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US08647224B2	Generator arrangement for a wind power plant A generator arrangement for a wind power plant includes a ring-shaped primary part, a ringshaped secondary part, and a planetary transmission arrangement disposed inside the primary part and the secondary part. The planetary transmission arrangement comprises an internal gear, a sun gear, and at least two planet gears. The sun gear is substantially ringshaped, having an inner wall, and outer wall, and a web connecting the inner wall and the outer wall. The internal gear is disposed between the inner wall and the outer wall of the sun gear and is supported at the outer wall of the sun gear.
US08647191B2	Resonant gaming chip identification system and method A system and method for a gaming chip identification system are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment comprises a plurality of gaming chips, each gaming chip operable to emit a respective unique electromagnetic signature in response to incident non-optical electromagnetic radiation, a computer-readable medium that stores information indicative of the electromagnetic signatures of at least a number of the plurality of gaming chips, and a processor-based system configured to verify that the electromagnetic signature from an interrogated gaming chip in an interrogation zone is a member of the plurality of gaming chips.
US08647186B1	Slide poker Multiple, sequential video poker games wherein a player is dealt a first standard poker hand of 5 cards face up from a deck of cards such as a standard 52 card deck after a pre-determined wager is placed. The player holds or discards selected cards to create a final first poker hand. The Slide Bonus is triggered to play continuing multiple games when any pair is held or drawn in positions 4, 5 of the five card hand. The card positions are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 left to right or right to left.
US08647184B2	Adjustable width vent baffle An adaptable vent baffle mountable to an underside of a roof deck and to a wall plate of a building structure between a pair of roof rafters having a rafter spacing for permitting ventilation between a soffit and an attic space of the building structure. A main body portion has a longitudinal axis and is positioned generally on a main body place. A spacer extends from the main body portion and a tail portion is hingedly mounted to the main body portion. The main body portion and tail portion include first and second side edges and a baffle width is defined between the first and second side edges. At least one line of weakness extends generally parallel to the longitudinal axis for modifying the baffle width to adapt to the rafter spacing.
US08647176B2	Method and apparatus for grinding a workpiece surface of rotation A workpiece having a planar face the workpiece is rotated about a workpiece axis substantially perpendicular to the planar workpiece face, and a grinding disk centered on a disk axis is rotated about the disk axis. The disk has an annular planar disk face perpendicular to and centered on the disk axis and an annular frustoconical disk face extending from an edge of the planar disk face, centered on the disk axis, and angled inward from the planar disk face. A portion of the annular face is oriented perpendicular to the workpiece axis and pressed against the planar workpiece face to premachine most of the planar workpiece face. Thereafter the disk is pivoted and oriented parallel the planar workpiece face to finish machine the planar workpiece face with the planar disk face.
US08647163B2	Method of manufacturing organic EL display Laser light is irradiated onto a foreign substance, which is contaminated into an organic layer of an organic EL element, to insulate the periphery of the foreign substance, thereby repairing a defect of the organic EL element that may be caused by the foreign substance. Before the laser light is irradiated onto a pixel containing a foreign substance, the laser light is irradiated onto peripheral pixels around the pixel containing the foreign substance, while shifting a focal position of laser light. The focal position of laser light is defined based on a laser irradiation mark and an emission state of the pixel. The laser light is irradiated with the adjusted focus to insulate a foreign substance section without damaging other portions than the periphery of the foreign substance, thereby making it possible to repair a defect that may be caused by the foreign substance.
US08647160B2	Connection terminal, terminal connection structure, and terminal box A terminal box (1) includes a connection terminal (3) that can interconnect a terminal (4) of a bus bar and a core wire (221) of an output cable (22) and that is in a box main body (11). One end of the connection terminal (3) has an insertion connecting portion (32) into which the terminal (4) of the bus bar can be inserted, and the other end has a cable press-fitting portion (39) to which the core wire (221) of the output cable (22) that is to be connected to a terminal main body (31) is press-fitted. The insertion connecting portion (32) includes an elastic contact piece (35) provided with an elastic repulsive force, and the terminal (4) of the bus bar can be forcibly introduced thereinto.
US08647157B2	Modular electrical assembly with jumper storage A modular electrical assembly adapted to be electrically connected to at least one other modular assembly by means of a connecting jumper. The assembly includes a storage structure for storing the connecting jumper associated with the assembly. A method of electrically connecting a modular electrical assembly to at least one other modular electrical assembly is also disclosed.
US08647156B2	Plug connector with external contacts A dual orientation connector having a connector tab with first and second major opposing sides and a plurality of electrical contacts carried by the connector tab. The plurality of contacts includes a first set of external contacts formed at the first major side and a second set of external contacts formed at the second major side. Each individual contact in the first plurality of contacts is electrically connected within the tab or body to a corresponding contact in the second plurality of contacts. In some embodiments contacts in the first and second pluralities of contacts that are directly opposite each other are coupled together. In some other embodiments, contacts in the first and second pluralities of contacts that are in a cater cornered relationship with each other are coupled together. The first plurality of contacts are symmetrically spaced with the second plurality of contacts and the connector tab is shaped to have 180 degree symmetry so that it can be inserted and operatively coupled to a corresponding receptacle connector in either of two insertion orientations.
US08647155B2	Electrical-conductive assembly for signal cable An electrical-conductive assembly for a signal cable. The signal cable includes an outer insulation cover and a plurality of cores inside the outer insulation cover. Each core has a protective sheath and an electric wire located in the protective sheath. The electrical-conductive assembly includes an electrical-conductive portion and an electrical-conductive portion member. The electrical-conductive portion is provided on a section of the signal cable with a portion of the outer insulation cover removed. Each core inside the electrical-conductive portion is formed with a naked lead section by removing a portion of the protective sheath. The electrical-conductive member is assembled with the electrical-conductive portion and includes at least one electrical-conductive covering piece electrically connected to the naked lead section and at least one electrical-conductive post extending from the electrical-conductive covering piece.
US08647146B2	Electrical connector having crosstalk compensation insert An electrical connector includes a front wire terminal and a rear wire terminal. The front wire terminal and the rear wire terminal are configured to couple to a conductor of a cable. A front signal trace is coupled to the front wire terminal. A rear signal trace is coupled to the rear wire terminal. The front signal trace is positioned adjacent to the rear signal trace. A front mating contact is coupled to the front signal trace. A rear mating contact is coupled to the rear signal trace. The front signal trace conveys an electrical signal between the front wire terminal and the front mating contact. The rear signal trace conveys an electrical signal between the rear wire terminal and the rear mating contact. An electro-mechanical compensation is positioned between the front signal trace and the rear signal trace to control crosstalk between the front signal trace and the rear signal trace.
US08647132B2	Connector with fluid discharge hole in housing and fluid drainage path in seal A connector (X) includes a housing (10) with a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers (14). An accommodating recess (11) is formed in a rear surface of the housing (10) and communicates with the rear ends of the terminal accommodating chambers (14). A rubber plug (20) is accommodated in the accommodating recess (11) and includes a plurality of wire insertion holes (22) corresponding to the terminal accommodating chambers (14). Drainage paths (23) are formed in the rear surface of the rubber plug (20) and reach the outer periphery thereof.
US08647130B2	Wiring duct connection device A wiring duct connection device includes a connection body to be inserted into an end portion of a wiring duct having conductors arranged on side walls within an elongated grove-like core along a longitudinal direction; contactors held in the connection body in such a manner that the contactors can protrude from opposite side surfaces of the connection body; and elastic bodies which biases the contactors outward. The elastic bodies are arranged side by side along the longitudinal direction at an inner side of each of the contactors, and each of the contactors includes convex contact portions that are one-piece formed at an outer end thereof, the contact portions being arranged along the longitudinal direction.
US08647129B2	Housingless connector Provided is a housingless connector in which a plurality of cantilevers arranged in a comb shape and functioning as contacts is hardly damaged. A receptacle connector (housingless connector) is formed of a single metal plate and used to be mounted on a receptacle-side substrate. The receptacle connector includes a plurality of cantilevers arranged in a comb shape and functioning as contacts, and an outer frame body surrounding the cantilevers. The outer frame body includes a pair of side plates sandwiching the cantilevers in a direction parallel to a connector mounting surface of the receptacle-side substrate, and a top plate disposed on an opposite side of the receptacle-side substrate with the cantilevers interposed therebetween.
US08647125B2	Apparatuses and methods for simulating microlaryngeal surgery Apparatus for simulating microlaryngeal surgery. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a larynx model that emulates an actual larynx, the larynx model including an inner passage that includes a vocal fold model support that emulates a portion of an actual vocal fold, and a vocal fold model that emulates tissues of an actual vocal fold, the vocal fold model being adapted to be received by the vocal fold model support of the larynx model.
US08647122B2	System and method for enhancing prayer and healing rituals Interactive prayer systems are provided, which include a pad that is adapted to be repeatedly stepped upon by a user; a first detection means for detecting when the user steps on the pad; a second detection means for detecting, and for creating proximity event data based upon, when the user is standing in proximity of specific areas within the pad; a communications means for communicating touch event data and proximity event data to a computer and a computer program executing on the computer; a display means connected to the computer, which displays the scripture to the user during prayer; and a notification means embedded in the pad for notifying the user when, and if, an error in the user's performance of the one or more prayer rituals is detected by the computer program. Methods of using such interactive prayer systems are also provided.
US08647121B1	Food item grading Systems and methods of grading food items include a user customizable profile that allows a user to specify nutritional needs, dietary goals, or a medical state. The user profile is used to provide a user specific grade to one or more food items. This grade is configured for a user to compare food items and learn which provides better nutrition according to their profile. The user profile is optionally configured to take into account a medical state such as celiac disease, diabetes, or a nutritional deficiency. A grade can be provided for a single food item or to a list of food items.
US08647119B1	Methods and kits with fluorescent probes for caries detection Methods and kits are provided for identifying carious lesions using a detectable fluorescent probe that binds to the lesion and an optical device. The detectable probe includes a molecule, a stain, a marker, and a dye capable of binding to a caries in the enamel layer of a tooth. The detectable probe is a fluorescent composition, or a bioluminescent composition, that emits a characteristic wavelength of light following illumination at an excitation wavelength.
US08647115B2	Syringes for dispensing multi-component material A syringe for dispensing a multi-component material. The syringe can include a cartridge having a first end and a second end, and respective compartments for components of the multi-component material; a static mixer connected to the first end of the cartridge, the mixer having a dispensing outlet; and a plunger assembly that is movable into the syringe cartridge at the second end to dispense material from the first end. A connection between the static mixer and the first end of the syringe cartridge includes a flow-directing mechanism having a venting position in which the cartridge compartments are cut off from the static mixer and are in communication independently with respective venting outlets, and a dispensing position in which the cartridge compartments are in communication with the static mixer and are cut off from the venting outlets.
US08647109B2	Molded article transfer device A molded article transfer device (150, 250) is described herein that is associated, in use, with an injection mold (100, 200). The molded article transfer device (150, 250) includes a transfer structure (151, 251) that defines, amongst other things, a first aperture (154A) that is structured to receive a first molded article (102A) from a first mold stack (106A, 206A) of the injection mold (100). The transfer structure (151, 251) also defines a first branch channel (156A) and a first trunk channel (158A) through which the first molded article (102A) is passable. The first branch channel (156A) connects the first aperture (154A) with the first trunk channel (158A) for passing, in use, the first molded article (102A) thereto, whereafter it passes through the first trunk channel (158A) towards an exit (164A) thereof.
US08647106B2	Template and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A template formed of an optically-transparent material according to an embodiment includes a contact surface which contacts a resist material, a concave portion for resist pattern formed on the contact surface in which the resist material is filled and cured so as to form a resist pattern part, and a concave portion for alignment mark formed on the contact surface which is used for an optical alignment of the template, includes an opening and a bottom portion and has a shape that an area of the opening is larger than that of the bottom portion or a shape that a depth thereof is deeper than that of the concave portion for resist pattern.
US08647098B2	Liquefier assembly for use in extrusion-based additive manufacturing systems A liquefier assembly for use in an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system, the liquefier assembly comprising a downstream portion having a first average inner cross-sectional area, and an upstream having a second average inner cross-sectional area that is less than the first inner cross-sectional area, the upstream portion defining a shoulder configured to restrict movement of a melt meniscus of a consumable material.
US08647091B2	Stator compacted in one piece A compaction tool is provided for compacting an element from metal powder where the element has uniform axially displaced protrusions, and the tool comprises a die and a top and a bottom punch with punch surfaces. The top and bottom punch comprises displaceable opposing punch surfaces for displacing the metal powder there between before compacting the element. Additionally provided are a method for compacting an element from metal powder and an element made from such a method.
US08647082B2	Fuel pump A fuel pump may include a motor section comprising a rotor and a stator. One of the rotor and the stator may have at least a pair of permanent magnet parts disposed along a first circumferential surface at an interval in a circumferential direction, and at least two magnetic material parts disposed between ends of adjacent permanent magnet parts. The other one of the rotor and the stator may have a first yoke disposed so as to face the permanent magnet parts, wherein a plurality of slots are formed on the first yoke at an interval in the circumferential direction. A surface facing the slots of the magnetic material parts may be shifted, in at least a partial range in the circumferential direction including a permanent magnet part side end where a polarity of a first circumferential surface side is a north pole, from the first circumferential surface in a direction along which a distance to the slots increases.
US08647079B2	Fan assembly A centrifugal fan assembly has a fan with a number of vanes at a peripheral edge of a rotor, a motor, arranged coaxially to the inside of the rotor, that rotates the fan, and a casing that houses the fan and the motor. The casing has an air inlet in the direction of a rotating shaft of the fan, and an air outlet in a radial direction. A first part of the casing near the air inlet is arranged relatively towards a center of the casing as compared to the other part of the casing. The motor is mounted on the first part.
US08647076B2	Multistage compressor installation A multistage compressor installation in which compression stages utilizing centrifugal compressors are independently driven by drivers that can be electric motors configured to be controlled by a speed controller. Intercoolers are located between stages to remove the heat of compression and the stages are connected such that outlets are located opposite to inlets of the compressors and conduits connecting the intercoolers to the stages are in an in-line relationship to inhibit the formation of pressure drops between stages. The conduits connecting the stages incorporate tapered transition sections configured such that flow velocity gradually decreases towards the intercooler and gradually increases from the intercooler to the next succeeding compression stage to further inhibit pressure drops.
US08647073B2	Abrasive single-crystal turbine blade A turbine blade for a turbine rotor, is provided having a single-crystal basic body which has a blade tip and extends in the radial direction. The turbine blade includes at least one oxidation-resistant intermediate coating, which is applied by laser metal forming and is epitaxially bonded to the basic body, is arranged on the radially outer blade tip, and in that an at least single-layer, wear-resistant and oxidation-resistant coating, which is applied by laser metal forming and consists of oxidation-resistant binder material and abrasive particles embedded therein, is arranged on at least certain regions of said epitaxial intermediate coating.
US08647069B2	Optimized aerodynamic profile for a turbine blade, in particular for a rotary wheel of the fourth stage of a turbine When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y,Z′ given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Z′ is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.
US08647065B2	Service lift in wind turbines An elevator system for a wind turbine is provided. The elevator system comprises a suspension device and an elevator car. The elevator car is suspended to the suspension device wherein the suspension device is mountable to a mounting section of a nacelle of the wind turbine.
US08647063B2	Multi-element blade with aerodynamic profiles Provided is a multi-element rotor blade, including a primary element and at least one complimentary element, each having an aerodynamic profile. The primary element is joined by fastening elements to the at least one complimentary element such that the at least one complimentary element is adjacent to the primary element in a chordwise direction perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the blade and perpendicular to a longitudinal length of the blade. The at least one complimentary element is disposed closer to a blade root end of the primary element than to an opposite end of the primary element.
US08647059B1	Pneumatic actuator system for a rotating blade A pneumatic actuator system to provide for actuation of a device on a rotor blade. A high pressure volume unit mounted on the rotor blade, including an air inlet to allow entrance of air into the high pressure volume. At least one actuator on the rotor blade to actuate a device on the rotor blade, where the at least one actuator is connected to the high pressure volume to receive air from the high pressure volume for actuation. An air release unit connected to the at least one actuator to allow release of air from the at least one actuator. An air control unit connected to the high pressure volume unit to control air flow into the at least one actuator and is connected to the air release unit to control release of air from the at least one actuator.
US08647052B2	Arrangement comprising a shaft seal A shaft seal for sealing a gap between a shaft and a casing is provided. The shaft seal includes a plurality of sealing modules, at least one fluid supply and one fluid drain, and a first main seal on which a major partial pressure difference occurs. Conventional shaft seals of the above type require significant amounts of additional barrier fluid in regular intervals to ensure suitable pressure gradients. In the presently proposed shaft seal, the first main seal is designed as a radial double seal which is defined by two gas seals having respective rotating sealing surfaces and stationary sealing surfaces, the pair of sealing surfaces being opposite each other in a respective sealing plane. The sealing planes extend in a substantially radial manner relative to the shaft.
US08647048B2	Flexible seal for gas turbine engine system A system includes a gas turbine engine, a nozzle structure located adjacent to the gas turbine engine, a flexible annular seal linking the gas turbine engine and the nozzle structure, the flexible annular seal having a plurality of corrugate sections, and a reinforcement member positioned between two of the plurality of corrugate sections.
US08647043B2	Hand truck A hand truck has a frame, at least one wheel which is mounted to the frame at a lower part of the frame, at least one holding magnet for holding an object which, at least in part, has a magnetic or magnetizable outer surface, and a release mechanism mounted to the frame. The release mechanism has a release member movably mounted to the frame of the hand truck. The at least one holding magnet is attached to the release member. The release member is mounted to the frame of the hand truck such that the at least one holding magnet can be pulled backwards while the object rests against the frame, thereby providing a damage free release of the object.
US08647042B2	Glass cutting line with integral offal storage and retrieval system and method A glass cutting line includes a cutting table having a movable cutting head cutting glass work pieces on the table and a conveyor for moving glass work pieces onto and off of the cutting table The line includes a loader adjacent the cutting table having a loader table, a loader table conveyor, and a table loader unit receiving and delivering glass work pieces to the loader table. The loader table conveyor transports the glass work pieces to the cutting table. The line includes a cassette work piece storage and retrieval unit positioned vertically below the loader table when the loader table is positioned to transport the glass work pieces to the cutting table. The cassette work piece storage and retrieval unit receives work pieces from the cutting table and delivers work pieces to the cutting table from any of a plurality of storage locations.
US08647039B2	System for loading and unloading loose cargo in a cargo hold, preferably of a plane, and intermediate conveyor means or conveyor unit herefor The present invention concerns a system for loading and unloading loose cargo, such as preferably pieces of luggage or the like, in a cargo hold of a plane, including conveying the loose cargo towards the inner end of the cargo hold during loading, or away from it during unloading, and including transport of the loose cargo between the level of the tarmac and the cargo hold opening. The loose cargo may during loading be conveyed into the fuselage in a direction transversal to the longitudinal axis of the plane and also in the longitudinal direction of the plane, and deposited, in the cargo hold. Loose cargo conveyed back into the plane of the cargo hold opening during unloading may be conveyed off transversely to the longitudinal axis of the plane through the cargo hold opening. Moreover the invention proposes intermediate conveyor means herefor.
US08647038B2	Fastener with shaving inhibitor A fastener with shaving inhibitor for fastening a material such as a metal sheeting panel to a substrate such as metal or wood. The fastener has a notch angled leftwardly with respect to an axis of the fastener, the notch having a first end and a second end, a leading face and a trailing face, each face having outer edges and a common edge at their intersection. At least one of the leading and trailing faces may be substantially planar but may have other shapes, such as concave. Leftwardly angled notch with faces having outer edges may attract and then cut shavings formed from material being installed, thereby reducing the quantity and/or length of shavings, prolonging the life of the material or the structure to which the material is fastened.
US08647033B2	Tool for machining a work piece and method for machining a work piece The invention relates to a machine tool for machining a work piece having a main spindle unit with a preferably vertical spindle axis, and a machining spindle unit, particularly a hobbing spindle unit that is arranged next to the spindle axis in a direction crosswise to the spindle axis to accommodate a machining tool, with said machining spindle unit being displaceable along a first guiding direction, in particular vertically (Z) by means of a first guide and crosswise, preferably perpendicularly (X) or approximately perpendicularly displaceable to the first guiding direction, particularly the vertical, by means of a second guide, can advance to a work piece clamped in the main spindle unit, and can swivel around a swivel axis (B), preferably perpendicularly to the spindle axis (A) of the machining spindle unit, and with the machining tool having an arbitrary number of helically arranged machining elements, in particular a single- or multi-threaded generating means, adapted to execute generating teeth manufacturing methods.
US08647030B2	Core drilling system with torque shaft A core drilling system is disclosed herein in which a torque tube has a groove or keyway which receives a rotating wheel or key to prevent a transmission box and motor from rotating during drilling operation. As such, the operator does not need to hold a stabilizing arm to resist counter rotational forces during the drilling process. The operator may focus on the hole to be cut in a substrate. Additionally, a torque tube stabilizing leg assembly may be secured to the free distal end portion of the torque tube.
US08647029B2	Cutting tool and method for extracting cutting insert therefrom A cutting tool used for grooving and turning has a cutting insert removably secured in a holder blade. The cutting insert includes an insert passage having an insert passage axis, and the holder blade includes a holder passage having holder passage axis. When the cutting insert is resiliently clamped in the holding portion and located in a rearmost position, a passage plane containing the holder and insert passage axes forms a first angle with a main plane, perpendicular to the insert longitudinal axis and containing the insert passage center point, where the first angle is less than or equal to 60°. The cutting insert can be extracted from the cutting tool by positioning first and second engagement portions of an extraction key simultaneously in the holder and insert passages, respectively, and rotating the extraction key.
US08647016B2	Submarine pipeline towing equipment, system and process A submarine pipeline towing equipment including: a floater of prismatic shape with a horizontal or vertical axis, with a variable or partially variable buoyancy, whose lower base is at least partially open by an opening or hole to operate as an air chamber. The floater includes: at least one inlet including a valve through which air is supplied; at least one outlet including a valve through which air is discharged; an actuator to control the valve to supply air; an actuator to control the valve to discharge air; a mechanism connecting the equipment to the pipeline; a mechanism transferring air to the floater; a mechanism actuating the actuator to control the valve to supply air in function of a predefined level in the floater; and a mechanism actuating the actuator to control the valve to discharge air in function of the distance of the floater itself from the seabed.
US08647009B2	Securing member A securing member includes a flat base portion, a flat top board portion which is supported by a pair of top board supporting portions erected on the base portion, a long hole which penetrates through the top board portion and of which both ends are closed, a bolt having a head which does not pass through the long hole, and of which shaft is inserted through the long hole in a state where the head is located lower than the top board portion and is to be inserted through a supporting hole provided on a supporting member of a solar battery module, a head insertion hole through which the head of the bolt passes, penetrates through the top board portion, and communicates with the long hole, securing holes which are located on a line obtained by projecting a center line of the long hole, and penetrate through the base portion.
US08647007B2	Pump toothbrush with integrated dentifrice dispensing platform and disposable bristle head Pump toothbrush comprising a pump head, a refillable cartridge containing dentifrice material, an integrated dispensing platform and a disposable bristle head. The pump head includes an inlet connector for attaching the cartridge, a pumping chamber attached with an elastic compressible button, and a dispensing platform. The dispensing platform contains a flow channel and a self-sealing slit-spout to prevent drying of the dentifrice material at the spout. The slit spout opens and closes automatically when the compressible button is pressed and released. The bristle head, which is the disposable part of the pump toothbrush, is attached to the dispensing platform for structural support and receiving the dentifrice material from the slit spout. Gum-guard elements are optionally attached to the periphery of the dispensing platform for massaging gums.
US08647002B2	Label printing apparatus A label printing apparatus comprising a cassette receiving bay arranged to receive a cassette; and an engagement member. The engagement member is movable between a first position, in which the engagement member is engaged with the cassette, and a second position in which the engagement member is disengaged with the cassette.
US08646999B2	Pressure sensitive key normalization Pressure sensitive key techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a device includes at least one pressure sensitive key having a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, the flexible contact layer configured to flex responsive to pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input, for a computing device, associated with the pressure sensitive key. At least one of the flexible contact layer or the sensor substrate are configured to at least partially normalize an output resulting from pressure applied at a first location of the flexible contact layer with an output resulting from pressure applied at a second location of the flexible contact layer that has lesser flexibility than the first location.
US08646998B2	Core holding structure and printer A core holding structure includes a shaft portion in which a core for winding thereon a strip-shaped material is inserted and by which the core is rotationally driven. A roller is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft portion. The roller is configured to make contact with an inner circumferential surface of the core inserted in the shaft portion and rotate in a direction in which the core is attached to or detached from the shaft portion. The core holding structure further includes an elastic member configured to hold the roller and bias the roller radially outwards from the shaft portion when pressed toward the surface of the shaft portion.
US08646980B2	Bearing shell segment for internal combustion engines of vehicles A bearing shell segment for internal combustion engines, composed of a body defining an inner surface that receives a coating and makes contact with a layer of lubricant oil film and an opposite outer surface, associable to a bearing, an inner surface having at least a first area substantially free from the compression load coming from the movement of the piston by the explosion of air-fuel mixture, and a second area which receives compression load coming from the movement of the piston by the explosion of air-fuel mixture. The first area has at least a surface portion to capture foreign particles present in the layer of lubricant oil film, the surface portion having cavities positioned so as to enable at least one foreign particle to be captured and withheld while moving towards the flow of lubricant oil, before reaching the second area.
US08646979B2	Hybrid hydro (air) static multi-recess journal bearing Multi-recess hydrostatic journal bearings support a rotating shaft and have inclined surfaces, each inclined surface forming a variable radial gap with the surface of the shaft, the variable gaps converging in the direction of rotation of the shaft to increase hydrodynamic forces, reduce a turbulent component of shear friction, and improve the thermal stability of the journal bearing. The inclined surfaces can be formed in one or more of portions of recess bottoms in recesses, portions of gap lands surrounding recesses, and portions of an inner surface of a bushing.
US08646976B2	Auto-centering structural bearing An auto-centering structural bearing transfers vertical loads to a supporting structure while preventing transfer of lateral loads. In one embodiment, the structural bearing includes: parallel lower, middle, and upper bearing plates; a lower roller bed sandwiched between the lower and middle bearing plates and laterally displaceable in a first direction; an upper roller bed sandwiched between the middle and upper bearing plates and laterally displaceable in a second direction; lower centering means including springs compressible by lateral displacement of the middle bearing plate and the lower roller bed in the first direction; and upper centering means comprising springs compressible by lateral displacement of the upper bearing plate and the upper roller bed in the second direction. Upon removal of loads causing such lateral displacements, the springs will rebound to their unstressed states, thereby returning the displaced bearing plates and roller beds to their centered positions.
US08646974B2	Bulk packaging multi-wall sack and apparatus for manufacturing the sack An as-manufactured multi-wall sack that comprises an inner pouch 5 and an outer bag 7 is disclosed. The sack has a top end that (a) is open in the as-manufactured form of the sack so that the sack can be filled with product via the open end and (b) is formed so that it can be closed to form a top block end. The as-manufactured form of the sack comprises pressure adhesive that connects together the inner pouch and the outer bag at the open top end of the sack. The as-manufactured form of the sack also comprises heat-activated adhesive on sections of the outer bag that adhere to other sections of the outer bag as part of the sequence of steps to close the outer bag. An apparatus and a method for closing the as-manufactured sack are also disclosed.
US08646972B2	Zipper tape and packaging bag with zipper tape A seal base, which is thicker than a thick portion and is bondable to an inner surface of a bag body, is continuously connected to one of belt-like bases of a zipper tape via a belt-like cutting portion that is thinner than the thick portion and separates a containing space from an outside. A first linking portion having a first corner (a) is defined by a cutting outer surface of the cutting portion and a seal outer continuous surface of the seal base. A second linking portion having a second corner (b) is defined by a contained cutting surface of the cutting portion and a contained seal continuous surface of the seal base.
US08646967B2	Enhanced reel for agricultural mixer A mixing apparatus includes a hopper, a reel, and at least one auger. The hopper defines first and second chambers. The first chamber is disposed adjacent to the second chamber. The reel is disposed within the first chamber. The reel includes first and second hubs configured to rotate and at least one connecting member connecting the first hub to the second hub. The at least one auger is disposed in the second chamber. The first and second hubs rotate about a common axis of rotation. No connecting member connects a center of the first hub to a center of the second hub along the axis of rotation. An attachment point between each connecting member and the first hub is circumferentially offset with respect to an attachment point between the same connecting member and the second hub.
US08646963B2	Light emitting apparatus and light unit having the same Provides are a light emitting apparatus and a light unit having the same. The light emitting apparatus comprises a light emitting device comprising a light emitting element and a plurality of external leads, and a plurality of electrode pads under the light emitting device.
US08646959B2	Laser light source A laser light source includes a laser element that outputs a fundamental wave; a wavelength conversion element to which the fundamental wave is input and that wavelength-converts at least a portion of the input fundamental wave to a converted wave having a wavelength shorter than the fundamental wave; a first waveguide that guides an output wave from the wavelength conversion element; a second waveguide that attenuates and guides a component of the fundamental wave included in the output wave from the first waveguide; a diffraction grating that is formed in the first waveguide and locks a wavelength or a frequency of the fundamental wave output from the laser element by feeding back the fundamental wave output from the wavelength conversion element.
US08646958B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device capable of adjusting height difference between the light emitters and optical waveguides individually and easily with high accuracy is realized. The light emitting device comprises multiple light emitters; an optical multiplexer comprising the openings of multiple optical waveguides at the incidence end for light from the multiple light emitters and the opening of an optical waveguide combining said multiple optical waveguides at the light exit end; and multiple drivers driving said multiple light emitters, respectively, along the tilt direction of a surface tilted at a given angle with respect to the surface on which said optical waveguides are formed, wherein said light emitters are provided at an angle that makes the central axes of light from said light emitters in the light emission direction parallel to the surface on which said optical waveguides are formed.
US08646957B2	Vehicle mini lamp A low profile vehicle lamp assembly includes a housing having a top end, body with an interior portion and a lens portion covering the top end. The housing is adapted to fit within an opening in a surface such that the lens portion is substantially flush with the surface and the body is positioned behind the surface. In addition, circuitry is disposed within the interior portion of the housing and at least one light source is electrically connected to the circuitry.
US08646956B2	Vehicle lighting device with at least two semiconductor light-emitting elements A vehicle lighting device having at least two semiconductor light-emitting elements may include at least a first light-emitting element group and a second light-emitting element group, each having at least one semiconductor light-emitting element, the light-emitting element groups being selectively drivable and the first light-emitting element group having at least a foglight function, the first light-emitting element group and the second light-emitting element group having a daytime running light function.
US08646953B2	Light guiding body and light emitting device A light guiding body of this invention comprises a light incident surface arranged on one end side of a light guide member, a light reflecting surface arranged on another end side of the light guide member opposite to the light incident surface across the light guide member, and a light emitting surface, arranged on a side surface of the light guide member between the light incident surface and the light reflecting surface, through which light input from the light incident surface into the light guide member passes to outside, in which the light guide member is formed as a solid body and at least a part of the light guide member is made from light scattering guide material which contains light scattering particles.
US08646952B2	Ride-on mower having headlight A ride-on mower with a mower unit attached to a frame unit includes a headlight housing extending in a transverse direction of the vehicle body over the width of the frame unit and fixed to the frame unit forwardly of a front end of the mower deck. A right and left pair of headlight units are housed in the headlight housing. Light passage portions are formed in opposite end portions of the headlight housing for directing light coming from each of the headlight unit to the side and/or to the rear toward a direction of the front end of the mower deck.
US08646943B2	Tower-shaped LED module The present invention discloses a tower-shaped LED module that comprises a base, at least three LED panels mounted on the base and a bracket used to support the LED panels, wherein the LED panels are fixed on the bracket to form a pyramid. The present invention solves the traditional problem of the LED panels not secured firmly or shifting around easily. To fix the LED panels on the designed bracket, first slide each LED panel upward into sliding slots. Then insert each electrode pin of the LED panels into a corresponding pin hole in the base. Next put a screw though the base and fasten it to a supporting rod. At last solder the electrode pins of the LED panels to a printed circuit board on the bottom surface of the base. The whole assembly process is very simple and the assembled LED panels have good stability.
US08646930B2	Backlight module and display device thereof A backlight module and a display device including the backlight module are provided. The backlight module includes a reflective plate and a plurality of light sources, wherein the reflective plate has a reflective surface and the light sources are disposed on the reflective surface generating light in a direction away from the reflective surface. The reflecting surface includes a plurality of low reflection portions, wherein the reflectivity of the low reflection portion is lower than the reflectivity of other positions on the reflective surface. The low reflection portions are disposed between the light source and adjacent light sources.
US08646929B2	Backlight unit and display apparatus using the same Disclosed are a backlight unit and a display apparatus using the same. The backlight unit includes first and second reflectors, a light source module, an optical member spaced apart from the second reflector, a first cover to come into contact with the second reflector and optical member, a second cover coupled to the first cover to support the light source module, and a third cover coupled to the first and second covers. The first cover includes a bottom plate, first lateral plates facing each other with respect to a first direction, second lateral plates facing each other in a second direction, a first coupling portion disposed at each first lateral plate and coupled to the second cover, a second coupling portion disposed at each second lateral plate and coupled to the optical member, and a third coupling portion disposed at each second lateral plate and coupled to the third cover.
US08646925B2	Solar simulator A solar simulator includes a light source, an optical reflection element positioned behind the light source to reflect light emitted from the light source in a form of pseudo parallel light, a low-angle light-diffusion optical element for diffusing the reflected light from the optical reflection element at a low diffusion angle, and a parallel light conversion optical element including a number of air holes arranged in parallel rows and provided with faculties for transmitting incident light parallel to the axis of the air holes to absorb or attenuate nonparallel incident light. The parallel light conversion optical element converts the incident light from the low-angle light-diffusion optical element to parallel light and emits the converted parallel light.
US08646916B2	System for characterizing a cornea and obtaining an opthalmic lens A system for determining the shape of a cornea of an eye illuminates at least one of the interior surface, the posterior surface, and the interior region of the eye with infrared light of a wavelength that can generate fluorescent light from the portion of the cornea illuminated. The generated fluorescent light is then detected. A step of illuminating can comprise focusing the infrared light in a plurality of different planes substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the eye. From the detected light it is possible to create a map of at least a portion of the interior surface, at least a portion of the posterior surface, and/or portion of the interior region of the cornea. Clarity of vision can be determined by generating autofluorescence from proteins in the pigment epithelial cells of the retina.
