiratory gas under positive pressure to the nose of a use and comprising at least a nasal mask, a frame and a retention wire, in which the nasal mask is a tubular member composed of a face contacting section constructed from an elastic body at one end of an opening and a frame mounting section constructed from an elastic body at the other end of the opening, the frame is a molded part with an internal space capable of communicating between a hose to supply positive pressure gas and the nasal mask and has a mechanism connectable with the hose to supply positive pressure gas and a nasal mask mounting section allowing the nasal mask to mount on periphery thereof, the frame mounting section of the nasal mask is mounted to cover from the outside the nasal mask mounting section of the frame, and at least part of the retention wire has a structure to tighten the frame mounting section of the nasal mask to the side of nasal mask mounting section of the frame.
US08596265B2	Modular aerosol delivery system In a modular medicament delivery system, a dispenser housing has a support block with a well and an orifice communicating with the well. A first container assembly includes a valve stem shaped to be received by the well in the support block. The first container assembly has a first exterior shape. A second container assembly includes a valve stem shaped to be received by the well in the support block. The second container assembly has a second exterior shape that is different than the first exterior shape. An insert member is adapted for mounting to the dispenser housing in the cavity and defines an interior space shaped to receive the second exterior shape of the second container. Methods of assembling the system, a system kit and a device are also provided. A medication delivery device includes first and second end pieces and a collapsible chamber disposed therebetween.
US08596263B2	Inhalation actuated nebulizer with impingement shield The present invention is directed generally to a nebulizer for the formation of micro-droplets from liquid medicaments for respiratory patient treatment, and more specifically, to a baffled nebulizer wherein a static baffle used to form an atomized medicament is proximal to a shied which responds to patient respiration force to oscillate from an aerosol flow occluding position to an aerosol flow open position. During inhalation, the shield moves into a first registration format to allow passage of the atomized medicament (nebula) to the patient. During exhalation/non-use, a biasing pressure maintains said shield in a second registration format such that the nebula is retarded from passing to the patient and is coalesced into macro-droplets which return to a supply reservoir for re-atomization. The present nebulizer design is particularly adaptable for controlling atomization in response to patient respiratory forces exceeding a defined threshold; allowing for opportunity to control inhalation airflow and enhanced therapy regimes.
US08596261B2	Passive solar wire screens for buildings Passive solar wire screens mount vertically on an edifice. The screens have rods vertically arranged parallel to one another and have wires horizontally arranged parallel to one another. The wires attach to the rods and have first surfaces facing away from the edifice in an upward direction from vertical. The wires also have second surfaces facing toward the edifice in a downward direction from vertical. When the sun has a summer elevation on the horizon, the first surfaces passively reflect solar energy incident thereto away from the wire screens. When the sun has a winter elevation on the horizon, however, the first surfaces passively reflect solar energy incident thereto toward the second surfaces, which in turn passively reflect the solar energy toward the edifice. A concave surface on the wires can also reflect thermal energy back to the edifice.
US08596260B2	Solar water heater Methods and systems for solar water heating are provided herein. A modular pipe system for a solar water heater is provided in one embodiment. The system includes a plurality of first manifolds which are interchangeably connectable to any other first manifold. The system also includes a plurality of second manifolds which are interchangeably connectable to any other second manifold. The system further includes a plurality of pipe panels which are interchangeably connectable to any other panel, any first manifold, and any second manifold. Connecting the first manifolds and the second manifolds end to end expands the system along a first axis, and connecting a plurality of panels expands the system along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis.
US08596243B2	Conical air flow valve having improved flow capacity and control A conical rotary valve includes a conical valve body including a frustum of a cone and a first fluid passageway. The valve further includes a conical engagement body at least partially covering the conical valve body, where the conical engagement body comprising a second fluid passageway. The valve includes a valve actuator rotatably engaged to the conical valve body to provide a variable flow area that includes an intersecting area of the first fluid passageway and the second fluid passageway. The first fluid passageway and the second fluid passageway are structured such that a value δAf/δθv is monotonically increasing, where Af is the variable flow area and θv is a rotational angle of the conical valve body.
US08596238B2	Valve train for internal combustion engines for actuating gas exchange valves A valve train includes a a plurality of individual cam sleeves axially displaceable relative to one another and disposed so as to form the camshaft, each of the plurality of individual cam sleeves including a plurality of different cam profiles each having a same base circle portion and being configured to engage, by switching, one of a plurality of gas exchange valves. A switching shaft is disposed inside the plurality of cam sleeves and configured to rotate together with the plurality of cam sleeves. An encircling switching contour is disposed inside each of the plurality of cam sleeves. A switching pin operatively connects one of the plurality of cam sleeves to the switching shaft, the switching pin configured to slide in the encircling switching contour. An actuator is operatively connected to the switching shaft so as to rotate the switching shaft relative to the plurality of cam sleeves.
US08596232B1	Two-stroke cycle engine A two-stroke cycle engine for introducing a air/fuel mixture and an air from a scavenging passage into a combustion chamber includes a valve body for adjusting the opening of an air supply passage, through which the air is supplied to the scavenging passage, and a second opening of a air/fuel mixture supply passage, through which the air/fuel mixture is supplied to the scavenging passage, a check valve for preventing the air within the air supply passage from flowing in a reverse direction, and a delay member projecting into the air supply passage on an upstream side of the check valve for delaying the timing at which the air reaches from the valve body to the air scavenging passage.
US08596227B2	Steam generator A steam generator with a heating gas duct which in an approximately horizontal heating gas direction is exposed to throughflow of a heating medium is provided to ensure a reliable absorption of the mentioned loads, especially of the additional loads which are produced as a result of the design dependent internal pressure of the heating gas. The heating gas duct is enclosed by a plurality of support frames which are arranged one behind the other in the heating gas direction, wherein at least two of the support frames are interconnected via a plurality of horizontal batten plates.
US08596225B2	Anti-stacking pump assembly for a water heater and method of operating the same A storage-type water heater. The storage-type water heater comprising a water storage tank configured to retain tank water, means for heating the tank water in the water storage tank, and an anti-stacking pump assembly. The anti-stacking pump assembly includes a water tube configured to be positioned in the water storage tank, an impeller positioned within the water tube, a motor drivingly connected to the impeller, a water inlet formed in the water tube upstream of the impeller and configured to deliver tank water into the water tube from the water storage tank, and a water outlet formed in the water tube downstream of the impeller.
US08596207B2	Flat pallet A flat pallet for handling and storing articles includes two identical boards. Each board has at least one length side which is provided with a coupling mechanism. The coupling mechanism includes a grip element and a receiving element of a configuration complementing the grip element. The grip element is spaced from a first transverse side of the board by a distance which corresponds to a distance of the receiving element from a second transverse side of the board, wherein the grip element of one board is constructed for engagement in the receiving element of the other board.
US08596204B2	Work station for computers and the like, particularly for didactic use A workstation has a structure including a work top and upright elements supporting the work top, and an electronic display device mounted on the work top. The work top includes a lower board, stably coupled to the upright elements, and an upper board, displaceable with respect to the lower board and subdivided into at least one front board part and one rear board part articulated to each other. The display device is substantially flat and is secured in a laying position substantially parallel to the front board part. The front board part and the rear board part are articulated to each other according to a substantially horizontal axis, such that the upper board is adapted to selectively take on a plurality of different configurations, corresponding to which different positions of use of the display device.
US08596197B2	Printing press cylinder assembly and method of installing sleeves on a mandrel of a printing press cylinder assembly A printing press cylinder assembly is provided including a mandrel including an outer surface, a passage formed therein, at least one first conduit formed therein coupled to the passage and the outer surface, and at least one second conduit formed therein coupled to the passage and the outer surface. The printing press cylinder assembly also includes a guide piece located in the passage. The guide piece is movable in the passage between a first position where the guide piece guides air from the passage to the at least one first conduit and a second position where the guide piece guides air from the passage to the at least one second conduit. A method of installing a bridge sleeve and an outer sleeve on a mandrel of a printing cylinder assembly is also provided.
US08596193B2	Grain huller A supply plate has a proximal end supported by a pivot shaft disposed parallel to a position-fixed shaft and a position-movable shaft. A position-movable shaft support member is pressed toward the position-fixed shaft so the first and second rolls are pressed at the contact point under a predetermined pressure. A link arm supported by a fulcrum shaft is pressed to a surface of the position-movable support member that faces the position-fixed shaft. The fulcrum shaft and the pivot shaft are connected. The contact point is shifted as the position-movable shaft support member moves toward the position-fixed shaft, and the pivot shaft is rotated around the axis line by the link arm, the fulcrum shaft, and the link mechanism based on the movement of the position-movable shaft support member, so the slant angle of the supply plate is automatically changed and the supply plate is directed to the contact point.
US08596192B2	Vegetable cutter A container includes an internal plate having slicing blade supported by a lower container and covered by a lid. A threaded axle is connected to a hand crank extending from the top of the lid and urges a pusher downward toward the blade as the crank is turned. A food item carried on the pusher is thereby forced downward and rotated against the blade and cut in accordance with the size of the threads on the axle. Additional interchangeable plates are provided, including cheese grating and juice reaming plates.
US08596190B2	Liquid food fountain A liquid food fountain comprises a center barrel having a top opening and a bottom opening and a plurality of stackable modules (16, 14, 12, 10) adapted for a slip fit on the center barrel (20). Each module has a tier (16) extending around the center barrel (10). A liquid collector (24) is adapted to be placed below the modules. An auger (34) assembly is adapted to fit inside the center barrel to carry liquid entering the center barrel at the bottom opening to the top opening. A drive module is connectable to the auger assembly. The described parts can be assembled for use and disassembled for cleaning and storage.
US08596189B2	Assembly for cooking elongated food products An assembly for cooking food products in a substantially upright orientation comprising a mold housing including one or more food mold chambers, each structured to configure the food product being cooked to correspond to the interior dimensions and configuration of a mold chamber in which it was cooked. Each mold chamber is further structured to retain an uncooked liquid, semi-liquid, semi-solid, or solid food composition therein during the cooking procedure. A heat source is disposed either externally or internally of the mold housing and generates sufficient heat to cook a food composition disposed within the mold chamber. A frame assembly may be utilized to operatively support one or more mold housing in the substantially upright orientation, such that a heat source may be incorporated into the frame assembly to provide adequate cooking temperatures to the corresponding mold chamber(s) of one or more supported mold housings.
US08596187B2	Method of calibrating a connecting rod arrangement and connecting rod arrangement The invention relates to a method of calibrating a connecting rod arrangement comprising a crankshaft eye and a connecting rod eye. In order to achieve the best possible parallelism between the connecting rod eye and the crankshaft eye a controlled energy input occurs in at least one predefined surface area of the connecting rod, so that outside a neutral axis a local structural change and thus a tension in the connecting rod occurs.
US08596179B2	Pyrotechnic drive unit and method for the production of such a unit A pyrotechnic drive unit includes a cylinder tube (12) having an axial end (28), a piston (14) guided in the cylinder tube (12), a pyrotechnic igniter (16) which is adjacent to the piston (14) and constitutes the pyrotechnic drive, and a plastic part (18). The plastic part (18) is injection-molded to the igniter (16) and to the axial end (28) of the cylinder tube (12) so that it fastens the igniter (16) to the cylinder tube (12) and tightly closes the axial end (28) of the cylinder tube (12), the plastic part (18) engaging the piston (14) in an initial position of the drive unit (10).
US08596167B2	Bottle cap opener A twist-off cap bottle opener having a varying cap engaging radii.
US08596139B2	Ultrasonic transducer for use in a fluid medium An ultrasonic transducer is described for use in a fluid medium. The ultrasonic transducer includes at least one piezoelectric transducer element and at least one matching element for promoting an oscillation injection between the piezoelectric transducer element and the fluid medium. The ultrasonic transducer also includes a housing (112), the piezoelectric transducer element being inserted in the housing. The housing has at least one opening facing the fluid medium, the matching element being inserted at least partially into the opening. The ultrasonic transducer also has at least one sealing element, which seals at least one intervening space between the matching element and the housing in such a way that an inner space of the housing is at least largely sealed from the fluid medium.
US08596135B2	System and method for monitoring health of structural joints The present invention provides a system and a method monitoring the health of structural joints by monitoring the strain developed near the joint due to perturbation applied away from that joint and comparing the monitored ratio between near field and far field strain to strain ratio which develops in a healthy joint due to comparable perturbation. The system for monitoring joints comprises: at least one near field strain measuring device installed near a monitored joint for monitoring the induced strain; at least one far field strain measuring device installed away from monitored joint indicating, measuring or producing the perturbation; and a data processor connected to said near field strain measuring device and to said near field strain measuring device for analyzing the response of the structure to the perturbation and determining the integrity of said joint.
US08596130B2	Inspection vehicle for a turbine disk An inspection vehicle structured to inspect a portion of the turbine disk, preferably the blade attachment hubs, while the turbine disk is disposed within a turbine housing assembly is provided. A turbine disk is generally planar but includes a inner hub and an outer blade attachment hub. The inner hub is coupled to a shaft and the blade attachment hub provides a surface to which removable blades are attached. The area between the inner hub and outer blade attachment hub is substantially planar. The inner and blade attachment hubs are the “inspection areas” that the inspection vehicle is structured to inspect. The inspection vehicle travels over, and is magnetically coupled to the planar surface between the two hubs.
US08596121B2	Structural member having a plurality of conductive regions A structural member having a plurality of conductive regions electrically insulated from each other, in which the plurality of conductive regions are electrically insulated from each other by continuous oxidized regions, and the oxidized regions are each formed of an oxide made of a material having a plurality of through holes or trenches formed therein.
US08596119B2	Buoyancy force-based liquid level measurement Methods and apparatus are provided for measuring the liquid level within a reservoir based on the buoyancy force that the liquid imparts to a float member. a float member is at least partially submerged into a liquid in a reservoir. The float member is configured, upon being at least partially submerged into the liquid to a depth, to have a buoyancy force exerted thereon by the liquid that is proportional to the depth. The buoyancy force is transferred from the float member to a sensor, via a force transfer mechanism that is movable relative to the float member and the sensor.
US08596118B2	HTA fluid level and fluid type measurement Apparatus for measuring an amount of ablation fluid circulating in a system for ablating tissue comprises a plurality of electrical contacts located within an ablation fluid receiving chamber of the system, the contacts being located at various heights and a data processing arrangement coupled to the contacts to receive data corresponding to electrical conductance between pairs of the contacts, the data processing arrangement determining a height of fluid in the chamber based on the measured conductance levels and determining based on the determined height, whether an amount of fluid circulating through the system is within a desired range.
US08596110B2	Device and method for testing reverse osmosis membranes The device for testing reverse osmosis membranes provides for the quick and efficient testing of the transport properties of reverse osmosis membranes at a fixed pressure over a fixed period of time. The device includes a first chamber adapted for receiving a volume of de-ionized water and a second chamber adapted for receiving a volume of brine. In use, a reverse osmosis membrane to be tested is clamped between the first and second chambers and a pressurized inert gas, such as gaseous nitrogen, is injected into the second chamber at known pressure to initiate reverse osmosis transport. The transport is carried out at the known pressure for a fixed period of time, after which the concentration of brine volume of water in the first chamber is measured.
US08596089B2	Refrigerant distribution system A refrigerant distribution system has a plurality of chambers formed inside a refrigerant distribution plate, each of the plurality of chambers extending from one end of the refrigerant distribution plate into the refrigerant distribution plate; and a plurality of holes formed in each of the plurality of chambers, the plurality of holes fluidly communicating each of the plurality of chambers with an outside of the refrigerant distribution place. The evaporator may be oriented such that the refrigerant flows horizontally with respect to gravity. The present invention may improve the thermal performance of the evaporator while the evaporator is oriented sub-optimally. Often, with horizontal flow through an evaporator, the refrigerant phases, liquid and vapor, may separate in the manifold, resulting in poor distribution of refrigerant in the evaporator core. The refrigerant distribution plate of the present invention evenly distributes the refrigerant in the core.
US08596087B2	Refrigerator Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator main body and a refrigerator door. A dispenser for dispensing at least water and a storage box in which a specific material for adding fragrance or taste to the water is received are provided in the refrigerator main body or the refrigerator door.
US08596080B2	Air conditioning system having an improved internal heat exchanger An air conditioning system having an improved internal heat exchanger (IHX) assembly. The IHX assembly includes an elongated cavity for low pressure refrigerant flow from an evaporator and an interior tube disposed within the cavity for high pressure refrigerant flow from a condenser, and a pressure equalization passage between the low and high pressure sides. The passage is large enough to allow pressures to equalize between the condenser and evaporator while the air conditioning system is inactive, so as to prevent the pressure differential that would otherwise enable the loss of refrigerant oil from the compressor, and small enough not to effect the operation of the air conditioning system. The pressure equalization passage may be a by-pass valve assembly having a reed portion that is normally open when the air conditioning system is inactive and closed when the air conditioning system is active for maximum cooling efficiency.
US08596079B2	Intelligent venting A system for regulating gas flow for a computer room containing computer components includes vents configured to direct gas from a gas supply toward the computer components, sensors disposed and configured to provide information regarding at least a first property associated with the computer components, and a controller coupled to the sensors and the vents and configured to effect a change in gas flow through a second one of the vents in accordance with a first value of the first property associated with a first of the computer components.
US08596050B2	Sound attenuating heat exchanger for an internal combustion engine A sound attenuating heat exchanger for an internal combustion engine includes a housing, a barrier wall and a fin. The housing includes an exhaust inlet, an exhaust outlet, a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet. The exhaust inlet is connected to the exhaust outlet by an exhaust flow passage. The coolant inlet is connected to the coolant outlet by a coolant flow passage. The barrier wall fluidly separates the exhaust flow passage from the coolant flow passage. The fin extends from the barrier wall into the exhaust flow passage, and includes a resonator adapted to attenuate sound waves traveling through exhaust gas within the exhaust flow passage. The barrier wall and the fins are adapted to exchange heat energy between the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust flow passage and coolant flowing through the coolant flow passage.
US08596049B2	Exhaust system having an aftertreatment module An aftertreatment module for use with an engine is disclosed. The aftertreatment module may have a plurality of inlets configured to direct exhaust in a first flow direction into the aftertreatment module. The aftertreatment module may also have a mixing duct configured to receive exhaust from the plurality of inlets, and a branching passage in fluid communication with the mixing duct. The branching passage may be configured to redirect exhaust from the mixing duct into separate flows that exit the aftertreatment module in a second flow direction opposite the first flow direction.
US08596041B2	Control device and control method for vehicle An ECU executes the program including the step acquiring a catalyst temperature when the execution condition for fuel-cut control is satisfied; the step selecting a throttle opening degree based on the catalyst temperature; the step executing fuel-cut control; and the step executing return control from fuel-cut control when the condition for returning from fuel-cut control is satisfied.
US08596039B2	Device for injecting a mono-propellant with a large amount of flow rate modulation The device for injecting a liquid mono-propellant with a large amount of modulation of its flow rate and disposed at an upstream end of the wall of a combustion chamber of a rocket engine has a feed channel for feeding a mono-propellant from a tank. The device includes a single annular speed-up channel connected to the feed channel and having its outlet opening out via an annular injection section, the speed-up channel and the annular injection section being defined firstly by a first wall forming a stationary surface of revolution situated level with said upstream end, and secondly by a second wall forming a surface of revolution that is on a part that is movable in translation relative to the first wall forming a stationary surface of revolution.
US08596035B2	Apparatus and method for reducing air mass flow for extended range low emissions combustion for single shaft gas turbines Apparatus for reducing air mass flow through the compressor in a single shaft gas turbine engine having an extended operating range including part load conditions, to provide low emissions combustion. The apparatus includes one or more nozzles positioned for injecting compressed air into the inlet region of the compressor. The nozzles are oriented to direct the compressed air tangentially to, and in the same angular direction as, the direction of rotation to create a swirl in the inlet air flow to the compressor inducer. The apparatus also includes conduits in flow communication between the compressor diffuser and the nozzles, one or more valves operatively connected to control the flow of compressed air from the diffuser to the nozzles, and a controller operatively connected to the valves to cause compressed air flow to the nozzles during operation at part load conditions.
US08596028B2	Method and machine for producing reclosable packages The invention relates to a method for producing reclosable packages and to a deep-drawing packaging machine with an embossing station for embossing recesses into a top foil.
US08596027B2	Packaging component, method of use, and method of manufacture A packaging component for use with an article includes a panel having a first shell with a first surface facing the exterior of the package and a first opposing, spaced apart inward-facing surface. The first shell defines a first cavity. The panel further includes a first core situated in the first cavity wherein the first core includes a plurality of in-situ expanded polymer particles.
US08596026B2	Vacuum flow wrap packaging system and method of packaging A method and packaging system for forming a sealed vacuum package having minimal residual air remaining. At least one vacuum lance is provided in the interior of a partially-formed package to withdraw the air, the package being closed on three sides and having a fourth side open for insertion of the vacuum lance. An air restriction can be provided along the fourth side to form a closed edge that prevents ingress of air into the package interior after the evacuation of air. In one aspect, the air restriction may comprise a pair of pinch rollers that compress the package at the fourth side edge to form a pinch seal that provides a relatively airtight air chamber inside of the package prior to and during sealing of the package. In another aspect, the air restriction may comprise a partial seal formed around the lances to prevent or minimize air from reentering the package. In yet another aspect, the air restriction may comprise a compressed air seal formed by an air compression device that keeps the ends of the film pressed together.
US08596021B2	Modular bathroom wall and floor systems having a plurality of room corner spring clips The invention is a modular wall system and floor system for bathrooms, gang showers or any other room space having at least one generally 90 degree room corner with a first wall panel on one of the two intersecting room walls of said room corner intersecting and joining to a second wall panel on the other intersecting room wall. Each embodiment of the invention features a plurality of spring clips that together with a plurality of globs of adhesive form a room corner attaching means for wall panels or other wall members that intersect one another in a generally 90 degree room corner that provides a tight, closely abutting fit between the adjacent, perpendicularly intersecting panels or members in the room corner.
US08596019B2	Drywall track system The present invention is direction to systems for assembling drywall tracks that support drywall above the floor.
US08596015B2	Anti-theft device An anti-theft device is provided comprising a frame comprising at least three interconnected sides. A plurality of interconnected frame members define the at least three interconnected sides of the device. A longitudinal extent or a vertical extent of one of the interconnected frame members is slidably movable within a bore of a longitudinal extent or a vertical extent of another of the interconnected frame members to a desired position, thereby allowing the device to be adjusted in one of a horizontal or vertical direction. The plurality of interconnected frame members define at least a rectangular-shaped region on each of the at least three interconnected sides.
US08596013B2	Building panel with a mechanical locking system Building panels 1, 1′ provided with a mechanical locking system including a tongue 30, at an edge of a first panel 1, cooperating with a tongue groove 20, at an edge of an adjacent second panel 1′, for vertical locking of the building panels. The edge of the first panel is provided with a displacement groove 60, which is downwardly open, and includes an inner wall 61, an outer wall 62, and an upper wall 67. The tongue 30 is formed out of the edge of the first panel. A resilient and displaceable and part 66 of the tongue 30 is displaceable into the displacement groove 60.
US08596012B2	Flooring element for a modular floor, modular floor obtained therewith and method for assembling modular floor The modular flooring element (1) according to the invention comprises a panel element (2), two hooking brackets (404) arranged on a longitudinal side, two shallow recesses (44) arranged on the other longitudinal side, a hooking bracket (604) arranged on a transversal side and a shallow recess (64) arranged on the other transversal side. The brackets (404) couple with the shallow recesses (44) of another modular element, and similarly the brackets (604) couple with the shallow recesses (64), so as to block the flooring elements both longitudinally and transversally. The hooking brackets (404, 604) are provided with bearings for making the same brackets slide easier. The modular floor so provided can be assembled and dismantled quite quickly. Tongue and groove joints along the longitudinal and transversal edges render the assembled floor quite strong.
US08596008B2	Canopy system and group suspension system therefore A canopy system for use in the interior building environment. The canopy system of the invention meets seismic code requirements and includes a group suspension system for mechanically aligning and registering canopy modules relative one another. The system requires a minimum number of attachment points to the overhead building structure.
US08595998B2	Geosolar temperature control construction and method thereof A structure and method of controlling building temperature are provided utilizing both solar and geo-exchange means.
US08595993B2	Boards comprising an array of marks to facilitate attachment A board is provided that includes a pattern to facilitate attachment of the board to a frame structure. The pattern comprises a first array of marks disposed along a first imaginary line; a second array of marks disposed along a second imaginary line, said first and second imaginary lines being spaced a first predetermined distance apart; and a third array of marks disposed along a third imaginary line, said first and third imaginary lines being spaced a second predetermined distance apart. The board may be used in a variety of construction applications, where the pattern facilitates the quick attachment of the board to an underlying frame.
US08595985B1	Cover for a rain gutter A cover for a rain gutter is a rigid, rectangular, and planar sheet of expanded metal which has a linear bead of a hydrophobic material engaged within the sheet thickness and protruding away from, and below, the bottom surface of the sheet, the bead further extends in parallel with the long edges of the planar sheet medially over the full sheet length. The sheet may have a screen covering its top surface.
US08595983B2	Door and system providing radio frequency shielding against high-altitude electromagnetic pulse Pneumatic door system of fluid lines, valves, switches, and sensors integrated into hinge mechanisms, door frame, and door connected to a fluid pressurization system to inflate and deflate one or more fluid seals attached to outer perimeter of door adjacent to inner perimeter of door frame to close gap between outer perimeter of door and inner perimeter of door frame to provide radio frequency shielding against, for example, high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. Air seal creates a substantially impermeable barrier against radio frequency transmission, as well as air infiltration, when fully inflated. Separate fluid channels in each component interconnect to act as one fluid circuit or network when door is closed. Pneumatic door system can be fluidly connected to a conventional fluid pressurization system in communication with a programmable logic controller to respond to user input or automatic commands with system overrides to react to system air pressure and air flow conditions.
US08595981B2	Sliding window assembly A sliding window assembly for a vehicle including a first fixed panel and a second fixed panel spaced a distance from the first fixed panel to define an aperture therebetween. A sliding panel is movable relative to the fixed panels between a closed position and an open position. The sliding panel includes a top end and a bottom end spaced from the top end. A track is coupled to the fixed panels with a central section of the track spanning the aperture. The track defines a channel for receiving the top or bottom end of the sliding panel. The central section of the track defines a notch having a width substantially equal to or greater than the distance between the fixed panels for revealing either the top end or the bottom end of the sliding panel within the channel of the track between the first and second fixed panels.
US08595980B1	Door coordinator A door coordinator includes a base fixed to a mounting face of a door frame to which inactive and active doors are pivotably mounted. A pivotal member includes an axle pivotably mounted to the base. A first arm extends from an end of the axle. A shorter second arm is formed on the other end of the axle. A buffering wheel and a guiding wheel are rotatably mounted to the first and second arms, respectively. A pressing bolt is threadedly engaged in a screw hole in a rear end of the second arm. The pressing bolt is rotatable relative to the second arm to adjust a length of an exposed section of the pressing bolt outside of the screw hole, such that a height of each of the buffering wheel and the guiding wheel in a vertical direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the axle can be adjusted.
