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US09022160B2	Side-by-side diesel utility vehicle A utility vehicle comprises a plurality of ground engaging members and a frame supported by the plurality of ground engaging members. The utility vehicle further comprises an attachment supported at the frame. Additionally, the utility vehicle includes an operator area supported by the frame and including an operator seat. The utility vehicle includes a seat switch coupled to the operator seat and a controller configured to detect a loaded and unloaded state of the operator seat based on the seat switch.
US09022159B2	Cleaning device for window glass [OBJECT] To provide a device which is held by vacuum on a wall surface or a window surface of glass of a building, and which is moved along the surface, thereby performing the cleaning operation.[SOLVING MEANS] In three clinging units which are arranged in a row, each of the clinging units includes clinging unit putting forward/backward means for putting the clinging unit in and out in a direction intersecting with the surface. The clinging units adjacent to each other are coupled by transverse expansion and contraction means via the clinging unit putting forward/backward means, so as to constitute a row clinging unit group. In three row clinging unit groups which are arranged in the longitudinal direction, the row clinging unit groups adjacent to each other are coupled by lengthwise expansion and contraction means via the clinging unit putting forward/backward means. Each of the clinging units can be selectively set in one of three states, i.e., a clinging and movable state in which the unit clings to the surface and moves along the surface, a clinging and locked state in which the unit clings to the surface and is locked to the surface, and a non-clinging and movable state in which the unit is separated from the surface and can move along the surface. Each of the clinging units is constituted at least by a clinging unit frame member, a vacuum sealing member attached to the clinging unit, moving means, and locking means. At least the surface, the clinging unit frame member, and the vacuum sealing member define a reduced pressure space in cooperation. The reduced pressure space is coupled to vacuum generating means and vacuum breaking means.
US09022157B2	Motorcycle A motorcycle with an ABS module disposed to make it hard to affect the layout of other components while suppressing the influence of vibration on the ABS module. A motorcycle includes rear frames joined to corresponding rear portions of the main frames and extending upwardly and rearwardly at a position below the corresponding seat frames. Front wheel braking members apply a braking force to a front wheel. An ABS module is connected to the front wheel braking means. A seat is supported on the upper portions of the seat frames. The ABS module has at least a portion disposed below the seat and between the seat frames and the rear frames as viewed from the side. The ABS module is suspended and supported by front and rear cross stays spanned between the pair of seat frames via a front elastic members and a rear elastic member.
US09022156B2	Limiter strap adjustment system for a snowmobile suspension A snowmobile rear suspension assembly has a pair of slide rails and at least one suspension arm pivotally connected thereto and adapted to be pivotally connected to a tunnel. A shock absorber is adapted to be pivotally connected between the tunnel and the slide rails. A limiter strap, adapted to extend between the tunnel and the slide rails, is substantially inextensible to limit separation therebetween. A strap holder, connected between an end of the limiter strap and the slide rails or the tunnel when the at least one suspension arm is connected to the tunnel, is moveable between a first and a second strap holder position. A position of the end of the limiter strap, relative to the slide rails or the tunnel, is different in the first strap holder position compared to the second strap holder position. A method of adjusting the limiter strap is also disclosed.
US09022153B2	Transport vehicle equipped with current collector A transport vehicle equipped with a current collector, includes: a vessel to load a load; a current collector that extends to receive electric power from an overhead line and contracts and retracts so as to be disposed away from the overhead line; and a vehicle body that rotationally drives driving wheels by at least one of the electric power from the current collector and a self-propelled driving source and on which the vessel is placed; a pantograph position detector that detects a relative position of the current collector and the overhead line; and a control device that controls a driving direction of the vehicle body or gives an instruction of information with which a direction in which the vehicle body is to be operated can be recognized, so that the relative position is brought to a position where the current collector and the overhead line are connected.
US09022150B2	Wind generator system for electric vehicles The present invention regard an improvement for the electric car object of the patent for industrial invention n. 0001389629, Italian, title “electric car” name: Cunico Michele application n. RM2010A000115, dep. Sep. 4, 2008, Particularly the present invention improves the efficiency and the reliability of the complex constituted by the guide of the air 16, the wind generator 4 and relative structures of support, introducing some valves in the element of guide of the air 16. It also allows the car to acquire energy from the back and side wind by providing of channels empty equipped with wind generator that cross transversally the car.
US09022148B2	Diamond bonded construction comprising multi-sintered polycrystalline diamond Diamond bonded constructions comprise a diamond body attached to a substrate, wherein the body includes a first diamond bonded volume, and a second diamond bonded volume attached thereto. The second volume may be provided in the form of a powder or a presintered mass prior to attachment, and the first volume may be provided in the form of presintered pieces when combined with the second volume. The first volume diamond volume content is greater than about 94 percent, and is the same or greater than that of the second volume. The first volume is sintered during a first HPHT process, and the second volume is sintered and/or attached to the first volume during a second HPHT process. The first HPHT pressure is greater than the second HPHT pressure. The substrate is not an infiltration substrate used to form the first diamond volume. The diamond body may be thermally stable.
US09022145B2	Vibration detection in a drill string based on multi-positioned sensors In some example embodiments, a system includes a drill string having a drill bit. The drill string extends through at least part of a well bore. The system also includes a first vibrational sensor, positioned on the drill bit to measure, at a first location on the drill string, an amplitude of one or more of an axial vibration and a lateral vibration. The system also includes a second vibrational sensor, positioned above the drill bit and on the drill string. The second vibration sensor is to measure, at a second location on the drill string, one or more of an axial vibration and a lateral vibration. The system includes a processor unit to determine a type of vibration based on a comparison of the amplitude at the first location to the amplitude at the second location, wherein the type of vibration is at least one of bit whirl of the drill bit and a while of a bottom hole assembly that is part of the drill string.
US09022142B2	Method and apparatus for opening threaded joints of drilling equipment The invention relates to a method and apparatus for opening threaded joints of drilling equipment (6) by striking the drilling equipment (6) with the percussion device of a rock drilling rig (1) and by measuring vibration originating from the drilling equipment (6) during striking. In addition to vibration, measuring means (9) measure a parameter defining at least one additional condition, on the basis of which the decision to stop striking is made.
US09022140B2	Methods and systems for improved drilling operations using real-time and historical drilling data Methods and systems are described for improved drilling operations through the use of real-time drilling data to predict bit wear, lithology, pore pressure, a rotating friction coefficient, permeability, and cost in real-time and to adjust drilling parameters in real-time based on the predictions. The real-time lithology prediction is made by processing the real-time drilling data through a multilayer neural network. The real-time bit wear prediction is made by using the real-time drilling data to predict a bit efficiency factor and to detect changes in the bit efficiency factor over time. These predictions may be used to adjust drilling parameters in the drilling operation in real-time, subject to override by the operator. The methods and systems may also include determining various downhole hydraulics parameters and a rotary friction factor. Historical data may be used in combination with real-time data to provide expert system assistance and to identify safety concerns.
US09022139B2	Gas cutting borehole drilling apparatus A drilling apparatus for drilling boreholes in an underground formation includes a tool body that can be positioned in a borehole where drilling is to take place. The apparatus further includes a gas cutting torch having a nozzle, a supply of a cutting gas connected to the gas cutting torch. In some embodiments, the gas cutting torch and supply of cutting gas may be connected by an umbilical link. The tool body may be advanced through the borehole as drilling takes place. In some embodiments, the tool body may be advanced via a tractor device that forms part of the tool body or attached to the tool body.
US09022137B2	Fastening tool A fastening tool is provided that incorporates, in an outer annular body into which a first nut is inserted to be driven to rotate, an inner annular body into which a first nut and a second nut having a pitch different from the pitch of the first nut are inserted to be driven to rotate, and that simultaneously rotates the two nuts and fastens the nuts to a bolt. A flange shaft body is driven to rotate relatively to the outer annular body and the inner annular body via a plurality of balls. The balls are held by the flange shaft body and pressed towards notches of the outer annular body and the inner annular body with urging forces of first and second urging members via holding members respectively.
US09022133B2	Polymer mixer powered by hydrodynamic forces Water is mixed with fire suppressant polymer in a mixer absent a power source. The mixer receives water through a water inlet with water exhibiting high velocity and associated hydrodynamic force. Such velocity is achieved by locating the water inlet connected to a float or other part of an aircraft so that when the aircraft flies over water with the float dipping into the water, water is driven through the opening and into the water inlet of the mixer. A polymer inlet passes into the mixer. A bend is located downstream of the water inlet and the polymer inlet. The bend exhibits sufficient resistance to fluid flow direction therethrough that the polymer is sheared and thoroughly mixed and activated with the water. A colorant inlet is optionally provided within the mixer and the water and polymer mixture is then discharged into a tank for later utilization at a firefighting location.
US09022132B2	Trim manifold assembly for a sprinkler system A trim manifold assembly is utilized to facilitate control of the control valve in a fire protection system. The trim manifold assembly utilizes a manifold block with numerous passageways to provide desired flow communication between various components, such as automatic and manual valves, check valves, inlet and exit ports, and sensor ports, by way of non-limiting example. The trim manifold assembly can be cost-effectively manufactured and may require less assembly steps. The trim manifold assembly can facilitate the assembly of a fire protection system and the attachment of the trim manifold assembly to the control valve for operation thereof.
US09022125B2	Marine riser with side tension members A marine riser includes a plurality of central pipes assembled end to end to form a main conduit. A plurality of tension members runs the length of the main conduit. The tension members are coupled to the main conduit to support and constrain an axial motion of the main conduit.
US09022105B2	Expandable filtering system for single packer systems An arrangement having a body with at least one drain provided in the body is disclosed. The drain is configured to receive fluid when the body is expanded from a first unexpanded condition to a second expanded condition. At least one flowline is connectable to the drain. A screen is positioned over the drain and is configurable to expand from the first unexpanded condition to the second expanded condition.
US09022103B2	Capture device for a bore hole of a fluid source A capture device for a bore hole of a fluid source, has a base plate (6) that can be anchored at the floor, over the bore hole, and has a bore hole opening (8) through which fluid can be streamed out of the bore hole. An ascending pipe (2) is arranged over the bore hole opening (8). Guide baffles (9) are arranged around the bore hole opening (8), and have blades (10) fixed to the top of the base plate (6) so that the guide baffles (6) can be pivoted and displaced. The blades (10) encompass the longitudinal end (3) of the ascending pipe (2) that faces the bore hole opening (8) like a flower and overlap one another, whereby fluid flowing from the bore hole opening (8) can be captured via the blades (10) and discharged to the ascending pipe (2).
US09022102B2	Control of sub surface safety valves A well installation includes a metallic structure having downhole metallic tubing for conveying product towards the surface, a sub surface safety valve disposed in the downhole metallic tubing for interrupting flow of product towards the surface when closed and allowing flow of product towards the surface when open. Also, valve control means are disposed downhole and arranged for detecting electrical signals in the downhole metallic tubing and for holding the valve open while receiving an electrical signal, and surface signaling means for applying an electrical signal to metallic structure of the well for transmission via the downhole metallic tubing towards the valve control means so as to hold the valve open. The system can be made more robust by ensuring that the control means will only hold the valve open while receiving a signal of given characteristics to help prevent stray currents erroneously holding the valve open.
US09022100B2	Adjustable tank for bar-plate heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes a core and a pair of end tanks attached to the end of the core. Each end tank extends over an outermost peripheral end of the core such that the core extends into a chamber defined by the end tank. The end tank is welded to the core at the outer surface of the core and a lower end surface of the tank.
US09022097B2	Method and installation for manufacturing thin metal strip A method for manufacturing a thin metal strip by pouring and rapidly solidifying molten metal onto a cooling roll rotating at a high speed to form a thin metal strip having a width of 50˜350 mm, blowing compression gas from substantially a tangential direction of the cooling roll toward the thin metal strip to separate the thin metal strip from the cooling roll, adsorbing the separated thin metal strip with a permeable belt of a suction type belt conveyor, and transporting to a take-up reel to wind in form of a coil, the thin metal strip is adsorbed by the belt under conditions that a nearest approaching distance L between the cooling roll and the suction type belt conveyor is 2˜50 mm and a suction width S of a suction box arranged in the suction type belt conveyor is 1.2˜2.5 times of a width W of the thin metal strip.
US09022094B2	Casting core, method for producing same, and method for casting using said core A casting core resulting from alkaline earth metal oxide particles having an average particle size of 0.8-4 mm being dispersed in a water-soluble alkali metal salt matrix. The casting core can be efficiently produced using a method of dispersing alkaline earth metal hydroxide particles having favorable disintegration properties and a particle size in the range of 1-5 mm in a molten water-soluble alkali metal salt, converting to alkaline earth metal oxide particles by means of dehydration, and casting in a mold, cooling, and hardening.
US09022091B2	Impact window assembly for overhead door Overhead door panels are used in a variety of overhead doors styles and construction designs, each of which may be of different panel thicknesses and construction. Each of the panels includes a window opening to receive a window assembly therein. Window frame sub-assemblies are substantially interchangeable with one another and may be used in the variety of overhead door panel construction styles. Each window frame sub-assembly may include a front frame to be installed in the window opening. Glazing elements are mounted within each of the front frames and fasteners secure the glazing element to the front frame. Retainers may be juxtaposed to the back face of the door panels and coupled to one of the window frame sub-assemblies to thereby provide a window in the respective first or second overhead door panels. Advantageous features of this invention include the window frame sub-assemblies being interchangeable in a variety of overhead door panel designs irrespective of the thickness or construction of the door panel being a pan or fully insulated sandwich door construction.
US09022085B2	Tire for driving on ice A tire (10) for driving on ice, comprising: a tread (20) having a rolling surface configured to come into contact with the ground when the tire is rolling along, and two lateral faces (27), this tread comprising at least one groove (25, 26) in the rolling surface; at least one stud (30) having a longitudinal axis (33), a part (31) of the stud projecting from the rolling surface, the intersection between the stud and the plane tangential to the portion of the rolling surface around the stud forming a contour C, that part of the stud that projects from the rolling surface having a minimum cross section Sm, Sm corresponding to the smallest cross section of the said part in any plane containing the radial direction that passes through the point of intersection between the longitudinal axis of the stud and the plane tangential to the portion of the rolling surface around the stud; at least one conduit (200-205) that forms, on the rolling surface of the tire, at least two opposing edges (211, 221; 212, 222; 213, 223), the minimum distance D between the conduit and the contour C being less than or equal to 1 cm, the conduit opening into the groove and/or onto a lateral face of the tread; wherein, for each stud, the sum of the mean cross sections Sn of the conduits, each mean cross section Sn being measured at right angles to one of the opposing edges formed by the conduit, is greater than or equal to half the minimum cross section Sm of that part of the stud that projects from the tread.
US09022083B2	Variable surface area tire tread and tire Particular embodiments of the present invention include a multi-stage tire tread having a plurality of wear layers, each said layer being located at a different depth of the tire tread, the tread including one or more tread elements including a contact surface and having a first wear layer and a second wear layer, wherein the second wear layer is located below the first wear layer. The tire tread also includes a longitudinal groove extending in a longitudinal direction within the second wear layer of the tread element, wherein said longitudinal groove becomes exposed after a depth of the first wear layer has been worn. The tire tread further includes one or more lateral grooves extending from the longitudinal groove in a lateral direction within the second wear layer of the tread element. The invention also provides a mold element for forming portions of the multi-stage tread.
US09022081B2	Apparatus and method for preparing ingredients for a baby bottle An apparatus for preparing infant formula to be supplied to a bottle, and methods and circuits for operating the same, are disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing having a shape for integrating together components of the apparatus. A fluid reservoir for holding fluid and configured to be coupling to the housing is provided. Further provided is a formula disc disposed at a first location of the housing. The first location defined above a dispense location of the bottle, and the formula disc having a top end and a dispense end, the formula disc further includes a plurality of slots for holding the infant formula in a powder state. The apparatus has an end plate that is coupled to the dispense end of the formula disc, and the end plate has a dispense hole, such that the end plate is rotatable relative to the formula disc.
US09022078B2	Flexible duct and means of production A helically formed flexible duct primarily directed to applications in ducted heating, ventilating and air conditioning, of three dimensions including a predetermined length, an inner diameter reinforced with a helically laminated wire member between self laminating substrate, an outwardly radial compartment formation constructed with strip portions of substrate material which form gaps to accommodate outwardly expanding radial dimensions and containing an insulating member, and an outer covering member delivered to a larger radial circumference at an applied circumferential speed exceeding the circumferential speed of the inner diameter substrate tube formation rate.
US09022069B2	Solenoid operated valve with constant bleed port A pressure balanced solenoid operated valve includes a solenoid portion having a coil. A valve member portion is connected to the solenoid portion. The valve member portion has a body including: first and second valve seats; a first cavity positioned between the first valve seat and a valve outlet port. A valve member slidably disposed in the body has a resilient valve element positioned between the first and second valve seats, the resilient valve element when in direct contact with the first valve seat defining a valve closed position. A bleed port created in the body between the first valve seat and the valve outlet port and opening into the first cavity provides a flow path for a pressurized fluid present at the second valve seat in the valve closed position to continuously flow out through the valve outlet port.
US09022067B2	Dual variable valve solenoid module A solenoid valve module includes a first solenoid valve having a first solenoid portion and a first valve body and a second solenoid valve having a second solenoid portion and a second valve body. The first valve body and the second valve body are integrally formed by a solenoid housing. The solenoid valve module is secured to a surface of an engine to provide hydraulic control for an engine component.
US09022063B2	Powder feed rate sensor A powder feed rate sensor includes a surface or diaphragm configured to detect powder feed rate.
US09022055B2	Assembling a check valve having a seal An improved valve assembly having an integral single piece housing (1) having an inlet (15), an outlet and defining an inwardly extending wall forming a valve seat (3); a valve member (4) moveable within the housing (1) between a closed position and an open position and a seal (11) to form a fluid tight seal between the valve member (4) and the valve seat (3) when the valve member is in the closed position. The seal (11) also acting to retain the valve member (4) within the housing (1) and in which the housing defining end portions which extend axially away from the valve member (4) at any position of the valve member between the open and closed positions.
US09022053B2	Mount for inlet check valve A fuel system includes a fuel tank filler neck associated with a fuel tank. The fuel tank filler neck includes a fill tube for receiving a fuel-dispensing pump nozzle and a fuel conductor interconnecting an interior region of the fuel tank and a passageway formed in the fill tube.
US09022047B2	Rotisserie skewer, basket and parts cleaning assembly A rotisserie skewer, basket and parts cleaning assembly is provided. The assembly is located within a wash tank that includes a jet nozzle to expel a stream of fluid into said wash tank. The assembly is rotatably mounted within the wash tank and is capable of holding parts for cleaning.
US09022042B1	Mascara with lipstick, concealer, ad-hoc user mixable blush, and glitter component The present invention relates generally to a system for easily carrying mascara and multiple other cosmetic products to be applied to the face and in particular to a unitary stick system for easily carrying a mascara and three other cosmetic products for application to the face wherein the user may mix more than one of these other cosmetic products during application to create an aesthetically different cosmetic product.
US09022040B2	Methods for extracting and isolating constituents of cellulosic material A method for extracting and isolating constituents of cellulosic matter, comprising providing cellulosic matter; contacting the cellulosic matter with a supercritical fluid; separating the supercritical fluid from the cellulosic matter, thereby forming an extract and a raffinate; and separating at least one compound present in the extraction medium by distillation.
US09022033B2	Adaptable oxygen regulator system and method with an electronic control device A system and method for an adaptable oxygen regulator with an electronic control device is disclosed. In one embodiment, an oxygen regulator system includes an electronic control device which includes a non-volatile memory for storing a first reference point. The electronic control device also includes a pressure sensor configured for generating pressure data of the pressurized aircraft cabin. The electronic control device further includes a logical control unit for generating a control signal by processing the first reference point and the pressure data. Further, the electronic control unit includes a rotary actuator for generating a rotary displacement based on the control signal. Moreover, the oxygen regulator system includes a demand dilution oxygen regulator coupled to the electronic control unit and configured to control the supply of oxygen and the flow of dilution air from the pressurized aircraft cabin based on the control signal.
US09022032B2	System for controlling apnea An implanted stimulation device or air control device are activated by an external radar-like sensor for controlling apnea. The radar-like sensor senses the closure of the air flow cavity, and associated control circuitry signals (1) a stimulator to cause muscles to open the air passage way that is closing or closed or (2) an air control device to open the air passage way that is closing or closed.
US09022031B2	Using estimated carinal pressure for feedback control of carinal pressure during ventilation This disclosure describes systems and methods for configuring a ventilator to estimate the carinal pressure to minimize the work of breathing due to a breathing tube. A patient's carina is a cartilaginous ridge located at the site of the tracheal bifurcation between the two primary bronchi. An estimated carinal pressure (a pressure estimated to exist at the patient carina) may be determined and used as feedback control for the carinal pressure. According to embodiments, the estimated carinal pressure may be compared to the carinal pressure command to determine an error. The carinal pressure command may be positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) or some other suitable target pressure. The error between the estimated carinal pressure and the carinal pressure command may then be used as feedback control to achieve the carinal pressure command and thereby to minimize the work of breathing due to the breathing tube.
US09022026B2	Atomizer and electronic cigarette using the same An electronic cigarette includes a container for storing a tobacco flavored liquid, a container for storing a tobacco flavored liquid, an atomizer connected to the container to atomize the tobacco flavored liquid by an electric heating, a battery tube to power the atomizer, and an actuating film movably positioned in the battery tube to control the atomizer.
US09022024B2	System and method for airway manipulation Methods and devices are disclosed for manipulating the airway, such as to treat obstructive sleep apnea. An implant is positioned within the body with respect to the airway. The spatial orientation of the airway is manipulated, directly or indirectly, to affect the configuration of the airway. In general, the implant is manipulated to displace the trachea in an inferior direction, resist superior displacement of the trachea and/or to alter the tracheal wall tension. The implant restrains the trachea in the manipulated configuration.
US09022019B2	Modular multifunctional solar structure The Modular Multifunctional Solar Structure is an innovative design in the field of Renewable Energy. This system, the schematic diagram of which is shown in FIG. 2, will collect the energy from the sunlight by using lightweight rotary thermal or bivalent photovoltaic solar receivers (A), sandwiched between Support Columns (B) which house the technical services. Because of its modular concept, this structure allows: an easy and progressive assembly in places exposed to the sun, with negative angles of down to 90°; and a microprocessor controlled solar tracking device, with alternative fixed or manually adjustable settings. These features solve the traditional problems associated with solar energy collectors, which include: a fixed position which is confined to specific angles, or a vertical layout, both of which are inefficient in terms of energy recovery; large dimensions and heavyweight collectors, which may need ungainly support structures; and wasted space.
US09022013B2	Bullpup crossbow In some embodiments, a crossbow comprises a stock and a bow portion comprising at least one limb and a string. A riser attaches said bow portion to the stock. A latch is located in proximity to a butt of the stock. The latch is configured to retain the string in a drawn condition. A trigger is arranged to release the latch. An extension member extends from the butt of the stock to the latch. The extension member and the stock define a cavity, and the latch assembly is oriented within the cavity.
US09022010B2	Ignition system An ignition system is provided, which can restrict decreasing of constant-voltage duration of a spark plug and effectively prevents the occurrence of an accidental fire in an engine. A typical ignition system includes a secondary coil having one end connected to a positive side of a battery via a low-voltage side path and the other end connected to a center electrode via a connecting path which connects the secondary coil and the spark plug. A constant-voltage path having a grounded end is connected to the connecting path. A block diode is arranged between the secondary coil and a point where the constant-voltage path is connected with the connecting path. A Zener diode is disposed within the constant-voltage path. Each anode of the block diode and the Zener diode is mutually connected.
US09022009B2	Apparatus and method for control low pressure exhaust gas recirculation system A low pressure EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) system control apparatus of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle may include an atmosphere temperature detecting portion that detects atmosphere temperature of a driving region of the vehicle, an air conditioner switch that outputs ON/OFF signal of an air conditioner, a wiper switch outputting ON/OFF signal of a wiper, a control portion that uses the atmosphere temperature to determine a relative humidity and limits an operation of a low pressure EGR system such that condensate may be not formed therein, when the relative humidity may be higher than a predetermined humidity value.
US09022007B2	Throttle valve system for an engine An embodiment of an engine is described. The engine includes a first throttle valve. The first throttle valve is provided in a first intake passage coupled to an intake manifold. The first throttle valve has a default closed position. The engine further includes a second throttle valve. The second throttle valve is provided in a second intake passage coupled to the intake manifold. The second throttle valve has a default open position. The engine further includes a venturi pump that is provided between the second throttle valve and the intake manifold. When the second throttle valve is in the default open position, intake air flows through the venturi pump.
US09022005B2	Rotary engine In a “cat and mouse” rotary engine two rotor-pistons are connected by concentric crosses to two inclined power shafts, improving the balance of the engine, ridding the bearings of the rotor-pistons from heavy idle loads, allowing lighter and more robust structure and making the arrangement proper for divided load applications like portable flyers, REM etc.
US09022003B2	Piston for robust auto-ignition A piston for an internal combustion engine is located within a cylinder of the engine. The piston includes a dish-shaped depression in a surface of the piston exposed to a combustion chamber of the cylinder providing a recess from a nominal top of the piston. The depression includes a depression boundary located at the nominal top of the piston and proximate to an outer diameter of the piston, an apex, and inclined walls connecting the apex to the depression boundary.
US09022001B2	Starter control systems and methods for engine rockback A system for a vehicle, includes a rockback detection module and a starter disabling module. The rockback detection module receives a crankshaft position signal from a bi-directional crankshaft sensor and selectively indicates that a crankshaft of an engine is rotating in a first direction based on the crankshaft position signal. The engine rotates in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction when the engine is running. The starter disabling module disables current to a starter motor when the crankshaft is rotating in the first direction.
US09021981B2	Pill reminder wheel A device to be mounted or adhere to a bottle cap, a box or other surface that easy and economically tracks when the last day and dose of a medicine or vitamin was taken or when the next is due The present invention comprises two disk and a dial. The base disk has indicia representing the days of the week, recessed teeth on the edge means to inhibit counterclockwise rotation of the cover disk and a central pin protruding from the center that clasp the three elements together at the same times that allows rotation of the cover disk over the base. The cover disk has indicia for the dose with a protruding wedge tooth means to inhibit counterclockwise rotation of the cover in relation to the base and a window to see the indicia of the base disk. The dial points to the dose indicia and holds the three parts together once the pin from the base disk clasp inside its aperture.
US09021968B2	Tool bar mounting assembly for an agricultural implement A tool bar mounting assembly for an agricultural implement. One agricultural implement includes a first tool bar assembly having a tool bar and a plurality of row units coupled to the tool bar and configured to deliver flowable agricultural product to a field. The agricultural implement also includes a frame assembly coupled to the first tool bar assembly. The frame assembly includes a mounting assembly having a mechanical linkage. The mechanical linkage is configured to removably couple the first tool bar assembly to the frame assembly via a plurality of fasteners. The frame assembly is configured to provide structural support to the first tool bar assembly. The mechanical linkage of mounting assembly is configured to removably couple a second tool bar assembly having a different configuration than the first tool bar assembly to the frame assembly via the plurality of fasteners.
US09021967B2	Fluid delivery system for an agricultural implement An agricultural implement is provided that includes a first tool bar and a second tool bar each supporting respective ground engaging tools and fluid dispersal components. The second tool bar is pivotally coupled to the first tool bar. The agricultural implement further includes fluid conduits coupled to respective tool bars for conveying fluid to the respective fluid dispersal components. Additionally, each of the conduits has a flexible end adjacent to the other tool bar. Furthermore, the agricultural implement includes a fluid joint coupled between the first and second flexible ends and configured to provide a sealed connection between the first and second flexible ends during relative pivotal movement of the first and second tool bars in operation but to allow for uncoupling of the first and second flexible ends for servicing of the implement.
US09021955B2	Inertially operated electrical initiation devices An all-fire detection circuit for an electrically initiated inertial igniter munition. The all-fire detection circuitry including: an input configured for receiving an input voltage over a duration responsive to an acceleration of the munition; an electrical storage device configured to receive a portion of the input voltage over the duration and to thereby accumulate a charge, an output coupled to the electrical storage device to deliver an all-fire indication when at least a portion of the charge exceeds a first predetermined voltage; a first diode having a first anode coupled to the input, and a first cathode; a resistor coupled in series between the first cathode and the electrical storage device; a second diode having a second anode coupled to the electrical storage device, and a second cathode; and a third diode having a third anode coupled to the first cathode, and a third cathode coupled to the second cathode.
US09021953B2	Security device and its production method A security device comprises two or more regions (1, 2). Each region (1, 2) contains a material or combination of materials wherein the two or more regions exhibit substantially the same visible appearance under first viewing conditions and different visible appearances under second viewing conditions, the second viewing conditions. The second viewing conditions comprise a combination of a) visible light and b) substantially any UV wavelength.
US09021944B2	Treatment device for treating food products with conditioned air A treatment device for treating food products with conditioned air comprises a housing which delimits a treatment space and is provided with an entry and an exit, at least one conveying device for conveying the products from the entry throughout the treatment space to the exit, the conveying device between the entry and the exit following a conveying path with several windings which are situated one above the other, air-circulation device for circulating conditioned air throughout the treatment space via a hollow drum. According to a first aspect, air-conditioning device are provided upstream of the air-circulation device for conditioning the air. According to a second aspect, at least one winding of the conveying path near the entry has a pitch which is different to the pitch of the downstream windings.
US09021942B2	Cooker A cooker is provided. The cooker includes a casing, a cavity part in the casing and including a cooking chamber to cook food, and an exhaust duct through which exhaust gas is discharged. The exhaust duct includes a first duct part having a lower end communicating with the cooking chamber, a second duct part extending from the other end of the first duct part, the second duct part making a predetermined angle with respect to the first duct part or having a predetermined curvature, and a flow passage extension protruded from a portion of the first duct part or the second duct part in an outward direction. At least a portion of the flow passage extension extends at an angle different from the predetermined angle between the first and second duct parts or the flow passage extension has a curvature different from the predetermined curvature of the second duct part.