US08646914B2	Adaptive optics apparatus that corrects aberration of examination object and image taking apparatus including adaptive optics apparatus An adaptive optics apparatus includes a first light modulating unit configured to perform modulation in a polarization direction of one of two polarized light components in light emitted from a light source, a changing unit configured to rotate the light modulated by the first light modulating unit by 90 degrees, a second light modulating unit configured to modulate the light changed by the changing unit in the polarization direction, and an irradiating unit configured to irradiate a measurement object with the light modulated by the second light modulating unit.
US08646910B1	Vision training method and apparatus The present invention concerns a method and device for the training of human vision. In particular, the invention involves the use of multimodal stimulation and principles of biofeedback to aid in the detection of visual targets. The intended population to benefit from this device are those who have experienced stroke or compromise to areas of the visual system responsible for conscious sight. Such patients may show either visual inattention or partial to complete blindness in both eyes. Biofeedback is also used to assist in training of sight.
US08646908B2	Rotationally stabilized contact lenses and methods for their design The invention provides dual stabilization zones that interact with an individual's eyelids so that at least the upper eyelid strikes both stabilization zones of a lens at the same time. The stabilized lenses of the invention maintain their on-eye orientation better as compared to conventionally stabilized lenses.
US08646906B2	Image recording device and image recording method An image recording device includes a conveying part that conveys a portion of a medium to an image recording area, a recording part that records an image on the medium positioned in the image recording area, a medium support part that supports the medium positioned in the image recording area on a support surface provided with openings of suction holes and that heats the medium, a suction part that suctions the medium supported on the medium support part via the suction holes, and a control part that repeatedly performs a conveying action and a recording action, and that suctions the medium supported on the medium support part after the next conveying action and before the recording action when a period from the previous conveying action until the next conveying action is equal to or greater than a predetermined period that is longer than the period required by the recording action.
US08646899B2	Methods and apparatus for ink drying Ink drying methods and apparatus are disclosed. One example ink drying apparatus includes a resistive heating element having a first power dissipation density adjacent to a center region of a print media travel path and a second power dissipation density adjacent to an edge region of the print media travel path, wherein the first and second power densities are not equal.
US08646897B2	Image forming method Provided is a method for forming an image using an ink-jet recording method which forms the image with a single pass printing method employing an ink comprising water in an amount of 20 to 90 weight % based on the total weight of the ink, a pigment and a water soluble resin containing an acidic group which is neutralized with ammonia or an amine compound, the method containing the steps of: applying a processing solution on a coated paper for printing; and ejecting droplets of the ink on the coated paper for printing, wherein the processing solution is capable of aggregating an ingredient of the ink or increasing a viscosity of the ink, and the coated paper for printing is heated from 40 to 60° C. during the step of ejecting the droplets of the ink.
US08646882B2	Drop placement error reduction in electrostatic printer Drop formation devices are provided with drop formation waveforms to modulate liquid jets to cause portions of the liquid jets to form print drops having a jet breakoff length Lp in a print drop breakoff length range Rp and non-print drops having a jet breakoff length Lnp in a non-print drop breakoff length range Rnp. A timing delay device shifts the timing of the waveforms supplied to drop formation devices of first and second nozzle groups so that print drops formed from first and second nozzle groups are not aligned relative to each other. A charging device includes a charge electrode that is positioned relative to the breakoff length Lp and breakoff length Lnp such that there is a difference in electric field strength at the two breakoff lengths to produce a print drop charge state on print drops and a non-print drop charge state on non-print drops.
US08646876B2	Stream printing method A printing method includes providing a print head. The print head includes a valve and at least one orifice. Fluid is ejected from the orifice in a generally continuous stream. The fluid includes a conductive material. The fluid is deposited in a pattern on a substrate to form an electrically conductive deposit. At least a portion of the pattern includes a generally straight line.
US08646873B2	Ink jet recording apparatus There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus including: first cleaning which performs non-recording ejection of ink for ink jet recording to an ink receiving medium and cleans a nozzle and a nozzle surface of a print head; second cleaning which moves the print head to the ink receiving medium, performs non-recording ejection of the ink for ink jet recording from the print head to the ink receiving medium under a condition that the amount of the ink for ink jet recording is smaller than an amount of the ink ejected in the non-recording ejection by the first cleaning and an execution frequency is higher than that in the first cleaning, and cleans the nozzle of the print head; and a wiping mechanism which wipes the nozzle surface by using a wiping member.
US08646859B2	Printer system, and connectable devices and printer used in the same A printer-side controller of a printer repeats transmission of connection confirmation data while response data is received in response to the connection confirmation data. A device-side controller of the connectable device forward the connection confirmation data which is received after transmission of the response data to another connectable device connected thereto. Further, when the printer-side controller confirms connection with any of the plurality of connectable devices by receiving the response data, the device-side controller of the connectable device for which the connection is confirmed stores in the device-side identifier storage memory the identifier corresponding to the position of the connectable device, which is stored in the printer-side identifier storage memory of the printer.
US08646857B2	Refrigerator and/or freezer A refrigerator and/or freezer has at least one door or flap, by which the appliance interior can be closed, with at least one supporting tray disposed in the appliance interior and with at least one first and at least one second transport lock, wherein the first transport lock is configured and arranged such that its front side adjoins the supporting tray and it adjoins the second transport lock at least when the door or flap is closed.
US08646852B2	Hydraulic braking arrangement for a trailer A hydraulic arrangement for braking a trailer comprises a brake line connected between a brake system of a trailer and a trailer brake valve. The trailer brake valve is activated via a first control-pressure line which extends between the brake line and the trailer brake valve and via a second control-pressure line which extends between the trailer brake valve and a control-pressure source and acts in opposition to the pressure imposed on the trailer brake valve by the first control-pressure line. An adjustable pressure-reducing means for controlling the control pressure in the second control-pressure line is arranged in the second control-pressure line. It is proposed to design the control-pressure source as part of a hydraulic control of a brake system of a traction vehicle drawing the trailer and to force the pressure-reducing means mechanically into an open basic position by means of an adjustable prestressing force.
US08646847B2	Manhole remover A device and system for removing structures embedded in surrounding material is disclosed. Embodiments include a powered, expandable clamp attached to a rotating cutting tool for removing manholes from roadways. Select embodiments include anchoring a clamp to a manhole and using the manhole itself as leverage to move a cutting device through the surrounding material. Alternate embodiments allow an operator, working alone from a control station, to secure the manhole remover to the manhole, cut through the surrounding roadway, remove the manhole, and deposit the manhole at another location without requiring the operator to leave the control station. Further embodiments optionally include a depth gauge indicating the penetration depth of the cutting tool, an indicator reflecting the expanded state of the clamp, a pendulum mount allowing the clamp and drum to vertically orient using gravity, and/or the ability to attach to a host machine, such as a skid-steer loader.
US08646843B2	Assembly apparatus for modular components especially for upholstered furniture A connector assembly is used to connect subassemblies such as parts of a knockdown or modular sofa or similar item of furniture. The furniture item can be an upholstered item in which the multiple components are stackable into a volume that is smaller than the assembled item of furniture for shipping. The connector assembly includes a keyhole slot on a frame member in one component and a male connector assembly on a frame member in the other assembly. The male connector includes a sleeve with a cylindrical shank and an adjacent enlarged or conical portion, and the sleeve, which may be plastic, is mounted the bolt. The narrow section of the keyhole slot has a beveled surface and as the sleeve progresses into the narrow section, engagement of the conical sleeve section with the beveled slot surface tightens the two members being attached.
US08646842B2	Salon chair having positionable support A novel salon chair having a salon chair portion with a seat portion elevated above a floor surface on a support portion and a seat back portion. The novel salon chair also having one or both of: a side wing extended from the seat back portion adjacent to at least one of two opposite sides thereof and a top edge thereof, with the side wing being extended substantially over the seat portion; and an adjustable headrest structured for supporting a head of an occupant of the salon chair from falling.
US08646835B2	Systems and methods for portable furniture The present invention relates to lightweight collapsible portable chairs. In one embodiment, the portable chair has a sling and a chair frame which includes a first pair of bars and a second pair of bars. Each bar of the first pair of bars includes a joint configured to contact a ground surface. In another embodiment, the chair frame includes a front of bars, a back pair of bars, a pair of joints and a center bar configured to securely couple the pair of back joints to each other. In some embodiments, the chair frame includes a front support assembly. In other embodiments, the chair frame includes a pair of lower bars.
US08646831B2	Mounting structure for an automotive exterior member A mounting structure for an automotive exterior member includes a mounting portion projecting from a rear side of a lower garnish so that a clip engaged by an outer panel of a tailgate is retained by the mounting portion. The mounting portion includes a base end portion on the side of the main body of the lower garnish and a projecting end portion on the side of the outer panel connected to the base end portion via a connecting portion which ruptures at the time of a crash at the lower garnish. The base end portion and the projecting portion are displaced along the projecting direction at the time of a crash. Therefore, a non-serious crash does not cause the base end portion to abut the outer panel or the projecting end portion to abut the main body of the lower garnish, and damage is limited to the deformation of the exterior member.
US08646827B2	Vehicle interior assembly A vehicle interior assembly includes a vehicle interior part and a trim panel. The vehicle interior part includes at least two mounting sections defining at least two mounting openings extending therethrough. The trim panel includes at least two projections extending through the at least two mounting openings of the vehicle interior part from a backside surface of the trim panel, respectively, one of the projections having an attachment portion that retains the trim panel on the vehicle interior part in an installed position. One of the projections includes a restricting portion spaced from the mounting section of the vehicle interior part by a first prescribed deployment distance with the trim panel in the installed position. The restricting portion is configured to contact a corresponding one of the mounting sections of the vehicle interior part and retain the trim panel from being completely detached from the vehicle interior part.
US08646821B2	Collapsible scoop and scraper A device for scraping a surface and scooping items from the surface incorporates a body, a handle, a blade and a scoop. The body has a proximal portion, a distal portion and a central portion that fixedly couples the proximal portion with respect to the distal portion. The handle is located at the proximal portion of the body, and is adapted to be held by a user and to facilitate single-handed manipulation of the device by the user. The blade is located at the distal portion of the body, and is oriented to project outward from the body. The scoop is coupled to the central portion of the body, the scoop having a sidewall adapted to be folded in at least one location such that the sidewall can be expanded to form a scoop having a hollow portion for receiving the items, and can be collapsed by folding the sidewall such that the scoop is roughly the same thickness as other portions of the body.
US08646811B1	Quick connector A quick connector includes a socket-shaped main body, and penetrating containing holes formed around the periphery of the main body for containing a first latch element for fixing an external tool connector. The first latch element is controlled by a first control element to fix or loosen the external tool connector. The main body includes aslant penetrating U-shaped slide grooves formed above the containing holes, and each slide groove includes a second latch element pushed by a spring that is sheathed on the periphery of the main body to displace the second latch element in the slide groove and in an axial direction of the main body. The second control element is disposed above the first control element, and the first and second control elements control the latch elements respectively to execute two-stage actions of removing the connector and prevent accidents caused by a possible shootout of the connector.
US08646783B2	Flat gasket In order to provide a flat gasket comprising at least one gasket sheet, which comprises at least one through-opening and at least one sealing bead, which extends around the through-opening and is delimited at the side facing the through-opening by an inner bead foot, and at the side remote from the through-opening by an outer bead foot, and at least one deformation-limiting device, which comprises at least one stopper element disposed on a stopper-supporting surface of the gasket sheet, in which flat gasket the effective stopper height of the stopper element may easily be set to a value that differs from the thickness of the stopper element, the stopper-supporting surface is shifted in a direction extending at right angles to the stopper-supporting surface by an offset.
US08646776B2	Image forming apparatus with reversely-rotatable roller of differential velocities A reversely-rotatable roller conveys a sheet having an image formed on its one side at a sheet conveying velocity faster than that of a conveying roller by normal rotation and then, the reversely-rotatable roller conveys the sheet to a re-conveying path by reverse rotation. The sheet conveying velocity of the reversely-rotatable roller when the reversely-rotatable roller reversely rotates is made slower than the sheet conveying velocity when the reversely-rotatable roller normally rotates so that the sheet conveying velocity of the re-conveying roller is substantially equal to or slower than the sheet conveying velocity of the conveying roller.
US08646772B2	Sheet feeder and image forming system A sheet feeder is disclosed for feeding sheets from a stack by one sheet in a sheet feeding direction, the one sheet being an uppermost sheet of the sheet stack. The sheet feeder includes: a sheet stacker for accommodating the sheet stack therein; a side fence to regulate side ends of the sheets and movable in a direction perpendicular to the sheet feeding direction; a slide shaft arranged in the side fence and extending in a vertical direction; a link member that swings as the side fence moves, a first end of the link member configured to be slidable along the slide shaft, and a second end of the link member configured to be pivotable about a pivot point, which is arranged on a side wall of the sheet stacker at a position lower than the first end; and a swing stopper unit that stops swing of the link member.
US08646770B2	Card substrate rotator with lift mechanism A card substrate rotator comprises a substrate support, a rotator mechanism and a lift mechanism. The substrate support is configured to receive a card substrate and comprises a feed roller. The rotator mechanism is configured to rotate the substrate support about an axis. The lift mechanism is configured to move the substrate support and the axis in a vertical plane.
US08646769B2	Printing apparatus, method for controlling printing apparatus, program, and storage medium A printing apparatus performs printing with the use of sheets of paper set in any of a plurality of paper-feeding units. The print apparatus is controlled by a method including: determining whether the amount of sheets of paper remaining in a first paper-feeding unit has reached a predetermined amount; and if so switching from the first paper-feeding unit to a second paper-feeding unit. If it is determined that the amount of sheets of paper that remain in the first paper-feeding unit has reached the predetermined amount, control is performed so that the paper-feeding unit that is used for printing should be changed after the ejection of the last one of a plurality of sheets of paper that are included in one set thereof set in the first paper-feeding unit.
US08646767B2	Device for holding wafer shaped articles A device for holding wafer-shaped articles, such as semiconductor wafers, is equipped with a series of pins that are brought into contact with a peripheral edge of the wafer-shaped article, under control of a common gear ring or a series of conjointly operated gear sectors. In the regions of the gear ring or gear sectors engaging the pin assemblies, those elements are designed to yield more readily than other regions of the gear ring or gear sectors, to accommodate differential thermal expansion of the chuck components in the vicinity of the pin assemblies.
US08646762B2	Extension spring installation mechanism A spring installation mechanism includes a bracket fixed against displacement, a spring that extends along an axis and includes first and second ends, the second end being fixed against displacement, a retainer secured to the first end and including helical threads, and a screw including a shank having helical threads engaged with the threads of the retainer, axial displacement of the screw toward the retainer limited by contact with the bracket, said contact permitting rotary displacement of the screw relative to the retainer and the spring.
US08646759B2	Microbubble therapy method and generating apparatus A micro bubble generating system includes a shell having a well for retaining a first liquid to immerse an object. A micro bubble apparatus is provide to the shell for providing a pressurized mixture of a second liquid and a dissolved gas into the well so as to create a plurality of micro bubbles within the first liquid for engaging the object. One method of using micro bubbles includes providing a fluid mixture, including a saturated gas, to a fluid chamber connected a fitting; and producing a plurality of micro bubbles into a fluid. Another method of using micro bubbles includes providing a fluid mixture, including a saturated gas, into an air entrapment chamber; and producing a plurality of micro bubbles into a fluid.
US08646757B1	Submersible aeration pump A submersible aeration pump includes a motor housing, an air inlet conduit carried by the motor housing, a pump motor in the motor housing, a rotatable armature drivingly engaged by the pump motor and disposed in air communication with the air inlet conduit and at least one air discharge conduit carried by and disposed in air communication with the armature. Air is drawn from the air inlet conduit, through at least a portion of the armature and is discharged from the at least one air discharge conduit, respectively, by centrifugal force responsive to operation of the pump motor.
US08646744B2	Structural frame for a turbomachine A structural frame for a turbomachine, such as an intermediate frame or an exhaust frame, the frame including at least two coaxial rings, an inner ring and an outer ring, together with radial arms interconnecting the rings. At least one of these elements includes a plurality of parts that are fastened together by bolting.
US08646736B2	Holding device for an electronic device According to one aspect, the subject application involves a holding device for an electronic device. The holding device includes a first clip adapted to cooperate with a peripheral portion of the electronic device. A second clip opposes the first clip and is separated from the first clip by a first distance. The second clip is adapted to cooperate with a separate peripheral portion of the electronic device. A substantially-elastic band is provided to extend between the first clip and the second clip, and a back plate is at least partially disposed between the first clip and the second clip.
US08646731B2	Workpiece support assembly A workpiece support assembly includes workpiece supporting roller assemblies each including a roller rotatably attached to an end of a swing arm. The roller assemblies are mounted to a frame forming a space between the rollers. A workpiece is positioned within the space and is supported in rolling contact by the rollers for rotation about its long axis. The space between the rollers is increased or decreased to support workpieces of various diameters by rotating the swing arms. The position of the rollers, and thus the distance therebetween are maintained or held by a swing arm lock that engages each swing arm and restrains the swing arms against rotation.
US08646720B2	Modular flight vehicle with wings The invention is a modular vehicle having an air vehicle that can be coupled to cargo containers, land vehicles, sea vehicles, medical transport modules, etc. In one embodiment the air vehicle has a plurality of propellers positioned around a main airframe, which can provide vertical thrust and/or horizontal thrust. The propellers are mounted on supports which have an airfoil shape to generate additional lift. One or more of the propellers may be configured to tilt forward, backward, and/or side-to-side with respect to the airframe.
US08646715B2	Attachment for rotary material processing machines A material processing machine with a rotating element positioned within a hopper for receiving materials to be processed, the rotating element including an outer edge to which one or more attachments may be mounted. The attachments include a forward edge extending generally forward with respect to the direction of rotation of the rotating element and extending outward from the outer edge of the rotating element. A rotating element for use in a material processing machine has either attachments mounted to an outer edge or integrally formed extensions along an outer edge. The extensions or attachments including a forward edge that extends generally forward with respect to the direction of rotation of the rotating element.
US08646713B2	Gyratory crusher having a seal arrangement A gyratory crusher, including an outer crushing shell and an inner crushing shell forming between them a crushing chamber, the crushing chamber communicating with a discharge zone that forwards crushed material from the crushing chamber and out of the crusher. The inner crushing shell is supported on a crushing head. The outer crushing shell is supported on a crusher frame. At least one sealing arrangement is between the discharge zone and a working part zone in which at least one bearing for the crushing head to perform a gyratory movement relative to the crusher frame is arranged. The sealing arrangement includes a sealing surface, and a sealing member arranged to seal against the sealing surface and including an inner circumferential flexible sealing lip, an outer circumferential flexible sealing lip and at least one inlet for pressurized fluid to be supplied to an overpressure zone arranged between the inner and outer sealing lips and the sealing surface. One of the sealing member and the sealing surface is arranged in connection to the crushing head, and the other of the sealing member and the sealing surface is arranged in connection to the crusher frame.
US08646709B2	Jaw set with serrated cutting blades A jaw set utilizes blade inserts having serrated surfaces which draw in to capture and cut material prior to the material becoming trapped in the apex of the blade arrangement, thereby maximizing efficiency of the cutting operation. The subject invention is also directed to an individual blade insert having grooves that are longitudinally offset from bolt holes used to retain the blade insert within a jaw set.
US08646708B2	Refiner with flow guide inside rotor or stator A refiner (1) for refining fibrous material has a first refiner element (3, 5) and a second refiner element (3, 5). The second refiner element is arranged around the first refiner element in such a manner that the first refiner element and the second refiner element have a common middle axis (7) such that there is a refining space (8) between the first refiner element and the second refiner element. The first refiner element and/or the second refiner element are arranged to rotate around the middle axis and the refiner elements have refining surfaces (4, 6), through which the fibrous material is fed into or exits the refining space (8). The refiner has, in the direction of the middle axis of the refiner elements, at least two feed regions, through which the fibrous material to be refined is feedable into the refining space (8).
US08646704B2	Injector An injector includes a housing, a fixed core, a movable core, a valve member, and a resilient member pressing the valve member toward a nozzle hole. An inner peripheral surface of the housing axially guides an outer peripheral surface of the movable core. The inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface define an outer clearance therebetween. The valve member includes a shaft-shaped portion and a stopper portion, which contacts the movable core and has a stopper inclined surface. An outer peripheral surface of the shaft-shaped portion and an inner peripheral surface of an insertion hole of the movable core define an inner clearance therebetween. The stopper inclined surface inclines radially inward of the shaft-shaped portion axially toward the nozzle hole. An axial clearance is formed between the stopper inclined surface and the movable core radially outward of a contact portion between the stopper inclined surface and the movable core.
US08646702B2	Boom fold structure A fold structure for a boom. The boom includes an inner boom portion having an inner boom portion top surface and an outer boom portion having an outer boom portion top surface. In a working position the inner boom portion and the outer boom portion are aligned lengthwise. The fold structure includes a bracket, a first hinge coupled to the bracket and configured to be pivotally coupled to the inner boom portion, and a second hinge coupled to the bracket and configured to be pivotally coupled to the outer boom portion. The first hinge is configured to allow the outer boom portion to rotate approximately 180 degrees in a first direction placing the boom in a first folded position. The second hinge is configured to allow the outer boom portion to rotate approximately 180 degrees in a second direction placing the boom in a second folded position.
US08646700B2	Method and device for output of granulate from the bottom of a tank that in addition to granulate holds liquid For transport of granulate from a granulation tank by means of liquid and air, an ejector is provided with a side inlet for granulate, a first end with a spray nozzle for pressurized transport liquid, and a second end with an inlet for pressurized gas. Downstream from the second end, an outlet spray nozzle for a three-phase flow of liquid, granulate, and gas is provided. A first conduit has a lower end connected with the outlet for transport of the three-phase flow. The ejector includes a tubular ejector housing with an internal wear liner and an outlet spray nozzle made from a durable material. The inlet for pressurized gas includes a ring-shaped chamber that surrounds the periphery of the ejector and is connected with the inside of the ejector through a ring-shaped slit that directs the pressurized gas towards the outlet of the ejector.
US08646698B2	Protective cover of mobile electronic product A protective cover of a mobile electronic product capable of adding a backup battery to the exterior of the mobile electronic product, and the mobile electronic product is connected to the backup battery. In the protective cover of the mobile electronic product, a RFID module is installed for applying the mobile electronic product in a non-contact access identification device or a secured transaction device. The backup battery can supply electric power to the mobile electronic product to overcome the difficulty of accessing backup power.
US08646690B2	System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system This invention provides a system and method for expanding the field of view of a vision system camera assembly such that the field of view is generally free of loss of normal resolution across the entire expanded field. A field of view expander includes outer mirrors that receive light from different portions of a scene. The outer mirrors direct light to tilted inner mirrors of a beam splitter that directs the light aligned with a camera axis to avoid image distortion. The inner mirrors each direct the light from each outer mirror into a strip on the sensor, and the system searches features. The adjacent fields of view include overlap regions sized and arranged to ensure a centralized feature appears fully in at least one strip. Alternatively, a moving mirror changes position between acquired image frames so that a full width of the scene is imaged in successive frames.
US08646679B2	Security collar for beverage container A fluid container includes an outer shell including a plurality of sidewalls forming a hollow interior, a first one of the sidewalls having an opening formed therein and a first flap extending therefrom, the first flap having a retention feature formed therein, and an inner liner disposed within the hollow interior of the outer shell configured to receive and store a fluid, the inner liner including a spout providing fluid communication with an interior thereof, wherein the retention feature is in substantial alignment with a portion of the opening formed in the first one of the sidewalls, the opening and the retention feature cooperating to receive and support the spout in a position extending outwardly from the first one of the sidewalls.
US08646678B2	Basket The basket of the present invention comprises a lateral surface, a bottom and a handle (12), said basket being formed from at least a sheet provided with a plurality of folding lines, and it is characterized in that said handle extends downwardly into a partition (11) which divides the basket into two housings. Said partition (11) is preferably joined to the bottom of the basket. It is obtained a very light basket, and which occupies a reduced space if transported in its unfolded position, with a great strength and suitable to transport heavy products, such as bottles.
US08646676B2	Electronic component mounting system and electronic component mounting method An object of the invention is to provide an electronic component mounting system and an electronic component mounting method which can execute component mounting work on a plurality of boards simultaneously, concurrently and efficiently so that high productivity and responsiveness to production of many items can be achieved consistently.Provided is an electronic component mounting line (1) which is formed so that a screen printing portion having a plurality of individual printing mechanisms capable of executing setup change works individually is connected to an upstream side of a component mounting portion having a plurality of board delivery mechanisms, and which is configured so that either of a first work mode in which component mounting work is continuously executed on a fixed board type in all individual mounting lanes (L1 and L2) and a second work mode in which component mounting work is intermittently executed in one individual mounting lane while setup change work is repeated in corresponding one of the individual printing mechanisms whenever board types are changed from one to another in the individual mounting lane is selectively designated in multi-board mounting work in which the individual mounting lanes are operated to execute component mounting work on a plurality of boards simultaneously and concurrently.
US08646669B2	Cantilevered storage unit mount for vehicles Storage unit mounting apparatus removably and lockably attachable to a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a single, cantilevered support member removably and irrotationally attachable at its proximal end to the vehicle, the distal end of the support member supporting a receiver having integral mounting means to which the storage unit is attachable. The apparatus is especially suited for vehicles such as motorcycles, all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs), bicycles and the like.
US08646666B2	Carrier with adjustable parallel track structure for retaining musical instruments An instrument carrier is disclosed for supporting one or more drums without using traditional “J” rods components. The carrier uses sliders that eliminate the interference with the user's legs and more particularly the user's thighs and provides a more natural stride of the user. The drum mounting structure is repositioned or translated on the sliders. The carrier allows the drum to be rigidly mounted in a variety of positions relative to the user. The cantilevered weight of the drum(s) rotates the drum or drum array to lock the drum(s) into a vertical or horizontal slots or saddle. In another embodiment a bridge extends from the carrier to a single post or tube to support a slidably mounted single drum. The structure also eliminates the necessity of a structurally rigid fixed abdomen plate and allows for use of a flexible and conforming abdomen plate.
US08646654B2	Carton with dispenser A package includes an article group formed of cylindrical articles disposed on their sides in a side-by-side parallel fashion, and a carton disposed around the group. The carton includes a top wall, opposed side walls, end walls and an article dispenser. The side walls are disposed alongside the ends of the articles while one end wall is disposed adjacent to the side wall of an endmost article. The dispenser is formed from the end and top walls and includes at least one retaining panel to hold all the articles in the carton until removed by the user.
US08646648B2	Container system A container that may be used for retaining and dispensing matter is provided. The container includes a closure. The closure includes a top portion having an outer edge, a skirt downwardly depending from the outer edge and having an inside surface and a lower edge, and a plurality of spaced apart projections supported at the inside surface of the skirt. The projections are dimensioned such that a height of the projections in a vertical direction is greater than a width of the projection in a horizontal direction. The projections are configured to releasably engage an open end of the container for securing the closure to the container.
US08646646B2	Reinforced retortable plastic containers A reinforced retortable plastic container includes a bottom portion and a main body portion having a plastic sidewall that is connected to the bottom portion. The main body portion has a reinforced sidewall area that includes a plurality of first sidewall portions and a plurality of second sidewall portions that are respectively interposed between the first sidewall portions. Each of the second sidewall portions is shaped to define a plurality of circumferentially spaced structures that are selected from the group consisting of indentations and projections. Each of the circumferentially spaced structures is interposed between adjacent vertical columns, and adjacent second sidewall portions are rotationally staggered with respect to each other so that the vertical columns on one second sidewall portion are not aligned with the vertical columns of an adjacent second sidewall portion.
US08646642B2	Floating cover roof for a storage tank A floating cover roof for a storage tank has a frame assembly and multiple floating units. The frame assembly has a holding frame and an outer rim. The holding frame has multiple longitudinal beams and transverse beams. Each longitudinal beam has a connecting seat, a first holding segment and a second holding segment. Two of the transverse beams are connected to two adjacent longitudinal beams to form a locating area between the beams. The floating units are mounted in the locating areas of the frame assembly, are connected to the beams of the holding frame and each has an outer casing and a body. The outer casing is mounted in one of the locating areas of the holding frame, is connected to the adjacent beams and has a casing body and a top board. The body is mounted in the outer casing between the casing body and the top board.
US08646639B2	Device for unlocking swing-action side walls of boxes and/or containers The invention relates to a device for unlocking swing-action side walls (2 to 5) which are hinged on the base (6) of boxes and/or containers (1), of which the two opposite end walls (4, 5) can be locked to the two adjacent side walls (2, 3) and unlocking takes place by virtue of a lifting movement of a bracket-like actuator (13), which interacts with a movement-deflecting means (16, 17), and wherein unlocking crosspieces (19) act on spring-tongue-like locking means (10) of the side walls (4, 5), these locking means being latched into the end walls (2, 3), and force them out of their latching seat, in which they clamp the end walls (2, 3). According to the invention, the actuator (13) is arranged in a sliding wall element (26) which can be displaced vertically parallel to the end wall (4, 5) in an upwardly open wall cutout of the end wall (4, 5), in lateral guides (25a, 25b) of the wall cutout, these guides continuing the end wall (4, 5), into a position in which it closes the wall cutout or releases the same, and wherein, during displacement movements of the sliding wall element (26), the movement-deflecting means (17, 18, 19), which interact with the ends of the actuator (13), remain in their installation position in the end wall (4, 5) laterally adjacent to the wall cutout.
US08646632B2	Mouthpiece and process for production A mouthpiece has a bite-off-prevention feature. The mouthpiece has been manufactured from an elastomeric parent material with at least one first component, where a reinforcing component embedded within the parent material forms the bite-off-prevention feature and derives from the same group of substances or group of materials as the first component. The reinforcing component is preferably composed of fibers.
US08646622B2	Adjustable tool support clamp A clamp structure that provides versatility and structural adaptability to different clamping surfaces. A tension member can be coupled to the inside of a tubular body at one end and to a rod at the other end. Removable grips can be coupled to the ends of the body, but are not directly coupled to the tension member so that changing the grips can be done without removing the tension member from its anchored position. The grips can, in some embodiments, be pivotable so as to accommodate a variety of different gripping surfaces. Various holding members such as a tool holder, a utility hook and/or a claw grip can be movably provided on the body and can hold tools or light fixtures in a variety of configurations.
US08646620B2	Dishwasher rack assembly with adjustable tines A dishwasher rack assembly includes a bottom wall formed of a first set of spaced apart rods crossed by a second set of spaced apart rods to define an open lattice structure. At least one channel member is attached to respective one the rods. A plurality of tines are received within the channel member and are variably positional along the channel member so as to adjust spacing between the tines without adjusting the channel member relative to the rod.
US08646611B2	Pivotal product packaging A blister package includes at least one blister tray having a plurality of open blister depressions each blister depression accommodating a consumable product. The blister sleeve includes a pair of spaced apart planar walls defining therebetween a pivot connection. The blister tray is received between the walls of the blister sleeve and pivotally coupled to the pivot location. The sleeves are pivotal from an enclosed position between the two planar walls to an open position outwardly of the planar walls.
US08646610B2	Personalized cover for electronic devices Kits, components, and methods for personalizing covers for electronic devices are provided. Device-specific cases are dimensioned and configured to releasably affix to specific devices and to define substrate spaces when affixed to the devices. Device-specific templates are provided with the cases. The templates aid in appropriately shaping user-desired image substrates to fit between the cases and the devices when the devices are affixed to the cases. The templates include specifically placed apertures so that any substrates generated therewith do not occlude or disrupt the functionality of any functional component on the devices when the substrates are interposed between the cases and devices. Instructions for using the templates to generate appropriately configured substrates for use with the cases and devices are included.
US08646607B1	Electronic device accessories packaging system and methods thereof An electronic device accessories packaging system and methods of manufacturing, distributing and retailing the electronic device accessories packaging are disclosed.
US08646605B2	Reusable medical gown distribution and dispensing Distribution and dispensing modalities are provided for reusable medical gowns which involves generally loose handling thereof. Dispensing containers have a collapsible sidewall structure extending between opposite ends and defining therebetween an interior when un-collapsed or erected, at least one of the ends defining an opening through which clean, reusable medical gowns can be loaded, a closure repeatably manipulatable to open and close the opening, and a controllable access aperture at least a portion, or all, of which is spaced from the opening through which to selectively remove a clean, reusable medical gown. The loaded dispensing container may be transported to or around a healthcare facility and placed where needed for ready access at the point-of-use to clean, reusable medical gowns through the controllable access aperture.
US08646603B2	Apparatus and method for aligning and holding light bulbs A mounting pad and method for mounting a plurality of light bulbs in a compact and shock resistant arrangement for storage in a box and for transport, the plurality of light bulbs being arranged in rows generally parallel to each other by mounting the terminal ends of a row of light bulbs in a mounting pad disposed at each terminal end of the bulbs and stacking successive rows of mounted bulbs one on top of each other.
US08646591B2	Apparatus for handling capsules and capsule processing equipment including such an apparatus The invention relates to an apparatus for handling capsules in a capsule processing equipment. The invention also relates to capsule processing equipment, such as an inspection equipment or a capsule printing equipment that includes such an apparatus.
US08646559B2	Ice-particle spray generating device for snow vehicles An ice-particle spray generating device for use on snow vehicles is disclosed. The present invention provides an adapter having a locking device to prevent the connecting means of the ice-particle spray generating device to loosen when the snow vehicle is travelling.
US08646557B2	Construction machine A cab includes a floor plate that constitutes a floor surface of the cab and a frame-shaped lower frame which extends along a peripheral edge of the floor plate and which is fixed onto the floor plate. A swivel joint is arranged below the floor plate such that a part of the swivel joint overlaps with a peripheral edge of the lower frame in plan view. A floor-side projecting portion that projects upward is provided on the peripheral edge of the floor plate and a floor-side housing portion that houses the swivel joint is provided below the floor-side projecting portion. A frame-side projecting portion that projects upward is provided on the lower frame, and a frame-side housing portion that houses the floor-side projecting portion is provided below the frame-side projecting portion.
US08646553B2	Construction machine provided with heat exchanger Provided is a construction machine comprising: a heat exchanger with a core surface in an engine room; a top wall covering an air inlet chamber in the engine room and having a first air inlet; a duct including a main wall guiding air in the air inlet chamber to draw it through the core surface and a front wall facing the core surface and having a second air inlet; a cooling fan sucking external air onto the core surface through the second air inlet; and an air cleaner extending horizontally and orthogonally to an air guiding direction by the main wall. At least a part of the air cleaner exists in a vertical region where the second air inlet is formed. The air cleaner directs, toward the second air inlet, an air flow farthest from the duct, out of the air flow drawn downward through the first air inlet.