US08595974B2	Agricultural polymer protected root ball A root ball including soil disposed in and around root system and a layer of agricultural polymer around the soil and root system. The agricultural polymer creates a root ball having a semi-permeable, solid outer layer, which provides protection for the root system and eliminates the need for a container.
US08595973B1	Fishing pole mount A fishing pole mount that includes a support tube that has an adjustable support brace attached to it. The fishing pole mount also has an upper clamp that is not adjustable. The support tube of the fishing pole mount can be fixedly attached to a camp chair or other fixed object while a handle of a fishing pole can be inserted into the support tube. The fishing pole mount can be used either for storage of a fishing pole or a resting point while the fishing rod is in use.
US08595972B2	Enhanced laser fishing rod A fishing rod enables viewing of pole bending activity in daylight and at nighttime. The rod has a light-transmitting pole for supporting a fishing line and having a handle end and a tip end. A collimated beam producing unit is located towards the handle end aligned to transmit a collimated beam into the interior of the pole in a direction towards the tip end. A reflector at the tip end reflects light back towards the handle end after exiting the tip end.
US08595968B2	Systems and methods for providing an accessorizable frame system Systems and methods for producing an accessorizable frame system comprising a display plate, a frame plate, and an attachment, which selectively and releaseably holds the display plate away from the frame plate, are disclosed. In some cases, the attachment that connects the display plate to the frame plate includes a clip that extends from the display plate and which is configured to be received in a corresponding opening within the frame plate. In some instances, to accessorize the frame system, a user adds an aligner, a liner, a back cover, and/or any other suitable component to the frame system.
US08595960B2	Garment roller press A convenient wrinkle removing device that employs a pair of rollers to press unsightly and undesirable wrinkles from an article of clothing while in a hanging position. The device comprises a pair of rollers attached to a frame, the frame having a handle for the user to grip. A suspended garment is inserted between the rollers, which are capable of translation and free rotation. The rollers lock into an operating position, compressing the garment therebetween while still maintaining their free rotation. This operating position enables the device to press the garment as it is fed therethrough. A user passes the article of clothing through the rollers, wherein the device flattens and removes wrinkles that may exist in the fabric of the garment. A heating element may be provided to improve the pressing operation, while clips are provided to control the garment as it is being pressed.
US08595955B2	Laundry dryer The present invention relates to a laundry dryer. The laundry dryer has a drum rotatably provided to a cabinet, a hot air heater heating air to supply hot air to the drum, a steam generator selectively supplying steam to the drum, and a water supply source provided to one side of the cabinet. And, the water supply source has an accommodating part for storing water supplied to the steam generator and a water supply means for supplying the water within the accommodating part to the steam generator.
US08595954B2	Clothes treating apparatus with heat pump system and operating method thereof A clothes treating apparatus includes a drum, an air suction unit forming a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an air exhaustion unit forming a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a condenser heating air sucked into the drum through the air suction unit, an evaporator cooling air exhausted from the drum through the air exhaustion unit, a compressor compressing refrigerant introduced from the evaporator, and a variable expander expanding a refrigerant introduced from the condenser, and having a variable open degree. An operation method includes measuring a temperature of a refrigerant into the evaporator, and a temperature of a refrigerant into the compressor, and decreasing an open degree of the variable expander when a temperature difference between the two measured temperatures is less than a predetermined first value.
US08595947B2	Plumb device for constructing brick columns A device for constructing plumb brick columns includes: (a) a base suspension portion including: a base, a base pole, and a substantially L-shaped swing arm movably attached to the base pole; (b) a hanger mechanism, including a hanger rod attached to a center of the upper template, and to a hanger clamp that is affixable around the swing arm; and (c) a suspended template portion including: (1) an upper template; (2) a same-sized, removable lower template below the upper template; and (3) vertical guide lines, each extending between a corner of the upper template and a corresponding corner of the lower template, each corner of the lower template including a line attachment device attachable to a corresponding attachment device on a lower end of each guide line. This simplified abstract is not intended to limit, and should not be interpreted as limiting, the scope of the claims.
US08595946B2	Two dimension layout and point transfer system A two-dimension layout system identifies points and their coordinates, and transfers identified points on a solid surface to other surfaces in a vertical direction. Two leveling laser light transmitters are used with a remote unit to control certain functions. The laser transmitters rotate about the azimuth, and emit vertical (plumb) laser planes. After being set up using benchmark points, the projected lines of the laser planes will intersect on the floor of a jobsite at any point of interest in a virtual floor plan, under control of a user with the remote unit. The laser light planes also project lines that will intersect along the ceiling at a point that is truly plumb above the crossing point on the floor. The laser planes also provide an “implied” plumb line that is projected in space, which is visible along a solid vertical surface between the intersecting floor and ceiling points.
US08595932B2	Method for making a fin and device for implementing said method The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a fin (4) of width l and comprising corrugations (20) for a heat exchanger comprising at least one step of splitting a metal sheet (2) into at least two strips (4) of width l and a step of folding the strips (4) of width l in order to obtain the corrugations (20). The steps of splitting and of folding the metal sheet (2) take place simultaneously. A further subject of the invention is a device for applying such a method and a fin and a heat exchanger obtained by such a method, particularly for use in the motor-vehicle field.
US08595930B2	Press-fitting corrosion resistant liners in nozzles and casings An apparatus and method for protecting an inner radial surface of a housing of a turbomachine from corrosion. The method includes tapering the inner radial surface of the housing and a corresponding outer radial surface of a corrosion-resistant liner, and heating the housing to increase a diameter of the inner radial surface of the housing. The method also includes inserting the corrosion-resistant liner at least partially into the housing, and attaching the corrosion-resistant liner to the inner radial surface of the housing a solid-state bonding process.
US08595926B2	Printed wiring board manufacturing method A printed wiring board manufacturing method includes weaving a glass fiber cloth with warp and weft yarns such that the warp and weft yarns are visually distinguishable at least a region. The glass fiber cloth is impregnated with a resin to fabricate a substrate. A copper foil is formed on at least one surface of the substrate to fabricate a core substrate. The copper foil is removed within the region on the core substrate to form an opening. A pitch between the warp yarns or between the weft yarns which are presented in the opening is detected. A pitch between a pair of differential wirings to be patterned is determined based on the detected pitch between the warp yarns or between the weft yarns. The pair of differential wirings is patterned on the core substrate in accordance with the determined pitch between the pair of differential wirings.
US08595916B2	Method for producing high-pressure sensors A construction concept for high-pressure sensors is provided, which enables simple and economical production of reliable high-pressure sensors even for pressure ranges above 2200 bar. A high-pressure sensor of this kind encompasses a sensor element for pressure sensing and a connector piece for coupling the sensor element to a system to be measured. A diaphragm is embodied in the base element of the sensor element, and a pressure conduit is embodied in the base element of the connector piece. The sensor element is mounted on the connector piece so that the pressure to be measured is able to act upon the diaphragm via the pressure conduit. Firstly the base element of the sensor element is mounted on the base element of the connector piece, a full-area connection being generated between the mounting surfaces of the two base elements. Only thereafter is the pressure conduit configured in the connector piece, and the diaphragm of the sensor element exposed.
US08595910B2	Restoration of worn metallic extrusion processing elements A restored metallic extrusion processing element comprises a tubular metal core around which is consolidated a powdered metal extrusion component that includes metallurgically bonded interior shell and exterior working portions. The interior shell portion covers the core and is characterized by a first multiple-crystalline microstructure, and the exterior working portion is characterized by a second multiple crystalline microstructure of densified powdered metal particles. The exterior working portion has an outside surface including outer working surface features that extend along the length of the extrusion processing element. A bond interface of metallurgical type defines a crystalline microstructure boundary between the first and second multiple-crystalline microstructures.
US08595909B2	Board removal method for a pallet A board removal apparatus for a wooden pallet includes a frame, and a carriage carried by the frame. The carriage includes a pair of spaced apart tables with a fixed gap therebetween. The carriage is movable between a pallet receiving position and a board removal position. The pallet is positioned on the carriage when in the pallet receiving position so that a board to be removed overlies the fixed gap. A board removal assembly is carried by the frame and includes a push rod and a board removal foot pad pivotally coupled thereto. The push rod and the board removal foot pad are inserted between adjacent stringers on the pallet when the carriage is in the board removal position.
US08595901B1	Hinge assembly with an adjustable pivot A hinge assembly that includes a first hinge member and a second hinge member for mounting to an external vehicle closure member and a vehicle body, a pivot pin, a first clamp member with a first clamp surface, and a second clamp member having a second clamp surface is provided. The pivot pin is pivotally connected to the first hinge member to provide pivotal movement of an external vehicle closure member about a horizontal pivot axis between a closed position and an open position. The first and second clamp members are configured to clamp a mounting portion of the second hinge member between the first and the second clamp surfaces. The mounting portion of the second hinge member has an opening therethrough for receiving the pivot pin and is oversized relative to the pivot pin to accommodate relative radial adjusting movement during installation.
US08595899B2	Door jamb injury protector A door safety device for either a hinged or a sliding door which when closing places the vertical door side edge in a position abutting the vertical face of either of two sides of a door jamb, or the vertical face of another sliding door, or the threshold end of a sliding door track. The device employs a body in pivotal engagement with a resilient body for positioning the body in an as-used position between the door side edge and the vertical face to maintain a gap to prevent finger crushing. A curved leading edge provides a deflection of impact forces upon the resilient body to prevent marring of the vertical face of the door jamb or threshold.
US08595891B2	Device for removing adhered substances A adhered substance removing device of the present disclosure includes a suction removal unit configured to suck and remove a liquid medium with which a wiping sheet is impregnated and adhered substances which is separated from the wiping sheet by an oscillation unit and re-adhered to a surface of the wiping sheet. The suction removal unit includes a cylindrical suction nozzle having inlet holes in a surface along which the wiping sheet is guided. and a suction pump configured to suck air from the suction nozzle. The Suction pump is connected to the suction nozzle, and a lid is detachably attached to an opening of the suction nozzle.
US08595889B2	Wiper blade having a connecting element The invention relates to a wiper blade (10) comprising a connecting element (26), which comprises a base element (28) and a hinge element (68), wherein the base element (28) has a first side part (30) and a second side part (32), which are joined transversely to a longitudinal direction (40) by locking means (54, 56) and centering means (46, 48, 50, 52) interlocking, and which are held together by side walls (72) of the hinge element (68). It is proposed that the hinge element (68) is an adapter cap (68) made of plastic which comprises on the insides of the side walls (72) thereof clips (86), which in the installed state engage in recesses (66) on the outer longitudinal sides of the side parts (30, 32).
US08595881B2	Electric appliance for personal use A handle of an electrical appliance for personal use is disclosed. The handle includes an elongated housing for receiving functional components of the appliance; and a control unit or an electric power supply. The housing includes at least two tube-shaped housing parts connected to each other at end portions thereof. An annular sealing element is associated with the end portions to seal the interface between the housing parts. The end portions of the housing parts have substantially the same diameter such that end surfaces of the housing parts abut against each other or against the annular sealing element. A holding member extending over the interface between the housing parts and the sealing element is provided for holding the housing parts together.
US08595876B2	Random tumbling washing machine wash chamber for improving cleaning while minimizing mechanical damage to clothes Methods and apparatuses consistent with the present invention provide for improved cleaning while minimizing mechanical damage to clothes in automatic washer cycles using time-varying wash chamber oscillations. An automatic washer has a wash chamber with a central axis and is rotatable about the central axis. Items are loaded into the wash chamber. Wash liquid is supplied into the wash chamber. The wash chamber is oscillated about the central axis by time-varying oscillations.
US08595867B1	Hybrid race identification number belt and bib-attachment method A method for attaching a race-number bib having two spaced-apart holes to a race-number belt having a belt component with two spaced-apart snap-fastener subassemblies includes the step of providing two retrofitting cord-fastener assemblies such that each cord-fastener assembly has a cord with a mating snap-fastener subassembly on its proximal end. The method proceeds by snapping (i.e., attaching) the two mating snap-fastener subassemblies into engagement of the two snap-fastener subassemblies on the belt component, threading the distal ends of the cords through the holes in the race-number bib, and placing locking components onto the cords to secure the bib. A race-number belt constructed according to another aspect of the invention includes both snap-fastener assemblies and bib-attaching cords, with the proximal ends of the cords secured by the snap-fastener assemblies.
US08595866B2	Fishing finger protection apparatus A fishing finger protection apparatus is disclosed that provides protection for an index finger of an angler during casting with a spin reel fishing rod. The finger protection apparatus includes a finger guard, a strap and a wrist band. The finger guard receives a distal end portion of the index finger of the angler in an approximately form fitting relation. The finger guard includes a first portion, opposing sidewalls and a back portion. The first portion protects the palmar side of the index finger and the sidewalls protect the sides of the index finger. The back portion can stretch to accommodate the size of the finger of the angler. The strap connects the finger guard and the wrist band.
US08595865B2	Hand-wearing assembly A hand-wearing assembly has a main body and a side mirror mount. The main body is a loop and has a connecting top. The side mirror mount is connected with and stands on the connecting top. The side mirror mount has a mirror face facing a rear end of the connecting top and is capable of being connected with a side mirror. The side mirror mount allows the side mirror to stand above a wrist or a back of a hand. Accordingly, a rider can see a rear sight at ease via the standing side mirror. With a slight movement of the hand, the position of the side mirror is easily adjusted to enable the rider to see all the rear area from all directions, or to check the positions of the following cyclists.
US08595864B2	Air bag jacket An air bag jacket includes a first portion corresponding to a breast and an upper back portion of a user in a wearing state and a second portion corresponding to a belly and a waist of the user in a wearing state. A recessed portion is cut upwardly from a skirt is formed in the second portion at a position corresponding to either a right or left side of the user. An inflator is arranged on the inside of the recessed portion.
US08601604B2	Verifying a message in a communication network A method and apparatus for verifying a request for service in a communication network. An authentication node generates a secret and transmits the secret to a node providing a service. The authentication node then receives a request for authentication from a requesting node, and once the requesting node is authenticated, the authorization node sends an identifier for the requesting node and a first token, which is derived using the secret and the identifier. A service providing node subsequently receives a request for service from the requesting node, the request including the identifier for the requesting node and the first token. The service providing node derives a second token using the identifier and the secret. If the first token and the second token match, then the service providing node allows the request, and if the first token and the second token do not match, then the request is refused.
US08601602B1	Enhanced multi-factor authentication Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing multi-factor authentication. In one aspect, a method includes determining that the identity of a user has been successfully proven using a first of two or more authentication factors, allowing updates or requests for updates to be initiated after the identity of the user has been successfully proven using the first authentication factor, logging the updates or requests for updates that are initiated after the identity of the user has been successfully proven using the first authentication factor, determining that the identity of the user has not been successfully proven using a second of the two or more authentication factors, and reverting the updates, or discarding the requests for updates, based on determining that the identity of the user has not been successfully proven using the second authentication factor.
US08601600B1	Storing encrypted objects Authentication credentials are received at a key server system. A service associated with the wrapped key is identified. A master key is accessed based on the identified service, the master key being associated with the identified service. The wrapped key is decrypted to generate an unwrapped key that includes the resource identifier, the resource encryption key, and the user identifier in unencrypted form. The user identifier is identified accessed from the unwrapped key. The received authentication credentials are determined to correspond to the accessed user identifier. In response to determining that the received authentication credentials correspond to the accessed user identifier, the resource encryption key are sent in unecrypted to the application server system such that the application server system can decrypt the resource using the resource encryption key in unencrypted form.
US08601596B2	Using social signals to identify unauthorized content on a social networking system A prediction is calculated to determine whether a content item posted on a social networking system infringes on copyrights or otherwise violates the system's terms of use. The predictions are generated using social signals that are based on social information surrounding the content item, such as the density of connections between the posting user and the viewing users, the profile information of the users, and the geographical separation between the users. The content item is disabled if the prediction indicates a violation and the violation can be verified.
US08601594B2	Automatically classifying an input from field with respect to sensitivity of information it is designed to hold A method and system for automatically classifying an input form field as designed to hold sensitive information. The method may include selecting an input characteristic associated with the input form field. The method may also include classifying the input form field as designed to hold sensitive information by considering classifying information of other input form fields having the same input characteristic. The method may further include statistically determining whether a similar input form field is indicated as designed to hold sensitive information by at least a predetermined threshold value of the other input fields. A computer program product is also disclosed.
US08601591B2	Method and apparatus for providing web privacy A method and an apparatus for providing privacy in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request, e.g., an HTTP request, from a user for information, wherein the information includes at least a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of at least an aggregator. The method identifies all personally identifiable information of the user. The method then masks the personally identifiable information from the browser in the endpoint device of the user, while responding to the request.
US08601581B2	Malware automated removal system and method The present invention automates the operation of multiple malware removal software products using a computerized system that systematically operates the multiple selected software products. These products are operated them in a customized “Safe Mode” using a shell that is different than the computer's other shell environments. Unlike the ordinary Safe Modes shells, the Custom Safe Mode prevents malware from functioning that ties itself to the normal shell, such as the Windows Explorer shell. In addition, the Custom Safe Mode allows the automation of tasks beyond that which is available under the standard command line shell.
US08601576B2	Apparatus and method for spam configuration An apparatus and a method for spam registration in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes determining whether there is a spam registration request for a number, determining whether spam registration prohibit condition not to register the number as spam is satisfied when there is the spam registration request for the number and not registering the number as spam when the spam registration prohibit condition is satisfied.
US08601563B2	Wireless tag, reader/writer, encoding system, and encoding method An encrypted ID takes as its initial value a tag ID that constitutes an original ID of a wireless tag, and is encrypted using an encryption key each time an ID inquiry is received from a reader/writer. Another encrypted ID also takes the tag ID as its initial value, and is encrypted using an encryption key each time an ID inquiry is received. The wireless tag gives confidential variability to the ID by transmitting a combination of the encrypted ID and the another encrypted ID in reply. The reader/writer can obtain the original ID merely by decoding the two encrypted values until they match, and the decoding load does not increase even if the number of wireless tags that are reading targets increases.
US08601561B1	Interactive overlay to prevent unintentional inputs A computing device is described that outputs for display at a presence-sensitive screen a lock screen graphical user interface. The lock screen graphical user interface includes a widget region and an unlock region. The widget region includes a widget and an overlay that at least partially obscures the widget. The computing device receives an indication of a user input and determines a characteristic of the user input. In response to determining that the determined characteristic satisfies a threshold, the computing device removes the overlay from the widget region.
US08601559B2	Image output authentication system, image output authentication server, and image output authentication method An authentication server: has user identification information and a password of that user identification information previously stored therein in association with each other; receives user identification information transmitted, the user identification information being determined from information input at and received by an image output apparatus; obtains a password received by an image transmission apparatus used by a user associated with the received user identification information, from that image transmission apparatus after that user identification information is received; determines whether the obtained password and the password stored in the authentication server in association with the received user identification information match; and, if a decision is made that the passwords match, permits the image output apparatus that had sent the received user identification information, to output an image corresponding to image data transmitted from the image transmission apparatus and stored in that image output apparatus in association with that user identification information.
US08601553B1	Techniques of imposing access control policies A technique of imposing access control policies is presented. The technique comprises receiving a token which is associated with a datum by a tokenization server. The technique also includes generating an access control result based on at least a portion of the token. The technique further includes imposing a first access control policy which includes refraining from sending an access request to the tokenization server when the access control result has a first value and a second access control policy which includes sending an access request to the tokenization server, the access request being constructed and arranged to request access to the datum when the access control result has a second value which is different from the first value.
US08601548B1	Password popularity-based limiting of online account creation requests Upon receiving an account creation request from a client, the server determines a count of new account requests, each having a respective password, received during a predefined time period, that satisfy a requirement that the respective password is a function of the password in the received account creation request, and determines a popularity value associated with the password. The server associates a spam score, based at least in part on the count and the popularity value, with the account creation request, and compares the spam score with certain predefined thresholds. If the spam score is above a first threshold, the server may refuse the account creation request. If the spam score is within a certain range, the server may limit the access to the account associated with the account creation request. If the spam score is below a second threshold, the server may enable normal use of the account.
US08601544B1	Computer system employing dual-band authentication using file operations by trusted and untrusted mechanisms A first machine (e.g., server VM) authenticates an untrusted second machine (e.g., new client VM) as a condition to performing or allowing a protected operation. An authentication identifier is written to a file of a file system using one mechanism, and then read from the file using another mechanism. One of the mechanisms is an untrusted mechanism employing the untrusted second machine, while the other is a trusted mechanism performed by the first machine either alone or in combination with a trusted management component that has privileged access to the file system. If the written and read values match, it can be inferred that the second machine is authentic, because the trusted management component has identified and accessed an existing file system that is also separately accessed by the second machine.
US08601540B2	Software license management Disclosed is a system and method for automatically managing software licenses that are specifically tied to end users. A repository located on an authentication and license checking server contains the license requirements needed for each application. The repository is searched to determine which license(s) the requester needs to get access to an application. A user authentication is combined with a license checking at the server to grant or deny access to the application. A procurement license server may also be coupled to the license authentication and checking server to order any missing license(s).
US08601538B2	Motion and interaction based CAPTCHA An automated test to tell computers and humans apart is disclosed, comprising displaying on a computer screen an animation comprising of a foreground and a background, one of the foreground comprising a plurality of typographical characters and the other comprising partial obstruction of the typographical characters, and wherein the animation comprises relative motion between the background and foreground. The automated test may comprise displaying on a computer screen an image, and requiring the user to perform operation on the image to resolve an encoded solution. The test may also comprise displaying on a computer screen a video clip, and requiring a user to provide an input corresponding to subject matter presented in the video clip.
US08601534B2	Securely using service providers in elastic computing systems and environments Access permission can be assigned to a particular individually executable portion of computer executable code (“component-specific access permission”) and enforced in connection with accessing the services of a service provider by the individually executable portion (or component). It should be noted that least one of the individually executable portions can request the services when executed by a dynamically scalable computing resource provider. In addition, general and component-specific access permissions respectively associated with executable computer code as a whole or one of it specific portions (or components) can be cancelled or rendered inoperable in response to an explicit request for cancelation.
US08601519B1	Digital residential entertainment system The present invention is a comprehensive digital residential entertainment system. A system includes a data switch, a mass storage device, a tuner and a demodulator. The data switch has a plurality of switch ports, and the mass storage device is coupled to a switch port of the plurality of switch ports of the data switch. The tuner selects an information channel of a plurality of information channels. The demodulator is coupled to a switch port of the plurality of switch ports of the data switch and to the tuner. A Web-based graphical user interface can be provided for accessing and controlling the features and functions of the digital residential entertainment system.
US08601517B2	Method for reestablishing presentation of a paused media program A method for reestablishing presentation of a paused media program is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Set-Top Box (STB) located in a building can have a controller element that presents a media program to a media device operable only in the building, pauses presentation of the media program responsive to a pause request, generates a departure mark that identifies a presentation point in the media program associated with the pause request, receives a request to resume presentation of the media program from the departure mark at a portable communication device capable of maintaining communications with the STB outside the building, and transmits to the portable communication device a presentation of the media program from the departure mark. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08601512B2	Meta channel network-based content download technology Content download technology, in which a network-based video scheduled to be played at a particular time is identified, and multiple sources from which the network-based video is available for downloading are identified. An initial source from which to download the network-based video is selected from among the multiple sources, and a first process to download the network-based video from the initial source is initiated. Progress of the download of the network-based video is monitored. When an estimated amount of time remaining for the download of the network-based video from the initial source to complete does not enable viewing of the network-based video at the particular time without interruption, an alternative source from which to download at least a portion of the network-based video is selected from among the multiple sources, and a second process to download at least the portion the network-based video from the alternative source is initiated.
US08601510B2	User interface for interactive digital television A method of controlling an interactive television includes displaying a layout on the interactive television that includes one or more visual cues to prompt a user regarding an action (click action) to be taken on an input device to activate a predetermined function (click event). The visual cues may include multiple visual cues, at least one of which is a visual cue for a cursor-based action that includes positioning a cursor with an input device, and another is a visual cue for a movement-based action that includes moving the input device.
US08601501B2	Optical disc driving device and wiring structure An optical disc driving device has a metallic exterior casing and an internal unit to be housed in the exterior casing. The internal unit further includes an optical pickup unit for performing recording or reproduction of information signals on an optical disc, and a printed wiring substrate on which a connector electrically connected to the optical pickup unit and serving for transmission and reception of electrical signals from and to external electronic equipment via an external-connection cable is mounted. The exterior casing has an opening for allowing the connector project outside, and the connector is connected to the external-connection cable in a direction that orthogonally crosses with a projecting direction of the connector from the opening, and the external-connection cable extends from the connector along a surface of the exterior casing.
US08601499B2	Systems, methods and computer readable media for routing requests from an application Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for distributing requests from an application are provided. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method for routing requests from an application includes receiving an application programming interface (API) request from an application running on a device. An optimal route for forwarding the API request is determined based on information associated with the API request, and upon determining the optimal route, the API request is forwarded based on the optimal route.
US08601495B2	SAP interface definition language (SIDL) serialization framework In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving a description of a web service. A serialization framework may be used to convert the received description to the object model associated with the web service by using a layering of the deserialization process (library and metamodel layers) as well as integrating various registry mechanisms such as QName registry for inter-namespace inter-document declarations, namespace serializer registry, and entity container in the serialization framework. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.
US08601494B2	Multi-event type monitoring and searching Multiple event types are monitored for events, and surveillance data is stored for each event. Surveillance data for a primary event of one event type can be presented to a user, and surveillance data for a set of related events corresponding to another event type can be presented based on a set of relatedness criteria and the surveillance data for the primary event. A user can adjust the relatedness criteria to filter/adjust the surveillance data presented for the related event(s). A user interface can enable the user to simultaneously view the surveillance data for both events and adjust the relatedness criteria. In an illustrative application, the invention is utilized to detect fraudulent merchandise returns in a retail store.
US08601491B1	Universal master control station system A system for controlling subsea components from multiple manufacturers, each having a proprietary communication interface. The system can include a client configuration processor. The client configuration processor can communicate with a client configuration data storage. The client configuration data storage can include a human machine interface client configuration tool and an engineering client configuration tool.
US08601488B2	Controlling the task switch timing of a multitask system Ensuring real-time performance of multitask control and improving the processing efficiency of a system provided with a processor processing while switching between a plurality of tasks. The system includes an execution unit executing instructions on individual tasks while switching from one task to another, a distinguishing unit executing an instruction determined to be a predetermined instruction. The system further includes a determination unit set so that on condition that the instruction to be executed is the predetermined instruction, it determines whether to allow the execution unit to execute the predetermined instruction or to perform a task switching process without executing the predetermined instruction based on a predetermined condition.