US09021933B2	Vehicle capable of dissipating explosion force and energy A vehicle capable of dissipating explosion force and energy caused due to explosion of an explosive including but not limiting to mine and/or grenade under the vehicle, below the wheels, and/or on side of the vehicle with minimal effect on the personnel and material inside the vehicle, and thereby, capable of providing safety and stability to the personnel and material inside the vehicle even if vehicle is made from armor of low thickness is provided, wherein blast air force and energy is directed through one or more passages (7, 8, 9) running from one side of the vehicle to opposite side of the vehicle in a manner that blast air force and energy generated on explosion dissipates from side of the explosion through said passages to another side of the vehicle. In one embodiment, the vehicle further comprises a periscope like structure (21) and corrugated sheet (31, 32, 33).
US09021930B2	Cutting devices A cutting device includes a cutting unit having a rotary blade, a table for placing a workpiece thereon, and a support device vertically movably supporting the cutting unit relative to the table. The cutting unit includes a blade case. The blade case covers an upper portion of the rotary blade and has a dust discharge member for discharging dust produced at a cutting region. The cutting device further includes a dust guide device disposed on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of the dust discharge member with respect to a flow of the dust. A position of at least a part of the dust guide device changes relative to the dust discharge member according to change of the vertical position of the cutting unit.
US09021929B2	Pizza cutter A pizza cutter includes at least one blade, a handle attached to the blade, and extenders for positioning the cutter in a pizza box to cut uniform slices of pizza. The blade may be a single blade or two blades forming a 90 degree “X”. The handle is attached across the top of the blade and may include slots to better grasp the handle. The extenders are attached to opposite ends of the cutter and may be fixed or rotating, and intersect opposite corners of the pizza box to align the blade to cut uniform slices.
US09021924B2	Wrench A wrench includes a handle, a first driver, and a second driver. The first driver and the second driver are integrally connected to two ends of the handle respectively. An angle between a driving axis of the first driver and a central axis of the handle is α, an angle between one opening end of the first driver and the handle is φ, an angle between a driving axis of the second driver and the central axis of the handle is β, and an angle between one opening end of the second driver and the handle is θ. The angle α and the angle β are located at two sides of the central axis of the handle respectively. The other opening end of the first driver and the other opening end of the second driver are horizontally connected to the handle respectively.
US09021917B2	Motion transmitting remote control assembly having a terminal body with a transverse opening The subject invention provides for a motion transmitting remote control assembly for transmitting motion in a curved path, including a terminal body defining a longitudinal axis and a cavity. The terminal body further defines a first opening extending transverse to the longitudinal axis. A locking member is disposed within the cavity and is movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The locking member has a trigger portion retaining the locking member in the unlocked position and a securing portion. A biasing member is disposed within the cavity and abuts the locking member. The terminal body further defines a second opening extending transverse to both the longitudinal axis and the first opening into the cavity. The second opening provides access to the trigger portion to release the locking member from the unlocked position to the locked position and the securing portion at least partially closes the second opening.
US09021915B2	Gear transmission mechanism and robot arm connecting structure using the same A gear transmission mechanism includes a housing, a first transmission assembly, a second transmission assembly, and a gear clearance adjustment assembly. The first transmission assembly includes an input shaft, and the second transmission assembly includes an output shaft. The gear clearance adjustment assembly includes an adjustment base mounted on the housing, fasteners, bearings, a washer, a fixing member, and a pair of freely rotatable adjusting gears for the transmission of rotative force. The adjusting gears mesh with the first and second transmission gears.
US09021909B2	Dampers at the main shift rod A compound transmission shift mechanism is disclosed. The shift mechanism includes a plurality of gears configured on at least one transmission shaft with at least one synchronizer configured to engage at least two of the plurality of gears. The shift mechanism includes a control system configured to engage and position the synchronizer into alignment with the at least two of the plurality of gears. Additionally, the shift mechanism includes at least one damping assembly configured on the control system and operatively connected to the synchronizer.
US09021908B2	Hydraulic system, driving system and electric vehicle A hydraulic system of an electric vehicle may comprise: an oil container; a first and a second clutch driving circuits connected in parallel; an internal pump driven by a driving system of the electric vehicle; a first check valve connected in series at an outlet side of the internal pump; an external pump driven by an external pump motor; and a second check valve connected in series at an outlet side of the external pump. The first check valve and the internal pump connected in series and the second check valve and the external pump connected in series are connected in parallel between the oil container and the first and second clutch driving circuits.
US09021907B2	Range sensing apparatus A housing slidably guides a slider, which is driven in response to selection of a shift range of an automatic transmission. Upper and lateral sides of a movable range of the slider are covered with the housing. Thereby, application of hydraulic fluid and foreign objects to guide rails is limited to limit malfunction of the slider. Furthermore, even when the hydraulic fluid and foreign objects adhere to the guide rails, the hydraulic fluid and foreign objects can be collected at ends of the movable range of the slider and can be expelled to an outside of the housing through open ends of the housing.
US09021906B2	Double clutch transmission having a layshaft design A double clutch transmission of countershaft design having a central shaft and a concentric hollow transmission shaft, one countershaft, and two power-shift elements. Two hollow shafts are disposed on the countershaft coaxially to the countershaft, each of which can be fixed, via one shift device, to the countershaft, and to which at least two gearwheels are fixed. A further hollow shaft is coaxially provided on either the central or hollow transmission shafts and can be connected, via a shift device, to the central or hollow transmission shaft, and to which at least two further gearwheels of the gear stages are fixed. At least three transmission ratios are possible by engaging three of the gear stages on the shift-element side into the power flow, thereby enabling one transmission ratio to be at least partially implemented by a respective sole engagement on the shift-element side into the power flow.
US09021904B2	Axial adjustment device An axial adjustment device includes: a main body; two slide seats disposed in the main body; a first and a second threaded rods disposed in the main body and respectively screwed in the two slide seats; a first transmission gear connected with the first threaded rod; a second transmission gear connected with the second threaded rod; and a fastening member. When the fastening member is switched to a fastening position, the two threaded rods are driven with each other via the two transmission gears. When the fastening member is switched to a releasing position, the two threaded rods can be only independently rotated. The axial adjustment device can control the two slide seats to independently or synchronously move.
US09021900B2	In-pipe inspection robot Provided is an in-pipe inspection robot which moves along a path in a pipe to inspect suspected areas such as cracks in the pipe. An in-pipe inspection robot in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention has a configuration in which two or more operating units having a plurality of arms, which move forward and backward in a radial direction of a pipe, are connected to each other to move in a straight direction or to be bent relative to each other by means of a flexible link mechanism.
US09021896B2	Method for determining the quality of a screw joint tightening process performed by an impulse wrench A method for determining the quality of a screw joint tightening process performed by means of a torque impulse wrench, comprising clamp load determination via calculation of the time of flight for ultra sonic waves induced into the screw joint, and comparing of a total rotation movement of the screw joint with predetermined angle limit values as a target axial load level has been indicated by the time of flight of ultra sonic waves induced in the screw joint. Occurring discrepancies between the obtained total rotation movement of the screw joint and the angle limit values would indicate a faulty screw joint and/or a malfunctioning ultra sonic wave flight time measurement, which means an unacceptable tightening process quality.
US09021895B2	Torque sensor assembly and method for producing same An improved structure for a torque sensor assembly adapted for use in a vehicle steering system and method for producing the same. According to one embodiment, the torque sensor assembly includes a housing formed from a suitable material having a cavity; at least one flux concentrator and at least one hall effect IC disposed in the cavity of the housing; and a cover secured to the housing to close the cavity in the housing in a permanent and fluid-tight manner.
US09021893B2	High survivability fluid flow sensor having a load cell for detecting loading on the sensor probe A high survivability fluid flow sensor includes a sensor housing defining an interior space. A sensor probe has a first end disposed within the interior space. The sensor probe also includes a second end opposite the first end outside the interior space. At least one load cell is disposed within the interior space and is operatively engaged with the first end of the sensor probe. The load cell is configured to detect loading on the sensor probe as a result of fluid flow impinging on the sensor probe adjacent to the second end. The sensor is operable to capture fluid flow data history through an over pressure event via the sensor probe, which exerts pressure upon the piezoelectric load cell(s), thereby enabling analysis of the wave fluid dynamics.
US09021889B2	Sample holder for receiving a sample A sample holder for receiving a sample includes a sample receiving device for clamping the sample, which is assigned a holding means which has at least two prongs protruding from the sample receiving device for a gripping means. Also disclosed are a receiving device, a sample holder magazine, a sample feeding system, a clamping device and an examining device.
US09021887B2	Micromechanical semiconductor sensing device Micromechanical semiconductor sensing device comprises a micromechanical sensing structure being configured to yield an electrical sensing signal, and a piezoresistive sensing device provided in the micromechanical sensing structure, said piezoresistive sensing device being arranged to sense a mechanical stress disturbing the electrical sensing signal and being configured to yield an electrical disturbance signal based on the sensed mechanical stress disturbing the electrical sensing signal.
US09021883B2	Pressure gauge A pressure gauge includes a base including an annular flange and a pipe for gas flow; a ring on the flange; an uneven pressure measuring member on the ring; a moveable assembly including a seat, a hollow insert, and a shaft wherein the seat is secured to the pressure measuring member, the insert includes two opposite, internal, upper projections, the insert is fastened in the seat, the shaft includes external threads secured to the projections, an upper annular groove, a top protrusion, and an axis projects upward from the protrusion; a pointer secured to the axis; a covering member includes a ring member on the pressure measuring member, and a bridge crossing the ring member and allowing the axis to pass through, and a bent member; a balance spring in the groove and fastened in the bent member; a scale on the bridge; a housing; and a transparent cover.
US09021882B2	Ultrasound-based measuring device and method An ultrasound-based measuring device includes a measurement body, at least one ultrasonic transmitter for coupling ultrasonic measurement signals into the measurement body, and at least one ultrasonic receiver for detecting the ultrasonic measurement signals reflected at an end face of the measurement body. The at least one ultrasonic transmitter emits both a longitudinal and a transverse measurement signal. The influence of a physical disturbance variable on the measurement section traversed by the measurement signals during a determination of a measurement pressure prevailing at the end face and/or of a measurement temperature prevailing at the end face can be taken into account on the basis of the propagation times and a difference between the propagation times of the longitudinal and transverse measurement signals reflected at the end face.
US09021876B2	Method and apparatus for determining change in mass of fan impeller A method for determining a change in a mass of a fan impeller. The method includes inducing a torque to the fan impeller and determining a change in the angular speed of the fan impeller, induced by the torque. A value for a first parameter representing a present mass of the fan impeller is determined on the basis of the change in the angular speed and the torque. The change in the mass is then determined on the basis of the first parameter and a second parameter representing the reference mass of the fan impeller.
US09021867B2	Sensor-enabled gate valve Methods, systems, and apparatus for a gate valve including a body and a sensing bore. A subassembly includes a body with a sensing bore; a bonnet contacting the body; and at least one of a vein and a plug in the sensing bore.
US09021862B2	NH3 storage setpoint temperature algorithm A method for predicting an exhaust gas temperature. The method includes detecting a plurality of exhaust gas temperatures and applying a weight value to the detected plurality of exhaust gas temperatures to determine a plurality of weighted temperature values. The weight value applied to at least one detected exhaust gas temperature may be different than the weight value applied to at least one other detected exhaust gas temperature. The method also includes determining an estimated temperature corresponding to the plurality of weighted temperature values and the applied weight value. The estimated temperature may be used to determine a set-point for the storage or absorption of a reductant by a catalyst. Moreover, the estimated temperature may allow for an adjustment to the reductant being stored on the catalyst if the storage capacity of the catalyst may be changing based on a predicted change in exhaust gas temperature.
US09021848B2	Method for forming a sector for a nacelle lip skin Forming a sector for a nacelle lip skin from a sheet metal blank via punch by placing the blank against an outer surface of the punch and clamping a trailing edge of the blank in a clamping member that grips a trailing edge of the blank without slippage; gripping a leading edge of the blank, opposite the trailing edge, in a gripping device at a location axially spaced from the punch with sufficient force to permit the blank to flow therethrough in a controlled manner; displacing the gripping device in a first direction, radially with respect to the punch while drawing the blank through the gripper; displacing the gripping device in a second direction, axially with respect to the punch, to draw the blank over the leading edge of the punch and through the gripping device.
US09021839B2	Motor for washing machine and washing machine having the same A motor for washing machines having a first insulator of the motor which surrounds a lower portion of a stator core of a stator of the motor and includes a ring-shaped mounting unit including a plurality of connection bosses so as to mount the stator on a tub of a washing machine, and at least one heat dissipation hole is provided on the mounting unit, thereby improving a cooling effect of the stator core.
US09021835B2	Removable jewelry setting The present invention provides an improvement in an article of jewelry of the type in which the ornamental portion of the article is secured or released selectively from the support portion of the article. The removable jewelry setting provides a simplified construction which is used readily by the wearer of jewelry to assemble a particular combination of ornament and support selected from a wide variety of such combinations made available by the improvement. The construction also enhances the ability to tailor a jewelry article to a particular style of dress without unduly multiplying the number of expensive ornaments required to provide a wide range of ornamented articles. The construction enables ease of interchange of the ornamental portion of an article of jewelry.
US09021833B2	Jewelry assembly with a replaceable decorative insert A jewelry assembly includes a housing with a head having a well and an insert with a decorative surface and sized and shaped to fit into the well. Magnetic elements are provided to hold the insert and the head together so that insert can be replaced at will by a user with another insert that fits in the well but has a different decorative surface. Optionally, a tool is further provided to separate the insert from the head.
US09021819B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring a refrigeration-cycle system A monitoring system for monitoring operation of a refrigerant-cycle system is disclosed. A plurality of sensors measure operating characteristics of the refrigerant-cycle system. The refrigerant-cycle system includes a condenser unit and an evaporator unit. The condenser unit includes a condenser and a compressor. The evaporator unit includes an evaporator and a fan. A processing system receives the measurements from the plurality of sensors and outputs data regarding operation of the refrigerant-cycle system to a remote monitoring system.
US09021817B2	Monolithic construction compressed air/gas dryer system with filtration A monolithic compressed-gas dryer including in series: an inlet chamber, a precooler/reheater chamber, an evaporator chamber, and a sump chamber. The chambers are welded together to form columns where at least one column has a filtration chamber. Further provided is a gas outlet. The system creates a first and second set of heat transfer passages where refrigerant passes through the second set in a heat exchange relationship in a direction perpendicular to incoming gas passing in the first set. The filtration chamber conducts chilled gas from the first set to a third set of heat transfer passages. The third set extends through the precooler/reheater in heat exchange relationship with the first set. Chilled gas passes in heat exchange relationship in a direction perpendicular to the incoming gas so that the incoming gas chilled in the evaporator exchanges heat with the incoming gas in the precooler/reheater.
US09021816B2	Gas turbine engine turbine vane platform core A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine includes inner and outer platforms joined by a radially extending airfoil. The airfoil includes leading and trailing edges joined by spaced apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface. The airfoil includes an airfoil cooling passage. A platform cooling passage is arranged within at least one of the inner and outer platforms. The platform cooling passage includes multiple cooling regions with one of the cooling regions arranged beneath the airfoil cooling passage.
US09021810B2	Fossil-fuel-fired power plant A power plant includes a boiler, a stream turbine generator, a post combustion processing system, a feed water regeneration processing system and a heat exchanger. Heat from the heat exchanger is used to regenerate (a) a reagent that absorbs carbon dioxide from flue gas and (b) a water-lean desiccant used to increase plant operating efficiency.
US09021807B2	Waste heat utilization device and operating method In a waste heat utilization arrangement for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle including a waste heat utilization circuit in which a working medium is circulated, a pumping device for pressurizing the working medium, an evaporator for vaporizing the working medium by waste heat of the internal combustion engine, an expansion machine for expanding the working medium while extracting mechanical energy therefrom and a condenser for condensing the working medium in a resting state, the waste heat utilization circuit is in communication with a pressure store capable of maintaining a pressure for setting and ensuring a predetermined adjustable minimum pressure of the working medium in the waste heat utilization circuit.
US09021801B2	Compensating for incomplete reversal in mechanisms incorporating shape memory alloy wire Shape memory alloy (SMA) actuating elements are commonly simpler and of lower mass than alternative actuator designs and may find particular application in the transportation industry. Such SMA-powered devices are usually reliable and long-lived but the phase transformations which occur in the SMA alloy and are responsible for its utility are not totally reversible. This irreversibility, a consequence of irrecoverable strain, may progressively degrade the long-term actuator performance as the irrecoverable strain accumulates over many operating cycles. Methods and devices for compensating for these effects and extending the useful cycle life of SMA actuators are described.
US09021794B2	Decomposition chamber According to one embodiment, described herein is an apparatus for decomposing diesel exhaust fluid into ammonia for an internal combustion engine (ICE) system having a selective catalytic reduction system. The apparatus includes an outlet cover, an inlet cover coupled to the outlet cover, and a support plate disposed between the outlet cover and the inlet cover. The support plate forms an outlet channel with the outlet cover and an inlet channel with the inlet cover. The inlet channel is fluidly coupled to the outlet channel. Additionally, the inlet channel may be adjacent to the outlet channel.
US09021785B2	Engine system for increasing available turbocharger energy An engine system for a machine is disclosed. The engine system may have an intake manifold configured to direct air into a donor cylinder and a non-donor cylinder of an engine. The engine system may also have a first exhaust manifold configured to direct exhaust from the non-donor cylinder to the atmosphere. The engine system may also have a second exhaust manifold configured to receive exhaust from the donor cylinder. The engine system may further have a control valve configured to selectively direct a first amount of exhaust from the second exhaust manifold to the intake manifold. In addition, the engine system may have an orifice configured to allow a second amount of exhaust to flow from the second exhaust manifold to the first exhaust manifold.
US09021780B2	Energy extraction and transfer system for a gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine is provided having a variety of forms and features. The gas turbine engine can include a compressor having movable vanes. In one form of operation the compressor can close down the vanes to a relatively low flow capacity position and the compressor can be operated at a higher speed, whereupon the vanes can be repositioned and the gas turbine engine operated at a different condition. The gas turbine engine can include a turbine having movable vanes. In one form of operation the turbine can change the vane positions to a relatively low torque position and the engine operated at a higher fuel flow condition, whereupon the vanes can be repositioned and the gas turbine engine operated at a different condition. The gas turbine engine can have a heater that adds heat to a flow stream, a motor that provides energy to a shaft, and an external load.
US09021775B2	Harvester for leafy vegetables A harvester having one or more cutting blades for cutting leafy vegetables with a rotating brush for sweeping harvested leaves into a basket or enclosure. The blades are driven by an oscillatory drive mechanism. The brush may have limp bristles. The harvester may be hand-carried and operated by a motor, which drives both the brush and the cutting blades.
US09021773B2	Large container loading system for a packaging machine A large container loading system and method for a packaging machine includes an infeed conveyor and a transfer flight. An array of pivotable cradle lugs is carried by the transfer flight in synchronized movement with cartons on an adjacent carton flight. Containers are moved into the cradle lugs in an upright orientation and the cradle lugs and containers are reoriented to a substantially horizontal or sideways orientation before being pushed into their cartons by an inserter assembly. A transfer block or a support conveyor may be positioned between each of the cradle lugs and an aligned open container to support a container as it moves between a cradle lug and a carton.
US09021772B2	Machine and method for filling and weighing capsules A machine for dosing a product in capsules, includes a rotating turret which has seats suitable for receiving empty capsules and a dosing device for dosing the product in the capsules. The machine further includes a feeding unit having a first weighing device for weighing empty capsules, a transfer arrangement for transferring empty capsules, when weighed, to predetermined seats of the turret for being filled with the product, a second weighing device for weighing capsules filled with the product, and a processing device connected to the first and second weighing device for receiving data relative to weights measured by the first and second weighing devices and for calculating for each capsule a difference between the weight measured before and the weight measured after filling. In this manner, a respective quantity of dosed product is calculated.
US09021758B2	Protective cover for reinforcing bar A protective cover for an exposed end of a rebar has a collar with a closed end and an open end and a cap disposed within the collar. The cap has a closed end and an open end that is exposed to the open end of the collar such that an end of a rebar that is introduced into the open end of the collar will extend into the open end of the cap.
US09021751B2	Frictional non rocking damped base isolation system to mitigate earthquake effects on structures The system described herein consists of an isolator and a damping device. The isolator and damping device are used to isolate structures and thus to mitigate earthquake effects on structures. These devices extremely reduce transmitted energy to an isolated superstructure, so that protected structures by means of the devices described herein, may have small or no damages. The isolator has a spherical base fixed to ground via a footing, middle part that responds to the moving base by rotating around the center of a small concave or convex, causing the superstructure to move upwards and downwards vertically, and a top part connected to a superstructure.The damping device consists of a base receives vertical displacement from the superstructure, dampers and springs to dissipate more energy, restrict maximum horizontal displacements and might help returning the superstructure to its stationary position in smooth way. The combination of high reduction in seismic induced forces, extreme reduction or elimination of superstructure rocking and somewhat high independency from ground motions characteristics, structure responses and isolators frequencies, become achievable with these devices described herein. Consequently, structures designed for wind loads and isolated with the devices herein may be protected to adequate amounts that allow minimal or no damages to the superstructures. That means continuous serviceability during and aftermath becomes achievable for the very most of the earthquakes and site characteristics combinations.
US09021743B2	Device to assist the opening of a covering element pivotably mounted relative to an edge of a frame A device is provided to assist the opening of a covering element pivotably mounted relative to an edge of a frame. The device includes an assistance cylinder (6). The assistance cylinder (6) includes a hollow shaft (7), a guide pin (10) inserted in the hollow shaft (7) and comprising at the end thereof opposite the end wall (8) of the hollow shaft (7) a yoke (11), a spring (13) inserted in the hollow shaft (7) surrounding the guide pin (10) and mounted pre-stressed when unloaded between the end wall (4) of the hollow shaft (7) and the yoke (11) of the guide pin (10), and a screw (14) secured to the end of the guide pin (10) and engaging with the end wall (8) of the hollow shaft (7) for keeping the pre-stressed spring (13) in the released state thereof. The invention is useful in the field of road systems.
US09021737B1	Illuminating fishing pole The illuminating fishing pole involves a kit that when installed provides illumination down the length of the fishing pole and at a distal end. A first illuminating member attaches to the handle portion of the fishing pole via a bracket that clips thereon. The first illuminating member directs light down the length of the fishing pole, and includes wiring that extends therefrom, through the interior of the fishing pole, and down to the second distal end where a second illuminating means is provided. The second illuminating means directs light away from the fishing pole and in the direction of casting a fishing line from said fishing pole. The wiring includes a connector to enable disconnection of the first illuminating means from the fishing pole. The first illuminating means includes a powering means and two on/off switches to control operation of each illuminating means.
US09021734B2	Folding firearm Folding firearms have a first portion including a shoulder stock having a free end butt surface and a trigger assembly including a trigger lever, a second portion including a frame defining a bolt passage, a bolt received in the bolt passage, and a barrel connected to the frame, and the first portion and second portion being pivotally connected to each other to pivot about a pivot axis between an operating position in which the barrel extends in a first direction and the shoulder stock extends in an opposite direction, and a folded position in which the barrel and shoulder stock extend in a common direction. The pivot axis may be perpendicular to a bore axis defined by the barrel, and oriented parallel to a medial plane defined by the firearm, the medial plane being vertical during normal firearm operation.
US09021732B2	Firearm trigger reset assist apparatus and method An apparatus to assist in trigger reset includes a torsion spring having lower arms mechanically bridged together and upper arms that translate an applied force from a bolt carrier group to a trigger in order to assist in resetting the trigger.
US09021724B2	Method for putting into operation a clearing apparatus suitable for picking up ballast A method puts into operation a clearing apparatus suitable for picking up ballast and is disposed in an endless configuration during employment so as to encircle a railroad track. The clearing apparatus has a horizontal cross-duct which, prior to a start of the employment, is intended to be positioned below the railroad track and connected, on the one hand, to a rising duct and, on the other hand, to a return duct of the clearing apparatus. The method includes displacing ties of the railroad track in a longitudinal direction of the railroad track to create a tie gap; lowering the cross-duct through the tie gap between two rails of the railroad track and transferred, below the ties, into a working position extending crosswise to the longitudinal direction of the railroad track; and connecting the cross-duct to the rising duct and to the return duct.
US09021723B2	Waterproof breathable boot A waterproof breathable boot is disclosed. The boot includes an outsole, a three-piece bootie, a toe cap, a heel cap, a center front panel, an instep panel and a rear panel.
US09021722B2	Sole for a golf shoe An outer sole for a golf shoe includes a plurality of cleats distributed along a forefoot area and a heel area. The cleats are integrated with the outer sole and extend from a surface of the outer sole that faces away from the shoe. The plurality of cleats includes at least a larger sized set of cleats and a smaller sized set of cleats. Such outer sole for a golf shoe gives good traction on the golf course but is also useable as a casual shoe off the golf course.
US09021721B2	Footwear Footwear according to the present disclosure includes an upper and a sole assembly coupled to the upper, with the sole assembly including an outsole with a ground-contacting surface and a midsole positioned above the outsole. The midsole includes a peripheral lasting member that defines a central aperture, and a cushioning member positioned at least above the peripheral lasting member. In some embodiments, the footwear further includes a heel and the midsole includes a heel strike projection that engages the heel. In some embodiments, the midsole further includes a shank. In some embodiments, the cushioning member defines the optional heel strike projection, and in other embodiments, the optional shank defines the optional heel strike projection. In some embodiments, the footwear includes a spur support.
US09021714B2	Concentricity test device A test device for testing concentricity between first and second holes in parallel plates includes a positioning pole and a test pole. The positioning pole includes a head segment having a tapered positioning portion. The positioning pole axially defines a through hole. The test pole is telescopically received in the through hole of the positioning pole. The test pole includes a test head with a diameter slightly less than a diameter of the second hole. The positioning portion of the positioning pole extends into the first hole with the conic section of the positioning portion abutting against an inner wall bounding the first hole. The test head of the test pole faces the second plate and approaches and confirms the concentricity of the hole in the second plate by sliding the test pole relative to the positioning pole.
US09021708B2	Systems and methods for sailboat mast alignment Systems and methods for sailboat mast alignment are provided. In some embodiments, a system for alignment of a sailboat mast comprises a mounting bracket configured for attachment to the mast, and one or more lasers pivotally connected to the mounting bracket to enable the one or more lasers to be positioned at an index angle relative to the mast on both sides of the mast.
US09021703B2	Method of manufacturing a roof bow In one aspect of the present invention, a method is employed to fabricate a roof bow. A first body element and a second body element each have one or more tabs are both formed from a substrate. The tabs of the first body element are clinched to the second body element. The tabs of the second body element are clinched to the first body element. An upper cord is clinched to a top edge of the coupled body elements and a lower cord is clinched to a bottom edge of the coupled body elements to form the roof bow.
US09021698B2	Flat plate heat pipe and method for manufacturing the same The present invention relates to a flat plate heat pipe and a method for manufacturing the same. The heat pipe includes a flattened pipe whose inner surface is coated with a wick structure layer. The interior of the flattened pipe is provided with a sintered supporting layer and a working fluid. The sintered supporting layer has a plurality of posts arranged in the flattened pipe to vertically support therein. With this arrangement, the thickness of the pipe can be reduced but the whole structural strength can be maintained to prevent deformation. Further, a return path for the working fluid can be provided in the pipe. By only sealing two sides of the pipe, a sealed chamber can be formed for the operation of the working fluid. By the inventive method, the manufacturing process can be simplified and a larger space inside the chamber can be obtained.
US09021696B2	Method for producing a plating of a vane tip and correspondingly produced vanes and gas turbines The invention relates to a method for producing a plating (5) of a vane tip. Said method consists of the following steps: a) a vane having a vane tip which is arranged opposite the base of the vane (2) and which comprises a surface which points radially outwards is provided, and b) a porous layer (7) is applied to at least the surface (4) of the vane tip and/or c) a bulge (8) which increases the surface of the vane tip is applied to at least one part of the flanks of the vane tip, said flanks surrounding the surface of the vane tip, and d) the plating (5) is applied to the porous layer and/or the bulge. The invention also relates to corresponding vanes or gas turbines with corresponding vanes.
US09021690B2	Method of manufacturing printed circuit board having buried solder bump A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board having a buried solder bump, including: preparing a carrier on which a circuit layer, a solder bump, and a circuit pattern formed on the solder bump are formed; pressing the carrier into an insulating layer so that the circuit layer, the solder bump and the circuit pattern are buried in the insulating layer; and removing the carrier.
US09021686B1	Portable racking tool for electric equipment replacement An electrical device removal tool, such as for circuit breakers, that is lightweight, portable, and rugged for providing electrically operated controlled insertion and removal of electrical equipment by an operator from a remote location using a coupling device for engagement with the electrical equipment housing.
US09021667B2	Clip A clip comprising a first wall member and a second wall member is disclosed. A cross-section of the first wall member is defined by a first side wall, a second side wall and a connecting wall that is positioned between the first side wall and the second side wall. A cross-section of the second wall member is defined by a first end and a second end, wherein at least a portion of the first end is connected to a portion of the first side wall of the first wall member and wherein a second end is positioned between the first side wall and the second side wall and spaced away from an inner surface of the connecting wall. The first wall member and the second wall member cooperate to define a channel having a first portion and a second portion.
US09021663B2	Forearm apparatus for supporting a cargo handle Described herein is an apparatus that rests on a forearm of a user and supports a cargo handle is described. A longitudinal axis of the forearm extends in a first direction and the cargo handle extends in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The apparatus includes a base member that is positionable between the cargo handle and forearm. Additionally, an upper surface is defined by the base member where the upper surface includes a handle reception recess. Further, a lower surface is defined by the base member where the lower surface is curved about an axis that is substantially parallel to the first direction when engaged with the forearm of the user.
US09021662B1	Paint can handle Handle for an object includes a member for grasping with a hand. The member has a lower opening for passage or accommodation of fingers and a web or palm of the hand, and an upper opening for passage or accommodation of a thumb of the hand. A strap may be attached to the member for embracing and securing the object. The strap can include a band portion having a tension buffer segment, and a band lock. The handle can be found in combination with the object, for example, a metal paint can, say, a one-gallon metal paint can.