US08646550B2	Self rechargeable synergy drive for a motor vehicle Vehicle wheels may be equipped with a stator and rotor to induce current to generate electricity as the vehicle wheels rotate or to slow down the vehicle wheels in response to the application of a brake of the vehicle. Air may be sucked through the vehicle wheels through mesh screens to create air flow that passes through ductwork to reach a turbine generator, which generates electricity in response to blade rotation from air flow. A roof mounted solar energy conversion system may generate electricity. A vehicle power supply boosts its energy from all the electricity generated.
US08646549B2	Drilling machine power pack which includes a clutch A drilling machine includes a compressor coupled to a prime mover through a hydraulic clutch, wherein the hydraulic clutch is repeatably moveable between engaged and disengaged conditions. The compressor is allowed to provide air and is restricted from providing air in response to the hydraulic clutch being in the engaged and disengaged conditions, respectively. The hydraulic clutch is moveable between the engaged and disengaged conditions during operation of the prime mover.
US08646537B2	Remotely activated downhole apparatus and methods An apparatus includes an impervious body, a sealing element; an energy source, and a trigger. The impervious body is configured to prevent passage of fluid therethrough. The sealing element is disposed about the impervious body. The energy source is operationally connected to the sealing element. The trigger is configured to transfer energy from the energy source to the sealing element. The trigger is activated, at least in part, by receiving a signal from a pump tool passing through an interior of the impervious body.
US08646530B2	Chemical diversion technique A method includes treating a first formation intersecting a wellbore, preparing a diversion fluid including an inactivated viscosifier and an inactivated thinning agent, and positioning an amount of the diversion fluid to isolate the first formation. An activator is then delivered to the diversion fluid, thereby activating the inactivated viscosifier and triggering a thinning agent activation process.
US08646523B2	Method and materials for proppant flow control with telescoping flow conduit technology Porous objects, such as porous balls, may be employed within telescoping devices to control proppant flowback through a completed well during production. The telescoping devices may connect a reservoir face to a production liner without perforating. Acid-soluble plugs initially disposed within the telescoping devices may provide enough resistance to enable the telescoping devices to extend out from the production liner under hydraulic pressure. The plugs may then be dissolved in an acidic solution, which may also be used as the hydraulic extension fluid. After the plugs are substantially removed from the telescoping devices, the reservoir may be hydraulically fractured using standard fracturing processes. The porous balls may then be inserted into the telescoping devices to block proppant used in the fracturing process from flowing out of the reservoir with the production fluids.
US08646499B2	Pneumatic tire and manufacturing process thereof A pneumatic tire is molded by using a vulcanizing mold in which blades 20, each composed of a metal thin plate having an inclined portion 20a in the depth direction and a plurality of through holes 20G with the same sectional form as that of projections to be formed in the sipe in the inclined portion 20a are buried in a groove portion corresponding to the tire block of the vulcanizing mold, thereby forming 3D sipes having unevenness in the radial direction of the block and a plurality of pairs of projections in the inclined portion in the block of the tire. Thereby, when longitudinal force is applied to the tire, adjacent small blocks of the block come into close contact with each other only at the positions of the projections of the 3D sipes, thereby making it possible to ensure the block stiffness of the pneumatic tire 10 without reducing the drainage function.
US08646494B2	Apparatus and method for rapidly adjustable liquid blending ratio A liquid dispensing and blending technique is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cover assembly unit including a mounting rack with a plurality of level indicators, a measuring vessel, for storing a liquid for dispensing, including an opening at top to be covered with the cover assembly unit, and an overflow port on a sidewall to drain an excess amount of the liquid so that a liquid surface in the measuring vessel is defined; and a dip tube attached to the mounting rack having an intake opening to remove a specific amount of the liquid from the measuring vessel, an exit end to lead the amount of the liquid to a mixing container, wherein the specific amount of the liquid is determined from the level indicators.
US08646491B2	Protective wire net, a protective structure constructed with the net, and the use of the protective wire net for the construction of a protective structure A protective wire net including an array of longitudinal wires arranged side by side and each intertwined with at least one respective adjacent longitudinal wire. Each of one or more longitudinal metal cables is also intertwined with at least one adjacent longitudinal wire. One or more transverse wires and/or metal cables may also be provided, arranged in a transverse direction relative to the longitudinal wires and outside intertwining regions defined by portions of adjacent longitudinal wires which are bent around one another, the transverse wires and/or metal cables being intertwined or interlaced with one or more of the longitudinal wires.
US08646490B2	Pipeline and method for producing the same A pipeline for the transport of a pressurized flowable medium, consisting of a metal tube corrugated transversely to its longitudinal direction and of a hose which is arranged in the same and consists of plastic. In the position of use the hose bears against the inwardly pointing wave troughs of the metal tube, which hose has a multiplicity of holes separated from one another in the wall of the same over its entire axial length. The wave troughs of the metal tube penetrate slightly into the surface of the hose so as to fix the latter with respect to axial loads.
US08646486B2	Elliptical chambered flow restrictor This invention sets forth a water flow restrictor for insertion into a water line connected to a water dispensing fixture. The restrictor includes an in-line restrictor body having a longitudinal flow passageway. The body also has an upstream coupling and a downstream coupling so that the body can be coupled into a water line. The body further has an upstream water receiving chamber and a downstream water passing chamber. An orifice of selectable restrictive size is located between the chambers. The orifice limits the flow of water through the passageway. The upstream water receiving chamber has an elliptically converging interior configuration approaching the orifice.
US08646485B2	Flow restrictor and method for reducing resistance of a flow Methods and devices are described for reducing flow resistance in a flow restrictor during high flows.
US08646464B2	Treated areas on a wrapper for reducing the ignition proclivity characteristics of a smoking article Smoking articles having reduced ignition proclivity characteristics are disclosed. The smoking articles include a paper wrapper containing cellulosic fibers and filler particles. The paper wrappers are formed so that the filler particles form a concentration gradient throughout the thickness of the wrapper. More particularly, a greater concentration of filler particles are present at a first surface in comparison to the amount of filler particles present at the opposite surface. In accordance with the present disclosure, an ignition reducing composition is applied to the first surface. In this manner, treated areas having more uniform properties are formed.
US08646461B2	Device and method for simulating chemosensation of smoking A device for simulating a chemosensation of smoking includes an outer layer, a porous medium and a chemesthetic agent. The porous medium is disposed within the outer layer. The chemesthetic agent is disposed within the porous medium and activates a TRP channel.
US08646460B2	Cleaning device and methods A method for providing therapy to tissue at a treatment site is performed by ablating tissue at the treatment site with an ablation device. Next, a cleaning device is attached to an instrument. The cleaning device attached to the instrument is used to remove ablated tissue at the treatment site. The cleaning device may also be used to remove debris from the treatment site prior to ablation or other therapeutic or diagnostic procedure.
US08646458B2	Easy-application meatal plug A meatal plug, comprising a stem and a bulb arranged at one end of the stem, the bulb protruding laterally over said stem, a hole being formed in the plug, and the hole opening at the end of the stem opposite the bulb and said hole extending at least into the bulb, characterized in that the ratio of the height dimension of the stem, measured along its longitudinal axis to the length dimension along this same bulb axis is greater than 1, preferably greater than 2.5, the ratio of the width dimension of the bulb to its length, i.e. measured in a direction perpendicular to the stem axis, is greater than 1, preferably greater than 2.5.
US08646454B1	Oral appliances and methods of making oral appliances Oral appliances, methods of making oral appliances, and bite registration devices for use in making oral appliances are provided. An oral appliance includes a lower segment, and upper segments. The upper segments are operably connected to the lower segment using threaded elements. Rotational manipulation of the threaded elements causes the upper segments to be displaced horizontally relative to the lower segment about the lengths of the threaded elements, and the lengths of the threaded elements are substantially parallel to each other. A bite registration device for use in making an oral appliance includes a top surface including a protrusion and a bottom surface including a receptacle configured to receive the protrusion. The device is configured to be maintained in stacked relation to a like configured second bite registration device by mating the protrusion of the bite registration device with a receptacle of the second bite registration device.
US08646440B1	Accessory for an archery bow An accessory for an archery bow has a C-shaped forearm brace attached to the distal end of a support. The support can be supported on the bow. The brace extends arcuately around a forearm axis at least 90° in order to partially encompass a forearm. The support is mounted in an arcuate slot in the brace and extends outwardly, transverse to the forearm axis. The support can be adjusted to allow angular and linear translation of the forearm brace. The forearm brace is circumferentially repositionable along the support. The support may be a post with a bearing surface skewed relative to a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. This post may have on opposite sides of the bearing surface, a pair of walls that straddle a peripheral portion of the forearm brace. The support can include a bracket that attaches to the front or back of a bow's riser. The bracket supports a rearwardly extending element that attaches to and supports the post.
US08646439B2	Fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engine The fuel injection apparatus for the internal combustion engine includes: a fuel injector having a leading end portion that has an internal space in which fuel is accumulated and an injection port for injecting fuel; and an adsorbent disposed in the internal space, the adsorbent being capable of selectively adsorbing an alcohol component in a blended fuel of gasoline and alcohol. In this fuel injection apparatus, it is determined whether or not a fuel pressure is higher than a predetermined low fuel pressure when a request is issued for bringing an internal combustion engine to a stop. If it is determined that the fuel pressure is higher than the low fuel pressure, the fuel pressure is kept at the low fuel pressure for a predetermined period of time before the internal combustion engine is brought to a stop.
US08646432B1	Fluid insulated injector-igniter A system for transferring and igniting a fuel comprising a fuel supply and a cryogenic fuel processor connected to the fuel supply and operative to remove impurities from the fuel. The system includes a power supply and an injector-igniter. The injector-igniter includes an injector housing connected to the power supply and having a fuel inlet connected to the fuel processor. An actuator body is disposed in the housing and a conductor sleeve is connected to the power supply and supported between the actuator body and injector housing with a first annular gap between the injector housing and the conductor sleeve. There is also a second annular gap between the actuator body and conductor sleeve, wherein the first and second annular gaps are in fluid communication with the fuel inlet, whereby fuel provides a dielectric between the conductor sleeve and the injector housing.
US08646428B2	Piston positioned for reciprocal movement in a combustion engine cylinder A piston is positioned for reciprocal movement in a combustion engine cylinder. Half way between flame plume impingement areas are arranged a first type of protrusions protruding into the combustion chamber and having a smooth form adapted for preserving kinetic energy in a flame plume. Each of the first type of protrusions has a shape of a longitudinal ridge that extends only in the outer bowl area. The first type of protrusions have a left side flank and a right side flank of the ridge when seen from the injector. The left side flank is formed differently compared to the right side flank in order to redirect the movement of a flame plume progressing towards the left side flank in a plane perpendicular to the reciprocal movement, differently compared to corresponding flame plume progressing, towards the right side flank.
US08646424B2	Variable valve timing device A variable valve timing device includes a control valve for switching fluid communication among ports. The control valve includes a sleeve, a spool, a movable member, and resilient members. A first resilient member pushes the spool in both of the regions. A second resilient member acts on the spool via the movable member engaged with the spool in an advancing region. In a lock region, the movable member rests on the sleeve to enable the spool to move freely from the second resilient member. As a result, force acting on the spool can be restricted in the lock region. The movable member is supported from a radial inside by the spool and is radially distanced from the sleeve. As a result, it is possible to reduce a sliding resistance acting on the movable member.
US08646413B2	Non-skid double-layer pet bowl and a method of fabricating the same The present invention provides a non-skid double-layer pet bowl for feeding animals and also provides a method of fabricating the said bowl. The bowl has an anti-skid bottom, so that the bowl does not move when the animal is eating or drinking from it. Another feature of the bowl is that materials, plastic and metal can be detached from each other. The plastic bowl is on the outside and is printed with various prints to make it attractive. Only this outer plastic bowl can be changed by removing it, in case of any damage or to obtain a different pattern.When detached, both the bowls can be used separately also, as double diner, that is one for feeding and the other one for drinking water for animal.The present invention also provides a method of fabricating the non-skid pet bowl. The bowls of the present invention are easy to fabricate, attractive in appearance and cost-effective.
US08646412B2	Arrangement for automatically cleaning teat cups of a rotary milking platform An arrangement for automatically cleaning teat cups of a rotary milking platform includes i) a cleaning device at the side of the platform, the cleaning device having a movable part provided with an outlet opening through which a cleaning fluid is supplied to the teat cups; and ii) a positioning unit arranged to provide positioning of the cleaning device to a cleaning position in which the cleaning device is able to supply the cleaning medium from the outlet opening to the teat cups, the positioning unit adapted to provide a positioning of the movable part of the cleaning device in relation to the teat cups from an inactive position on the side of the platform to an active position in which the movable part extends in over the platform towards the teat cups to the cleaning position.
US08646407B2	Film formation apparatus for semiconductor process and method for using the same A method is provided for using a film formation apparatus including a process container having an inner surface, which contains as a main component a material selected from the group consisting of quartz and silicon carbide. The method includes performing a film formation process to form a silicon nitride film on a product target substrate inside the process container, and then, unloading the product target substrate from the process container. Thereafter, the method includes supplying an oxidizing gas into the process container with no product target substrate accommodated therein, thereby performing an oxidation process to change by-product films deposited on the inner surface of the process container into a composition richer in oxygen than nitrogen, at a part of the by-product films from a surface thereof to a predetermined depth.
US08646406B2	Mask assembly having a frame with support stick A mask assembly includes a frame with an opening, at least one support stick in the frame and extending in a first direction to traverse the opening of the frame, the support stick including a communication pattern above the opening of the frame, and a mask positioned on the frame and the at least one support stick, the mask extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to traverse the opening of the frame, and the mask being exposed to the opening of the frame through the communication pattern.
US08646403B2	Method for improving surface roughness of processed film of substrate and apparatus for processing substrate A treatment apparatus for treating a substrate on a surface of which a treatment film has been formed and subjected to exposure processing and developing treatment. The treatment apparatus includes a nozzle for supplying a solvent gas of the treatment film to the surface of the treatment film on the substrate, and a moving mechanism for moving the nozzle which is supplying the solvent gas, relative to the substrate. The nozzle has an elongated discharge portion at least longer than a diameter of the substrate and partition plates at a front and a rear in the moving direction of the nozzle.
US08646402B2	Indicator having rotary members to hold guide rail There is provided an indicator in which a moving member 9 on which a pointer 21 is installed is caused to run on a guide rail 1 formed along a scale formed on a dial, characterized in that the moving member 9 comprises a first support member 11 for pivotally supporting a plurality of pulleys 17 which are arranged along the guide rail 1 and a second support member 13 for pivotally supporting at least a pulley 17, and in that the plurality of pulleys 17 pivotally supported on the first support member 11 and the pulley 17 pivotally supported on the second support member 13 hold the guide rail 1 therebetween and the first support member 11 and the second support member 13 are assembled to each other so as to slide in an inter-axis direction of the plurality of pulleys 17 which are pivotally supported on the first support member 11 and the pulley 17 which is pivotally supported on the second support member 13, the indicator having further a spring member 15 for biasing the first support member 11 and the second support member 13 in a direction to reduce an inter-axis space therebetween.
US08646393B2	Device capable of providing a writing support in a motor vehicle and fascia panel comprising such a device A device configured to provide a writing support in a motor vehicle. The device includes: a tablet that can be mounted in the motor vehicle element that includes an opening; a translation mechanism for allowing translationary movement of the tablet between a rest position in which the tablet is housed in the motor vehicle element and an intermediate position in which the tablet is extracted from the motor vehicle element through the opening; a rotation mechanism that rotates the tablet to allow the tablet to be rotated from the intermediate position into a position of use in which the tablet is inclined to form a writing support.
US08646382B2	Convection recirculating fryer for cooking foods A convection recirculating food product fryer with a fry tank with and inlet tube connected to a heat exchanger and an outlet connected to a magnetic pump with an outlet tube to the heat exchanger, the pump having a driving magnet assembly housing an impeller and a driven magnet, with a ceramic shaft extending through the impeller about which the impeller rotates when pumping oil; an electric motor magnetically coupled to the magnetic pump; a burner to heat the oil in the heat exchanger; a controller to control the ignition and running of the burner.
US08646377B2	Thermoblock-based beverage production device with brewing chambers A brewing-type beverage production device comprising at least one water reservoir, at least two thermoblocks respectively being in fluid connection with the water reservoir, at least brewing chambers, each of the brewing chambers being supplied with heated water from one of the thermoblocks, being adapted to contain a beverage ingredient and being connected with an outlet for draining a brewed beverage, the device furthermore comprising a hot water outlet being adapted to be selectively in fluid connection with the at least two thermoblocks.
US08646374B2	Weapon station and associated method In certain embodiments, a weapon station comprises a weapon mounting apparatus and a sight mounting apparatus. The weapon mounting apparatus is adapted to rotate, using a first rotational drive mechanism, about an azimuth axis. The weapon mounting apparatus is adapted to receive one or more weapons for attachment at a position offset from the azimuth axis. The sight mounting apparatus is coupled to the weapon mounting apparatus and is adapted to receive for attachment a sighting device. The sighting device comprises one or more sensors and is adapted to rotate, using a second rotational drive mechanism, the one or more sensors about the azimuth axis independently of rotational movement of the weapon mounting apparatus about the azimuth axis. The azimuth axis about which the weapon mounting apparatus and the one or more sensors rotate is a common azimuth axis.
US08646367B2	Trimmer block pad, trimmer, and method of trimming The present disclosure relates to a trimmer block pad, a trimmer, and a process of trimming. The process includes inserting a book into a trimmer, positioning a trimmer block pad to abut the book, the trimmer block comprising a first non-square exterior corner and a second non-square exterior corner, and trimming a portion of the book. The positioning of the trimmer block pad applies a distributed force to the book.
US08646366B2	Electronic cutting apparatus and methods for cutting An electronic sheet cutting machine includes a housing to which a drive roller is coupled for moving a sheet to be cut in a first direction and a cutter assembly coupled to the housing and moveable in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. A user interface is incorporated into the housing for allowing a user to select via the user interface at least one shape to be cut by the cutter assembly wherein controlled movement of the drive roller and the cutter assembly causes a shape to be cut in the sheet.
US08646362B2	Special fluorescent bulb holding device An apparatus for handling spiral-type fluorescent light bulbs particularly for removing and installing different size spiral fluorescent light bulbs in a light fixture. The device is comprised of a main body made of a durable and flexible material and having a front and a rear surface, side surfaces and features; a means to secure a main body to a pole adapter; and a pole adapter for the securement of the main body to an extension pole or similar device. An alternative embodiment anticipates reinforcement strips internal to the main body to provide additional strength, especially when the device is twisted and in torsion. Another alternative embodiment provides an external containment means to enable various modes of containment features and permit different marketing themes.
US08646358B2	Safety bicycle pedal, particularly for mountain bikes Safety bicycle pedal, particularly for mountain bikes, comprising a body (1) mounted such that it can rotate about a pedal spindle, and which has, on at least one face of the pedal, a front clip arrangement (5a) and a rear clip arrangement, at least one of the front or rear clip arrangements being able to move and capable of being moved, against the action of at least one elastic return means, each moving clip arrangement being formed of a bow and mounted such that it can pivot relative to the pedal body; the elastic return means (Ea) of the moving clip arrangement (5a) runs transversely to the pedal spindle (2) and one of its ends collaborates with the moving clip arrangement (5a) of one face, its other end collaborating with the pedal body (1) equipped with the other clip arrangement (14a) of that same face of the pedal; the elastic return means of each face preferably consists of one or more flexing leaves (20a), particularly made of composite material.
US08646356B2	Spring damper and acceleration device using the same A spring damper for absorbing vibration of a double coil spring is made of elastic material and composed of a cylindrical body, outer-wall convex portions, and inner-wall convex portions. The spring damper is arranged in an annular space formed between an outer coil spring and an inner coil spring of the double coil spring, so that the outer-wall convex portions push the outer coil spring in a radial outward direction and the inner-wall convex portions push the inner coil spring in a radial inward direction. Longitudinal ends of the cylindrical body are prevented from being hooked by spring wires of the outer or inner coil spring, when the double coil spring is expanded and compressed.
US08646352B2	Worm wheel Provided is a worm wheel that allows the residual stress in the plastic gear forming member thereof to be reduced, and suited for compact design. The worm wheel comprises a metallic core member (30) and a plastic gear forming member (20) formed on an outer periphery of the core member. In particular, the core member includes a boss portion (31) defining a pivot portion, an intermediate portion (32) extending radially from the outer periphery of the boss portion, and a cylindrical portion (33) connected to a radially outer end of the intermediate portion and having the gear forming member molded thereon coaxially with the boss, the cylindrical portion being formed with through holes (34) or cutouts (36) passed radially therethrough.
US08646346B2	Skew detection A skew detection arrangement comprises first and second series of targets movable past respective sensors, and monitoring means operable to monitor the outputs of the sensors, wherein the monitoring means is operable upon sensing that an output of a first one of the sensors is in a transition state to determine, from a transition direction of the transition state and an output of the other of the sensors, whether a skew condition has arisen. A skew detection method is also disclosed.
US08646344B2	Mounting systems for a surface forces apparatus A mounting system for samples and instruments for use with a measuring device such as a surface forces apparatus has a housing and a sample mount assembly positioned within the housing. The sample mount assembly has a pivot arm having a first edge and a flexing section. A spring has a first end coupled to the pivot arm. A first sample holder is coupled to the second end of the spring. A second sample holder is positioned in proximity to the first sample holder.
US08646340B2	Sampling method and sampling device Disclosed is a sampling method which comprises the steps of: blowing airflow towards a center portion of a sampling surface through a blowing port; and sucking the blown airflow from periphery of the sampling surface through a sucking port, or a sampling method which comprises the steps of: providing a sampling device on a sampling surface, the sampling device being shaped to form a sampling space together with the sampling surface, and the sampling device including a blowing port arranged at the center portion of the sampling device and a sucking port arranged at periphery of the sampling device; blowing airflow towards the sampling surface through the blowing port; and sucking the airflow blown towards the sampling surface through the sucking port so as to collect samples.
US08646332B2	Inertia force sensor An inertial sensor includes oscillating-type angular velocity sensing element, IC for processing signals supplied from angular velocity sensing element, capacitor for processing signals, and package for accommodating angular velocity sensing element, IC, capacitor. Element and IC are housed in package via a vibration isolator, which is formed of TAB tape, plate on which IC is placed, where angular velocity sensing element is layered on IC, and outer frame placed outside and separately from plate and yet coupled to plate via wiring pattern.
US08646322B2	Method and device for testing a fuel injector A method for selecting a procedure for determining the injection time of individual injection operations of a fuel injector, which may be supplied with pressurized fuel via a feed line, includes activating the fuel injector using various known activation durations in the vicinity of a predefined operating point of the fuel injector; detecting the pressure curve over time in the feed line for a number of injection operations; evaluating the detected pressure curves over time using at least two different procedures for determining the injection time from the particular pressure curve; determining the correlation between the determined injection times and the particular activation period; selecting the procedure with the highest correlation.
US08646312B2	Method and system for measuring RON and MON values for light distillates A method and a system is disclosed for determining RON and/or MON values from constant volume combustion chamber apparatuses capable of producing pressure versus time combustion profiles having a fast combustion region and a slow combustion region, where data from the two regions is used to compute RON and/or MON values for light distillate fluid samples using a series expansion equation.
US08646307B2	Mass flow controller verifying system, verifying method and verifying program In a mass flow controller verifying system, there are provided a verifying gas line arranged in parallel to influent flow gas lines and joined into a post-confluent flow gas line, a reference volume calculating portion adapted to calculate a reference volume determined for a specified piping of a gas piping system, a verifying parameter calculating portion adapted to calculate a verifying parameter based on time series data of a measurement pressure measured by a pressure measurement unit during a control of a flow rate by a mass flow controller to be verified, and a comparing portion adapted to compare a reference parameter set based on the reference volume and the verifying parameter, whereby the verifying system can be introduced into an existing gas piping system used in a semiconductor manufacturing process and so forth at a low cost and is capable of verifying a mass flow controller quickly and accurately.
US08646304B2	Grain bin floor panel In a grain bin floor panel having first and second floor surface extending outwardly from a central support leg to respective first and second side support legs, the central support leg includes first and second upright portions and a lower portion connected between respective lower ends of the first and second upright portion. The first and second upright portions are connected to respective ones of the first and second floor surfaces at the upper ends of the upright portions and are spaced apart from one another at respective lower ends. The lower portion is generally concave such that the lower ends of the first and second upright portions together with the lower portion forms a concave quadrilateral.
US08646302B2	Method for shaping from a blank of a hardening material with differential cooling The invention relates to a drawing tool (1) for shaping and cooling a steel part from a blank (6), said tool including: at least one punch (2); and at least one matrix (3); the punch and the matrix each including: at least a first portion (21, 31) corresponding to a hot area (11) of the drawing tool; and at least a second portion (22, 32) corresponding to a cold area (12) of the drawing tool; in the cold area, the second part of the punch and the second part of the matrix are brought into contact with the blank when the drawing tool is closed; characterized in that, in the hot area of the drawing tool, a heating means are provided for heating said hot area to a temperature higher than about 400° C., and in that, in said hot area, a distance (L) on top of the blank thickness (e) is provided between the punch and the matrix when the drawing tool is closed, is related to the temperature (T) of the hot area, and is given by the formula T=100·(6−L), with L>0.2 and 400≦T<600; L being in mm and T in ° C.
US08646295B2	Steering lock device A steering lock device includes a main frame, a lock insertion hole formed on the main frame, a lock member slidably disposed in the lock insertion hole, a pin insertion portion formed on the lock member, a stopper housing portion formed on the main frame, a stopper pin housed in the stopper housing portion, and a trigger detachably disposed on the main frame. The stopper pin is urged toward a latch position by a stopper, and engaged, in a state of positioning at the latch position, with the pin insertion portion of the lock member positioning at the lock position. The trigger holds, in a state of being attached on the main frame, the stopper pin at an unlatch position by contacting with the stopper pin. First stepped portions for engaging with the stopper pin positioning at the latch position are disposed in a side of the unlock position, around an opening of the stopper housing portion and on a wall surface of the lock insertion hole facing to the opening. Since the lock member is firmly held at the lock position by the stopper pin even if a cover or a coil spring urging the lock member is removed, an improper unlock of the lock member can be prevented.
US08646289B1	Method for offshore liquefaction A method for offshore liquefaction of natural gas and transport of produced liquefied natural gas using a floating production storage and offloading vessel, fluidly connected with a flexible conduit to a moored floating disconnectable turret which can be connected and reconnected to a liquefaction vessel with onboard liquefaction unit powered by a dual fuel diesel electric main power plant of the liquefied natural gas transport vessel.
US08646278B2	Condition measurement apparatus and method A condition measurement apparatus is provided and includes a gas turbine engine combustor having an end cover, a liner defining a liner interior and a fuel nozzle communicative with the liner interior, the end cover being formed to separate a cold side thereof, which is a relatively low temperature environment, from a hot side thereof, which is a relatively high temperature environment in which the liner and the fuel nozzle are disposed, the combustor being formed to define a fuel flow path extending through piping disposed at the cold side of the end cover by which fuel is deliverable to the fuel nozzle, and a condition sensing device operably mounted on the piping.
US08646273B2	Thermodynamic machine and method for the operation thereof The invention relates to a thermodynamic machine having a circulation system in which a working fluid, in particular a low-boiling working fluid, circulates alternately in a gaseous and a liquid phase, a heat exchanger, an expansion machine, a condenser, and a fluid pump. The invention also relates to a method for operating the thermodynamic machine. According to certain embodiments of the invention, in the flow line of the fluid pump, a partial pressure increasing the system pressure is applied to the liquid working fluid by adding a non-condensing auxiliary gas. Compact ORC machines can be implemented, preventing cavitation in the liquid working fluid.
US08646271B2	EGR control apparatus for internal combustion engine An EGR control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of accurately controlling an inert gas amount and an inert gas ratio of two types of EGR gas supplied to cylinders of the engine via two paths different from each other, thereby making it possible to ensure a stable combustion state and reduced exhaust emissions. The EGR control apparatus includes a low-pressure EGR device, a high-pressure EGR device, and an ECU. The ECU calculates a target low-pressure opening, calculates an estimated value of an in-cylinder low-pressure inert gas flow rate, which is the estimated value of an inert gas amount included in low-pressure EGR gas supplied to the cylinders via an intake passage, calculates a target high-pressure opening using the estimated value, and controls low-pressure and high-pressure EGR control valves, using the target low-pressure opening and the target high-pressure opening.
US08646267B1	Buoyant force power generation An underwater air or gas powered apparatus utilizes the buoyant force of water to generate power in the form of work or electricity. Air bags are spaced circumferentially around the perimeter of a rotary member immersed in water and are alternately inflated and deflated in a sequence enabling buoyant forces to rotate the rotary member. A generator is coupled to the rotary member for generating power in response to rotation of the rotary member.
US08646262B2	Unit for recovering and converting the thermal energy of the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle A unit (1, 1′) for recovering and converting thermal energy from the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine (14) of a vehicle comprises a heat exchanger (2, 2′) to be traversed by exhaust gases flowing along a by-pass path (5,5′) branching out from an exhaust gas main line (4) of said internal combustion engine (14) and valve means (12) for controlling the flow of the exhaust gases through said path, said valve means (12) being driven by an actuator device (12A). The by-pass path (5, 5′) is a U-shaped path defined entirely within the heat exchanger (2, 2′), starting from an inlet section (6, 6′) and ending at an outlet section of the heat exchanger, the inlet and outlet sections (7,7′) being located on a same side of the heat exchanger (2) and both opening on an interface conduit portion (3) interposed in said exhaust gas main line (4). The heat exchanger (2, 2′) is arranged so that said U-shaped path is oriented transversely to the direction of the exhaust gas main line (4), in such a manner that the exhaust gases traversing the heat exchanger flow firstly in the transverse direction away from the exhaust gas main line (4) and then back in the transverse direction towards the exhaust gas main line (4), The valve means (12) are arranged within said interface conduit portion (3), between merging points of the inlet and outlet portions (6,7) of the heat exchanger (2,2′).
US08646258B2	Mixing system in an exhaust gas mixing chamber The mixing system includes a mixing chamber in which exhaust gases can flow in a flow direction, a nozzle designed to inject a fluid inside the mixing chamber, according to an injection direction, and an evaporating device positioned inside the mixing chamber, downstream from the injection inlet. The nozzle and the evaporating device are movable one with respect to the other, so that a substantial portion of the flow of the fluid injected into the mixing chamber hits the evaporating device regardless of the flow rate of the exhaust gases.
US08646253B2	Procedure and device for controlling an exhaust gas purification system A procedure for controlling an exhaust gas purification system of a combustion engine, consisting of one or several catalytic converters for converting and/or storing at least one exhaust gas component of an exhaust gas of the combustion engine at least one of the catalytic converters is construed as oxidization catalytic converter. With the aid of the adsorption capability of at least partially uncombusted hydrocarbons of one of the catalytic converters a diagnosing forecast about the NO oxidization of the catalytic converters is derived, whereby the at least partially uncombusted hydrocarbons are introduced into the exhaust gas duct at least partially in front of the catalytic converter. With the procedure and the device for implementing the procedure the NO oxidization capability of the involved catalytic converters can be evaluated in the range of extended on-board diagnosis requirements to provide “feed-gas” for subsequent exhaust gas after-treatment systems.
US08646250B2	Combination driven and idler snap rolls for corn header First and second snap rolls corresponding with a pair of forward-extending row units of a harvesting header wherein the snap rolls oppose one another on opposite sides of a crop passage and are operated at different speeds relative to one another. In one embodiment one of the snap rolls is a powered snap roll and the other is an idler roll.
US08646245B2	Method and device for packaging a fluid product dispenser A method for packaging a fluid product dispenser, where the said dispenser includes a reservoir (1) of constant effective volume filled with a fluid product (10), and a dispensing device (3) that includes a dip tube (2) which is intended to extract the fluid product (10) contained in the reservoir on operation of the dispensing device (3), the reservoir (1) and the dip tube (2) being made from a material or materials that are substantially or perfectly transparent, where the said dip tube initially contains air (A), and the dip tube (2) is connected to the dispensing device and has one free end extending to the bottom of the reservoir,the method being characterized in that the air (A) is extracted from the dip tube (2) and is replaced by the fluid product.
US08646243B2	Apparatus for formulating and aseptically filling liquid products An apparatus and method are provided for formulating and aseptically filling liquid products. A first liquid source includes at least one first liquid component; a second liquid source includes at least one second liquid component; and a container includes a body defining an empty, sterile storage chamber therein that is sealed with respect to ambient atmosphere. The container is introduced into a sterile filling chamber. A first filling member coupled in fluid communication with the first liquid source is placed in fluid communication with the storage chamber of the container located in the sterile filling chamber, and the first liquid component is aseptically introduced through the first filling member and into the storage chamber. A second filling member coupled in fluid communication with the second liquid source is placed in fluid communication with the storage chamber of the container located in the sterile filling chamber, and the second liquid component is aseptically introduced through the second filling member and into the storage chamber and, in turn, the first and second liquid components are combined into a liquid product formulation within the sterile chamber of the container. The first and second filling members are withdrawn from fluid communication with the storage chamber of the container located within the sterile filling chamber, and the filled storage chamber is sealed with respect to ambient atmosphere to hermetically seal the liquid product formulation within the storage chamber of the container.
US08646240B1	Method and apparatus for forming a mast assembly A method and apparatus for forming a mast assembly upon a floor of a drilling rig has a support structure, a first carriage assembly affixed to one side of the support structure and a second carriage assembly affixed to an opposite side of the support structure. Each of the first and second carriage assemblies are connectable to a section of the mast assembly. Drive cylinders are associated with the first and second carriage assemblies so as to cause the section of the mast assembly to move upwardly relative to the support structure. While the section of the mast assembly is retained in an elevated position, another section of the mast assembly can be placed within the support structure and joined to the elevated mast section. Additional mast sections can be connected together in a similar manner.