US08601486B2	Deterministic parallelization through atomic task computation A method for deterministic locking in a parallel computing environment is provided. The method includes creating a data structure in memory of a computer for a shared resource. The data structure encapsulates a reference to an owner of a lock for the shared resource and a queue of threads able to seek exclusive access to the shared resource. The queue in turn includes different entries, each entry including an identifier for a corresponding one of the threads and a deterministic time computed for the corresponding one of the threads from a count of memory accesses occurring in the corresponding one of the threads. Consequently, a thread can be selected from the queue to receive ownership of the lock and exclusive access to the shared resource based upon a deterministic time for the selected thread as compared to other deterministic times for others of the threads in the queue, for example, a lowest deterministic time.
US08601481B2	Workflow validation and execution An apparatus, a computer program product and a computer-implemented method performed by a computerized device, comprising: receiving a description of a workflow, the workflow comprising a plurality of blocks, wherein each block comprises one or more instructions, the plurality of blocks comprising at least a first block and a second block, wherein the first block is adapted to output information, and the second block is adapted to receive the information wherein at least one of the plurality of blocks is associated with a ratio between a number of records input into the block and a number of records output by the block; and validating that the workflow can operate properly, using the ratio, wherein during execution, each of the first block and the second block can keep an internal state and request to receive again data previously received as input.
US08601479B2	Systems and methods for multi-leg transaction processing Embodiments of the invention broadly contemplate systems, methods and arrangements for processing multi-leg transactions. Embodiments of the invention process multi-leg transactions while allowing later arrived orders to get processed during the time when an earlier, tradable multi-leg transaction is pending using a look-ahead mechanism without violating any relevant timing or exchange rules.
US08601472B1	Instantiating virtual appliances A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for efficiently processing information. In some embodiments, this includes selecting a service to add to a storage array, determining a virtual appliance associated with the service, and instantiating the virtual appliance. In some embodiments, instantiating the virtual appliance includes instantiating an image of the virtual appliance.
US08601469B2	Method and system for customizing allocation statistics A system and method are provided to customize allocation statistics. In one embodiment, a tag is associated to one or more threads to receive allocation statistic information relating to the one or more tagged threads, the one or more threads are tagged prior to performing an allocation statistic session. The allocation statistic session is performed via a plurality of threads at a first virtual machine at a server. A plurality of threads performing the allocation statistic session includes the one or more tagged threads is determined. The allocation statistic information relating to the one or more tagged threads is extracted, if the plurality of threads includes the one or more tagged threads.
US08601465B2	Methods and articles of manufacture for hosting a safety critical application on an uncontrolled data processing device Methods and articles of manufacture for hosting a safety critical application on an uncontrolled data processing device are provided. Various combinations of installation, functional, host integrity, coexistence, interoperability, power management, and environment checks are performed at various times to determine if the safety critical application operates properly on the device. The operation of the SCA on the UDPD may be controlled accordingly.
US08601461B2	Multiple user control of a down loadable application Control of an operation of a multimedia terminal by an application, for example, a game or interactive television module, using remote control input signal is provided. An application is downloaded (S1), input signals from remote control units (RC-1, RC-2, RC-N) are received (S3) at the multimedia terminal, a message, including a source indication indicating the remote control from which the input signal was received, is sent (S5) to the downloaded application. According to the downloaded application, the operation of the multimedia terminal is controlled (S6) based on the source indication. The message may be sent to the downloaded application by an application program interface-based module resident at the multimedia terminal. A disable signal to disable a key could be transmitted to one or more of the remote control devices, for example, to disable the key for a specified time or a specified turn of a user.
US08601458B2	Profile-driven data stream processing Techniques for compiling a data stream processing application are provided. The techniques include receiving, by a compiler executing on a computer system, source code for a data stream processing application, wherein the source code comprises source code for a plurality of operators, each of which performs a data processing function, determining, by the compiler, one or more characteristics of operators within the data stream processing application, grouping, by the compiler, the operators into one or more execution containers based on the one or more characteristics, and compiling, by the compiler, the source code for the data stream processing application into executable code, wherein the executable code comprises a plurality of execution units, wherein each execution unit contains one or more of the operators, wherein each operator is assigned to an execution unit based on the grouping, and wherein each execution unit is to be executed in a partition.
US08601448B2	Representing pointers and boxing in environments using only reference types An arrangement by which pointers may be represented in a restricted software execution environment that provides access to only reference types but not pointers is realized by modeling both pointers and value type boxing using a set of boxes (i.e., containers) which describe how to retrieve the value associated with the pointer, and emitting code for accessing the set of boxes. A decompiling and recompiling process is utilized in which code arranged to run in an execution environment that supports pointers is scanned to reveal pointer and boxing usage. In one illustrative example, code is responsively emitted to create one or more specific boxes. At runtime in the restricted execution environment, an instance of a box class is created to thus emulate a pointer to the value.
US08601442B2	Marker correlation of application constructs with visualizations The use of marker(s) in the source code of a program under evaluation. A representation of the marker(s) remains in the binary version of the program under evaluation. During execution, upon executing the marker, data is gathered regarding the timeline of the execution of the marker in the context of overall timeline of execution. A visualization of the marker is then displayed that illustrates the execution of the marker in the context of a larger timeframe of execution. Optionally, the marker may be associated with text, or other data, at least some of which being rendered with the visualization. Accordingly, an application developer, or indeed anyone evaluating the program, may place markers within source code and/or evaluate the timeline of execution of those markers.
US08601439B2	Networked program dependency compatibility analysis A web application may be developed in an environment which has different components than a target environment, so determining component dependencies and identifying which dependencies are met in a given environment can be helpful when deploying the application. Toward that end, test code makes a request that test file(s) be sent from a protected location in the target environment, such as from a randomly-named folder or from another location that is not directly browsable by a user. Received test file(s) and network protocol headers are parsed, and component dependency metadata such as component names and version numbers are extracted. Based on the extracted metadata, information is determined about the target environment's installed component(s). By comparing component dependency(ies) of the program with the identified installed component(s) of the target environment, compatibility of the target environment can then be reported.
US08601435B2	Module class subsets for industrial control A system that facilitates module design in an industrial environment is provided. The system includes a module component that defines operations to control an industrial process. At least one class component is defined within the module that identifies a generic operation for the module, where the class component executes one or more of the operations within the industrial control process.
US08601431B2	Method and system for identifying software applications for offshore testing The present invention provides a method and system for evaluating a plurality of software applications for offshore testing. A criteria model including one or more criteria for assessing the viability of offshore testing is defined by one or more tool administrators. Thereafter, one or more experts assign scores to the plurality of software applications with reference to the criteria model. One or more cumulative scores may then be calculated for each of the plurality of software applications based on the assigned scores. Further, a graph may be generated on the basis of the one or more cumulative scores. Subsequently, one or more software applications are identified for offshore testing. A transition plan for offshore testing of the one or more software applications may also be defined.
US08601430B1	Device matching tool and methods thereof A method includes identifying at a first instantiation of a device design and a second instantiation of the device design, determining a first value of an electrical performance characteristic of the first instantiation and a second value of the electrical performance characteristic of the second instantiation, determining that the first instantiation matches the second instantiation, wherein the determining is based on the first value, the second value, and a tolerance, and in response to determining that the first and second instantiations do not match, then identifying a first feature of the first instantiation and changing the first feature of the first instantiation.
US08601415B2	Planning for hardware-accelerated functional verification Methods, systems, and computer program products may provide planning for hardware-accelerated functional verification in data processing systems. A method may include receiving, by a computer system, a description of architecture of a hardware accelerator for accelerating functional verification of a circuit design, the architecture including a plurality of logical processors. The method may additionally include receiving, by the computer system, a description of the circuit design having a plurality of gates, and representing, by the computer system, each gate, each stage of the functional verification, and each logical processor as a separate object based on the received description of the architecture and the circuit design. The method may further include representing, by the computer system, relationships between gates as pairwise edges, and defining, by the computer system, a goal state that requires each gate to be scheduled for execution by a logical processor during a stage of the functional verification.
US08601408B2	Method and system for replacing a pattern in a layout A received layout identifies a plurality of circuit components to be included in an integrated circuit (IC) layer for double patterning the layer using two photomasks, the layout including a plurality of first patterns to be included in the first photomask and at least one second pattern to be included in the second photomask. A selected one of the first patterns has first and second endpoints, to be replaced by a replacement pattern connecting the first endpoint to a third endpoint. At least one respective keep-out region is provided adjacent to each respective remaining first pattern except for the selected first pattern. Data are generated representing the replacement pattern, such that no part of the replacement pattern is formed in any of the keep-out regions. Data representing the remaining first patterns and the replacement pattern are output.
US08601407B2	Geometric pattern data quality verification for maskless lithography Provided is a method of performing a maskless lithography process. The method includes providing a proximity correction pattern. The method includes generating a deformed pattern based on the proximity correction pattern. The method includes performing a first convolution process to the proximity correction pattern to generate a first proximity correction pattern contour. The method includes processing the first proximity correction pattern contour to generate a second proximity correction pattern contour. The method includes performing a second convolution process to the deformed pattern to generate a first deformed pattern contour. The method includes processing the first deformed pattern contour to generate a second deformed pattern contour. The method includes identifying mismatches between the second proximity correction pattern contour and the second deformed pattern contour. The method includes determining whether the deformed pattern is lithography-ready in response to the identifying.
US08601403B2	Resolution enhancing technology using phase assignment bridges In one embodiment, a spacing is determined for each edge of a number of features in a photolithographic design. The edges have at least a partially predictable layout. Based on the spacing and the predictable layout, a bridge structure is generated. Each bridge of the bridge structure connects one of the edges to an edge of a neighboring feature. Then, the features and the bridge structure are provided for a phase assignment. The phase assignment assigns features at opposite ends of each bridge in the bridge structure to opposite phases. In another embodiment, a sub-resolution assist feature (SRAF) is introduced for an edge of a feature and a bridge is generated from the feature to the SRAF. Then, the feature and the SRAF are assigned to opposite phases based on the relationship defined by the bridge.
US08601402B1	System for and method of interfacing with a three dimensional display An interface for a system includes a three dimensional display and a three dimensional touch screen. The interface includes processing electronics configured to receive information from a three dimensional touch screen and determine at least one of a grab and hold operation for an object displayed in three dimensional space, a zoom operation associated with a finger movement along a Z axis perpendicular to an XY plane of the three dimensional touch screen, a pick and placement operation for an object in three dimensional space, a switching operation associated with a two dimensional object getting three dimensional attributes when moved along the Z axis in a direction away from the XY plane of the screen, and a menu expansion operation associated with a finger movement along the Z axis.
US08601397B2	System and method for grouping a collection of documents using document series A system and method that allows a publisher to create a document series, associate a document with a document series and present to an end-user a series nugget displaying at least one document associated with the document series. Document series information may be inherited by each document in the document series. Document series information is stored in an asset database.
US08601394B2	Graphical user interface user customization A user interface for an audio/visual device enables a user to customize the selection of menu items that are displayable on a menu, perhaps a racetrack menu, provided by the user interface to enable the user to operate the audio/visual device, in which a multitude of menu items that may be selected for being so displayed are visually displayed and the user is able to operate a first manually-operable control (or a first set of manually-operable controls) to select a menu item from among that multitude for being displayed on the menu. It may be that the menu is simultaneously displayed with the multitude of menu items to enable the user to immediately see the results of their selections. It may be that the user is able to again select that menu item within the multitude of menu items to cause that menu item to cease being displayed on the menu. It may be that a second manually-operable control is provided to the user to enable the user to select another menu item already being displayed on the menu to cause that menu item to cease being displayed.
US08601391B2	Dynamic functionality based on window characteristics A system and method are described for changing window's functionality upon detecting resizing events. According to one example method, a plurality of size thresholds is defined that are associated with a plurality of functional states for a window. Upon detecting that a size of a window reaches a first size threshold, a first functional state is applied to a window. Then, upon detecting another size threshold as the window is being increased or decreased in size, another functional state associated with the detected threshold is applied to the window.
US08601381B2	Rich customizable user online environment Providing a customizable online environment for a user on a client. An instruction is received from the user for assigning a background image for the online environment. The online environment is to be rendered on a display of the client. One or more graphical elements are identified on the background image. A profile is received from the user, and the profile includes a plurality of user-customizable data each having properties associated therewith. Graphical representations are provided for the plurality of user-customizable data. Each of the graphical representations depends on and visually indicates the properties associated with each of the plurality of user-customizable data. The provided graphical representations are rendered onto a position of the background image on the online environment. The position of the rendered graphical representation depends on the properties of the user-customizable data corresponding to the graphical representation and the identified graphical elements of the background image.
US08601380B2	Method and apparatus for displaying interactive preview information in a location-based user interface An approach is provided for displaying interactive preview information in a location-based user interface. A content mapping platform determines to render, at a device, a user interface for a location-based service based, at least in part, on a field of view. The content mapping platform determines one or more items outside of the field of view and then determines to render one or more user interface objects in the user interface. The one or more user interface objects present, at least in part, preview information associated with the one or more items.
US08601375B2	Systems and methods for efficiently managing and configuring virtual servers The present invention is related to providing faster and more efficient ways to deploy and manage virtual server configurations in a hosted virtual server service. Broadly, a web interface allows a user to set conditions upon which specific types of virtual servers will be instantiated or terminated on a third-party hosted virtual server service. For example, the user may wish to instantiate a new virtual server each time the load on existing virtual servers exceeds a predetermined threshold. The web interface may also allow a user to select from among a plurality of hosted virtual server services. The web interface may further allow a user to incorporate dynamic variables into configurations of instantiated virtual servers.
US08601371B2	System and method for event-based rendering of visual effects A system and method is provided for rendering visual effects, or other types of effects, in response to an occurrence of one or more events. The visual effects may be rendered on a user desktop in order to alert or otherwise notify a user that the one or more events have occurred. The events may reflect incoming messages (e.g., e-mails, instant messages, etc.), application and/or system problems, downloads, appointments, alarms, updates, network status, or other software and/or hardware related events. The visual effects may be rendered on the desktop to subtly notify the user when an event of interest occurs.
US08601369B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program An information processing apparatus displays in order multiple pages of the same electronic album in each of a first display area and a second display area arranged in parallel on a screen of a display device. A user selects one image from each display area. The information processing apparatus edits the selected images and display the results on the display device.
US08601365B2	Data transmission and rendering techniques implemented over a client-server system Different techniques are disclosed for generating formatted information for display on a computing device. The computing device may be configured to include at least one interface for communicating with a server system. The computing device sends a request to the server system. According to one embodiment, the request may correspond to an HTTP request for information relating to a specific HTML page or web page. A response is then received from the server system. The response can include response information having instructions and data. The instructions may include instructions for using the data to generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. The instructions then can be executed on the data to generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. The formatted markup information can correspond to HTML data to be rendered for display on the computing device.
US08601362B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing an information processing program An information processing apparatus parses document data described in a structured language to extract necessary information from the data. At least a part of the document data is stored in a storage unit, and the stored document data is parsed in order to extract information contained in the document data using. The parsing proceeds from a group of nodes having a high importance to another group of nodes having a lower importance in a network structure represented by the document data.
US08601356B2	Method and circuit for BER estimation This invention relates to a method and a circuit for estimating the bit error rate in a data transmission system. Symbols are detected (u) by a maximum likelihood detector (1), which provides path metrics of the decoded path and the best competitor at predetermined symbol positions. Absolute path metric differences (2) are calculated between the decoded path and the best competitor at said predetermined symbol positions. Events (5) are counted when an absolute path metric difference (2) is equal to one of a set of difference values. The bit error rate is estimated based on the number of counted (4) events (5). The invention further comprises a method and a circuit in which a function is applied onto said absolute path metric difference. The function maps quantized logarithms of probabilities to probabilities.
US08601349B2	Apparatus and method for processing a physical layer convergence protocol header Apparatus and method for processing a physical layer protocol convergence (PLCP) header. In one embodiment, a wireless device includes a PLCP header processor. The PLCP header processor is configured to: process a physical layer header, process a check value based on the physical layer header, and process an error correction code based on the physical layer header and the check value. A concatenation of the physical layer header, check value, and error correction code the PLCP header processor is configured to process consists of a number of information bits that is an integer multiple of a number of information bits per symbol used to encode the PLCP header.
US08601346B1	System and method for generating parity data in a nonvolatile memory controller by using a distributed processing technique A nonvolatile memory controller performs a data stripe operation on data blocks by processing a collection of commands. The nonvolatile memory controller includes command processing units, each of which processes a command of the data stripe operation to store a data block into a nonvolatile memory device. A parity calculator in the nonvolatile memory controller receives the data blocks of the data stripe operation by receiving a sequence of data blocks. The parity calculator generates a parity block in a page frame as the parity calculator receives the sequence of the data blocks. A command processing unit in the nonvolatile memory controller determines when the parity calculator has completed generating the parity block and writes the parity block to a nonvolatile memory device.
US08601341B2	Memory system and method using ECC with flag bit to identify modified data A DRAM device includes an ECC generator/checker that generates ECC syndromes corresponding to items of data stored in the DRAM device. The DRAM device also includes an ECC controller that causes the ECC syndromes to be stored in the DRAM device. The ECC controller also causes a flag bit having a first value to be stored in the DRAM device when a corresponding ECC syndrome is stored. The ECC controller changes the flag bit to a second value whenever the corresponding data bits are modified, this indicating that the stored syndrome no longer corresponds to the stored data. In such case, the ECC controller causes a new ECC syndrome to be generated and stored, and the corresponding flag bit is reset to the first value. The flag bits may be checked in this manner during a reduced power refresh to ensure that the stored syndromes correspond to the stored data.
US08601332B2	Systems and methods for monitoring a memory system Systems and methods are disclosed herein, including those that operate to monitor a first set of operational parameters associated with a memory vault, to adjust a second set of operational parameters associated with the memory vault, and to perform alerting and reporting operations to a host device.
US08601327B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device having a bank including a redundancy cell block and a plurality of normal cell blocks includes a plurality of normal data inputting/outputting units configured to respectively input/output data from the normal cell blocks in response to a first input/output strobe signal, a redundancy data inputting/outputting unit configured to input/output data from the redundancy cell block in response to the first input/output strobe signal, and a connection selecting unit configured to selectively connect the normal data inputting/outputting units and the redundancy data inputting/outputting unit to a plurality of local data lines in response to a address.
US08601326B1	Data quality monitors Systems and methods are presented for data quality monitoring. Data quality monitors may be created and configured to identify objects with specified data quality issues and/or property values. Objects identified by a data quality monitor can be presented to users for confirmation and resolution. Properties used by the data quality monitor to match objects may also be displayed to users.
US08601312B2	Storage apparatus, controller, and method for allocating storage area in storage apparatus A storage apparatus for storing data includes a plurality of physical media provided with storage areas to store data, a storage group determining unit configured to determine, upon detecting a request to write new data to a virtual volume to be accessed, a storage group from which to allocate storage area by selecting a storage group from among a plurality of storage groups made up of the plurality of physical media, wherein the selected storage group is other than any storage groups that include a physical medium where a failure has occurred, and a storage area allocator configured to allocate storage area on the physical media existing within the storage group that was determined by the storage group determining unit to the virtual volume, the size of the storage area corresponds to the data size of the new data.
US08601310B2	Partial memory mirroring and error containment In one embodiment, an apparatus includes memory comprising a first portion in which data contained therein is mirrored and a second portion wherein data contained therein is not mirrored, a memory allocator for allocating the first portion of the memory to critical data and allocating the second portion of the memory to non-critical data, and a processor for mirroring the critical data and receiving an indication of a memory error. If the memory error occurs in the first portion of the memory, a mirrored copy of the critical data is used. If the memory error occurs in the second portion of the memory, the memory error is contained so that the apparatus can continue to operate programs using the memory not affected by the memory error.
US08601302B2	Processor system in low power state retention mode with linear regulator off and switch regulator low in power management IC A quiescent state retention mode (QSRM) permits minimal power consumption and dissipation by an electronic device while idle without producing adverse latencies to users or causing system instability. Upon a call to enter the QSRM, processes may be frozen, clocks may be gated, switching regulators may be placed in low power mode, SDRAM may be placed into self-refresh mode, caches may be flushed, IRQs may be disabled, and the system waits for interrupt to wakeup. In the QSRM, powered components include the switching regulator configured to provide power to the processor is maintained in a low power mode while the SDRAM is placed in self-refresh.
US08601300B2	System and method for managing thermal energy generation in a heterogeneous multi-core processor Various embodiments of methods and systems for controlling and/or managing thermal energy generation on a portable computing device that contains a heterogeneous multi-core processor are disclosed. Because individual cores in a heterogeneous processor may exhibit different processing efficiencies at a given temperature, thermal mitigation techniques that compare performance curves of the individual cores at their measured operating temperatures can be leveraged to manage thermal energy generation in the PCD by allocating and/or reallocating workloads among the individual cores based on the performance curve comparison.
US08601298B2	System and method for determining optimal operating parameters for conserving power in a portable device from a hypersurface which represents optimal values of the operating parameters under various synthetic workloads A method and system for determining optimal operating parameters for conserving power of a portable computing device may include plotting a hypersurface in a coordinate system. The method includes defining one or more axes in a coordinate system, such as a Cartesian coordinate system, that impact power consumption of a PCD and which may be held as constants when applied as workloads on CPU. Then, at least one axis is identified as an unknown or variable which may be optimized for power consumption. After the hypersurface containing optimized values is created for various workload scenarios for the PCD, workloads corresponding to the synthetic workloads described above are applied to the PCD. Workload predictors, like a DCVS algorithm, are executed by the PCD and are observed and compared to the hypersurface. Parameters for the workload predictor may be adjusted based on the values from the hypersurface.
US08601290B2	Distributed power system processing for communication device A system and method for managing processing resources in a communication device having a power unit with distributed processing capability. In one aspect, digital power control processors that are configured to perform power system tasks and signal processing tasks are reconfigured by reallocating the tasks among the processors in order to balance the processing loads.
US08601289B1	Optical network unit with redundant reverse powering from customer premises equipment In accordance with a non-limiting example, an optical communications system includes a plurality of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), each having a reverse power supply circuit and each connected to a wire pair and configured to transmit and receive data and provide reverse power over the wire pair. An Optical Network Unit (ONU) includes a plurality of communication boards. A respective communication port is connected to a selected wire pair and its associated CPE through which data is transmitted and received and power received therefrom. A power management circuit is connected to each of the communication ports and configured to receive power and provide power sharing and manage power consumption and power supply redundancy from the plurality of CPE through the communication ports.
US08601281B2	Method for operating a sensor apparatus and sensor apparatus A sensor apparatus includes a housing with a security device, a secure first computation device, a second computation device and a sensor element. The sensor apparatus detects a temperature in the housing, to activate the first computation device only when the detected temperature is in a predefined temperature range, to determine a session key by the first computation device and to store the session key in a second memory of the second computation device, to deactivate the first computation device after the session key has been stored, to determine data on the basis of a sensor signal detected using the sensor element and to encrypt and/or sign the data by the second computation device on the basis of the session key.
US08601274B2	Inter-vehicle communication system A communication system for transmitting and receiving communication data together with signature data attached thereto for verifying the communication data. A transmission-side in-vehicle device of the system generates the signature data for each unit of communication data consisting of M pieces of communication data, and transmits the M pieces of divided signature data, attached to M corresponding pieces of communication data. A reception-side in-vehicle device of the system reconstitutes each unit of communication data from M pieces of received communication data, reconstitutes the signature data from M pieces of received divided signature data, and verifies the reconstituted unit of communication data with the reconstituted signature data. This can prevent significant increase in data amount of additional data in each communication frame for verifying the communication data.
US08601272B2	Signature log storing apparatus A signature log storing apparatus includes a signature log list and a certificate list, and registers, in the signature log list, a part of signature information in generated hysteresis signature as a signature record and a part of a user certificate in the certificate list. The signature log storing apparatus further includes a trust point list and validates a signature records registered in the signature log list and registers identification information for identifying a latest signature record out of the validate signature record, evidence information for validating validity of the user certificate for a validated signature record, and a hash value of information derived by connecting the evidence information and the hash value as needed or before the user certificate expires.
US08601271B2	Method and system for power management using ICMPV6 options A method and system that facilitates power management over an IPv6 network connection is described. A first host having an application creates a power management option for managing power management settings of one or more second hosts, which is in network communication with the first host. A neighbor solicitation request is sent with the power management option to the one or more second hosts, wherein the power management option requests the power management settings of the one or more second hosts. A table of the power management settings for each of the one or more second hosts is generated from the responses received from the neighbor solicitation request, and the power management settings are applied to the one or more second hosts.
US08601263B1	Storing encrypted objects An encrypted resource is stored in association with an access control list. A request to retrieve the resource is received. The wrapped key and the authentication credentials are sent, from the application server system, to a key server system. An unencrypted version of the resource encryption key is received from the key server system if the key server system determines that the authentication credentials correspond to a user in the group of users identified by the group identifier. The stored encrypted resource is decrypted using the received unencrypted version of the resource encryption key to generate an unencrypted version of the resource. The unencrypted version of the resource is sent, from the application server system, to the client application.
US08601262B2	Location privacy through IP address space scrambling In a network, a router uses some secret information combined with a cryptographic process in determination of a subnet's routing prefix. Several methods are disclosed, including using an IP suffix for prefix generation and for decryption, maintaining a pool of pseudo prefixes at the router, using public key encryption and symmetric key encryption.
US08601240B2	Selectively defering load instructions after encountering a store instruction with an unknown destination address during speculative execution The described embodiments provide a system for executing instructions in a processor. While executing instructions in an execute-ahead mode, the processor encounters a store instruction for which a destination address is unknown. The processor then defers the store instruction. Upon encountering a load instruction while the store instruction with the unknown destination address is deferred, the processor determines if the load instruction is to continue executing. If not, the processor defers the load instruction. Otherwise, the processor continues executing the load instruction.
US08601232B2	Memory management device, memory management method, memory management program, computer-readable recording medium recording memory management program and integrated circuit Available capacity of a specific memory block is secured as much as possible. A termination candidate process selection unit (204) selects, for each of a plurality of memory blocks, a plurality of processes as a termination candidate process group, a termination process decision unit (206) determines whether or not the selected termination candidate process group is to be terminated with priority over a currently held termination candidate process group, a process group termination possibility determination unit (205) determines whether of not the termination candidate process group determined to be terminated can be terminated, and the termination process decision unit (206) rewrites the currently held termination candidate process group to the termination candidate process group determined to be able to be terminated, and decides the currently held termination candidate process group as a process to be terminated when selection of a termination candidate process group is ended for all the memory blocks.