US09021661B2	Detector with a telescopic carrier/guide rod A detector with a telescopic carrier/guide rod at which a measuring probe is disposed at one end, wherein the carrier/guide rod features at least two tubes longitudinally movable inside one another, in which respectively two tubes disposed adjacently in radial direction form an outer tube and an inner tube, whereby the respective outer tube at its overlapping tube end facing the measuring probe features a clamping means for engaging the inner tube. In accordance with this invention, the clamping means is formed as a clamping device that features a profile clamp with a quick-locking device. The profile clamp comprises a holding ring with two half shell-shaped clamping ring segments that are interconnected flexibly on one side and on the opposite side they can be clamped together with a clamping lever. The holding ring features ring breakthroughs and the outer tube the corresponding tube breakthroughs for the accommodation of clamping pieces that are pressed against the inner tube when clamping the clamping ring segments together under pressure. Preferably a clamping ring segment is formed on the holding ring.
US09021655B2	Vacuum cleaning appliance A cleaner head is described for use with a vacuum cleaning appliance including a fan unit for generating an air flow which passes from the cleaner head to the fan unit. The cleaner head includes a rotatable agitator assembly including an agitator for sweeping dust particles. The agitator assembly is housed in an agitator chamber housing including a downwardly-directed opening through which dust particles energized by the agitator enter the cleaner head, and a dust outlet located adjacent the opening and through which the energized particles leave the agitator chamber. The cleaner head also includes an exhaust port from which a dust-bearing air flow is drawn from the cleaner head, and a dust channel extending between the dust outlet and the exhaust port. The dust channel has channel walls which are shaped to retain energized dust particles therebetween through collisions thereagainst.
US09021648B1	Strength-saving spiral mop pole A strength saving spiral mop pole has a gripping rod, an outer rod, an inner rod, a rotating module and a holding device. The outer rod is mounted in the gripping rod and has a receiving space and a spiral concave portion. The rotating module has a pressing block and a threaded block. The pressing block has a guiding rod. The threaded block is penetrated by the guiding rod and attached to the pressing block. The threaded block has multiple spiral protrusive parts engaged with the spiral concave portion. To use the spiral mop pole of the present invention, the outer rod is pressed and the threaded block is rotated in the outer rod. The pressing block and the inner rod are driven by the threaded block so that the spinning removal of water is achieved by the rotation.
US09021642B1	Combination axe, sledge hammer and pick A combination axe, sledge hammer and pick (CASHP) that is particularly designed for use by firefighters. The CASHP includes a front end and a rear end. The front end has an upper section that functions as an axe blade and the lower section functions as a sledge hammer. The rear section includes a pick that can be utilized for a variety of functions. By incorporating three tools in a single structure the weight that a firefighter carries is lessened. Thus, reducing fatigue and the time that is required to cut through an obstruction to reach fire victims.
US09021638B2	Mattress A mattress including a plurality of cells aligned and disposed on a body pressure working surface of a substrate that supports a human body; and a pressure control member that changes a height of each cell by adjusting a pressure in a fluid chamber formed within the cell. The cells are configured such that as the each cell is inflated by fluid supplied to the fluid chamber within the cell, the height of the each cell increases and a width dimension of the each cell in a direction of alignment decreases, and that peripheral portions of adjacent cells in the direction of alignment are overlapped with each other prior to cell inflation.
US09021636B2	Sleepy heads neck pillow The embodiments disclosed herein are related to a supportive head and neck pillow with a supportive bone structure inside the pillow. The pillow is used for head and neck support, and comfort while sleeping sitting up during transportation. It can also be used for head and neck support for people who have neck injuries, or to prevent neck injuries during transportation. The sleepy heads neck pillow disclosed comprises a pillow with a bone structure support inside it.
US09021635B1	Body pillow with multiple configurations A reconfigurable support pillow comprising an elongate center section with a short, curved arm on each end. Between each of the arms and the center section is a substantially flat connecting section with inwardly curved side edges. This shape allows the pillow to be placed into several configurations. In a first configuration, the center section is bent and the connecting sections overlap each other without creating a thickened area at the point where the connecting sections cross. Additionally, the curved ends of the pillow arms can be overlapped providing an oval configuration with a double thickness at one side. Still further, the pillow can be used with the center section straight and curved arms turned inward towards each other. Each configuration provides different advantages and use. The pillow may comprise a washable cover with removable inserts.
US09021623B2	Device for preparing shower water for a water closet having an under-shower and method for operating such a device The device has a line arrangement (2), which possesses an inlet (3) connectable to a supply line and an outlet (4) connectable to a shower arm (5). A heating element (6) serves for the provision of warm water. An energy store (7, 8) is provided, with which the power range for the provision of shower water can be extended. The heating element (6) for the provision of warm water is, in particular, a continuous-flow heater. The energy store (7, 8) is, in particular, a thermal, electrical, electrochemical or chemical energy store. During the shower process, the energy store is available as an additional energy source for the preparation of shower water.
US09021622B2	Flush toilet device There is provided a flush toilet device capable of being configured in a compact size and supplying a sufficient flow amount of water to a toilet to reliably flush and discharge waste. According to the flush toilet device, a straight pipe portion of a throat which is arranged inside a tank is arranged in a state where a center axis thereof inclines with respect to a front-back direction of the tank when viewed from an upper side.
US09021618B2	Air-cushioned shorts for cycling Cycling shorts for protecting a rider from harmful effects occasioned by the design of the substantially unpadded seat of a racing-type cycle. Fabric shorts of conventional or elongated design include a interior protective pad. The pad includes adjoined seat and crotch sections and is symmetrical with respect to an axis of symmetry. It includes an interior chamber for receiving pressurized air. A pump for delivering selectively pressurized air communicates with the interior chamber by means of a conduit. The chamber includes internally honeycombed sections for minimizing air flow so that the cushioning effect of the pad is preserved despite the force exerted by the weight of a wearer on the hard and relatively-inflexible seat.
US09027154B2	Method, apparatus and system for managing document rights Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus and a system for managing document rights. In the method, the apparatus and the system for managing document rights which are provided in the embodiments of the present invention, a server receives a rights request from a client, where the rights request is used for obtaining rights information of a document; determines, according to the rights request, whether the first rights information of the document is saved; when the first rights information is not saved, sends, to the client, the second rights information corresponding to the document confidentiality level, so that the client decrypts the document according to the second rights information; and when the first rights information is saved, sends the first rights information to the client so that the client decrypts the document according to the saved first rights information.
US09027146B2	Systems and methods for data protection A data protection method includes identifying data indicative of a software element parameter of a software element to be protected, which may be a hash of the software element image or carrier medium image area. The method includes identifying data indicative of a medium parameter of a medium authorized to carry the software element, which may be a unique identifier embedded in a non-image area of the medium. A validation token is defined based on a predefined protocol and written to a non-image area of the medium, which token is a function of the software element parameter and medium parameter. A device for executing the software element uses the same predefined protocol to verify the token prior to allowing execution of the software element. If the software element is copied to another medium, the token is not verifiable for the copied software, thereby restricting execution of the copied software element.
US09027134B2	Social threat scoring A method includes identifying data on a social network that is associated with a social entity, and determining one or more characteristics of the identified data. A reference to the identified data is generated for each of the one or more characteristics. Each generated reference is compared to one or more known references, and a risk score for a social entity is determined based on each of the comparisons. A confidence score for the risk score is determined.
US09027126B2	Method and apparatus for baiting phishing websites A cyber fraud phish baiting system for baiting a phishing website is disclosed. The cyber fraud phish baiting system is configured to store a plurality of URLs in a database and enter each of the URLs into a browser to view internet resources linked to the URLs. It is configured to scan the internet resources for information requests, obtain information responsive to the information requests from a database, enter responsive information into the information requests, and store the information requests and the responsive information entered into the information requests for each of the URLs. The internet resource may be a phishing website, and fake information is entered into the information requests.
US09027124B2	System for monitoring an operation of a device A system monitors an application. The system includes a state table with state table nodes corresponding to application checkpoints. The state table nodes include an authorized time interval and application path. The system also includes a time counter that tracks an operation time between successive application checkpoints, and a program counter that tracks and stores an operation path for the application. A checkpoint module verifies an operation of the application at a checkpoint by comparing the authorized time interval for the checkpoint state table node and the operation time tracked by the time counter, as well as the authorized application path for the checkpoint state table node and the operation path tracked by the program counter. A security action is performed when the tracked operation time is not within the authorized time interval, or when the tracked operation path does not match the authorized application path.
US09027122B2	Isolation tool for user assistance in solving a captcha test A method includes displaying a CAPTCHA test comprising an image with distorted alphanumeric characters. The method also includes associating a mask with the image that maps the alphanumeric characters to coordinates. Further, the method includes, enhancing a portion of the image corresponding to one of the alphanumeric characters responsive to a user positioning an assistance tool proximate to one alphanumeric character to reduce distortion.
US09027116B2	Dynamic VPN address allocation Methods and related systems are presented that relate to automatically avoiding address conflicts when establishing a secure communications link over a public network between a local computer, associated with a local network, and a remote computer, located outside the local network. In order to avoid address conflict, addresses reserved for use by the local network and addresses reserved for use by the remote network are determined. At least one local address is selected from among available local addresses such that the selected local address is an address that does not conflict with the reserved addresses of the local network and the reserved addresses of the remote network. The selected local address is used in connection with establishment of the secure communications link between the local computer and the remote computer.
US09027110B2	System and method for communication between dynamic token and tool The present invention relates to the field of information security. Disclosed are a system and method for communication between a dynamic token and a tool, the system comprising a tool part and a dynamic token part; the tool part comprises a control module and a tool radio frequency communication module; the dynamic token part comprises an MCU and liquid crystal module and an OTP radio frequency communication module. The method comprises: the tool part transmits a modulated wake-up command signal to the dynamic token part in the form of an electromagnetic wave; when a wake-up response command signal returned by the dynamic token part is correctly received, the tool part transmits the modulated command signal to the dynamic token part in the form of an electromagnetic wave; and the tool part detects the amplitude variation of the generated carrier signal, judges whether the response signal is correctly received, and operates correspondingly.
US09027105B1	Social network interaction using validated representations of user credentials A representation for a credential is received by a first client device. The credential is rendered on a second client device where the credential is associated with a user identity within a social networking platform. The first client device validates the representation for the credential associated with the user identity a score associated with the user identity where the score is based on data associated with a plurality of other user identifies who are members of the user identity's social network within the social networking platform. The data associated with the plurality of other user identities is based on interaction with the electronic social networking platform by the plurality of other user identities within the electronic social networking platform. The accessed score is outputted for display based on the representation for the credential associated with the user identity being validated and the score associated with the user identity being accessed.
US09027100B2	Client-side ad caching for lower ad serving latency Advertisements are served over the Internet to clients on demand. A client module executing on a client device fetches advertisements over the Internet from an advertisement server. The client module stores these advertisements in a cache on the client device. When an application executing on the client device needs to display an advertisement, instead of contacting the advertisement server directly, the application makes a call to the client module. The client module, instead of contacting the advertisement server immediately, determines whether the cache on the client device contains any advertisements that satisfy criteria specified by the application. If the cache does contain advertisements that satisfy the criteria, then the client module provides those advertisements to the application. Otherwise, then the client module requests criteria-satisfying advertisements from the advertisement server at that time, and provides at least one of those to the application.
US09027094B1	Associating data initially with devices and subsequently with accounts A technique for associating data with an account is described. During this technique, a user uploads data to a computer system from an electronic device one or more times without providing log-in credentials for the account. Instead, the data is stored along with an identifier determined from characteristics or attributes of the electronic device. If the user subsequently logs into the account from the electronic device, the computer system determines that the identifier for the electronic device matches the previously determined identifier. At this point, the computer system associates data with the account.
US09027092B2	Techniques for securing data access Techniques for securing data access are presented. A user's data is encrypted on multiple servers throughout a network. Each portion of the encrypted data resides on a different server, and each portion represents a non-contiguous data selection from the user's original unencrypted data. Each portion encrypted using a master credential that is different from the user's logon credential. Also, each portion encrypted using a server identity for the server on which that portion resides. An order, which is used for assembling decrypted versions of the encrypted portions back into the user's data, is acquired via another and different principal-supplied credential.
US09027073B2	Transmission of pre-set channel allocation information The present application provides transferring channel allocation tables for receiving radio frequency services. Automatic updating channel allocation tables is provided by storing within at least one central database at least one channel allocation table, storing within each of a plurality of distributed consumer electronic devices at channel allocation table for receiving the radio frequency services, and transferring the channel allocation tables between the central database, and the distributed consumer electronic device via a bidirectional communication link.
US09027072B2	Dynamic application loader for set top box Set top boxes (STBs) in a cable system are configured on a box-by-box basis to facilitate beta and trial testing of new or updated services. STBs are assigned to deployment groups identified by a deployment group identifier. Features configurations including hierarchies of features can be defined individually for different deployment groups. Configuration files for provisioning the STBs are provided by a cable system head end according to the deployment group the STB is assigned to. STBs can be configured at the time they boot and register with the system or in a “hot” manner to avoid rebooting.
US09027065B2	Method and system for creating video channels for delivery of content from multiple platforms A system for managing delivery of content from multiple platforms maintains data for various video channels. Some of the video channels are television channels, while others are over-the-top (OTT) video content sources such as video streaming websites. The system includes a package generation module by which a service provider may define a package of both traditional and OTT channels to offer to subscribers in a unified programming interface. When a user uses the interface to select a set of video channels, the system compiles the set of the video channels in a subscriber package of both television and OTT channels. The system assigns a name to the subscriber package, and it stores the defined package and name, along with other information about the package, in a data storage facility for offering to a subscriber of content from the service provider.
US09027063B2	Video-on-demand (VOD) management system and methods The present invention provides for closed loop multimedia content management systems and methods to ensure accurate and timely delivery of VOD content from multiple content providers using multiple distribution systems. The present invention provides for a method of distributing multimedia content using a VOD management system by receiving a multimedia asset data file and associated metadata from a content provider and/or a MSO, tracking the delivery of the multimedia asset data file to a MSO, tracking the upload of the multimedia asset data file to a VOD server maintained by the MSO, and providing usage reports relating to usage of multimedia asset data files by end users of the MSO. Usage reports are prepared by receiving data from the VOD servers regarding the files requested by end users, creating a master reporting database using that data, and generating the usage reports using the data contained in the master reporting database.
US09027057B2	System and method for creating and managing custom media channels A system and method for creating and managing custom media channels within an Interactive Digital Program Guide (IDPG) of a device having a set-top box function associated with a cable or satellite television network. In general, a user interacts with the set-top box function to define a custom media channel. The custom media channel may be defined by a channel name and user preferences. Once the custom media channel is defined, an Internet search is performed based on the user preferences in order to identify media presentations for the custom media channel. Thereafter, when a user selects the custom media channel via the IDPG, the media presentations are played in a substantially continuous stream in either a predetermined or random sequence.
US09027055B1	Information descriptor and extended information descriptor data structures for digital television signals According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification field identifying a source of an associated event in a DTV data stream; an event identification field indicating an identification of the event; a start time field indicating a star time of the event; a title field indicating a title of the event; and a descriptor comprising: a descriptor tag identifying the descriptor as a genre descriptor, a descriptor length indicating a total length of the descriptor; and at least one category code for an associated event in a DTV data stream, each category code specifying genre, program type, or category information of the associated event, wherein the at least one category code specifies at least one of a set of basic categories.
US09027051B2	Determining whether an advertisement aired in accordance with predefined airing specifications A method and computing devices are provided for determining whether an advertisement aired in accordance with predefined airing specifications. A plurality of advertisement identification markers may be inserted into an advertisement by a first computing device. The plurality of advertisement identification markers may be inserted between the start and end of the advertisement. A second computing device may receive a broadcast stream including the advertisement having the plurality of advertisement identification markers. Airing parameters of the advertisement may be determined by the second computing device based on the advertisement identification markers. The airing parameters of the advertisement may be compared with predefined airing specifications corresponding to the advertisement. Auditing data may be generated that describes whether or not the advertisement aired in accordance with the predefined airing specifications.
US09027042B2	Systems and methods for detecting improper use of telecommunications reception device Methods of detecting and verifying the unauthorized use of media content using a telecommunication reception device which, in one embodiment, comprises interrupting a user's use of or access to media content; informing the user that the interruption can be eliminated after the user verifies his or her information through an electronic device; detecting the user's location based on the user's use of the electronic device; verifying whether user's location is within area where the use of the media content is permitted; verifying whether the user is authorized by the content owner to receive the media content and allowing the user to resume the use of media content once the user passes the verification.
US09027039B2	Methods for analyzing, limiting, and enhancing access to an internet API, web service, and data The invention includes an API gateway server that monitors and controls the distribution of API elements from API sources to application developers based on a distribution rule set.
US09027037B2	Information output device, method, and recording medium for outputting notification information corresponding to a state of a computer An information output device includes a first processor configured to execute a process to determine a type of notification information which is outputted from a computer and which notifies a state of the computer; and a second processor configured to execute a process to create a chart, in which a first coordinate axis represents time when the notification information is outputted from the computer, a second coordinate axis represents the type of the notification information, and the notification information is drawn at a corresponding position, and output the chart.
US09027033B1	Administering message acknowledgements in a parallel computer Administering message acknowledgements in a parallel computer that includes compute nodes, with each compute node including a processor and a messaging accelerator, includes: storing in a list, by a processor of a compute node, a message descriptor describing a message and an acknowledgement request descriptor describing a request for an acknowledgement of receipt of the message; processing, by a messaging accelerator of the compute node, the list, including transmitting, to a target compute node, the message described by the message descriptor and transmitting, to the target compute node, the request described by the acknowledgement request descriptor; receiving, by the messaging accelerator from the target compute node, an acknowledgement of receipt of the message, including notifying the processor of receipt of the acknowledgement; and removing, by the processor from the list, the message descriptor and the acknowledgment request descriptor.
US09027029B2	Method for activating processor cores within a computer system A technique for activating processor cores within a computer system is disclosed. Initially, a value representing a number of processor cores to be enabled within the computer system is received. The computer system includes multiple processors, and each of the processors includes multiple processor cores. Next, a scale variable value representing a specific type of tasks to be optimized during an execution of the tasks within the computer system is received. From a pool of available processor cores within the computer system, a subset of processor cores can be selected for activation. The subset of processor cores is activated in order to achieve system optimization during an execution of the tasks.
US09027024B2	Market-based virtual machine allocation A cloud computing system management system including a plurality of computing devices configured to host virtual machine instances, each computing device in the plurality of computing devices including a local agent that continuously evaluates the observed load relative to a utility maximization function. If observed load is higher than a calculated optimal level, individual loading processes are offered for “sale” via a market scheduler. If observed load is lower than a calculated optimal level, then available capacity is offered as a bid via the market scheduler. The market scheduler matches bids with available processes and coordinates the transfer of load from the selling device to the buying device. The offered prices and utility maximization functions can be employed to optimize the performance of the cloud system as a whole.
US09027020B2	Data and state threading for virtualized partition management The system includes a virtualized environment having at least one partition. An instance of an application executes in the partition. The application instance is not dedicated to a single user or element. Rather, the application instance may be shared or parsed out to two or more users or elements. To accomplish this sharing, the static data (which is common to all the elements or users) may be maintained in the partition or is loaded at runtime. The dynamic data (the data which is unique to each instantiation and associated with the element requesting the application) can be loaded when an instance is dedicated to execute for a particular element or user. Thus, various elements can share instances of an application and there need not be instances dedicated to particular elements.
US09027014B2	Updating firmware compatibility data A computer program product including computer usable program code embodied on a tangible computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer program product includes computer usable program code for downloading a candidate version of a firmware image for a particular product, computer usable program code for updating incomplete firmware compatibility metadata by downloading additional firmware compatibility metadata for the particular product, and computer usable program code for using the updated firmware compatibility metadata to determine whether the candidate version of the firmware image is compatibility with a current version of a firmware image that is installed within the particular product.
US09027012B2	Manufacturing system and firmware burning method A firmware burning method applied in a target device, which includes a storage unit, a target circuit, and a peripheral controller, connected to the storage circuit via a first communication link, is provided. The method include steps of: providing a test fixture having a first node, a second node, and a switch circuit connected across the first and second nodes, the first and second nodes being respectively coupled to the storage circuit and the target circuit; determining whether firmware of the target circuit satisfies a condition; if not, providing a second communication link between the target circuit and the storage circuit via the first and second nodes by turning on the switch circuit, and switching the peripheral controller to a disabled state; and updating the firmware of the target circuit according to to-be-burned firmware stored in the storage circuit via the second communication link.
US09027008B2	Method, computer, and computer program for speculatively optimizing code A method, computer, and computer program for speculatively optimizing a code. The method includes speculatively optimizing the code characterized by searching in a predetermined order in at least one dictionary; extracting a value associated with a symbol name from a dictionary using the symbol name as a key; performing optimization to replace a symbol in the code with the value; compiling the code to be compiled including some or all of the optimized code; comparing, in response to detection of a change related to one dictionary among at least one dictionary, an order m in the predetermined order of the dictionary with the detected change to an order n of the dictionary with the extracted value; and invalidating the optimized code in the compiled code associated with the dictionary having the detected change in response to the results from the orders comparison and the type of change.
US09027006B2	Value profiling for code optimization A method and an apparatus to execute a code with value profiling are described. The code may include an access to an untyped variable. During the execution, runtime values of the untyped variable may be randomly inspected. A value profile may be established to predict one or more expected types of future runtime values for the untyped variable. The code may be recompiled according to the value profile to optimize the access of the untyped variable for the future runtime values.
US09026994B2	Cloud-based localization platform Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that generate notifications that are delivered to translators who provide updates or translations that are included in localization resources for software applications are provided. Resources are stored on a cloud device in a development file or a public database. The public database stores the content that is selected for modification or translation. The languages may be selected by one or more application developers or may be based on a geographic region associated with the content or the language currently associated with the content. One or more translators are identified based on matches to translator profiles included in the public database. The matching translators receive notifications, which inform the translator that updates or translations are requested. In turn, the translators may access the public database and provide the updates or translations.
US09026993B2	Immutable types in imperitive language An imperative framework having a more than one type is defined. At least one of the types is an immutable type, and the immutable type has at least one immutable field.
US09026974B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit partitioning and timing Methods and apparatuses are described for facilitating a user to explore and evaluate different options during floorplanning. Some embodiments display a graphical representation of a circuit design floorplan, wherein the graphical representation includes a set of blocks and a set of flylines between blocks, wherein each block corresponds to a portion of the circuit design, and wherein each flyline corresponds to one or more relationships between two blocks. Additionally, a set of metrics associated with one or more blocks or one or more flylines can be displayed. Next, in response to receiving a modification to one or more blocks in the graphical representation, the embodiments can update the set of metrics without performing expensive netlist modification, placement, routing, and/or propagation of timing information through multiple levels of logic, and then display the updated set of metrics.
US09026966B1	Co-simulation methodology to address performance and runtime challenges of gate level simulations with, SDF timing using emulators The present patent document relates to a method and apparatus for more efficiently simulating a circuit design (DUT), making use of a hardware functional verification device such as a processor-based emulator. A set of linked databases are compiled for the DUT, one for hardware emulation (without timing information for the DUT) and one for software simulation (including timing information) that remain synchronized during runtime. The compiled design is run in a hardware emulator during an initialization/configuration phase and the state saved. The state is then swapped to a software simulator where timing information, such as SDF timing, may be honored during the second part of the run and the user's test bench stimuli applied to the design.
US09026952B2	Creating awareness of accesses to privacy-sensitive devices Techniques for providing intuitive feedback to a user regarding which applications have access to a data stream captured by a privacy-sensitive device, such as a camera, a microphone, a location sensor, an accelerometer or the like. These techniques apprise the user of when an application is receiving potentially privacy-sensitive data and the identity of the application receiving the data. In some instances, this feedback comprises a graphical icon that visually represents the data stream being received and that dynamically alters with the received data stream. For instance, if an application receives a data stream from a camera of a computing device of the user, the described techniques may display an image of the video feed captured by the camera and being received by the application. This graphical icon intuitively alerts the user of the data stream that the application receives.
US09026935B1	Application user interface with an interactive overlay A client system displays a user interface with a display region and a minimized window region. A plurality of windows are displayed in the display region, including a first window and a second window. The client system detects a first input that corresponds to a request to change a state of one or more of the windows; and in response to detecting the first input, the client system ceases to display the first window in the display region, and displays a representation of the first window in the minimized window region. After ceasing to display the first window, the client system detects a second input that corresponds to a request to view content of the first window; and in response to detecting the second input, the client displays an interactive overlay that includes content of the first window and partially overlaps the display region.
US09026927B2	Biometric monitoring device with contextually- or environmentally-dependent display A biometric monitoring device with a display is provided. The display may, in response to receiving page advance requests from a user, advance through a plurality of different data display pages, at least some of which show aspects of biometric data recorded by the device. The biometric monitoring device may also, based on the biometric data, modify the sequential display order of the data display pages. In some implementations, a biometric monitoring device integrated into a wristband may be configured to turn a display of the biometric monitoring device on and display the time in response to biometric sensors of the biometric monitoring device detecting motion of the wearer's forearm consistent with moving the forearm into a watch-viewing position.
US09026919B2	Local port browser interface The present invention relates to KVM switches that contain both remote and local ports and provide a user of the local port with a similar WEB based interface experience as that experienced by the remote user.
US09026912B2	Apparatus and method for controlling a multi-media presentation A method for controlling a multi-media presentation is provided. The method includes displaying an event structure related to an event on a graphical user interface, getting a plurality of event items associated with the event, and displaying the plurality of event items associated with the event structure on the graphical user interface. Responsive to an event trigger, the event is started. The method further includes receiving a selection of a first event item from the plurality of event items, performing a first action related to the first event item, and sending an output of the first action to a display device.
US09026910B2	Dynamic help information Dynamic help information is provided by receiving unit, configured to receive at least one operation of a user and to obtain the user's operation history, where the operation history includes at least one operation; a determining unit, configured to determine the corresponding help information according to the user's operation history; and an information obtaining unit, configured to obtain said corresponding help information. Assistance in providing help information is also provided, comprising: an operation capturing unit, configured to capture and send at least one operation of a user; and an information displaying unit, configured to receive and display the help information corresponding to the user's operation history, where the operation history includes at least one operation. With the apparatuses and method of this invention, the pertinent help information can be dynamically provided for users according to user's operation history.
US09026900B1	Invisible overlay for dynamic annotation Methods and systems for dynamically annotating a web-based document are disclosed. An example method includes receiving from a user an indication of a selected portion of a web-based document to be annotated, and receiving a user selection of an editing function to be applied to the document. An annotation window overlaying the selected portion of the document is generated and an annotation to the selected portion of the document using the selected editing function is captured in the overlaid annotation window. The annotation in the overlaid annotation window is mapped to the selected portion of the web-based document underneath the annotation window, and the annotated content and corresponding mapping information are stored in a computing device. Upon receiving a request for the web-based document which has been annotated, the web-based document is provided along with a new overlaid annotation window incorporating the stored annotated content based on the mapping information.
US09026898B2	System and method for managing web-based forms and dynamic content of website Managing dynamic content of a website, including creating static content assigned to dynamic content of the website, with unmodifiable scripts; creating an active content for processing dynamic content, with hidden elements and elements with only visual marks representation; transmitting the static content to a user; selecting references to the active content within the static content; requesting description of the active content from a server; transmitting the active content to the user; displaying the active content; editing dynamic content and visual representations of data requested by user; representing a first document form generated from an HTML representation of server data and unmodifiable scripts, and which includes the elements; generating a request for data needed for a current visualization of the form; generating a second related data representation of another form; delivering second related data representation for display in browser; storing content of the website on server and making it publicly available.
US09026884B2	Data processing device and data processing method The present technique relates to data processing devices and data processing methods that can increase tolerance for data errors.In a case where a predetermined LDPC code having a code length of 16200 bits and a code rate of 8/15 is mapped on 256 signal points, and the (#i+1)th bit counted from the uppermost bit among 8×1 sign bits and the (#i+1)th bit counted from the uppermost bit among 8×1 symbol bits of one symbol are expressed as a bit b#i and a bit y#i, respectively, a demultiplexer performs shuffling to assign a bit b0 to a bit y2, a bit b1 to a bit y6, a bit b2 to a bit y1, a bit b3 to a bit y0, a bit y4 to a bit y7, a bit b5 to a bit y5, a bit b6 to a bit y3, and a bit b7 to a bit y4. The present technique can be applied to transmission systems that transmit LDPC codes, for example.
US09026882B2	Semiconductor device and method of writing data to semiconductor device A semiconductor device has: a unique code generating unit generating an initial unique code which is a value unique to a device and includes an error in a random bit; a first error correcting unit correcting an error in the initial unique code to generate an intermediate unique code; a second error correcting unit correcting an error in the intermediate unique code to generate a first determinate unique code; and a decrypting unit decrypting, with the first determinate unique code, transmission data obtained by encrypting confidential information with key information generated on the basis of the intermediate unique code by an external device to generate confidential information.
US09026879B2	Automatic retransmission and error recovery for packet oriented point-to-multipoint communication A method and an apparatus for automatic retransmission and error recovery for packet oriented point to multipoint communication, which integrates adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for parameters for automatic retransmission using wireless communication, are provided. A wireless communication link is divided into a downstream portion and an upstream portion. Parameters are selected for automatic retransmission independently for the downstream portion and the upstream portion of the wireless communication link. A BSC controls the selection of parameters for automatic retransmission for all CPE within a cell. As part of a TDD frame, in which the BSC and the CPE share communication bandwidth using a TDMA technique, the BSC includes its selection of parameters for automatic retransmission to be used by CPE within a control section of the TDD frame. The BSC dynamically and adaptively determines new selected parameters for automatic retransmission, in response to a wireless communication link with each independent CPE.
US09026874B2	Test access mechanism for diagnosis based on partitioning scan chains Disclosed are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for partitioning-based Test Access Mechanisms (TAM). Test response data are captured by scan cells of a plurality scan chains in a circuit under test and are compared with test response data expected for a good CUT to generate check values. Based on the check values, partition pass/fail signals are generated by partitioning scheme generators. Each of the partitioning scheme generators is configured to generate one of the partition pass/fail signals for one of partitioning schemes. A partitioning scheme divides the scan cells into a set of non-overlapping partitions. Based on the partition pass/fail signals, a failure diagnosis process may be performed.