US08646239B2	Modular building block building system A system and method for constructing and using modular building blocks. The blocks may include two walls, a course, end conditions, a reinforcing assembly, and vertical and lateral retaining members. The walls may include lateral supports disposed lengthwise on a top and a bottom surface. Lateral retainer members may be disposed into the lateral supports. The walls may also include channels extending from the top surface to the bottom surface. Vertical retainer members may be disposed into the channels. The course may be disposed between and coupled to the walls and characterized by one or more turns. The reinforcing assembly may be set inside the walls and the course. The reinforcing assembly may include wire mesh portions disposed to form interlocks, where the interlocks provide structural support for the channels. The modular building blocks may be coupled together with structurally complimentary end conditions.
US08646234B2	Lath furring strips The present invention provides a lath furring strip having a height not exceeding 0.365 inches which has improved waterproofing capabilities by incorporating the lath furring strip into other architectural structures such as reveals, expansion joints, and window flange, coverings. By integrating these structures with a lath furring strip having water proofing features, there is increased water proofing of the entire architectural structure. One of more moisture barriers can easily be applied to the wall or furring strips that prevents seepage of moisture from the stucco on the lath to a wall or framing.
US08646229B2	Curtain wall external support system A curtain wall mounting system adapted for cantilevered support of at least one structure outwardly therefrom. The curtain wall mounting system including an anchor plate having dual plates and adapted for integral mounting with a curtain wall web section. The curtain wall web section includes one of a hollow tongue web extending outwardly of a curtain wall vertical mullion in a first direction and an integrally formed flange region extending outwardly of the curtain wall vertical mullion in the first direction. The curtain wall web section includes a first set of fastening apertures oriented transversely to the first direction and formed. The anchor plate includes at least one generally planer body portion having a first set of mating apertures adapted for alignment in registry with the first set of fastening apertures of the web. The anchor plate further having a second set of apertures adapted for securing structures outwardly therefrom.
US08646220B2	Combination wood and plastic enclosure A system or kit of wood and plastic component materials is provided which can readily be assembled to form a structure. The components are precut so that measurement and cutting of the component materials is eliminated. The components are readily assembled using conventional fasteners. Components have precut notches in order to facilitate the assembly of the components without the requirement for measurements. This assures that the components will be assembled correctly and eliminates the opportunity for inaccurate measurements. The roof is formed from plastic panels secured to wooden trusses. The floor is formed from plastic panels secured to the wood framing of the walls. The plastic roof panels and plastic floor panels are designed to be secured to each other and to the wood frames to assure heavy duty interlocking construction of the components.
US08646217B2	Device and methods for preventing the obstruction of gutters by leaves and other debris A gutter insert for preventing the clogging of gutters and devices that are used for conducting a fluid to a desired location. The gutter insert can be connected end-to-end to produce a modular gutter insert having a desired length for placement in a gutter or like device. Closed ends on each segment of the modular gutter insert provide a plurality of internal screens for preventing debris from flowing towards downstream gutter downspouts and outlets.
US08646214B2	Weather strip A weather strip 10 has a trim portion 20 and a hollow seal portion 40. The trim portion 20 is made up of an external sidewall 21, a bottom wall 23 and an internal sidewall 22 to thereby be given a substantially U-shaped cross section. A first flange holding lip 24 is formed on an interior surface of either of the external sidewall 21 and the internal sidewall 22 so as to be positioned on an opening side of the trim portion 20, a second flange holding lip 25 is formed on the interior surface of the same sidewall so as to be positioned on a bottom wall side of the trim portion 20, and opposite flange holding lips 26, 27 are formed on an interior surface of the other of the external sidewall 21 and the internal sidewall 22 so as to be positioned between the first flange holding lip 24 and the second flange holding lip 25 while extending therefrom.
US08646213B2	Glass run for motor vehicle A glass run capable of being readily attached to corner parts of a door frame of a door of a motor vehicle such that an end edge of a corner cover of the glass run can be securely engaged with an end of a corner piece. A corner cover adapted to cover a vehicle-exterior surface of the corner piece like an arcuate configuration is formed in a corner section of the glass run. An arcuate end edge of the corner cover defines a corner cover lip for contacting an end of the corner piece, and a corner cover engaging wall is formed in the corner cover so as to protrude inwardly from a vehicle-interior surface of the corner cover lip. The corner cover engaging wall and the corner cover lip define an engaging groove, and a plurality of corner cover inclination ribs are formed so as to respectively have an inclined surface connecting the corner cover engaging wall and the vehicle-interior surface of the corner cover lip.
US08646210B2	Device for adjusting the orientation of a porthole in an open position A device for setting the position of a closing element for a porthole in an open position toward the outside around an opening in a wall of a room includes a protruding part with a circular shape fastened to the wall around the opening by means of at least one fastener, and a joining part that has a first end connecting a hinged end of the closing element to the protruding part. The protruding part has at least one first groove. The joining part has a second end movable in the at least one first groove, and the movement of the second end in the at least one first groove entails movement of the closing element in the open position around the opening. In a closed position, the closing element integrally covers the protruding part in order to seal the porthole in the closed position.
US08646208B2	Selectable-mode door assembly and related method The present invention generally relates to selectable-mode vehicle door assemblies. Some embodiments include door assemblies that are capable of operating in a sliding mode, and in a swinging mode according to user selection. Some embodiments can include one or more doorframes that can be selectably engaged in a swing mode or a slide mode. Other embodiments generally relate to methods associated with selectable-mode door assemblies.
US08646207B1	Self-closing entry system A self-closing entry system includes an entrance, a base support member located at one side of the entrance, a bearing arrangement attached to the base support member, a gate surface member pivotably mounted to the base support member, a bumper assembly defined by at least one bumper frame member pivotably fastened to the gate surface member at a gate fulcrum, at least one bumper contact element fastened to the at least one bumper frame member, and wherein the at least one bumper contact element is capable of axial rotation about the at least one bumper frame member, a counter-balance assembly extending from the first bumper frame member to the second bumper frame member, and a means for latching the gate system, allowing the gate surface member to move in one direction upon activation of a latching control means.
US08646206B2	System for presence detection in a door assembly Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system of presence detection in a door assembly for the prevention of patient/detainee suicide, comprising: a door frame, wherein the door frame defines an opening; a door mounted in said opening, wherein the door is allowed to operate from open to closed position with respect to the door frame; a presence sensing arrangement, which allows detection of the presence of an object near the surfaces of the door, door frame, and the upper and lower surfaces of the door or door frame from open to closed position. Placement of presence sensors on the upper or lower surfaces of the door allows presence detection when a patient/detainee attempts to drape a ligature object across or underneath said surfaces. A control system may monitor the system, and can activate an alarm system for early detection and prevention.
US08646201B2	Shot indicating resetting trigger firearm training system A firearm training tool having a shot indicating system in further in one form a trigger take-up indicating system. The trigger module is adjustable to adjust various properties of the trigger.
US08646200B2	Ammunition magazine with an improved magazine base locking An ammunition magazine with an improved base locking, including: a hollow magazine body, a follower, a spring and a magazine base. The magazine body is equipped with track guides that correspond to grooves embodied on the magazine base, that the magazine base is guided onto. The spring is spirally embodied such that the first turn fully encompasses the surface of the magazine base and in the compressed state the rest of the spring, without the first turn, can fully fit into the follower pressed by the spring. The magazine base has a catch on one side and a hole positioned next to the catch. The magazine body has a slit allowing the catch to pass unobstructed into the magazine body and catch the detent spot on the spring positioned inside the magazine body. An advantage is improved safety of magazine base locking to the magazine body and simpler construction.
US08646187B2	Ammunition measurement tool Ammunition measurement tools include a frame having a reference surface adapted to contact a first caliper jaw of a pair of calipers, a gauge element attached to the frame and movable, the gauge element defining a plurality of apertures of different selected diameters, each aperture diameter corresponding to a diameter of a selected part of a cartridge, the gauge element being operable to move to position a selected aperture in registration with a second jaw of the pair of calipers such that the distance from the aperture to the second jaw may be measured to determine a length dimension of a cartridge positioned in the aperture. The gauge element may be rotatably connected to the frame to rotate about an axis. The frame may include an attachment facility operable to secure to the jaw of a pair of calipers.
US08646178B2	Heat exchanger fabrication with improved thermal exchange efficiency In a method for fabricating a heat exchanger, a metal body includes a bore and inlet and outlet connectors fitted to the body at respective inlet and outlet ends of the bore. The connectors each include an inner surface in which annular grooves are formed. A tube is inserted in the bore such that inlet and outlet ends of the tube are respectively located in the inlet and outlet connectors. A mandrel is operated to expand at least a portion of the tube into contact with the body, and to expand the inlet and outlet tube ends into contact with the grooves of the inlet and outlet connectors, respectively. The heat exchanger provides improved thermal exchange efficiency between the tube and the body, and fluid-tight connections between the tube and the inlet and outlet connectors.
US08646154B2	Adjustable door stop system An adjustable door stop system. The system includes a hinge pin having an axis about which the hinge leaves rotate, a top end, and an opposed bottom end. In one embodiment, a hinge pin cap has a first portion extending radially from the top end of the hinge pin and a second cylindrical portion extending from the first portion parallel to the access of the hinge pin. A control cap has an opening to receive the hinge pin therethrough, the control cap having a radially extending first portion and a cylindrical second portion substantially parallel to the axis of the hinge pin. A mechanism is provided to prevent movement of the hinge pin cap with respect to the control cap including a plurality of teeth on the control cap second cylindrical portion and a plurality of teeth of the control cap cylindrical portion which mate with each other.
US08646144B2	Cleaning sheet A cleaning sheet (1) includes at least one continuous-filament aggregate (10) formed by aggregating and orienting a multitude of continuous filaments (11) substantially in one orientation direction. The continuous filaments (11) are joined by a single first joining line (12) extending continuously in a direction orthogonal to the orientation direction of the continuous filaments (11) and are joined by a plurality of second joining lines (13) extending in the orientation direction. In this way, the continuous filaments (11) in the continuous-filament aggregate (10) are kept in an aggregated state. Preferably, the second joining lines (13) are connected to the first joining line (12).
US08646141B2	Lawn sweeper assembly with adjustable brush assembly and hopper assembly and method of use thereof The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit.
US08646135B2	Neck support device A neck support device comprises a flat, portable device comprised of a central malleable but supportive inner core or endoskeleton covered by a comfortable padded shell. The device shapes into a structure, supporting a user's head by translating the weight of the user' head to the user's shoulder, bypassing the neck, thus allowing relaxation of the supportive structures of the neck. The neck support device comprises a flexible and bendable inner core and an outer sheath material. Portions of the device may be bent into a support position by the user to support the user's head. The device may be bent into a substantially flat configuration for storage. The device may comprise contoured padding located for support or comfort and slip-resistant materials or surfaces. The device may translate the weight of the user's head from a head portion to a shoulder portion via a neck portion.
US08646131B2	Variable height siderail A siderail comprises a rail having a lower edge extending longitudinally from a head end to a foot end, and a longitudinally outer link comprising a head side outer link segment and a foot side outer link segment. Each segment is connected to the rail at a joint OR and connected to a host frame at a joint OF. The siderail also includes an inner link longitudinally intermediate the outer link segments and connected to the rail at a joint IR and to the host frame at a joint IF. The head side outer link segment extends longitudinally from approximately the head end of the rail lower edge toward the inner link without longitudinally overlapping the inner link. The foot side outer link segment extends longitudinally from approximately the foot end of the rail lower edge toward the inner link without longitudinally overlapping the inner link.
US08646125B2	Transport apparatus A transport apparatus includes a base, a sling, a support frame mounted to the base. The support frame extends over the base and is configured to move from a first position spaced above the base at a first height wherein the support frame may be extended over and proximate a support surface for engaging the sling when placed on the support surface to a second position spaced above a second height greater than the first height once engaged with the sling wherein when the support frame and the sling are raised to the second position the sling is raised above the support surface so that a person supported on the sling may be lifted off the support surface with the sling and moved away from the support surface by the base. Further, the sling may be rotatably mounted to the support frame to facilitate reorientation of the person.
US08646121B2	Steam and sauna shower panel An apparatus for converting a normal shower room into a steam and sauna facility. The apparatus comprises a vertical panel, a rain shower, a hand held massage means, a back and foot massage means, a seat with seat massage means, a steam and hot air generating means. The apparatus also includes an electronic device incorporating radio, CD player Hook Up, Telephone, Video features and buttons for controlling steam, heat, massage means, Audio and Video means.
US08646115B1	Versatile glove In various embodiments, a glove enables one wearing the glove temporary unsheathed use of one or more of a thumb and an index finger of a hand of the wearer on which the glove is worn. A slide fastener may run along the glove between a distal portion of the glove's index finger-covering portion and a distal portion of the glove's thumb-covering portion. The slide fastener, when opened over a particular amount, provides an opening in the glove to enable the wearer to extend one or more of the wearer's thumb and index finger outside the glove for temporary unsheathed use of the thumb and/or index finger. When the slide is fastener closed, this causes the glove to cover the thumb and index finger.
US08646113B2	Sports glove having improved wrist strap The present invention provides a protective sports glove worn. The glove may be used by athletes during training or in a combative event requiring striking to protect against injury and increase performance, including, but not limited to, total force transference, grip strength, striking force and speed, muscular endurance, time to contraction, etc. These gloves have an adjustable dual strapping wrist tie system to secure the gloves to the contour of the hands and ensure they remain tight and fixed. The dual strapping system seeks to provide increased wrist and hand rigidity that mirrors a tightness of hand wrap bandages for maximal bone and tendon support of the hands and wrists. This system increases the transfer of force to the point of impact.
US08650659B2	Method and apparatus for securing media asset distribution for a marketing process A method and apparatus for securing media asset distribution for a marketing process is described. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a dynamic security component for each media asset allocation to at least one receiver, wherein the dynamic security component verifies the at least one receiver upon login, coupling the dynamic security component to at least one file having a media asset and communicating a locator reference associated with the at least one file to the at least one receiver, wherein the locator reference is created using the dynamic security component.
US08650655B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing program According to one embodiment, there is provided a an information processing apparatus, including: a program acceptance portion; a program storage portion; a first function type storage portion; a function type extraction portion; a second function type storage portion; a first alternate function type storage portion; an alternate function type extraction portion; a second alternate function type storage portion; a selection portion; a judging portion; an updating portion; and a protection attribute determination portion.
US08650653B2	Trusted graphics rendering for safer browsing on mobile devices The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for determining a safety level of a requested uniform resource locator (URL) on a mobile device. Secure memory may be configured to host at least one database comprising a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs) and to also host information representing at least one logo indicative of a safety level of the URLs in the database. Secure circuitry may be configured to compare a requested URL with the database to determine if the requested URL corresponds to one of the URLs of the database and to select an appropriate logo stored in the secure memory. The secure circuitry may be further configured to direct overlay circuitry to blend the appropriate logo onto rendered data from a frame buffer video memory for display to a user.
US08650643B2	Method and apparatus for providing adaptive self-synchronized dynamic address translation as an intrusion detection sensor A translator is provided for translating predetermined portions of packet header information including an address of a data packet according to a cipher algorithm keyed by a cipher key derived by a key exchanger. A mapping device is also provided for mapping the address to a host table stored in memory. If the address does not match an entry in the host table, a security device is triggered.
US08650642B2	System and method for below-operating system protection of an operating system kernel A below-operating system security agent may be configured to: (i) trap attempted accesses to the components of the operating system and the set of drivers executing on the electronic device; (ii) in response to trapping an attempted access, compare contextual information associated with the attempted access to an access map; and (iii) determine if the attempted access is trusted based on the comparison. The access map may be generated by: (i) trapping, at a level below all of the operating systems of a second electronic device accessing components of the second operating system and the second set of drivers executing on the second electronic device and each substantially free of malware, accesses to components of the second operating system and the second set of drivers executing on the second electronic device; and (ii) in response to trapping the accesses, recording contextual information regarding the accesses to the access map.
US08650640B2	Using a declaration of security requirements to determine whether to permit application operations Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a declaration of security requirements to determine whether to permit application operations. A declaration of security requirements indicates actions the application designates to perform with respect to resources in a computer system, wherein a plurality of the indicated actions are indicated for at least two operation modes of the application. A detection is made of whether the application is requesting to perform a requested action with respect to a requested resource in the computer system. A determination is made of a current operation mode of the application comprising one of the at least two operation modes in response to detecting that the application is requesting the requested action. A determination is made as to whether the declaration of security requirements indicates the requested action with the current operation mode. The requested action with respect to the requested resource is allowed to proceed in response to determining that the declaration of security requirements indicates the requested action with respect to the requested resource as indicated with the current operation mode.
US08650636B2	Picture gesture authentication In one embodiment, a picture signature password system may use a picture signature password to determine access to a computing device or service. A display screen 172 may display a personalized digital image 310. A user input device 160 may receive a user drawing set executed by a user over the personalized digital image 310. A processor 120 may authenticate access to the user session if the user drawing set matches a library drawing set associated with the user.
US08650634B2	Enabling access to a subset of data A method includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more replicated authorization databases. At least one of the one or more replicated authorization databases corresponds to a subscription to access selected data. The selected data is aggregated from a plurality of sources. The method also includes storing the one or more replicated authorization databases at the computing device. The method also includes determining, via the replicated authorization databases, user permission to access the selected data via the computing device. The method also includes enabling access to the selected data at the computing device after determining the user permission to access the selected data.
US08650631B2	Server protection from distributed denial of service attacks A network device connects between a client and a server. The network device is configured to store information regarding an application operating on the server; receive a first message, from the client, intended for the server; generate a second message in response to the first message; send the second message to the client; receive a third message from the client; generate, based on the information regarding the application on the server, a fourth message, that includes the information regarding the application operating on the server; send the fourth message to the client; receive a service request from the client in response to the fourth message; and establish, based on the service request, a connection between the client and the server.
US08650625B2	Method and system for secure authentication of a user by a host system A method and system for securely logging onto a banking system authentication server so that a user credential never appears in the clear during interaction with the system in which a user's credential is DES encrypted, and the DES key is PKI encrypted with the public key of an application server by an encryption applet before being transmitted to the application server. Within the HSM of the application server, the HSM decrypts and re-encrypts the credential under a new DES key known to the authentication server, the re-encrypted credential is forwarded to the authentication server, decrypted with the new DES key known to the authentication server, and verified by the authentication server.
US08650619B2	Method and apparatus of automated discovery in a communication network An automated method is provided for mutual discovery between a network entity and a client entity that cooperate for providing a service in a machine-to-machine environment. In an embodiment, the network entity receives an identifier in a communication from a server on behalf of the client entity. At some point in time, the network entity receives a communication containing the identifier from the client entity. Before or after receiving the client entity communication, the network entity discovers itself to the client entity. Some time after receiving the client entity communication, the network entity authenticates the client entity, establishes a permanent security association with the client entity, and initiates the service.
US08650615B2	Cross domain delegation by a storage virtualization system The present is a system and method for preserving user account security privileges during a migration or re-direction of data from one network attached storage (“NAS”) system to another. Certain NAS systems authenticate user accounts using Kerberos Delegation Technology. In addition, some NAS systems feature the ability to constrain delegation to certain services. While effective in limiting access and promoting network security, this constrained delegation restricts the ability of a storage virtualization system to migrate or re-direct data to other NAS systems, especially if the other NAS system resides or is identified by a different domain name. The present invention is a system and method for storing user account credentials that work with the former NAS system, and providing a way to translate these credentials to a new NAS system with a new domain, permitting seamless data migration and re-direction across domains.
US08650614B2	Interactive phishing detection (IPD) Systems and methods for use with a client device and a server provide interactive phishing detection at the initiation of the user. Detection of phishing is based on the user's comparison of a visual indicator sent from the server to the client device with a another identical looking visual indicator displayed, for example, on a trusted website. Several security measures may be employed such as changing the visual indicator periodically, generating the visual indicator in a random manner, and authenticating the client device to the server before the server will transmit the visual indicator to the client device. User comparison of the website-displayed visual indicator with the user's client device user interface-displayed visual indicator may facilitate user verification of authenticity of a software application.
US08650606B2	Cable communication systems and methods employing 256-QAM upstream channels and having increased upstream capacity for supporting voice and/or data services Cable communication systems and methods to provide voice and/or data services to subscriber premises via a cable plant that conveys upstream information over an upstream path bandwidth, and a cable modem system including one or more demodulation tuners to receive and demodulate one or more upstream radio frequency (RF) signals. An RF signal includes an encoded carrier wave having a carrier frequency of between approximately 5 MHz and at least approximately 42 MHz that is modulated using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with voice and/or data information constituting at least some of the upstream information. A modulation order of the QAM for the first upstream RF signal is at least 256, and at least one demodulation tuner of the cable modem system is configured to receive and demodulate the first upstream RF signal.
US08650603B2	Playing out interludes based on predicted duration of channel-switching delay or of invoked pause When the user initiates the retrieval of the primary content information item by means of entering a user input into the data processing system, e.g. zapping a digital TV that switches channels upon receipt of the user input, he/she has to wait a noticeable time before the rendering and play-out of the primary content information item actually starts. The length of the delay is predicted, on the basis of which one or more secondary content items are rendered and played out to the user during this delay. The invention can also be used for bridging the waiting time in an online ordering system, when loading a program on a personal computer, and in an IMS-based IPTV network.
US08650602B2	Input queued content switching using a playlist Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for input queued content switching using a playlist. A retrieval sequence is generated using a plurality of content requests based on content location information. A first portion of content is requested to be queued at a first content source, and a second portion of content is requested to be queued at a second content source. A content stream of the first portion and the second portion of content is generated using the retrieval sequence. The generating includes selecting the first portion of content from a queue associated with the first content source and transferring the first portion of content to an output buffer, then terminating transfer of the first portion of content and initiating transfer of the second portion of content from a queue associated with the second content source. The portion of content in the output buffer is transmitted to a client device.
US08650596B2	Multi-axis television navigation An exemplary multi-axis television navigation system defines television navigation axes according to attributes of television programs. In one implementation, if a television program has an attribute defining an axis, then the exemplary system links a predefined database query associated with the axis to metadata for the television program. When launched, the predefined query returns a sequence of navigable television programs having the attribute that defines the axis.
US08650592B2	Streaming server and mobile terminal for reducing channel-changing delay, and a method therefor Provided is a method and apparatus for reducing zapping delay, which may transmit base layer data for each burst in a time-slicing scheme, and output the base layer data of a channel to be changed at the time of changing the channel, thereby reducing the zapping delay.
US08650589B2	System for provisioning media services A system for monitoring order fulfillment of telecommunication services is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a monitoring system having a controller element that submits a correlation ID to a service orchestration system (SOS) that manages one or more order fulfillment systems (OFSs) that collectively fulfill a select one of a plurality of telecommunication service orders according to a plurality of intermediate fulfillment steps, receives from the SOS information associated with the plurality of intermediate fulfillment steps tagged with the correlation ID, records said information according to the correlation ID, and collects correlated fulfillment activity for the plurality of telecommunication service orders from a plurality of iterations of the foregoing steps. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08650584B2	Disc mounting in optical disc drives The embodiments herein describe an apparatus and method for a reduced Z stack slot loading optical disc drive (ODD). In one embodiment a reduced Z stack height slot loading optical disc drive (ODD) is described. The reduced Z stack height ODD includes at least a hub/turntable arrangement having a hub portion and a turntable portion, the turntable portion arranged to support an optical disc secured thereto by way of the hub such that when a rotational motive force is applied to the hub/combination, the optical disc rotates about a hub/turntable axis of rotation, and a rotational motor adjacent to the hub/turntable arrangement, the rotational motor being arranged to provide the rotational motive force to the hub/turntable arrangement, the rotational motor being located in such a way that a rotational motor axis of rotation is translated in a direction perpendicular to the hub/turntable axis of rotation and wherein a Z height of the hub/turntable arrangement and a Z height of the rotational motor are not cumulative.
US08650582B2	Processing data communications messages with input/output control blocks Processing data communications messages with an Input/Output Control Block (‘IOCB’) ring that includes a number of IOCBs characterized by a priority and arranged in sequential priority for serial operation, where processing the messages includes depositing message data in one or more IOCBs according to depositing criteria; processing, by a message processing module associated with an IOCB having a priority less than the present value of a state counter, the message data in the IOCB while a message processing module associated with an IOCB having a next priority waits; increasing, upon completion of processing the message data of the IOCB having a priority less than the present value of the state counter, the present value of the state counter to a value greater than the next priority; and processing, by the message processing module associated with the IOCB having the next priority, the message data in the IOCB.
US08650580B2	Data communications in a parallel active messaging interface of a parallel computer Data communications in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the parallel computer including a plurality of compute nodes that execute a parallel application, the PAMI composed of data communications endpoints, each endpoint including a specification of data communications parameters for a thread of execution on a compute node, including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, the compute nodes and the endpoints coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through data communications resources, including receiving in an origin endpoint of the PAMI a data communications instruction, the instruction characterized by an instruction type, the instruction specifying a transmission of transfer data from the origin endpoint to a target endpoint and transmitting, in accordance with the instruction type, the transfer data from the origin endpoint to the target endpoint.
US08650578B1	System and method for intercepting process creation events A system for detecting creation of a program instance includes an interceptor routine that obtains a parameter corresponding to a characteristic of a program instance and an interceptor module that can be injected into a native operating system process. In certain examples, the interceptor module can replace an address of a selected routine in an address table with an address to the interceptor routine, such that the native operating system process can call the interceptor routine in place of the selected routine. Additionally, the system can include a comparison module that compares the parameter to a set of identified programs to determine whether the program instance corresponds to at least one of the identified programs. The system can also include a security module that can modify execution of the program instance based at least in part on a determination that the program instance corresponds to at least one identified program.
US08650577B2	Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a scheduling function of giving a processing order to each of a plurality of tasks is supported. The present invention includes a memory including an operating system having a scheduler configured to perform a second scheduling function on a plurality of tasks, each having a processing order first-scheduled in accordance with a first reference and a processor performing an operation related to the operating system, the processor processing a plurality of the tasks. Moreover, if a first task among a plurality of the first-scheduled tasks meets a second reference, the scheduler performs the second scheduling function by changing the processing orders to enable the first task to be preferentially processed.
US08650564B2	Method and system for synchronizing fault-tolerant virtual machines and adjusting CPU resource limit based on execution latency Primary and secondary virtual machines each executing on a separate physical host and forming a fault-tolerant pair synchronize their execution with each other as closely as possible such that the secondary can take over execution of the primary with little or no disruption of service and no loss of data. To provide fast takeover, the execution latency between the two virtual machines is kept to a minimum by incrementally adjusting the CPU allocation to the primary virtual machine. The CPU allocation to the primary virtual machine decreases when the execution latency is large and increases when the execution latency is small. In order to maximize the performance of the primary virtual machine, the system seeks to maximize the CPU resource limit for the primary virtual machine for as long as possible while minimizing the execution latency.
US08650562B2	Method and apparatus for scalable monitoring of virtual machine environments combining base virtual machine and single monitoring agent for measuring common characteristics and individual virtual machines measuring individualized characteristics A method monitors machine activity of multiple virtual computing devices operating through at least one physical computing device by running a monitoring agent. The monitoring agent monitors performance of the multiple virtual computing devices. The method measures simple operating characteristics of only a base level virtual computing device. The method monitors complex operating characteristics using the monitoring agent by: measuring the complex operating characteristics for each of the multiple virtual computing devices (using each of the multiple virtual computing devices); recording the complex operating characteristics of each of the multiple virtual computing devices on a corresponding memory page of each of the multiple virtual computing devices; and sharing each the corresponding memory page with the base level virtual computing device through an interdomain communications channels to transfer the complex operating characteristics to the monitoring agent. The method identifies simple events and complex events for each of the multiple virtual computing devices by evaluating the simple operating characteristics and the complex operating characteristics and outputs the simple events and the complex events for each of the multiple virtual computing devices.
US08650557B2	Information processing apparatus and method for transferring license An information processing apparatus includes an install unit to receive install data for software to install the software for providing a function, an acquisition unit to acquire a license file for activating the function, a management unit to manage information indicative of presence or absence of a license to use the function, independently of presence or absence of the license file, and an update unit to update the information indicative of presence or absence of the license upon transferring the license between apparatuses.
US08650536B2	Modular server architecture A method for using a program to convert a schema to a software data structure includes automatically converting the schema to the software data structure, merging shadow software functionality with the automatically converted software data structure to form a merged software, and executing the merged software.
US08650533B2	Management of variants of an enterprise process A method can include receiving an indicator that an enterprise process has been selected from a plurality of enterprise processes, and receiving an enterprise process value defining at least a portion of a mandatory process step associated with a mandatory portion of the enterprise process, and an enterprise process parameter value defining at least a portion of an optional process step related to the mandatory process step. The method can include receiving an indicator that a filter from a set of filters has been selected, and defining a representation of the mandatory process step and a representation of the optional process step in response to the filter being selected. The method can also include receiving an indicator that the optional process step has been selected for binding to the mandatory portion of the enterprise process in a variant of the enterprise process.
US08650530B2	Data center programming and application distribution interface An exemplary data center interface for distributing and monitoring Web applications includes a specification that specifies a call statement to distribute one or more components of a Web application to one or more data centers and a call statement to report metrics associated with performance of the Web application. An exemplary data center interface for associating advertisements with distributed Web applications includes a specification that specifies a call statement and one or more call statement parameters to associate an advertisement with one or more distributed Web applications based on at least one criterion. Various other devices, systems and methods are also described.
US08650528B2	Electric information processing method in CAD system, device thereof, program, and computer-readable storage medium It is possible to improve workability of a design work by handling electric information between one object and other objects associated with the object. A plurality of objects are inputted and electric information is inputted to the objects. Among the objects, mutually connected objects are virtually made into a single object. According to electric information in each of the objects, i.e., the virtually unified single object and the other objects excluding the virtually unified single object, objects having the common electric information are connected by straight lines. According to the straight lines, a figure connecting the objects is inputted. A condition for connecting the objects in the figure is inputted. According to the condition, circuit parts are built and signal information is set in a terminal of the circuit parts.
US08650525B2	Integrated circuit compilation Systems and methods for increasing speed and reducing processing power of a compile process of programmable logic of an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. For example, in one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a high level program, comprising computer-readable instructions for implementation on programmable logic of an integrated circuit (IC); translating the high level program into low level code representative of functional components needed to execute functionalities of the high level program; generating a host program comprising computer-readable instructions for implementing the low level code based upon the high level program; obtaining modifications to the high level program; determining whether the modifications can be implemented by a new host program utilizing the low level code; and generating the new host program to implement the modifications, when the modifications can be implemented by the new host program utilizing the low level code.
US08650520B2	Integrated circuit module and manufacturing methods and application thereof An exemplary integrated circuit module includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor has a first channel length and a first threshold voltage. The second transistor is electrically coupled to the first transistor and has a second channel length and a second threshold voltage. The second channel length is greater than the first channel length, the absolute value of the second threshold voltage is smaller than the absolute value of the first threshold voltage, and the first transistor and the second transistor have a same threshold voltage implant concentration. Moreover, a manufacturing method of such integrated circuit module, and an application of such integrated circuit module to computer aided design of logic circuit also are provided.
US08650515B2	Validation of circuit definitions Systems and methods for validating a circuit design are described. The circuit validation includes determining a subset of checks to apply to a portion of the overall circuit based on the pin type composition of the circuit portion.
US08650507B2	Selecting of text using gestures In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented text selection method is performed using an electronic device having a touch-sensitive display. The method can include displaying text on the touch screen display; detecting a text selection initiation gesture with the touch screen display; and in response to the text selection initiation gesture, inserting a text selection area bounded by a first endpoint located in the text at a first location and a second endpoint in the text at a second location. First and second endpoints can be moved by performing further gestures on the touch-sensitive display. Furthermore, word processing functions can be performed on the on the text located in the text selection area.
US08650505B2	Multi-state unified pie user interface A state menu selection system that provides a function control set relating to an active application, maps at least one function from the function control set to at least one input device, and activates a function from the control set upon activation of the corresponding input device.
US08650501B2	User interface with preview transitions A user interface is described that temporarily displays portions of a page that reside outside of the viewable area of the screen. An animated transition creates a brief preview of at least one user interface feature. Additionally, the user interface feature is then animated out of the viewable area in a way to suggest a location of the feature. In one embodiment, a target page that is being opened controls the transition and animates features into and out of the viewable area to create the temporary preview. In another embodiment, the target page includes user interface elements that can asynchronously control the preview animation independent from the main content of the target page. In yet another embodiment, a transition coordinator can coordinate the timing between animating out a foreground application while animating in a target application.
US08650499B2	Selecting and identifying view overlay information for electronic display A method of managing the display of overlay information in one or more views. For each overlay item available for display in a current view, it is determined whether the available item has an item type currently selected for display. For each available item having a currently selected item type, the item is included for display in the current view and the type of the item is included for display in a legend. Omitted from the legend are any item type(s) for which no item is included for display in the current view. Overall ease of use of electronic displays can be improved and electronic flight box display screens can be de-cluttered.
US08650497B2	Presenting question and answer data in a social networking system A social networking system includes a question and answer system that displays to a viewing user questions and answers provides by other users of the social networking system. The question and answer system may display answers to a particular question in a way that visually indicates both the global answer set and a subset of the global answer set, such as the viewing user's friends. The social networking system may also display to a viewing user news stories about another user asking or answering a question, where the format of the displayed new stories is based on an affinity that the viewing user has for the user who provided the question or answer mentioned in the news story. The displayed questions and/or answers may be associated with an object in the social networking system, where the user interface provides additional information about those objects.
US08650472B2	Calendar outputting method and apparatus for the same, and recording medium A size of a region to be allocated to an image layout date is bigger than a size of a region to be allocated to a date other than the image layout date (image-not-layout date). An image to be allocated to the image layout date is enlarged so that a size of the image matches a size of an allocation region allocated to the image layout date, and the enlarged images is laid. Characters indicating the dates are arranged to regions allocated to previous dates, the image layout date, and following dates. Accordingly, a calendar with an attractive appearance can be generated by altering the layout of the dates and information to be output, even if a user has taken photographs on not so many days in the unit such as a month or a week.
US08650465B2	Efficient storage of error correction information in DRAM A method for data storage includes encoding input data with an Error Correction Code (ECC), to produce encoded data. The encoded data is formatted in a super-frame consisting of a given number of burst sequences arranged in parallel, each burst sequence consisting of one or more bursts of multiple bytes of the encoded data. The burst sequences of the super-frame are stored in respective memory devices over a single data bus having a bus width, in bytes, that is equal to the given number.
US08650460B2	Electronic apparatus, method of correcting detection data, and sensor unit An electronic apparatus includes a sensor unit including a sensing device and configured to transmit detection data acquired with the sensing device; a computing device configured to receive the detection data and compute the corrected value of the detection data; and a memory containing, together with identification information, correction information for computing the corrected value A characteristic of the corrected value is switched by the computing device switching, in accordance with the identification information contained in the memory, a correcting operation method for computing the corrected value using the correction information contained in the memory.