US08601230B2	Volume migration program, method and system A volume migration method for causing to carry out a migration from a first volume manager to a second volume, includes: by causing the first volume manager to carry out actual accesses, obtaining information of correspondence, by the first volume manager, between logical volume offsets and physical blocks on a physical medium; judging, based on the obtained information of the correspondence, whether or not an exceptional data layout is carried out; and when it is judged that the exceptional data layout is not carried out, updating only a header area on the physical medium for the second volume manager. Incidentally, the aforementioned obtaining is carried out by using a program module for blocking access by the first volume manager to the physical medium. Thus, when only the header area is updated after it is confirmed the exceptional data layout is not made, the high-speed volume migration becomes possible.
US08601225B2	Time ordered view of backup data on behalf of a host A method and systems of a time ordered view of backup data on behalf of a host are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method to provide a time-ordered snapshot view on behalf of a host of a specified portion of a backup of a first storage system data container stored at a second storage system includes initiating an order at the host to obtain a view of a data container. The order specifies a date and time of the ordered view. The method further includes receiving the order at a server adapted to assemble and enable access to the ordered view, and at the server, accessing the second storage system according to the date and time of the ordered view and accessing an applicable data write representing a data change to the data container.
US08601222B2	Apparatus, system, and method for conditional and atomic storage operations An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing conditional storage operations. Storage clients access and allocate portions of an address space of a non-volatile storage device. A conditional storage request is provided, which causes data to be stored to the non-volatile storage device on the condition that the address space of the device can satisfy the entire request. If only a portion of the request can be satisfied, the conditional storage request may be deferred or fail. An atomic storage request is provided, which may comprise one or more storage operations. The atomic storage request succeeds if all of the one or more storage operations are complete successfully. If one or more of the storage operations fails, the atomic storage request is invalidated, which may comprise deallocating logical identifiers of the request and/or invalidating data on the non-volatile storage device pertaining to the request.
US08601218B2	Data caching in consolidated network repository System(s) and method(s) are provided for caching data in a consolidated network repository of information available to mobile and non-mobile networks, and network management systems. Data can be cached in response to request(s) for a data element or request(s) for an update to a data element and in accordance with a cache retention protocol that establishes a versioning protocol and a set of timers that determine a period to elapse prior to removal of a version of the cached data element. Updates to a cached data element can be effected if an integrity assessment determines that recordation of an updated version of the data element preserves operational integrity of one or more network components or services. The assessment is based on integrity logic that establishes a set of rules that evaluate operational integrity of a requested update to a data element. Retention protocol and integrity logic are configurable.
US08601217B2	Method and system for inserting cache blocks A method of inserting cache blocks into a cache queue includes detecting a first cache miss for the cache queue, identifying a storage block receiving an access in response to the cache miss, calculating a first estimated cache miss cost for a first storage container that includes the storage block, calculating an insertion probability for the first storage container based on a mathematical formula of the first estimated cache miss cost, randomly selecting an insertion probability number from a uniform distribution, and inserting, in response to the insertion probability exceeding the insertion probability number, a new cache block corresponding to the storage block into the cache queue.
US08601216B2	Method and system for removing cache blocks A method for removing cache blocks from a cache queue includes detecting a first cache miss for the cache queue, identifying, within the cache queue, a new cache block storing a value of a storage block, calculating an estimated cache miss cost for a storage container having the storage block, calculating a removal probability for the storage container based on a mathematical formula of the estimated cache miss cost, randomly selecting a probability number from a uniform distribution, where the removal probability exceeds the probability number, and evicting, in response to the removal probability exceeding the probability number, the new cache block from the cache queue.
US08601215B2	Processor, server system, and method for adding a processor A processor according to an exemplary of the invention includes a first initialization unit which reads a first program for checking a reliability of the processor into a cache memory and executes the first program when the processor is started up, and a second initialization unit which reads a second program for checking a reliability of the cache memory into a predetermined memory area and executes the second program when the second initialization unit receives a notification indicating the completion of the establishment of a communication path between the predetermined memory area and the processor from another processor which exists in a partition in which the processor is added.
US08601211B2	Storage system with front-end controller Embodiments are disclosure relating to a front-end controller in a storage system. In one embodiment, a storage request is received at a storage device in a group of storage devices. The storage request identifies one or more data segments of a data stripe pattern assigned to the storage device by a front-end controller of the group. In such an embodiment, the storage device communicates the identified data segments with a storage client independently of the front-end controller. In some embodiments, the storage system includes a front-end, distributed redundant array of independent drives (RAID). In one such embodiment, the storage devices independently receive storage requests from a client over a network, and one or more of the storage devices are designated as parity-mirror storage devices for a stripe.
US08601209B1	Maintaining dasd and tape continuous availability Maintaining continuous availability of tape data includes providing a first storage space that contains the tape data, where metadata for the tape data points to the first storage space, creating a data mirroring relationship between the first storage space and a second, separate, storage space, where tape data written to the first storage space is copied to the second storage space, and adjusting the metadata for the tape data to reference the second storage space in response to the first storage space becoming inaccessible. Maintaining continuous availability of tape data may also include suspending access to the tape data prior to adjusting the metadata. Maintaining continuous availability of tape data may also include resuming access to the tape data after adjusting the metadata.
US08601193B2	Performance monitor design for instruction profiling using shared counters Counter registers are shared among multiple threads executing on multiple processor cores. An event within the processor core is selected. A multiplexer in front of each of a number of counters is configured to route the event to a counter. A number of counters are assigned for the event to each of a plurality of threads running for a plurality of applications on a plurality of processor cores, wherein each of the counters includes a thread identifier in the interrupt thread identification field and a processor identifier in the processor identification field. The number of counters is configured to have a number of interrupt thread identification fields and a number of processor identification fields to identify a thread that will receive a number of interrupts.
US08601182B2	Data communication control device A data communication control device. The data communication control device includes, a controller comprising a first data storing part, the first data storing part including multiple channels, each channel being applied to store a command for data transfer based on a destination of data, the controller executing the command stored in the channel from the head to transfer data and, an overall controller storing the command in the channel of the first data storing part when the number of commands in a certain channel is not over a upper limit, and stopping to store the command in the channel of the first data storing part and creating a second data storing part and storing the command in the second data storing part when the number of commands in a certain channel is over the upper limit.
US08601181B2	System and method for read data buffering wherein an arbitration policy determines whether internal or external buffers are given preference Methods for controlling read data buffering are disclosed. In one of the methods core operations are performed in response to a receipt of a read command from a master controller and an internal or external communication buffer of a data storage node is selected to forward information to the master controller. The data storage node is selected based upon constraints and contents of one or more communication buffers. Information is forwarded from the selected internal or external communication buffer to the master controller.
US08601180B1	Composite functional transmission line A composite functional transmission line is used as a medium for transmitting data between a plurality of electronic devices, and the composite functional transmission line is capable of performing bi-directional data transmissions with the electronic devices directly, and the composite functional transmission line includes a substrate, a plurality of transmission units and an extension unit. Each of the transmission units has two electrical connection terminals, and one of the two electrical connection terminals is provided for connecting the electronic devices, and the other one of the two electrical connection terminals is connected to the substrate, and the extension unit is installed onto the substrate and coupled to the transmission units through the substrate, so that bi-directional data transmissions can be performed between the extension unit and the transmission units.
US08601174B2	Triggering operation mode in virtual environment In a computer system, a virtual machine (VM) guest is instantiated on a VM host. The VM host detects a plurality of successive universal serial bus (USB) events occurring in the computer system and compares the plurality of successive USB events to a preset criterion. When the plurality of successive USB events meets the preset criterion, the VM host transmits a request for triggering an operation mode to the VM guest. The VM guest executes a control program for initiating the operation mode in response to the request.
US08601167B2	Maintaining required ordering of transaction requests in interconnects using barriers and hazard checks Interconnect circuitry is configured to provide data routes via which at least one initiator device may access at least one recipient device and includes at least one input for receiving transaction requests from said at least one initiator device; at least one output for outputting transaction requests to the recipient device; at least one path for transmitting the transaction requests between the input and the output; and control circuitry for routing the received transaction requests from the input to the output, wherein the control circuitry is configured to maintain an ordering of at least some transaction requests with respect to the barrier transaction request within a stream of transaction requests passing along one of the paths, by not allowing reordering of at least some of the transactions requests that occur before the barrier transaction request in the stream of transaction requests.
US08601151B2	Apparatus and method for receiving data An apparatus and method for receiving data over a network are provided. The data reception apparatus may include a receiver, a congestion decision unit and a suspension session selector. The receiver is configured to receive segments of data, using sessions corresponding to data transmissions apparatuses. The congestion detection unit is configured to determine whether a network to be utilized by a corresponding segment is congested, based on a status of each of the sessions. The suspension selector is configured to select a suspension session from the sessions where the network is determined to be congested.
US08601149B2	Information processing regarding different transfer According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in the markup, and generation of an event in response to the name corresponding to the event defined in the markup using an event listener in the script, and designating function contents that execute processing when the event is generated.
US08601141B2	Providing enterprise services in a service provisioning network A method and a system for providing enterprise services in a service provisioning network is described wherein service provisioning network is connected through at least one trunk to at least one enterprise network. The method comprises the steps of: providing a service request associated with an enterprise network; associating trunk information to said service request; routing said service request to an application server comprising one or more enterprise services associated with said enterprise network; and, said application server executing at least one enterprise service using said trunk information.
US08601135B2	Supporting WPS sessions using TCP-based connections Techniques are disclosed for a client application on a computing device to perform a configuration process with a wireless access point. The access point exposes an isolated, unsecured Access Point which provides access to the DHCP services and services by which a client application can run the WPS registration process over a TCP (or higher layer protocol) connection.
US08601128B2	Managing hardware resources for soft partitioning Methods and apparatus for allocating computer hardware resources of a hard partition of a computer server system to one or more soft partitions. In response to a partitioning request, a nucleus firmware instance of a hard partition may be configured to launch a separate firmware instance corresponding to each requested soft partition, and to allocate partitionable hardware resources of the hard partition to the soft partitions by allocating the hardware resources to each separate firmware instance.
US08601127B2	Method for selective service updates for communication networks A method for performing selective updating procedure of service advertisements. In this method, a Master personal gateway (10a) chooses a Slave personal gateway (10c) to update from its service list (step 40). The Master personal gateway (10a) uses the service description stored in its service list to determine if the Slave personal gateway (10c) of PAN (21c) has the capabilities to use the service advertised (step 41). The Master personal gateway (10a) then forwards the service advertisement to the Slave personal gateway (10c) (step 42). The Slave personal gateway (10c) updates its service list and advertises the service within its PAN (21c) (step 43).
US08601124B2	Secure publishing of data to DMZ using virtual hard drives A secure DMZ-resident computer that cannot connect to the internal network while allowing data to be transferred to and from the DMZ-resident computer is disclosed. The mechanism may include the transference of virtual hard disk files between the internal network and the DMZ host computer. The DMZ host computer may be configured with two network interface cards (“NICs”). One NIC may be connected to the DMZ network. The other NIC may be connected to the internal network. The virtual machines are connected only to the DMZ NIC. The physical host communicates only with the internal network NIC. When it is necessary to publish data to the DMZ-resident computer, a virtual hard disk file may be copied to the DMZ host over the internal network NIC. The DMZ resident virtual computer simply detects the presence of the new drive and mounts it.
US08601122B2	Managing captured network traffic data A system and method for managing captured network traffic data is provided. The invention comprises a plurality of capture agents, each being configured to capture the network traffic associated with one or more applications. Each application is associated with one or more capture agents according to an application profile that is stored and maintained in a capture server. When analysis of an application's network traffic is required, the capture server contacts the corresponding capture agents according to the application profile. The capture server then effects the identification and archiving of the network traffic that corresponds to a user-defined capture condition. A database at the capture server maintains a record that associates the corresponding network traffic with the user-defined capture condition such that the corresponding network traffic can later be retrieved and analyzed using an analysis engine.
US08601121B2	Tracking changes to data within various data repositories A computer system retrieves from data repositories change information indicating changes to entries. Each data repository is associated with a corresponding interface and at least two data repositories are associated with different interfaces, and at least one data repository lacks tracking of changes to entries stored therein. The change information retrieved from the data repository is stored within a storage unit. The stored information includes identification of each repository entry change without storage of the changed entry. Requests are processed to provide change information for entries within the data repositories, wherein processing the change information request for one of the entries includes retrieving from the storage unit the identification of the repository entry change for the one of the entries. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for tracking changes within data repositories in substantially the same manner described above.
US08601113B2	Method for summarizing flow information from network devices A method for aggregating network flow information within a relational database relates to by maximizing concurrency between insertion and analysis of database records. In particular, data is generally stored according to the network devices associated with the flow records. Then, the flow records for the separate devices may be aggregated at certain time intervals and separately organized. In this way, contention is decreased as analysis can occur on the aggregated flow records, while new flow records are stored. In another embodiment, the aggregated data can be reaggregated again at a second, larger time interval.
US08601112B1	Method and system for collecting and analyzing time-series data A system for collecting and processing time-series data from a plurality of data source computers comprises a plurality of computer-implemented partitions and a plurality of computer implemented nodes which own respective ones of the partitions. The plurality of computer-implemented partitions comprise a plurality of processes configured to produce the desired outputs. The plurality of partitions are configured (i) to permit each of the data messages to be received at an arbitrary one of the plurality of nodes, and (ii) to forward the received data message to one or more of the plurality of nodes which own respective ones of the plurality of partitions responsible for participating in producing one of the desired outputs.
US08601110B2	Switch management system and method Methods and systems for managing a service provider switch are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for provisioning a switch with a network-based managed Internet Protocol (IP) service. A network operating system (NOS) is provided on each processor element (PE) of the switch. The NOS includes an object manager (OM) responsible for managing global software object groups, managing software object configurations, managing local software objects and groups and routing control information between address spaces based on locations of software objects. The OM performs management plane communications among software objects by way of system calls. The OM performs data plane communications among software objects by way of object-to-object channels. The switch is provisioned with a network-based managed IP service for a particular customer by pushing discrete and customized software objects representing the network-based managed IP service onto an object-to-object channel established between two of the software objects.
US08601108B1	Credential authentication and authorization in a server device A server device is configured to perform a method for providing object class information to a management device. The method includes mapping user names included as part of entries of a database associated with the server device to a corresponding Common Information Model (CIM) object manager operating system (OS) role. The method includes receiving a management request associated with the management device, the management request having management request credential information. The method includes authenticating the management request to an operating system associated with the server device based upon the management request credential information. The method includes following authentication, authorizing the management device to a corresponding CIM object manager OS role using the management request credential information. The method includes executing a CIM object call associated with the management request using the associated CIM object manager OS role to access object class information in response to the management request.
US08601106B2	Remote command execution over a network Embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems and computer program products. In one embodiment, a method described herein includes receiving, at a host terminal having a unique identifier, a message including at least an authentication field, an operation field, an entity field and an argument field; and authenticating a remote user in response to the authentication field. The first method can also include identifying an entity selected by the remote user in response to the entity field; identifying an argument selected by the remote user in response to the argument field; and performing an operation selected by the remote user in response to the operation field. Performance of the operation allows the remote user to perform and/or control tasks, communications and/or processes on the host terminal.
US08601095B1	Feedback mechanisms providing contextual information Feedback received from users regarding potential problems with an application, service, or other source of electronic content can be configured to include additional information that help triangulate the source of the problem. Content provided by third parties can be combined with content from a primary provider, but the primary provider often will be unable to determine the precise instance of third party content that a user received that might have posed a problem for the user, as may relate to malware or another such issue. By configuring feedback submissions from users to automatically include identifying information, and by logging session data for various users, a content provider can analyze and filter the data to determine likely sources of the problem, and deactivate or otherwise address those sources. Further, the content provider can analyze the information to locate any users likely to have been exposed to the same third party content.
US08601093B2	Method and system for generation, adjustment and utilization of web pages selection rules According to some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a system of rule generation for web pages selection mechanism comprising a pattern recognition unit which analyzes a plurality of network requests and identifies a plurality of repeated patterns of characterizing features therein, a calculation unit which computes, for each said repeated pattern, a plurality of statistic features, and a rule construction unit which generates a plurality of web pages selection rules for at least some of said repeated patterns, wherein each of the web pages selection rules comprises a rule condition defining at least one criterion for matching it with characterizing features associated with at least one additional network request and a target web pages selection distribution set according to respective statistic features.
US08601089B2	Media play of selected portions of an event A system is provided for selectively presenting a portion of an event to a user. The system includes a first device, a second device, and a network allowing communication between the first and the second device. An application at the first device displays a plurality of sub-events that characterize an event; receives an input from a user whereby the user selects a sub-event from the plurality of sub-events; sends a request to a second device, the request comprising information associated with the selected sub-event; receives media data from the second device whereby the media data represents the selected sub-event; and presents the received media data. An application at the second device receives the request from the first device, selects the media data that represents the selected sub-event from a database using the information associated with the selected sub-event, and sends the selected media data to the first device.
US08601086B2	TCP/IP processor and engine using RDMA A TCP/IP processor and data processing engines for use in the TCP/IP processor is disclosed. The TCP/IP processor can transport data payloads of Internet Protocol (IP) data packets using an architecture that provides capabilities to transport and process Internet Protocol (IP) packets from Layer 2 through transport protocol layer and may also provide packet inspection through Layer 7. The engines may perform pass-through packet classification, policy processing and/or security processing enabling packet streaming through the architecture at nearly the full line rate. An application running on an initiator or target can in certain instantiations register a region of memory, which is made available to its peer(s) for access directly without substantial host intervention through RDMA data transfer.
US08601080B2	Sharing email A trust relationship may be established between a first email user and at least a second email user. At least one email message received by the second user is automatically propagated to the first user based upon, at least in part, the trust relationship.
US08601079B2	Fast maneuvering and high-speed data attachments for message services Embodiments are directed towards a message system that stores and tags message attachment files to enable a user to navigate a personalized hierarchical structure of tags (“PHST”) and to select files for attachment to a message. The files may be received as a message attachment sent to the user and/or uploaded by the user as an attachment to a message sent from the user. The tags may include automatic tags determined by the system and/or custom tags defined by the user. The PHST may be provided to the user in a graphical user interface that enables the user to expand and/or collapse tags within levels of tags and to select a tag to attach files associated with the selected tag to a message. In some embodiments, targeted advertisements may be provided to the user based on information associated with the tags.
US08601072B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus and recording medium recording control program for information processing apparatus, capable of executing efficient data communication dispensing with communication with once communicated partner An exchange data communication determining unit determines, based on a received reception wireless frame, whether or not a communication partner is an exchange partner with which the exchange data can be exchanged. Receiving a notice that exchange of the exchange data is possible, a data communication control unit executes a process for giving/receiving the exchange data. A machine identification information registration unit stores an MAC address of a portable game machine in an MAC address list saving area. Again, the wireless frame transmitting/receiving unit sets a transmission wireless frame and executes an exchange partner searching process. An exchange data communication determining unit determines whether or not an MAC address included in the received reception wireless frame is registered with the MAC address list saving area, and if it is registered, the data communication is terminated.
US08601066B1	Real time communications system A method of communicating via an Internet network, the method including: connecting, responsive to receiving from each of a plurality of computers a login name and a password corresponding to a respective user identity, a computer system to each of said plurality of computers; determining, by the computer system, which one or ones of the plurality of computers can communicate communications with at least one other of the plurality of computers; receiving, by the computer system, at least some of the communications in real time via the Internet network; and providing, by the computer system to at least one of the plurality of computers, a member-associated image and member identity information corresponding to one of the user identities.
US08601055B2	Dynamically managing a social network group A method for dynamically managing a social network group performed by a group management system having at least one physical processing apparatus includes receiving, with the group management system, data from a number of source providers over a computer network; identifying a basis for creating a new social network group from the data with the group management system; creating the new social network group with the group management system; and automatically inviting a number of members to join the new social network group with the group management system, each of the members being associated with the basis identified in the data for creating the new social network group.
US08601047B2	Decimal floating-point adder with leading zero anticipation A decimal floating-point (DFP) adder includes a decimal leading-zero anticipator (LZA). The DFP adder receives DFP operands. Each operand includes a significand, an exponent, a sign bit and a leading zero count for the significand. The DFP adder adds or subtracts the DFP operands to obtain a DFP result. The LZA determines the leading zero count associated with the significand of the DFP result. The LZA operates at least partially in parallel with circuitry (in the DFP adder) that computes the DFP result. The LZA does not wait for that circuitry to finish computation of the DFP result. Instead it “anticipates” the number of leading zeros that the result's significand will contain.
US08601042B2	Signal processing device and method, and signal processing program Provided is a signal processing device performing filter processing operations on an input signal using a plurality of filters to generate an output signal, including a filter processing unit configured to perform a filter processing operation on the input signal using a filter and a generating unit configured to generate the output signal by adding a correction value determined on the basis of each sign and each absolute value of each difference between each of filtered output signals obtained by the filter processing operations performed using a plurality of the above mentioned filter processing units and the input signal, to the input signal.
US08601032B2	Image forming apparatus, display control method, and recording medium An image forming apparatus is disclosed including a search request transmission unit transmitting a search request to a predetermined resource in a network, a response receiving unit receiving response information in response to the search request, and storing the received response information in a storage unit, a list screen display control unit displaying a list screen including a display element corresponding to each response information stored in the storage unit within a first predetermined time period. When the list screen is changed to another screen and then changed back again to the list screen, the list screen display control unit displays the list screen including the display element corresponding to response information stored in the storage unit after the first predetermined time period has passed.
US08601029B2	Data stewardship in federated multi-level master data management systems Managing data stewardship in multi-level MDM systems may include a steward data composer that creates data steward repository for a master data management system to define relationships between data stewards and data objects for which data stewards are responsible and steward data consolidator that creates an integrated data steward repository by combining multiple data steward repositories.
US08601024B2	Synopsis of a search log that respects user privacy Described is releasing output data representing a search log, in which the data is suitable for most data mining/analysis applications, but is safe to publish by preserving user privacy. The search log is processed such that a query is only included if a sufficient count of that query is present; noise may be added. User contributions that are considered may be limited to a maximum number of queries. The output may indicate how often (possibly plus noise) that each query appeared. Other output may comprise a query-action graph, a query-inaction graph and/or a query-reformulation graph, with nodes representing queries and nodes representing actions, inactions or reformulations (e.g., clicked URLs, skipped URLs, or selected related queries), and edges between nodes representing action, skip or selection counts (possibly plus noise). The output may correspond to the top results/related queries returned from a search.
US08601021B2	Experience information processing apparatus and method for social networking service An experience information processing apparatus for a social networking service, includes an ontology unit for providing a social ontology including social connection information and location information of a user and a service ontology including web service information, service location information and tag information. Further, the experience information processing apparatus includes an experience information management unit for extracting experience information content having location information from a plurality of mobile devices, classifying the extracted experience information content using the ontology unit to establish an experience information database, and searching the established experience information database based on the location information in response to a request from the mobile device to provide a social media service by linking the social connections information, the location information, and the tag information. Furthermore, the experience information processing apparatus includes an experience information storage unit for storing the experience information database.
US08601012B2	Automatic search and transfer apparatus and automatic search and transfer system An automatic search and transfer apparatus that automatically searches for and transfers data one or more computers connected via a network, that includes a keyword input section that inputs at least one keyword, a search section that searches for data including the at least one keyword and acquires attribute data of concerned data from the one or more computers connected via the network, a reporting section that reports information relating to the concerned data to a user, a reception section that receives the concerned data from one or more computers, and a data storage section that stores the data. The reporting section reports acquisition of the attribute data to the user when the attribute data is acquired, and the reception section starts reception of the concerned data after the reporting section has reported the acquisition of the attribute data of the concerned data to the user.
US08601010B1	Application management database with personnel assignment and automated configuration A computer implemented asset management system is disclosed. The computer implemented asset management system comprises an asset data store containing information about assets that is updated at intervals. The computer implemented asset management system also comprises a personnel data store containing information about individuals and an analysis component operable to identify an association of individuals with each of the assets.
US08601001B2	Selectively structuring a table of contents for accessing a database A computer-based system for accessing content. The system includes a database in which the content is included in a plurality of content nodes. Each content node is uniquely identified by an identifier in a database table. The table is configured recursively to represent the content nodes. A browser uses one of the identifiers to format a table of contents (TOC) node referring to the corresponding content node. The browser inserts the TOC node into a TOC for accessing one or more of the content nodes. The TOC is recursively configurable in accordance with at least a portion of the table configuration.
US08601000B1	System and method for conditionally updating an item with attribute granularity A system that implements a scaleable data storage service may maintain tables in a non-relational data store on behalf of clients. Each table may include multiple items. Each item may include one or more attributes, each containing a name-value pair. Attribute values may be scalars or sets of numbers or strings. The system may provide an API usable to request that values of one or more of an item's attributes be updated. An update request may be conditional on expected values of one or more item attributes (e.g., the same or different item attributes). In response to a request to update the values of one or more item attributes, the previous values and/or updated values may be optionally returned for the updated item attributes or for all attributes of an item targeted by an update request. Items stored in tables may be indexed using a simple or composite primary key.
US08600987B2	Classifying search results to determine page elements This invention relates to determining page elements to display in response to a search. A method embodiment of this invention determines a page element based on a search result. The method includes: (1) determining a set of result classifications based on the search result, wherein each result classification includes a result category and a result score; and (2) determining the page element based on the set of result classifications. In this way, a classification is determined based on a search result and page elements are generated based on the classification. By using the search result, as opposed to just the query, page elements are generated that corresponds to a predominant interpretation of the user's query within the search results. As result, the page elements may, in most cases, accurately reflect the user's intent.
US08600986B2	Lexical answer type confidence estimation and application A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence “score” or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer.
US08600975B1	Query phrasification An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are extracted from the document collection. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases, using phrase posting lists. The phrase posting lists are stored in an cluster of index servers. The phrase posting lists can be tiered into groups, and sharded into partitions. Phrases in a query are identified based on possible phrasifications. A query schedule based on the phrases is created from the phrases, and then optimized to reduce query processing and communication costs. The execution of the query schedule is managed to further reduce or eliminate query processing operations at various ones of the index servers.
US08600967B2	Automatic organization of browsing histories An automatic organization into topics for a browsing history. In one embodiment, a system identifies groups of browsing actions as related, and clusters the browsing history (e.g. a web browsing history) into sessions based on heuristics used to determine relationships. Latent semantic analysis can be used to determine the relationships which can be considered topics. User interfaces for displaying or otherwise presenting these sessions can include icons representative of topics, and these icons can have different sizes depending on a frequency of web page visits within a topic. The topics can be displayed in time ranges or in a cover flow view or both time ranges and cover flow view.
US08600955B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring an in-memory computer system An in-memory computing system for conducting on-line transaction processing and on-line analytical processing includes system tables in main memory to store runtime information. A statistics server can access the runtime information to collect monitoring data and generate historical data and other system performance metrics.
US08600950B2	System and method for automatically creating a media archive from content on a recording medium A media player for creating a media archive may include a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader. The media player may also include an archival component to store the media content in a storage medium. In one embodiment, the media player includes a playback component to play back the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the storage of the media content by the archival component.