US09026873B2	Method and apparatus for securing configuration scan chains of a programmable device Scan chain circuitry on an integrated circuit device includes a plurality of memory elements, and a plurality of control elements. Each of the control elements is located between respective ones of the plurality of memory elements for controllably connecting the plurality of memory elements into a scan chain. A plurality of respective scan enable activation elements controls a respective subplurality of the plurality of control elements for connecting a respective subplurality of the plurality of memory elements into the scan chain. Each scan enable activation element is actuated, to connect its respective subplurality of the plurality of memory elements into the scan chain, by a first enable signal common to more than one of the scan enable activation elements, and a second enable signal for that one of the scan enable activation elements. Such scan chain circuitry may be used for entering configuration data into a programmable integrated circuit device.
US09026858B2	Testing server, information processing system, and testing method A testing server performs a test to check whether servers properly execute failover. The testing server includes a generation unit, a transmitting unit, a testing unit, a restoring unit, a judgment unit, and a power control unit. The generation unit generates an image file of an OS. The transmitting unit transmits the image file to to-be-tested servers. The testing unit injects a simulated fault into a server among the servers to which the image file is transmitted and performs a test. The restoring unit, each time the testing unit performs a test, restores a status of the to-be-tested server to a pre-failover status. The judgment unit judges whether the restoring unit properly restores the status. The power control unit, when the judgment unit judges that the status of the to-be-tested server is not properly restored, turns off power of the to-be-tested server and turns on the power again.
US09026857B2	Method and system for postponed error code checks According to some embodiments, a system and method for determining a value for an error code for a program operation; determining whether the operation supports postponing a determination of an occurrence of an error for the operation; proceeding to evaluate a next operation in an instance the operation does support postponing the determination of an occurrence of an error for the operation; and checking the error code for the operation in an instance the operation does not support postponing the determination of an occurrence of an error for the operation.
US09026855B2	Fault localization in distributed systems using invariant relationships A computer implemented method for temporal ranking in invariant networks includes considering an invariant network and a set of broken invariants in the invariant network, assuming, for each time point inside a window W, that each metric with broken invariants is affected by a fault at that time point, computing an expected pattern for each invariant of a metric with assumed fault, said pattern indicative of time points at which an invariant will be broken given that its associated metric was affected by a fault at time t, comparing the expected pattern with the pattern observed over the time window W; and determining a temporal score based on a match from the prior comparing.
US09026854B2	Method of testing universal flash storage (UFS) interface and memory device implementing method of testing UFS interface A method is provided for performing a self-test on a memory device in a test mode, where the memory device includes a universal flash storage (UFS) link layer and a UFS physical layer having a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The method includes generating a first signal; sending the first signal from a test unit through the UFS link layer to the transmitting unit in the UFS physical layer to be transmitted to the receiving unit; receiving a second signal at the test unit from the receiving unit in the UFS physical layer through the UFS link layer, the second signal being the first signal received by the receiving unit; and testing an operation performed by at least one of the UFS physical layer and the UFS link layer based on the first signal and the second signal.
US09026850B1	Confined recovery in a distributed computing system Executing a confined recovery in a distributed system having a plurality of worker systems including a failed worker system at a current superstep. The confined recovery includes determining states of the partitions of the worker systems during the supersteps preceding the current superstep, and determining a recovery initiation superstep preceding the current superstep in which all messages for recovery initiation superstep are available. The recovery initiation superstep is determined responsive to determining the states of the partitions. Additionally, a recovery set of partitions is determined for which messages in supersteps after the recovery initiation superstep are not available. The worker systems having the partitions in the recovery set are instructed to execute the defined function for the partitions in the recovery set starting at the recovery initiation superstep to recover the lost exchanged messages.
US09026849B2	System and method for providing reliable storage A system and method for providing reliable storage are provided. A method for initiator operations includes storing information associated with an access attempt in a store, and accessing a storage system responsive to the access attempt, wherein the storage system includes a first storage node and a second storage node arranged in a sequential loop, and where the first storage node is accessed by an initiator. The method also includes determining if the access attempt completed successfully, deleting the information from the store if the access attempt completed successfully, and indicating an error if the access attempt did not complete successfully.
US09026845B2	System and method for failure protection in a storage array In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system comprising may include a storage controller and a plurality of storage resources communicatively coupled to the storage controller. At least one storage resource of the storage resources may be capable of performing storage resource-level failure protection and configured to disable storage resource-level failure protection in response to a determination that the at least one storage resource is a member of a redundant storage array.
US09026843B2	Arbitration suspension in a SAS domain Systems and methods presented herein provide for managing connections in a SAS domain comprising at least first and second expanders. The first expander detects a failure of the initiator and indicates a change in the SAS domain to the second expander. The second expander detects an increase in arbitration wait time for a connection between the initiator and the target device, determines a race condition exists in the second expander, denies the connection between the initiator and the target device, directs the target device to wait for another connection, performs a discovery of the domain based on the discovery request from the first expander, and prevents a subsequent connection by the target device to the initiator after discovery completes.
US09026829B2	Package level power state optimization Methods and apparatus to optimize package level power state usage are described. In one embodiment, a processor control logic receives a request to enter a lower power consumption state (such as a package level deeper sleep state). The control logic determines the time difference or delta between a last entry into the lower power consumption state and the current time. The control logic then causes the flushing of a last level cache based on a comparison of the time difference and a threshold value corresponding to the lower power consumption state. Other embodiments are also claimed and disclosed.
US09026815B2	Controlling operating frequency of a core domain via a non-core domain of a multi-domain processor In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining that a non-core domain of a multi-domain processor is not operating at a frequency requested by the non-core domain, sending a request from the non-core domain to a power controller to reduce a frequency of a core domain of the multi-domain processor, and responsive to the request, reducing the core domain frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09026808B2	Memory with word level power gating In accordance with at least one embodiment, memory power gating at word level is provided. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a word level power-gating technique, which is enabled by adding an extra control bit to each subarray (e.g., each word, each row, each wordline, each bitline, each portion of an array, etc.) of a memory array, provides fine-grained power reduction for a memory array. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a gating transistor is provided for each subarray (e.g., each word, each row, each wordline, each bitline, each portion of an array, etc.).
US09026807B2	System and method for managing energy consumption in a compute environment A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are disclosed for managing workload in a data center. The method includes receiving data related to at least one of a current state of workload in the compute environment at a current time and future workload scheduled to consume resources in the compute environment at a future time relative to the current time, wherein the compute environment comprises a plurality of nodes in which compute resources are reserved by a workload manager for consumption, and controlling a cooling system to selectively modify a temperature of at least one node in the compute environment based on the data.
US09026803B2	Computing entities, platforms and methods operable to perform operations selectively using different cryptographic algorithms Described herein is a computing platform incorporating a trusted entity, which is controllable to perform cryptographic operations using selected ones of a plurality of cryptographic algorithms and associated parameters, the entity being programmed to record mode of operation information, which is characterized by the algorithms and associated parameters that are selected to perform an operation.
US09026801B2	System call interception System call interception is activated for an application process. It is recorded that system call interception is active for the application process. Ongoing checking is performed to determine whether system call interception remains active.
US09026796B2	Virtual world embedded security watermarking A method, apparatus, and program product are provided for using watermarks to embed security features on avatars in a virtual world. A watermark engine receives security information for an avatar in a virtual world. The watermark engine creates a watermark for the avatar using the security information and associates the watermark with the avatar. The watermark may comprise at least one of: security preferences for the avatar, contact information for an owner of the avatar, and graphical information to cause alteration of the avatar when the avatar is recorded.
US09026795B2	Apparatus and method for signing application When a signature apparatus cooperating with a market server receives signature request information for an optional application from the market server to sign an application, the signature apparatus determines whether an authentication note has been issued corresponding to application identification information included in the signature request information based on the application identification information. When the authentication note has not been issued; the signature apparatus issues the authentication note using the application identification information, generates signature information for the to application using the application identification information, and signs the application including the authentication note and the signature information.
US09026789B2	Trusted certificate authority to create certificates based on capabilities of processes A device certificate binds an identity of a first device to a public key of the first device. The first device comprises a certificate authority service that creates for a process on the first device a process certificate certifying one or more capabilities of the process on the first device. The process certificate is presented to the second device. Upon validating the process certificate using the device certificate, the second device permits the process on the first device to have on the second device one or more of the verified certified capabilities.
US09026786B1	System for ensuring that promises are kept in an anonymous system Described is a system, method, and computer program product for ensuring that promises are kept in an anonymous system. A verifiable interaction is established between at least two users. Each user utilizes at least one pseudonym to protect their identity, which is verifiable by a third party. The pseudonyms are stored in an anonymous database controlled by the third party. The invention described herein ensures that at least one user in the verifiable interaction performs an action that is agreed upon between the users. If the user does not perform the action, then that user is prevented from establishing another verifiable interaction by the third party. In a desired aspect, the invention is utilized in an anonymous reputation system to ensure that actions that affect a user's reputation, including those that negatively impact the user's reputation, are performed as agreed upon.
US09026771B2	Secure computer system update In one embodiment a computer system, comprises a processor, a trusted platform module comprising at least one platform configuration register, a basic input/output system, and logic to unseal at least one current key in the trusted platform module, initiate an update to the basic input/output system, obtain, with the update, at least a component of one expected value for a platform configuration register in the trusted platform module, seal at least one key using the at least one expected value for a platform configuration register, and install the basic input/output system update.
US09026756B2	Memory device with copyright protection According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a semiconductor memory, a memory controller which controls the semiconductor memory according to a request from outside the device, a radio section for wireless communication, and a controller. The controller manages storing data in the device according to a procedure for protecting copyright, obtains the latest version of a parameter for protecting copyright which can be updated from outside the device via the radio section, includes a comparator which compares the parameter stored in the device with the latest version of the parameter, and includes an update manager which updates the stored parameter to the latest version of the parameter when they are different.
US09026750B2	Systems and methods for managing data in a computing environment Improved data management systems for managing and maintaining unstructured data in a computing system environment. Data content is associated with particular types of metadata to create data objects. In certain examples, the metadata is stored in various fields of the data objects, certain fields being designated as permanently read-only after their creation. Such fields can include, for instance, a unique identifier, a type of content and a classification governing copy permissions relating to the data object. Data objects, or didgets, can be grouped into logical containers referred to as chambers, which are further grouped by common control elements or attributes into domains. Chambers within a particular domain can generally freely share information therebetween, including copies of various types of didgets. A control program, or didget manager, in each domain manages the creation of didgets and subsequent operations directed thereto.
US09026745B2	Cross process memory management A method for efficiently managing memory resources in a computer system having a graphics processing unit that runs several processes simultaneously on the same computer system includes using threads to communicate that additional memory is needed. If the request indicates that termination will occur then the other processes will reduce their memory usage to a minimum to avoid termination but if the request indicates that the process will not run optimally then the other processes will reduce their memory usage to 1/N where N is the count of the total number of running processes. The apparatus includes a computer system using a graphics processing unit and processes with threads that can communicate directly with other threads and with a shared memory which is part of the operating system memory.
US09026743B2	Flexible replication with skewed mapping in multi-core chips For a flexible replication with skewed mapping in a multi-core chip, a request for a cache line is received, at a receiver core in the multi-core chip from a requester core in the multi-core chip. The receiver and requester cores comprise electronic circuits. The multi-core chip comprises a set of cores including the receiver and the requester cores. A target core is identified from the request to which the request is targeted. A determination is made whether the target core includes the requester core in a neighborhood of the target core, the neighborhood including a first subset of cores mapped to the target core according to a skewed mapping. The cache line is replicated, responsive to the determining being negative, from the target core to a replication core. The cache line is provided from the replication core to the requester core.
US09026720B2	Non-volatile memory monitoring The invention provides a technique for managing write operations issued to a non-volatile memory included in a wireless device. A monitor software application executes on the wireless device and is configured to determine that a number of write operations issued to the non-volatile memory is greater than or equal to a write operation threshold associated with the non-volatile memory. In response, at least one application is isolated as the application responsible for issuing excessive write operations. The isolation can be carried out locally on the wireless device, or the isolation can be carried out remotely at a server by sending information about the write operations to the server. The monitor then limits additional write operations from being issued to the non-volatile memory so as to protect the non-volatile memory from becoming corrupted or inoperable.
US09026718B2	Method and apparatus for fault tolerant FOTA update with single backup block write A method for recovering from an interruption during a Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) update is provided. The method includes identifying a missing block of a plurality of blocks to be updated in the first memory, the missing block corresponding to a block being updated when the interruption occurred, copying a backup block into a backup buffer, simulating an application of the FOTA update in a second memory, the simulation including, for each block of the plurality of blocks to be updated, performing a reversible operation on the contents of the backup buffer and an updated block, and updating the backup buffer with the operation result, replacing the missing block with the updated backup buffer, and resuming the FOTA update.
US09026709B2	Auto-waking of a suspended OS in a dockable system A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and desktop operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the mobile environment. The desktop operating system provides a full desktop user experience when the mobile computing device is docked to a secondary terminal environment. The desktop operating system may be suspended when the mobile computing device is not docked with a secondary terminal environment and resumed when the mobile computing device is docked with a secondary terminal environment that provides a desktop computing experience. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile OS and a full desktop Linux OS distribution on a modified Android kernel.
US09026704B2	Priority based connection arbitration in a SAS topology to facilitate quality of service (QoS) in SAS transport A method of priority based connection arbitration in a SAS topology is disclosed introducing a PRIORITY field to an SAS open Address Frame (OAF). As the expander arbitrates the multiple OAFs in competition for an Expander Link, it compares the PRIORITY fields of the arbitrating OAFs. The OAF with highest value of PRIORITY is awarded the destination connection path. In case of equal PRIORITY, the next arbitration is based on the value of Arbitration Wait Time (AWT). This priority based arbitration ensures high availability of SAS connection links to the SAS targets with high priority OAFs which in turn will lead to better quality of service for those SAS targets. PRIORITY field in the OAF is set by the SAS targets based on the current OAF priority and also set by directly attached SAS storage expanders through a modification of the OAF during transit through the expander.
US09026691B2	Semi-autonomous touch I/O device controller operation under control of host A touch I/O device controller may operate in an idle state, a wait for finger on state, and a finger on state. The finger on state may include a hold sub-state, a capture sub-state, a navigation sub-state, and a pre-capture sub-state. The controller may switch states and/or sub-states based on commands received from its host or based on a sub-state variable set by the host. When the controller detects a finger of a user and enters the finger on state, the touch I/O device may enter a particular sub-state based on the sub-state variable. Further, when a fingerprint is captured in capture sub-state, the controller may switch sub-states based on the value of the sub-state variable. In various implementations, the host may provide one or more APIs that may be utilized by applications to directly influence the controller and/or request that the host do so.
US09026688B2	Systems and methods for programming configurable logic devices via USB A system for programming one or more configurable logic devices (e.g., FPGA or CPLD) via universal serial bus (USB) may include one or more CLDs; a microcontroller coupled to the one or more CLDs via a parallel data bus; a processor coupled to the microcontroller via a USB interface, the processor having access to CLD access logic and one or more CLD images; and instructions executable by the processor to program at least one of the CLDs by loading the CLD access logic onto the microcontroller, using the CLD access logic loaded on the microcontroller to set each of the at least one CLD to a programming mode, and forwarding a particular CLD image from the processor to the microcontroller via the USB interface and from the microcontroller to each of the at least one CLD via the parallel data bus.
US09026684B2	Supervision of I2S digiital audio bus An approach for supervision of I2S bus audio paths employing a signal derived from a word clock signal of the I2S bus.
US09026683B1	Command portal for executing non-standard storage subsystem commands A command portal enables a host system to send non-standard or “vendor-specific” storage subsystem commands to a storage subsystem using an operating system (OS) device driver that does not support or recognize such non-standard commands. The architecture thereby reduces or eliminates the need to develop custom device drivers that support the storage subsystem's non-standard commands. To execute non-standard commands using the command portal, the host system embeds the non-standard commands in blocks of write data, and writes these data blocks to the storage subsystem using standard write commands supported by standard OS device drivers. The storage subsystem extracts and executes the non-standard commands. The non-standard commands may alternatively be implied by the particular target addresses used. The host system may retrieve execution results of the non-standard commands using standard read commands. The host-side functionality of the command portal may be embodied in an API that is made available to application developers.
US09026679B1	Methods and apparatus for persisting management information changes A SAN management agent computes a validator corresponding to a full data set from which a relative (change) data set is derived. The validator, such as a checksum, identifies the full data set to which the relative data set is applicable. The validator is transmitted with the relative data set, and the store process compares the validator with the previous validator stored with the full data set in a database. If the validators correspond (i.e. match), then the received relative data set is applicable to the full data set stored at the database, and the relative data set may be processed as a change set. The remote agent therefore computes the validator on a full data set at a remote node, and transmits the validator with the change set. Subsequent relative data sets may then compare the current validator of the DB data set with the validator from which the relative set was derived.
US09026674B1	System and method for accurately displaying communications traffic information A system and method uses path information to project traffic information from flow- or IPFix-type messages onto one or more paths that may have been taken by packets corresponding to such messages. Traffic information from a message is projected from the router interface from which the message was received, along the path or paths the packets corresponding to the message may have taken, but only to the next router interface that provides such messages.
US09026667B1	Techniques for resource validation Described are techniques for validating a resource. A hierarchy of objects is received. The hierarchy includes first and second objects at, respectively, first and second levels of the hierarchy. The second object is a child of the first object. The first object is a parent of the second object and represents a first resource embedding a second resource represented by the second object. Each of the objects in the hierarchy identifies a resource that is automatically retrieved in connection with rendering a webpage. A first server location providing the first resource is determined using the first object. A second server location providing the second resource is determined using the second object. In accordance with trusted location criteria, it is determined whether the first resource is allowed to embed the second resource.
US09026660B2	Method for uniform network access According to some embodiments, a registry is displayed. The registry may, for example, indicate resources available from a plurality of remote network access devices via a communications network. Moreover, a personal network address May be associated with each available resource, the personal network address including an destination address portion and an application program identifier portion. A direct communications link may then be established between a first network access device hosting an available resource and a second network address device using the personal network address associated with the resource.
US09026659B2	Method and apparatus for supporting scalable multi-modal dialog application sessions Embodiments disclosed herein enable scaling up and making advanced natural language (NLU) applications more robust. According to one embodiment, state(s) associated with a dialog session may be recorded to a fixed medium. The dialog session may be suspended after a given period of inactivity and later automatically awakened based on unique client, session, or device identifier, or any combination thereof. Memory and resources associated with the suspended session may be reclaimed, the memory and resources being otherwise held by the session during the period of inactivity, enabling higher density (e.g., a larger number of sessions supported). Embodiments disclosed herein obviate a need for sticky dialog sessions, enabling higher density, and may further failover protection and fault tolerance for the dialog sessions.
US09026643B2	Contents' relationship visualizing apparatus, contents' relationship visualizing method and its program There is provided a contents' relationship visualizing apparatus including a usage history acquiring unit for acquiring usage histories of multiple contents, a users' set specifying unit for specifying a content's users' set indicating users utilizing each content by use of the contents' usage histories, a similarity calculating unit for calculating a similarity between the specified users' sets by use of a similarity index, and a network creating unit for creating a network indicating a relationship between the contents by use of the calculated similarity between the users' sets.
US09026641B2	System and method for management of information streams delivered for use by a user A method for management of information streams delivered for use by a user of a user device comprises discovering information streams relevant to the user using a plurality of uniquifiers, wherein each uniquifier of the plurality of uniquifier characterizes the user; adding the discovered information streams to a list of approved information streams; registering to at least one information stream in the list of approved information streams; filtering data provided by the at least one information stream using the plurality of uniquifiers; and providing a feedback based on the user usage of the filter data to enable improved future discovery and filtering.
US09026630B2	Managing resources in a distributed system using dynamic clusters One or more embodiments of the present invention provide a method for performing initial placement and load balancing of a data objects in a distributed system. The distributed system includes hardware resources, e.g., host systems and storage arrays, which are configured to execute and/or store data objects. A data object is initially placed into the distributed system by creating a virtual cluster of hardware resources that are compatible to execute and/or host the data object, and then selecting from the virtual cluster a hardware resource that is optimal for executing and/or hosting the data object. The data object is placed into the selected hardware resource, whereupon a load balancing operation is optionally performed across the virtual cluster. The virtual cluster is subsequently released, and the distributed system is returned to its original state with the data object included therein.
US09026626B2	Management device, information processing system, management method, and storage medium A device management service receives acquisition request of application information for the application to be applied from the image forming apparatus, generates and transmits application information corresponding to the image forming apparatus when device configuration information of the image forming apparatus satisfies a applicable condition of the application included in basic set application information and a license for utilizing to apply to the image forming apparatus is present.
US09026623B2	Layered architectures for remote dynamic administration of distributed client configurations This description provides tools related to layered architectures for remote dynamic administration of distributed client configurations. These tools provide methods that may include subscribing to have online configuration services remotely manage applications installed on client systems. The methods may also include receiving dynamically-updated lists from the online configuration services, with these lists including the installed applications. The methods may also receive configuration payloads that specify how to configure the installed applications, and may configure the installed applications based on these configuration payloads. The methods may also present user interfaces on the client systems, with the user interfaces including the configured applications. The tools also provide methods that may include receiving subscription information from the customer sites, with the subscription information indicating that the customer sites have subscribed to the online configuration services. The methods may also include sending the dynamically-updated lists and the configuration payloads to the customer sites.
US09026621B2	Peer-to-peer scenic spot information sharing navigating device and method thereof The present invention discloses a peer-to-peer scenic information sharing navigating device and its method, including a positioning unit for receiving a positioning message to determine position information of a point of interest; an information capturing unit for obtaining scenic spot information of the point of interest; a control unit for receiving the scenic spot information and its corresponding position information, and generating a scenic spot release index based on an identity identification message; a storage unit for storing the scenic spot information according to the control unit; and a communication unit for transmitting the scenic spot release index to a server. If another navigating device accesses the scenic spot release index through the server and requests to download, the control unit will retrieve the scenic spot information from the storage unit, and the communication unit will transmit a part of the scenic spot information to the other navigating device.
US09026619B2	System and method automatically of personalized media device selection and data management in smart media cloud environment The disclosure relates to a system, and a method, for automatically selecting a personal media apparatus and managing data under a smart media cloud environment. Specifically, the system, and the method, for automatically selecting a personal media apparatus and managing data under a smart media cloud environment, provide functions of determining the degree of control of a device and the automatic conversion of media service between a smart media contents and a cloud media contents under a private network environment by automatically selecting and controlling, in accordance with a media contents, a variety of output device under UPnP and DLNA environments, and under the structure of converting a cloud media streaming data with a media renderer connected in a smart device.
US09026618B2	System and method for expanding PC-based software capabilities System and method for expanding the capabilities of a PC-based software are disclosed. The system provides a technique for synchronizing a database associated with a PC-based software with a WAN server database. Additionally, a WAN server, associated with the WAN server database, is configured to provide substantially the same functionality as that of the PC-based software. This effectively facilitates web-access of the PC-based software and database by way of the WAN server and database. The WAN server may be configured to provide additional functions in order to expand the functionality of the PC-based software. The WAN server may also be configured to integrate distinct databases by either relaying information between the distinct databases or integrating the information from the distinct databases into a single database.
US09026613B2	Permanent connection oriented communication using parallel single connection circuits Methods, systems, and techniques for providing a pseudo permanent communications connection using temporary connection protocols are described. Example embodiments provide a Enhanced Communications Layer that provides such connections by means of a layer incorporated in the client side and server side communications stacks. The ECL maintains a pool of connections that are opened and used in a staggered fashion to reduce the amount of connection setup and teardown.
US09026605B2	Digital file distribution in a social network system Systems and methods for obtaining a digital file similar to one used by a device associated with a member of a social network are provided. Digital file information about the digital file is stored on a web-based social network database. The digital file may be located on the same server as the web-based social network database or a third party server such as a mobile phone carrier. A user of the web-based social network database requesting the digital file may require a different format of the digital file than that used by the device of the member. If a different format is requested by the user, a server finds or converts the digital file to be compatible for use by a device specified by the user.
US09026601B1	Systems and methods for validating members of social networking groups A computer-implemented method for validating members of social networking groups may include identifying a named social networking group with a plurality of members on a social networking platform, creating a social graph of the named social networking group based at least in part on a plurality of connections on the social networking platform between a plurality of members of the named social networking group, determining a connecting member of the named social networking group that exceeds a predetermined threshold of connections within the social network group, removing the connecting member of the named social networking group from the social graph, and determining that a disconnected member of the social graph may not be a valid member of the named social networking group, based on the disconnected member not meeting a second predetermined threshold of connections within the social graph. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09026595B2	Intelligent connection manager Methods, devices, and storage media may provide for receiving a request from a subscriber device for a connection service pertaining to a machine-to-machine communication; determining whether the request is a valid request for the connection service; selecting a connection to a target device of the machine-to-machine communication in response to determining that the request is valid; executing a command included in the request to be directed to the target device; receiving a response from the target device; and transmitting the response to the subscriber device of the machine-to-machine communication.
US09026594B2	Method and system for determining user impact on their content pools within an online social network A method and apparatus for determining a user's impact in an online social network based on responses by other users to posts made by the user are provided. Responses by other users to one or more posts by the user are received. A response score is determined for each of the one or more responses. A post score is determined for each post by the user, based at least in part on the response score for that post. A cumulative score is determined based at least in part on the post score. An impact score is determined based at least in part on the cumulative score of the user and a total number of friends that the user has within the online social network. The impact score represents that user's impact or influence within his or her online social network, regardless of the particular size of that network.
US09026589B1	Stubbing techniques in distributed-services environments A stubbing service records requests and corresponding replies for purpose of playing back the recorded replies in response to re-receiving the corresponding requests. In a record mode, the stubbing service may receive a request from a first service intended for a second service. The stubbing service may send the request onto the second service and may, in response, receive a reply to the request from the second service. The stubbing service may then pass the reply onto the first service. When in a playback mode, the stubbing service may directly serve the stored reply to the first service in response to receiving the same request intended for the second service from the first service.
US09026580B2	Validation pipeline Techniques for configuring validation rules in a client-server architecture, and for enforcing such validation rules are provided. A developer is enabled to configure a display screen for an application to enable a user at a client to input data. The developer is further enabled to input a validation rule that is configured to be applied to validate the data at the client and/or at a server. The validation rule is integrated into code of the application. During execution of the application, a client-side rules engine may be present to evaluate the validation rule at the client, and a server-side rules engine may be present to evaluate the validation rule at the server. The client-side rules engine and server-side rules engine may be configured to evaluate validation rules in an asynchronous manner.
US09026574B2	Systems and methods for solving computational problems Solving computational problems may include generating a logic circuit representation of the computational problem, encoding the logic circuit representation as a discrete optimization problem, and solving the discrete optimization problem using a quantum processor. Output(s) of the logic circuit representation may be clamped such that the solving involves effectively executing the logic circuit representation in reverse to determine input(s) that corresponds to the clamped output(s). The representation may be of a multiplication circuit. The discrete optimization problem may be composed of a set of miniature optimization problems, where each miniature optimization problem encodes a respective logic gate from the logic circuit representation. A multiplication circuit may employ binary representations of factors, and these binary representations may be decomposed to reduce the total number of variables required to represent the multiplication circuit.
US09026558B2	Communications interface database for electronic diagnostic apparatus A connection to an item of equipment is detected. An equipment class of the item of equipment is determined. A selection of an attribute associated with the item of equipment is received. An attribute record corresponding to the equipment class of the item of equipment and the selected attribute is retrieved from a database, wherein the attribute record enables a retrieval of a value of the selected attribute from the item of equipment.
US09026554B2	Proactive data object replication in named data networks The present disclosure relates generally to the field of proactive data object replication in named data networks. In various examples, proactive data object replication may be implemented in one or more named data networks in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms.
US09026551B2	System and method for evaluating text to support multiple insurance applications A system for evaluating text data to support multiple insurance applications is disclosed. In some embodiments, text input data is received from multiple sources. The text input data may then be aggregated and mapped to create composite text input data. A semantic event in the composite text input data may be automatically detected, such as by being triggered by a semantic rule and associated semantic tag. A text mining result database may be updated by adding an entry to the database identifying the detected semantic event and the triggering semantic rule. An indication associated with the text mining result database may then be transmitted to a plurality of insurance applications.
US09026548B2	Database sampling The present subject matter relates to systems and methods for database sampling. The method comprises identifying at least one query table and one or more associated tables amongst a plurality of tables in a production database, based on filtering criteria. Further, the method comprises generating a key value list for the at least one query table and each of the one or more associated tables based on an order indicated by an order list. Based on the generated key value list, the sample data is extracted in a reverse order indicated by the order list, from the at least one query table and each of the one or more associated tables.
US09026543B2	System and method for generating a relationship network A computer-implemented system and process for generating a relationship network is disclosed. The system provides a set of data items to be related and generates variable length data vectors to represent the relationships between the terms within each data item. The system can be used to generate a relationship network for documents, images, or any other type of file. This relationship network can then be queried to discover the relationships between terms within the set of data items.
US09026541B2	Optimizing user selection for performing tasks in social networks Embodiments of the invention relate to optimizing user response rate in social media. One embodiment includes generating a statistical model for modeling a likelihood of social media user response from data collected from social media using a set of available features. The social media users are ranked in an estimation set based on the statistical model. The ranked social media users are placed in a rank ordered list. A sub-interval on the rank ordered list is selected for maximizing the response rate.
US09026538B2	Method for performing transactions on data and a transactional database The present invention provides a method for performing transactions on data entities in a database and a transactional database. The database comprises an ordered set of data stores with at least one static data store, wherein said static data store uses an index structure based on a non-updatable representation of an ordered set of integers according to the principle of compressed inverted indices. The method allows to generate a modifiable data store when the performed transaction comprises an insert, update or delete operation, to execute operations of the transaction on the ordered set being present at the time when the transaction has been started and, if present, on the modifiable data store and to convert data stores to a new static data store, The insert, update or delete operation are executed on the modifiable data store which is the only data store modifiable for the transaction.