US08650459B1	Soft input, soft ouput mappers and demappers for block codes A log-likelihood ratio (LLR) for a bit bi in a message is determined by generating a first term, including by summing LLRs corresponding to bits in a first codeword having a specified value. The first codeword has a corresponding first message and bit bi of the first message corresponds to a 0. A second term is generated, including by summing LLRs corresponding to bits in a second codeword having the specified value. The second codeword has a corresponding second message and bit bi of the second message corresponds to a 1. The LLR for bit bi in the message is generated based at least in part on the first term and the second term.
US08650458B2	Methods of encoding/decoding for error correction code utilizing interdependent portions of codewords and related circuits A method of encoding/decoding data for storage and retrieval from a flash memory device, by generating a first error correction code on a combination of first user data to be stored in a first logical unit of storage in the flash memory device and padding data derived from second user data and an associated second error correction code stored in a second logical unit of storage in the flash memory device. The first user data and the first error correction code can be stored in the first logical unit of storage.
US08650454B2	Error detecting code for multi-character, multi-lane, multi-level physical transmission A system (e.g., Fiber Channel Error Detecting Code (FC-EDC)) that maps the “standard” Hamming codes onto the bits of a 33-bit control block is provided. The system employs a “rotation” of the check positions in a two-dimensional parity-check matrix for the FC-EDC. The specification discloses a computer-implemented program to test further modifications and permutations of the “standard” distance-4 parity-check matrix to yield an FC-EDC with enhanced error-detecting properties, designed to detect the most likely errors in the known physical environment. By using a parity-check matrix with the “rotation” property, certain error-detecting properties of the parity-check matrix are ensured, and the computation time for searching for a matrix with enhanced error-detecting properties becomes much shorter.
US08650448B2	Retransmission techniques in wireless networks Retransmission techniques are disclosed. These techniques may be used in networks employing contention-based access schemes, such as CSMA. For instance, a device may receive a corrupted packet from a transmitting device, and determine a cause of the corruption. When the determined cause of the corruption is an in-network packet collision, the device allows the transmitting device to send a retransmission of the packet in accordance with a contention-based access scheme. However, when the determined cause of the corruption is other than an in-network packet collision, the device provides retransmission assistance to the transmitting device. This retransmission assistance may include a channel reservation for a retransmission, and/or one or more link adaptation suggestions for the transmitting device.
US08650445B2	Systems and methods for remote monitoring in a computer network Systems and methods for providing automated problem reporting in elements used in conjunction with computer networks are disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of elements that perform data migration operations and a reporting manager or monitor agent which monitors the elements and data migration operations. Upon detection of hardware or software problems, the reporting manager or monitor agent automatically communicates with elements affected by the problem to gather selected hardware, software, and configuration information, analyzes the information to determine causes of the problem, and issues a problem report containing at least a portion of the selected information. The problem report is communicated to a remote monitor that does not possess access privileges to the elements, allowing automated, remote monitoring of the elements without compromising security of the computer network or elements.
US08650444B2	Operation management device and operation management method An operation management device includes a collecting unit to receive management data of elements provided in a plurality of management target devices, an analyzing unit to obtain a dependency relation of problematic data defined as data of devices with occurrence of the problem in the received management data according to definition information which defines a dependency relation between the elements and to obtain a dependency relation of non-problematic data defined as data of the devices with non-occurrence of the problem in the received management data according to the definition information, and a comparing unit to obtain management data of a common element by comparing the problematic data with the non-problematic data and to extract a difference between the problematic data and the non-problematic data with respect to management data of elements dependent on the common element.
US08650439B2	Apparatus and method for fault tolerant FOTA update An apparatus and method for fault tolerant Firmware-Over-The-Air (FOTA) update are provided. The method includes computing a checksum for each sector of a partially updated firmware, for each sector of the partially updated firmware, determining a last instruction in an update package that was applied to that sector, based on checksums included in the update package and the computed checksums of the sectors of the partially updated firmware, determining a last instruction of the update package that was applied to the partially updated firmware prior to the interruption based on the last instruction applied to each sector, and resuming the update procedure starting from an instruction immediately following the last applied instruction.
US08650436B2	Systems and methods for recovering information from NAND gates array memory systems A method is disclosed for recovering data associated with a damaged file stored in a NAND gate array memory. The method includes the steps of: identifying all meta data associated with the damaged file; identifying each logical block address of all identified meta data; collecting all physical block addresses associated with one of the identified logical block addresses or the identified meta data; counting in a replace table (ReplTable) a number of matches to a physical block address of the damaged file for each physical block address of the damaged file; choosing a block in a linked list that corresponds to the physical block address of the block in the linked list; and linking all chosen blocks to form a replicated file.
US08650431B2	Non-disruptive hardware change A method, system, and computer program product for changing hardware in a data processing system without disrupting processes executing on the data processing system. A hardware change to a selected portion of hardware in the data processing system may be required, such as to repair hardware errors or to implement a system update. Responsive to a determination that a hardware change to the selected portion of the hardware is required, a process being performed by the selected portion is moved from the selected portion of the hardware to an alternate portion of the hardware. The hardware change is applied to the selected portion of the hardware. The selected portion of the hardware is returned for use by the data processing system after the hardware change is applied.
US08650417B2	Method and apparatus for managing power in computer systems The invention is directed towards minimizing power consumption in computer systems. One embodiment of the invention is a power management system that is used for a computer system that has at least one device and one power domain. This embodiment uses two different power managers to manage the power consumption of the device and the power domain. Specifically, this embodiment has (1) a first power manager that determines when to change power state of the device, and (2) a second power manager that determines when to change power state of the power domain. Each of these power managers decides to change the power state of its corresponding device or domain based on information from several different sources. These sources can include power-management clients and power managers of related domains or devices.
US08650416B2	Communications network with nodes having power control capability A communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, each comprising a network device and a network interface, at least one of the nodes having a first local power manager associated therewith and adapted to control power to the network device.
US08650411B2	Energy management for an electronic device Energy management of an electronic device using multiple electric power sources. The electric power sources may include a parasitic electric power source, a rechargeable electric power source, an intermittent electric power source, and a continuous electric power source. The electronic device further may include a power supply for receiving the electric power from the source(s) and supplying electric power to the various components of the electronic device that require power. The electronic device may include a source selector for controlling which power source supplies electric power to the power supply. Energy management of the electronic device may be configured to use a permanently exhaustible power source such as a battery only when other power sources are unavailable.
US08650410B2	Musical content data processing apparatus A storage portion stores musical contents in which a plurality of musical content material data sets each of which is given a piece of identification information and is encrypted are recorded, and location information for identifying respective locations at which the respective musical content material data sets are situated in the musical contents. The respective locations of the musical content material data sets are correlated with the respective identification information pieces of the musical content material data sets. For use of a desired musical content material data set, the location at which the musical content material data set having designated identification information is stored in the musical contents is identified on the basis of the location information. On the basis of the identified location, the desired musical content material data set is extracted and decrypted.
US08650406B2	Memory protection and security using credentials A computer-implemented system and method for protecting a memory are provided. The system includes a memory section with privileged and non-privileged sections, a host gateway (HG) to generate a capability credential, a device controller (DC) to append the credential to data transmitted to the memory, and at least one IO device enabled to do direct memory access (DMA) transactions with the memory.
US08650403B2	Crytographic method for anonymous authentication and separate identification of a user The invention relates to cryptographic method for the anonymous authentication and the identification of a user entity (Ui) respectively by a checking entity (D) and an identifying entity (O). According to this method, the checking entity (D) receives (130) from the user entity (U1) at least one first signature (σ) and a first message (m), and checks (140) the first signature (σ) using the first message (m) in order to authenticate the user (U), and the identifying entity (O) receives (150) from the checking entity (D) a second signature (σ′) connected to the first signature (σ) and identifies (160) the user using the second signature and a secret key particular thereto. The invention also relates to a cryptographic system for implementing said method.
US08650402B2	General data hiding framework using parity for minimal switching A framework is provided for reducing the number of locations modified when hiding data, such as a digital watermark, in binary data. The framework complements data hiding techniques, such as digital watermarking techniques. After determining potential embedding locations according to an underlying technique, a data structure is created with values associated with those locations. A parity calculation is performed on the values in the data structure. The calculated parity is compared with hidden data to determine locations for modifications. Manipulations are then performed to reduce the total number of modifications needed to represent the hidden data. Modifications are made to the binary data according to the underlying technique. During decoding of the hidden data, the same locations can be determined, the same data structure can be created with the modified values, and a parity calculation is then performed to decode the hidden data.
US08650383B2	Vector processing with predicate vector for setting element values based on key element position by executing remaining instruction The described embodiments include a processor that executes a vector instruction. The processor starts by receiving an input vector and optionally receiving a predicate vector as inputs. The processor then executes the vector instruction, which causes the processor to determine a key element position in the input vector and generate a result vector. When generating the result vector, if the predicate vector is received, for each element in the result vector for which a corresponding element of the predicate vector is active, otherwise, for each element of the result vector, the processor sets each element of the result vector to the right of the key element to a first predetermined value and sets each element of the result vector at or to the left of the key element to a second predetermined value. The processor then sets one or more processor status flags based on the values in the result vector.
US08650369B1	Managing data storage A storage unit includes one or more storage devices. In one embodiment, it is determined whether a temperature associated with the storage unit is below a minimum threshold. In another embodiment, it is determined whether a predicted heat load of the storage unit is below a minimum threshold. A predicted heat load for the storage unit is increased by initiating a data operation in the storage devices in response to determining that the temperature, or the predicted heat load, is below the minimum threshold.
US08650366B2	Memory system capable of enhancing writing protection and related method A memory system is disclosed. The memory system includes a memory device, a first control unit, and a second control unit. The memory device is utilized for storing data. The first control unit is coupled to the memory device for prohibiting a data writing process performed on the memory device during a writing protection period. The second control unit is coupled to the memory device for allowing the data writing process to be performed in the memory device according to a writing period after the writing protection period, wherein the writing period is related to the data writing process.
US08650351B2	Electrical power distribution system for a vehicle An electrical and electronic system having a control unit connected to a remotely located electrical center by way of a data bus. The electrical center includes a bus interface unit and a main printed circuit board having a plurality of control devices such as relays, which selectively activate vehicle electrical circuits based on instructions from the control unit. The bus interface unit is that of a daughter board configured to be plugged into the main board of the electrical center, such as a Local Interconnect Network (LIN) interface board, and the data bus may be a LIN bus.
US08650346B2	Method and bus system for equalizing data information traffic and decoder In the field of integrated circuit (IC) design, a method and a bus system for equalizing data information traffic and a decoder are provided. The method includes: receiving data information sent by a device, and allocating at least two transmission interfaces for the data information according to a decoding result of decoding a designated bit in the data information, where the data information carries a device ID, and the designated bit position occupied at least one bit in the device ID; judging whether the data information traffic of the at least two transmission interfaces is balanced; and when the data information traffic of the at least two transmission interfaces is not balanced, switching the designated bit position, and decoding the designated bit after switching, so as to balance the traffic of the at least two transmission interfaces. The bus system includes an interface allocation module, a traffic judging module and a bit position switching module. The decoder includes a decoding module and a designated bit position switching module.
US08650342B2	System and method for distributed address translation in virtualized information handling systems Virtualization of I/O devices to support operation of plural virtual machines on a host information handling system is managed with distributed translation agents that translate addresses generated from I/O devices according to mapping defined by a virtual machine monitor. The translation agents reside in the host I/O subsystem, such as at I/O hubs or at I/O devices. A discovery module discovers and configures plural translation agents to coordinate I/O device communications with translation of physical memory addresses and virtual I/O addresses.
US08650338B2	Fencing direct memory access data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface of a parallel computer Fencing direct memory access (‘DMA’) data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI including data communications endpoints, each endpoint including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, the endpoints coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through DMA controllers operatively coupled to segments of shared random access memory through which the DMA controllers deliver data communications deterministically, including initiating execution through the PAMI of an ordered sequence of active DMA instructions for DMA data transfers between two endpoints, effecting deterministic DMA data transfers through a DMA controller and a segment of shared memory; and executing through the PAMI, with no FENCE accounting for DMA data transfers, an active FENCE instruction, the FENCE instruction completing execution only after completion of all DMA instructions initiated prior to execution of the FENCE instruction for DMA data transfers between the two endpoints.
US08650336B2	Direct memory access (DMA) device with event mover that moves event from event calendar to expired event queue without management of central processing unit The direct memory access device and method of the present invention uses an event calendar, an expired event queue of a fixed size, a calendar scanner, and an event mover. The event calendar stores an event in a linked list. The expired event queue stores an event that has already expired from the event calendar. The calendar scanner automatically scans the event calendar without management by a central processing unit (CPU). The event mover moves an event from the event calendar to the expired event queue without management by the CPU. The method provides for storing the event in the linked list, automatically scanning the event calendar without management by the CPU, moving the event from the event calendar to an expired event queue of a fixed size without management by the CPU, and storing the event that has already expired from the event calendar.
US08650327B2	Processor with programmable virtual ports A processor with programmable virtual ports includes a plurality of in/out (IO) pins for transmitting and receiving data. The IO pins are grouped into a plurality of predefined ports, each of which has a physical address stored in one of a memory location of a memory map. The IO pins may be remapped to one or more virtual ports.
US08650322B2	Manifest mechanism in broadcast involved system A method and an apparatus for receiving manifest information by a client from a broadcast involved system are provided. The method includes accessing the broadcast involved system, receiving timing information comprising a specific entry point to check the manifest information, and acquiring the manifest information from a broadcasting channel using the timing information.
US08650313B2	Endpoint discriminator in network transport protocol startup packets The subject matter disclosed herein relates to communication between a client and a server or between peers in a communications network. In one particular example, only a desired server from a plurality of servers addressable through a socket address may respond to a client request to initiate a session.
US08650311B2	Client device configured to connect with a home network A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. A client device configured to connect to the smart network may implement one or more modules configured to facilitate connecting to the smart network, registering the client device or services running on the client device with the smart network, diagnosing issues with the client device or the smart network, and upgrading the firmware of the client device. The client device may be configured to perform the various operations with minimal input from an owner of the smart network.
US08650309B2	Cascading architecture for audio and video streams An approach to supplying a data stream, for e.g., an internet-based video conference, to multiple client devices in a network, including attempting, at a first client device, to join an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast session in a network in which the first client device is operating and, if unsuccessful to attempt to join a unicast transmission of the data stream from a network node other than the meeting server and that is in a same subnet as the first client device, and if the unicast join within the same subnet is unsuccessful, registering the first client device with the meeting server to obtain at least one candidate node from which to receive the data stream.
US08650308B2	Methods and apparatus for client-side context managers Methods and apparatus for client-side context managers are disclosed. An example context manager implemented on a client machine includes a file system watcher to monitor a location of a file system implemented on the client machine for creation of a new item, wherein a virtual application implemented on a server is provided access to the file system; and a connection establisher to establish a connection between the context manager and the virtual application in response to the creation of the new item in the location of the file system by the virtual application.
US08650307B2	System for automated device-to-device transfer A session transfer module of a session server provides the capability to a user to direct a transfer of an on-going session from one device to another device while maintaining the session. The session transfer module is invoked by a user in a way consistent with the user interface of the client application, including by a graphical user command, a command line prompt, or a voice command. The client provides a selection of possible devices that may receive the redirected session. The session transfer module receives the selected device with the session redirect command over a communication network. The communication network may be wired (e.g., public switched telephone network (“PSTN”), Internet, etc.,) a wireless network (e.g., digital telephone network, pager network, etc.,) or a combination of the wired and wireless networks. The session transfer module may be configured to discontinue the session with the current device and to block any subsequent messages of the transferring session from reaching the device. The session transfer module may be further configured to access a device profile from a device profile database to convert the blocked messages into a format compatible to the format and/or modality of the redirected device. The session transfer module may be further configured to push the session to the redirected device in response to an activation (e.g., log-on) of the redirected device by the user. Alternatively, the session transfer module may be further configured to push the session back to the device in response to a time-out in the activation of the redirected device.
US08650305B2	Centralized session management in an aggregated application environment Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and apparatus for centralized session management in an aggregated application environment. In one embodiment, a centralized session management method can include aggregating a set of applications in a host aggregation environment. Subsequently, each of the applications can be centrally kept alive so as to avoid a time out condition in any one of the applications so long as interactivity is detected within any one of the applications or within the host aggregation environment. In one aspect of the invention, the aggregating step can include aggregating a set of portlets in a portal environment.
US08650304B2	Determining a pre skew and post skew calibration data rate in a mobile display digital interface (MDDI) communication system A data interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit, and receive packets forming the communications protocol, and to form digital data into one or more types of data packets, with at least one residing in the host device and being coupled to the client through the communications path. A maximum operating data rate can be negotiated. The interface provides a cost-effective, low power, bi-directional, high speed data transfer mechanism over a short-range “serial” type data link, which lends itself to implementation with miniature connectors with thin flexible cables which are especially useful in connecting display elements such as wearable micro-displays to portable computers and wireless, communication devices.
US08650300B2	Transparent heterogenous link pairing A system and computer program product for managing at least two physical links. A TCP/IP stack configures a first interface with attributes. The TCP/IP stack activates the first interface. The TCP/IP stack detects a channel path identifier (CHPID). The TCP/IP stack creates a second interface. The TCP/IP stack associates the second interface with the first interface. The first interface and the second interface are logically linked to exchange traffic corresponding to a single internet protocol address. The TCP/IP stack configures the second interface with at least one attribute. The TCP/IP stack activates the second interface. The two physical links may rely on two different physical link types.
US08650286B1	Prevention of looping and duplicate frame delivery in a network environment Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage media, for preventing looping and duplicate frame delivery in a network environment. A first control plane message is received from a first edge node in a plurality of edge nodes in a plurality of network elements of a network, the first control plane message identifying a first hint to be included in first multicast packets that include data originating from a first computing device interfaced with the first edge node and are forwarded to the network through the first edge node. A data record is stored identifying the association between the first hint and the first computing device. The data record is used to determine that multicast packets including the first hint originate from the first computing device and are not to be forwarded to the first computing device by edge nodes interfacing with the first computing device.
US08650281B1	Intelligent arbitration servers for network partition arbitration Various embodiments of a system and method for handling network partitions in a cluster of nodes are disclosed. The system and method may use a set of arbitration servers that are ordered in a particular order. Client nodes in different partitions may send requests to the arbitration servers to attempt to win control of them. The client node that wins a majority of the arbitration servers may remain in the cluster, and the client nodes in the other partitions may exit the cluster. The first arbitration server may award control to whichever client node whose request for control is received first. The remaining arbitration servers may be configured to give preference to the winner of one or more of the previous arbitration servers to attempt to ensure that one of the client nodes wins a majority.
US08650280B2	Monitoring distributed task execution using a chained text messaging system Embodiments of a system, method, and computer program product for monitoring task processing in a distributed system are provided. A task controller is provided with a task. The task controller generates a plurality of subtasks from the provided task, where each subtask includes a callback function. The subtasks are distributed for execution to multiple computing devices in the distributed system. As each subtask is executed by a computing device, the callback function is invoked, the invocation generating a message. The message includes the process and status information of the executing subtasks. The process and status information included in the message for each subtask is monitored, analyzed and aggregated, and is transmitted for a display on a client device.
US08650272B2	Distributed transaction processing system having resource managers that collaborate to decide whether to commit or abort a transaction in response to failure of a transaction manager A distributed transaction processing system includes a plurality of resources, resource managers to manage corresponding ones of the resources, and a transaction manager to coordinate performance of a transaction with the resource managers. In response to failure of the transaction manager, the resource managers are configured to collaborate to decide whether to commit or abort the transaction.
US08650253B2	System and method for integrating ancillary content into applications Systems and methods are provided to integrate, within a first application, a second application. In this way, multiple client systems, each running a first application, can access other players and mutually consume a second application. A lobby facility is provided to which client systems may access. First and second client systems may then be associated so that the same are configured to mutually consume a second application. The systems and methods also provide for cross-platform consumption of a second application by a plurality of client systems, each running respective first applications. The system includes a lobby facility module situated on a network-accessible server, the lobby facility module configured to allow communications between the network-accessible server and each of a first client system and a second client system. The system also includes a second application module, including a database module for storing information about the second application, first and second content translator modules enabling the second application module to provide and to receive content relevant to second applications running on the first and second client systems, and a rules module to determine an effect of content received from the first client system on content received from the second client system, and vice-versa.
US08650251B2	Deferred data post Various methods, systems, and computer program products for deferring transmission of data related to collapsing a collapsible display panel are presented. The collapsible display panel may be collapsed. State data that indicates the collapsible display panel has been collapsed may be generated. A determination that no non-state change data corresponding to the collapsible display panel needs to be transferred to a server may be made. In response, the state data may be stored at least until non-state data is to be transmitted to the server. At some time after storing the state data, non-state data that is to be transmitted to the server may be identified. In response to identifying the non-state data that is to be transmitted to the server, the state data and the non-state data may be transmitted to the server together.
US08650248B2	Methods and systems for selecting and implementing digital personas across applications and services A persona determination approach can be utilized to apply digital personas across multiple communications domains. A service gateway can determine whether to transfer a request for communications services to a Persona Determination Mechanism (PDM). The PDM can select a digital persona based on available information and transmit the digital persona to the service gateway. The service gateway can process the communications services based on the selected digital persona or based on the determination not to transfer the request. In some methods, the service gateway can forward the processed request to one or more network elements for further processing. Related systems are also disclosed.
US08650246B2	Method and system for licensing a software product A distributed method for licensing a software product is disclosed. Access to a software product by a user is requested at a client-side. An identity of the user and a local setting of the client-side are determined. At a server-side, licensing information specific to the determined local setting is selected from a licensing database. The selected licensing information is transmitted from the server-side to the client-side and then output at the client-side to the user. At the client-side, confirmation of a license agreement for the software product based on the output licensing information is requested.
US08650232B2	System and method for determination of a horizontal minimum of digital values A system for fast determination of a horizontal minimum of multiple digital values including a difference circuit and a compare circuit. The difference circuit may include first and second adders in which the first adder compares upper bits of a first digital value with upper bits of a second digital value and provides a first carry output and a propagate output. The second adder compares lower bits of the first digital value with lower bits of the second digital value and provides a second carry output. The compare circuit determines whether the first digital value is greater than the second digital value based on the carry and propagate outputs. Multiple difference circuits may be used to compare each of multiple digital values with every other digital value to provide corresponding compare bits, which are then used to determine a minimum one of the digital values and its corresponding location.
US08650229B2	System and method for removing master file table ($MFT) file record segments (FRS) A system and method for removing Master File Table ($MFT) File Record Segments (FRS) from Microsoft's New Technology File System (NTFS) is described. In one embodiment, the present invention initializes the NTFS volume to detect the $MFT Physical Disk Address; then calculates total FRS to remove; in sequence initiates a loading algorithm while applying a $MFT fixup parameter; then parses the FRS via MFT_RECORD_HEADER structures; and in succession, executes an instructional writing parameter which triggers recursive logical programming instructions to remove the FRS's, using direct access at sector aligned FRS offsets.
US08650227B2	Storage medium, determination method, and apparatus A storage medium stores a program thereon. The program instructs a computer to perform a process. The process comprises storing first information indicating dependency relationship between types into a storage, the types corresponding to configuration elements included in a system; acquiring relational information and type information from plural databases, the relational information indicating dependency relationships between plural configuration elements, the type information indicating the types of the plural configuration elements; generating second information indicating dependency relationships between a certain configuration element included in the plural configuration elements and each of configuration elements indicating dependency relation with the certain configuration element; generating third information indicating that the certain configuration element and the each of the configuration elements has the dependency relation indicated in the generated second information based on the type information and determining whether the generated third information is coincident with the first information stored in the storage.
US08650225B2	Method and system for managing information technology data A method for managing information technology (IT) data includes creating and maintaining a database that utilizes a single integrated database schema. For each of a plurality of IT software products that are associated with a plurality of platforms, the method further includes configuring a parameter for an associated IT software product. The parameter directing the associated IT software product to operate in accordance with the single integrated database schema. Upon creation of IT operational data by the associated IT software product, the single integrated database schema is used to store the IT operational data in the database. The database is accessed via the single integrated database schema common to the plurality of IT software products.
US08650219B2	Persistent iteration over a database tree structure Persistent iteration is performed in stages on nodes arranged according to a node identification (ID) that is increasing in order under a parent node in database tree structure. While performing the persistent iteration, storing a start node ID of the node where the persistent iteration commenced, a current node ID of the node that is undergoing the persistent iteration, a parent node ID of the node that is undergoing the persistent iteration, and a numerical value representing the current level and all levels greater than the current level of nodes that are undergoing the persistent iteration. Upon completion of the persistent iteration on the nodes that are the children of the node with the parent node ID, returning to the first node among the children of the node with the parent node ID, as ordered by increasing node ID, and performing the persistent iteration for children nodes of each node.
US08650213B2	System and method for distributed privacy preserving data mining Distributed privacy preserving data mining techniques are provided. A first entity of a plurality of entities in a distributed computing environment exchanges summary information with a second entity of the plurality of entities via a privacy-preserving data sharing protocol such that the privacy of the summary information is preserved, the summary information associated with an entity relating to data stored at the entity. The first entity may then mine data based on at least the summary information obtained from the second entity via the privacy-preserving data sharing protocol. The first entity may obtain, from the second entity via the privacy-preserving data sharing protocol, information relating to the number of transactions in which a particular itemset occurs and/or information relating to the number of transactions in which a particular rule is satisfied.
US08650203B1	Iterated related item discovery The present invention provides methods and computer program products for identifying a set of related videos for a first video. An embodiment of the method comprises a video hosting website creating an ordered list containing a plurality of words from the metadata associated with the first video. The video hosting website uses a select number of words from the ordered list to form a search query. The search query is processed by the videos hosting website to obtain search results that contain a number of related videos. If the number of related videos in the search results is not within a set range, the search query is modified and the modified search query is processed. If the number of related videos in the search results is within a set range, the search results are provided as the set of related videos for the first video.
US08650194B2	Task-based tagging and classification of enterprise resources Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for task-based tagging and resource classification, which allow tags or metadata to emerge from execution of work-related tasks and activities. In certain embodiments, tags can be automatically extracted from activities performed, for example utilizing a textual description of tasks carried out by an employee. Accumulated tags can then be utilized to describe enterprise resources. Automatic tagging or metadata annotation can be integrated with everyday work utilizing one or more techniques. Candidate tags can be extracted from a task written description utilizing an algorithm that analyzes keywords. Candidate tags can be refined, for example by clustering utilizing a K-means approach. Candidate tags can be ranked based on an overall frequency adjusted against time, with the importance of a tag declining with time.
US08650193B1	Road splitting in a map editor A method and system for editing map data by automatically splitting a road segment into a pair of road segments while maintaining the proper attributes and directionality for each road segment. A road segment that has two directions of travel is selected for splitting. A new road segment is instantiated to represent one of the directions of travel. A direction of travel is assigned to both of the road segments. Attributes that are common to both directions of travel are copied to the new road segment. Attributes that are only associated with the direction of travel of the new road segment are migrated to the new road segment.
US08650190B2	Computer-implemented system and method for generating a display of document clusters A computer-implemented system and method for generating a display of document clusters is described. Clusters of documents are presented in a multi-dimensional concept space. At least one document is selected from a collection of documents to be clusters. An angle θ of the document relative to a common origin of the multi-dimensional concept space is computed. The selected document is compared with each of the clusters. An angle σ from the common origin is determined for each cluster. A difference between the angle θ for the document and the angle σ for the cluster is determined. The difference is compared to the variance, and a new cluster is created when the difference exceeds the variance for all the clusters.
US08650187B2	Systems and methods for linked event detection Techniques for training and using linked event detection systems and transforming source-identified stopwords are provided. A training corpus of source identified stories and a reference language is determined. Optionally, stopwords for source-identified stories are transformed based on statistical analysis of parallel verified and un-verified transformations. Reference language and non-reference language terms are selectively included in source-pair term frequency-inverse story frequency models. Optionally, incremental source-identified term frequency-inverse story frequency models are determined. Selected terms are weighted and similarity metrics determined. Associated source-pair statistics, computed in part from a training corpus, are combined with the values of each similarity metric in the set of similarity metrics to form a similarity vector. Similarity vectors and verified link label information are used to determine a predictive model. Similarity vectors for story pairs are used with the predictive model to determine if the story-pairs are linked. Sources are arranged based on source inter-relationships into a source-hierarchy. Progressively more refined source-pair similarity statistics are also provided. New sources and associated source-pair similarity statistics are added by substituting related source-pair similarity statistics based on the source hierarchy and source characteristics. The source-pair similarity statistics are used to optionally normalize the similarity metrics.
US08650178B2	Systems, methods and software for distributed loading of databases The invention relates to an online information retrieval system having a queue for storing load requests and a set of two or more load managers for retrieving data from the queue and indexing documents based on the request retrieved from the queue. Each load manager resides in a different geographical location. A set of candidate documents comprise a unique identifier and a version indicator, wherein the unique identifier for each candidate document is identical for a given document and the version indicator is associated with a determination of which document within the set of candidate documents shall ultimately be communicated to a user.
US08650168B2	Methods of processing files in a multiple quality of service system The invention relates to a multiple QoS file system and methods of processing files at different QoS according to rules. The invention allocates multiple VLUNs at different qualities of service to the multiQoS file system. Using the rules, the file system chooses an initial QoS for a file when created. Thereafter, the file system moves files to different QoS using rules. Users of the file system see a single unified space of files, while administrators place files on storage with the new cost and performance according to attributes of the files. A multiQoS file system enhances the descriptive information for each file to contain the chosen QoS for the file.
US08650163B1	Estimation of data reduction rate in a data storage system Systems and methods for estimating data reduction ratio for a data set is provided. The method comprises selecting a plurality of m elements from a data set comprising a plurality of N elements; associating an identifier hi for each of the plurality of m elements; associating an identifier he for each of the plurality of elements in the data set; tracking number of times an element i appears in a base set that includes the plurality of m elements selected from the data set; calculating a value counti that indicates the number of times an identifier he matches an identifier hi; and estimating data reduction ratio for the plurality of N elements in the data set, based on number of m number elements selected from the data set and the value counti.
US08650156B1	System and method for fetching the latest versions of stored data objects A distributed storage system may store data object instances in persistent storage and may cache keymap information for those data object instances. The system may cache a latest symbolic key entry for some user keys of the data object instances. When a request is made for the latest version of stored data object instances having a specified user key, the latest version may be determined dependent on whether a latest symbolic key entry exists for the specified user key, and keymap information for the latest version may be returned. When storing keymap information, a flag may be set to indicate that a corresponding latest symbolic key entry should be updated. The system may delete a latest symbolic key entry for a particular user key from the cache in response to determining that no other requests involving the keymap information for data object instances having the particular user key are pending.
US08650153B2	Storing records in databases in a randomized manner to effectively utilize database servers A method for effectively utilizing database servers. A middle tier system, interfacing between clients and a database system, receives requests to create, delete or update a record from a client. An index is used by the middle tier system to determine if a record previously exists, and if so, its current record location. In this manner, the middle tier system keeps track of the locations of the records stored in the databases. By keeping track of the data load, the middle tier system identifies the most available resource to store the records. When a record is to be created, deleted or updated, the middle tier system rebalances the load capability of the database servers by distributing the data across the databases in a randomized manner based on the server load. In this manner, changes to the server load are more effectively managed.
US08650144B2	Apparatus and methods for lossless compression of numerical attributes in rule based systems Disclosed are apparatus and methods for compressing a set of numerical values for a set of feature values, which can be utilized by a rule based or decision tree system. In certain embodiments, the numerical values are transformed into a subset of integer values based on how they are to be analyzed by conditional processes of the rule based or decision tree system that compare such numerical values to one or more threshold values. This transformation is accomplished such that if the rule based or decision tree system is applied after transformation, identical results are produced as compared to the original numerical values being used by the rule based or decision tree system. Other compression techniques may also be applied to the transformed values. An altered rule based or decision tree system, in which threshold values are also transformed to integer values, may be applied to the transformed values. Alternatively, the rule based or decision tree system may be applied to a set of decoded numerical values.
US08650142B2	Method and device for performing a maintenance function A method for performing a maintenance function of a system under diagnosis includes a step for hierarchical decomposition of the system under diagnosis into sub-systems based on the model of the system and, for each sub-system, steps for determination of a model of the sub-system starting from the model of the system, and allocation of a diagnostic method depending on the processing and memory resources of said sub-system. The method allocated is a first diagnostic method based on the model of the system or a second diagnostic method based on predefined logical relationships. The method further includes calculation of the logical relationships for the sub-systems implementing the second diagnostic method, and the transfer of the logical relationships to the sub-systems implementing the second method and the transfer of the model to the sub-systems implementing the first method.
US08650132B2	System and method for distribution of single-product-type unlabeled packages Systems and methods for the distribution of single-product-type unlabeled packages are provided. For each distribution, the system coordinates the processes required for: (1) transporting unlabeled packages containing the product from a manufacturing location to a carrier hub; (2) printing and applying respective shipping labels to the unlabeled packages; and (3) sending the labeled packages to their various retail locations. By delegating the tasks of receiving, labeling, and shipping the packages containing the product to a single carrier, the systems and methods allow the carrier to receive the packages for continued processing without the presence of any identifying labels.
US08650130B2	System and method for automated customer feedback A system and method for automated customer feedback allows for automatically collecting and analyzing customer feedback data regarding customer satisfaction and customer task completion with respect to self-service applications and live agents. When contacting a customer service center, customers provide one or more customer tasks. The customers are routed within the customer service center based on the customer task and/or one or more customer characteristics. While interacting with the customer service center, the customers are automatically asked one or more specific survey questions relating to the customers' interaction with the customer service center and the customers' satisfaction levels. The customers provide one or more survey responses to the survey questions. The survey responses are recorded and analyzed in order to modify and update the customer service center and the survey questions in order to increase customer satisfaction and increase customer task completion.
US08650129B2	Dynamically reacting policies and protections for securing mobile financial transaction data in transit A secure mobile financial transaction is provided by receiving, over a communication network, a list of protection mechanisms available for implementation by an external terminal. Security-related data is received from one or more sensors and an attack signature is computed based on the security-related data. An appropriate security policy is selected from multiple security policies stored in a database based on the list of protection mechanisms and the attack signature. A secure communication session is established between the external terminal and an internal network component according to the selected security policy. A data message associated with a mobile financial transaction is communicated over the communication network during the communication session.