US08600949B2	Deduplication in an extent-based architecture A request is received to remove duplicate data. A log data container associated with a storage volume in a storage server is accessed. The log data container includes a plurality of entries. Each entry is identified by an extent identifier in a data structures stored in a volume associated with the storage server. For each entry in the log data container, a determination is made if the entry matches another entry in the log data container. If the entry matches another entry in the log data container, a determination is made of a donor extent and a recipient extent. If an external reference count associated with the recipient extent equals a first predetermined value, block sharing is performed for the donor extent and the recipient extent. A determination is made if the reference count of the donor extent equals a second predetermined value. If the reference count of the donor extent equals the second predetermined value, the donor extent is freed.
US08600942B2	Systems and methods for tables of contents To address problems related to use and formation of tables of contents, the present inventors, devised among other things, an exemplary table-of-contents (TOC) data structure and related systems and methods. One exemplary method entails associating a node from one TOC with a node of another TOC and then assigning a unique identifier to the associated pair of nodes. The unique identifier can then be used to logically define another TOC that includes portions of the two original TOCs. Another exemplary method entails tagging or associating nodes of a TOC with one or more view labels. (Identifiers for node relationships rather than the nodes themselves are tagged with the labels in some embodiments.)
US08600938B2	Updating elements in a data storage facility using a predefined state machine, with serial activation A technique for updating elements in a data storage facility, including a single server or a multi-server system, such as by providing updated internal code packages to the elements. The update is performed using a fixed state machine, where the elements are updated in a coordinated manner within the constraints of the state machine. In a multi-server device, code packages are distributed to elements associated with the different servers in one traversal of the state machine, during distribute states of the state machine. The distributed code packages are activated in activate states of the state machine in multiple traversals of the state machine, so there is a serial activation. The code packages can be grouped in a flexible way by configuring an external update bundle used by the state machine. The distributing of the code is based on the grouping.
US08600929B2	Method and computer system for aggregating data from a plurality of operational databases A method and computer system for aggregating data from a plurality of operational databases are provided. It is determined if a transformation script stored in storage of a computer system has been modified. Delta data extracted from said operational databases and specified by the transformation script is automatically merged and transformed if the transformation script is unmodified. All data extracted from said operational databases and specified by the transformation script is automatically merged and transformed if the transformation script is unmodified.
US08600922B2	Methods and systems for knowledge discovery Provided are methods and systems for knowledge discovery utilizing knowledge profiles.
US08600912B2	Electronic business postal system An electronic business postal system collects, clears and delivers electronic business mail through a closed access, secure messaging system. A collection subsystem consists of access portals that are associated with secured system nodes. The access portals provide authenticated users access to the system to send and retrieve electronic business mail that includes postal system electronic delivery addresses, physical delivery addresses, or both. Secured message servers that are associated with the respective access portals process the electronic business mail into uniquely identified messages for delivery over the system nodes and also process received messages to provide the corresponding electronic business mail to the intended recipients through associated access portals. A delivery subsystem directs the messages through the system nodes associated with the senders' access portals to the system nodes associated with the recipients' access portals. A clearance subsystem confirms the integrity of both the messages and their delivery and ensures that each message is delivered once and intact.
US08600908B2	Carrier selection method for logistics network A carrier selection method for the logistics network is disclosed to evaluate the network reliability of each carrier set for choosing an optimal carrier set. The logistics network includes a start, a terminal and a plurality of routes between the start and the terminal, and a plurality of minimal paths are composed of the routes. The carrier set is composed of carriers chosen in every route of the logistics network. The carrier selection method includes the steps of choosing one carrier for transporting; distributing a demand in the minimal paths, and each carrier having a plurality of capacities and a maximal capacity; calculating a network reliability for the carrier set transporting the demand in the minimal paths according to the demand, the capacities and the maximal capacity; and executing genetic algorithm for searching an optimal carrier set.
US08600907B2	Systems and methods for providing an express mail label Systems and methods are provided for generating a mailing label. In one embodiment, a method includes requesting, through a communication channel, a tracking number for the mailing label, wherein the tracking number identifies that the mailing label is printable by a user on a single-sheet medium; receiving, through the communication channel, a response to said request, such that the response includes the tracking number provided by a source of one or more tracking numbers; and enabling the user to print the mailing label with the received tracking number.
US08600894B2	Three-stage, double blind credit rating of securities Disclosed is a computer-implemented system and method for rating an asset, and, in embodiments, a system and method for performing a double-blind, three stage credit rating of a securitized instrument, such as without limitation, a commercial mortgage backed security or an asset thereof. The disclosed method utilizes a secure database structure which trifurcates information relating to the asset being rated into first, second, and third analytical stages. Asset information is distributed such that analysts at each stage have access to only that information which is relevant to the scope of the particular analytical stage being performed, while irrelevant and prejudicial information is withheld from the analyst. Unique access tokens are employed to control access to stage data and to maintain the integrity of the analytical process.
US08600877B2	Customer assistance system In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus may include a network interface configured to receive data from and communicate data to a remote electronic device and a processor coupled to the network interface. The processor may be configured to receive, via a user interface at the remote electronic device and the network interface, credentials for identifying a customer, and to display to the user interface a notification that the customer owes a past-due amount on at least one loan account. The processor may also be configured to display to the user interface a plurality of options regarding the account. The processor may further be configured to receive via the user interface and the network interface, a selected option from the plurality of options.
US08600872B1	System and method for detecting account compromises A method of identifying a point of compromise includes accessing data stored in a data storage system, the data being associated with a plurality of identified at-risk accounts, identifying a plurality of common points of transaction, each of the plurality of common points of transaction being associated with a minimum number of the plurality of identified at-risk accounts, and identifying a point of compromise from the plurality of common points of transaction based on (i) the number of the identified at-risk accounts involved in transactions executed via each common point of transaction during a time period, and (ii) a total number of accounts involved in transactions executed via the common point of transaction during the time period.
US08600870B2	Distributed scoring of data transactions A data transaction is associated with a plurality of remote data sources so that a score may be generated that characterizes the transaction. The remote data sources are polled to obtain partial scores which can be used by a decisioning system to score the transaction. In some implementations, different scoring models may be used so that the data source is notified which scoring model to use when generating the partial score. Related techniques, apparatus, systems, and articles are described.
US08600868B2	System and method for price-based annotations in an electronic trading environment A system and method for generating and displaying annotations in relation to one or more prices corresponding to trader-related or market related events are described. In one embodiment, a trader may enter an annotation to be displayed in relation to one or more price levels. Alternatively, a trader may configure a dynamic annotation to be dynamically displayed in relation to some price level(s) upon detecting a predetermined event related to one or more tradeable objects. Also, a trader may configure one or more alarms to be displayed or played in combination with the annotations.
US08600862B2	Discretionary order in an electronic guaranteed entitlement environment An enhanced system and method for handling, matching and executing discretionary orders in an electronic options environment is disclosed. Market maker entitlements are integrated with the discretionary order processing, so that the market maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the market maker is at the NBBO when an incoming discretionary order priced at or better than the NBBO is received. If the incoming discretionary order cannot execute at the NBBO using its display price, then it will use as much discretion as is required to participate in a market maker entitlement if the market maker is quoting at the NBBO, and to execute against the order book and route to away markets quotations at the NBBO. Once posted to the order book, only the display price of a discretionary order is eligible for preferential execution in a market maker entitlement process.
US08600853B2	Method for structuring a transaction In one embodiment the present invention relates to a method for structuring a transaction involving a first party having a long position in a security and a second party desiring to acquire short exposure to the security. In one example an agent or intermediary acts between the first party and the second party. In another example the first party and the second party deal directly with one another.
US08600850B2	Feedback loop for dynamic network resource allocation A system, apparatus and method for dynamic resource allocation is provided, where a network resource shared by a plurality of electronic devices having unique service profiles and unique billing profiles is monitored. Allocation of the shared network resource as well as the service profiles and billing profiles are dynamically modified.
US08600848B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for ensuring wage and hour compliance in locate operations Control of locating equipment used by a locate technician to perform a locate and/or marking operation to detect and/or mark a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility at a work site (e.g., locate receivers, locate transmitters, marking devices and/or combined locate and marking devices) is based on time-keeping information associated with the technician and/or wage and hour compliance information. In one example, one or more control signals are generated to at least partially enable or disable one or more piece of locating equipment based at least in part on a time clock status of the locate technician (e.g., clocked-in or clocked-out), and/or wage and hour compliance information associated with the locate technician and/or the work site (e.g., relating to required breaks and/or maximum number of work hours).
US08600842B1	Universal cartridge for different cash recyclers A cash recycler includes one or more universal cartridges storing cash which may be exchanged between different types of cash recyclers. The swapping of universal cartridges may allow for improved efficiency when a cash handling device is detected to have a need for additional currency, removal of surplus currency, removal of unfit currency, and other services.
US08600841B2	Large inventory-service optimization in configure-to-order systems A manufacturing process is migrated from an existing operation to a configure-to-order (CTO) system. As the CTO operation will eliminate the “machine-type model” (MTM) inventory of the existing operation, the emphasis is shifted to the components, or “building blocks”, which will still follow the build-to-stock scheme, due to their long leadtimes, and hence still require inventory. The solution involves an inventory-service trade-off of the new CTO system, resulting in performance gains, in terms of reduced inventory cost and increased service level. Other benefits include better forecast accuracy through parts commonality and risk-pooling, and increased customer demand, as orders will no longer be confined within a restricted set of pre-configured MTMs.
US08600840B2	Dynamic asset monitoring using electronic markers A novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for controlling movement of assets is provided. A method for controlling movement of assets can include reading a first information from a first electronic marker coupled to an asset and reading a second information from a second electronic marker of a transport mechanism in possession of the asset. The method can further include storing in a record the first and second information and a third information comprising a location of the asset. The method can further include retrieving at least one rule comprising at least one value and an action and comparing information in the record to the at least one value. The method can further include executing the action of the at least one rule if the information in the record matches the at least one value.
US08600835B1	Methods systems and computer program products for generating electronic shopping lists with item and price data Systems, computer-implemented methods and computer program products for generating electronic shopping lists for recurring item purchase that identify items and their respective prices. Item-level electronic transaction data is analyzed to determine purchase intervals of items and estimate when the consumer will purchase the items again. A source of price data is accessed to determine prices of respective items, and an electronic shopping list is generated based on prior consumer purchase and lists items that when it is determined that consumer will need to purchase those items again and their respective prices.
US08600828B2	Methods of acquiring actual real-time shopper behavior data approximate to a moment of decision by a shopper The invention provides methods of acquiring actual real-time shopper behavior data during product selection of purchasable items by a shopper in a store. More specifically, disclosed herein are methods of using a communications multi-network, a First Moment of Truth device and a data collection device to track actual real-time shopper behavior data relating to the presumed locations of shoppers in a store, the time spent and location of time spent by a shopper while considering a purchasable item and products chosen for purchase.
US08600824B2	Image-based product marketing systems and methods Exemplary product marketing systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a product marketing system receiving, from an access device, a product search request and image data representative of an image associated with a product, searching, in response to the product search request, a repository of product image data to identify at least one match to the image associated with the product, generating, based on the at least one match, search results data comprising product information for at least one product, and transmitting the search results data to the access device. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US08600820B2	Method and system for labeling and managing the sale of manufactured concrete blocks In a method for identifying manufactured concrete or masonry blocks and managing the sale thereof to a customer in a retail establishment, the retail establishment having a computer system configured to monitor inventory, a database operatively coupled to the computer system, and a plurality of point of sale (POS) terminals operatively coupled to the computer system. The method includes a) applying a releasably secured label to the concrete block or a layer of concrete blocks contained on a pallet, where the label has UPC information affixed thereon and is releasable from the concrete block or layer of concrete blocks on the pallet, b) selecting for purchase by the customer, a number of concrete blocks from a selected pallet, c) removing the label from the concrete block or the layer of concrete blocks on the pallet, d) presenting the label at the POS terminal, e) scanning the label via the POS terminal to process the UPC information, and entering the number of concrete blocks intended for purchase, f) transmitting data encoded in the UPC information to the computer system along with an indication of the number of concrete blocks purchased to effect maintenance of the inventory of concrete blocks, and g) issuing a receipt to the purchaser evidencing purchase of the concrete blocks.
US08600809B1	Predictive model performance Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing outcome estimation models. In one aspect, a method includes providing tracer data to a content performance estimation model. The tracer data specify feature values for a reference content item that is not distributed to users, and for which a reference performance measure is pre-defined. An estimated performance measure that was computed for the reference content item is received from the performance estimation model. An accuracy measure is computed for the content performance estimation model using the estimated performance measure and the reference performance measure. Data are provided that specify the accuracy measure for the content performance estimation model.
US08600807B1	Method and system for electronic exchange of reward points A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns rewards from a plurality of independent reward issuing entities, with each tracking the user's earned rewards. A trading server accumulates some or all of the user's earned rewards from the reward servers and credits the accumulated points rewards into a single reward exchange account associated with the user. The user may then select an item for purchase with the accumulated rewards. The item is provided to the user in exchange for a subset or all of the rewards. Reward points may also be redeemed in exchange for services, such as the playing of a video game or Internet access.
US08600805B2	Systems and methods for generating travel packages including separately purchased travel items A user of a personal computing device may identify multiple travel items of interest displayed for purchase by a network-based travel service. However, the user may not desire to purchase the travel items in a single purchase. Upon making a travel purchase that includes a first travel item that does not include a second travel item corresponding to the first travel item, the user may employ the network travel package service to search for second travel items corresponding to the first travel item, select from discounted travel packages including the first travel item and second travel items returned from the search, and purchase a discounted travel package. Beneficially, multiple travel items may be purchased separately while obtaining a package discount as compared to the stand-alone price of the travel items.
US08600798B1	Loan screening A loan screening system and methods are described. One method includes monitoring loan application data as it is entered into a client application, extracting loan application data from the monitored data in accordance with a first pre-determined criteria, matching the extracted data against supplier products and displaying one or more of the matching supplier products within a client application interface.
US08600795B2	System and method for filtering, distributing and routing sales leads A system and method of managing leads by filtering, distributing and routing leads to a representative using business intelligence.
US08600794B2	Meeting notification and merging agents The present invention is directed generally to an information manager that identifies currently scheduled meetings satisfying selected search parameters, discloses, when permitted, details of the identified meetings to requestors, and merges requested and existing meetings when appropriate.
US08600792B2	Business process visibility at real time Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing business process visibility at real time are described herein. One or more business activity events are received at a local business activity event manager. Further, business process binding information associated with the one or more business activity events is retrieved at the business activity manager from a business process model manager. A relationship of the one or more business activity events with a business process using the business process binding is identified at the business activity event manager. Upon determination, a business process log manager is triggered for logging a business activity log of a business process instance at real time. Furthermore, the business activity log is extracted to monitor and analyze the business process instance at real time.
US08600785B2	Event management system with grouping feature A system for organizing ground transportation of airline passengers arriving for an event is disclosed. The event management system includes a memory, a computer display; a data entry component that receives passenger data including names of passengers and flight information and stores the passenger data in an application specific format; and a group scheduling component that allows a user to set parameters including VIP status, time windows, vehicle types, and number of passengers allocated for vehicle type, and provides passenger groupings based on flight information and on user-set parameters. Also disclosed is a computerized method for organizing ground transportation of airline passengers arriving for an event.
US08600784B1	Indentifying information sources to search based on rules Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods used to search for information (e.g., from multiple sources). In one example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), such systems and methods may select a subset of available relevant Internet information sources, such as suppliers and/or purchasers of goods, services, and/or commodities. In another example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), a system and method are provided for determining when to launch an information search and for determining the set of information sources to search.
US08600782B2	Automation of auditing claims Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for automation of auditing claims. A data file is received comprising one or more auditable items, each auditable item comprising a word string having one or more words. Each word string for each auditable item is translated using one or more translation steps into a translated item description. Each translated item description is compared to a plurality of terms to generate matching information. Each translated item description is associated with an item identifier based on the matching information. Each auditable item is accepted or rejected based on the item identifier and one or more rules associated with the data file.
US08600780B2	System and method for determining a cost of insurance based upon monitoring, collecting and communicating data representative of a risk's payroll characteristics A system/method of determining a cost of workers compensation insurance for a selected period based upon monitoring, collecting and communicating data representative of a risk's payroll characteristics during said selected period, wherein the cost is adjustable by relating the payroll characteristics to predetermined actuarial rates. The system/method: determines an initial profile and a base cost of workers compensation insurance, monitors data elements representative of payroll and business status of a risk during the selected period; identifies and analyzes data elements that have a pre-identified relationship to the risk's insurability; consolidates the analyzed data elements for identifying a surcharge or discount to be applied to the base cost; and produces a final cost of workers compensation insurance for the selected period from the base cost.
US08600772B2	Systems and methods for interfacing with healthcare organization coding system Systems, articles, and methods for assisting medical coders with review and identification of relevant portions of electronic documents associated with a patient's encounter with a healthcare organization, and for the inputting of codes describing said encounter.
US08600771B2	Systems and methods for generating a teaching file message Certain embodiments present a system for generating a medical teaching file message. An image identifier labels medical images based upon information pertaining to user interaction with the image. The system also provides an image search engine that scans and indexes images within a database based on a set of rules. The image search engine generates a subset of images from a larger group of medical images within a database based upon the rules. The system also includes a supporting data selection engine for accepting a free text search query from an interface. The supporting data selection engine scans medical databases based on the free text search query, and provides the supporting data search results via an interface. A teaching file message is generated either automatically or manually from the subset of images and the supporting data search results for transmission to a teaching file.
US08600768B2	People engine optimization Some embodiments promote website credibility and the optimization of websites for people by automatedly quantifying various elements of a website into component credibility scores. In some embodiments, a set of encoded credibility scoring rules are used to compute each of the component credibility scores, wherein the credibility scoring rules are derived based on factors that have been identified by a grouping of people that preferably represent a primary demographic of users that consume the content of a particular classified type of website. In some such embodiments, the credibility scoring rules are derived from commonality that is identified from a sample set of known credible and/or non-credible websites of a particular classification. Once the credibility scoring rules are defined, the system applies the rules to other websites having the same classification as those from which the rules are derived to automatically generate credibility scores for the other websites.
US08600762B2	Mobile terminal and method for recognizing voice thereof A method for detecting a character or a word emphasized by a user from a voice inputted in a mobile terminal to refer it as meaningful information for a voice recognition, or emphatically displaying the user-emphasized character or word in a pre-set format when the inputted voice is converted into text, and a mobile terminal implementing the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a microphone to receive a voice of user; a controller to convert the received voice into corresponding text and detect a character or a word emphatically pronounced by the user from the voice; and a display unit to emphatically display the detected character or word in a pre-set format when the converted text is displayed.
US08600760B2	Correcting substitution errors during automatic speech recognition by accepting a second best when first best is confusable A speech recognition method includes the steps of receiving input speech containing vocabulary, processing the input speech with a grammar to obtain N-best hypotheses and associated parameter values, and determining whether a first-best hypothesis of the N-best hypotheses is confusable with any vocabulary within the grammar. The first-best hypothesis is accepted as recognized speech corresponding to the received input speech if the first-best hypothesis is not determined to be confusable with any vocabulary within the grammar. Where the first-best hypothesis is determined to be confusable, at least one parameter value of the first-best hypothesis can be compared to at least one threshold value, and accepting the second-best as the recognized speech, if its confidence score is within certain lower and upper threshold values and is not confusable with the first-best. The first-best hypothesis can be accepted as recognized speech corresponding to the received input speech, if the parameter value of the first-best hypothesis is greater than the threshold value.
US08600753B1	Method and apparatus for combining text to speech and recorded prompts An arrangement provides for improved synthesis of speech arising from a message text. The arrangement stores prerecorded prompts and speech related characteristics for those prompts. A message is parsed to determine if any message portions have been recorded previously. If so then speech related characteristics for those portions are retrieved. The arrangement generates speech related characteristics for those parties not previously stored. The retrieved and generated characteristics are combined. The combination of characteristics is then used as the input to a speech synthesizer.
US08600746B1	Speech recognition parameter adjustment Audio data that encodes an utterance of a user is received. It is determined that the user has been classified as a novice user of a speech recognizer. A speech recognizer setting is selected that is used by the speech recognizer in generating a transcription of the utterance. The selected speech recognizer setting is different than a default speech recognizer setting that is used by the speech recognizer in generating transcriptions of utterances of users that are not classified as novice users. The selected speech recognizer setting results in increased speech recognition accuracy in comparison with the default setting. A transcription of the utterance is obtained that is generated by the speech recognizer using the selected setting.
US08600741B2	Method of using microphone characteristics to optimize speech recognition performance A system and method for tuning a speech recognition engine to an individual microphone using a database containing acoustical models for a plurality of microphones. Microphone performance characteristics are obtained from a microphone at a speech recognition engine, the database is searched for an acoustical model that matches the characteristics, and the speech recognition engine is then modified based on the matching acoustical model.
US08600740B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for context descriptor transmission Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context. Example embodiments may first remove any existing context from a digital audio signal to obtain a context suppressed signal. The context suppressed signal may then be encoded. An audio context may be selected from among a plurality of audio contexts, with the selected audio context inserted into a signal based on the encoded context suppressed signal.
US08600739B2	Coding method, encoder, and computer readable medium that uses one of multiple codebooks based on a type of input signal A coding method is adapted to select different codebook search algorithms according to varied types of input signals. An encoder using the coding method is also provided. As appropriate search algorithms may be selected according to all possible structural features of the input signals, certain types of signals for which satisfactory results may be obtained through simple computations may match with search algorithms suitable for these signal types and having low computation complexities, so as to achieve better performance with fewer system resources. Meanwhile, other types of signals that need complicated computations may be processed by more sophisticated search algorithms, thereby ensuring the coding quality.
US08600732B2	Translating programming content to match received voice command language One embodiment may take the form of a system for translating an audio stream of programming content. The system may include an apparatus, a processing unit configured to execute a voice recognition algorithm and one or more executable commands, a receiver coupled to the processing unit and configured to receive a voice command in a first language, a communication component coupled to the processing unit and configured to receive programming content including an audio stream in a second language, and one or more storage media storing the voice recognition algorithm. The voice recognition algorithm may be configured to translate the audio stream into a first language if the first language does not match the second language.
US08600722B1	Method and apparatus for providing program-based hardware co-simulation of a circuit design A method and apparatus for providing a program-based hardware co-simulation of a circuit design are described. In one example, a circuit design is implemented for programmable logic to establish a design under test (DUT). A co-simulation model is programmatically generated using primitives defined by an application programming interface (API). The circuit design is simulated by configuring the programmable logic with the DUT and driving a co-simulation engine to communicate with the DUT via execution of the co-simulation model.
US08600721B2	Cost evaluation and prediction A mechanism is provided for enabling prediction of a cost between an origin and a destination even in the case of insufficient past route information. Data D, which includes an origin, a destination, and information on cost between these points, is prepared as well as a subroutine for calculating cost ce along an arbitrary link e on the basis of the set along with a variable denoted by fe. In the first step, the minimum cost route is found from the current {fe} with respect to all pairs of the origin and the destination included in the data D, thereby forming transformed data D′. {fe} is recalculated by using the above subroutine from D′ by computer processing and then compared with {fe} calculated last time. If a change is equal to or greater than a threshold, control returns to finding the minimum cost route. Otherwise, {fe} is fixed.
US08600714B2	Systems for machine emulation and process response prediction Systems for generating predicted product values of a product produced by a machine and for predicting a process of a machine are disclosed. A system for generating predicted product values of a product manufactured by a machine controlled by programmable logic control code includes presenting a machine input fields requesting parameters associated with actuators and mechanical elements, and presenting product input fields requesting desired product properties. The system further includes receiving parameters from the machine input fields, receiving desired product properties from the product input fields, and calculating output response data by an emulation of a mechanical operation of the machine using the parameters and the desired product properties. The output response data is provided to a product model that calculates predicted product values based on the output response data provided. The system further includes presenting the one or more predicted product values.
US08600713B2	Method of online building-model reconstruction using photogrammetric mapping system The present invention combines an existing photogrammetric mapping system for building-model reconstruction. Topographic maps and models are produced simultaneously. The models can be edited along with aerial images in an online environment. Thus, efficiency and accuracy for building-model reconstruction are increased.
US08600712B1	System and method for designing and simulating a fireworks show A system and method for enabling computer users to design and simulate a fireworks show is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes storing firework data in a database, the firework data including firework specification data including parameters corresponding to attributes of a particular firework; using a processor to automatically construct in a user interface a visual firework simulation from the firework data, the visual firework simulation including visual elements that are also part of the user interface, the visual firework simulation depicting a sky field representing a location of a fireworks show and the spatial location of visual elements therein, the visual elements including fireworks, launch positions, and trajectories being simulated by the visual firework using the user interface to directly manipulate the visual elements of the visual firework simulation, including dragging the visual elements in the sky field of the visual firework simulation: using the processor to automatically adjust the firework data according to the user's direct manipulation of the visual elements; and using the processor to automatically update the visual firework simulation and the visual elements in real time in response to the user's direct manipulation of the visual elements and the adjustment of the firework data.
US08600709B2	Adaptive analytics multidimensional processing system A system includes a multidimensional data processing system storing meta data identifying a plurality of variables, a plurality of dimensions for each variable describing attributes of the variable, and a plurality of levels in each dimension. The meta data also identifies a hierarchy of the dimensions and levels for each variable. The multidimensional data processing system is configured to use the meta data to perform multidimensional queries to retrieve data for one or more of the variables from data storage. The system also includes a variable determination module determining at least one variable of the plurality variables operable to be used to generate a model, and a model generator receiving the data from the multidimensional data processing system and generating a model using the data.
US08600707B1	Process for analyzing a labyrinth seal for flutter A process for designing a labyrinth seal for flutter avoidance in which a computer generated Finite Element model of the lab seal is produced, the geometric parameters of the lab seal is determined, the lab seal flow parameters are determined, the solid model of the lab seal is analyzed using a finite element analysis program for a range of nodal diameters to determine frequencies and mode shapes, an aerodynamic damping and mechanical damping for the labyrinth seal is determined, and if the sum of the aerodynamic and mechanical damping is negative one or more of the labyrinth seal parameters are changed and the analysis is repeated.
US08600695B2	Phase canceling current transducer A phase canceling current transducer for a power meter includes an error correction unit including a memory for storing error correction factors. A data processing device of the error correction unit adjusts the output of the transducer to correct for phase and ratio errors produced by the transducer current transformer or to cause the transducer's output to mimic the output of another current transducer.
US08600689B2	Automatic analyzer An automatic analyzer includes a function in which the measured data of a quality control sample is compared with reference maximum and minimum values of measured data of the quality control sample. When the measured data is out of the range between the reference maximum and minimum values, re-measurement for calibration is recommended to a user who can easily confirm the recommendation on an operation screen and request the re-measurement.