US09026533B2	Method and apparatus for document matching Documents written using a markup language such as XML may be decomposed into Path and Parent Associated Node (PPAN) elements, each of which is a linear data structure that includes the content of a node, the parent-child relationship of the node, and the path level of the node. A number of PPAN elements may be grouped together to form A PPAN chain. A PPAN matching process uses the PPAN elements/PPAN chain to search for structured documents that match the PPAN chain. The PPAN matching process is able to perform query and match at the same time to accelerate the PPAN matching process, and also enables complex services to be represented by generic structured documents. Optionally, the PPAN matching process may support wildcard requests so that services may be discovered without prior knowledge of the services.
US09026532B2	Image forming apparatus and file management system An image forming apparatus is connected to an information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus may be configured to accumulate files. The information processing apparatus may include a communicating part configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus; a data obtaining part configured to obtain data to be accumulated; an encrypting part configured to encrypt the data to be accumulated; a metadata generating part configured to transmit the encrypted data to be accumulated to the information processing apparatus, and set metadata, which is received or generated by an operation receiving part, in a property of the data to be accumulated according to a WebDAV protocol; and an access control information setting part configured to set access control information which defines whether to permit an edit, an addition or a deletion of the metadata as well as an access entity according to the WebDAV protocol.
US09026526B1	Providing images of named resources in response to a search query Systems, computer program products, apparatus, and methods are described that perform operations including receiving a search query that includes a name, receiving multiple resources that have been identified by a search engine as best satisfying the search query, wherein the identified multiple resources include a resource including a plurality of images. The operations include identifying an image of the plurality of images displaying a face of the person. The image is identified based on a description associated with the image. The description is based at least in part on one or more resources included in the search results. The operations further include providing the identified image with the search results. The search results are provided as a plurality of links. Each link identifies a corresponding resource of the identified plurality of resources.
US09026522B2	Searchable web whois Systems and methods for searching domain names and owner information associated with the domain names in a web-based Whols search tool. Systems including one or more databases and one or more text indexes may store data including the domain names and owner information, and index text-searchable portions of the data. A search request may be received from a user with user preferences such as a selection of multiple or all top level domains. Search results may be ranked by relevancy, and may include the domain name with associated owner information.
US09026521B1	System and method for conducting company searches and lead generation using company code index The various embodiments of systems described herein result from the realization that results from online searches and inquires about companies can be strategically aggregated to report to businesses additional information regarding potential buyers, potential investor's or employee's interests, and/or whether or not a follow up call is required. The system and method described herein further provide for businesses to register and list their businesses on a company search code index listing whereby each company is assigned a unique company search code index for additional review of the company's profile. In doing so, a user/investor/potential employee can research the company's profile using the search code index and communicate his/her interest in the business through the system and method disclosed herein.
US09026518B2	System and method for clustering content according to similarity Systems and methods for clustering content according to similarity are provided that identify and group similar content using a set of tags associated with the content. A topic model of a group of content is built, producing a probability distribution of topic membership for the content. Individual items of content are then clustered using a clustering algorithm, and a distance matrix from the probability distribution is built. Based on the distance matrix, individual items of content are labeled as “must-link” or “cannot-link” pairs with the group of content. The topic model is then embedded into successively smaller dimensions using a kernel method, until the clustering is stable with respect to both the behavioral and content domains.
US09026513B2	Associating digital images with waypoints Methods and systems are disclosed for identifying waypoints. In one aspect, a method performed by an application executing on a computer system, includes receiving at least two sets of digital images including a first set of digital images for which image acquisition times are known and a second set of digital images for which image acquisition times and image acquisition locations are known. The method further includes overlaying waypoint identifiers over a map image. The waypoint identifiers correspond to geographical coordinates and to time acquisitions of one or more of the second set of images. Furthermore, the method includes receiving from a user associated with the application a waypoint selection of the overlaid waypoint identifiers and one or more image selections of the first set of images. In response to receiving the selections, the method includes associating the selected ones of the first set of images with the selected waypoint, and generating a trip-descriptor including the first set of images associated with the overlaid waypoint identifiers.
US09026508B2	Document management apparatus and document management method using search folder comprising one or more parent folders A document management apparatus, which converts management of documents managed using a folder tree to management using search folders, newly defines attributes of documents included in respective hierarchies of the folder tree as a conversion source. To each document which belongs to the folder tree, a name of a folder in an upper hierarchy, which stores that document, is assigned as an attribute value of the defined attribute. Each folder which configures the folder tree is converted into a search folder which can search for documents assigned with the attribute values using the name of that folder as a search condition.
US09026492B1	Multisite replication with uncoordinated cycle switching Handling asynchronous data provided by at least two sources includes receiving a first portion of the data from a first one of the sources, receiving a second portion of the data from a second one of the sources, where the first and second portions provide the same data, and saving at least one of the portions containing more recent data. The sources may be synchronized with each other to contain the same data. All of the portions may be saved. A portion that contains data that is older than the more recent data may be discarded. Handling asynchronous data provided by at least two sources may also include establishing an active leg for data provided by one of the sources, establishing a passive leg for data provided by an other one of the sources, and saving data provided through the active leg.
US09026485B2	Pattern-recognition processor with matching-data reporting module Disclosed are methods and devices, among which is a device that includes a pattern-recognition processor. The pattern-recognition processor may include a matching-data reporting module, which may have a buffer and a match event table. The buffer may be coupled to a data stream and configured to store at least part of the data stream, and the match event table may be configured to store data indicative of a buffer location corresponding with a start of a search criterion being satisfied.
US09026482B2	Method and system for analyzing a legacy system based on trails through the legacy system The present technology concerns techniques for analyzing a legacy system based on at least one trail. The at least one trail includes multiple instances of screens of the legacy system. Plural pair-wise distance measures of the screen instances in the at least one trail are calculated. The pair-wise distance measures indicate a similarity of the respective pair of screen instances that indicates that the pair may originate from the same screen of the legacy system. At least one cluster analysis algorithm is applied on the plural pair-wise distance measures to group the screen instances into at least one screen group, and a map of the legacy system is built based on the at least one screen group.
US09026475B2	Area trim service business method A method for manufacturing integrated circuits (“ICs”) is disclosed. The method pertains to providing third-party technology in the form of an IC design library to foundry customers for designing IC products using alternate rule sets. Aggressive rules pertaining to IC layout are used to reduce device size, resulting in more device per wafer for the customer. The method includes a library creator creating a slim cell library, a slim cell library being provided to a customer to enable the customer to generate a slim IC design; an IC fabricator charging the customer a per-wafer premium to fabricate the slim IC design; the IC fabricator providing a first portion of the premium to a first entity, wherein the first entity is a contributor of technology for enabling creation of the slim cell library; and the IC fabricator providing a second portion of the premium to the library creator.
US09026471B2	Method and system for reserving future purchases of goods and services A method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services or events. Group organizers buy a set of electronic options and post to their social network a notice of availability of the purchased set of electronic options for access to the underlying good or service or event. The group organizers invite their friends to join them to purchase the good or service or attend the event. The invited friends are allowed to exercise one or more individual options from the purchased set of electronic options to purchase the actual good or service or attend the event. This frees the group organizers from the burden of having to pay money for the good or service or event, collect money from invited friends and distribute the goods or items associated with the services or events yet promotes coordinated group activities.
US09026470B2	Calculation of a price of a security based on volatility detection Amongst other things, a computer implemented method for releasing a security for trading in a trading venue includes determining volatility in prices of quotations for a security before the security is released for trading; comparing the determined volatility to a volatility threshold; calculating an adjusted price of the quotations based on the output of the determined volatility in the prices; sending a message to release the security for trading, with the security having the adjusted price that is based on the outcome of comparing.
US09026465B2	System to effectuate point of use control and accountability of monitored articles The method and system for a material cabinet for use in cooperation with a plurality of articles stored in the material cabinet is disclosed. Each of the plurality of articles having a radio frequency identification tag attached thereto is connected through at least an antenna or a plurality of antennas installed in the material cabinet to a radio frequency identification reader, which is interpreted through a software in a computer system. This method and system has capability to effectuate point of use control of the stored articles through a database in the computer system. This method and system also implements a security mechanism through a lock system to secure the store articles from unauthorized user/stock clerks.
US09026464B2	Securely and efficiently processing telephone orders An apparatus for processing telephone orders includes a communications module that establishes a telephonic connection between a customer service representative of a merchant and a customer, and an identification module that receives an identifier linking the customer to a customer billing profile a billing profile access module that receives electronic access to the customer billing profile. The customer billing profile includes billing information of the customer. The apparatus includes a transaction module that processes a sales order using the customer billing profile of the customer in response to a customer approval of the sales order. The sales order is for a product and/or a service offered by the merchant. The billing information of the customer billing profile is unavailable for viewing by the customer service representative.
US09026459B2	Online shopping using NFC and a point-of-sale terminal A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.
US09026454B2	System for procuring services A system for procuring services such as, in particular, rideshare opportunities and transportation services, has at least one stationary server and a multitude of subscribers including suppliers and interested parties. The system includes a communications arrangement which enable at least an information exchange between the stationary server and the subscribers. The system further includes a positioning arrangement for determining the current position of the subscribers, and a memory arrangement for at least temporary storage of data and positions of the subscribers.
US09026451B1	Pitch post-filter Methods and systems for using pitch predictors in speech/audio coders are provided. Techniques for optimal pre- and post-filtering are presented, and a general result that post-filtering is more effective than pre-filtering is derived. A practical paired-zero filter design for the low-rate regime is proposed, and this design is extended to handle frequency-dependent periodicity levels. Further, the methods described provide a general performance measure for a post-filter that only uses information available at the decoder, thereby allowing for the optimization or selection of a post-filter without increasing the rate.
US09026446B2	System for generating captions for live video broadcasts An adaptive workflow system can be used to implement captioning projects, such as projects for creating captions or subtitles for live and non-live broadcasts. Workers can repeat words spoken during a broadcast program or other program into a voice recognition system, which outputs text that may be used as captions or subtitles. The process of workers repeating these words to create such text can be referred to as respeaking. Respeaking can be used as an effective alternative to more expensive and hard-to-find stenographers for generating captions and subtitles.
US09026442B2	System and method for adapting automatic speech recognition pronunciation by acoustic model restructuring Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for recognizing speech by adapting automatic speech recognition pronunciation by acoustic model restructuring. The method identifies an acoustic model and a matching pronouncing dictionary trained on typical native speech in a target dialect. The method collects speech from a new speaker resulting in collected speech and transcribes the collected speech to generate a lattice of plausible phonemes. Then the method creates a custom speech model for representing each phoneme used in the pronouncing dictionary by a weighted sum of acoustic models for all the plausible phonemes, wherein the pronouncing dictionary does not change, but the model of the acoustic space for each phoneme in the dictionary becomes a weighted sum of the acoustic models of phonemes of the typical native speech. Finally the method includes recognizing via a processor additional speech from the target speaker using the custom speech model.
US09026440B1	Method for identifying speech and music components of a sound signal The present invention relates to means and methods of automated difference recognition between speech and music signals in voice communication systems, devices, telephones, and methods, and more specifically, to systems, devices, and methods that automate control when either speech or music is detected over communication links. The present invention provides a novel system and method for monitoring the audio signal, analyze selected audio signal components, compare the results of analysis with a pre-determined threshold value, and classify the audio signal either as speech or music.
US09026433B2	Voice quality measurement device, method and computer readable medium A voice quality measurement device that measures voice quality of a decoded voice signal outputted from a voice decoder unit. The voice quality measurement device includes a packet buffer unit and a voice information monitoring unit. The packet buffer unit accumulates voice packets that arrive non-periodically as voice information, and outputs the voice information to the voice decoder unit periodically. The voice information monitoring unit monitors continuity of the voice information inputted to the voice decoder unit, and calculates an index of voice quality of the decoded voice signal that reflects acceptability of this continuity.
US09026431B1	Semantic parsing with multiple parsers Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for semantic parsing with multiple parsers. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more transcribed prompt n-grams from a speech to text recognizer, providing the transcribed prompt n-grams to a first semantic parser that executes on the user device and accesses a first knowledge base for results responsive to the spoken prompt, providing the transcribed prompt n-grams to a second semantic parser that accesses a second knowledge base for results responsive to the spoken prompt, the first knowledge base including first data not included in the second knowledge base, receiving a result responsive to the spoken prompt from the first semantic parser or the second semantic parser, wherein the result is selected from the knowledge base associated with the semantic parser that provided the result to the user device, and performing an operation based on the result.
US09026430B2	Electronic device and natural language analysis method thereof A language analysis method for an electronic device storing a basic corpus and a temporary corpus is provided. The language analysis method includes steps of receiving user inputs and generating signals; converting signals into textualized information; analyzing the textualized information; obtaining a first understanding result according to the basic corpus, the vocabulary segmentation results, and the sentence segmentation results; determining whether the first understanding result is an appropriate understanding according to the context; determining one or more anaphoric vocabularies when the first understanding result is an inappropriate understanding; determining a temporary understanding result of the one or more anaphoric vocabularies and a second understanding result of the textualized information according to the context; and determining a reply for the textualized information, according to the second understanding result, the basic corpus, and the temporary corpus. An electronic device using the language analysis method is also provided.
US09026421B2	Method of modeling cloud point of a mixture of fatty acid methyl esters using a modified UNIFAC model and a system therefor A method for predicting onset of liquid phase to solid phase transition of a mixture including a plurality of fatty acid methyl esters components. The method includes identifying chemical and molecular structure of each component of the mixture, calculating activity coefficients for each component in a liquid phase and a solid phase, calculating chemical potential for each component in the liquid phase and in the solid phase at a predetermined temperature and a predetermined pressure, and calculating the cloud point of the mixture. A system for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
US09026412B2	Managing and maintaining scope in a service oriented architecture industry model repository A method of managing and maintaining scope in a of service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation of topics, associations, and occurrences within the SOA IMR; managing boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR; and maintaining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR.
US09026411B2	Systems and methods for microgrids availability evaluation using a markov chain energy storage model Systems and methods are disclosed for availability evaluation of microgrid systems with an energy storage device by applying a Markov chain model to model charging and discharging processes in the energy storage device; determining an effect of the energy storage device connected to a microgrid with multiple energy sources and loads; and determining effect of system architectures on the availability of microgrids using minimum cut sets (MCS).
US09026405B2	Systems and methods for home energy auditing Systems and methods for facilitating a home energy audit. In one embodiment, a plurality of user inputs can be received that pertain to an energy audit of a home, where the plurality of user inputs user inputs can include one or more two-dimensional layouts of the home. The user inputs can be converted into input data appropriate for consumption by an energy simulation engine, where the converting can comprise generating a three-dimensional model of the home can be generated based on the one or more two-dimensional layouts. A yearly energy simulation of the home can then be executed via the energy simulation engine based on the input data.
US09026403B2	Frequency measurement device and electronic device A frequency measurement device includes: a reference signal source generating a reference signal; a frequency divider/multiplier section generating a frequency division/multiplication reference signal obtained by dividing or multiplying the reference signal by a prescribed frequency division or multiplication ratio; a first counter section outputting a first count value obtained by measuring the edge of the measurement signal observed within a prescribed period determined based on the frequency division/multiplication reference signal; a first low-pass filter removing a high-frequency component included in the first count value; a coefficient deriving section deriving a conversion coefficient based on the frequency division or multiplication ratio; and a conversion section multiplying an output value of the first low-pass filter by the conversion coefficient or the reciprocal of the conversion coefficient.
US09026372B2	Methods for providing a system of care for a high-dose oxazaphosphorine drug regimen The present invention provides methods of treating subjects with an oxazaphosphorines, methods of identifying subjects that are suitable for oxazaphosphorine treatment, and systems for ensuring the safety and efficacy of a treatment that includes oxazaphosphorine administration.
US09026366B2	Multi-device mapping functionality Route information for a route from a departure location to a destination location is generated. The generated route information is displayed on a first display of a first device. User input based upon the route information displayed on the first display of the first device is received at the first device. Route media is generated at the first device in response to the received user input. The generated route media is different than the route information displayed on the display of the first device. The generated route media is transmitted from the first device to a second device. The second device includes a second display.
US09026362B2	Position calculating method and position calculating device In a position calculating device, a first operational process of calculating at least a position of a moving object using the measurement result of an inertial positioning unit disposed in the moving object is performed by a first operation processing unit. A second operational process of calculating the position of the moving object using the result of the first operational process and the measurement result of a satellite positioning unit disposed in the moving object is performed by a second operation processing unit. An operational coefficient of the first operational process is adjusted using the result of the first operational process and the result of the second operational process by an operational coefficient adjusting unit.
US09026361B2	Method of calculating accuracy of measuring location, and method and apparatus for measuring location of terminal using accuracy of measuring location A method of calculating an accuracy of measuring a location, and a method and apparatus to measure a location of a terminal using the accuracy of measuring the location, are provided. The method of calculating the accuracy of measuring the location of the terminal includes providing a map corresponding to a location measurement type that is used in the terminal. The method further includes reading, from the map, map information of a predetermined area including the location of the terminal. The method further includes calculating the accuracy of measuring the location with the location measurement type based on the map information.
US09026360B2	Systems and methods for providing constant warning time at crossings A system includes a determination module and a communication module. The determination module is configured to be located onboard a first vehicle configured to travel along a first route including a crossing corresponding to an intersection of the first route with a second route. The determination module is configured to be communicatively coupled with a remote crossing module. The determination module is configured to determine, based on a speed of the first vehicle, timing information corresponding to a time at which the first vehicle will travel proximate to the crossing on the first route. The communication module is configured to transmit the timing information to the remote crossing module. The timing information includes a reference time configured as an absolute time corresponding to a time for impeding travel of a second vehicle along the second route through the crossing.
US09026356B2	Vehicle navigation system and method A vehicle navigation method comprises determining a present location of a host vehicle, including a road on which the host vehicle is traveling, determining a navigation route based on a destination and the present location of the vehicle, and determining a next navigation maneuver based on the navigation route and the present location of the host vehicle. The method further comprises capturing road information pertaining to the road, determining a present lane of the road in which the host vehicle is traveling based on the captured road information, determining a traffic condition on the road, and operating a computer to modify the next navigation maneuver based on the navigation route, the present lane and the traffic condition.
US09026353B2	Method and apparatus for displaying guidance for navigation system This invention relates to a display method and apparatus in a navigation system. More specifically, this invention relates to a navigation-based method and apparatus to provide guidance information to a driver without repeatedly performing route recalculation when the driver makes slight deviation from the road he or she is travelling on. In one embodiment of the present invention, guidance information is displayed on a user interface without generating a route. For example, when a vehicle is travelling either on a freeway or a surface road, a distance indicator provides distance information to nearby freeway junctions or streets. In another embodiment, when the vehicle is deviated from a calculated route, a route deviation detecting unit may detect whether the vehicle is deviating from the calculated route to a predetermined extent. If not, the original calculated route will not be recalculated.
US09026347B2	Smart electric vehicle (EV) charging and grid integration apparatus and methods An expert system manages a power grid wherein charging stations are connected to the power grid, with electric vehicles connected to the charging stations, whereby the expert system selectively backfills power from connected electric vehicles to the power grid through a grid tie inverter (if present) within the charging stations. In more traditional usage, the expert system allows for electric vehicle charging, coupled with user preferences as to charge time, charge cost, and charging station capabilities, without exceeding the power grid capacity at any point. A robust yet accurate state of charge (SOC) calculation method is also presented, whereby initially an open circuit voltage (OCV) based on sampled battery voltages and currents is calculated, and then the SOC is obtained based on a mapping between a previously measured reference OCV (ROCV) and SOC. The OCV-SOC calculation method accommodates likely any battery type with any current profile.
US09026343B2	Systems and methods for improving the efficiency of a vehicle Operational efficiency and/or control systems and methods for vehicles are provided in order to improve fuel efficiency when traveling in a fuel powered vehicle from point A to point B. The systems and methods can determine the “best” or most efficient route to take based on one or more priorities, make driving recommendations to the operator, and/or automatically control one or more systems (e.g., engine, brakes, transmission, etc.) of the vehicle. The systems and methods can calculate the “best” route based on predefined trip requirements, including cost, schedule, route preferences, and/or risk of potential delays, etc.
US09026332B2	Method of controlling a vehicle brake with adaptive torque correction The invention relates to a method of controlling a vehicle brake adapted to exert a braking force in response to an actuation setpoint, in which: from a braking setpoint including low frequency components and high frequency components, a nominal actuation setpoint is determined for the brake actuator that takes account of all of the components of the braking setpoint; from the same braking setpoint, and from a measurement of the torque developed by the brake, a correction for the nominal actuation setpoint is determined, the correction taking account only of low frequency variations in the braking setpoint, the correction being adapted to take account of current or future operating conditions of at least said brake or of brakes subjected to the same braking setpoint; and the correction is added to the nominal setpoint.
US09026326B2	Vehicle control unit When a vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a first vehicle speed threshold value or an uphill gradient is lower than a first gradient threshold value and uphill start control is cancelled, if a state where the vehicle speed is lower than a second vehicle speed threshold value and the uphill gradient is equal to or higher than a second gradient threshold value continues for a first set time, uphill start control is executed. When the vehicle speed is decreased after being once increased within a range where the vehicle speed is lower than the first vehicle speed threshold value and uphill start control is cancelled, if a state where the vehicle speed is lower than the second vehicle speed threshold value and the uphill gradient is equal to or higher than the second gradient threshold value continues for a second set time, the uphill start control is executed.
US09026325B1	Motor controller with externally adjustable power rate constraints This invention relates to the field of very high current integrated power systems and defines a system where an alternating current inductive generator (13), controlled by a generator voltage regulator (14), is coupled to alternating current inductive load (11), controlled by an alternating current inductive load controller (12), all controlled by a supervisory control and data acquisition system (17) with externally adjustable power rate constraints (21) that define a new anticipatory mode integrated power system (10).
US09026323B2	Priming a start-stop vehicle transmission pump A method of controlling a start-stop vehicle transmission pump, includes: assessing how long an engine has been turned off; and when the engine has been turned off for longer than a predetermined threshold and the vehicle is on, priming the transmission pump.
US09026320B2	Wheel loader and method for controlling wheel loader A traction force control section of a wheel loader, when the determination conditions are satisfied during traction force control, increases the maximum traction force. The determination conditions include that the wheel loader is performing an excavation operation, that the vehicle speed is less than or equal to a prescribed speed threshold value, that the amount of operation of the accelerator operating member is equal to or more than a prescribed accelerator threshold value, and that the amount of operation of the inching operating member is less than or equal to a prescribed inching operation threshold value.
US09026319B2	Blade control device, working machine and blade control method When a blade load is reduced from a value greater than or equal to a first set load value to a value less than the first set load value, a blade control device is configured to set a virtual designed surface to be closer to a blade than a designed surface is, and is configured to allow the blade to pivot above the virtual designed surface.
US09026318B2	Passive load and active velocity based flow compensation for a hydraulic tractor hitch A hitch on a vehicle is raised and lowered by a hydraulic actuator controlled by an electrically operated valve. A control system receives a command that indicates a designated velocity and uses the command to operate the valve. Based on a reference external force exerted on the hitch, the control system is configured with relationships for converting a plurality of command values to corresponding electric current levels for operating the valve. The control system compensates for effects due to differences between the actual force acting on the hitch and the reference external force. Velocity feedback adjusts the electric current level applied to the valve. The passive load force control provides a predictor of the hitch load force to eliminate overshoot/undershoot of hitch motion. During hitch motion, the velocity feedback also compensates for effects due to load and hitch geometry changes that occur.
US09026311B1	Trailer sway detection and method for reducing trailer sway utilizing trailer brakes When a trailer is pulled by a tow vehicle where the trailer begins to sway to the left and right of the tow vehicle a large sway can result in loss of control of the trailer and or tow vehicle. The field of the present invention is a system and method of controlling a trailer sway which comprises determining the sway of the trailer utilizing an electronic sensor and independently applying the left and or right trailer brakes at varying levels to reduce trailer sway the traditional single braking signal power from the tow vehicle is separated into two independent braking signals for each of the left and right brakes. All brakes are applied whenever the traditional braking signal goes active where trailer battery power is utilized to independently activate the left and or right brakes during trailer sway.
US09026302B2	Methods and systems for complete coverage of a surface by an autonomous robot A robot configured to navigate a surface, the robot comprising a movement mechanism; a logical map representing data about the surface and associating locations with one or more properties observed during navigation; an initialization module configured to establish an initial pose comprising an initial location and an initial orientation; a region covering module configured to cause the robot to move so as to cover a region; an edge-following module configured to cause the robot to follow unfollowed edges; a control module configured to invoke region covering on a first region defined at least in part based at least part of the initial pose, to invoke region covering on least one additional region, to invoke edge-following, and to invoke region covering cause the mapping module to mark followed edges as followed, and cause a third region covering on regions discovered during edge-following.
US09026296B1	System for controlling overall coasting torque in a hybrid electric vehicle A hybrid vehicle is provided that includes an engine, a reversible electric machine capable of generating and providing electric power, and a clutch for selectively engaging the engine to the electric machine. While the vehicle is traveling, an operator of the vehicle may release (“tip-out”) the accelerator pedal, indicating a desire for a reduction in speed and/or acceleration of the vehicle. If the clutch is engaged during the tip-out, the at least one controller is programmed to disengage the clutch and alter a commanded torque to the electric machine in response to the tip-out of the accelerator pedal to simulate compression braking of the engine. If the vehicle is operating in an electric-only mode of propulsion during the tip-out, and if a state-of-charge of the battery is relatively high, the controller is programmed to activate the engine and provide compression torque to the driveline in response to the tip-out.
US09026283B2	Train detection Occupancy of a railroad track detection zone by one or more trains is determined using sensor devices located at gateways into and out of the track detection zone. Each sensor device has a sensing range that includes a portion of the railroad track in the detection zone and the sensor device generates data used to uniquely identify each train passing through a gateway and thus the sensing range of one or more sensor devices. Data from the detection zone's sensor device array is collected and evaluated to monitor or track the status of any detected trains and the occupancy of the zone. In some embodiments, the sensor devices utilize anisotropic magnetoresistive sensor elements whose analog waveform data is the basis of magnetic flux peak detection and mapping to generate unique train identification signature data that is transmitted to and evaluated by a detection zone processor, which in some cases can control crossing signals and/or other control apparatus related to the railroad track detection zone. The unique train identification signature data can include digitized amplitude peaks and their sequence for each train, based on that train's generated analog waveform data.
US09026278B2	LDV system for measuring wind at high altitude A method of using LIDAR on an airborne vehicle is described. A beam of radiation is transmitted to target areas at least one of above, below, and in front of the airborne vehicle, the target areas including particles or objects. Scattered radiation is received from the target areas. Respective characteristics of the scattered radiation are determined. An air turbulence factor or characteristics are determined from the respective characteristics. The airborne vehicle is controlled based on the air turbulence factor, such that turbulence experienced by the airborne vehicle is minimized. Alternatively, the airborne vehicle is controlled based on the characteristics to avoid colliding with the one or more objects. In another example, the airborne vehicle is controlled based on the characteristics to reduce headwind or increase tailwind, and substantially reduce a carbon footprint of the aircraft.
US09026261B2	Methods and systems for managing energy usage in buildings A method and system for managing energy usage in a building is provided. The method includes collecting data on energy consumption in the building on a generally continuous basis for at least a given time period. Information relating to the energy consumption is displayed to a user on one or more devices. The information includes (a) the data collected on energy consumption to be displayed in real-time on the one or more devices, (b) a comparison of the data collected on energy consumption in the building to energy consumption data of a cohort or group of cohorts, (c) recommendations for reducing energy consumption in the building based on the data collected on energy consumption, and (d) progress report data comparing the data collected on energy consumption to a desired consumption level.
US09026245B2	Container-less custom beverage vending invention Methods and apparatus describing a convenience beverage vending machine and its operation are described. An embedded computer interface allows consumers to create their own drinks or choose from a menu of drinks. Drinks are dispensed in a re-usable container. The beverages may be made from hot water, cold water or carbonated water that is mixed with various flavors of syrup, sweeteners and nutritional supplements. Identification may be presented and the computer recognizes the consumer and pulls up that consumer's account to determine funds available and previous drink selections and mixtures. The machine may incorporate an automatic cleaning cycle for both the valves and the dispense area.
US09026240B2	Substrate treatment apparatus, method of transferring substrate, and non-transitory computer storage medium A coating and developing treatment apparatus includes a substrate transfer mechanism; and a defect inspection section. A transfer control part controls transfer of a substrate. A defect classification part classifies a defect based on the state of the defect. A storage part stores a transfer route of the substrate by the substrate transfer mechanism when the substrate has been treated by treatment sections. A defective treatment specification part specifies, based on a kind of the defect classified by the defect classification part and the transfer route of the substrate stored in the storage part, a treatment section which is a cause of occurrence of the classified defect, and judges presence or absence of an abnormality of the specified treatment section. The transfer control part controls the substrate transfer mechanism to transfer a substrate bypassing the treatment section which has been judged to be abnormal by the defective treatment specification part.
US09026239B2	APC model extension using existing APC models A method of extending advanced process control (APC) models includes constructing an APC model table including APC model parameters of a plurality of products and a plurality of work stations. The APC model table includes empty cells and cells filled with existing APC model parameters. Average APC model parameters of the existing APC model parameters are calculated, and filled into the empty cells as initial values. An iterative calculation is performed to update the empty cells with updated values.
US09026238B2	CAD system for assessing blank size In general the invention is directed to computer implemented systems and methods for assessing the size of a dental restoration blank. In one embodiment, the invention provides a computer-readable medium comprising dental CAD application code which implements the following procedures: generating in a computer memory a three dimensional digital rendering of a dental restoration; generating in the computer a digital rendering of a blank volume, the blank volume corresponding in dimensions to the usable volume of a blank that is available for milling, and the blank volume having a boundary corresponding to its edges; calculating areas of the dental restoration which are beyond the boundary; and providing the calculated areas to a calling function, user, user interface, or module.
US09026236B2	Audio signal processing apparatus, audio coding apparatus, and audio decoding apparatus To provide an audio signal processing apparatus which can perform, with low operation amount, audio signal processing that is either time stretch and/or compression processing or frequency modulation processing. The audio signal processing apparatus is intended to transform an input audio signal sequence using a predetermined adjustment factor. The audio signal processing apparatus includes a filter bank (2601) which transforms the input audio signal sequence into Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) coefficients using a filter for Quadrature Mirror Filter analysis (a QMF analysis filter) and an adjusting unit (2602) which adjusts the QMF coefficients based on a predetermined adjustment factor.