US08650127B1	Digital rights management for computer program code A digital rights management (“DRM”) system is described that seeks to restrict the use and execution of certain computer program code to those hardware systems or platforms authorized by the provider of the protected software. To this end, certain computer programs (or portions thereof) are provided to authorized users in an encrypted format. When a “protected” program is to be executed, it is retrieved and stored in its encrypted format in operating system memory where it is accessible to operating system level routines (e.g., a file read operation). It is also decrypted and placed in another memory such that only the process executing the protected program has ready access to it.
US08650126B2	Method, apparatus and program to make payment in any currencies through a communication network system using pre-paid cards This is a pre-paid card system used to store monetary value and subsequently for making payment to merchants through the telephone system or through a data network. Unlike static credit card numbers, this invention employs the generation of encrypted dynamic codes for each transaction, which must be verified within a specific time, for payment initiation. Codes are send by merchant when a purchase is agreed upon and each codes have a time limit to be used. Customers need to accept this codes and present them to the host computer to complete the payment process. Codes from both merchant and customer are decrypted at the host computer to produce the authenticated instructions for the payment. This invention also employs a unique formula to calculate stored value including in foreign currencies.
US08650120B2	Systems and methods for enhanced authorization fraud mitigation A consumer uses a web client to transmit purchase information associated with a transaction to a merchant server. The purchase information is transmitted via a web acceleration server. The web acceleration server identifies enhanced authorization data associated with the transaction. The web acceleration server creates a pseudo authorization message. The web acceleration server transmits the pseudo authorization message to a transaction account issuer. The merchant server transmits an authorization request to the transaction account issuer. The transaction account issuer determines that the authorization request and the pseudo authorization message are associated with the same transaction. The transaction account issuer merges the authorization request and the pseudo authorization message and performs a fraud analysis. The transaction account issuer transmits an authorization response to the merchant.
US08650118B2	Universal merchant platform for payment authentication A method is provided for supporting processing of a transaction conducted between two parties. The method includes: receiving payment information over a communications network at a server operatively connected to the network, the payment information identifying a particular payment option used by the second party for the transaction, and the server being equipped to format and route messages over the network in different manners to accommodate the different authentication protocols; determining from the payment information received which of the different authentication protocols is prescribed for the type of payment option identified in the payment information; selecting a particular authentication protocol from the plurality of different authentication protocols supported by the server; and, obtaining an authentication determination for the transaction in accordance with the selected authentication protocol, including formatting messages and routing the formatted messages over the network in accordance with the mandates of the selected authentication protocol.
US08650117B1	Systems, methods, and computer products for optimizing the selection of collateral Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for increasing the return from a pool of loans for a company involved in the guarantee and securitization of such loans. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises creating a plurality of sub-pools in which to place loans from the pool of loans; determining, using one or more processors, an external value assessment for one or more loans from the pool and an internal value assessment for the one or more loans; identifying a difference between the external and internal value assessments; and selecting a sub-pool from the plurality of sub-pools to place the one or more loans based upon the identified difference.
US08650115B1	Computer based trading system and methodology utilizing supply and demand analysis The system and methodology of the present invention operate to generate trading signals based on identifying various trading patterns referred to as setups. When these setups are detected, and depending on the specific setup detected, a supply zone or demand zone is next generated which indicates the price range for the instrument in which a sell or buy trade signal should be issued. When the underlying instrument trades within this range, and under other appropriate conditions, a trading signal is issued which may be sent directly to the appropriate exchange for automatic execution and/or sent to a graphical user interface or other display which alerts a trader to the proposed trade.
US08650107B1	Advertisement customization Methods, systems and computer program products for customizing one or more advertisements are described. Specifically, advertisements may be customized using information from content of a web page prior to viewing by a user. For example, the rendering of the text of an advertisement may be in a same size, color, and font type as the text on the web page into which the advertisement is integrated. In addition, the advertisement may be displayed using a same color scheme as that used by the web page such that the advertisement may be enhanced in terms of notice and interaction by the user.
US08650106B1	Systems and methods for processing overhead imagery A method of processing overhead imagery of a property includes providing a processor and receiving an insurance claim associated with the property. The method also includes receiving images of the property from one or more overhead image sources, positionally correlating the images using the processor, and detecting structural damage associated with the property using the positionally correlated images. The method further includes processing the insurance claim associated with the property based on detecting the structural damage.
US08650105B2	System and method for providing a savings opportunity in association with a financial account The present disclosure relates to comparison shopping and usage based service analysis for consumers, primarily for financial products. A consumer may not be aware of a provider's services, options, terms, conditions, costs, or how the service options change based on the consumer's particular usage characteristics. The disclosed comparison shopping method uses the consumer's actual or predicted service usage data. Service provider information is used to present the consumer with relevant alternative service offering options. Transaction data is gathered from a user's financial account and is analyzed for a savings opportunity indication. The analysis is used to match a savings opportunity from a database of savings opportunities, and the savings opportunity may be displayed in a statement of a user's financial account. Past responses to a savings opportunity indication may be gathered and analyzed. In one example, a savings opportunity is presented with a statement of the consumer's financial account.
US08650104B2	Rough order of magnitude narrative system Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for modeling and estimating costs for a project, such as a construction or remodeling project. For example, embodiments of the present invention provide a project cost modeling system having a communication interface configured to receive a first level input for a first level project parameter from a user, a memory configured to store a rule, and a processor operatively connected to the communication interface and the memory and configured to determine a second level project parameter and a second level input for the second level project parameter based at least partially on a comparison of the first level input to the rule. The system is further configured to compute cost estimates and provide cost models based at least partially on the first level input, the second level input, and/or information about other projects stored in the memory.
US08650100B1	Item capacity risk The risk of losing sales of an item in a retail store due to the item not being on the retail store's shelves for customers to purchase is reduced. An item an item at a retail store may be identified as being at risk based at least in part on a sales volatility of the item and on a frequency of the item selling beyond its sales floor capacity within a day. A minimum number of facings for the item in the retail store may be determined based at least in part on an average daily capacity of the item, an average number of facings for the item, and a specified amount of daily sales of the item. The determined minimum number of facings for the item in the retail store may be reported.
US08650097B2	System and method for streamlined registration of products over a communication network and for verification and management of information related thereto The system and method of the present invention provide a data communication between unique ID (UID) registration center and electronic (or other) products, and the product's data management. The UID is previously assigned and integrated or embedded to the product, where the UID of each product is registered with one or more particular UID registration centers over at least one communication network. Each UID is operable to securely store and selectively provide access to predefine location in the product and corresponds to data file at the UID registration center, with data file being inclusive of information related to the product purchase history, current ownership, etc., and wherein one or more authorized parties may subsequently advantageously utilize at least one UID to access, verify, edit, transfer, transmit, and/or otherwise manage at least one information item, including ownership right related to one or more corresponding registered products in the UID registration center.
US08650094B2	Music recommendation using emotional allocation modeling An exemplary method includes defining a vocabulary for emotions; extracting descriptions for songs; generating distributions for the songs in an emotion space based at least in part on the vocabulary and the extracted descriptions; extracting salient words from a document; generating a distribution for the document in an emotion space based at least in part on the vocabulary and the extracted salient words; and matching the distribution for the document to one or more of the distributions for the songs. Various other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.
US08650093B2	Used automobile transaction facilitation for a specific used automobile A system, methods, and apparatus for performing used automobile transactions are disclosed. In an example embodiment, automobile market data representative of current automobile market characteristics is stored. The automobile market data may include pricing and consumer interest information received from consumers, dealers, and manufacturers. A consumer seller or manufacturer off-lease seller may provide a request for a response regarding a specific used automobile with a specific a vehicle identification number. Automobile market data may be provided to a used automobile buyer based on the request. Bids to purchase the specific used automobile may be requested from used automobile buyers based on the request. Buyer bids may be provided to the consumer seller or manufacturer off-lease seller with prices and a delivery options. The consumer seller or manufacturer off-lease seller may select a bid to sell the specific used automobile based on the bid.
US08650089B2	Systems and methods for providing dynamic content into a static electronic document Included are systems and methods for providing dynamic content into a static electronic document. At least one embodiment includes receiving an indication to include the dynamic content into the static electronic document, creating a computer program that defines functionality of the dynamic content, and deploying the computer program into the static electronic document. Similarly, some embodiments include sending the static electronic document to a user computing device, where at least a first portion of the static electronic document is configured to be viewed as a locally stored document and at least a second portion of the static electronic document receives the dynamic content from a remote computing device and receiving a request to provide the dynamic content, the request being provided in response to a user selection of a predetermined area of interest in the static electronic document. Still some embodiments include providing the dynamic content to the user computing device, wherein upon receipt of the dynamic content, the computer program causes the dynamic content to be provided within the predetermined area of interest in the static electronic document.
US08650077B2	System and method for a multiple merchant stored value card The loyalty system allows a consumer to accumulate general loyalty points from one or more merchants, and convert any desired subset of general points to loyalty dollars associated with a specific merchant. The system stores, for each consumer, the merchant loyalty dollars (or monetary equivalent) by merchant within a remotely-accessible host database or within a smart card database. Upon conducting a purchase at a particular merchant, the consumer may utilize a code key to facilitate access to the consumer's own loyalty dollars for the particular merchant. The loyalty dollars are then applied to the purchase transaction as a discount or rebate. The consumer may also re-load the merchant loyalty dollar accounts.
US08650073B2	Glasses-free 3D advertising system and method A glasses-free 3D advertising system and method wherein a number of wireless electronic digital 3D/2D video advertising players 10 are each located at a respective point-of-product display of consumer goods, detects the presence of an anonymous shopper proximate to the displayed consumer goods, and upon the shopper remaining at that location for a period of time, retrieves from memory and plays digital 3D or 2D video advertisements that contain information related specifically to the displayed consumer goods proximate to the advertising player, and records and reports statistical data relative to the advertisements played.
US08650068B2	Method and system for determining services pricing A method of determining services pricing, the method comprising: a server receiving vehicle identification information from a user via a network connection, wherein the vehicle identification information indicates a vehicle type; the server receiving service type information from the user via the network connection, wherein the service type information indicates a service type; the server determining an estimate range based on the vehicle identification information and the service type information, wherein the estimate range comprises a minimum value and maximum value for the indicated vehicle type and service type, and wherein determining the estimate range comprises determining a labor estimate and a parts estimate; and the server providing the estimate range to the user via the network connection.
US08650058B1	System and method for manpower planning for operating vehicles such as airplanes A system and method for manpower planning for operating vehicles such as, for example, airplanes, according to which, in several exemplary embodiments, the availability of adequate manpower to operate the vehicles over a period of time is ensured; in several exemplary embodiments, the operation of the vehicles over the period of time includes the flying of airplanes in accordance with an airline flight schedule.
US08650056B2	Decision making and implementation system Systems for assisting a user in a process of decision-making or analysis involving a topic comprising a computer and one or more computer applications comprising: a module for displaying a screen set soliciting a set of input data, and inputting said set of input data, wherein at least some of the data is characterized with a value representing a degree of certainty regarding the data; and a module for displaying a screen or screen set showing a current recommendation or analysis where the degree of certainty regarding the input data is reflected in the recommendation, calculations, or output; wherein said module optionally provides information or links to modify those inputs which are determined to have one or more of: the highest importance, the greatest effect on the calculated certainty of the current recommendation or analysis, and the greatest effect on the calculated certainty of a particular calculated result.
US08650054B2	Internal yield adjustment retrieval from revenue accounting Disclosed is a computer-implemented method and system to perform a travel-related Availability Computation. The method includes, at an Inventory System, initiating an Availability Computation by retrieving information relevant to a received availability computation inquiry; determining that portion of a travel solution that corresponds to a reference carrier and a context to be prorated; making a call to a Proration Service and providing the Proration Service with applicable context information; receiving from the Proration Service proration information comprised of a calculated adjusted Yield or a calculated adjustment factor to be applied to the Yield, the Proration Service using proration data that is maintained by a Revenue Accounting System to make the calculation; and completing the Availability Computation using the adjusted Yield or the adjustment factor to be applied to the Yield.
US08650052B1	Configurable insurance policy forms inference Providing configuration of inference logic for insurance policy forms is disclosed, including: presenting to a user: information associated with an insurance policy form; and a set of inference rule types, each inference rule type specifying a corresponding condition under which the form is to be created; receiving a selected inference rule type; presenting a set of insurance product definition templates; receiving a selected insurance product definition template corresponding to the selected inference rule type, the selected insurance product definition template being selected from the set of insurance product definition templates; and storing a mapping associated with the insurance policy form, wherein the mapping includes at least the selected inference rule type and the selected insurance product definition template.
US08650050B1	Presentation of benefits of insurance related products Presenting benefits of an insurance related product includes obtaining a master hierarchical benefits tree comprising a plurality of hierarchical levels, each hierarchical level comprising a plurality of nodes, at least one node in one hierarchical level is preconfigured to be connected to at least one node in an adjacent hierarchical level, the preconfiguration being based at least in part on categorized objectives of an insurance company; receiving a user selection of at least some nodes in the master hierarchical benefits tree; determining a set of available nodes in a next hierarchical level based at least in part on the user selection; and generating a customized hierarchical benefits tree that is formed based at least in part on the user selection and the master hierarchical benefits tree.
US08650045B2	Electronic health record sharing using hybrid architecture Electronic health record sharing is provided using a hybrid architecture. A centralized architecture provides centralized service including a search service and a token ownership service. A decentralized architecture comprises electronic health record locations. Electronic health records are created at locations and patient identifying information is stored at the centralized architecture. The centralized service manages ownership of electronic health records using ownership tokens comprising unique electronic health record identifiers and unique location identifiers. A current electronic health record owner location is authorized to view and/or edit the electronic health record. Ownership is transferred via the sending location, receiving location, and centralized service.
US08650035B1	Speech conversion A speech conversion system facilitates voice communications. A database comprises a plurality of conversion heuristics, at least some of the conversion heuristics being associated with identification information for at least one first party. At least one speech converter is configured to convert a first speech signal received from the at least one first party into a converted first speech signal different than the first speech signal.
US08650032B2	Partial word lists into a phoneme tree The present invention discloses converting a text form into a speech. In the present invention, partial word lists of a data source are obtained by parsing the data source in parallel or in series. The partial word lists are then compiled to obtain phoneme graphs corresponding, respectively, to the partial word lists, and then the obtained phoneme graphs are combined. Speech recognition is then conducted according to the combination results. According to the present invention, computational complexity may be reduced and recognition efficiency may be improved during speech recognition.
US08650031B1	Accuracy improvement of spoken queries transcription using co-occurrence information Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for voice-enabled searching. Techniques include a co-occurrence based approach to improve accuracy of the 1-best hypothesis for non-phrase voice queries, as well as for phrased voice queries. A co-occurrence model is used in addition to a statistical natural language model and acoustic model to recognize spoken queries, such as spoken queries for searching a search engine. Given an utterance and an associated list of automated speech recognition n-best hypotheses, the system rescores the different hypotheses using co-occurrence information. For each hypothesis, the system estimates a frequency of co-occurrence within web documents. Combined scores from a speech recognizer and a co-occurrence engine can be combined to select a best hypothesis with a lower word error rate.
US08650025B2	Method and apparatus for determining text passage similarity According to one embodiment of the invention, a method classifying a number of noun phrases in a first text passage and a second text passage into a number of classifications. The method also includes determining a similarity between a noun phrase from the first text passage and a noun phase from the second text passage for each of the noun phrases of a same classification. Additionally, a similarity between a sentence from the first text passage and a sentence from the second text passage is determined for each of the sentences in the first and second text passages based on similarities between the noun phrases. The method also includes determining a similarity between the first text passage and the second text passage based on a similarity between sentences.
US08650015B2	Method and device for acquiring, recording and processing data captured in an aircraft A device for acquiring and recording data captured in an aircraft including a plurality of sources of data streams to be recorded, at least one source of dated values of recording parameters, and a recording mechanism recording data from the data streams and parameter values, on at least one non-volatile information medium. The recording mechanism is adapted to store, in separate files, the data of the various streams of data associated with the dated values of recording parameters.
US08650005B2	System and method for three-dimensional maxillofacial surgical simulation and planning A method may include displaying one or more interactive 2D images, each 2D image representing at least bony tissue cranio-facial features of a patient and each 2D image having one or more portions each associated with a corresponding portion of the patient's bony. The method may also include displaying a 3D image representing exterior soft-tissue cranio-facial features of the patient. The method may additionally include receiving input from a user regarding movement of a particular portion of the one or more portions of the 2D image. The method may further include redrawing the 3D image based at least on the movement of the particular portion of the 2D image to simulate response of the exterior soft-tissue cranio-facial features of the patient to movement of a portion of the patient's bony tissue corresponding to the particular portion of the 2D image.
US08650001B2	Method for identifying a piece of wood amongst a plurality of starting pieces of wood and/or for determining its rotation with reference to a known layout A method for identifying a piece of wood amongst a plurality or for determining its rotation includes the operating steps of: acquiring at least one piece of real X-ray information about the piece of wood; calculating, based on a tomographic reconstruction, a piece of virtual X-ray information in the same way as in the acquisition of the real X-ray information; comparing the real and virtual X-ray information to verify whether they match; and repeating the calculation and comparison steps up to obtaining the matching, and/or, for identification method only, selecting a different tomographic reconstruction and reiterating the calculation and comparison steps and, if necessary, the repetition and/or selection steps.
US08650000B2	Ballistic missile phase categorization technique A computer-implemented analysis method is provided for identifying a flight trajectory of a bogey relative to earth's surface. The method includes a first step of obtaining first and second altitudes and velocities of the bogey separated by a first time interval. The second step calculates a first difference between the first and second velocities divided by the first time interval to obtain an acceleration vector. The third step calculates an acceleration magnitude from the acceleration vector. The remaining steps characterize the vectors and magnitude to report whether the bogey represents a ballistic projectile in a particular phase of Boost, Apogee or Descent.
US08649995B2	System and method for efficient test case generation using input dependency information A system and method for providing an efficient test case generator is disclosed. A test case project is established upon request from a user, via a user interface, to test an item. The test case project includes a plurality of fields and corresponding designated values to be tested. A first set of identified fields of the plurality are received, wherein the first set includes two or more fields identified by the user as having a dependent relationship with at least one another. A first relational field cluster for the first set of related fields and their values is created. A test case generation technique is performed on the first relational field cluster to compute all relevant test conditions for the first relation field cluster. Results of the computed test conditions for the first relational field cluster are displayed to the user via the user interface.
US08649994B2	Automated and coordinated simulation of multiple concurrent user interactions A method and associated system are provided for testing components of a vehicle entertainment system, comprising: interconnecting, via a network, a server computer comprising media content, and a plurality of user computers comprising software and hardware via which the user can interact with the media content; loading a test agent component onto a first of the user computers; loading a first scenario file comprising a series of user entry events that emulate user entry actions via a user interface device of the first user computer; executing the user entry events of the first scenario file by the test agent to generate system events that would normally be generated by a user operating the first user computer to interact with media server; and responding to the first user computer, by the server computer, to the system events.
US08649989B2	Time-domain triggering in a test and measurement instrument Embodiments of this invention provide enhanced triggering capabilities such as frequency and phase triggering in a test and measurement instrument, such as a Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer (RTSA) or oscilloscope. A test and measurement instrument can include input terminals to receive RF signals, an ADC to digitize the RF signals, a digital downconverter to produce I and Q baseband component information, and a power detector to determine a power level using the I and Q information. A comparator compares the power level received from the power detector with a user-definable power threshold, and produces a logic signal for enabling one or more phase or frequency demodulators. The one or more demodulators produce IQ-based time-domain traces derived from the I and Q component information when the power level determined by the power detector exceeds the power threshold. Trigger circuitry is configured to trigger on an event responsive to a delayed trigger enable signal.
US08649981B2	Automated method and system for setting image analysis parameters to control image analysis operations A method and system for setting image analysis parameters to control image analysis operations. The method and system include collecting set of digital training images including a set of states for the set of digital training images. An objective function is defined to determine a relative quality of plural different parameter sets used for digital image analysis. Values for the plural different parameter sets that maximize (or minimize) the objective function are determined. The method and system increases a usability of high content screening technologies by reducing a required level of expertise required to configure digital image processing.
US08649979B2	Branch point diagram display system A branch point diagram system includes a terminal disposed on a movable body for displaying a branch point diagram of a branch point and a delivery server for delivering branch road part to the terminal according to a delivery schedule when the terminal approaches a branch point. The delivery server calculates the delivery load of delivering the branch road part according to the schedule. In view of the calculation results of the delivery load, the delivery schedule is revised, and the branch road part is delivered to the terminal according to the revised schedule. The terminal then displays the branch point diagram for the branch point after generating the branch point diagram based on the branch road parts and positional data received from the delivery.
US08649970B2	Providing popular global positioning satellite (GPS) routes A method, system, and computer program product for providing popular routes via a global positioning satellite (GPS) system. A GPS device receives a route request from a user. The GPS device then determines a current location of the GPS device and connects to a network server. In response to connecting to the network server, the GPS device transmits a route selection request to the network server. In response, the GPS device receives a route selection list from the network server where the route selection list contains a plurality of routes previously taken by other drivers. Each route is assigned a popularity rating. The GPS device displays one or more of the routes of the route selection list, and requests that a user select a route. After the user selects a route the GPS device displays the selected route as an overlay on a map display.
US08649961B2	Method of diagnosing several systems and components by cycling the EGR valve A method to operate an electronic controlled internal combustion engine to perform on board NOx emissions level diagnostics. In one embodiment, the method may include operating the engine to maintain a predetermined temperature for a predetermined period of time, determining whether the engine operating status is stable for one of cruise control, idle engine speed, engine torque, or high idle regeneration for a predetermined period of time, cycling the EGR valve between a first position for a predetermined period of time and then in a second position for a predetermined period of time, a determining a change in engine out NOx levels to determine whether an engine component or system is malfunctioning.
US08649960B2	Method and data storage medium for reading and/or storing injector-specific data for controlling an injection system of an internal combustion engine In a method for reading and/or storing injector-specific data for controlling an injection system of an internal combustion engine, an injector is charged by a control unit according to a predeterminable voltage curve and, depending on the case, is discharged directly by the control unit or by a power element located on a data storage medium and the voltage is measured by the control unit and by the data storage medium. Dependent upon a predeterminable voltage curve, a predeterminable amount of data is stored or read on a memory unit of the data storage medium.
US08649959B2	Control device for internal combustion engine To balance between air-fuel ratio controllability and torque response performance in a control device for an internal combustion engine performing a throttle delay control. An air quantity requirement is calculated based on torque required of an internal combustion engine. A throttle opening for achieving the air quantity requirement is calculated by using an inverse model of an intake system model that models response of a cylinder intake air quantity relative to an operation of a throttle. A throttle opening delayed by a predetermined delay time Td is outputted as an operation amount to the throttle. When, however, there is no allowance for introducing the delay time Td between the response time of the cylinder intake air quantity to a throttle operation to be achieved at a current engine speed and a torque response time requirement, the delay processing of the throttle opening is restricted by, for example, making the delay time Td zero or shortening the delay time Td.
US08649956B2	Apparatus for acquiring responsibility of oxygen concentration sensor The fact that “with respect to a process in which the output value of a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor (sensor output value) is inverted from the minimum output value to the maximum output value during execution of an active control, the local maximum and minimum values of the secondary differential value of the sensor output value is widely affected by the size of the response delay of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor and the size of the degree of the degradation of the three-way catalyst” is utilized. By preliminarily acquiring and memorizing, as maps, these relations obtained through an experiment, and applying the “local maximum and minimum values of the secondary differential value of the sensor output value” calculated from the transition of the sensor output value acquired during execution of the active control to the maps, the response delay (time constant) of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor is acquired.
US08649954B2	System for controlling the angular position of stator blades and method for optimizing said angular position A system for controlling angular position of stator blades including: a mechanism for calculating a set angular position of the blades according to one of speeds; and a module for correcting the set position including: a mechanism for determining the angular position of the blades; a mechanism for measuring fuel flow rate of the turbine engine; a memory unit in which consecutive angular positions of the blades are combined with the fuel flow rates of the turbine engine measured at the angular positions; and a mechanism for determining a correcting angle according to the difference between the fuel flow rates measured between two consecutive angular position of the blades. A method for optimizing the common angular position can utilize the system.
US08649951B2	Shift-by-wire fail control device for vehicle with automatic transmission A shifting apparatus includes an actuator to direct a travel range setting of a vehicle transmission, a selector to indicate a desired travel range setting, a transmission controller to move the actuator into the travel range setting in response to the desired travel range setting of the selector, and a restrictor to restrict an output of a drive motor if the vehicle transmission is in a travel range setting other than the desired travel range setting. A method to control a vehicle transmission includes detecting a travel range setting of the vehicle transmission, detecting a desired travel range setting of a selector, and entering a limp-home mode if the detected travel range setting is different from the desired travel range setting and a detected vehicle travel direction corresponding to the detected travel range setting is the same as a desired travel direction corresponding to the desired travel range setting.
US08649948B2	Vehicle hill start assist system Disclosed is a hill start assist for a vehicle capable of suppressing vehicle movement contrary to driver's expectations and capable of improving driving feel even if the magnitude of detected values regarding the driving direction of driving wheels or that of driving force of the driving wheels are abnormal. Specifically disclosed is a hill start assist (1) for a vehicle comprising an ECU (20) that includes a detection state determining unit (25) that determines the detection state of a shift lever position switch (14) and a retention control unit (26) that performs retention control in which a reduction in braking force of a braking device (5) is suppressed when the operation of a brake pedal (2) is stopped. The retention control unit (26) further includes a first retention control performing unit (27) selected when determination results of the detection state determining unit (25) are normal and a second retention control performing unit (29) selected when the determination results of the detection state determining unit (25) are abnormal. The second retention control performing unit (29) performs the retention control in a manner such that the vehicle is retained in a stop state for a second stop retention time (T2) shorter than a first stop retention time (T1) set by the first retention control performing unit (27).
US08649926B2	Construction machine and control method thereof A construction machine comprises an electric motor/generator; an engine; an epicyclic gearing for rotating the electric motor/generator reversely when speed of a rotation output to a drive wheel is zero during running of the engine; a transmission configured to switch between a forward driving gear position and a backward driving gear position; and a controller for controlling the engine, the electric motor/generator and the transmission, based on at least an accelerator opening, and a state of charge in an electric storage device; the controller being configured to switch the forward driving gear position or the backward driving gear position to a direction opposite to a direction in which the construction machine is moving, and cause the electric motor/generator to generate reverse torque in a power running mode, when the electric storage device is in a fully charged state and the accelerator has been pressed down by a driver.
US08649921B2	Method and electronic device for monitoring the state of components of railway vehicles A method for monitoring the state of components of a railway vehicle, wherein sensors for capturing loads acting on the components are operated, the measurement values thereof are fed as input values to an analysis unit for analyzing the wear state, wherein the current position of the railway vehicle is processed as a signal to this end, wherein the current velocity of the railway vehicle is recorded over time, from which a v-t profile is generated and compared to a stored v-t profile in order to determine the current position as a further input value for monitoring the state by stochastically comparing both profiles.
US08649920B2	Method and device for automatically monitoring lateral guidance orders of an aircraft A monitoring device automatically monitors lateral guidance orders of an aircraft. The device includes a failure monitoring device for implementing comparisons between roll control orders generated by a number of equipments in order to be able to detect a failure of one of the equipments concerning the generation of lateral guidance orders of the aircraft. Additionally, the device includes a failure anticipation comparator device for analyzing inlet parameters of the equipments to determine when a failure of one of the equipments should be anticipated.
US08649918B2	Radio controlled vehicle, remote controller and methods for use therewith A radio controlled (RC) vehicle includes a receiver that is coupled to receive an RF signal from a remote control device, the RF signal containing command data in accordance with a first coordinate system, wherein the first coordinate system is from a perspective of the remote control device. A motion sensing module generates motion data based on the motion of the RC vehicle. A processing module transforms the command data into control data in accordance with a second coordinate system, wherein the second coordinate system is from a perspective of the RC vehicle. A plurality of control devices control the motion of the RC vehicle based on the control data.
US08649917B1	Apparatus for measurement of vertical obstructions Accurate measurements of flight path obstructions are taken from a moving aerial platform. Platform position, including altitude, is combined with dynamic data including target distance and target elevation data to calculate obstruction height or altitude. An optical subsystem on the aerial platform images the obstructions and provides a video stream showing the obstructions. The video stream and aerial platform data are wirelessly communicated to a control terminal where an operator observes a presentation of obstructions and obstruction altitudes or heights. The operator can issue commands to the aerial platform.
US08649915B2	Method and apparatus to facilitate providing a synthetic view of terrain for use in a moving vehicle Specific determinations are made in a moving vehicle (901) and with respect to a person in the vehicle who has an ordinary expected gaze directionality while in the moving vehicle. These determinations can comprise automatically determining a position (101) of the moving vehicle with respect to terrain past which the moving vehicle is traveling, and automatically determining an orientation attitude (102) of the moving vehicle with respect to the terrain, and then automatically using (103) this position and orientation attitude to determine (in the absence of executable program instructions) a synthetic view to provide to the person in the vehicle. By one approach this synthetic view comprises a view of the terrain that comports with the ordinary expected gaze directionality of the person in the vehicle.
US08649911B2	System and method for operating a wind farm under high wind speed conditions A technique is provided for operating a wind farm at increased rated power output. The technique includes sensing a plurality of operating parameters of the wind turbine generator, assessing the plurality of operating parameters with respect to respective design ratings for the operating parameters, and intermittently increasing a rated power output of the wind turbine generator based upon the assessment.
US08649908B2	Pool or spa equipment control system and method with automatic adjustment Automatic adjustment of the control and operation of pool or spa equipment is made based upon a time of year, a geographic location, or both. A controller receives input of the time of year or the geographic location of the pool or spa equipment, or both. The controller then automatically adjusts one or more functions of the pool or spa equipment based upon operational information associated with the time of year and/or geographic location. A user interface connected with the controller may be also used to select a mode of operation, input time or geographic location information, and/or adjust various parameters affecting the automatic seasonal or geographic adjustment of the pool or spa equipment.
US08649898B2	Processing shiny mail pieces Methods, apparatus, software and systems are disclosed for improved processing of mailpieces in order to reduce expensive manual steps. Shiny mail, i.e., mailpieces having glossy surfaces that sometimes interfere with printing of barcodes and or ID Tags may lead to rejects. In some embodiments, shiny mailpieces are identified, and at least one new (non-shiny) label is over-labeled in the POSTNET clear zone (108), the ID Tag zone (202), or both. In one embodiment, a specially-configured Reject Encoding Machine (REM) (1142) is employed to label or over-label a POSTNET clear zone (1110), resolve the destination address (1112) if possible, and print the barcode (1114) in a single operation. Thereafter, the mailpiece may be transferred from the REM into a downstream DBCS (1144), thereby re-introducing the mailpiece into the automated mail stream rather than being relegated to a manual stream.
US08649894B2	Method and device for controlling circuit board positions during the assembly of electronic components A method for controlling a board stopping position includes a calculation step for calculating an extended length of the electronic component mounted on the board and extended from the board end portion in the transfer direction by one of the electronic component mounting machines; and a correcting and stopping step for correcting a stopping timing of the conveyer belt to be stopped in response to the detection signal which is outputted from the board sensor and stopping the board at the mounting position, based on the calculated extended length of the electronic component in a subsequent stage electronic component mounting machine arranged subsequent to the one of the electronic component mounting machines.
US08649891B2	Audio signal generator, method of generating an audio signal, and computer program for generating an audio signal An audio signal generator for generating an audio signal (20) having a selected length (14) comprises a database interface (10) for accessing a database (12) having information on a plurality of different predefined sequences of audio samples, the information for a sequence comprising an order (12c) of audio samples in the sequence and a duration (12b) of the sequence. The audio signal generator additionally comprises a processor (14) for constructing the audio signal (20) by serially connecting a plurality of sequences using the information on the duration (12b) of each sequence in accordance with the construction algorithm to obtain the audio signal (20) having the selected length (15).
US08649890B2	System and method for providing an athlete with a performance profile A web-based platform and method for providing access to information regarding athletic events and personal training information. The platform may include an events calendar that may be personalized, a training log, a media portal containing photographs of a participant in an athletic event, and a rankings generator configured to rank a user against other users within given set of parameters.
US08649888B2	System and method for improved coordination between control and safety systems A system and method are provided for monitoring and control of a plurality of field devices separately provided in a safety subsystem and a process control subsystem. The field devices include conventional safety subsystem field devices associated with one or more processes or subprocesses and conventional process control subsystem field devices associated with one or more of the processes or subprocesses. The integrated and coordinated system uses complementary field device data including mappings of safety subsystem field devices and process control subsystem field devices corresponding to the same process or subprocess Signals are received from a compromised field device and its functions are delegated to its complementary field device as indicated by the complementary field device data.
US08649883B2	Power distribution system and method A power distribution system/method implementing Internet based access to hybrid home automation networks is disclosed. The system utilizes a smart gateway power controller (SGPC) configured for single/multi-gang wallplate installation to selectively switch an AC power source to a load device under switched control and/or local/remote network commands that may be routed through a variety of network interfaces and protocols present within a home or other structure-local communications network. SGPC configurations may be nested within a home automation network to permit separation of control for load devices within a common home automation environment. Present invention methods may include routing protocols between disparate home automation networks as well as remote access protocols that permit control of disparate home automation networks via the Internet using a wide variety of remote access interfaces including mobile devices, tablet computers, laptops, desktop computers, and the like.
US08649881B2	Suture sleeve and a method for manufacturing a suture sleeve A suture sleeve for securing a medical implantable lead in position in relation to a human or animal body, has a tubular body of a resilient material defining a through bore in the longitudinal direction of the suture sleeve and being formed with one or more longitudinal spaced, circumferential suture grooves on the outside and two or more grip enhancing projections around the inner circumference of the through bore in at least an area radially inward of a suture groove. The suture sleeve is formed with two or more stiffening protuberances in the bottom along the circumference of the suture groove such that the bottom of the suture groove deviates from circular as seen in cross section. The, stiffening protuberances are positioned radially outside of the respective grip enhancing projections on the inside. A method for manufacturing such a suture sleeve is also described.