US08600687B2	Signal analyzer for analyzing dynamic behavior of a target system A signal analyzer includes a sampling unit, a filter unit coupled to the sampling unit, a computing unit coupled to the filter unit, and an output unit coupled to the computing unit. The sampling unit is operable to sample a time domain signal from a target system according to a predetermined sampling frequency to obtain a sampling signal. The filter unit is configured to perform filter processing upon the sampling signal so as to filter out harmonic frequency components from the sampling signal, thereby obtaining a fundamental frequency signal having a plurality of sample points. The computing unit is operable to compute a signal parameter set for each of temporally adjacent pairs of the sample points of the fundamental frequency signal. The output unit is configured to output information about dynamic behavior of the target system based upon the signal parameter sets computed by the computing unit.
US08600681B2	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.
US08600679B2	System and method to locate, monitor and quantify friction between a drillstring and a wellbore Disclosed herein is a method of locating and quantifying friction between a drillstring and a wellbore. The method includes, positioning a plurality of sensors within a wellbore, communicatively coupling the plurality of sensors, monitoring signals from the plurality of sensors, logging the sensed signals versus time versus depth of each of the plurality of sensors, locating at least one friction zone along the drillstring within the wellbore based on the logging and quantifying friction in the at least one friction zone based on the logging.
US08600676B2	Method for fast and precise orbit propogation including maneuver A flight dynamics subsystem (FDS), a velocity increment calculation module, and operational methods of the same are provided. A used fuel quantity actually used in a satellite is calculated, and a velocity increment is calculated using the calculated fuel quantity. Therefore, an orbit of the satellite may be estimated more accurately.
US08600670B2	Method for managing schedule using user'S location information and system thereof A method for managing a schedule based on a user's location information by a system for managing a schedule. The method comprises receiving a schedule including at least one of an appointment location, appointment contents an appointment time, and appointment target person's phone number from the user; registering the schedule which includes the user's location information by a schedule registration unit of the system; detecting the user's location by a location detection unit of the system; and sending a message related to the schedule or the user's location by a sending unit of the system. The sending of the message related to the schedule or the user's location by the sending unit of the system sends information of a changed appointment time and place to the appointment target person when the user changes the appointment schedule.
US08600665B2	System and method for aligning a particular passenger with a unique vehicle The present invention generally relates to passenger and vehicle paring. Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for aligning a particular passenger with a unique vehicle through the use of one or more scanners and unique identifiers placed at specific entrances to a facility. The system further relates to a system and method for identifying particular egress routes to align the particular passenger with the unique vehicle.
US08600663B2	Sail assist device This disclosure provides a sail assist device, which includes a wind direction sensor for measuring a wind direction, a ship position acquiring module for acquiring a latitude and a longitude of the ship, and a display module for calculating a layline based on the latitude and longitude of the ship, a latitude and a longitude of a target position of the ship, and the wind direction, with the target position being a reference, and displaying a target mark indicating the target, a ship mark indicating the ship, and the layline.
US08600662B2	Method and system for plotting a user's position on a display A method and system for showing a user his position in a set geographic area in which all parts of the geographic area are visible on a display at all times, and in which the user's position is shown as moveable relative to the set geographic area. The method and system utilize a positioning system (such as GPS) on the user and a display visible to the user to track and display the user's movement. In some versions the user defines the geographic area by positioning himself at the edges of the area. In other versions the user marks the geographic area on a map or chart on the display. In this way the user will always know his position relative to the same boundaries, without the need for zooming or scrolling the display.
US08600657B2	Vehicle control apparatus According to conventional art, if there is an obstacle on the left of a vehicle, a control threshold value is set so as to avoid the obstacle. If the control threshold value is exceeded, the vehicle is controlled in accordance with a deviation quantity so as to return to a position where the control threshold avoids being exceeded. However, even if a risky oncoming vehicle is approaching the vehicle on the right, the vehicle is controllably moved toward the oncoming vehicle. Thus, disadvantageously, a driver has a sense of fear or discomfort. A vehicle control apparatus according to the present invention includes a calculation section configured to calculate a first risk level present on the left of the vehicle and a second risk level present on the right of the vehicle, a setting section configured to set a first control threshold for the left of the vehicle based on the first risk level and to set a second control threshold for the right of the vehicle based on the second risk level, a change section configured to change at least one of the first and second control thresholds based on the first and second risk levels, and a control section configured to control the vehicle based on the changed control threshold.
US08600647B2	Air-fuel ratio control apparatus of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine An air-fuel ratio control apparatus includes a catalytic converter disposed at a position downstream of an exhaust gas aggregated portion; a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor disposed in an exhaust passage at a position downstream of the catalytic converter; first feedback amount updating means for updating a first feedback amount to have an output value of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor coincide with a target downstream-side air-fuel ratio based on the output value of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor; and a learning means for updating a leaning value of the first feedback amount in such a manner that the leaning value brings in a steady-state component of the first feedback amount based on the first feedback amount.
US08600645B2	Induction backfire compensation for motorcycles A control system for an engine having at least one manifold, a throttle, and a crank wheel, includes a pressure sensor to measure a pressure in the at least one manifold, a throttle position sensor to measure a position of the throttle of the engine, a revolution sensor to measure a rate of rotation of the crank wheel of the engine, a processor in communication with each of the pressure sensor, the throttle position sensor, and the revolution sensor to receive an input signal, analyze the input signal based upon an instruction set, and generate a control signal in response to analysis of the input signal, wherein the input signal is representative of at least one of the pressure, the throttle position, and the rate of rotation, and an engine system in communication with the processor and responsive to the control signal to control a function thereof.
US08600637B2	Vehicle braking control device for braking force distribution A braking control device for a vehicle executes braking force distribution (BFD) biased to front wheel in a manner compatible with Anti-skid control. In BFD control, braking force on rear wheels is held at a holding braking force and braking force on the front wheels is incremented beyond braking force requested by a braking action of a driver. After the starting of BFD control, further increase in the braking action is reflected in the front wheel braking force. Upon starting anti-skid control for either of the wheels during the execution of BFD control, an increment of the front wheel braking forces to be requested by BFD control is gradually decreased. Simultaneously, the holding of the rear braking force is released so as to compensate for the shortage of braking force on the front wheel. The gradual decrease of the braking force increment prevents a conflict of BFD and Anti-skid control.
US08600630B2	Sensing and display of gear ratios The present application discloses an apparatus for determining and displaying gear ratios in a transmission system having a driving sprocket set, a driven sprocket set and a flexible drive member that engages the driving sprocket set and driven sprocket set, the apparatus comprising a display, a sensing module, the sensing module comprising a plurality of magneto-resistive assemblies, wherein at least one of the plurality of magneto-resistive assemblies is configured to detect adjustment of the transmission system, the sensing module configured to generate a signal responsive to said adjustment of the transmission system, and a data processor communicatively coupled with the display and with the sensing module, the data processor configured to receive the signal generated by the sensing module, process the signal to generate data relating to sprockets engaged by the flexible drive member, and write the data to the display.
US08600625B2	Display control device A light ECU in a light control device performs a display process of obtaining speed limit information at a current position of the driver's vehicle on a road and of instructing a pixel light system to display the speed limit information on the surface of the road. The light control device can project the speed limit information for the drivers vehicle onto the road. Further, the light control device judges whether or not the vehicle speed information is not less than a predetermined reference speed, and performs the process of displaying the vehicle speed information on the road only when the vehicle speed information is not less than a predetermined reference speed. The above control process displays the vehicle speed information on the road only when necessary, allows the driver of the vehicle only to recognize important information, and provides the driver of the vehicle with safer driving conditions.
US08600612B2	Method for determining wear of a friction plate Method for determining wear of a friction plate of an automatically actuated friction clutch, particularly in a motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine, wherein initially at a prescribed clutch slip and a prescribed clutch torque in an earlier friction lining test point an earlier clutch actuation travel is determined and stored, later again at the prescribed clutch slip and the prescribed clutch torque in a later friction lining test point a later clutch actuation travel is determined, thereafter the earlier clutch actuation travel and the later clutch actuation travel are compared to each other and a differential value is determined, and thereafter a friction lining wear is determined using the differential value, in order to reliably determine friction lining wear in a time interval and with only little effort, so that a depreciation of function due to a worn friction lining can be prevented in a timely manner.
US08600609B2	Method for operating a longitudinal driver assist system of an automobile, and an automobile A method for operating a longitudinal driver assist system of an automobile, in particular an ACC system, wherein environmental data of the automobile are evaluated with respect to travel in a longitudinal convoy with at least three automobiles which include the automobile and at least two additional automobiles, which are driving immediately behind one another and each have an active longitudinal driver assist system. A convoy value is formed, and at least one operating parameter of the driver assist system is adapted depending on the convoy value.
US08600608B2	Communication system for vehicle A communication system for a vehicle includes: a plurality of controllers mounted on the vehicle; a data communication network for coupling the plurality of controllers with each other so that the controllers transmit data to and receive data from each other via the data communication network; a failure diagnosis device for diagnosing whether each controller is normal; a failure diagnosis activation device for activating the failure diagnosis device; and an avoiding condition setting device for setting an avoiding condition, which provides to avoid execution of the failure diagnosis when the failure diagnosis device is activated.
US08600606B2	Vehicle safety systems and methods Safety systems and methods are provided for use in a vehicle with a closure that defines a pivoting range when open. The safety system includes a sensor configured to collect data associated with an object in a target zone at least partially surrounding the vehicle; and a processor coupled to the sensors and configured to selectively operate in a first mode and a second mode based on a vehicle characteristic. The processor is configured to, in the first mode, detect the object and generate a first warning based on the object; and in the second mode, detect the object and determine a collision threat between the object and the pivoting range of the closure, and generate a second warning based on the collision threat.
US08600604B2	Data integrity verification device This invention is a system and process for determining and verifying the voracity of data gathered for use in recording and tracking vehicle usage. The device operates to verify and detect events that may affect data integrity by sensing a condition indicative of faulty data acquisition or of corruption of data integrity. Data evidencing potential problems are encoded and included with normal data uploaded to a central server. The central server compares the encoded entries against criteria that have been determined to indicate potential data inconsistencies.
US08600598B2	Thermal conditioning of vehicle rechargeable energy storage systems Methods, systems, and vehicles are provided that provide for thermal conditioning of a vehicle rechargeable energy storage system (RESS). A thermal conditioning system is configured to apply a plurality of thermal conditioning actions for the RESS. A control system is configured to determine a driving route for the vehicle for a drive cycle of the vehicle, select one of the plurality of thermal conditioning actions based at least in part on the driving route, and provide instructions for the thermal conditioning system to apply the selected one of the plurality of thermal conditioning actions for the RESS.
US08600597B2	Electric vehicle An electric vehicle includes a synchronous motor that outputs torque to a first driving wheel; an induction motor that outputs torque to a second driving wheel; and an output torque changing portion that makes the synchronous motor torque smaller than the induction motor torque when torque is output to the first or second driving wheel and the vehicle speed is close to zero, and makes the synchronous motor torque larger than the induction motor torque when torque is output to the first or second driving wheel and the vehicle is moving at or greater than a predetermined speed in a direction opposite a direction in which the vehicle is being operated to move, by the torque output to the first and second driving wheels.
US08600596B2	System and method for controlling a four wheel drive vehicle The invention relates to a four wheel drive hybrid vehicle provided with at least one power train on each wheel set, a first power train (1) including at least one heat engine, a second power train (2) including at least one electric machine, the vehicle also being provided with a friction braking system on each drive wheel and sensor (7). The control system includes: a means (9) for distributing a braking request between the friction braking system and at least one electric machine from a power train, said electric machine being capable of producing a resisting torque; a torque instruction modulation means (10) for modulating torque instructions to braking systems and power trains based on signals coming from the sensors; and a power train control means (8); the distribution means (9), the torque instruction modulation means (10), and the power train control means (8) being capable of dynamically interacting so as to output torque commands to the power trains and to the friction braking systems with a view to promoting the stability of the vehicle.
US08600593B2	Electrically powered vehicle An electrically powered vehicle is connected to an external power supply through a charge plug. A relay is interposed in an electrical path extending to a power storage device from a power feed node electrically connected to the external power supply through the charge plug. A control device operates with electric power from an auxiliary machinery power supply provided separately from the power storage device and controls opening and closing of the relay in correspondence with a period during which the power storage device is charged. None of electric power consuming components mounted on the electrically powered vehicle is connected to the power feed node. Therefore, even during a period in which the electrically powered vehicle is connected to the external power supply, all electric power consuming components can electrically be disconnected from the external power supply by turning off the relay.
US08600592B2	Homing system and method for an autonomous underwater vehicle A submarine homing system includes an acoustic emitter configured to emit an acoustic signal comprising at least two narrow-band tones, each narrow-band tone having a respective predetermined center frequency. An acoustic receiver is configured to receive the acoustic signal from the acoustic emitter, and produce one or more receiver signals. A processor is operatively connected to the acoustic receiver. The processor is configured to process the receiver signals to calculate a direction between the acoustic receiver and the acoustic emitter.
US08600590B2	Auxiliary power unit assembly and method of use A locomotive assembly including an auxiliary power unit and a method of providing auxiliary power to a locomotive are disclosed. The locomotive assembly includes a locomotive having a power bus, a primary power source electrically coupled to the power bus, and a locomotive controller programmed to control the primary power source and transmit a first command signal to a power unit that is electrically coupled to the power bus. The power unit includes an auxiliary engine-generator set, a power interface electrically coupling the auxiliary engine-generate set to the power bus, and an auxiliary controller electrically coupled to the locomotive controller. The auxiliary controller is programmed to receive the command signal from the locomotive controller indicating a desired amount of power, control the auxiliary engine-generator set to produce at least the desired amount of power, and control the power interface to deliver the desired amount of power to the power bus.
US08600589B2	Point cloud visualization of acceptable helicopter landing zones based on 4D LIDAR A processor calculates a safe landing zone for an aircraft. The processor executes the following steps: (a) converting 4D point cloud data into Cartesian coordinates to form a height map of a region; (b) segmenting the height map to form boundaries of an object in the region; and (c) determining maximum height within the boundaries of the object. Also included are (d) determining if the maximum height is greater than a predetermined height to form a vertical obstruction (VO) in the region; and (e) determining if the VO is in the line of sight (LOS) of the aircraft to classify the landing zone as safe or unsafe. The processor further includes the step of: (f) forming a slope map over the height map.
US08600579B2	Vehicular communication system Under a state where an in-vehicle navigation apparatus and a cellular phone intercommunicate with each other by connecting a Bluetooth communication link, when a changeover relative to an application program is determined in one of the in-vehicle navigation apparatus and the cellular phone, an application program synchronization operation is executed such that the application program stored in the in-vehicle navigation apparatus and the application program stored in the cellular phone become identical to each other.
US08600577B2	Navigation system and methods for generating enhanced search results A navigation system and various methods of using the system are described herein. Search query results generated by the system are listed and prioritized based upon travel related information and contextual information. Intermediary locations can be accessed based upon prioritizing search queries.
US08600571B2	Energy optimization system A system for optimizing a usage of energy based on cost, carbon footprint, and/or other criteria. The usage may be optimized for the next day or more. The optimization may deal with renewable energy, grid energy and stored energy. Various inputs may be considered for optimization, which could include energy costs, weather forecasts, characteristics of renewable energy, the load and storage, and other items. The optimizer may use equipment models with numerical transfer functions to take inputs and provide optimized estimates for the next day or so of energy usage. The outputs of the models may go to an optimization algorithms module for providing an output based on the inputs. The output may provide control information for the selection and amounts of the different types of energy in a scheduled manner.
US08600568B2	Fluid flow management system and associated methods A system is provided to control fluid flow in a wastewater treatment system. The wastewater treatment system may include a wastewater treatment plant and a main that connects a plurality of pump stations to the wastewater treatment plant. Each of the plurality of pump stations may include a wet well and a pump carried by the wet well to pump the wastewater. The system may include a central server and a sensor in communication with the central server to sense a level of wastewater within the wet well. The pump may be moved to an on position when the level of the wastewater in the wet well is at or above a first level. The level of wastewater within the wet well may be systematically manipulated responsive to the central server to control the fluid flow in the wastewater treatment system. The system advantageously enhances fluid management in a wastewater treatment system, increases life span of the wastewater treatment plant, and saves energy associated with running pumps at the pump stations of the wastewater treatment system.
US08600561B1	Radiant heating controls and methods for an environmental control system Embodiments of the invention describe thermostats that use model predictive controls and related methods. A method of controlling a thermostat using a model predictive control may involve determining a parameterized model. The parameterized model may be used to predicted ambient temperature values for an enclosure. A set of radiant heating system control strategies may be selected for evaluation to determine an optimal control strategy from the set of control strategies. To determine the optimal control strategy, a predictive algorithm may be executed, in which each control strategy is applied to the parameterized model to predict an ambient temperature trajectory and each ambient temperature trajectory is processed in view of a predetermined assessment function. Processing the ambient temperature trajectory in this manner may involve minimizing a cost value associated with the ambient temperature trajectory. The radiant heating system may subsequently be controlled according to the selected optimal control strategy.
US08600555B2	Device, program, recording medium and method for correcting taught point A taught point correcting device for correcting a taught point in an operation program of a robot. The device includes a judging section judging whether position data of any of a plurality of different taught points, previously taught and included in an operation program, has been corrected or not; and a data correcting section correcting, when the judging section judges that position data of a first taught point among the different taught points has been corrected, position data of a correlative taught point having a relative positional relationship with the first taught point, in accordance with a taught-point rule previously prescribing the relative positional relationship between the different taught points. The device may also include a storing section storing the taught-point rule. The taught-point rule may include a rule prescribing a distance between any two taught points among the different taught points.
US08600553B2	Coverage robot mobility An autonomous coverage robot includes a drive system, a bump sensor, and a proximity sensor. The drive system is configured to maneuver the robot according to a heading (turn) setting and a speed setting. The bump sensor is responsive to a collision of the robot with an obstacle in a forward direction. A method of navigating an autonomous coverage robot with respect to an object on a floor includes the robot autonomously traversing the floor in a cleaning mode at a full cleaning speed. Upon sensing a proximity of the object forward of the robot, the robot reduces the cleaning speed to a reduced cleaning speed while continuing towards the object until the robot detects a contact with the object. Upon sensing contact with the object, the robot turns with respect to the object and cleans next to the object, optionally substantially at the reduced cleaning speed.
US08600550B2	Virtual encounters A virtual reality encounter system includes motion sensors positioned on a human user. The motion sensors send motion signals corresponding to movements of the user as detected by the motion sensors relative to a reference point, the motion signals are transmitted over a communications network. The system also includes a humanoid robot, receiving, from the communications network, the motion signals to induce movement of the robot according to movement of the human user.
US08600531B2	Methods and apparatus for generating signatures Signaturing methods and apparatus as described. In one example, a signaturing method includes capturing an audio signal, applying a first window function to a portion of the captured audio signal to produce a first windowed audio block, applying a second window function to the portion of the captured audio signal to produce a second windowed audio block, determining a first characteristic of a band of frequencies in the first windowed audio block, determining a second characteristic of the band of frequencies in the second windowed audio block, comparing the first characteristic to the second characteristic, and assigning a signature bit representative of the portion of the captured audio signal based on the comparison of the first characteristic and the second characteristic. Other examples are described.
US08600523B2	Control of an operation of a coordinate measuring device In a method for controlling an operation of a coordinate measuring device, at least one operational parameter is determined. One value of the operational parameter is allocated to a plurality of components. A sequence for determining the operational parameter is provided for the majority of the components. The method for determining the operational parameter in the predetermined sequence for each component is now described. It starts with the component that is first in the sequence: i) if the value of the operational parameter is allocated to the component, the value is adopted as a value of the operational parameter that is available for the operation, ii) if no value of the operational parameter is allocated to the components, one available value of the operational parameter that was available until then still remains available, iii) if another component is provided in the sequence, the method is carried out with the component.
US08600521B2	Implantable medical device having multiple electrode/sensor capability and stimulation based on sensed intrinsic activity In one embodiment, an implantable neurostimulator comprises a pulse generator that generates an electrical pulse signal to stimulate a neural structure in a patient, a stimulation lead assembly coupled to the pulse generator for delivering the electrical pulse signal to the neural structure, a plurality of sensors coupled to the pulse generator, and sensor select logic. Each sensor is individually selectable and the sensor select logic selects any two or more of the plurality of sensors for sensing a voltage difference between the selected sensors. In other embodiments, two or more physiologic parameters are sensed. In yet another embodiment, a method comprises sensing intrinsic electrical activity on a person's nerve and stimulating the nerve based on the sensed intrinsic electrical activity of the nerve.
US08600520B2	Implantable lead assembly having a plurality of inductors In accordance with an embodiment, an implantable lead assembly is provided comprised of an elongated body including a distal end, a proximal end having a header connector portion for coupling the elongated body with an implantable medical device, and an intermediate segment located between the distal and proximal ends. An intermediate electrode is disposed at the intermediate segment along the elongated body. A conductor is disposed in the elongated body and electrically coupled with the header connector portion and the intermediate electrode. The conductor wound within the intermediate segment to form first and second inductive coils that are axially separated from each other by an inter-coil gap, wherein the first and second inductive coils have different self-resonant frequencies.
US08600514B1	Methods for improving mobility and controlling cartilage matrix degradation of weight-bearing articular joints A method for improving mobility and/or the quality of synovial fluid of an affected articular joint, wherein the joint is associated with at least a first muscle group and at least a second muscle group each having an antagonistic relationship for effecting mobility of the joint through a range of motion when recruited by natural neural impulses. The method includes positioning at least two first electrodes proximate to the at least first muscle group, positioning at least two second electrodes proximate to the at least second muscle group, and applying motor-level electrical stimulation to the at least first and second muscle groups via the at least two first and second electrodes in a multiphasic pattern corresponding to a sequence of electromyographic outputs.
US08600506B2	Systems and methods for collecting patient event information A method of and system for collecting patient event information is described, where the system includes an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external interface device. The external interface device is remote from the IMD and includes a communication module, a display device adapted to prompt a user of the system to select a reason for a particular transmission session and a user input device adapted to accept input indicating a selected reason.
US08600495B2	Techniques for positioning therapy delivery elements within a spinal cord or brain Apparatus and techniques to address problems associated with lead migration, patient movement or position, histological changes, neural plasticity or disease progression. Disclosed are techniques for implanting a lead having therapy delivery elements, such as electrodes or drug delivery ports, within a vertebral or cranial bone so as to maintain these elements in a fixed position relative to a desired treatment site. The therapy delivery elements may thereafter be adjusted in situ with a position control mechanism and/or a position controller to improve the desired treatment, such as electrical stimulation and/or drug infusion to a precise target. The therapy delivery elements may be positioned laterally in any direction relative to the targeted treatment site or toward or away from the targeted treatment site. A control system maybe provided for open- or closed-loop feedback control of the position of the therapy delivery elements as well as other aspects of the treatment therapy.
US08600490B1	Two-dimensional refractory period A two-dimensional refractory period is defined in conjunction with the detection of cardiac events. Detection parameters associated with the two-dimensional refractory period may define a period of time during which a sensed cardiac signal is blanked or may define a period of time during which a given sensing threshold applies. The two-dimensional refractory period may be employed in atrial sensing to selectively blank far-field T-waves while enabling P-wave detection. The two-dimensional refractory period may be employed in ventricular sensing to selectively blank near-field T-waves while enabling detection of the QRS complex. The detection parameters associated with the two-dimensional refractory period may be adapted based on characteristics of previously detected cardiac signals.
US08600489B2	Methods and devices for accurately classifying cardiac activity Methods, systems, and devices for signal analysis in an implanted cardiac monitoring and treatment device such as an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. In some examples, captured data including detected events is analyzed to identify likely overdetection of cardiac events. In some illustrative examples, when overdetection is identified, data may be modified to correct for overdetection, to reduce the impact of overdetection, or to ignore overdetected data. Several examples emphasize the use of morphology analysis using correlation to static templates and/or inter-event correlation analysis.
US08600487B2	System and method for exploiting atrial electrocardiac parameters in assessing left atrial pressure using an implantable medical device Techniques are provided for assessing left atrial pressure (LAP) based on atrial electrocardiac signal parameters, particularly intra-atrial conduction delay (IACD) and P-wave duration. In one example, a pacemaker or other implantable device senses an intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) or a subcutaneous electrocardiogram (ECG), from which IACD and P-wave duration are derived. The device tracks changes, if any, in the parameters. A significant increase in either IACD or P-wave duration is associated with an increase in LAP. In some examples, conversion factors are calibrated for use with a particular patient to relate IACD and/or P-wave duration values to LAP values to provide an estimate of actual LAP. The conversion factors are pre-calibrated using LAP measurements obtained using a wedge pressure sensor. In other examples, IACD and P-wave duration are instead used to confirm the detection of an elevation in LAP initially made using impedance signals. Other confirmation parameters are described as well.
US08600484B2	Meibomian gland imaging A method of evaluating dry eye in humans wherein the flow of naturally occurring secretion to the eye is reduced or stopped due to the presence of an obstruction of a meibomian gland in the eyelid involves applying a pressure to the eyelid that mimics pressure applied during blinking; and simultaneously imaging the glands to diagnose the condition of the meibomian gland. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08600467B2	Optical sensor including disposable and reusable elements An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a noninvasive optical sensor or probe including disposable and reusable components. The assembly of the disposable and reusable components is straightforward, along with the disassembly thereof. During application to a measurement site, the assembled sensor is advantageously secured together while the componentry is advantageously properly positioned.
US08600461B2	Attachable extendable and retractable earpiece assembly for mobile communication and sound devices An extendable and retractable earpiece cable assembly for mobile communication or sound devices comprising a plate adapted to be fastened directly to the mobile device. The plate supports a reel housing that includes a reel mechanism around which the earpiece cables are removably wound. The earpiece cables are extendable from and retractable into the reel housing. Each of the earpiece cables have one end attached to an earpiece and each of the earpiece cables have a second end attached to a jack plug to electrically connect the earpieces to the mobile device. The plate also supports an attachment clip that allows a user to attach the mobile communication or sound device and integral earpiece assembly to an article of clothing or other accessory item supported by a user. In other embodiments, a rear back plate is fixed to the mobile device, and a front plate is removably attached to the rear plate. The cable reel assembly housing and the attachment clip are attached to the front plate.
US08600454B2	Decisions on ambient noise suppression in a mobile communications handset device A method in a communications device includes the following operations. During a call, a process automatically detects that the device has moved from an at-the-ear position to an away-from-the-ear position. Based on the detection, a noise suppressor that operates upon an uplink signal for the call is signaled to change its noise suppression performance. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08600451B2	Mobile wireless communications device with reduced interfering energy from the display and related methods A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and includes radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. A display connector for an LCD connector is mounted on the circuit board and adapted to be connected to a display. Display connection lines are carried by the circuit board and interconnect the display connector and processor for carrying signals from the processor to the display connector and a connected display. Filters are carried by the circuit board and connected to the display connection lines and reduce any interfering energy from the processor and display.