US09026234B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method The position and orientation of a target object is obtained based on first measurement data obtained by a first sensor (first calculation). The position and orientation of the target object is obtained based on second measurement data obtained by a movable second sensor set in a position and orientation different from that of the first sensor (second calculation). When the position and orientation obtained by the first calculation and that obtained by the second calculation match each other, the position and orientation obtained by the first or second calculation or a position and orientation calculated from the position and orientation obtained by the first calculation and that obtained by the second calculation is output as the position and orientation of the target object.
US09026227B2	Anchor sleeve for implantable lead An anchor sleeve for securing a therapy delivery element, such as a stimulation lead or catheter, within a living body, that includes an inner sleeve with pre-formed locations of weakness that facilitate localized deformation. The anchor includes a deformable outer sleeve with a primary lumen extending along an axis. The outer surface of the outer sleeve includes a plurality of suture grooves oriented generally concentric to the axis. The inner sleeve includes a plurality of beams connected at deflection regions arranged around a secondary lumen. The inner sleeve is located in the primary lumen adjacent to the suture grooves so that the secondary lumen is generally concentric with the primary lumen. A plurality of locations of weakness are preformed in each of the beams to facilitate localized deformation in response to a radially inward force applied around the suture grooves by a suture material.
US09026225B2	Overvoltage protection element An overvoltage protection element, provided as a component of a medical device (3) used on or in a human or animal body, reduces power absorption upon application of an external overvoltage signal having chronological rising and/or decay characteristic at an interface (15) of the medical device (3). The overvoltage protection element has reshaping means (17) which convert the external overvoltage signal at the interface (15) into an internal voltage pulse, and limiting means (19) which limit a voltage drop on at least one electronic component of the medical device to a predetermined limiting value.
US09026215B2	Hypertension treatment device and method for mitigating rapid changes in blood pressure An implantable baroreflex activation device administers a special electrotherapy program that causes the device to apply electrotherapy to limit a rate of change of blood pressure increase associated with a blood pressure surge event such as a morning blood pressure surge (MBPS).
US09026213B2	Medical device lead with conductor fracture prediction A medical device lead includes a lead body having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is configured for connection to a pulse generator. One or more electrodes are at a distal end of the lead body, and a lead conductor extends through the lead body and is electrically coupled to at least one of the one or more electrodes. The conductor is configured to deliver electrical signals between the proximal end and the at least one of the one or more electrodes. A sacrificial conductor extends through the lead body adjacent to lead conductor and is configured to fail at a lower stress than the lead conductor.
US09026202B2	Cardiac performance monitoring system for use with mobile communications devices Described herein are apparatuses (e.g., devices, systems, software), and methods for monitoring the cardiac health of a patient. The apparatuses and methods may include a smartphone or hand held computing device having an accelerometer. The apparatus may also include a device with a plurality of electrodes integral with or attached to the smartphone. The devices can be placed on a patient's chest to measure electrical signals and vibrations on the chest caused by the heartbeat. The measurements can generate a seismocardiogram (SCG) and in some variations an electrocardiogram (ECG). The apparatuses and methods can analyze the data in the SCG to produce a measure of the cardiac function. Changes in such measures can provide an early warning for potential cardiac problems and signal the need for the patient to seek treatment prior to a fatal cardiac event.
US09026197B2	Apparatus and methods for determining a plurality of local calibration factors for an image Apparatus and methods are described including acquiring a first set of extraluminal images of a lumen, using an extraluminal imaging device. At least one of the first set of images is designated as a roadmap image. While an endoluminal device is being moved through the lumen, a second set of extraluminal images is acquired. A plurality of features that are visible within images belonging to the second set of extraluminal images are identified. In response to the identified features in the images belonging to the second set of extraluminal images, a plurality of local calibration factors associated with respective portions of the roadmap image are determined. Other applications are also described.
US09026189B2	Electrode sensor assembly for electroretinography and pattern electroretinography A multilayer electrode sensor assembly for electroretinography and pattern electroretinography formed as a thin strip to fit under a lower eyelid and contain an electrode in line with the pupil of an eye with signals detected carried through an integrally formed thin conductive strip to a terminal to be connected to an electrical conductor for carrying such signals to an analyzer.
US09026185B2	Communication apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium A communication apparatus, which is capable of communicating with a first apparatus via a first communication interface and communicating with a second apparatus via a second communication interface, determines whether the first apparatus complies with a power-saving function of the first communication interface and selects, based on a result of the determination, a communication interface to be operated when the communication apparatus is set to be in a power-saving state from between the first communication interface and the second communication interface. Depending on an ambient environment, a communication interface to be operated during a power-saving operation is selected to increase a power-saving effect.
US09026184B2	In-vehicle handsfree apparatus An in-vehicle handsfree apparatus establishes a handsfree profile connection with a first cellular phone and a second cellular phone simultaneously. It is assumed that while the first cellular phone is in a calling state, the second cellular phone receives an incoming call. When a user operates a response to the second cellular phone in the incoming call receiving state, a suspension request signal is transmitted to the first cellular phone in the calling state to thereby switch the call link of the first cellular phone to a suspending state. In contrast, an incoming call response request signal is transmitted to the second cellular phone to thereby switch the call link of the second cellular phone from the incoming call receiving state to a calling state. The connection partner of a call sound path is changed from the first cellular phone to the second cellular phone.
US09026169B2	Combined open loop/closed loop method for controlling uplink power of a mobile station A method and apparatus are disclosed comprising a combined open loop/closed loop uplink power control scheme for E-UTRA. The combined open and closed loop method for UL intra-cell PC controls the wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) transmit power spectral density (PSD), PSDTx, (e.g. power per RB).
US09026164B2	Selective transmission of power decision pilot in a wireless communication system Techniques for selectively transmitting a power decision pilot are described. The power decision pilot may be indicative of the transmit power to use for data transmission in a future time interval. The power decision pilot may be transmitted when sufficiently beneficial for channel quality estimation or omitted otherwise. Whether or not to transmit the power decision pilot may be determined based on system type (e.g., heterogeneous or homogeneous system), the presence or absence of a dominant interferer, whether a reduce interference request is received, etc. For example, a base station may transmit a power decision pilot if it causes high interference to a non-served terminal, if a served terminal observes high interference from a neighbor base station, if the base station receives a reduce interference request from a non-served terminal, etc. The power decision pilot may be transmitted if a determination is made to transmit the pilot or omitted otherwise.
US09026160B1	Method and system for priority handling of dispatch call requests A method and system for priority handling of a dispatch call in a dispatch network is disclosed. A dispatch call request message from a mobile communications unit is received at a dispatch cell site. The cell site determines whether a DAP is configured for operation in a call request reject mode. The cell site determines a priority level of the mobile communications unit if the DAP is configured in the call request reject mode. When the priority level meets a defined threshold, the cell site forwards the dispatch call request message to the DAP and the DAP processes the dispatch call request message.
US09026143B2	Providing base station almanac to mobile station The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a hierarchal base station almanac received at a mobile station.
US09026135B2	Mobile terminal device and positioning method There are provided a mobile terminal device and a positioning method, in which power saving is enabled. When an environment estimating unit determines that the mobile terminal device is currently located in an indoor environment, an autonomous GPS positioning regulating unit thereof regulates implementation of an autonomous positioning operation by an autonomous GPS positioning unit to enable the suppression of wasteful power consumption caused by the implementation of the autonomous GPS positioning operation that has no possibility of being successful at a current time. In the meanwhile, an assist information acquiring processing unit of an A-GPS positioning unit is made to perform an assist information acquiring process that is a former process of the A-GPS positioning operation. When the location accuracy of outline location information acquired has a good result of a level 3 or higher, the outline location information is provided as a positioning result.
US09026123B2	Method and apparatus for managing uplink communication in wireless communication network A method for managing uplink communication in wireless communication network is provided. The method includes selecting one or more Mobile Stations (MSs) from a plurality of MSs based on a first signal parameter corresponding to each MS of the one or more MSs, one or more second signal parameters corresponding to each MS of the one or more MSs, and one or more threshold parameters. The first signal parameter is associated with a Base Station (BS) serving a MS. Further, the one or more second signal parameters are associated with one or more BSs neighboring to the MS. The one or more threshold parameters are associated with a communication parameter. Thereafter, the method includes modifying uplink Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level of the one or more MSs.
US09026119B2	Coordinating distributed radio via remote units Provided herein is a dynamically coordination of a distribution of radio signals via distributed remote radio units, with respect to changing numbers and locations of user equipment. A distributing and combining unit combines uplink radio signals from the remote radio units and distributes downlink radio signals from the access unit according to dynamically changing specified criteria. A measurement unit measures performance indicators of the communication between the remote radio units and the mobile communication devices into a matrix of performance indicator values, calculates cost functions therefrom and generates output execution parameters by applying a decision process based on the calculated cost function. Communication criteria are dynamically updated according to the generated output execution parameters and the process is continuously iterative. The invention allows incorporating “smart” capabilities into legacy networks without any major physical changes of the network.
US09026118B2	Multi-standard coverage map generation A satellite reception assembly may receive signals on a block of frequencies that encompasses channels of one or more wireless networks. The satellite reception assembly may convey information about signals received on the block of frequencies to a centralized location which may utilize the information to determine characteristics, such as coverage area and/or usage, of the wireless network(s). Additionally or alternatively, such information from a plurality of satellite reception assemblies may be aggregated and made available to third parties which may use the aggregate information, in combination with knowledge about the wireless network(s), to determine characteristics of the wireless network(s).
US09026114B2	System and method for geographically locating a cellular phone According to an embodiment of the invention, there is disclosed a method for geographically locating a cellular phone. The method comprises: determining an effective cell-area for each of a first cell and a second cell in a cellular network; and determining a handover area within which the cellular phone is likely to be located when control of the cellular phone is transferred from the first cell to the second cell; wherein the determination of the handover area and the effective cell-area for each of the first cell and the second cell are made based on a topological relationship between the first cell and the second cell. Further related apparatus embodiments are also disclosed.
US09026112B2	Transitioning of mobile devices within a wireless communication network between multiple radio access technologies Network re-selection by an idle mobile device between multiple radio access technologies (RATs) is provided for communication networks without a network-based solution. When a user equipment (UE) enters idle mode while camped to a first RAT network, it initiates an out of service search procedure that causes the UE to search for other RATs within a same public land mobile network (PLMN). If another RAT network is detected, the UE determines whether the priority of the detected RAT is higher than the priority of the first RAT. When the detected RAT has a higher priority than the first RAT, the UE re-selects and camps to that detected RAT network. If the detected RAT does not have a higher priority or no other RAT is detected within the PLMN, the UE re-camps to the first RAT network.
US09026108B2	Method, public land mobile network and requesting entity A method for providing an emergency functionality when setting up a call directed to a User Equipment in a public land mobile network, the public land mobile network having a home database and a visitor database, includes, in case of the occurrence of a mobile terminating call towards the User Equipment: requesting, by a requesting entity, that the home database provide information specific to the User Equipment to the requesting entity; and in case of a failure of the functionality of the home database, requesting, by the requesting entity, that the visitor database provide the information specific to the User Equipment.
US09026106B2	Hybrid dual-band satellite communication system A hybrid satellite communication system in which a hub station transmits signals to remote stations through a satellite at a relatively low frequency which is unaffected by weather effects and in which the remote stations transmit signals to the hub station at a relatively higher frequency which enables the use of more economical equipment at the remote stations. The hub station senses the signal quality or strength received from each remote station and transmits power control signals to remote stations with poor signal strengths to cause such remote stations to increase their output power to overcome weather effects. The power control signals are transmitted on the lower frequency to prevent the power control signals from being masked by the weather effects.
US09026103B2	Information processing apparatus and wireless communication method An information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit configured to communicate with a first communication apparatus; a second communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with each of one or more second wireless communication apparatuses; an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the first communication apparatus via the first communication unit an apparatus ID that is held by the first communication apparatus and that is used for identifying one of the one or more second wireless communication apparatuses to or from which the second communication unit transmits or receives data; and a control unit configured to control the second communication unit to transmit or receive the data to or from the one of the one or more second wireless communication apparatuses that is identified by the apparatus ID acquired by the acquisition unit.
US09026097B2	Device and method for communication devices A method determines an operating mode for a first communications device to communicatively connect to a second communications device. The method includes transmitting, by a first communications device to a wireless services manager arrangement (WSMA), contact identification data associated with a second communications device. The method includes determining, by the WSMA, association data as a function of the contact identification data and a contact identification database. The method includes determining, by the WSMA, one of a plurality of operating modes for the first communications device as a function of the association data. The method includes communicatively connecting the first communications device with the second communications device utilizing the determined operating mode.
US09026093B2	Providing location information In a method in association with a communication system a request for a connection is signaled between a user equipment and another party. The requested connection is then analyzed. Subsequent to detection that location information is required in association with the requested connection, a process for determining information about the location of the user equipment is activated. First information in association with the determining process is communicated on a control plane between the user equipment and the communication system, while second information in association with the determining process is communicated on a user plane between the user equipment and the communication system. An arrangement in association with location services and a user equipment capable of providing location information is also disclosed.
US09026092B2	Identifying and accessing a network device via wireless communication One embodiment of the invention is a method that includes a mobile device receiving via a wireless communication channel a request for an identifier corresponding to a network device. The mobile device transmits the identifier. The mobile device receives a network identifier corresponding to the network device. The mobile device utilizes the network identifier to establish communication with the network device via the wireless communication channel.
US09026091B2	On-demand, real-time interpretation system and method A system and method for on-demand, real-time interpretation services. The system includes a mobile hands-free communicator that cooperates with a two-way radio frequency communication device. The hands-free communicator includes a unique identifier that is operably associated with the user. An initiation protocol enables the user to request interpretation services using the hands-free communicator.
US09026075B2	Session anchor timestamp for interim accounting requests Systems and methods that handle failover between peer charging functions for offline charging. In one embodiment, a Charging Trigger Function (CTF) of a network element detects an interim chargeable event during a session, and generates an interim accounting request for the session responsive to the interim chargeable event. The CTF inserts a session anchor timestamp in the interim accounting request indicating the start time for the session, and transmits the interim accounting request to a charging function. The charging function then monitors a time limit trigger for closing a Charging Data Record (CDR) for the session based on the session anchor timestamp.
US09026074B2	Method and apparatus for wireless distributed computing Systems and methods for distributed computing between communication devices. A femto node is treated as a trusted extension of a user equipment and performs processing tasks on behalf of the user equipment. The femto node is also treated as a trusted extension of network servers and performs services on behalf of the network servers. Tasks are thus distributed between the network servers, the femto node and one or more user equipments. The tasks include processing data, filtering incoming messages, and caching network service information.
US09026073B2	Device for receiving signals, antenna device and mobile terminal The disclosure discloses a device for receiving signals, which includes: equipment with lead wires configured to be reused as a receiving antenna to receive Frequency Modulation (FM) signals. The disclosure further discloses an antenna device and a mobile terminal. According to the technical solution of the disclosure, occupied space of a receiving antenna for FM signal is reduced greatly.
US09026069B2	Method and device for sending signals between a radio frequency circuit and a baseband circuit A method, device and computer program product is provided for sending a data signal and a clock signal between a radio frequency circuit of a device and a baseband circuit of the device, the radio frequency circuit being configured for at least one of transmission and reception of radio signals in a radio frequency band, where the clock signal has a clock frequency Fc. The method comprises selecting the clock frequency Fc to be a rational multiple of the 0.270833 MHz symbol rate of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard and a rational multiple of the 3.84 MHz chipping rate of the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) interface. The clock frequency Fc is selected such that the clock signal can be generated using a 38.4 MHz or 19.2 MHz reference clock signal, a non-fractional Phase Locked Loop clock multiplier and an output divider, without first having to divide down the reference clock signal. The data signal and the clock signal can then be sent between the radio frequency circuit and the baseband circuit using the selected clock frequency Fc.
US09026062B2	Method and apparatus for managing operations of a communication device A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to provision a matching network that controls one or more operational characteristics of one of a receiver portion and a transmitter portion of the communication device according to a profile describing one or more characteristics of a communication system from which the communication device operates. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09026050B2	Communication circuit In a communication circuit, an RFIC includes an IO terminal and a control IC includes an IO terminal. A variable capacitance element includes control terminals, a capacitance element with a capacitance value that is determined according to a control voltage, and a resistance voltage divider circuit configured to generate the control voltage by dividing a voltage inputted to the control terminals. One of the RFIC and the control IC supplies control data to the variable capacitance element via a signal line. The variable capacitance element, along with an antenna coil, constitutes an antenna circuit of an LC parallel resonance circuit, and sets a resonant frequency of the antenna circuit to be a predetermined frequency.
US09026046B2	Load modulating regulator for a near filed communication device A near field communications (NFC) device is disclosed that load modulates and regulates a radio frequency (RF) signal. The NFC device includes a rectifier that rectifies the RF signal to provide a direct current voltage. The NFC device also includes a modulator that modulates a data signal. The modulator provides a first voltage when the data signal is at a first level and provides a second voltage when the data signal is at a second level. The NFC device utilizes a regulator to regulate and to load modulate the RF signal. The regulator adjusts an impedance based upon a comparison of the DC voltage provided by the regulator to the first voltage provided by the modulator for the data signal at the first level or to the second voltage provided by the modulator for the data signal at the second level.
US09026038B2	Apparatus and method for repeating communication messages in rail vehicle system A communication apparatus includes an operation module configured for communication with a wireless message repeater, e.g., a rail vehicle distributed power message repeater. The wireless message repeater is of the type having an antenna system, a receiver for receiving an incoming message, and a transmitter for transmitting a repeat message of the incoming message. The operation module is further configured to assess operation of the message repeater by comparing a feedback signal to the incoming message. The feedback signal may comprise part of a signal energy of the transmitted repeat message as received by the receiver. Alternatively or additionally, the operation module is further configured to assess operation of the message repeater by comparing at least one signal power associated with the transmitted repeat message to at least one threshold.
US09026032B2	Member moving mechanism and image forming apparatus A member moving mechanism according to the present invention includes: a first moving member that moves in a first positive direction and a first negative direction opposite to the first positive direction; a second moving member that moves in a second positive direction that is different from each of the first positive direction and the first negative direction, and in a second negative direction opposite to the second positive direction; a belt member that connects the first moving member and the second moving member; and a belt-member guiding member that controls a moving direction of the belt member, and changes the moving direction of the belt member at least once.
US09026023B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus having the same A fixing device 5 includes a belt drive assist mechanism 70 configured to rotationally drive a fixing belt 26. The belt drive assist mechanism 70 is in contact with an inner surface of the fixing belt 26 and an outer diameter of an outer circumferential surface 71a is smaller than an inner diameter of the fixing belt 26 when the fixing belt 26 is in a circular shape. In addition, the belt drive assist mechanism 70 includes a cylindrical rotation member 71 and a pressing roller 72. The cylindrical rotation member 71 is rotationally driven by a motor 79. The pressing roller 72 is in pressure contact with the cylindrical rotation member 71 while interposing the fixing belt 26 therebetween and rotates following rotation of the fixing belt 26 rotationally driven by the cylindrical rotation member 71 or the pressure applying roller 19.
US09026016B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum for bearing a toner image, a rotatable endless belt provided so that its outer surface opposes the drum, and a rigid transfer roller, provided so as to contact an inner surface of the belt, for transferring the toner image from the drum onto the belt or a recording material conveyed by the belt. A coefficient of static friction of a surface of the transfer roller is smaller than that of the inner surface of the belt. In addition, a stretching roller is provided so as to contact the inner peripheral surface of the belt for stretching the belt, with a coefficient of static friction of a surface of the stretching roller being larger than that of the inner peripheral surface of the belt. A cleaning member cleans the surface of the stretching roller.
US09026013B2	System and apparatus for toner charging using charge/metering blade having an adjustable nip A developer apparatus including a housing defining a chamber storing a supply of toner, and a developer roll disposed in the chamber, the developer roll configured to rotate about a longitudinal access to transport toner on a surface of the developer roll to a development zone. The developer apparatus also includes a charge/metering blade having a curved section configured to contact the surface of the developer roll so as to form an adjustable contact nip. The charge/metering blade also includes an overhang configured to control an amount of toner to enter the adjustable contact nip formed by the at least one curved section of the charge/metering blade.
US09026004B2	Developing cartridge and process cartridge for stably rotating developing roller A developing cartridge includes: a housing having first and second sidewalls through which respective end portions of a developing roller shaft are rotatably inserted; a developing gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which is fixed to the end portion of the developing roller shaft; a transmission gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which transmits driving force to the developing gear; a first cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the transmission gear; and a second cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the developing gear from an outer side in the axis line direction. The second cover member is formed separately from the first cover member and is arranged side by side with the first cover member outside of the first sidewall.
US09025999B2	Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus includes: a rotatable fixing member and a rotatable pressing member which are configured to fix a toner image on a sheet at a nip therebetween, wherein the rotatable fixing member has a first toner parting layer formed of a fluorine-containing resin material, and the rotatable pressing member has a second toner parting layer formed of a fluorine-containing resin material in which an electroconductive filler is contained; and a contact member provided contactable to the second toner parting layer and being electrically grounded. The second toner parting layer has surface resistivity lower than that of the first toner parting layer and has a thickness smaller than that of the first toner parting layer.
US09025996B2	Methods and devices for remanufacturing printer cartridge components A method for remanufacturing a printer cartridge component is provided. The method provides a printer cartridge component having an assembled organic photoconductor (OPC) drum with a flange portion and a cylinder portion. The flange portion has a cylinder engagement end attached and inserted in a locked position with a flange lock in a first end of the cylinder portion. The method further unlocks the flange lock so that the flange portion is in an unlocked position in the first end of the cylinder portion. The method further secures the unlocked flange portion. The method further removes the cylinder portion from the secured unlocked flange portion to obtain a removed cylinder portion and a removed flange portion. The method further assembles the removed flange portion with a replacement OPC drum cylinder portion to obtain a remanufactured printer cartridge component.
US09025994B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member to bear a latent image on a surface thereof, a developing device to develop the latent image with toner, an intermediate transfer member, a secondary transfer member, a cleaning device, and a main body. The cleaning device cleans the secondary transfer member for a predetermined time period T1 during a startup operation after printing is completed normally before subsequent printing. The main body houses the image bearing member, the developing device, the intermediate transfer member, the secondary transfer member, and the cleaning device. At least one of the image bearing member and the developing device constitutes a process cartridge detachably attachable relative to the main body, and in a case in which the process cartridge is installed in the main body, the cleaning device cleans the secondary transfer member for a time period T2 extended from the predetermined time period T1.
US09025991B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a manual operating unit, at least a part of which being exposed to an outside of the apparatus body and a part of which included inside the apparatus body being exposed to the outside by manually operating from the outside, a condensation part to which moist air in the apparatus body contacts to dew-condense to a water droplet, and a recovery container part containing the water droplet generated by the condensation part and being disposed on an inner surface of the manual operating unit included inside the apparatus body.
US09025976B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus in which a first toner image to be transferred to a recording medium through secondary transfer is formed on an intermediate transfer member and a second toner image not to be transferred to the recording medium through secondary transfer is formed on the intermediate transfer member after the first toner image has been formed. When the first toner image and the second toner image are formed, a position on the intermediate transfer member at which the second toner image is formed is controlled in accordance with a conveying direction length of the recording medium, to which the first toner image is transferred through secondary transfer, measured by using a detection unit.
US09025966B2	Method and device for driving a lamp A method for driving a lamp (2) comprises the steps of: generating a lamp current (ICONST) having a constant magnitude; defining a commutation period having a duration TCOMM; defining a time base of original commutation moments, having fixed mutual intervals of 0.5*TCOMM; receiving data to be embedded in the light output; commutating the lamp current at commutation moments; wherein individual commutations are time-modulated in order to encode said received data. Preferably, a commutation moment is: either equal to an original commutation moment if there are no data to embed; or advanced over a modulation distance (Δ) with respect to the corresponding original commutation moment in order to encode data having a first value (“0”); or delayed over said modulation distance (Δ) with respect to the corresponding original commutation moment in order to encode data having a second value (“1”).
US09025965B2	Digital phase locked loop having insensitive jitter characteristic for operating circumstances Disclosed are a phase locked loop (PLL) of a digital scheme and a method thereof. More specifically, disclosed are a digital phase locked loop having a time-to-digital converter (TDC), a digital loop filter (DLF), and a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), and that is designed to have a constant jitter characteristic at all times even though an operating condition of a circuit varies according to a process, voltage, temperature (PVT) change, and a method thereof.
US09025961B2	Content supplying system which uses spatial light transmission A spatial light transmitter of a content supplying system stores ID information of its own and emits spatial light on which the ID information is superimposed from a light emitting portion. A spatial light receiver is used by being connected to a handheld terminal and receives spatial light emitted from the spatial light transmitter. When a user carries the handheld terminal and moves close to the spatial light transmitter, the spatial light receiver receives spatial light emitted from the spatial light transmitter, and ID information obtaining means of the spatial light receiver obtains the ID information which is superimposed on spatial light from a light receiving signal of the light receiving portion, thereby outputting the ID information to the handheld terminal. Alternatively, the ID information obtaining means of the handheld terminal obtains the ID information on the basis of the light receiving signal, and the handheld terminal reproduces the content selected on the basis of the ID information.
US09025957B2	Upgradeable passive optical fiber circuit Optical equipment for 1G-EPON, 10G-EPON, and CWDM services are joined together using a novel combination of optical power splitters and multiplexers. This combination of splitters and multiplexers can be disposed in a single housing, which reduces the size of the combination and improves performance, since jumpers between multiple, separately packaged, optical components can be avoided. One example of the inventive techniques and circuits disclosed herein is a combiner/separator circuit for combining and separating 1G-EPON and 10G-EPON signals. In the example application detailed herein, where EPON equipment is combined with CWDM equipment, an important advantage of this optical circuit is its ability to provide return wavelength isolation for EPON systems that have separate ports for 1G and 10G services.
US09025952B2	Determination of a maximum transmission distance for heterogeneous types of optical fibre An exemplary method is provided for determining a maximum transmission distance for an optical link that has heterogeneous types of optical fiber segments. The method includes retrieving from a database a maximum transmission reach value for each type of optical fiber present in the optical link. A length of each type of the optical fiber to reach a distance is computed, where, for each type of the optical fiber present in the optical link, segments are summed from a starting point to the distance to determine the length of each type of the optical fiber along the optical link. The length for each type of the optical fiber in the optical link is normalized by multiplying the length of each type of the optical fiber by a weight chosen as a function of the maximum transmission reach value for each type of said optical fiber.
US09025945B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group including a front lens element and a reflector, a movable frame supporting the front lens element, and a driver driving the movable frame to reduce image shake. The driver includes first and second voice coil motors, each including a coil and a magnet. The magnets are positioned orthogonal to each other in a plane orthogonal to a first optical axis that passes through the front lens element. The first and second voice coil motors are positioned on opposite sides of a first plane, including the first optical axis and a second optical axis that extends from the reflector. Centers of each magnet and coil are on one side of a second plane, including the first optical axis and is orthogonal to the first plane. The magnets are inclined and approach the first plane in a direction away from the second plane.
US09025944B2	Camera apparatus An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a position detection unit detecting a position of the camera apparatus, a controller outputting a control signal, in a case the position of the camera apparatus detected by the detection unit is a condition for dropping the camera apparatus, and an OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) driving unit receiving the control signal outputted by the controller and being driven to cushion an inner structure of the camera apparatus.
US09025938B2	Collaborative production asset management In an approach, a method of spotting music for a motion picture comprises: receiving music editor (MXE) cue related data defining a plurality of cues each having a start timecode value and an end timecode value; based on the MXE data, creating and storing an MXE timecode path, a composer (CMP) timecode path, and a cue sheet timecode path; copying one or more of the MXE cue related data to CMP cues in the CMP timecode path in a CMP spotting dataset; receiving one or more changes to the CMP cues without also modifying the MXE cue related data; applying an editing lock to the CMP cues; auto-populating the CMP cues to cue sheet cues in the cue sheet timecode path; receiving one or more changes to the cue sheet cues without also modifying the CMP cues; finalizing and distributing a cue sheet based on the cue sheet cues; wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices.
US09025937B1	Synchronous fusion of video and numerical data According to typical practice of the present invention, temporal identifiers are simultaneously associated with (i) video and (ii) numerical data while these data are contemporaneously collected by, respectively, (i) a video camera filming an event and (ii) a data acquisition system acquiring numerical data from sensor(s) obtaining sensory information relating to the event. Various modes of inventive practice provide for time codes and/or markers as the temporal identifiers. The video and the numerical data are each converted to a digital form that furthers their mutual compatibility, the video to a compressed/encoded video file, the numerical data to an Adobe XMP data file. The compressed/encoded video file and the XMP data file are merged whereby the temporal identifiers are aligned with each other. The merged video file has numerical data embedded therein and is displayable so that the video and the numerical data are synchronized in comportment with actual real-time occurrence.
US09025935B2	Recording apparatus, recording method, and recording system A moving image recording apparatus generates first moving image data and second moving image data having less number of pixels than that of the first moving image data, records a moving image file including generated moving image data into a recording medium, and in the case that the first moving image data is outputted to the external apparatus for recording the first moving image data, controls so as to generate the second moving image data concurrently with the outputting of the first moving image data and controls to record a moving image file including the generated second moving image data into the recording medium, wherein outputting an instruction for closing a moving image file including the first moving image data to the external apparatus is controlled in accordance with the moving image file including the second moving image data being recorded into the recording medium having been closed.
US09025934B2	Disc player device When a disc player device (100) is powered on again, playback information stored in a nonvolatile storage portion (160) is retrieved by a playback information retrieving portion (170) and delivered to a user operation auto-executing portion (180). It is determined whether or not user input instructions are limited, on the basis of user operation mask information obtained by a user operation mask information obtaining portion (130). An information comparing portion (182) compares playlist information, and an information comparing portion (184) compares play item information. Finally, a title including playlist information and play item information last stored in the nonvolatile storage portion (160) before the power-on of the disc player device (100) is searched for, and normal playback of the title is started. Such a configuration allows for quick playback resuming of a BD-J title being played at the time of the power-off, with a Java application running.