US08649877B2	Extended noise mode A device and a method for working in the presence of electromagnetic fields, in particular fields occurring in cautery applications. Also relates to a partially implanted medical device (IMD), having a unit for detecting electromagnetic interference fields, at least one control unit, a timer, and a detection unit for electrical measured variables and/or a stimulation unit, at least one electrode line having an electrode at one end which is brought into contact with bodily tissue, and which either extends inside the body and/or is situated on the surface of an implant, wherein when nonphysiological signals and/or electromagnetic interference fields are detected and the unit for electromagnetic interference fields evaluates the detected signals as nonphysiological signals for a first specifiable time period, and/or for a second specified time period the stimulation unit is placed in an asynchronous operating state in which the wearer of the IMD is asynchronously stimulated.
US08649876B2	Leadless system for deep brain stimulation using time reversal acoustics A leadless Deep Brain Stimulation system includes an implantable stimulator configured to convert incoming acoustic energy into an electric stimulation signal. The acoustic energy is provided by one or more external transmitters acoustically coupled to a head of the subject. To focus ultrasound energy onto the location of the stimulator, a wireless beacon (including a piezoelectric receiving transducer and an RF emitting antenna) is incorporated with the stimulator for providing an electromagnetic feedback signal to the external controller. The external controller is configured to send an initial unfocused acoustic signal towards the stimulator and receive the electromagnetic radiofrequency feedback signal generated by the receiving piezotransducer when affected by the acoustic signal after reverberation in the skull. This signal is then time-reversed and used to send a second signal towards the stimulator. This signal is inherently focused on the site of the stimulator and is configured to carry sufficient energy to operate the stimulator for DBS purposes.
US08649872B2	Identifying combinations of electrodes for neurostimulation therapy A programmer allows a clinician to identify combinations of electrodes from within an electrode set implanted in a patient that enable delivery of desirable neurostimulation therapy by an implantable medical device. The programmer executes an electrode combination search algorithm to select combinations of electrodes to test in a non-random order. According to algorithms consistent with the invention, the programmer may first identify a position of a first cathode for subsequent combinations, and then select electrodes from the set to test with the first cathode as anodes or additional cathodes based on the proximity of the electrodes to the first cathode. The programmer may store information for each combination tested, and the information may facilitate the identification of desirable electrode combinations by the clinician. The clinician may create neurostimulation therapy programs that include identified desirable program combinations.
US08649870B2	Systems and methods including lead and electrode structures sized and configured for implantation in adipose tissue A stimulation electrode assembly comprises an elongated lead sized and configured to be implanted within an adipose tissue region. The lead includes an electrically conductive portion to apply electrical stimulation to nerve or muscle in the adipose tissue region and at least one expandable anchoring structure deployable from the lead to engage adipose tissue and resist dislodgment and/or migration of the electrically conductive portion within the adipose tissue region.
US08649869B2	Implantable medical device having feedthru assembly with header side bunched conductor array and can side linear conductor array An implantable pulse generator includes a header, a can, a grouped array feedthru, and an inline array feedthru board. The feedthru includes a header side, a can side and a grouped array of feedthru wires extending through the feedthru. A first end of each feedthru wire is electrically coupled to a lead connector block. The inline array feedthru board includes a grouped array of first electrical contact holes and an inline array of conductor wires. The grouped array of first electrical contact holes receives therein second ends of the feedthru wires. The inline array of conductor wires projects from a side of the board opposite the feedthru. Each first electrical contact hole is in electrical communication with a respective conductor wire. Each conductor wire is in electrical contact with at least a portion of an electrical connection region of an electronic substrate housed within the can.
US08649868B2	Package for an implantable device The present invention is an implantable electronic device formed within a biocompatible hermetic package. Preferably the implantable electronic device is used for a visual prosthesis for the restoration of sight in patients with lost or degraded visual function. The package is formed from a thin film of hermetic biocompatible material to minimize the size of the implanted device.
US08649864B2	Implantable heart stimulator providing long term cardiac monitoring with automatic notification An implantable medical device that continuously measures the patient's intracardiac ventricular impedance. Extracts cardiac performance information based on the intracardiac impedance, including amplitude, timing and variability of cardiac contraction function. The device records and analysis trends in the performance information. The device identifies changes, which exceed the selected threshold limits. In the event of an incipient crisis, the device transmits an alert message.
US08649861B2	Wearable medical treatment device A wearable treatment device includes a cardiac sensing electrode, a treatment electrode, a user interface, and a sensor. The cardiac sensing electrode detects cardiac information, and the treatment electrode applies treatment to a subject. The user interface receives quality of life information from the subject, and the sensor detects subject activity and wellness information. A controller coupled with the cardiac sensing electrode, the treatment electrode, the user interface, and the sensor receives the detected cardiac information, the quality of life information, and the detected subject activity and wellness information, and determines that treatment is to be applied to the body of the subject based upon the detected cardiac information. The controller can adjust the treatment based on at least one of the detected subject activity and wellness information and the quality of life information.
US08649851B2	Method and system for quantitative measure of current of injury during lead fixation The invention is directed towards measuring current of injury (COI) during lead fixation. A baseline waveform is sensed from a lead while the lead is in a pre-fixation position. The baseline waveform represents an interface between the lead and tissue proximate a lead prior to active fixation. Cardiac signals are then sensed when the lead is in a post-fixation position. The post-fixation waveform represents an interface between the lead and the tissue once the lead is actively attached to the tissue. A COI is calculated based on an automatic comparison of the baseline and post-fixation waveforms. A COI feature of interest is identified in the baseline and post-fixation waveforms and a COI index, a COI area, a COI differential and/or a COI ratio is calculated based on the COI feature of interest in the baseline and post-fixation waveforms.
US08649850B2	Probe for detecting substance in body and system for detecting substance in body making use of the probe Disclosed is a probe for detecting a substance in the body in gingival crevicular fluid. The probe includes a gingival sulcus insert section and a sensitive part. The gingival sulcus insert section can be inserted into a gingival sulcus. The sensitive part is arranged on the gingival sulcus insert section and contains a detection substance for permitting optical detection of the substance in the body. A system for detecting a substance in the body is also disclosed. The system for detecting a substance in the body includes the probe for detecting a substance in the body, a light irradiator for irradiating light onto the sensitive part in the probe, and a photodetector for detecting optical information from an inside of the sensitive part upon irradiation of light by the light irradiator.
US08649846B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an acoustic control unit and an image data acquisition unit. The acoustic control unit applies a gradient magnetic field for controlling a sound in synchronization with a signal representing a respiratory body motion. The image data acquisition unit acquires imaging data by imaging subsequently to control the sound and generate image data based on the imaging data.
US08649832B2	Cellular wireless unit Antenna characteristics of a folding cellphone are adjusted to appropriate values. The cellphone includes a first casing 10a containing a first circuit member 15a, and a second casing 10b containing a second circuit member 15b. The first circuit member 15a and the second circuit member 15b are connected by a connection structure consisting of a first connecting conductor 23a extending from each lateral end of the first circuit member 15a downward (toward the second casing), and a second connecting conductor 25a extending from each lateral end of the second circuit member 15b upward (toward the first casing). The first circuit member 15a and the second circuit member 15b are each comprised of shields, substrates, and so on. Antenna 111 is disposed at an upper edge of the first casing 10a. The effective casing length is affected by the length of the first casing 10a and the second casing 10b, which are both electrically conductive. The end of the first connecting conductor 23a is formed by a first circular portion 31a having a circular opening 31c. The second connecting conductor 25a has a second circular portion 31b and an opening 31d at the tip thereof, which are shaped similarly to those of the first connecting conductor 23a. A spacer 27a made of an insulator is inserted between the first and second connecting conductors.
US08649824B2	Terminal and method of controlling the same A terminal and method of controlling the same are disclosed, by which user's convenience for photography using a terminal can be further enhanced. The terminal includes a camera, a display, a user input having a camera shutter key, and a controller for controlling at least one of more menu icons displayed in a standby mode to be displayed by being overlapped with a camera preview image. A see-through image seen through a transparent display can become a camera preview image.
US08649822B2	Secure digital card The invention provides a secure digital card. In one embodiment, the secure digital card is coupled to a cell phone, and comprises a smart card, a secure digital card controller (SDC), a first power control circuit, and a second power control circuit. When the cell phone wants to perform a near-end payment process, the SDC controls the first power control circuit to supply a first voltage generated by a first power supply pin of a near field communication (NFC) controller to a power receive pin of the smart card. When the cell phone wants to perform a far-end payment process, the SDC controls a second power control circuit to supply a second voltage generated by a second power supply pin of the SDC to the power receive pin of the smart card.
US08649809B2	Method for exchanging messages in a mobile radio network The invention relates to a method for exchanging messages in a mobile radio system by means of a convergent messaging system, which allows an exchange of messages between the terminals of two or more users. According to the invention, a message thread is detected by one of the terminals as soon as a terminal receives a response to a previously sent message, wherein the detection of a message thread by this terminal triggers a recording of the message exchange in the convergent messaging system.
US08649807B1	Paging scheme settings of switch based on likelihood of roaming Disclosed herein are methods and systems for adjusting the paging-scheme settings of a switch in an effort to reduce the likelihood that a wireless device roams from a preferred to a non-preferred coverage area. One exemplary method involves: (i) a switch in a radio access network (RAN) determining that a wireless communication device (WCD) should be paged, wherein the WCD is operating in a preferred coverage area; (ii) the switch determining a likelihood of roaming for the first WCD, wherein the likelihood of roaming indicates the likelihood that the first WCD will be handed off from the preferred coverage area to a non-preferred coverage area; (iii) based at least in part on the likelihood of roaming, the switch adjusting at least one paging-scheme setting affecting attempts to page the WCD; and (iv) paging the WCD according to the at least one adjusted paging-scheme setting.
US08649801B2	Method for a subscriber unit's communication with a service and a component in a network Using a method for a subscriber unit's communication with a service that requires information about the subscriber unit's location, the subscriber unit sends the service a message containing information about the subscriber unit's location and at least one piece of information about the subscriber unit's location is stored in at least one network component and is made available by a network component.
US08649799B2	Unlicensed mobile access (UMA) terminal location in a communications network A method of managing location information of an Unlicensed Mobile Access terminal in a Global System for Mobile Communications network. An IP address of the terminal is received at a Generic Access Network Controller. The Generic Access Network Controller then sends a query to a Connectivity Session Location and Repository Function associated with the IP network or IP sub network through which the UMA terminal has gained IP connectivity for the purpose of attaching to a Mobile Switching Center or Serving General Packet Radio System Service Node. The Connectivity Session Location and Repository Function sends location information to the Generic Access Network Controller, which then transmits the location information to a Mobile Switching Center or a Serving General Packet Radio System Service Node.
US08649796B2	Method and device for determining a cooperation area A method and a device for determining a cooperation area for a mobile terminal in a cellular network, wherein the mobile terminal determines its n strongest interferers; wherein the cooperation area is selected for the mobile terminal regarding the n strongest interferers; and wherein the cooperation area includes m base stations and wherein the number m of base stations is larger than the number n of strongest interferers. Furthermore, a communication system is suggested including said device.
US08649792B2	Computer system and method for data transmission A computer system (2) for transmitting context-specific data via a mobile radio network to a mobile communication terminal (3, 3′) and configured to receive and store condition data assigned to data elements of a data delivery unit (1). The computer system (2) checks whether the mobile communication terminal (3) satisfies one or more conditions defined by the condition data. If one of the conditions is satisfied, the computer system (2) triggers the transmission of context-specific data elements via the mobile radio network to the mobile communication terminal (3, 3′). The context-specific data elements are those data elements that are assigned to condition data that define the condition satisfied by the mobile communication terminal (3). Context monitoring by the computer system (2) and context-specific data transmission triggered by the computer system (2) make it possible to supply automatically context specific data elements, for example operational parameters, to mobile communication terminals (3, 3′), without having to burden, for that purpose, the data delivery units (1) and the mobile communication terminals (3, 3′) with functions for context monitoring.
US08649789B2	Method and apparatus for switching virtual SIM service contracts when roaming A system and method store provisioning data supporting a plurality of service providers in a VSIM internal memory unit of a mobile device. The mobile device may automatically enable provisioning data supporting one of the plurality of service providers stored in the VSIM internal memory unit to conduct a wireless communication so as to avoid roaming fees.
US08649788B1	Dynamic wireless transceiver selection in a wireless communication device Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for dynamically selecting a wireless transceiver in a wireless communication device. In a particular embodiment, a method operating a wireless communication device having multiple wireless transceivers provides exchanging wireless media communications with a first communication network using a first one of the wireless transceivers. The method further provides processing a data structure of access connections and instructions to select a wireless data connection in a second communication network, wherein the instructions are associated with a wireless data service of the second communication network in the data structure, and processing one of the instructions to disable the first wireless transceiver. The method further provides exchanging additional wireless media communications with the second communication network using a second one of the wireless transceivers.
US08649785B2	Device and method for communication between a portable computer system and items of avionics equipment A device for communication between a portable computer system including a display screen and avionic equipment items comprises shielded walls forming at least a partial Faraday cage. The device also includes at least one wide band high output wireless transmitter-receiver arranged inside the shielded walls and adapted for carrying out a very short range point-to-point radio communication with the portable computer system when the portable computer system is placed inside the shielded walls. The device also includes at least one interface connected to the avionic equipment items and adapted for transmitting data originating from the portable computer system to the avionic equipment items and data originating from the avionic equipment items to the portable computer system, through the at least one said transmitter-receiver.
US08649780B1	Wireless communication device with audio/text interface A wireless communication device is configured to visually prompt a user to initiate a text session, and to receive a text session request from the user including a called number. In response to the text session request, the device initiates the text session by placing a first call to a service node using a service node number, and transfers the called number to the service node over the first call. The service node then extends the text session by placing a second call to the called number. Once the text session is established, the device sends a first text message to the service node over the first call, and receives a second text message from the service node over the first call. The device then visually displays the second text message to the user.
US08649778B2	Providing customized information to a user based on identifying a trend To provide customized information to the user, a wireless communications network node receives a stream of data associated with a user. A first trend associated with at least a first attribute in the stream of data is identified, and based on the identified first trend, customized information is sent for presentation to the user at a mobile station.
US08649773B2	System and apparatus to support clipped video tone on televisions, personal computers, and handheld devices Media content communication may be provided. First, an incoming communication may be received at a subscriber device. A determination whether multimedia content is associated with the incoming communication may then be made. The multimedia content may be associated with, for example, a caller, and may be played back as a video tone indicating a communication originating from the caller. The multimedia content may also be delivered with the incoming communication, retrieved by the subscriber device, and played back upon acceptance of the incoming communication or stored for later retrieval upon denial of the incoming communication.
US08649768B1	Method of device authentication and application registration in a push communication framework A server system and a mobile device establish a push data framework for communication. The mobile device includes a push client, and runs one or more applications requiring push data communications. The push client transmits a device authentication and application validation request to a push server. Upon the push server successfully authenticating and validating the device and application, the push client receives a session identifier for establishing a persistent communication connection with the push server. Once established, an application server can push data to the mobile device via the persistent communication session. The session identifier remains valid for an extended period of time, and allows the push client to maintain and re-establish push connections with the push server for the duration of the extended period of time.
US08649764B2	Method, mobile terminal, service platform and system for implementing debit card service A method and system for implementing debit card service based on callback. The method is applied to a mobile terminal set with an automatic dialing function unit, automatic dialing function of the automatic dialing function unit is activated, and a number corresponding to the mobile terminal is bound with one debit card. The method includes the following steps: a preset callback access number is dialed before the called number by the automatic dialing function unit in the mobile terminal to connect the call to a debit card service platform when the mobile terminal calls the called number; the debit card service platform releases the call and calls back the mobile terminal; the called number is continued by the debit card service platform after the mobile terminal answers the callback; the debit card service based on callback is implemented.
US08649756B2	Systems and methods for providing abbreviated electronic program guides Systems and methods for providing an abbreviated electronic program guide are provided. Some embodiments include receiving a radio signal that includes an audio content portion and an auxiliary information display portion, determining whether the vehicle is in operation, and in response to determining that the vehicle is not in operation, providing the auxiliary information display portion for display in the vehicle. In response to determining that the vehicle is in operation, some embodiments may be configured to create an altered auxiliary information by removing content from the auxiliary information display portion, provide the audio content portion for playback in the vehicle, and provide the altered auxiliary information for display in the vehicle, wherein the altered auxiliary information includes only a subset of features from the auxiliary information display portion.
US08649755B2	Timing circuit calibration in devices with selectable power modes Techniques are provided which may be implemented in various methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture for use by a device that is operable in a plurality of modes, including “higher power mode” and a “lower power mode”. A timing circuit may be set based, at least in part, on a phase value obtained from a signal from a ground-based transmitter, and operation of the device may be selectively transitioned to a lower power mode wherein the device uses the timing circuit. In certain example implementations, operation of the device to the lower power mode may be selectively transition and based, at least in part, on a determination that one or more attribute values satisfy a profile test indicating that the electronic device is likely to be within a characterized environment, and/or a determination that the electronic device is likely to be in a constrained motion state.
US08649753B2	Method and system for using a microstrip to switch circuits in CMOS applications Aspects of a method and system for using a microstrip to switch circuits in CMOS applications may include generating a second signal from a first signal by frequency-translating the first signal by switching a first current associated with the first signal between a first signal path and a second signal path. The switched first current may be filtered via a microstrip filter that may be tuned to a desired frequency component of the frequency-translated first signal, and the second signal may be generated from the difference between the voltage of the first signal path and the second signal path.
US08649752B2	Method and system for reducing the complexity of multi-frequency hypothesis testing using an iterative approach Aspects of a method and system for reducing the complexity of multi-frequency hypothesis testing using an iterative approach may include estimating a frequency offset of a received signal via a plurality of iterative frequency offset hypotheses tests. The iterative frequency offset hypotheses may be adjusted for each iteration. A correlation may be done between a primary synchronization signal (PSS), and one or more frequency offset versions of a received signal to control the adjustment of the iterative frequency offset hypotheses. A frequency of the received local oscillator signal may be adjusted based on the estimated frequency offset. One or more frequency offset version of the received signal may be generated via one or more multiplication, and the multiplication may be achieved via a multiplication signal corresponding to one or more frequency offsets. The frequency offset of the received signal may be estimated via the correlation.
US08649748B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic transmitter to multi-carrier power amplifier mapping According to the teachings presented herein, dynamic mapping is used to determine which multi-carrier power amplifiers (MC-PAs) provide the required transmit power for individual ones of the transmitters in a base station. With dynamic mapping, the required transmit power of any one or more of the transmitters can be distributed to more than one MCPA, providing for more efficient ‘packing’ of required transmit powers into the available transmit powers of the MCPAs, and/or providing for power mapping based on any one or more mapping criterion, As a non-limiting advantage, the dynamic mapping presented herein reduces the number of MCPAs needed to support a given number of transmitters.
US08649745B2	Adaptive predistortion for a non-linear subsystem based on a model as a concatenation of a non-linear model followed by a linear model Systems and methods for compensating for non-linearity of a non-linear subsystem using predistortion are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a non-linear subsystem and a predistorter configured to effect predistortion of an input signal of the non-linear subsystem such that the predistortion compensates for a non-linear characteristic of the non-linear subsystem. The system also includes an adaptor that adaptively configures the predistorter based on a feedback signal that is representative of an output signal of the non-linear subsystem and an input signal that is representative of the input signal of the non-linear subsystem. The adaptor generally models the non-linear subsystem as a concatenation of a non-linear model that corresponds to the non-linear characteristic of the non-linear subsystem and a linear model that corresponds to a known linear characteristic of the non-linear subsystem.
US08649743B2	Transmitter linearized using inversing and non-inversing transform processing sections and method therefor A transmitter (50) includes a nonlinear predistorter (58) having two instances of an inverting transform (106, 106′) that may be implemented in a look-up table (122) and that implements a transform which is the inverse of an average terms component (96) of a nonlinear transform model (94) for an amplifier (70). The look-up table (122) may be updated using a continuous process control loop that avoids Cartesian to polar coordinate conversions. One of the two instances of the inverting transform (106) is cascaded with a non-inversing transform (108) within a residual cancellation section (110) of the predistorter (58). The non-inversing transform (108) implements a transform which is an estimate of a deviation terms component (98) of the nonlinear transform model (94). The residual cancellation section (110) produces a weak signal that replaces an unwanted residual term in an amplified communication signal (76) with a much weaker residual term.
US08649739B2	Increased receive sensitivity radio frequency front end integrated circuits A front end circuit for coupling an antenna to a radio frequency (RF) transceiver is disclosed. An antenna port connectible to the antenna is provided, as well as a power amplifier coupled to a signal output of the RF transceiver and a low noise amplifier coupled to the signal input of the RF transceiver. The front end circuit includes a switching network that is connected to the antenna port, the power amplifier, and the low noise amplifier. Additionally, there is at least one resonant circuit and a control circuit coupled to a receive enable line of the transceiver. This resonant circuit defines a parallel resonance with a first resonant resistance in the operating frequency band upon activation in the receive mode. The resonant circuit also defines a substantially high transistor impedance upon deactivation in the transmit mode.
US08649734B1	Bluetooth scan modes Different scan modes are provided for Bluetooth devices. In at least some embodiments, a narrowband scanning mode looks for signal energy on individual transmission frequencies at a time. By looking for signal energy rather than decoding transmitted packets, at least some of the components in a Bluetooth device can remain in an idle or rest state. A midband scanning mode looks for signal energy across multiple different frequencies at a time. Again, by looking for signal energy across multiple different frequencies rather than decoding transmitted packets, at least some of the components in a Bluetooth device can remain in an idle or rest state. A wideband scanning mode looks for signal energies across all relevant frequencies at a time. At least some embodiments enable a Bluetooth device to switch between scanning modes.
US08649727B2	Portable karaoke system, karaoke method and application program for the same A portable karaoke system, a karaoke method and an application program for the same are disclosed. The karaoke system comprises a receiving end karaoke apparatus and at least a transmitting end karaoke apparatus. The receiving end karaoke apparatus generates a song list to provide to the transmitting end karaoke apparatus according to songs internally saved and songs uploaded from transmitting end karaoke apparatus. The transmitting end karaoke apparatus transmits a selection command to receiving end karaoke apparatus for generating a play queue according to the song list. The receiving end karaoke apparatus plays the song files saved internally for generating music signals according to a play queue sequence. Lastly, the transmitting end karaoke apparatus receives external vocal signals and transmits the external vocal signals to the receiving end karaoke apparatus to perform audio mixing with the music signals.
US08649726B2	Shutter device, toner storage unit and image forming apparatus A shutter device includes a main body and a seal member. The main body is an annular body fitted around an outside of one end of a cylindrical tube which includes a discharge outlet in a part of the circumferential face near the end in the axial direction, and includes a first opening having a same shape as the discharge outlet and a second opening having a first opening end and a second opening end. The seal member has a length equal to a distance from a vicinity of the first opening end on an outer circumferential face of the main body, passing across the first opening, the second opening end and the first opening on an inner circumferential face of the main body in the stated order, to a vicinity of the second opening end.
US08649721B2	Processing apparatus and cartridge A surface processing apparatus includes a heating unit and a detachably mountable film cartridge. The film cartridge is provided with a first opening portion into which the heating unit proceeds, and an operational portion disposed in a casing, for acting on a shutter of the heating unit to move the shutter between a closing position (first position) and an opening position (second position). The heating unit proceeds into the casing through the first opening portion with the shutter being in the closing position, and the operational portion acts on the shutter in the casing to move the shutter to the opening position.
US08649720B2	Image heating apparatus with rotatable heat generation member capable of induction heat generation by a magnetic flux An image heating apparatus includes an endless rotatable heat generator for heating an image on the recording material by induction heat generation by a magnetic flux, a coil outside the generator for generating the magnetic flux for the induction heat generation, first and second magnetic cores, respectively provided on the same and opposite sides of the coil as the heat generator for directing the magnetic flux to the heat generator, a mover for moving the second core between first and second positions, the second position being farther away from the coil than the first position, and an electroconductive member extending from the first core to the second position in a direction away from the heat generator.
US08649719B2	Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, the following inequalities (1) and (2) are satisfied: (L1−L3)×(V2/V1)
US08649714B2	Development device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus including same A development device includes a developer bearer to carry by rotation two-component developer to a development range to develop a latent image formed on a latent image bearer, a magnetic field generator disposed inside the developer bearer, a developer regulator for adjusting an amount of the developer on the developer bearer, positioned upstream from the development range in a rotational direction of the developer bearer and facing the developer bearer across a regulation gap, a supply compartment from which the developer is supplied by a developer agitator to the developer bearer, a collection compartment, a pre-regulation portion adjacent to and upstream from the developer regulator in the rotational direction of the developer bearer, and a developer mobility adjuster that makes mobility of the developer in the pre-regulation portion higher on an upstream side in a developer conveyance direction in the supply compartment.
US08649706B2	Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus including same Disclosed is a corona charging apparatus for electrically charging a surface of an image bearing member to which the corona charging apparatus faces and which is rotatably provided in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the corona charging apparatus including: a discharging electrode; a shield case that covers the discharging electrode, the shield case being opened at least in a region where the discharging electrode and the image bearing member face each other; and a sheet-like member being made from aluminum and being attached to a first surface of the shield case which first surface faces the discharging electrode.
US08649699B2	Fixing device A heater is inserted into a roller through-hole of a heating roller body. An attached portion of a terminal plate is attached to a power supply terminal provided on one end of the heater. An engaging portion is a plate member extending from the attached portion in a first radial direction of the heating roller body and arranged in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the heater. The engaging portion is engaged with the fixing frame. An engaging terminal portion is a plate member extending from the attached portion in a second radial direction of the heating roller body and intersects with the longitudinal direction of the heater. The second radial direction is a direction the same as the first radial direction.
US08649689B2	Digital coherent receiving apparatus A digital coherent receiving apparatus includes a first oscillator for outputting a local light signal of a fixed frequency, a hybrid unit mixing the local light signal with a light signal received by a receiver, a second oscillator for outputting a sampling signal of a sampling frequency, a converter for converting the mixed light signal into digital signal synchronizing with the sampling signal, a waveform adjuster for adjusting a waveform distortion of the converted digital signal, a phase adjustor for adjusting a phase of the digital signal adjusted by the waveform adjustor, a demodulator for demodulating the digital signal adjusted by the phase adjuster, and a phase detector for detecting a phase of the digital signal adjusted by the phase adjuster, and a control signal output unit for outputting a frequency control signal on the basis of the detected phase signal to the second oscillator.
US08649683B2	Light path characterization, traffic protection, and wavelength defragmentation A method for managing an optical network having a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of fiber links includes installing one or more active reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) cards into a node and installing a spare ROADM card into the node. The one or more active ROADM cards are configured to pass optical traffic to and from the optical network. The installed spare ROADM card is remotely activated to pass optical traffic to and from the optical network, subsequent to configuring the one or more active ROADM cards, based on one of: an event or expiration of a time period.
US08649681B2	Methods and devices for wavelength alignment in WDM-PON An optical network unit for a passive optical network (10), configured to: initiate an upstream wavelength (wus) for an upstream signal (US) from the optical network unit to an optical line terminal (10); iteratively, until an iteration criterion is met, i) transmit the upstream signal (US) to the optical line terminal (10), ii) receive from the optical line terminal (10) power level data (p) for the upstream signal (US) as measured by the optical line terminal (10), and iii) set the upstream wavelength (wus) for the upstream signal (US) to a new wavelength-value; and adjust the upstream wavelength (wus) to a wavelength-value previously set for the upstream signal (US) and associated with power level data corresponding to a certain power level. A passive optical network system, the optical line terminal and related methods are also disclosed.
US08649678B2	Frame processing apparatus, optical receiving apparatus, optical transceiving apparatus, optical transmission system, and frame processing controlling method The technique for improving the efficiency in use of power resources while maintaining the received signal quality that satisfies the requirement during a system operation is disclosed. The frame processing apparatus disclosed in the present case includes: a frame processing unit which performs frame processing on an input signal in the designated error processing mode; and a controlling unit which receives the monitoring result relating to the signal quality of the input signal and performs switching control of the designation of the above error processing mode in the frame processing unit based on the received monitoring result.
US08649668B2	Client playback of streaming video adapted for smooth transitions and viewing in advance display modes Systems and methods are presented for adaptively streaming a time-ordered sequence of video frames from a video server, across a wide area network, to a remote client video device, to accommodate advanced video display modes. Based on indications received from the remote client, the video server obtains and sends to the remote client encodings of video frames adapted to facilitate smooth, timely transitions between display modes at the client, and optimal playback quality across all modes, subject to various operational constraints. Advanced playback modes include fast forward and reverse, slow forward and reverse, frame-by-frame stepping, and other modes that specify displaying video frames on the client at a rate different from the normal display rate, or that specify displaying video frames in a different order than the normal time-ordering of the sequence of video frames. The systems and methods may be incorporated into collaborative online video editing environments.
US08649666B2	Apparatus and method for generating moving image and apparatus and method for reproducing moving image An apparatus and a method for generating a moving image, and an apparatus and a method for reproducing a moving image are provided. The present moving image generating apparatus includes a script parsing unit which analyzes script information, a composer which generates a script to define a moving image, and a storage management unit which includes and stores setting information regarding the moving image in the script. Accordingly, a user may prevent the consumption of unnecessary resources as a moving image defined in a script is generated.
US08649664B2	Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and /or video signals An audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source has a meta data generation tool which is arranged in operation to generate meta data associated with the audio and/or video signals, wherein the type of meta data generated by the meta data generation tool is user selectable. The audio and/or video generation apparatus may comprise a recording means which is arranged in operation to record the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, and the audio and/or video generation apparatus may be arranged to receive meta data associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording means being arranged in operation to record the meta data on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The meta data may be user generated, such as text describing the audio/video signals, or may be secondary meta data which is automatically generated by the audio/video apparatus. The recording medium may be a linear recording medium, and the recording means may be arranged in operation to record at least one of the user generated meta data and the secondary meta data on the recording medium after the audio and/or video signals at a position at which at least one of the user generated and secondary meta data can be read by a reproducing means before the audio and/or video signals.
US08649658B2	Method and apparatus for storage and playback of programs The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for playback of programs and other works recorded on random access storage media. One embodiment of the invention relates to random access storage media such as a DVD (“digital versatile disk” or “digital video disk”) used to distribute motion pictures and other audio/video programs or works. The invention involves a manner of utilizing secondary storage space of the storage media not used by the primary program being distributed to store secondary programs such as movie trailers and product advertisements, and to present the secondary programs to the user in a topical and interesting manner. In one embodiment, storage space of a random access storage medium such as a DVD is allocated to a number of variously sized programs or program portions called “chapters.” In one embodiment, each primary and secondary program constitutes a separate chapter. In this embodiment, each time the primary chapter is played, the DVD playback device plays a limited selection of secondary chapters before and/or after the primary chapter. In one embodiment, the sequence of secondary chapters played back varies each time the DVD is played. In this manner, as a viewer repeatedly views the DVD over time, a large variety of promotional material can be presented to the viewer without overburdening the viewer with overly-long sequences of promotions and trailers. In addition, because the sequence of trailers changes each time the DVD is viewed viewer interest is maintained.
US08649638B2	Method for measuring the deformation of a specimen using a fiber optic extensometer A method for measuring the deformation of a specimen using an extensometer having a loop of a single-mode optical fiber. At least two points of the loop are attached to desired locations on a specimen. Light is transmitted through the loop and the transmitted optical power is measured by a photodetector. The deformation of the specimen causes the size and shape of the loop to change, which changes the transmitted optical power. The change in optical power is related to extension or compression using calibration curves. The sensor works on the principle of transmitted power modulation through the curved section.
US08649637B2	Polarization interference optical interleaver The present patent application relates to a polarization interference optical interleaver, which includes a first port to transmit the first optical signal through the first optical path, a second port to transmit the second optical signal and a third port to transmit the third optical signal. The first optical signal passes through the first optical path and splits into the second optical signal and the third optical signal by the first and the second light splitting/combining crystals and the interference crystal group. The interference crystal group is located between the first and the second light splitting/combining crystals. The second optical signal and the third optical signal are received and reflected by a reflecting mirror. Then the second optical signal and the third optical signal output through the second port and the third port respectively. The second optical signal reflected by the reflecting mirror transmits along the first optical path of the first optical signal and passes through the interference crystal group, then walks off the first optical path by light walk-off device and outputs through the second port. The third optical signal reflected by the reflecting mirror transmits along the second optical path and passes through the interference crystal group, then outputs through the third port. There are only four beams in the interference crystal group of the present patent application. So the volume of the interference crystal group is minimized and the cost is reduced.
US08649636B2	Super-resolution processor and super-resolution processing method A super-resolution processor in one aspect of the present invention first estimates a motion between an input image and a delayed input image which is obtained by delaying the input image by some frames, and determines a motion vector in super-resolution processing of adding a high frequency component using a learning database. Subsequently, the super-resolution processor updates an evaluation value evaluated when a patch is extracted in a target block of the input image, so that a learned high frequency patch is likely to be selected, the learned high frequency patch being the same as the learned high frequency patch used for super-resolution processing performed at the position motion-compensated by the motion vector in the frame at the same time as the time of the delayed input image.
US08649627B2	Image processing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for providing image processing. For one embodiment of the invention, an image processing apparatus is arranged to process a first relatively underexposed and sharp image of a scene, and a second relatively well exposed and blurred image, nominally of the same scene, the first and second images being derived from respective image sources. The apparatus provides a portion of the relatively first underexposed image as an input signal to an adaptive filter; and a corresponding portion of the second relatively well exposed image as a desired signal to the adaptive filter. The adaptive filter produces an output signal from the input signal and the desired signal; and an image generator constructs a first filtered image from the output signal, relatively less blurred than the second image.
US08649619B2	Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images Computer-readable medium having an image decoding program performing: storing a reference image of a previously decoded image; receiving coded information including motion vector and rounding method information specifying a rounding method for synthesizing a prediction image of a currently decoded image; and synthesizing via motion compensation using the motion vector information and reference image, using a positive and negative rounding method for interpolating pixel intensity values; wherein interpolation of pixel intensity values uses a rounding method specified by the rounding method information included in the encoded current P frame bitstream; wherein the rounding method information is not received from the encoded I frame bitstream; wherein the rounding method information includes a header section of the currently decoded image's coded information, and specifies one of two values; and wherein one specifies a positive rounding method, and another a negative rounding method; and wherein the rounding method information is one bit.
US08649616B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes an image separating unit that separates and creates a plurality of derivative images from an input image based on feature of the input image; a coding unit that codes each of the derivative images separately, couples coded data of the derivative images, and generates multilayer structure data; and a controller that controls a code amount of coded data of at least one derivative image with a low code assignment priority out of the derivative images so that a data amount of the multilayer structure data is equal to or less than a limit amount.