US08600450B2	Receiving user input on a graphical user interface A device includes a graphical user interface configured to receive a user input by user exertion of force onto the graphical user interface. The device further includes a detection logic operatively connected to the graphical user interface and configured to produce a signal including data indicative of a first amount of force exerted at a location on the graphical user interface. The device also includes an indication logic operatively connected to the detection logic and configured to determine based on the signal including data indicative of the first amount of force exerted at the location on the graphical user interface that the first amount of force is insufficient to command the device to perform an action based on the user input. The indication logic is further configured to produce a signal including data indicating that additional force must be exerted to command the device to perform the action.
US08600446B2	Mobile device interface with dual windows A mobile device having a user interface supporting multiple windows is disclosed. The user interface is suitable for use in any device having a handheld form factor, such as a mobile phone or mobile Internet device. The user interface includes two windows that are displayed on the mobile device's screen. The mobile device may be configured to switch between a single window mode and a dual window mode. The device may also be configured to launch applications in either mode. It may be configured to switch between modes automatically or in response to a user command. The windows may also be re-oriented in response to a change in the device's orientation or to a user's command.
US08600440B2	Apparatus and method of securing private content stored in a memory An apparatus and a method of securing private content stored in a memory are presented. A terminal includes a memory configured to store private content and a private content identifier associated with the private content. The private content identifier includes secure and non-user editable information. The terminal also includes a security function configured to perform a comparison of the private content identifier to a smart card identifier of a smart card accessible to the security function. The security function is further configured to grant or deny access to the private content based on a result of the comparison.
US08600438B2	Mobile telephone with camera A mobile telephone with a camera, a casing, a display and a keypad for entering manual commands is disclosed. The camera is permanently attached to at least a part of the keypad in a subcomponent of the casing, wherein the subcomponent within a chassis of the casing is designed in such a way that it can be swiveled about at least one axis relative to the display, and the chassis at least partly surrounds the subcomponent.
US08600434B2	Method and apparatus of cell searching in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus of cell searching in a wireless communication is disclosed. A method of cell searching in a user equipment of a wireless communication system, which supports a multi-mode, comprises the steps of generating a list of neighbor cells by measuring a power of each of the neighbor cells of first radio access technology (RAT) when the user equipment is operating in second RAT; and a first search step of searching for a cell, which can serve the user equipment, from the cells included in the list of neighbor cells if radio link failure is occurred in the second RAT.
US08600426B2	Power control on a deactivated component carrier A wireless communication system implementing Carrier Aggregation (CA) allows activation and deactivation of certain component carriers. Transmit power on an uplink component carrier being reactivated may be controlled by predetermining appropriate power control parameters to be used upon reactivation. The predetermined power control parameters may depend on a last known power control state of the deactivated component carrier or may be reset to apply an initial low power state.
US08600423B2	Method and apparatus for improving noise power estimate in WCDMA network Method and apparatus for improving a noise power estimate in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network are disclosed and may include calculating a total noise power estimate for a downlink channel based on a plurality of control channel bits from a plurality of different types of control channels. The plurality of control channel bits may include at least two of: dedicated physical channel (DPCH) transmit power control (TPC) bits, DPCH pilot bits, and common pilot channel (CPICH) bits. A first noise power estimate may be calculated for the downlink channel based on a plurality of the DPCH TPC bits. A value of at least one of the plurality of DPCH TPC bits may not be known when the at least one of the plurality of DPCH TPC bits is received.
US08600416B2	Method and system for providing messaging gateway services An approach is provided for messaging gateway services. It is determined whether a user profile specifies opting to receive content. The content is selectively forwarded, according to a multimedia protocol, to a device of a user as a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a short messaging service (SMS) message based on the determination, wherein the multimedia protocol supports both MMS messaging and SMS messaging.
US08600411B2	Methods and apparatus for controlling the transmission and/or reception of safety messages by portable wireless user devices Safety message monitoring operations and/or safety message transmission operations are controlled for a mobile wireless communications device. The periodicity with regard to safety message monitoring and/or safety message transmissions is varied based on the environment of the mobile wireless device. The transmission power level with regard to safety message transmissions is varied based on the environment of the mobile wireless device. In some embodiments, safety message monitoring and transmission operations are disabled when the mobile device is determined to be inside a building or inside a vehicle. In some embodiments, safety message monitoring rate and safety message transmission rate is varied as a function of proximity to vehicular traffic and/or the level of detected vehicular traffic. In some embodiments, safety message transmission power level is varied as a function of proximity to vehicular traffic and/or the level of detected vehicular traffic.
US08600409B2	Peer-to-peer location service Techniques are described for obtaining high-resolution physical locations for a wireless device by leveraging the high-resolution physical location capabilities of wireless peers of the wireless device to provide a peer-to-peer location service and facilitate location targeting. Wireless devices provide location updates to a computing cloud, which stores records associating wireless device identifiers with received location information for the corresponding wireless devices. A wireless device issues a peer discovery request to dynamically identify nearby wireless peers in its network. The wireless device then sends wireless device identifiers for the nearby wireless peers in a location request to the computing cloud, which estimates a location for the wireless device using the previously recorded location information for the nearby wireless peers. The computing cloud returns the estimated location to the requesting wireless device.
US08600394B2	Method for assigning frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, controller for a wireless communication network and wireless communication network A method assigns frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, wherein the number of subbands assigned to a node depends on the interference condition of the node, wherein as the node faces less interference it is assigned more subbands.
US08600382B2	Apparatus and method for measurement-based medium selection in a network A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media gateway establishing communications with a set-top box over a wireline network according to a next generation home network protocol, and over a wireless network according to a wireless network (e.g., Wi-Fi™) protocol. The media gateway measures a quality of service (e.g., latency, jitter, packet loss) and/or bandwidth for communications with the set-top box over the wireless and wireline networks. The media gateway compares the measured parameters against service provider requirements for the set-top box, and determines a network to be used by the set-top box. The media gateway can also consider the quality of service and/or bandwidth of other media devices on the networks to switch the set-top box and the devices among the available networks. The switching can be limited to avoid excessive switching between the networks. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08600380B2	System of Wi-Fi terminals and channel operation method for the same A system of Wi-Fi terminals and a channel operation method for the same are provided. The method includes selecting a user function of a sending terminal including a Wi-Fi module, determining whether the selected user function is a Wi-Fi related function, performing, when the selected user function is the Wi-Fi related function, by the sending terminal, a search for a terminal capable of handling the user function, selecting, by the sending terminal, a found terminal as a receiving terminal, automatically establishing, by the sending terminal, a Wi-Fi channel to the receiving terminal by automatically sending a Probe Request message containing a Personal Identification Number (PIN) code, sending, by the sending terminal, data generated by the user function to the receiving terminal through the Wi-Fi channel, and outputting, by the receiving terminal, the received data.
US08600378B1	Access probe evaluation based on air interface conditions Methods for evaluating an access probe transmitted by a wireless communication device (WCD) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. When an access probe is received by a radio access network (RAN), the RAN determines if the WCD that transmitted the access probe is physically located outside a predetermined distance from the RAN. If the WCD is located outside the predetermined distance from the RAN, the RAN evaluates whether a threshold air interface condition is met as part of a determination to accept the access probe and establish communication between the RAN and the WCD.
US08600370B2	Systems and methods for maintaining constant closed subscriber group cell reselection radius A method for self-configuration of offset factors between two base stations in a wireless communications system is described. A first offset factor is sent to a first user equipment (UE) by a first base station. An offset factor is an indication of the reselection area around a home evolved nodeB (HeNB). A second offset factor is received from a second UE. The first offset factor is modified using the second offset factor. The modified first offset factor is sent to the first UE.
US08600366B2	Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication method Suitable processing is performed considering a case where a confirmation notification of participation in group communication or other data communication was sent, but the notification is delayed and data communication has already ended when the notification arrives at the other party.The present communication apparatus includes a communication unit 2 for transmitting/receiving data, an input unit 3, and a control unit 7 which, when start of data communication is input from said input unit 3, sends a confirmation notification of participation of the data communication to a plurality of destinations, performs data communication with destinations which reply when receiving at least one reply with respect to the confirmation notification of participation, and performs data communication after adding other destination even after the start of the data communication when receiving a reply from the other destination, wherein when ending the data communication, the control unit 7 makes the communication unit 2 transmit an end notification of the data communication to another party from which a reply for the confirmation notification of participation is not obtained among destinations to which the confirmation notification of participation was transmitted.
US08600362B1	Portable device and method for controlling the same A portable device and a method for controlling the same are discussed, in which additional data of caller ID are displayed. The method includes receiving an incoming call; detecting a user's face on the portable device; displaying a list of items representing additional data on the incoming call when the user's face is detected, wherein the additional data are collected from a plurality of data sources corresponding to caller ID of the incoming call; detecting a user's gaze on a first item included in the list, wherein the first item representing a first part of the additional data; and displaying the first part of the additional data when the user's gaze is maintained on the first item over a first period of time.
US08600351B2	Method and apparatus for unlocking a mobile telephone type wireless communication terminal A method of unlocking a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal is initially locked to the services of a mobile services provider. The mobile services provider transmits to a predefined telephone number associated with a service provider other than the mobile services provider, via the mobile services provider, a request for unlocking information. The request is transparent to the mobile services provider. If the request is approved, the mobile terminal receives the unlocking information. Using the received unlocking information, the mobile terminal unlocks itself so that it is no longer locked to the services of the mobile services provider. If the request is not approved, the mobile terminal receives and displays a message indicating that the request is not approved.
US08600339B2	Proactive probe by eCall-only in-vehicle system Proactive registration probes are conducted by an eCall-only IVS prior to an emergency to determine network availability and which available roaming networks a registration request will be approved by the home network. The results of this probing are stored and managed by the IVS. If no suitable roaming network can be found (or if only limited service is available, and this limited service cannot support an eCall), the IVS may notify the driver that the emergency call service may not be available. The frequency of the probing may be increased or decreased based on a variety of factors, including whether the IVS is currently receiving home network service, roaming network service, or no service, as well as whether the vehicle is moving and whether probing has previously been completed for a particular area (using location information, for example).
US08600335B2	Receiver comprising a plurality of selectable receive paths A receiver comprising: an antenna for receiving signals in a plurality of frequency bands; an integrated circuit including a plurality of amplifiers, wherein each of the plurality of amplifiers is configured to amplify signals in one of the plurality of frequency bands; and a plurality of selectable receive paths, each of the plurality of selectable receive paths connecting an output of the antenna to an input of one of the plurality of amplifiers and including a resonant circuit.
US08600331B2	Radio receiver with reconfigurable baseband channel filter A radio receiver circuit configured to receive a radio frequency signal and produce a baseband signal as an output therefrom has a channel filter having a bandwidth, the channel filter configured to receive the baseband output at a filter input and produce a filtered output at a filter output thereof. A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimator prior to or after the channel filter or both is configured to estimate a signal-to-noise ratio of the baseband signal. A filter controller is configured to receive the signal-to-noise ratio estimate and control the channel filter to adjust the bandwidth thereof in accord with the signal-to-noise ratio estimate. This process thereby assists in improving SNR after the channel filtering by varying the channel filter bandwidth. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08600328B2	RF transceiver front-end An RF transceiver front-end includes receiver and transmitter front-ends. The receiver front-end includes 1st and 2nd antennas, a ninety degree phase shift module and an LNA module. The 1st and 2nd antennas receive inbound RF signals and provide a first directional circular polarization. The ninety degree phase shift module phase shifts the RF signals received by the 2nd antenna. The LNA module amplifies the RF signals received by the 1st antenna and the shifted RF signals. The transmitter front-end includes a PA module and 3rd and 4th antennas, which provide a second directional circular polarization. The PA module amplifies outbound RF signals to produce amplified outbound RF signals and amplified orthogonal outbound RF signals. The 3rd antenna transmits the amplified outbound RF signals and the 4th antenna transmits the amplified orthogonal outbound RF signals.
US08600321B2	Radio transmitter and envelope tracking power supply control method The envelope tracking power supply includes a plurality of variable voltage supplies. A power supply controller of a power amplifier controls the plurality of variable voltage supplies so as to precisely divide the power supply voltage in a high frequency area, based on the voltage distribution of a received transmitted base band signal, in order to maximize the power added efficiency of the power amplifier. The power supply controller includes a threshold memory including a plurality of first zones, and a frequency memory including a plurality of second zones. The power supply controller changes the threshold held in the first zones so that each second zone approaches the average of the second zones.
US08600320B2	Wireless communications device with an adjustable impedance matching network and associated methods A mobile wireless communications device includes a portable housing, a transmitter carried by the portable housing and configured to modulate an input signal, and an adjustable impedance matching network coupled downstream from the transmitter. An antenna is coupled downstream from the adjustable impedance matching network, and a non-directional coupler is coupled between the adjustable impedance matching network and the antenna. A feedback receiver is coupled to the non-directional coupler to generate a feedback signal. A controller is configured to control the adjustable impedance matching network based upon the input signal and the feedback signal.
US08600319B2	Feedback receiver for antenna tuner calculations Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a feedback receiver comprising a threshold comparator configured to determine if the amplitude of a baseband signal is within a selection corridor (e.g., defined by an upper and lower threshold value). If the amplitude is within the selection corridor, a feedback receiver is configured to accumulate RF signal samples (e.g., amplitude and phase samples) over a time period. The accumulated RF signal samples, which correspond to substantially constant baseband amplitude values, are then averaged. The calculated averages are utilized for impedance measurements used tune an antenna tuner to limit impedance mismatch. By limiting RF amplitude and phase sample collection to associated baseband signals having an amplitude falling within the selection corridor, substantially equal average amplitudes and phases can be achieved over a relatively short measurement period (i.e., without the need for long measurement period).
US08600314B2	System and method for scanning wireless channels System and method for active scanning of wireless channels is described. An example method may include transmitting, by a first wireless device, a request to enter a sleep mode and a sleep mode schedule to a second wireless device, the sleep mode schedule specifying a sleep period for the first wireless device going to sleep, and scanning one or more wireless channels, by the first wireless device after transmitting the sleep mode schedule and during the sleep period, to find a third wireless device for communication with the first wireless device. The method may also include communicating, by the first wireless device, during the sleep period, with the third wireless device. Such a scan may be a passive scan or an active scan.
US08600313B2	Radio communication method in radio communication system, terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and radio communication system A radio communication method in a radio communication system which performs radio communication between a terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus, the radio communication method including: selecting one of a first transmission method or a second transmission method on the basis of transmission power of transmission signal transmitted from the terminal apparatus, in the base station apparatus; and transmitting the transmission signal to the base station apparatus by the selected first or second transmission method, in the terminal apparatus.
US08600306B2	Wireless communication control device A wireless communication control device which can stably communicate with another device without interruption by continuously and optimally adjusting a transmission reception direction of a wireless transmission reception unit so as to track the another device even when mobile terminals move while changing relative position between them. A device body (11) of the wireless communication control device comprises a wireless transmission reception unit (13) which transmits and receives a wireless signal, a device displacement amount detection unit (14) which detects a displacement amount of the device body (11), an another device displacement amount extraction unit (15) which extracts the displacement amount of the another device (12) that is a transmission source from the wireless signal received by the wireless transmission reception unit (13), a direction calculation unit (16) which calculates the transmission reception direction of the wireless signal according to the displacement amount of the device body (11) and the displacement amount of the another device (12), and a direction control unit (17) which controls the transmission reception direction of the wireless transmission reception unit (13) according to the calculated direction. Accordingly, the transmission reception direction of the device body (11) can be adjusted so as to track the another device (12).
US08600303B2	Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, controlling method for wireless communication device, and recording medium storing program To improve operability by a user in a case of performing data transfer wirelessly in a near area, a near-field wireless communication circuit 10 included in a terminal 1A is able to switch between a normal mode to perform OFDM and a near mode with a relatively short communicable distance as compared with that in the first communication mode and to perform spread spectrum. A controller 13 executes preliminary processing needed for initiating data transfer in the near mode with a terminal 1B serving as a communication destination between the terminals 1A and 1B by using the near-field wireless communication circuit 10 which is set to the normal mode. Further, the controller 13 determines availability of the data transfer in the near mode with the terminal 1B by using a measured value of communication quality which has a correlation with a communication distance to the terminal 1B as a measure of the determination. Furthermore, when it is determined that the data transfer in the near mode is available, the controller 13 initiates the data transfer with the terminal 1B by using the near-field wireless communication circuit 10 which is set to the near mode, based on a result of the preliminary processing executed in the normal mode in advance.
US08600300B2	Method and system for single chip WLAN and bluetooth radios on a single CMOS substrate Aspects of a method and system for single chip WLAN and Bluetooth radios on a single CMOS substrate are presented. Aspects of the system may include a WLAN receiver circuit within a substrate of a single chip that enables reception of WLAN signals, and a Bluetooth receiver circuit within the same substrate that enables reception of Bluetooth signals. The WLAN receiver circuit and Bluetooth receiver circuit may utilize a single low noise amplifier circuit that enables reception of the WLAN signals and Bluetooth signals. Aspects of the system may also include a WLAN transmitter circuit within a substrate of a single chip that enables transmission of WLAN signals, and a Bluetooth transmitter circuit within the same substrate that enables transmission of Bluetooth signals. The WLAN transmitter circuit and Bluetooth transmitter circuit may utilize a single power amplifier circuit that enables transmission of the WLAN signals and Bluetooth signals.
US08600298B1	Interference rejection in RFID tags RFID tags, tag circuits, and methods are provided that reject at least in part the distortion caused to wireless signals by interference in the environment. When the received RF wave is converted into an unfiltered input (971), a filtered output (972) is generated that does not include an artifact feature deriving from the distortion. The filtered output is used instead of the unfiltered input, which results in tag operation as if there were less interference in the environment, or none at all.
US08600294B2	System and method for performing weighted processing on uplink signal An uplink signal weighted processing method is disclosed. A first channel impulse response from a Mobile Station (MS) to a relay station, and a second channel impulse response from the relay station to a Base Station (BS) are acquired. A relay weight and a demodulation weight are determined according to the first channel impulse response and the second channel impulse response. The relay weight is sent to the relay station and the demodulation weight is sent to the BS, so as to enable the relay station to perform weighted processing on an MS uplink signal received by the relay station according to the relay weight to obtain an uplink relay weighted signal and to send the uplink relay weighted signal to the BS, and so as to enable the BS to perform demodulation weighted processing on the uplink relay weighted signal received by the BS according to the demodulation weight to obtain an uplink estimation signal corresponding to the MS uplink signal.
US08600289B1	Computer systems for capturing student performance A method of capturing student performance can be provided that includes enabling a course creator to generate assessment data related to learning assessments for an online course and to generate learning outcomes for the online course, associating the assessment data with the learning outcomes, such that at least some of the learning assessments correspond to at least some of the learning outcomes, and generating an online classroom. The method may further include providing the learning assessments to students enrolled in the online course using the online classroom, wherein the students can generate completed learning assessments, and determining, for each of the completed learning assessments, whether one or more of the learning outcomes were met by each of the students.
US08600284B2	Configuration for an image forming apparatus having an upright recording medium storage unit An image forming apparatus includes a recording sheet storage unit for storing recording sheets substantially in an upright position, an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording sheet conveyed from the recording sheet storage unit, and a recording sheet receiving unit for storing the recording sheet conveyed from the image forming unit substantially in an upright position. In this image forming apparatus, a paper conveyance passage for conveying the recording sheet extends upward from a lower portion of the recording sheet storage unit toward the recording sheet receiving unit. The image forming unit positioned on the paper conveyance passage comprises a fixing device and a developer unit at least including a developer carrier, and the fixing device is arranged above the developer unit.
US08600283B2	Method of compensating for errors caused by a print head using skew correction An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units of plural colors, each including a print head including plural LED chips aligned in a main scanning direction; a screen angle selecting unit that selects screen angles for the plural colors respectively based on the amounts of skew of the plural image forming units; an image processing unit that performs image processing on input data to be expressed by pixels of the plural colors such that the pixels of the colors have the corresponding screen angles selected by the screen angle selecting unit; a correction amount determining unit that determines a total amount of skew correction based on the amount of skew detected by the skew detection unit, and determines the amounts of skew correction in the sub-scanning direction for predetermined groups of the pixels, based on the total amount of skew correction, for each of the colors.
US08600279B2	Resin material, endless belt, roll, image fixing unit, and image forming apparatus Provided is a resin material including at least one of a reaction product and a mixture of a polyimide and a polyurethane that is a polymer of an isocyanate with an acrylic resin containing a side chain having a hydroxyl group.
US08600274B2	Color image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus includes process units that are closely arranged around respective photosensitive members and act on the photosensitive members, a light emission section that forms an electrostatic latent image for detection on the photosensitive member and a detection section that detects that the electrostatic latent image passes through a position facing the process unit, and a control section that performs misregistration correction control based on the detection result.
US08600271B2	Magnet roller, developer holder element, develop unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A magnet roller includes a magnetic field generator being columnar, a support element being columnar, coaxially provided at both ends of the magnetic field generator, and whose diameter is smaller than that of the magnetic field generator, a level element extending along an axis of the magnetic field generator with a distance from the axis, the distance larger than the diameter of the support element, and a high magnetic power element being a main magnetic pole provided on the level element, extending long along the axis of the magnetic field generator.
US08600267B2	Developer cartridge and developing unit provided with the same A developer cartridge assembled to a developing device defining therein a developing chamber. The developer cartridge includes a first accommodating portion, and a first agitator. The first accommodating portion accommodates therein a developing agent and is positioned beside the developing device. The first accommodating portion includes a first wall part neighboring the developing device. The first wall part is formed with a first through-hole and a second through-hole. The first through-hole is open diagonally downward from the first accommodating portion to the developing device. The second through-hole is open diagonally upward from the first accommodating portion to the developing device. The first through-hole and the second through-hole allow communication between an interior of the first accommodating portion and the developing chamber. The first agitator is rotatably disposed in the first accommodating portion and in sliding contact with the first wall part in a vertical direction.
US08600263B2	Image forming apparatus with transport tool for separating a first roller and a second roller of a feed roller unit during transport of the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes a main body including two first frames facing each other and a second frame bridging a gap between the first frames, an image forming unit disposed between the first frames, a feed roller unit including a first roller and a second roller supported by the second frame so as to contact the first roller in a position away from the first frame, an urging member providing an urging force to bring the first roller into contact with the second roller in a direction parallel to the first frames, and a spacer detachably attached between the main body and one of the first and second rollers near at least one of the first frames, so as to separate the first roller from the second roller or weaken a contact force between the first roller and the second roller against the urging force.
US08600256B2	Cleaning device and image forming apparatus including same A cleaning device disposed downstream from a transfer position in a direction of rotation of the image carrier to remove toner from the image carrier. The cleaning device includes a normally-charged toner cleaning member to electrostatically remove normally-charged toner from the image carrier, one of a polarity controller to control the toner on the image carrier to have a normal charging polarity and a reversely-charged toner cleaning member to electrostatically remove reversely-charged toner from the image carrier, a pre-cleaning member to electrostatically remove normally-charged toner from the image carrier, a pre-collection member to electrostatically collect the toner from the pre-cleaning member, and a control unit to reduce a voltage applied to the pre-cleaning member immediately after an untransferred toner image is removed from the image carrier by the pre-cleaning member below a voltage applied to the pre-cleaning member during removal of the untransferred toner image.
US08600254B2	Fixing device A fixing device includes a fixing belt including a metal layer, a pressing member to form a nip between the pressing member and the fixing belt, an induction current generating coil that faces an outer periphery of the fixing belt, and heats the fixing belt located at a nip position through a hollow inside of the fixing belt, and a coil controller supplies a high frequency to the induction current generating coil.
US08600243B2	Polarization mode dispersion compensation An apparatus and method for correcting for the polarization mode distortion of an optical signal is described. The optical data signal to be transmitted is processed by a switch configured to place the signal into a plurality of polarization states on a periodic basis. At the receiving end of the system, a portion to the signal is coupled to a polarimeter and the wavelength-dependent state of polarization (SOP) of the received signal determined for the plurality of polarization states imposed on the transmitted signal. The data for two of the transmitted polarization states is selected to be used as the basis for correcting the SOP so as to compensate for the wavelength dependence thereof. The corrections may be applied in an optical pulse shaper.
US08600239B2	Precise clock synchronization over optical fiber A clock at a first network element that is connected to a second network element over first and second optical links that are physically distinct from each other is aligned using optical timing signals having different wavelengths. Transit delays between the first and second network elements may be determined using the same optical timing signals.
US08600238B2	Method and system for bi-directional communication over a single optical fiber Gigabit Ethernet connectivity is realized using off-the-shelf GIGABIT INTERFACE CONVERTER transceivers, wave division multiplexer/demultiplexers, and a single optical fiber. Simultaneous and bi-directional optical communication over a single optical fiber connecting two or more nodes is achieved by using at least one GIGABIT INTERFACE CONVERTER transceiver having at least one optical signal output and an optical signal input that are of different wavelengths from each other.
US08600211B2	Electronic apparatus, reproduction method, and program [Object] To reproduce a plurality of video contents recorded on a recording medium on one screen and select and reproduce any of the video contents without using a plurality of dedicated decoders.[Solving Means] A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) reads single angle videos (21) that are shot from a plurality of angles and a multi-angle video (22) obtained by performing authoring on those single angle videos (21) so as to be reproducible on one screen from a BD-ROM (10), combines a time-line operation bar (61) and a cursor (66) with the multi-angle video (22), and displays a multi-angle screen (60). When an operation of selecting a single angle video (21) on which the cursor (66) is positioned is performed on the multi-angle screen (60), the single angle video (21) is reproduced in full screen based on a time code at a time when the selection operation is made. When an operation of pressing a multi-angle key (23) is performed during the full-screen reproduction, the multi-angle screen (60) is reproduced again based on a time code at a time when the press operation is made.
US08600210B2	GI type optical fiber and method for manufacturing same A GI type optical fiber of the present invention is a GI type optical fiber having a core component and a cladding component disposed around the outer periphery of the core component, the core component includes a polymer containing at least 55 wt % chlorostyrene monomer and a dopant, and the cladding component includes a polymer of a monomer containing at least 35 wt % methyl methacrylate. It is an object of the present invention to provide a GI type optical fiber in which chlorostyrene is used as the predominant component of the monomer that constitutes the core component, and therefore has excellent transparency and good flexibility, and allows high-speed communication.
US08600204B2	Optical control device Disclosed is an optical delay element that makes use of a line-defect waveguide of a photonic crystal, in which long optical delay time and small group speed dispersion are rendered compatible with each other and in which waveform distortion that might otherwise be produced in processing an ultra-high speed signal is eliminated. Two line-defect waveguides 5 and 11, having different pillar diameters and group velocity dispersions of opposite signs, are interconnected by a line-defect waveguide 8, the pillar diameters of which are gradually varied from one 5 of the line-defect waveguides to the other line-defect waveguide 11, such as to compensate for group speed dispersion as well as to maintain an optical delay effect.