US09025927B2	Systems and methods of variable frame rate playback Systems and methods for variable rate playback are provided. Disclosed systems and methods of variable frame rate playback may reduce processor loading for presentation of multiple videos in a wall of video thumbnails, for example. The frame rate of the thumbnails may be dynamically changed based on different parameters. In an example embodiment, the parameter may include a video thumbnail position on a browsing page or the position of the video thumbnail as displayed on a video display. As an example embodiment of a default parameter, a seminal thumbnail may be set to the center thumbnail of a browsing page. Then, the frame rate of non-seminal thumbnails may decrease gradually relative to the distance from the seminal thumbnail. The frame rate may be dynamically changed based on a user behavior. The processor may enable real time decoding of the video thumbnail that a user focuses on, which may be determined, for example, by the position of a pointer, a selection of a thumbnail, and/or an entry of a particular video parameter as entered through a user interface.
US09025923B2	Uniform white color light diffusing fiber Light diffusing optical fibers for use in illumination applications and which have a uniform color gradient that is angularly independent are disclosed herein along with methods for making such fibers. The light diffusing fibers are composed of a silica-based glass core that is coated with a number of layers including both a scattering layer and a phosphor layer.
US09025919B2	High voltage photo-switch package module having encapsulation with profiled metallized concavities A photo-conductive switch package module having a photo-conductive substrate or wafer with opposing electrode-interface surfaces metalized with first metallic layers formed thereon, and encapsulated with a dielectric encapsulation material such as for example epoxy. The first metallic layers are exposed through the encapsulation via encapsulation concavities which have a known contour profile, such as a Rogowski edge profile. Second metallic layers are then formed to line the concavities and come in contact with the first metal layer, to form profiled and metalized encapsulation concavities which mitigate enhancement points at the edges of electrodes matingly seated in the concavities. One or more optical waveguides may also be bonded to the substrate for coupling light into the photo-conductive wafer, with the encapsulation also encapsulating the waveguides.
US09025917B2	Optical connector An optical connector includes: a holding member that holds an optical transmission line; a lens member that has a lens; a concavo-convex structure provided between the holding member and the lens member; and a moving member that moves the concavo-convex structure between a first state where a protrusion and a recess of the concavo-convex structure are engaged with each other and a second state where a gap is formed between the protrusion and the recess.
US09025916B2	Optical communication apparatus An optical communication apparatus includes a PCB, a photoelectric element, a driver chip, and a light waveguide. The PCB defines a groove in a surface thereof. The groove includes a bottom surface and a side surface connected to the bottom surface. The PCB includes a reflecting layer coated on the side surface. The photoelectric element includes an optical portion for emitting/receiving light carrying optical signals. An optical signal emitting/receiving direction of the photoelectric element is substantially perpendicular to the surface of the PCB. The side surface passes through a projection area of the optical portion along a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface of the PCB. An end of the light waveguide is positioned on the bottom surface of the groove and is out of the projection area of the optical portion. The reflecting layer couples optical signals between the photoelectric element and the light waveguide.
US09025912B2	Polarization material on an optical multiplexer or an optical demultiplexer An optical device may include a substrate and an arrayed waveguide grating provided on the substrate. The arrayed waveguide grating may include a first slab or a second slab and multiple waveguides extending therebetween. The optical device may also include a layer of material provided on one of the first slab or second slab. The layer of material may have a thickness such that first light may have a first polarization is absorbed by the material and second light may have a second polarization passes through the one of the first slab or the second slab.
US09025905B2	Image processing apparatus, recording medium storing image processing program, and method of image processing An image processing apparatus including a first image processing unit and a second image processing unit. The first image processing unit is configured to calculate a parameter for image processing based on a first image, but not based on a second image, and execute the image processing on the first image using the parameter. The second image processing unit is configured to execute the image processing on the second image using the parameter.
US09025899B2	Region-based image compression A method for compressing an image includes decomposing the image into one or more regions. A region of the image is selected to be evaluated. The selected region is transformed and quantized if the region does not meet a predetermined compression acceptability criteria. The predetermined compression acceptability criteria may include a specific bit rate, a specific image quality, or combinations thereof. If the region does not meet the predetermined compression acceptability criteria after the region has been transformed and quantized, then the transformation and quantization settings are adjusted and the region is transformed and quantized using the adjusted settings. The region is then encoded when the predetermined compression acceptability criteria has been reached. The encoding may include additional compression stages.
US09025898B2	Dynamically selecting compression method for graphics remoting Method and apparatus for improving compression efficiency of for graphics remoting are described herein. According to one embodiment, for each data object of a stream generated within a virtual machine, the data object including graphics data representing an image to be rendered at a client over a network, it is determined whether an image associated with each data object is related to a real life content or an artificial content based on a similarity of one or more pixels selected within at least a segment of the image. A compression method is selected based on the determination of whether the image is related to a real life content or an artificial content. The image is compressed using the selected compression method and thereafter, the compressed image is streamed to the client over the network to be rendered at the client. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US09025888B1	Interface to facilitate browsing of items of visual content A server is configured to identify items of visual content; assign the identified items to clusters; assign the identified items, of a particular cluster, to layers; generate a document that includes information regarding the identified items arranged according to the clusters and the layers; and provide the document. The document may include, for the particular cluster, a first item, corresponding to one of the identified items assigned to a first layer, and second items, corresponding to multiple ones of the identified items assigned to a second layer. The size of the first item may be greater than a size of each of the second items. The first item may be presented on top of the second items, within the document, to at least partially cover the second items, where at least one of the second items is at least partially visible within the document.
US09025885B2	Method of detecting global motion and global motion detector, and digital image stabilization (DIS) method and circuit including the same Disclosed is a global motion detecting method which includes receiving a video sequence of input images, calculating local motion vectors, one for each image block of a current input image, grouping image blocks of the current input image into image block groups, calculating a group motion parameter of each of the image block groups based on local motion vectors of the image blocks in each respective image block group, and determining a global motion parameter of the currently input image according to the group motion parameters.
US09025879B2	Electronic apparatus and handwritten document processing method According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a line recognition module, a character recognition module and a generator. The line recognition module recognizes lines in a handwritten document. The character recognition module recognizes character codes corresponding to handwritten characters in a first line and a second line which follows the first line. The generator generates, if the first and second lines satisfy a condition, document data using first character codes corresponding to the first line and second character codes corresponding to the second line, the formed document data including either one of the first character codes at a position of the second line or including at least one of the second character codes at a position of the first line.
US09025871B2	Image processing apparatus and method of providing high sensitive color images An image processing apparatus and method for generating high-sensitive, high-brightness color images are disclosed. A second image having a wider band and higher-sensitivity than those of a first image which includes color information may be acquired, wherein the first and second images are images captured from a scene. A first transformed image having high brightness may be generated by performing binning on the first image, and edge information being a high-frequency component may be extracted from the second image. A high-brightness, high-sensitive color image may be generated using the first transformed image and the edge information.
US09025868B2	Method and system for image processing to determine a region of interest Various aspects of a system and method for image processing may include a computing device having one or more processors. The computing device may be operable to determine luminance values of multiple pixels in a subset of a frame of a two-dimensional image. The computing device may be operable to determine texture values of the multiple pixels in the subset of the frame. The computing device may be operable to identify a subject region and a background region in the frame of the two-dimensional image based on the determined luminance values and the determined texture values of the plurality of pixels.
US09025861B2	System and method for floorplan reconstruction and three-dimensional modeling Systems and methods for reconstructing a floorplan of a building for generating a three-dimensional model are provided. One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method for generating a three-dimensional model of a building. The method includes estimating a floor height and a ceiling height of the building. The method also includes identifying a core region of a two-dimensional graph, the core region corresponding to an interior of the building. The method includes determining a solution path that circumnavigates the core region and minimizes a cost formula, the cost formula providing an edge cost for each of a plurality of edges. The method further includes generating a three-dimensional model of the interior of the building based on the floor height, the ceiling height, and the solution path.
US09025857B2	Three-dimensional measurement apparatus, measurement method therefor, and computer-readable storage medium A three-dimensional measurement apparatus includes a model holding unit configured to hold a three-dimensional shape model of a measurement object and a determination unit configured to determine a distance measurement region on the measurement object based on information indicating a three-dimensional shape of the measurement object. The measurement object is irradiated with a predetermined illumination pattern by an illumination unit. An image of the measurement object is sensed while the illumination unit irradiates the measurement object. Distance information indicating a distance from the image sensing unit to the measurement object is calculated based on region corresponding to the distance measurement region within the sensed image. A position and orientation of the measurement object is calculated based on the distance information and the three-dimensional shape model.
US09025853B2	Method for determining markings in relief on the outer surface of the sidewall of a tyre A method of determining relief markings on a tire's sidewall surface includes assigning, to each pixel of a three-dimensional image of the surface, a grey-level value proportional to an elevation point corresponding to the pixel, to obtain a starting image. Using linear structuring elements of successively increasing sizes and oriented circumferentially, a series of successive morphological openings is performed iteratively on the starting surface. An image value obtained after a morphological opening using a structuring element is subtracted from an image value obtained after a morphological opening using a structuring element of an immediately lower size, to obtain a succession of images flattened by differencing. A thresholding operation is performed on the images flattened by differencing, to obtain binary images. A set-theoretic union of values of each of the binary images is performed, to obtain a final binary image in which markings appear in relief.
US09025849B2	Partical image velocimetry suitable for X-ray projection imaging A 2D or 3D velocity field is reconstructed from a cross-correlation analysis of image pairs of a sample, without first reconstructing images of the sample spatial structure. The method can be implemented via computer tomographic x-ray particle image velocimetry, using multiple projection angles, with phase contrast images forming dynamic speckle patterns. Estimated cross-correlations may be generated via convolution of a measured autocorrelation function with a velocity probability density function, and the velocity coefficients iteratively optimized to minimize the error between the estimated cross-correlations and the measured cross-correlations. The method may be applied to measure blood flow, and the motion of tissue and organs such as heart and lungs.
US09025845B2	Methods and apparatus for assessing activity of an organ and uses thereof Methods and apparatus are provided for imaging activity of an organ of a subject for diagnosis and prognosis of pathology or injury to the organ, where unaffected portions of the organ are used as a reference for assessing activity of afflicted areas of the organ.
US09025838B2	Apparatus and method for hybrid reconstruction of an object from projection data The invention relates to an imaging apparatus for imaging an object of interest. An analytical reconstruction unit (12) analytically reconstructs an analytical image of the object from detection data, in particular, from projection data, and an iterative reconstruction unit (13) iteratively reconstructs an iterative image of the object from the detection data, wherein a combination unit (14) combines the analytical image and the iterative image for generating a combination image. An iterative image can comprises shading artifacts, which may be caused by preprocessing the detection data before performing the iterative reconstruction. An analytical image shows reduced shading artifacts, in particular, shows no shading artifacts at all. Thus, by combining the analytical image and the iterative image a combination image can be generated, in which the shading artifacts are reduced in comparison to an iterative image, thereby improving the quality of the reconstructed final image of the object of interest.
US09025837B2	Image processing method and apparatus An image processing technique includes acquiring a main image of a scene and determining one or more facial regions in the main image. The facial regions are analyzed to determine if any of the facial regions includes a defect. A sequence of relatively low resolution images nominally of the same scene is also acquired. One or more sets of low resolution facial regions in the sequence of low resolution images are determined and analyzed for defects. Defect free facial regions of a set are combined to provide a high quality defect free facial region. At least a portion of any defective facial regions of the main image are corrected with image information from a corresponding high quality defect free facial region.
US09025836B2	Image recomposition from face detection and facial features A computing system for automatically identifying individual regions in a digital image that include a human face, forming combined padded regions and automatically evaluating each of the regions including calculating a fitness score for each of the combined padded regions and ignoring at least one of the combined padded regions whose fitness score is below a known threshold.
US09025834B2	Input validation, user and data authentication on potentially compromised mobile devices Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for authenticating a user and user input to a back-end system and for validating the user input. In some implementations, actions include receiving a unique user identifier and user input, generating a personalized image recognition challenge based on the unique user identifier and the user input, the personalized image recognition challenge including a plurality of images and a written message, the written message instructing a user to select a particular image of the plurality of images to validate the user input, transmitting the personalized image recognition challenge for display on a device, receiving a response to the personalized image recognition challenge, the response comprising a selection of an image from the plurality of images, and authenticating the user and the user input based on the response.
US09025831B2	Apparatus and methods for automated phenotypic screening of plant genotypes Automated systems and methods for screening individual plants for increased tolerance or sensitivity to various conditions are provided.
US09025830B2	Liveness detection system based on face behavior A liveness detection method comprising: receiving plural pictures of a video stream comprising a face and an adjacent background; determining motion of the face and the background, the motion determined over the plural pictures; comparing the motion between the face and the background; and determining whether the face corresponds to an actual, live user or an image of the user based on the comparison, the determinations performed by a processor.
US09025828B2	Methods and systems for enhancing read accuracy in an automated license plate reader system One embodiment of the apparatuses, methods, and systems of the present disclosure is a license plate, sticker, or ALPR system having enhanced or increased accuracy. At least one of the license plate, sticker, or ALPR system includes useful information that is transmitted over a first channel and checking information that is transmitted over a second channel. The second channel is devoted solely to transmitting the checking information (e.g., the second channel does not transmit useful information). In other words, the license plates, stickers, and ALPR systems of the present disclosure include at least one channel that is devoted solely to transmitting checking information.
US09025825B2	System and method for visual motion based object segmentation and tracking The PMP Growth algorithm described herein provides for image tracking, segmentation and processing in environments where the camera system moves around a great deal, i.e., causing image jumps from one image frame to the next. It also is operative in systems where the objects themselves are making quick movements that alter their path. Attributes of the PMP Growth algorithm allow tracking systems using the PMP Growth algorithm to follow objects a long distance in a scene. This detection and tracking method is designed to track objects within a sequence of video image frames, and includes detecting keypoints in a current image frame of the video image frames, assigning local appearance features to the detected keypoints, establishing Point-Motion-Pairs between two successive image frames of the video image frames, and accumulating additional matches between image locations to form complete coherent motion object models of the objects being tracked. The segmentation aspect permits for the discovery of different coherently moving regions in the images.
US09025824B2	Systems and methods for evaluating physical performance Systems and methods are provided for evaluating and correcting physical performance of an activity by a human. A user performing one or more physical activities may be evaluated based on criteria relating to their movement, such as strength and technique. The user's performance in relation to these criteria is then rated, and the values for the criteria are combined to provide an overall performance score. The performance score is used to determine a user's overall readiness and ability to perform the physical activity which was evaluated or an overall ability to perform physical activities. Performance scores for more than one physical activity may be combined to provide an overall performance ready score that captures the person's overall physical ability. Comparisons of performance scores over time may provide information as to whether a user is improving, and could be applied to evaluating physical rehabilitations from injuries.
US09025822B2	Spatially coherent nearest neighbor fields In embodiments of spatially coherent nearest neighbor fields, initial matching patches of a nearest neighbor field can be determined at image grid locations of a first digital image and a second digital image. Spatial coherency can be enforced for each matching patch in the second digital image with reference to respective matching patches in the first digital image based on motion data of neighboring matching patches. A multi-resolution iterative process can then update each spatially coherent matching patch based on overlapping grid regions of the matching patches that are evaluated for matching regions of the first and second digital images. An optimal, spatially coherent matching patch can be selected for each of the image grid locations of the first and second digital images based on iterative interaction to enforce the spatial coherency of each matching patch and the multi-resolution iterative process to update each spatially coherent matching patch.
US09025815B2	System and method for multi-material correction of image data A method is provided. The method includes acquiring projection data of an object from a plurality of pixels, reconstructing the acquired projection data from the plurality of pixels into a reconstructed image, performing material characterization and decomposition of an image volume of the reconstructed image to reduce a number of materials analyzed in the image volume to two basis materials. The method also includes generating a re-mapped image volume for at least one basis material of the two basis materials, and performing forward projection on at least the re-mapped image volume for the at least one basis material to produce a material-based projection. The method further includes generating multi-material corrected projections based on the material-based projection and a total projection attenuated by the object, which represents both of the two basis materials, wherein the multi-material corrected projections include linearized projections.
US09025814B2	Image capture and identification system and process A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object.
US09025811B1	Performing image similarity operations using semantic classification Image similarity operations are performed in which a seed image is analyzed, and a set of semantic classifications are determined from analyzing the seed image. The set of semantic classifications can include multiple positive semantic classifications. A distance measure is determined that is specific to the set of semantic classifications. The seed image is compared to a collection of images using the distance measure. A set of similar images is determined from comparing the seed image to the collection of images.
US09025809B1	Voicecoil affixation Disclosed loudspeakers include a frame, a magnetic yolk affixed to the frame, a voicecoil, a spider, a resilient surround, and a cone. The yoke includes a slotted sidewall and a central slug that form an air-gap. The voicecoil is disposed within the gap and includes a former, with top and bottom edges, and at least one winding. The voicecoil moves when receiving alternating electrical potentials. The spider has a flexible portion, has rigid members extending through the yolk slots, and has a channel affixed to the former bottom edge such that the channel is no wider than the former and winding(s). The cone includes an inner portion affixed to the former top edge and an outer portion affixed to the frame through the surround, wherein the inner portion includes rigid members capable of movement within the sidewall slots with movement of the voicecoil. Optionally, the former has apertures therethrough.
US09025804B2	Audio performance system An audio performance system for use during an event including a shipping container containing at least a first electroacoustic device. A lifting device forms a first portion of the shipping container, the lifting device configured to movably secure the first electroacoustic device between a first position for transport of the container and a second position for the event. A second portion of the shipping container is configured to be manually removable. A third portion of the shipping container is configured to positionably secure a second electroacoustic device for the event.
US09025798B2	Multi-coaxial transducers and methods Coaxial transducers, some of which include a first assembly and assembly, each of which includes a magnet and a coil.
US09025795B2	Opening type bone conduction earphone An opening type bone conduction earphone which eliminates headband and has a compact and simple structure comprising a magnetic body, which has an aeration hole, which is able to communicate with the outside world when wearing, at the center part of the axial direction, at least one or more dampers provided at the outer circumference of the magnetic body, and a coil bobbin, which is provided at the outer circumference of the magnetic body, accommodates the damper within a trunk part, and in which a coil is wound at the outer circumference of the trunk part, is provided.
US09025792B2	Determining a configuration for an audio processing operation A computer-implemented method of determining a configuration for an audio processing operation, wherein the audio processing operation comprises a predetermined set of one or more audio processing sub-operations, each audio processing sub-operation being configurable with one or more respective configuration parameters, the method comprising: specifying the predetermined set of one or more audio processing sub-operations; specifying a target frequency response; and performing a convergent optimization process to determine a configuration for the audio processing operation that reduces a difference between the frequency response of the audio processing operation and the target frequency response, wherein the configuration comprises a respective value for each configuration parameter of each audio processing sub-operation.
US09025791B2	Pop-up noise reduction in a device A device implementing a scheme for reduction of pop-up noise is disclosed. The device comprises an audio sub-system (100) having an integrator (112) for amplifying an input signal (133) and a modulation circuit (114) including one or more comparators. The audio subsystem (100) is further provided with a feedback loop (142) across the integrator (112) and the modulation circuit (114) to calibrate an offsets outputs of the integrator (112) and the modulation circuit (114). The feedback loop (142) includes an integrator-offset loop (202) across the integrator (112) to calibrate an offset (136) in the output of the integrator (112), and an offset calibration loop (302) across the modulation circuit (114) to calibrate an offset (140) in the output of the modulation circuit (114).
US09025785B2	Audio recording device and imaging device An audio recording device comprises an audio input unit, a detect unit, and a control unit. The audio input unit includes a connection unit and an audio receive unit. The connection unit is configured to connect with an external pickup device. The audio receive unit is configured to receive the input of an audio signal from the pickup device. The detect unit is configured to detect the connection between the connection unit and the pickup device. The control unit is configured to display information indicating the input state of the audio signal from the pickup device in response to detection of the connection between the connection unit and the pickup device by the detect unit.
US09025772B2	Information processing apparatus and program product According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, which is connected to an external apparatus, includes a device key storage unit, a creating unit, a calculating unit, a communication unit, and a key calculating unit. The device key storage unit stores therein a device key. The creating unit creates a media key from the device key and a media key block. The calculating unit calculates first output information on the basis of first inherent information inherent to the information processing apparatus and public information. The communication unit transmits the first output information to the external apparatus and receives second output information calculated by the external apparatus from the external apparatus. The key calculating unit calculates a shared key shared between the information processing apparatus and the external apparatus on the basis of the media key, the first inherent information, and the second output information.
US09025771B2	Security optimization for IMS/MMD architecture A mechanism by which handoff delay can be minimized while not compromising the IMS/MMD security and also protecting the media if required by certain applications is presented. Methods for mitigating delay during SA re-association and mitigating the IPSec tunnel overhead for signaling and media at the Mobile Node are given. In one embodiment, SA keys can be transferred from the old P-CSCF to new P-CSCF, enabling the establishment of SAs before Mobile Node physically moves to the new subnet in a network. Proactive handover is used. In another embodiment, SA keys are transferred from S-CSCF to new P-CSCF. In this case, the SA keys are transferred to the new P-CSCF by S-CSCF through a context transfer mechanism well in advance so that SAs may be established before Mobile Node physically moves to new subnet. In another embodiment, methods for mitigating IPSec tunnel overhead are presented.
US09025769B2	Method of registering smart phone when accessing security authentication device and method of granting access permission to registered smart phone A method for registering a Smartphone when accessing security authentication device and a method for access authentication of a registered Smartphone are provided. When a Smartphone based application searches for a device and attempts an access to the found device, the search and access for the device is limited according to a result of authentication using an activation code.
US09025759B1	Method of reverse call branch off-load A computer-implemented method for routing a call to a call center may generally comprise receiving a call from a caller at an automated call distributor, initiating an interactive voice response interrogation session with the caller, and classifying the call as one of a first type and a second type based on the interactive voice response interrogation session, when the call type is classified as the first type, routing the call to at least one of a plurality of branches comprising at least one agent designated to receive calls classified as the first type, when the call type is classified as the second type, routing the call to a call center comprising at least one agent designated to receive calls classified as the first type and the second type.
US09025758B2	Electronic communications system for multinodal expert networks An electronic communication system enables one or multiple parties to aggregate one or multiple experts under one or multiple brand identities and to make each unique identity publicly or privately accessible to other entities seeking to access individual or aggregated experts on a free or paid basis. This system allows one single operator to effectively power hundreds or thousands of custom branded and independently owned expert networks deployed by different network sponsors.
US09025754B2	System and method for determining characteristics for international calls A system for providing termination information for an international telephone number includes a centralized database of terminating characteristics. The system may also include request processing logic that receives an international telephone number from a user. In response to receiving the telephone number, the request processing logic may automatically query the centralized database to obtain information that indicates whether the telephone number uses wireless termination. In response to obtaining the information from the centralized database, the request processing logic may automatically transmit to the user a response that indicates whether the telephone number uses wireless termination. The system may also include a database engine that uses a tree structure of linked nodes to perform a longest matching prefix search on the telephone number in response to the request processing logic querying the centralized database.
US09025752B2	Method and apparatus for providing ambient social telephony A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for providing a communications service in a communications network are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a conference call, detects a triggering event during the conference call registered for a particular user, wherein the particular user is not a participant in the conference call, and notifies the particular user of the triggering event.
US09025735B2	Emergency communications system A communications terminal facilitates signaling emergency alerts and monitoring. The terminal is operative in response to user input to generate emergency messages which are transmitted to one or more predetermined recipients via one or more mediums of communication. This user input to generate an emergency is designed such that it takes advantage of the facilities of available common user terminals (e.g. mobile phones, personal digital assistants) and may be augmented by short-range wireless “panic button” devices carried or worn by the user to allow triggering an alarm more effectively and/or conveniently. In response to either direct input from a user or remote input from another, the terminal also transmits audio, video, still image, and other available data that facilitates situation monitoring. The user may also indicate the nature and severity of the situation. Further, the terminal may suppress indications of the established communications such that the terminal appears to be in a dormant state. Further, the terminal may suppress normal handset controls allowing anyone to terminate communication, requiring specific, unique user input to terminate the emergency communication medium(s). Incorrect entry of this unique user input may be used as an indication that the user is in a situation of duress.
US09025730B2	Electrically controlled brakes for arm joints on a mini C-arm mobile X-ray system Systems and methods for braking and releasing one or more pivot joints used in an X-ray positioning device are described. The systems and methods use a support arm that extends between a main assembly of the x-ray positioning device and an X-ray imaging assembly with an X-ray source and an X-ray detector that are disposed nearly opposite to each other. The support arm includes one or more pivot joints (such as horizontal, lateral, and/or orbital pivot joints) that allow the imaging assembly to move with respect to the main assembly. The pivot joints can each be connected to an automated braking system that is capable of selectively locking and unlocking a corresponding pivot joint, as indicated by a user-controlled switching mechanism. The braking systems containing multiple pivot joints can be individually controlled by separate switching mechanisms or simultaneously controlled by a single switching mechanism. Other embodiments are described.
US09025724B2	Method for analyzing internal density of material by using X-ray computed tomography Disclosed is a method for analyzing internal density of material by using X-ray computed tomography, comprising the steps of installing a cylinder-shaped jig between an x-ray generator and an x-ray detector, inserting a material to be analyzed and a plurality of standard specimens whose densities are known into the inside of the cylinder-shaped jig, performing X-ray computed tomography while rotating the cylinder-shaped jig through 360°, and calculating the internal density of distribution of the material to be analyzed by using the X-ray intensities shown in the x-ray tomography image. By using the method of the present invention, X-ray tomography image is converted to the image showing the internal density distribution of the material, improving the qualitative decision by naked eye by providing quantitative decision method.
US09025721B2	Holding device There is provided a holding device which can hold a molten corium for a predetermined period even when the molten corium is exposed to heat or undergoes any chemical reaction and which is applicable to practical use. There is provided a holding device provided below a nuclear reactor pressure vessel for holding a molten corium, wherein the holding device includes a base material in contact with a cooling medium, and a multilayer stack structure on the base material. The multilayer stack structure has a first layer having heat-resistant property, a second layer formed on the first layer and having heat-resistant property with lower heat conductivity than that of the first layer, and a third layer formed on the second layer and having corrosion-resistant property and impact-absorbing property.
US09025719B2	Transverse in-core probe monitoring and calibration device for nuclear power plants, and method thereof A method and apparatus for the calibration of neutron flux monitoring devices used in a nuclear reactor core. The apparatus includes a transverse in-core probe (TIP) cable with a neutron absorber located a fixed distance apart from a TIP detector. The neutron absorber may be passed within close proximity of the neutron flux monitoring device such that a perceived drop in measured neutron flux occurs, whereupon the cable may be repositioned relative to the monitoring device to ensure that the TIP detector is within close proximity of the monitoring device for purposes of calibrating the monitoring device.
US09025717B2	Method and apparatus for compressing plasma to a high energy state A compressor assembly and the method of using the same which includes an elongated spiral passageway within which a compact toroid plasma, such as a compact toroid plasma structure, can be efficiently compressed to a high-energy state by compressing the compact toroid plasma structure by its own momentum against the wall of the spiral passageway in a manner to induce heating by conservation of energy. The compressor assembly also includes a burn chamber that is in communication with the spiral passageway and into which the compressed compact toroid plasma structure is introduced following its compression.
US09025716B2	Inter-integrated circuit-slave interface, and method for operating an inter-integrated circuit-slave interface An I2C interface is provided which has a data line and a clock line, the clock line having a first input buffer, and the data line having a second input buffer and an output buffer, the data line being provided for the transmission of a data input signal and a data output signal, the clock line being provided for the transmission of a clock signal, the clock line having a first delay element, and the data line having a second delay element and a third delay element. A method for operating an I2C slave interface is also provided.
US09025713B2	Method for portable device processing data based on clock extracted from data from host A method for a first electronic device processing data based on information from a second electronic device may comprise: receiving a first signal from the second electronic device; extracting a first clock based on the first signal; adjusting an oscillator based on the first clock so as to generate a second clock; and selecting one from the first and second clocks. In an embodiment of the present invention, the first electronic device may be configured to be hot plugged into the second electronic device. The method may further comprise processing a data stream from the second electronic device based on said selecting said one from the first and second clocks. The method may further comprise transmitting a data stream to the second electronic device based on said selecting said one from the first and second clocks.
US09025709B2	Receiver front-end circuit, communication unit and method therefor A receiver front end circuit includes a low-noise amplifier including: a first receiver path having: a first low-noise transconductor to amplify a received signal and output the amplified received signal; and a first mixer to down-convert the amplified received signal. A second receiver path includes: an auxiliary receiver having: a second transconductor to output an amplified received signal; a baseband amplifier having an input port and an output port; a first resistance coupling the input port to the output port of the baseband amplifier and to convert the amplified received signal from current to voltage and set a voltage gain of the second receiver path; and a second resistance coupled from the output port of the baseband amplifier to the first mixer output. In some examples, frequency-upconversion feedback path includes a third mixer to frequency up-convert the amplified received signal at an output of the second receiver path.
US09025702B2	Method and apparatus for implementing slice-level adjustment In one embodiment, a receiver may receive a signal from a transmitter. The receiver may include a first sampler that may sample the signal when the value of the signal is zero. The receiver may further include a second sampler that may sample the signal halfway between a time when the first sampler samples the signal and the next time when the first sampler samples the signal to produce a set of sampled values. The receiver may be further operable to determine that a sampled value in the set of sampled values is a logic 1 if the sampled value is greater than the value of a reference voltage and that the sampled value is a logic 0 if the sampled value is less than the value of the reference voltage.
US09025701B2	Receiver and transmission and reception system A receiver is composed of a receiver-side amplifier which receives a clock signal, a receiver-side amplifier which receives a data signal, a variable delay circuit which generates a delay-adjusted clock signal and a delay-adjusted data signal by delaying the clock signal and the data signal, a latch circuit section which latches the delay-adjusted data signal in synchronous with the delay-adjusted clock signal, and a skew detecting circuit which generates skew detection data that by latching a specific data sequence transmitted as the data signal in synchronous with a first clock signal to Nth clock signal (N is an integer equal to or more than 2) with different delay times from the clock signal. The delay time in the variable delay circuit is controlled according to the skew detection data.