US08649610B2	Methods and apparatus for auditing signage Example methods and apparatus for auditing signage are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves directing an operator to a signage location and capturing an image of a signage at the signage location. The example method also includes detecting an actual characteristic of the signage based on the image and comparing the actual characteristic to an expected characteristic.
US08649599B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program capable of obtaining, even if a process such as a graph cut method is performed in units of small regions, a result similar to that obtained in the process performed in units of pixels.A pre-segmentation executing unit 13 classifies pixels in an image on the basis of correlation among the pixels, thereby dividing the image into a set of small regions. A small region adjacent energy calculating unit 14 calculates a small region adjacent energy on the basis of a difference in pixel value of a pixel set at the vicinity of a boundary of a pair of small regions adjacent to each other in the set of small regions. A small region likelihood energy calculating unit 15 selects object regions and background regions for the respective small regions on the basis of a trimap image, constructs a probability model function, and calculates object likelihoods and background likelihoods for the respective small regions. A segmentation executing unit 16 divides the image into a binary mask image of a foreground and a background using a small region adjacent energy and a small region likelihood energy. The present invention can be applied to image processing of separating an object image.
US08649591B2	Pattern inspection apparatus and pattern inspection method In accordance with an embodiment, a pattern inspection method includes: applying a light generated from a light source to the same region of a substrate in which an inspection target pattern is formed; guiding, imaging and then detecting a reflected light from the substrate, and acquiring a detection signal for each of a plurality of different wavelengths; and adding the detection signals of the different wavelengths in association with an incident position of an imaging surface to generate added image data including information on a wavelength and signal intensity, judging, by the added image data, whether the inspection target pattern has any defect, and when judging that the inspection target pattern has a defect, detecting the position of the defect in a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US08649580B2	Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program An image processing method includes obtaining a first spectral characteristic value in a sample point on a stained sample based on a value of a pixel of a stained-sample image obtained by imaging the stained sample, the sample point corresponding to the pixel, the stained sample being stained with a predetermined staining dye and to be observed; and obtaining gradual second spectral characteristic values on the staining dye. The method also includes estimating an amount of the staining dye in the sample point on the staining sample by using the second dye spectral characteristic values on the staining dye based on the first spectral characteristic value.
US08649564B2	Pedestrian detector A pedestrian detector includes an image-taking mechanism and an image analyzer. The image-taking mechanism is provided on a vehicle and used to take an image in front of the vehicle. The image analyzer is connected to the image-taking mechanism and used to receive the image from the image-taking mechanism and analyze the image to determine whether the image conforms to a pedestrian to determine whether there is a pedestrian in front of the vehicle.
US08649556B2	Multi-modal object signature Disclosed herein are a method and system for appearance-invariant tracking of an object in an image sequence. A track is associated with the image sequence, wherein the track has an associated track signature comprising at least one mode. The method detects the object in a frame of the image sequence (1020). A representative signature is associated with the detected object. The method determines a spatial difference measure between the track and the detected object, and determines, for each mode of the track signature, a visual difference (1410) between the mode of the track signature and the representative signature to obtain a lowest determined visual difference (1420). The method then utilises the spatial difference measure and the lowest determined visual difference to perform at least one of the following steps of: (i) associating the detected object with the track (1440), and (ii) adding a new mode to the track signature (1460), based on the representative signature.
US08649547B2	Mountable multi-directional audio device A mountable multi-directional audio device comprises at least one broadcasting device, which has a sounding portion outwardly; and at least one connecting member, the any end of the connecting member is connected with the broadcasting device.
US08649542B2	Hearing aid with amorphous loudspeaker shielding It should be possible to produce hearing aids in a simpler and more compact fashion. It is for this reason that a hearing aid is proposed, the loudspeaker device of which is shielded by a shielding device, more particularly a housing, which can shield both high-frequency and low-frequency electromagnetic fields. The shielding device is at least in part made of an amorphous, soft-magnetic metal with a preferred direction of the nanocrystalline structures. Using this, a plurality of separate shielding elements can be dispensed with and a hearing aid can have a smaller embodiment.
US08649538B2	Hearing aid having multiple sound inputs and methods therefor A multi-mode hearing aid includes a processor that is configured to selectively apply different hearing aid profiles to different input signals, such as a first sound signal received from a microphone and a second sound signal received from a transceiver, to produce first and second shaped output signals. The processor is configured to produce an output signal including at least one of the first shaped output signal and the second shaped output signal.
US08649536B2	Systems and methods for intra-oral based communications Systems and methods are disclosed for capturing sound for communication by mounting one or more intra-oral microphones to capture sound; and mounting a mouth wearable communicator in the oral cavity to communicate sound with a remote unit.
US08649534B2	Audio interface device and method The invention provides an audio interface device and method utilizing a single audio jack connector for plugging into a three-wire analog microphone or a three-wire digital microphone, thereby reducing dimensions and production costs thereof and an electronic system using the same. The audio interface comprises an audio jack connector, having first to third contacts electronically connected with the three-wire microphone plugged thereinto; and an audio processing device, detecting a type of the three-wire microphone plugged into the audio jack connector, outputting a clock signal to the three-wire microphone and receiving a digital audio signal from the three-wire microphone when the type is digital; or receiving analog audio signals from the three-wire microphone when the type is analog.
US08649531B2	Method and system for approximating graphic equalizers using dynamic filter order reduction Improved approaches to flexibly implementing graphic equalizers on media players are disclosed. These approaches provide dynamic order reduction of a multi-band graphic equalizer so that equalizer effects can be timely performed with only limited computational resources. In one embodiment, a media player receives a media item and associated equalizer settings for a multi-band graphic equalizer. The media player can then automatically (i.e., without user action) approximate the multi-band graphic equalizer with the equalizer settings for the media item using a fewer number of filters. Fewer filters means order reduction, and thus reduction in computational requirements. After the multi-band graphic equalizer is approximated, the media player can present the media item to its user in accordance with the reduced complexity, approximated equalizer.
US08649529B2	Apparatus, method and computer program for localizing a sound source An apparatus for localizing a sound source includes at least two rotatably arranged microphones, a drive formed to set the microphones into rotation, and an evaluator. The evaluator is formed to receive microphone signals of the at least two microphones, while the at least two microphones are moving, and to obtain information on a direction from which sound arrives from the sound source or information on a position of the sound source, using the microphone signals obtained during the movement of the microphones.
US08649518B1	Implementing CSA cryptography in an integrated circuit device A method and circuitry for implementing CSA fast enough for use in programmable devices such as FPGAs process multiple packets with the words that were contained within the packets out of order, and then combines processed words in the correct order. Data advance and data delay techniques can be used to combine processed words correctly. The invention can be used for encryption, decryption, or both. Respective words from each data packet in a plurality of data packets are processed substantially simultaneously. Those respective words are processed in a first cipher path to generate intermediate blocks, and the intermediate blocks are processed in a second cipher path. Timing of the intermediate blocks after output from the first cipher path can be adjusted if necessary.
US08649514B2	On-demand switched content encryption A number of encryption system types utilized by subscriber terminal devices currently requesting tuning to a particular switched digital video (SDV) content selection is determined in response to each change in a number of the subscriber terminals requesting tuning to the particular SDV content selection. SDV content associated with the particular SDV content selection is encrypted as either encrypted SDV content or multiply partially encrypted SDV content based upon the determined number of encryption system types beginning from a current play location indicated for the SDV content selection within an electronic program guide (EPG). Either the encrypted SDV content or the multiply partially encrypted SDV content is distributed as part of an outgoing SDV content stream to the subscriber terminals currently requesting tuning to the particular SDV content selection.
US08649509B2	Systems and computer program products for generating and verifying randomized hash values A system generates a randomized hash value and/or verifies data against a randomized hash value. A hashing circuit can respond to data by randomly selecting a hashing algorithm parameter among a defined set of different hashing algorithm parameters, and by applying a hashing algorithm that uses the selected hashing algorithm parameter to hash the received data to generate a randomized hash value. Another hashing circuit randomly selects a hashing algorithm among a defined set of different hashing algorithms, and applies the selected hashing algorithm to hash the received data to generate a randomized hash value. Another hashing circuit applies a hashing algorithm to hash received data to generate an intermediate hash value that occupies a defined memory space, and randomly selects a partial segment of the hash value from a segment of the defined memory space to generate a randomized hash value.
US08649498B1	Network architecture for hosting voice services Architectures, arrangements, systems and/or methods for an Internet protocol (IP) telephony system for enterprise applications that is efficiently provisioned and maintained are disclosed. In one embodiment, a single platform uses a label allocation and routing scheme to provide overlapping dial plans for multiple customers, E.164 mapping and enhanced regulatory enhancements for both wireline and wireless telephony devices.
US08649495B1	Methods and systems for providing telecommunications services The present invention is related to telecommunications. A call processing system receives a first call from a caller intended for a first person. A notification regarding the first call is transmitted over a network to a terminal associated with the first person. A user interface is displayed on the terminal via which the first person can indicate that a callback message is to be transmitted to the caller. The callback message is transmitted to the caller, wherein the callback message includes an identification of the first person, a callback control, and text indicating that the caller is to activate the control to initiate another call to the first person. At least partly in response to the caller activating the control, A second call to be placed via which the first person and caller are connected.
US08649483B2	Method for producing a grating and phase contrast X-ray system A method is described for producing a grating, in particular an absorption grating, having a grating constant of less than 100 μm, by using a solution of superparamagnetic colloidal nanocrystal clusters (CNCs), a solvent liquid and a photocurable resin, with the following steps: —alignment of the CNCs in the solution by an external magnetic field, —exposure of the solution, so that the resin is cured and grating structures of an intended grating constant are formed, and —removal of the magnetic field.
US08649481B2	Methods and devices for quantitative analysis of X-ray images The present invention relates to network enabled analysis of x-ray images. Also described are devices comprising calibration phantoms; methods of using these devices; methods of formulating databases containing information regarding x-ray images; the databases themselves; and methods of manipulating the information and databases.
US08649479B2	System and method for breast imaging using X-ray computed tomography A system and method for breast imaging using x-ray computed tomography (CT) are provided. One system includes a rotating gantry, an x-ray source coupled to the gantry for generating an x-ray beam and an x-ray detector coupled to the gantry for detecting x-rays of the x-ray beam. The system further includes an adjustable collimator coupled to the x-ray source and configured to adjust a focus of the x-ray beam generated by the x-ray source. The x system also includes a controller configured to control the collimator to adjust the focus on a region of interest (ROI) and to control a beam intensity for the x-ray beam generated by the x-ray source during a scan.
US08649469B2	Signal reception A method of receiving a demodulated waveform according to a protocol in which the waveform represents a block of transmitted bits comprising a first group of bits and a second group of bits, the second group of bits being a function of the first group of bits, the method comprising: sampling the demodulated waveform to recover a first group of sample values corresponding to the first group of transmitted bits and a second group of sample values corresponding to the second group of transmitted bits; assigning bit values to reliable sample values of the first group of sample values; generating a set of candidates for a block of bits corresponding to the demodulated waveform, each candidate comprising a first group of candidate bits and a second group of candidate bits, the first group of candidate bits being generated using the assigned bit values and a combination of bit values unique to that candidate in the set of candidates, and the second group of candidate bits being generated by applying the said function to the first group of candidate bits; performing a correlation operation by determining a correlation between each candidate and the recovered first and second groups of sample values to form a correlation value associated with each candidate; and selecting the candidate associated with the correlation value that is indicative of the strongest degree of correlation between a candidate and the first and second groups of sample values to be the block of bits corresponding to the demodulated waveform.
US08649465B2	Methods and apparatuses for adaptive clock reconstruction and decoding in audio frequency communication The invention relates to methods for adaptive clock reconstruction and decoding in audio frequency. The method includes the steps of: receiving a modulated signal, wherein the modulated signal is modulated by RC-FSK (Return to Carrier Frequency Shifting Keying); performing a spectrum analysis to the modulated signal to obtain a plurality of frequency envelopes; storing the frequency envelopes; searching the peak values of the frequency envelopes and the time points corresponding to the peak values to modify an estimated period; and generating a clock period for the RC-FSK demodulation and a clock phase for the RC-FSK demodulation according to the estimated period.
US08649459B2	Bit reduction in a transmitter A digital baseband signal for radio frequency transmission is processed prior to performing digital-to-analog conversion. The digital baseband signal is filtered. The number of bits of the digital baseband signal is reduced to minimise the size of the digital-to-analog converter. By performing some of the bit reduction before filtering, the size of the filter circuit is reduced whilst still meeting relevant performance parameters.
US08649442B2	Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the frame/field flag is first encoded by a frame/field flag context model. When the macroblock to be processed is subjected to frame-based encoding, a frame-based context model, specified in the current H.26L standard, is applied. On the other hand, when the macroblock to be processed is subjected to field-based encoding, a field-based context model is applied for the syntax elements described below. The present invention is applied to an encoder for encoding image information and a decoder for decoding image information.
US08649441B2	NAL unit header Disclosed are techniques for scalable, multiview, and multiple descriptive video coding using an improved Network Adaptation Layer (NAL) unit header. A NAL unit header can include a layer-id that can be a reference into a table of layer descriptions, which specify the properties of the layer. The improved NAL unit header can further include fields for reference picture management and to identify temporal layers.
US08649437B2	Image interpolation with halo reduction An image interpolator is presented that utilizes a block-based motion estimator to provide block-based motion vectors and a motion vector select coupled to the block-based motion estimator to provide pixel based motion vectors. A first image interpolator provides a first interpolated image from the selected motion vectors. A second image interpolator corrects the selected motion vectors, including a correction for halo reduction. Post processing can be utilized to further reduce the halo effect.
US08649435B2	Image decoding method which obtains a predicted value of a coding unit by weighted average of predicted values A video encoding method and apparatus and a video decoding method and apparatus. In the video encoding method, a first predicted coding unit of a current coding unit that is to be encoded is produced, a second predicted coding unit is produced by changing a value of each pixel of the first predicted coding unit by using each pixel of the first predicted coding unit and at least one neighboring pixel of each pixel, and the difference between the current coding unit and the second predicted coding unit is encoded, thereby improving video prediction efficiency.
US08649431B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using filtered prediction block A prediction block of a current block is created by performing intra prediction or inter prediction on the current block. The prediction block is filtered by using a predetermined filter. The current block is encoded based on the filtered prediction block. A compression rate of image encoding may be substantially improved by more accurately performing a prediction encoding.
US08649429B2	Systems for reducing adverse effects of deep fades in DTV signals designed for mobile reception Digital television broadcasting signals employ parallel concatenated convolutional coding, commonly called “turbo coding”, to improve reception by receivers in motor vehicles. Turbo coded Reed-Solomon codewords are transversally disposed in the payload fields of encapsulating MPEG-2-compliant packets to improve the capability of the Reed-Solomon coding to overcome deep fades. Turbo codewords are transmitted more than once in so-called “staggercasting”. Reception of DTV signals is improved by combining soft decisions concerning repeated transmissions of turbo codewords before turbo decoding. Only the data components of turbo codewords are transmitted twice in “punctured” staggercasting of turbo codewords, with parity components being transmitted only once, so code rate is reduced by a smaller factor than two.
US08649426B2	Low latency high resolution video encoding Video data that is associated with a videoconference or a telepresence session is captured and a video signal relating thereto is provided. The video signal is divided into segments, which are identical from one video frame to another subsequent video frame within the video signal. Each segment is encoded independently, to result in encoded segment data such that both I-frames and P-frames are generated for a given segment, so as to support independent reconstruction of segments at a distant end. The encoded segment data is transmitted subsequently to the distant end.
US08649425B2	Apparatus and method for adjusting bit rate in security device connected to external storage Disclosed are an apparatus and method for adjusting a bit rate in a security device connected to an external storage, which can determine an output bit rate optimum to the external storage in the security device for receiving a video signal shot by a plurality of cameras and writing the same on the external storage, such as a USB memory, and can vary and adjust the data input bit rate of the video signal shot properly by the plurality of cameras based on the output bit rate. The data input bit rate of a video signal inputted into the security device is higher than the data input bit rate of a video signal outputted to the external storage, thus preventing a failure of not being able to write a video signal shot by a plurality of cameras on the external storage.
US08649420B2	Data-processing module and method thereof A data-processing module can handle a predetermined command transmitted by a corresponding main controller through a command serial signal or a clock signal. When the predetermined command represents “command-latching”, the data-processing module controls a command register to store the data transmitted by a section of the command serial signal temporarily stored in an FIFO buffering circuit for latching command. When the predetermined command represents “data-latching”, the data-processing module controls a command register to store the data transmitted by the section of the command serial signal temporarily stored in the FIFO buffering circuit for latching data. In this way, the data-processing module can control the command register to latch command or the data register to latch data without a redundant pin for receiving latching signals transmitted by the main controller, reducing the cost of the data-processing module.
US08649419B2	Method and apparatus for input signal offset compensation A method for compensator for comparator offset is provided. A first propagation delay for a first signal traversing a comparator to a first output terminal of the comparator and a second propagation delay for a second signal traversing the comparator to a second output terminal of the comparator are measured. The first and second propagation delays are then compared to generate a comparison result, and the comparator is adjusted to compensate for an input voltage offset based at least in part on the comparison result.
US08649408B2	Semiconductor laser device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor laser device with high reliability and excellent heat dissipation is provided. The semiconductor laser device includes an active layer, a p-type semiconductor layer on the active layer, a pair of grooves formed by etching into the p-type semiconductor layer, a stripe sandwiched by the pair of grooves and having shape of ridge, and a pair of buried layers made of insulator to bury the grooves. The bottom surfaces of the grooves are shallower with an increase in distance from the stripe.
US08649396B2	Methods for transmitting closely-spaced packets in WLAN devices and systems A wireless local area network (WLAN) device transmits a header over an air interface, at a first modulation rate. The header may include an indication of a second modulation rate that will be used to transmit a consolidated payload. The device further transmits the consolidated payload at the second modulation rate. The consolidated payload includes multiple data units. In one embodiment, the consolidated payload includes delimiters with validation fields associated with the various data units.
US08649389B2	Prioritising data transmission Transmitting from a mobile terminal to a telecommunication network data stored in a plurality of queues, each queue having a respective transmission priority, includes setting the data in each of the queues to be either primary data or secondary data, or a combination of primary data and secondary data. The data may be transmitted from the queues in an order in dependence upon the priority of the queue and whether the data in that queue are primary data or secondary data. Resources for data transmission may be allocated such that the primary data of each of the queues are transmitted at a minimum predetermined rate and such that the secondary data of each of the queues are transmitted at a maximum predetermined rate, greater than the minimum predetermined rate.
US08649388B2	Transmission of multiprotocol data in a distributed antenna system In a distributed antenna system (DAS) and a local area network (LAN), a common communication infrastructure distributes data from radio-based and Internet-based sources. A radio equipment (RE) of the DAS interfaces to a LAN segment. For the downlink, a gateway maps radio signal data from a radio equipment controller (REC) and data packets from a switch to mixed-data frames using a radio data interface protocol for transmission in the DAS. At the RE, the signal data and data packets are retrieved from the mixed-data frames and provided to the air interface and LAN segment, respectively. For the uplink from the RE, the radio signal data from the air interface and the data packets from the LAN segment are mapped to mixed-data frames and transmitted to the gateway. The gateway retrieves the signal samples and data packets from the mixed-data frames for transfer to the REC and switch, respectively.
US08649386B2	Multi-interface wireless adapter and network bridge Among other things, a wireless device is disclosed for enabling communication with a gateway device within a user premises. The wireless device includes a wireless local area network transceiver for bidirectional wireless data communication at the premises, an interface for wired communication, a processor for converting data between the wireless and wired interfaces. The wireless device receives instructions from the gateway device via the transceiver or the interface and implements conversion and communication control functions to implement a selected one of a plurality of wireless-wired adaptations for communications flowing between the selected one of the transceiver and the interface and the other of the transceiver and the interface for communication within the user premises for application service delivered by the gateway device.
US08649378B2	Method and apparatus for controlling the routing of data packets Method and apparatus for controlling the routing of data packets in an IP network (200). A DNS system (202) stores a packet admission policy configured for a first end-host (B) that dictates conditions for allowing other end-hosts to get across data packets to the first end-host or not. A routing voucher is defined which is required for routing data packets to the first end-host. The routing voucher is distributed to routers (R) in the IP network. When an address query is received at the DNS system (202) from a second end-host, the voucher is supplied to the second end-host if the configured policy allows the second end-host to convey data packets. Otherwise, the voucher is not supplied. If allowed, the second end-host will add the routing voucher to any data packets directed to the first end-host. When a valid routing voucher is present in a packet at a router (204) in the network, the packet will be forwarded to the next router in the IP network. The router will otherwise discard the packet.
US08649373B2	Application non disruptive task migration in a network edge switch An apparatus and a method are described for zero packet loss task migration in an network switch in a computer network. The invention relates to active or programmable networks, i.e. networks based on packet switching algorithms and switch configurations which are subject to change. A well-defined protocol enables an intelligent switch to migrate tasks from one forwarding engine to another without any packet loss. This enables the algorithms and configurations of the switch to be updated or modified arbitrarily.
US08649365B2	Dedicated synchronization signal for OFDMA system A mobile node, method, apparatus and system for neighbor cell identification and measurements in a wireless network. A first synchronization signal is provided a first base station, wherein the received first synchronization signal is on a predetermined frequency of a transmission bandwidth. Initial synchronization is performed. A second synchronization signal is provided, wherein the second synchronization signal is outside of the predetermined frequency of the transmission bandwidth. Neighbor cell identification based on the received second synchronization signal.
US08649358B2	Techniques for UL MU MIMO signaling and error handling An embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless station (STA), comprising a transceiver operable for communicating in a wireless network, wherein the transceiver is adapted to use signaling that enables the wireless station to communicate necessary information including a desired modulation coding scheme (MCS).
US08649352B2	Packet forwarding methods for use in handoffs Extending Mobile IP (MIP) to support both local and remote access by using two MIP client stacks in the end node, a roaming Node in the local access network, a standard Home Agent in the remote network is described. Messages between the access node and the mobile node, and between the internal modules of the mobile node are used to control hand-off for each of multiple MIP clients operating in parallel in the mobile node and to enable backwards compatibility with legacy remote access clients.
US08649347B2	Method and device for setting demodulation reference signals in wireless communication system Demodulation reference signals and data are transmitted to a receiving terminal through time/frequency resources of the radio communication system using a resource block as a base unit. The method includes arranging at least two orthogonal DM-RSs in two edge OFDM symbols for resource blocks of respective cells, a frequency offset existing between cells at positions of the orthogonal DM-RSs in the edge OFDM symbols, performing puncturing at positions corresponding to the orthogonal DM-RSs of the other cells in the edge OFDM symbols of the respective cells, arranging superimposing DM-RSs in the two edge OFDM symbols in a resource block of one cell and arranging the superimposing DM-RSs at positions corresponding to the resource blocks of the other cells, wherein positions of the superimposing DM-RSs are set between the positions of the orthogonal DM-RSs in the respective edge OFDM symbols.
US08649338B2	Apparatus and method for mobile assisted adaptive FFR In a method of fractional frequency reuse in a communication network, a frequency band is divided into a plurality of sub-bands according to a Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) scheme to define a FFR allocation of the band for a plurality of bases stations, each of the base stations being associated with a respective region. At a first base station of the plurality of base stations, the first base station associated with a first region, communication with a mobile terminal in the first region is established on one of the plurality of sub-bands according to the FFR allocation. A second base station of the plurality of base stations, the second base station associated with a second region, transmits on the one of the plurality of sub-bands according to the FFR allocation; receives an indication of a coverage problem detected at the mobile terminal due to interference from the second base station on the one of the plurality of sub-bands; and in response to the receiving the indication, decreases a transmit power level for the one of the plurality of sub-bands in the second region.
US08649337B2	Control channel design for dynamic sub-frame selection Certain aspects of the disclosure relate to providing detailed control channel design for a dynamic selection scheme between normal subframes and special subframes. In one aspect, a method may be provided for generating a subframe that comprises a data region and at least one control region interpretable by a first group of one or more legacy User Equipments (UEs) as a first type and by a second group of non-legacy UEs as a second type, wherein the second group of UEs supports a plurality of features that are a superset of a plurality of features supported by the first group and transmitting the subframe to the first group and the second group of UEs.
US08649331B2	Data burst communication techniques for mobile communication devices operating in packet data sessions A mobile device experiences a condition where a time overlap exists between a packet data burst being communicated over a packet data channel of a serving cell and broadcast data burst being communicated over a broadcast control channel of a neighbor cell. The mobile device sets its RF receiver to receive the packet data burst instead of the broadcast data burst based on identifying that the neighbor cell is not a candidate for an upcoming handoff. On the other hand, the mobile device sets its RF receiver to receive the broadcast data burst instead of the packet data burst based on identifying that the neighbor cell is a candidate for an upcoming handoff. The mobile device may set the RF receiver to receive the packet data burst instead of the broadcast data burst based on further identifying that a call drop is imminent.
US08649309B2	Apparatus and method for creating data path for broadcasting service in cellular network An apparatus and method for creating a data path for a broadcasting service in a cellular network is provided. In a method for creating a data path to provide a broadcasting service in a cellular network, a broadcast server transmits a session start request message to an Access Service Network-GateWay (ASN_GW) before transmission of Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) data, to request a multicast connection setup. The ASN_GW establishes a multicast connection between the broadcast server and the ASN_GW on the basis of information of the session start request message. The ASN_GW transmits a session start response message to the broadcast server in response to the session start request message, after establishment of the multicast connection between the broadcast server and the ASN_GW. The ASN_GW transmits a path registration request message to at least one base station associated with a broadcast zone, to request MBS data path establishment and air resource reservation. The base station establishes a multicast connection between the ASN_GW and the base station on the basis of information of the path registration request message. The base station transmits a path registration response message to the ASN_GW in response to the path registration request message, after establishment of the multicast connection between the ASN_GW and the base station.
US08649307B1	Mobile communication with modes for single carrier and spatial and frequency multiplexing A system for mobile communication includes a mobile communication device that has a first plurality of antennas and a transmitter. The transmitter, in response to a requested bandwidth for a first packet not being greater than a bandwidth of a first transmit mode, is configured to encode and transmit the first packet from the first plurality of antennas. The first packet has a single-carrier frequency-division-multiple-access (SC-FDMA) modulation of the first transmit mode. In response to a requested bandwidth for a second packet being greater than the bandwidth of the first transmit mode, the transmitter is configured to encode and transmit the second packet from the first antennas. The second packet has a multiple-in-multiple-out orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) modulation of a second transmit mode. A base station includes a second plurality of antennas and is configured to receive and decode the first packet and the second packet.
US08649306B2	Using receive diversity to extend standby time in QPCH mode The standby time of a CDMA cell phone is extended by using two receive chains to monitor the Quick Paging Channel (QPCH) when the signal-to-noise ratio falls within a predetermined range. Monitoring the QPCH saves battery power by obviating the need to monitor the general paging message unless quick paging (PI) bits are set. The QPCH is not monitored, however, in noisy environments where PI bits are incorrectly detected causing the paging message to be needlessly monitored. Power is saved by monitoring the QPCH in noisier environments without increasing the incorrect detection rate. Incorrect detection is reduced in the predetermined range by using an additional receive chain to achieve receive diversity. Although additional power is consumed by the second receive chain in the predetermined range, the power saved by not demodulating the paging message at each slot more than compensates for the additional power consumed by the second receive chain.
US08649302B2	Receiver for receiving RF-signals in a plurality of different communication bands and transceiver A receiver for receiving RF-signals in a plurality of different communication bands, each communication band including a receive frequency range and a transmit frequency range includes a plurality of receiving ports, a plurality of input circuits, a first inductor and a second inductor. Each receiving port is configured to receive RF-signals in a receive frequency range of a communication band. Each input circuit is connected to an associated receiving port for processing RF-signals applied to the receiving port. The first inductor is connected to a first group of input circuits and the second inductor is connected to a second group of input circuits, wherein the first group of input circuits and the second group of input circuits are disjunct. The receiving ports associated with the first group of input circuits are configured to receive RF-signals in a first group of communication bands, wherein in the first group of communication bands, none of the transmit frequency ranges overlap with one of the receive frequency ranges. The receiving ports associated with the second group of input circuits are configured to receive RF-signals in a second group of communication bands, wherein in the second group of communication bands, none of the transmit frequency ranges overlaps with one of the receive frequency ranges.
US08649296B2	Apparatus, system and method for reliable, fast, and scalable multicast message delivery in service overlay networks A method to organize nodes into an overlay network and to disseminate multicast messages within this overlay both through an efficient tree embedded in the overlay and through gossips exchanged between overlay neighbors. Regardless of the size of the system, this invention incurs a constant low overhead on each node.
US08649294B2	System and method for seeking a wireless network for a wireless device The disclosure relates to a system and method for initiating a command relating to one network that an electronic communication device may be in communication with, depending on triggering conditions relating to another network that the device may be in communication with. The communication device comprises: a network connection to initiate a command relating to the network after satisfaction of a predetermined condition relating to another network relating to the communication device; and a communication system to process communications between the device and the network and between the device and another network.
US08649290B2	Method and apparatus for controlling timing of network performance logging in a wireless communication system A method and system controls timing of network performance information logging of a cellular network by configuring a mobile device to automatically collect data about physical characteristics of the cellular network and log that data. The mobile device initially receives network performance information logging configuration from its registered cellular network. Based on the configuration, the mobile device configures itself to collect and log the network performance information relating to physical characteristics of the cellular network. While in idle mode, the mobile device collects and logs the information. A logging duration timer corresponds to a specified time duration over which the mobile device logs network performance information. If the mobile device starts the logging duration timer at the time of configuration, it maintains the timer even after the transition to idle mode. The mobile device may also start the logging duration timer after it transitions to idle mode.
US08649288B2	Method and user equipment for acquiring random access information The present invention discloses a method and User Equipment (UE) for acquiring random access information. The method comprises: during a random access procedure, the UE measures and acquires parameter information in the random access procedure; and after the success of the random access, the UE reports partial or all of acquired parameter information to a base station. According to the present invention, the base station can optimize the random access according to the parameter information reported by the terminal, thereby improving the precision of the random access optimization.
US08649281B2	Control design for backhaul relay to support multiple HARQ processes A wireless communication network includes a base station and a relay station. The relay station is configured to relay communications between the base station and at least one subscriber station. The base station is configured to communicate with the subscriber station via the relay station. The base station further is configured to transmit, in a subframe, a plurality of transport blocks for a plurality of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) processes to the relay station. Each transport block corresponds to a different HARQ process.
US08649279B2	Apparatus and method for adaptive TSP setting to minimize duplicate packet transmissions An apparatus and method for adaptively setting a Timer_Status_Prohibit (TSP) parameter, the method comprising receiving a category information from a first terminal; determining a threshold value based on the category information and transmitting the threshold value to the first terminal; starting a TSP timer and transmitting at least one data packet to the first terminal once the TSP timer has started; determining when the TSP timer exceeds the threshold value to discontinue transmitting the at least one data packet to the first terminal; receiving a status report from the first terminal; and using the status report, determining whether there is any missing or erroneously received data packet and retransmitting any missing or erroneously received data packet from the at least one data packet to the first terminal.
US08649263B2	Method and apparatus for sending and receiving channel quality indicators (CQIs) A method and apparatus for sending and receiving channel quality indicators (CQIs) is disclosed. A CQI may be sent or received periodically. A CQI may also be sent or received upon request by a network.
US08649256B2	High capacity router having redundant components A router includes multiple routing engines. If the active routing engine fails, a backup one of the routing engines detects the failure and assumes the role of active routing engine. A redundancy controller circuit, connected to the multiple routing engines, facilitates the selection and switching of the routing engines. Portions of the packet forwarding engine, in addition to the routing engine, may be redundantly implemented. The active routing engine controls the selection of the redundant portion of the packet forwarding engine.
US08649255B2	Device and method for fast fourier transform A device and a method for Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) are disclosed. The device includes a data receiving module, an address translation module, a data storage module, a FFT module, a data extraction module and a data output module. The data receiving module is configured to receive the input data. The address translation module is configured to duplicate M/N copies of the received data and then send them to the data storage module. The data storage module is configured to store the received data sent by the address translation module to M/N different addresses. The FFT module is configured to perform M-point FFT on the stored data. The data extraction module is configured to extract one point in every several points of the transformed data, and send the extracted data to the data output module. The data output module is configured to output the received data.
US08649254B2	Delay restricted channel estimation for multi-carrier systems A method includes multiplying, at a device, a suppressed estimate of a channel by a first matrix to obtain a delay restricted estimate of the channel. The method also includes demodulating a signal received via the channel based at least in part on the delay restricted estimate of the channel.
US08649253B2	Receiver and reception method for estimating channel in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system A receiver and reception method for estimating a channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system is provided. The receiver includes a delay estimator for estimating, from a signal received from a transmitter through multipaths, at least one of an average time delay of the multipaths and a time delay of one of the multipaths having a maximum power among the multipaths, a rotator for circular-rotating the received signal using the estimated delay, and a channel estimator for estimating a channel impulse response of the circular-rotated signal.
US08649249B1	Printing magnetic pattern onto disk A novel method and apparatus is provided for printing magnetic patterns using heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). The apparatus includes an array of probes that is arranged in a predetermined pattern, such as a servo pattern. The array of probes is brought into contact, or near-contact, with a magnetic recording medium that has been bulk erased substantially along an initialization direction. Each probe is energized so as to heat its respective contacted (or near-contacted) region of the recording medium above a threshold temperature. An external magnetic field is applied to the heated regions in a direction that is substantially opposite from the initialization direction. The strength of the external magnetic field is chosen to be greater than the coercivity of the recording medium at the threshold temperature, but less than the coercivity of the recording medium at room temperature. As a result, only magnetizations in the heated regions become aligned with the external field.
US08649242B2	Insonification device that includes a three-dimensional network of emitters arranged in at least two concentric spirals, which are designed to generate a beam of high-intensity focussed waves The invention concerns a device (1) for the insonification of an environment or medium, which is designed to generate a beam of focussed waves around a point in a so-called focus zone (20), used for imaging the medium or changing the properties of the medium, with the insonification device (1) having an intrinsic or extrinsic support structure on which is installed a network of a predetermined number of ultrasound transducers (12) that are designed to be controlled independently for generation of the focussed wave beam.According to the invention, the transducers (12) used for the generation of the focussed wave beam are located in a homogeneous spatial distribution along at least two concentric spirals (11) that are wound onto a three-dimensional concave area (10) whose shape and size are chosen to allow optimal focusing of the beam at a predetermined focal length, and whose concave side is oriented toward the focus zone (20).

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