US08600183B2	Optimized method and system for entropy coding An optimized method and system for entropy coding is described. The system may include an input module to receive a digital image, a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) module to obtain a plurality of DCT coefficients associated with the digital image, a statistics generator to generate statistics associated with the plurality of DCT coefficients, a placement module to store the generated statistics in the plurality of DCT coefficients and entropy coder to generate uniquely decodable (UD) codes for the plurality of DCT coefficients. The entropy coder may utilize the statistics stored in the plurality of DCT coefficients.
US08600178B1	Global motion vector calculation using phase plane correlation A method of performing motion compensation includes dividing at least one frame of image data into blocks, performing phase plane correlation to determine a correlation surface for each block between a first frame and a second frame, using the correlation surfaces for each block in the first frame to produce a global correlation surface for a first frame, using the global correlation surface to produce a refined correlation surface, selecting peaks in the refined correlation surface, and perform sub-pixel motion vector calculations to produce global motion vectors using the peaks.
US08600177B2	Image coding apparatus A refresh area is taken advantage of when a series of images are coded using Intra-frame coding and Inter-frame coding, a partial area of an image being forcefully Intra-frame coded (Intra MBs) in the refresh area. As the prediction mode for prediction of the Intra MBs inside the refresh area, a prediction mode is selected where the prediction is executable based on only the image that exists inside the refresh area.
US08600176B2	Error detection method and apparatus in DMB receiver Provided is a method and apparatus for detecting errors generated by a DMB receiver by not processing received audio/video data in realtime. The error detection method includes: calculating a time required to process one frame obtained by dividing received data into frames having a predetermined size; and determining as an error a situation in which the calculated time exceeds time predetermined to process the one frame in realtime and transmitting an error recovering command. Accordingly, subsequent data frames can be normally processed by quickly detecting the error and recovering the error by initializing their associated modules.
US08600175B2	Apparatus and method of processing image including character string Image processing apparatus and method perform a character recognition process to an area indicating a character string included in image data, generate layout information for layout of the character string on the basis of the area, and perform layout of a result of the character recognition process on the basis of the generated layout information, thereby enabling to perform a process, which uses the layout information, to a document which includes various layouts.
US08600174B2	Method and system for attaching a metatag to a digital image A system and method for tagging an image of an individual in a plurality of photos is disclosed herein. A feature vector of an individual is used to analyze a set of photos on a social networking website such as www.facebook.com to determine if an image of the individual is present in a photo of the set of photos. Photos having an image of the individual are tagged preferably by listing a URL or URI for each of the photos in a database.
US08600169B2	Method and system for learning a same-material constraint in an image In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.
US08600163B2	Handwriting determination apparatus and method and program A handwriting apparatus has unit for acquiring first-handwriting data, storage unit for storing one-stroke-handwriting data and a first command as an instruction. The instruction corresponds to the one-stroke-handwriting data. When the first-handwriting data corresponds to the one stroke, a unit executes the first command when the corresponding first command is searched from the storage unit, a unit stores one-stroke-handwriting data and a second command as an instruction that corresponds to the one-stroke-handwriting data. The second command is different from the first command, and searches the storage unit for the second command corresponding to the one-stroke-handwriting data. There is a unit, when the corresponding second command is searched out from the storage unit, to execute the corresponding second command.
US08600160B2	Signal processing apparatus and method, and program Signals are provided which allow colors in a wider color range than predetermined standards, which can be handled by apparatus according to such predetermined standards. A primary color converter converts first color signals having primary color points in a wider color range than the primary color points according to BT.709 into second color signals based on the primary colors according to BT.709. A photoelectric transducer converts the second color signals into third color signals according to photoelectric transducer characteristics defined in a numerical range wider than a range from 0 to 1.0 of color signals corresponding to a luminance signal and color difference signals according to BT.709. A color signal converter converts the third color signals into a luminance signal and color difference signals. A corrector incorporated in the color signal converter corrects the color difference signals into color difference signals.
US08600155B2	Classification and encoder selection based on content In various embodiments, methods and systems are disclosed for dynamic runtime implementation and end-to-end biased tuning of a two stage image classification system based on a decision function that uses network packet sizes and multiple image characteristics to determine the selection of an encoding codec to reduce overall network bandwidth consumption.
US08600154B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method In an image processing apparatus for carrying out a plurality of correction processes on an input image, a multi-dimensional histogram of the input image is calculated, and a feature amount of the input image for which a specific correction process has been carried out is analyzed based on the multi-dimensional histogram. Then, based on the result of the analysis, correction parameters to be used for another correction process are calculated.
US08600149B2	Method and system for electronic inspection of baggage and cargo A method and system of electronically inspecting baggage comprises generating scan data representative of a piece of baggage. At least one of a contour and a surface is extracted from the scan data, and the at least one of a contour and a surface is representative of an object within the baggage. An object database comprises data representative of shapes of known objects, and the at least one of a contour and surface is compared to the object database to identify an object match which is presented.
US08600146B2	Method for the classification of banknotes The invention group relates to the banknote detecting means. The technical result is increase in the banknote identification accuracy. The method is based on a computational processing of the banknote scan formed in the device during scanning. The banknote digital image is separated into areas; for each area a function is calculated and a feature vector is composed with further calculation of the distance to the known classes represented by the parameters available beforehand. Moreover, the calculated function of the banknote digital image allows calculation of its signature in a form of binary number that is compared with the classes known beforehand.
US08600137B2	Iterative CT image reconstruction with a four-dimensional noise filter A method is disclosed for reconstruction of image data of an object under examination from measurement data, with the measurement data having been captured during a relative rotational movement between a radiation source of a computed tomography system and the object under examination. In at least one embodiment, first image data is computed by the measurement data being modified to obtain a specific gray value characteristic of the first image data to be reconstructed and the first image data is computed by way of an iterative algorithm using the modified measurement data. Second image data is also computed by a series of chronologically-consecutive images being reconstructed and processing being carried out on the series of images to reduce temporal noise. Finally a combination of the first and the second image data is carried out.
US08600133B2	Selection of snapshots of a medical image sequence A system is provided for automatic selection of medical images. The system comprises an input (302) for receiving a temporal sequence of medical images acquired with a hand-held medical imaging device. An object detector (303) is provided for detecting an object in at least one of the images. An image selector (304) is provided for selecting an image in which the object has been detected by the object detector. A snapshot means (305) is provided for storing the selected image as a snapshot. Moreover, a hand-held medical imaging device is provided for generating the sequence of medical images.
US08600129B2	Ultrasonic volume data processing device An ultrasonic volume data processing device which forms a three-dimensional image of a target tissue in a living body is provided. A range in which a rendering process is applied is limited by a three-dimensional region of interest (3D-ROI). The three-dimensional region of interest has a clipping plane as a rendering start surface. A shape of the clipping plane can be deformed into a convex shape or a concave shape by a user operation, and the clipping plane may be freely inclined in two-dimensional directions. With this configuration, for example, the clipping plane can be suitably positioned in a gap between a face of a fetus and a placenta. When the curved clipping plane is used, a striped pattern noise tends to be formed in the three-dimensional image. In order to resolve or reduce the striped pattern noise, a special voxel calculation is applied to a final voxel of each ray in the voxel calculation for each ray.
US08600122B2	Apparatus and method for culling substantially redundant data in fingerprint sensing circuits An apparatus for culling substantially redundant data in a fingerprint sensing circuit is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including an input module, a storage module, a comparator module, and a determination module. The input module may receive sets of data samples from an array of fingerprint sensing elements. The sets of data samples may be stored by the storage module. The comparator module may calculate a difference between each data sample from a first-received set, and a corresponding data sample from a second-received set. The determination module may count the number of difference values that exceed a predetermined difference limit, and identify the second set of data samples as redundant if the number of difference values counted is less than a pre-set count limit.
US08600120B2	Personal computing device control using face detection and recognition Systems and methods are provided for control of a personal computing device based on user face detection and recognition techniques.
US08600113B2	System, method and computer program product for video fingerprinting A method for fingerprinting a video involving identifying motion within the video and using a measure of the identified motion as a fingerprint. Once videos are fingerprinted, these fingerprints can be used in a method for identifying video. This involves creating a motion fingerprint for unidentified videos; comparing the fingerprints of the known and unknown videos, and identifying whether the unknown video is a copy of the known video based on the step of comparing.
US08600110B1	Unauthorized viewer detection system and method A system for detecting intruding viewers of a display and responding to an intrusion by editing content. The system includes an electronic media display, a sensor, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain information from the sensor, determine a visibility envelope of the electronic media display device, analyze the information from the sensor to determine a presence of an intruder within the visibility envelope, distinguish the intruder from an authorized user, and edit any displayed content.
US08600098B2	Method for processing a satellite image and/or an aerial image In a method for processing a satellite image and/or aerial image, unwanted objects are able to be removed from the satellite image and/or aerial image. Geographical positions of objects pictured in the satellite and/or aerial image are determined, at least one photo is taken at ground level at each and/or in the respective immediate vicinity of the geographical positions determined, and these photos taken at ground level are superimposed on the satellite image and/or aerial image.
US08600085B2	Audio player with monophonic mode control An audio player includes an audio headset having two earpieces. A playback circuit provides one of a stereophonic program and a monaural program to the audio headset. The monaural program may be created by mixing channels of the stereophonic program. A mode control is coupled to the playback circuit and to the audio headset. The mode control detects when at least one of the two earpieces is not adjacent a listener's ear and causes the playback circuit to deliver the monaural program to the audio headset.
US08600083B2	Electrostatic speaker and manufacturing method thereof and conductive backplate of the speaker An electrostatic speaker and a method for manufacturing the speaker are disclosed. Said speaker comprises a vibrating film; an electrode portion disposed on a surface of the vibrating film and joined with the vibrating film; and a conductive backplate spaced from the electrode portion by a distance, the conductive backplate forming a plurality of holes, the vibrating film being deformed and vibrated to generate and release a sound through the holes due to a variation of an electric field generated between the conductive backplate and the electrode portion, wherein the conductive backplate is covered by a polymer layer serving as a protective film. The covering polymer layer on the conductive backplate is capable of improving the stability of the electrostatic speaker and increasing its lifespan.
US08600077B2	Audio level control A device (1) is arranged for controlling the sound levels of a group of audio channels including a user selected main channel (MC) and at least one auxiliary channel (AC1; AC2). The audio channels can be rendered simultaneously. The device comprises automatic level adjustment means (12, 13) for adjusting the sound level of the at least one auxiliary channel relative to the main channel. The level adjustment means (12, 13) may be arranged for adapting the respective sound levels to the content or signal characteristics of each associated audio channel.
US08600075B2	Method for equalizing audio, and video apparatus using the same A method for equalizing audio and a video apparatus using the audio equalizing method are provided. The method for equalizing audio includes detecting the distance between a speaker mounted in a video apparatus and a reflective surface, and equalizing an audio signal to be output from the speaker based on the detected distance. Accordingly, attenuation of audio output is reduced, so audio output is optimized.
US08600069B2	Multi-channel active noise control system with channel equalization A multiple error filtered-x least mean square (MEFxLMS) algorithm using a channel equalization virtual secondary path for an active noise control/cancellation (ANC) system for treating noise in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The channel equalization technique equalizes amplitude levels of the estimated response of all primary channels to overcome limitations caused by the frequency dependent property of standard filtered-x least mean square (FxLMS) algorithm, reduce the variation of convergence speed existed in the multiple channels, and improve the overall performance of the control system. The convergence property of the algorithm is analyzed in the frequency domain.
US08600061B2	Generating secure device secret key Methods, devices, systems and computer program products are provided to facilitate cryptographically secure retrieval of secret information that is embedded in a device. The embedded secret information can include a random number that is not custom-designed for any specific requestor of the secret information. Upon receiving a request for the embedded secret information, an encrypted secret is provided to the requestor that enables the recovery of the embedded secret information by only the requestor. Moreover, a need for maintenance of a database of the embedded secret information and the associated requestors is eliminated.
US08600059B2	Short message service cipher A wireless phone system and methods performed thereon for cryptographically processing SMS messages is disclosed. A cryptographic pad is used to replace characters in a payload of a SMS message with coded characters. The cryptographic pad is used by the receiver of the SMS message to decode it. The cryptographic pad is one of two or more possible cryptographic pads stored in the receiver. In one embodiment, the two or more possible cryptographic pads are sent as a key where a particular cryptographic pad is referenced in the key using an index.
US08600056B2	Method and system for controlling the locking/unlocking of the network access functions of a multifunction terminal A method and system of controlling the locking/unlocking of the network access functions of a terminal including a security processor, like a mobile telephone handset. The terminal is allotted an original public key for verifying the integrity of data loaded into the terminal, a pair of keys associated with the network being generated along with an original approval certificate for the terminal, a locking certificate containing the original approval certificate, the public keys, configuration data and random data, this locking certificate being signed on the basis of the private key associated with the original public key and loaded into the terminal.On entering a user code, the terminal or a function thereof is unlocked after verification of the integrity of the locking certificate and validation of the user code entered.
US08600050B1	Encrypting a data transmission using multiple channels A method, system, and media are provided for securely communicating data. One embodiment of the method includes encrypting a data stream by way of a first algorithm; creating at least two subsets of data from the data stream by extracting one or more data portions from the encrypted data stream, thereby leaving a remaining portion and an extracted portion; communicating the remaining portion to a destination by way of a first communications channel; encrypting the extracted portion utilizing a second algorithm; communicating the encrypted extracted portion to the destination by way of a second communications channel; and providing for recombining the remaining portion and the encrypted extracted portion to facilitate recovery of the encrypted data stream.
US08600048B1	Format-translating encryption systems Format-translating encryption (FTE) cryptographic operations may be implemented using a cryptographic system that translates plaintext strings to ciphertext strings of a different format and that translates ciphertext strings to plaintext strings of a different format. Plaintext strings may have a format defined by a first regular expression. Corresponding ciphertext strings may have a format defined by a second regular expression that is different than the first regular expression. During encryption operations, a format-translating encryption algorithm may employ a format-preserving encryption (FPE) encryption algorithm. During decryption operations, a format-translating encryption algorithm may employ an FPE decryption algorithm.
US08600038B2	System and method for echo cancellation An echo canceller for improved recognition and removal of an echo from a communication device. The echo canceller can dynamically reduce echo using an improved energy estimator and an improved adaptive filter. The improved energy estimator can determine if conversation is in a single talk period or a double talk period based on the combined energy of both the near end background noise and speech. The improved adaptive filter can reduce echo by dynamically changing adaptation speed or step size. In double talk, the adaptive filter(s) can dynamically slow-down or stop adaptation. In single talk, the filter can dynamically increase the speed of adaptation to improve accuracy, or decrease adaptation speed for stability.
US08600035B2	Systems and methods for customer contact A user of a personal computing device may identify an item of interest displayed in a user interface provided by a network-based service and would like to obtain more information. The user may submit one or more electronic contact requests to a contact service in communication with a contact distribution system in order to obtain more information. The contact distribution system determines accurate, real-time availability of service agents and enables communications between the customer and an agent to be established in accordance with user contact information provided by the user.
US08600032B2	Method and system for a gateway transfer Techniques for providing a gateway transfer mechanism are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method, comprising identifying, at a gateway, a call to be routed to a first location, determining whether to transfer the call to a second location, in the event the call is to be transferred to the second location, transferring the call, wherein transferring the call comprises ending a process to route the call to the first location, generating transfer information for the second location, and transferring the call to the second location using the generated transfer information.
US08600029B2	Caller information notifier system for use in callback with a callback number different from a caller phone number In a caller information notifier system, a calling terminal transmits a calling signal having a phone number for callback inserted which is different from the phone number of the calling terminal. When a callback is tried from a called terminal, a communication network server, where the calling signal passes, determines the relationship between the phone number of the calling terminal and the phone number for callback inserted in the calling signal to authenticate the phone number for callback. A terminal which receives the calling signal extracts the phone number for callback from the calling signal and keeps the extracted number as a callback phone number. The callback phone number is, for instance, an FMC service number. The probability of success in reaching a caller is thereby increased.
US08600021B2	Method and apparatus for connecting a caller previously diverted to voicemail Disclosed is a method and apparatus for enabling communication between a first party and a second party. The method and apparatus determine that the second party is calling the first party while the first party is leaving a message on the voicemail of the second party. The message is then aborted and the first party is connected to the second party.
US08600018B2	Web integrated interactive voice response Interactions with a user are coordinated upon receiving, at a networked interactive system, audible communication from a user and interacting with the user in the audible communication in accordance with an audible format menu. Whether to provide the user with a visual format menu that at least partially matches the audible format menu is determined during the audible communication. The user is provided with the visual format menu concurrent with the audible communication upon determining, based on the interaction with the user in the audible communication, to provide the user with the visual format menu. Interactions with the user are in accordance with the visual format menu.
US08600016B2	Method and apparatus for telephonically accessing and navigating the internet A method for accessing and browsing the internet through the use of a telephone and the associated DTMF signals is disclosed. The preferred embodiment provides a system that converts the information content of a web page from text to speech (voice signals), signals the hyperlink selections of a web page in an audio manner, and allows selection of the hyperlinks through the use of DTMF signals generated from a telephone keypad. Upon receiving a DTMF signal corresponding to a hyperlink, the corresponding web page is fetched and again delivered to the user via one of the available delivery methods such as voice, fax-on-demand, electronic mail, or regular mail.
US08600008B2	System and method of providing an emergency contact party line A system and method for providing an emergency contact party telephone line in response to an emergency. The system includes a user device (21) and a monitoring database (22), which communicate with one another over the Internet (23). A plurality of contacts and contact methods are stored on the monitoring database (22). The contact methods for each contact are arranged in a hierarchy according to priority. When the user device (21) establishes an emergency condition, it communicates the emergency condition to the monitoring database (22). The monitoring database (22) then establishes a support line, similar to a conference call line. Once the support line is set up, the monitoring database (22) sends a notification message of the emergency to the contacts through a first contact method. The monitoring database (22) then sends another notification message through a second contact method different to the first contact method to each of the contacts who did not respond to the first notification message.
US08600007B2	Systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing toll-free service in a telecommunications network Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing toll-free service in a telecommunications network are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing toll-free service in a telecommunications network. The method includes, at a signaling node that includes at least one processor: receiving a first signaling message that includes a toll-free called party number, where the first signaling message is one of a non-TCAP call setup message, a mobility management query, a number portability (NP) query, and an E.164 number (ENUM) query; determining a directory number associated with the toll-free called party number; and sending the first signaling message or a second signaling message, the sent message including at least one of the directory number and routing information associated with the directory number.
US08600005B2	Radiation detection device, radiation image acquiring system, and method for detecting radiation An X-ray image acquiring system capable of improving the detection accuracy of a foreign substance contained in a subject is provided. An X-ray image acquiring system irradiates X-rays to a subject having a predetermined thickness from an X-ray source, and detects X-rays transmitted through the subject in a plurality of energy ranges. The X-ray image acquiring system includes a low-energy detector for detecting, in a low-energy range, X-rays having been transmitted through a region R1 extending in a thickness direction within the subject, a high-energy detector for detecting, in a high-energy range, X-rays having been transmitted through a region R2 extending in a thickness direction within the subject, and a timing control section for controlling detection timing of X-rays in the low-energy detector and the high-energy detector so that an inspecting region located at a predetermined site within the subject is included in the region R1 and the region R2.
US08600004B2	Method for obtaining a structure factor of an amorphous material, in particular amorphous glass An incident X-ray is emitted in a wide angular sector toward an amorphous material specimen which backscatters the X-rays. The method comprises: a step of recording experimental photon intensity measurements as a function of the angle of incidence; a step of correcting the experimental intensity, taking into account at least the absorption phenomena inside the specimen dependent on the penetration length l of the incident wave inside the specimen before reflection; a normalization step referring the corrected intensity arising from the experimental intensity to an electron intensity according to a normalization coefficient (α); a step of calculating a discretized function Q.i(Q), i being a reduced intensity arising from the measurements of the corrected and normalized experimental intensity and Q being the modulus of the wave scattering vector proportional to the quantity (sin θ)/λ, 2θ being the scattering angle and λ being the length of the wave emitted, the normalization constant (α) varying in a recursive manner so as to minimize the slope of the affine straight line obtained by linear regression over the values of the function Q.i(Q), during each iteration the values of the reduced intensity being calculated for a penetration length l, the function Q.i(Q) sought corresponding to the minimum slope; a step of determining the structure factor on the basis of the distribution of the radial atomic concentration ρ(r) dependent on Q.i(Q).
US08600000B2	Device and method for a mammography apparatus The maximum possible vertices for a trajectory are determined with a device for mammography and an associated method, so that the subject to be exposed can be completely imaged on the detector in x-ray acquisitions.
US08599994B2	Fuel bundle and spacer band In various embodiments, a spacer grid for a nuclear reactor fuel bundle is provided. The grid includes a plurality of interstitial dividers that form an array of cells. Each cell is structured to retain a respective one of a plurality of fuel rods to thereby form an array of equally spaced fuel rods. The grid additionally includes a perimeter band that peripherally surrounds the dividers and is connected to opposing ends of each divider. The perimeter band includes a plurality of spring tabs formed along and extending from an edge of the perimeter band. The spring tabs extend from the edge at an angle away from the dividers such that a distal end of each spring tab will contact an interior surface of a respective one of a plurality of walls of a channel in which the arrayed fuel rods can be inserted to form the fuel bundle.
US08599989B2	Modular reactor head area assembly Provided is a modular reactor head area assembly. The modular reactor head area assembly is installed on a reactor head, and includes: a seismic support structure that performs functions of lifting, moving and reinstallation of the reactor head and control rod driving apparatuses, cooling of the control rod driving apparatuses, shielding of missile parts, and supporting with respect to a seismic load, and disperses a load applied to the control rod driving apparatuses; an upper module that is an assembly of components located at an upper portion of the seismic support structure for the control rod driving apparatuses; and a lower module that is an assembly of components located at a lower portion of the seismic support structure for the control rod driving apparatuses. The upper module and the lower module are 252 detachably coupled to each other so that maintenance of the control rod driving apparatus can be performed easily.
US08599987B2	Wireless transmission of nuclear instrumentation signals A method of monitoring a condition of a nuclear reactor pressure vessel disposed in a radioactive environment is provided. The method includes the steps of sensing a condition of the reactor pressure vessel with an instrument, transmitting a signal indicative of the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the instrument to a powered wireless transmitting modem disposed in the radioactive environment, wirelessly transmitting a signal indicative of the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the transmitting modem to a receiving modem in the line of sight of the transmitting modem, transmitting a signal indicative of the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the receiving modem to a signal processing unit, and determining the condition of the reactor pressure vessel from the wirelessly transmitted signal.
US08599981B2	Post-filter, decoding device, and post-filter processing method Provided is a decoding device which suppresses generation of an abnormal sound caused by a layer switch. The decoding device includes: a first layer decoding unit (202) which performs a decoding process on first layer encoded data so as to generate a first layer decoding signal; a second layer decoding unit (203) which performs a decoding process on second layer encoded data so as to generate a first layer decoding error signal; an adder (204) which adds the first layer decoding signal and the first layer decoding error signal so as to generate a second layer decoding signal; a switching unit (205) which performs switching between the first layer signal and the second layer decoding signal for output according to layer information; and a post-filter (206) which selects a control parameter corresponding to the respective layer information and performs a control parameter smoothing process so as to generate a smoothed control parameter and performs a filter process on the decoding signal from the switching unit (205) by using the generated smoothed control parameter.
US08599980B2	Beamforming apparatus and method in multi-antenna system The present invention relates to a symbol-wise beamforming apparatus and method in an OFDM communication system using multiple antennas. A weight vector calculator calculates a transmit weight vector using a signal received through the multiple antennas as an input on the basis of channel information in the time domain and covariance matrix information about interference and noise and computes a receive weight vector using the calculated transmit weight vector. At least one of the calculated transmit weight vector and receive weight vector is transmitted to a transmission apparatus through a transmitter.
US08599972B2	SIR estimation in a wireless receiver A method and apparatus removes bias from an initial signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). In an exemplary embodiment, an initial SIR calculator in an SIR processor calculates the initial SIR based on the signal received by the wireless receiver, while an average SIR calculator in the SIR processor generates an average SIR. Using the average SIR, a bias remover removes the bias from the initial SIR.
US08599971B2	Communication system utilizing a hierarchically modulated signal and method thereof A communication system utilizing a hierarchically modulated signal and method thereof are provided, wherein a receiver system is configured to receive a hierarchically modulated signal. The receiver system includes a receiver device configured to receive the hierarchically modulated signal, which is a function of a time domain, and including a high priority data stream that has a single carrier type modulation, and a low priority data stream having data bits that are spread over a plurality of data symbols of a high priority data modulation. The receiver system further includes a low priority processor device, which includes an OFDM decoder configured to convert the low priority data stream of the hierarchically modulated signal that is a function of the time domain to be a function of a frequency domain by utilizing a FFT, such that an output is emitted that is representative of the low priority data stream.
US08599969B2	Communications channel estimation Techniques for estimating the response of a communications channel. In an aspect, a channel autocorrelation matrix is derived based on, e.g., certain assumptions about the time delay profile, Doppler profile. An eigenvector decomposition is performed on the autocorrelation matrix, and a set of dominant eigenvectors is determined. A received pilot signal vector is projected onto a projection matrix derived from the dominant eigenvectors to generate a set of eigen-coefficients, which is then used to reconstruct an estimated channel vector. In an exemplary embodiment, the eigenvector-based approach is combined with a simplified minimum mean-square error based approach to generate an estimated channel vector when the received signal-to-noise ratio is below a threshold.
US08599965B2	Wireless communication apparatus A transmitter circuit includes a first synthesizer section, and a second synthesizer section which consumes less current than the first synthesizer section. The transmitter circuit performs switching such that the first synthesizer section is operated and the second synthesizer section is powered off in polar modulation, and the second synthesizer section is operated and the first synthesizer section is powered off in quadrature modulation, thereby reducing consumed power. While the first synthesizer section is operating, calibration for an oscillation frequency is performed, and when the operation is stopped, a calibration value is stored. When an operation of the first synthesizer section is restarted, the stored calibration value is corrected by using temperature change, thereby enhancing calibration accuracy and preventing degradation in quality of a transmission signal.
US08599956B1	Doppler compensated communications link A system for compensating for a Doppler frequency shift in communications between a mobile node and a fixed node. The system includes a Doppler frequency shift estimation unit configured to estimate the Doppler frequency shift experienced in a communication signal between the mobile node and the fixed node, wherein the Doppler frequency shift is estimated based on a location of the mobile node, a heading of the mobile node, and speed of the mobile node, and a location of the fixed node. The system also includes a frequency shift unit configured to shift a frequency of the communication signal in accordance with the estimated Doppler frequency shift.

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