US09025698B2	Method and device for acquiring multi-frequency band digital predistortion output signals The present invention relates to the communications field, discloses a method and device for acquiring multi-frequency band digital predistortion (DPD) output signals, enables the result of DPD processing to compensate the intermodulation of multi-frequency band signal combinations after PA, and improves the ACLR of the signals after PA. Specifically, when performing DPD processing on an input signal received on a working frequency band, reference must be made to the DPD coefficients generated from the feedback signals of the signals previously received on the working frequency band and on other working frequency bands, and to the input signals currently received on other working frequency bands. In other words, intermodulation between the input signals received on working frequency bands are taken into consideration during the DPD processing work flow, so that the result of DPD processing can compensate the intermodulation of the multi-frequency band signal combinations after PA, and improves the accuracy of DPD processing, thereby enhancing the ACLR after wide band power amplification.
US09025697B2	Transmitter, transmission method used by the same, receiver for receiving a radio signal from transmitter and wireless communication system including the same A transmitter incorporates a table (TBL1) for assigning the frame lengths of 560 μs and 600 μs to the code “0” in a binary system and assigning the frame lengths of 600 μs and 560 μs to the code “1” in the binary system. The transmitter refers to the table (TBL1) and assigns the two frame lengths of 560 μs and 600 μs and the two frame lengths of 600 μs and 560 μs to the codes “0” and “1”, respectively, in the code sequences [0,0], [0,1], [1,0] and [1,1] representing the transmission information “0” to “3” represented using the binary system, and sequentially transmits four radio signals having the assigned four frame lengths.
US09025692B2	Precoding selection for retransmission in uplink MIMO hybrid ARQ A method implemented in a user terminal is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining known precoding matrix P of rank r and modulation and coding scheme assignments used in an original transmission, and a desired retransmission rank r′, forming an approximate channel covariance matrix, estimating a minimum mean square error receiver SINR for each layer to be retransmitted responsive to said forming, and finding a retransmission precoding matrix from a preceding codebook that maximizes a sum-rate for enabling precoding selections for retransmissions in uplink multiple-input multiple-output MIMO hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.
US09025689B2	Method and apparatus for multiple antenna communications, and related systems and computer program An embodiment of an arrangement detects sequences of digitally modulated symbols from multiple sources. The arrangement identifies a suitable set of candidate values for at least one transmitted sequence of symbols and determines for each candidate value a set of sequences of transmitted symbols. The arrangement estimates at least one further set of sequences of transmitted symbols, calculates a metric for each sequence of transmitted symbols, and selects the sequence that maximizes the metric. At the end, a-posteriori bit soft output information for the selected sequence is calculated from the metrics for said sequences. Generally, these calculations are based on the information coming from a channel-state-information matrix and a-priori information on the modulated symbols from a second module, such as a forward error-correction-code (ECC) decoder.
US09025687B2	Adaptive slicer and constellations for QAM communications A method for a QAM receiver to decide a value of a received symbol of an N-point QAM constellation transmission including extracting coordinate values for the received symbol, and using a decision method for deciding the value of the received symbol based on the extracted coordinate values, in which the decision method for the N-point QAM constellation is updated based on a clustering of received symbols. A method for a QAM transmitter to modify an N-point QAM constellation including starting with an initial N-point QAM constellation, measuring a clustering of coordinates of the N-point QAM constellation, shifting coordinates of at least one symbol of the N-point QAM constellation, and producing a modified constellation with shifted coordinates, wherein the shifting is based on data describing a clustering of at least some symbols of the N-point QAM constellation. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US09025686B2	Method, radio unit and radio base station for adjusting thresholds for crest factor reduction The present invention relates to clipping thresholds adjustment for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit, wherein the radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals, comprising: determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target PAR and the amplitudes or powers of the input signals, estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of the clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold, and adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction. The present invention also relates to dynamic stage control. With the present invention, clipping thresholds and clipping stages are adaptively changes with dynamic original PAR of input signals and the efficiency of power amplifier is increased with a low implementation cost.
US09025684B2	Method for generating and transmitting a reference signal for uplink demodulation in a clustered DFT-spread OFDM transmission scheme Disclosed is a method for generating and transmitting a reference signal in a clustered DFT-spread OFDM transmission scheme. A method for generating and transmitting a DM-RS in a clustered DFT-spread-OFDM scheme comprises: a step of generating DM-RS sequences corresponding to the number of clusters allocated for an uplink transmission; and a step of mapping the generated DM-RS sequences to the relevant DM-RS symbol positions for each cluster. Accordingly, the method for generating and transmitting a reference signal according to the present invention, in which DM-RS sequences are allocated and transmitted on a cluster basis, uses a complete DM-RS sequence for each cluster, and therefore inter-cell interference can be weakened, and problems which might occur when applied to a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) scheme can be solved.
US09025673B2	Temporal quality metric for video coding The disclosure is directed to techniques for evaluating temporal quality of encoded video. Instead of estimating jerkiness based solely on frame rate or motion activity, the number of consecutive dropped frames forms a basic estimation unit. Several human visual system factors, such as sensitivity to temporal quality fluctuation and motion activity, have been taken into account to make the predicted jerkiness more consistent with the actual human visual response. The temporal quality metric can be used to estimate human perceived discomfort that is introduced by temporal discontinuity under various combinations of video shots, motion activity and local quality fluctuations. The techniques can be applied in two modes: (1) bitstream or (2) pixel mode. The quality metric can be used to evaluate temporal quality, or to control encoding or decoding characteristics to enhance temporal quality.
US09025664B2	Moving image encoding apparatus, moving image encoding method, and moving image encoding computer program A moving image encoding apparatus, which divides moving image data into a plurality of sub-data, encodes the sub-data in parallel by using a plurality of encoders, and thereafter splices the resulting encoded sub-bitstream data into a single bitstream, includes a convergence target deriving function for determining a target value for a first amount of buffer occupancy so that the first amount of buffer occupancy at a point in time at which data corresponding to a last picture contained in first sub-bitstream data is removed from a first hypothetical buffer does not drop below a second amount of buffer occupancy which represents the amount of space that second sub-bitstream data occupies in a second hypothetical buffer at that point in time.
US09025660B2	Video decoder with general video decoding device and methods for use therewith A video decoder includes an entropy decoding device that includes a first processor that generates entropy decoded (EDC) data from an encoded video signal. A general video decoding device includes a second processor that generates a decoded video signal from the EDC data, wherein the general video decoding device includes: a neighbor management module, a decode motion compensation module, an inverse intra-prediction module, an inverse transform/quantization module, and a deblocking filter module.
US09025654B1	Reconfigurable equalization architecture for high-speed receivers Systems and methods are disclosed for employing an equalization technique that improves equalizer input sensitivity and which reduces power consumption. In particular, an equalization architecture is described that includes a continuous-time linear equalizer and a decision feedback equalizer, each with offset cancellation that enables the equalizer to be used at high data rates. In addition, the equalization structure has a power-saving mode for bypassing the decision feedback equalizer. These offset cancellation and power-saving features are enabled and controlled using programmable logic on a programmable device.
US09025646B2	Transmit leakage cancellation A transceiver for reducing transmit signal leakage is described. The transceiver includes a downconverter that downconverts a receive signal to produce a feedback signal. The transceiver also includes a weight learning module that correlates the feedback signal with a transmit signal to obtain a weight. The transceiver further includes a transmit leakage estimator that obtains an estimated transmit leakage signal based on the weight and the transmit signal. The transceiver also includes a transmit leakage reducer that reduces the transmit leakage in the receive signal based on the estimated transmit leakage signal.
US09025639B2	Modulation and demodulation method for satellite communication using widespread signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Provided are a modulation method and a demodulation method for satellite communication using a widespread signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the method including: adding a dummy frame to a broadcasting/communication signal frame for signal transmission of a digital video broadcasting-satellite second generation (DVB-S2) modulator; verifying a spreading factor; adding the same physical layer header to the broadcasting/communication signal frame to which the dummy frame is added, repeatedly the number of times corresponding to the verified spreading factor; and repeating the same data, for example, PL frame data as the physical layer header.
US09025634B2	Multimode vertical cavity surface emitting laser having narrow laser light emitting angle The protective film that covers the top distributed Bragg reflecting mirror has a central region and a peripheral region. The central region has a protrusion that projects relative to the peripheral region in a direction in which the laser light is emitted. The VCSEL satisfies relations below: dp×n=(N/2)×λ, and dc×n=dp×n+(1/4+M/2)×λ, where λ is a wavelength of the laser light in vacuum; dc is a film thickness of the protective film in the central region; dp is a film thickness of the protective film in the peripheral region; n is a refractive index of the protective film (wherein a refractive index of air
US09025620B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting signal in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes: generating R spatial streams each of which is generated on the basis of an information stream and a reference signal; generating N transmit streams on the basis of the R spatial streams and a precoding matrix (where R
US09025614B2	Unified system networking with PCIE-CEE tunneling Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) tunneling over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) networks. The CEE networks comprise devices configured to use PCIe. An initiating device initiates a command. The command is associated with initiator control signals, which are associated with the initiating device. The initiating device requests permission from an arbiter, and receives a request grant from the arbiter. Based on the request grant, a mapping device maps the initiator control signals, an target device address, and the command into a CEE control frame. Based on the mapping, the initiating device transmits an inquiry to the devices. Based on transmitting the inquiry, the initiating device receives a response from a corresponding device. The corresponding device is associated with the target device address. The response comprises target control signals associated with the corresponding device. Based on the response, the initiating device initiates a transaction to the corresponding device through CEE control frames.
US09025611B2	Policy decision function addressing method, network element and network system A policy decision function (PDF) addressing method includes: receiving a PDF allocation request that contains a user equipment (UE) identifier (ID) from a second network element (NE); obtaining ID information of a PDF associated with the UE ID according to pre-registered addressing information of the PDF, where the addressing information of the PDF is an association between the UE ID and the ID information of the PDF, and the PDF associated with the UE ID is accessed by a first NE; and sending the obtained ID information of the PDF to the second NE.
US09025608B2	Route switching device and data cashing method thereof The present invention discloses a routing and switching device and a data caching method thereof. The method includes: a routing and switching device, when receiving a data packet, and if the routing and switching device inquires that a data caching state of an exterior cache is that there are data slice row addresses not fully filled and continuous space in the data slice row addresses not fully filled is enough to store all the data slices of the data packet, then writing all the data slices of the data packet into the data slice row addresses not fully filled, storing packet information of the data packet and the written data slice row addresses, and updating the data caching state of the exterior cache. The present invention enhances the utilization rate of the memory bandwidth. In addition, the present invention is also easy to be applied in other relevant data caching managements.
US09025605B2	Apparatus and method for providing a network termination point Apparatus and method for providing a termination point for service emulation instances in an access network is provided. In an embodiment, the service emulation instances are implemented utilizing, for example, pseudowires. Communications to and from the access network are aggregated and transmitted via one or more pseudowires to a service emulation instance terminator. The service emulation instance terminator converts the traffic to its native form and, if necessary, converts the traffic to a different type of format or service. The service emulation instance terminator then frames the traffic for the appropriate type of service and transmits the traffic to the service edge. Traffic received from the service is removed prepended with a pseudowire label and aggregated with other traffic. The aggregated traffic is transmitted to the customer via the access network. If necessary, an interworking function may convert the traffic from one type of service to another type of service. Further, functionalities of equipment such as frame relay switching or Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching may be realized in the service emulation instance terminator.
US09025602B2	Data redistribution in data replication systems Data replication is disclosed. Originator data subsets are redistributed among a plurality of originator nodes from an initial distribution arrangement to a new distribution arrangement. Data redistribution information is determined. The redistribution information includes identification information of the originator data subsets, identification information of originator nodes comprising the initial distribution arrangement, and identification information of originator nodes comprising the new distribution arrangement. The redistribution information is sent to a replica system comprising a plurality of replica nodes. The redistribution information is used by the replica system to redistribute corresponding replica data subsets among a plurality of replica nodes from a previously replicated arrangement to a new replicated arrangement.
US09025597B2	Methods and apparatus for providing one-arm node clustering using a port channel Methods and apparatus for providing one-arm node clustering using a port channel are provided herein. An example application node may be communicatively connected to at least one application node, and the application node may be connected to a network through a port channel. The application node may include: a link included in the port channel for accommodating the network data being communicated between the remote client and server; and a processor configured to send/receive a cluster control packet to/from the at least one application node through the link included in the port channel.
US09025582B2	Low power protocol for wireless terminal peer-to-peer communications A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system based upon peer-to-peer communications. A wireless terminal for peer-to-peer communications acts either as a WLAN master or as a WLAN slave. When the wireless terminal acts a master, the wireless terminal undertakes mastering duties that include transmitting a beacon interval in the frame cycle. When the wireless terminal is not tethered to a power source, mastering duties alternate according to a round-robin WLAN mastering cycle, wherein the wireless terminal acts the WLAN master during at least one frame cycle and acts the WLAN slave during other frame cycles to conserve an untethered power source of the wireless terminal.
US09025572B2	Apparatus, system, and method for access procedure enhancements A mobile communication device for access procedure enhancement is provided. In the mobile communication device, a wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a service network. Also, a controller module transmits an access probe to the service network via the wireless module, and retransmits the access probe in response to not receiving an acknowledgement of the access probe from the service network via the wireless module in a waiting period of time. The waiting period of time is determined according to a coherence-time related offset. The controller module further repeats the retransmission of the access probe until the acknowledgement of the access probe is received from the service network via the wireless module.
US09025569B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring synchronization in code division multiple access system A method and an apparatus for acquiring downlink frame synchronization are provided. The method includes phase-rotating a mid-amble of a first Time Slot (TS) of a received sub-frame within an area and estimating a Channel Impulse Response (CIR), calculating a Maximum Likelihood (ML) between a downlink synchronization code of the received sub-frame and a downlink synchronization code generated in a terminal by using the estimated CIR, correlating downlink synchronization codes of a plurality of sub-frames and the downlink synchronization code generated and calculating ML values of the plurality of sub-frames with respect to the plurality of sub-frames corresponding to M Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs), and calculating hypothesis values of hypotheses according to a frequency interval and a phase offset of the generated downlink synchronization code based on the calculated ML values of the plurality of sub-frames and drawing a frequency offset and a hypothesis corresponding to a maximum value.
US09025564B2	Method and apparatus for handover in a mobile communication system A method and apparatus for minimizing data forwarding between Evolved Node Bs (ENBs) during handover. A User Equipment (UE) sends a status report for RLC PDUs that have suffered a change in status, to an ENB of a source cell immediately before handover occurs, thus preventing RLC PDUs which have been successfully transmitted, but for which ACK signals have not yet been received, from being forwarded.
US09025561B2	Transmitter, receiver and radio communication method The present invention aims to provide a transmitter, a receiver and a radio communication method capable of preventing any increase in overhead due to insertion of reference signals without deteriorating the channel estimation accuracy. The radio communication method is provided for mapping reference signals to radio resources of a plurality of layers and transmitting the reference signals, having the steps of: generating the reference signals; oversampling the reference signals; and mapping the oversampled reference signals to resource elements of the layers respectively. Reference signals to be mapped to different layers are subjected to frequency division multiplexing in resource elements of same time and frequency domains.
US09025560B2	Method and device for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information through a PUCCH in a wireless system and to a device therefore, the method comprising the following steps: receiving a first modulation symbol and a second modulation symbol from the control information; diffusing in a frequency domain, the first modulation symbol to a plurality of subcarriers; diffusing in a time domain, the first modulation symbol diffused in the frequency domain to a plurality of contiguous first SC-FDMA symbols; diffusing in the frequency domain, the second modulation symbol to a plurality of subcarriers; diffusing in the time domain, the second modulation symbol diffused in the frequency domain to the plurality of contiguous first SC-FDMA symbols; and transmitting the diffused first modulation symbol and the second modulation symbol through the PUCCH.
US09025558B2	Method for setting modulation and coding scheme in wireless ran system and apparatus supporting the same A method of transmitting data by a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmitter in a wireless local area network system. The method includes transmitting by the MU-MIMO transmitter, a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU), the PPDU including a bundled interface field, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index field and a data field; and transmitting, by the MU-MIMO transmitter, the PPDU to a receiving station. The bundled interface field indicates a number of a plurality of spatial streams allocated to the receiving station. The MCS index field indicates a same MCS index used for modulating and coding all of the plurality of spatial streams indicated by the bundled interface field. The data field is modulated and coded by an MCS scheme indicated by the MCS index field and transmitted via the plurality of spatial streams indicated by the bundled interface field.
US09025557B2	Wireless communications system, wireless communications apparatus, wireless communications method and computer program for wireless communication In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals.
US09025555B2	Method and apparatus for establishing network in wireless network The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for establishing a network in a wireless network. The method includes: a wireless station selects a working channel and a primary channel which satisfy a bandwidth requirement and an interference level in a channelized set within a given frequency band according to local configuration information and/or through channel scanning and interference detection; and the wireless station establishes a network according to the selected working channel and primary channel. Through the disclosure, a wireless network compatible with the current Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) can be established according to the configuration information or scanning result when the wireless station supports multiple channelized set schemes within a given frequency band, and the utilization of available spectrum resources is maximized.
US09025552B2	Cross-domain multi-media resource identification system and method thereof The invention provides a cross-domain multi-media resource identification system and a method thereof. The method includes: the first router transmits the first equipment list of the first LAN to the second router; the second router transmits the second equipment list of the second LAN to the first router; a first electronic device transmits a read request to the second router through the first router when the first electronic device in the first LAN intends to obtain a specific multi-media file of a second electronic device in the second LAN; the second router returns a text message file to the first router; the first router converts the specific internal internet address into an actual external internet address according to the text message file; the first electronic device plays the specific multi-media file according to the actual external internet address.
US09025550B2	Coordinated multipoint resource management A method for resource management includes determining a Coordinated Multi-point Processing (CoMP) resource management set of a user equipment (UE), receiving a set of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) at the UE from a transmission point (TP) included within the CoMP resource management set, determining a resource management parameter based upon the CSI-RS signals, and sending the determined resource management parameter to the TP. The CoMP resource management set includes a plurality of candidate TPs for which downlink communication may be established with the UE.
US09025548B2	ARQ system with status and packet acknowledgement A communication system comprises a downlink indicator channel (DL1) for the transmission of a indicator signal (302) indicating that a data packet (202) is scheduled to be transmitted on a downlink data channel (DLz) from a primary station to a secondary station. In operation, on detection of the indicator signal, the secondary station transmits a status signal, for example a negative acknowledgement signal (204), on an uplink channel (UL) to the primary station immediately before transmission of a positive (206) or negative acknowledgement signal to indicate the status of the received data packet. By providing the primary station with two chances to detect the case where the secondary station fails to detect the indicator signal, peak power requirements of the uplink channel can be reduced, thereby reducing system interference levels.
US09025540B2	WLAN channel allocation An available frequency band for communication is determined, and a subset of communication channels from possible communication channels within the available frequency band is determined based on the available frequency band. A communication channel is selected from the subset of communication channels, and the selected communication channel is utilized to communicate with one or more communication devices.
US09025535B2	Application-based biasing of frequency bands A method performed by a network device includes receiving a request for a service or an application and determining a type of the service or the application selecting a frequency band to provide the service or the application from among multiple frequency bands, where a selection of the frequency band is based on the type of the service or the application. The method further includes providing the service or the application on the selected frequency band.
US09025532B2	Cellphone WLAN access point An integrated cell phone/WLAN AP for providing cell phone functionality and cellular-based data connectivity to a WLAN enabled device. The cell phone AP comprises a WLAN radio, a WLAN AP coupled to the WLAN radio, a cellular radio coupled to the WLAN radio, for communicatively connecting to a cellular system having a cellular-based data service and passing data between the WLAN-enabled device and the cellular system, a cell phone function block coupled to the cellular radio for providing conventional cell phone functionality, and a power supply.
US09025522B2	Providing network connectivity based on device mobility A device receives an attachment request from a user device, and determines whether the user device is a stationary device based on the attachment request. The device further establishes a connection between the user device and a network by using local components associated with the device when the user device is the stationary device. The local components perform functions performed by one or more of a remote mobility management entity (MME) device, a remote serving gateway (SGW), or a remote packet data network (PDN) gateway (PGW) associated with the device. The device also transmits data from the network to the user device via the local components associated with the device after establishing the connection between the user device and the network.
US09025520B2	Apparatus supporting an MBMS service Provided is a method and apparatus that may control a configuration and operation of a network including a base station to support a multicast and broadcast multimedia service in a cellular system and may control an operation of a terminal and the like, and thus, may effectively provide a multimedia service in the cellular system.
US09025513B2	Communication apparatus In the game device, a period coefficient acquirer 102 extracts a first period coefficient as a factor for determining a communication period from game data. A communication manager 108 manages the status of connection with at least one communication terminal and a period coefficient deriving unit 106 derives a second period coefficient as a factor for determining a communication period from the status of connection. A period determiner 104 determines a communication period for communication with a game controller based on the first period coefficient and the second period coefficient. A correspondence table holder 120 retains a correspondence table of the status of connection and the second period coefficient, and a period coefficient deriving unit 106 refers to the correspondence table and derives the second period coefficient.
US09025510B2	Method for eliminating interference in multi-node system and terminal using method thereof An interference elimination method performed by a first terminal in a multi-node system and an apparatus for the same are provided. The method includes receiving information from a node related to a second precoding matrix that is applied to a second signal to be transmitted to a second terminal; receiving a first signal to which a first precoding matrix is applied from the node; and eliminating an interference signal contained in the first signal based on the information on related to the second precoding matrix.
US09025506B2	Wireless communication device, wireless communication system and wireless communication method According to an embodiment, a wireless communication device configured to perform an intermittent receiving operation during standby includes a frame detection monitoring unit and a timer unit. The frame detection monitoring unit is configured to monitor detection of a frame during a receiving operation in the intermittent receiving operation. The timer unit is configured to extend a period of the receiving operation when receiving a notice of detection of the frame from the frame detection monitoring unit, and to extend the period of the receiving operation again when receiving again the notice of detection of the frame from the frame detection monitoring unit during an extended period of the receiving operation.
US09025504B2	Bandwidth efficiency in a wireless communications network A method of processing a signal for transmission, the method comprising: determining a quality of a first portion of the signal; and if the quality satisfies a threshold criterion then aggregating a representation of the first portion of the signal with a representation of a subsequent portion of the signal.
US09025502B2	Mobile communication system and method for transmitting/receiving signal thereof A method of transmitting a signal in a base station is provided. The method includes filtering a signal to be transmitted through a filter, power amplifying the filtered signal to generate nonlinear harmonic components corresponding to a first frequency band and a second frequency band, separating the nonlinear harmonic components according to the first frequency band and the second frequency band such that nonlinear harmonic components corresponding to the first frequency band passes through a first frequency band duplexer and nonlinear harmonic components corresponding to the second frequency band passes through a second frequency band duplexer, and transmitting the separated nonlinear harmonic components.
US09025500B2	Simultaneous bidirectional transmission for radio systems Disclosed are methods, systems, and apparatus for maximizing the spectral efficiency of a communications spectrum by providing a means to transmit information continuously in both directions of a radio link on the same center frequency at any given time. One embodiment may be directed to a method of communicating in a point-to-point radio system. The method may include receiving a first signal at a first antenna of a radio head. The first signal may include a transmitted data signal and interfering signals. The method continues by determining a correction signal from a transmitter of the radio head and processing the first signal to remove the interfering signals using the correction signal, and sending a second signal using a second antenna. The first and second signals may be sent and received at substantially the same time.
US09025495B1	Flexible routing engine for a PCI express switch and method of use A system and method are disclosed for a flexible routing engine in a PCIe switch. The system may include a switch manager that is enabled, through firmware, to configure one or more routing tables associated with a switch stack of a PCIe switch. The method may include receiving a configuration transaction layer packet at the switch manager of a PCIe switch, running firmware at the switch manager to identify a desired behavior of a switch stack of the switch and updating one or more routing tables associated with switch stack.
US09025493B2	Establishment of ad-hoc networks between multiple devices A method of configuring an ad-hoc wireless network between an authenticator and a plurality of wireless devices seeking authentication includes assigning a wireless device as the authenticator and receiving a first setup message transmitted from a first device seeking authentication to the authenticator and initiating a first handshake process between the authenticator and the first device seeking authentication. The method also includes receiving a second setup message transmitted from a second device seeking authentication to the authenticator. The second setup message is received by the authenticator prior to completion of the first handshake process. The method further includes initiating a second handshake process between the authenticator and the second device seeking authentication. The second handshake process is initiated prior to completion of the first handshake process. Moreover, the method includes completing the first handshake process and completing the second handshake process.
US09025492B2	Tunnel multiplexing method for linear protection group and tail-node of tunnel The present document relates to a tunnel multiplexing method for a linear protection group and a tunnel tail node. The method includes: setting linear protection configuration information, wherein a public network label is configured associatively with an active/standby status of its corresponding tunnel, and a private network label is configured associatively with an active/standby status of a valid tunnel of a protection group corresponding to the private network label; after receiving a data message, a tunnel tail node searching for active/standby status corresponding to the public network label and the private network label according to the public network label and the private network label in the data message, and judging whether the active/standby status corresponding to the public network label is consistent with the active/standby status corresponding to the private network label; if consistent, the tunnel tail node forwarding the data message, and if inconsistent, discarding the data message.
US09025489B2	Method of configuring radio resource by a MAC layer of terminal in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and user equipment providing wireless communication services, and a method of transmitting and receiving data between a terminal and a base station in an evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) that has evolved from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, and more particularly, to a method of configuring radio resource(s) by a MAC layer of the terminal, and it may be an object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of configuring radio resource(s) in a wireless communication system in order to minimize the waste of the radio resource(s) and/or the contention of the radio resource.
US09025472B2	Technique for radio resource management A technique for radio resource management is proposed for controlling a wireless transceiver in a cellular communication system that comprises a scheduling channel configured to transport relative scheduling grants for signalling adjustments in transmission resources previously granted to the wireless transceiver. A method embodiment of this technique comprises the steps of deriving an amplitude parameter indicative of an instantaneous amplitude level of the scheduling channel, determining a threshold value taking into account the amplitude parameter, processing a scheduling signal received over the scheduling channel to obtain a signal sample comprising a relative scheduling grant, and subjecting the signal sample to a threshold decision based on the threshold value to decode the relative scheduling grant.
US09025461B2	Power optimized behavior in mesh networks Mesh communications aspects are disclosed in which multiple mobile devices located within a communication area perform direct communication to establish a mesh network. Each device node included in the mesh network provides power profile information to the other nodes on the network. As mesh messages are generated for transmission by the nodes onto the mesh network, an adaptive routing mechanism determines the transmission route based on the power profile of the proposed target node. The selective and adaptive routing determination allows for power to be efficiently conserved within the mesh network.
US09025458B2	Reducing congestion of media delivery over a content delivery network A device may receive a packet that includes priority information that is based on a priority assigned to bits included in the packet. The priority may be assigned based on scalable code used to encode the bits for transmission. The device may determine that an indicator of network congestion satisfies a threshold, and may schedule the packet for transmission to a user device based on the priority information and the determination that the indicator satisfies the threshold.
US09025456B2	Speculative reservation for routing networks Aspects relate to methods, devices and manufacturing relating to routing networks including a method for routing data units. The data units are individually routable through a routing network. A reservation request data unit is received over the routing network and from a sender. At least one speculative data unit associated with the reservation request data unit from the sender is received. The at least one speculative data unit is dropped in response to the at least one speculative data unit being blocked within the routing network. The sender is provided, over the routing network, a negative acknowledgement data unit that indicates the dropping of the at least one speculative data unit. The sender is provided a grant data unit indicating a start time. After the start time, at least one non-speculative data unit corresponding to the reservation request from the sender is received.
US09025452B2	Oversubscription monitor Aspects of oversubscription monitoring are described. In one embodiment, oversubscription monitoring includes accumulating an amount of data that arrives at a network component over at least one epoch of time. Further, a core processing rate at which data can be processed by the network component is calculated. Based on the amount of data and the core processing rate, it is determined whether the network component is operating in an oversubscribed region of operation. In one embodiment, when the network component is operating in the oversubscribed region of operation, certain quality of service metrics are monitored. Using the monitored metrics, a network operation display object may be generated for identifying or troubleshooting network errors during an oversubscribed region of operation of the network component.
US09025435B2	Optimized seam allocation in an ethernet ring network A method of managing a ring network. Bandwidth utilization metrics indicative of traffic flows within the network are derived. An optimal seam location is calculated based on the bandwidth utilization metrics. A channel block can be implemented at the calculated optimal seam location. The optimal seam location can be selected to balance traffic flows in the network, and can be updated as the distribution of traffic evolves over time.
US09025431B2	Wireless terminal apparatus and wireless base station apparatus Both a wireless terminal apparatus and wireless base station apparatus are provided that can, in an operation of encoding the control signals of the upstream link transmitted from the multiple terminal stations while encoding with regard to each of the terminal stations, increase a number of the terminal stations to which different codes are respectively assigned. A wireless terminal apparatus includes: an encoding information receiving portion receiving encoding information which is used at the wireless terminal apparatus from the base station; a phase-shifting unit which conducts a phase-shifting operation on a predetermined first code based on the encoding information; a code selection unit which, based on the received encoding information, selects a second code from multiple codes orthogonally crossing each other; and a control signal encoding portion which conducts an encoding operation on the control signal that is going to be transmitted to the base station by using both the first code on which the phase-shifting operation has been conducted and the second code.
US09025429B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting SRS in LTE TDD system A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting an uplink Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) by a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving information related to an SRS period and an offset for an SRS transmission; generating the uplink SRS; and when the information indicates the SRS period is 2 ms, transmitting the SRS in two Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SCFDMA) symbols in a half frame according to the offset for the SRS transmission. When the information indicates the SRS period is 2 ms and a length of an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) in the half frame is two symbols, a first symbol in the UpPTS is indicated by offset 0 and a second symbol in the UpPTS is indicated by offset 1.
US09025419B2	Universal timepiece The universal timepiece comprises a winter/summer switching mechanism (27, 29, 31, 25, 19, 19H, 19E, 20, 20H, 20E, 21, 21E, 21H, 22, 22E, 22H, 23, 23E, 23H, 11, 11A, 12, 12A, 13, 13A, 14, 14A, 15, 15A, 17) arranged to be driven intermittently by the movement to selectively displace some of the geographic indications carried by the dial (3) by 1/24th of a turn in order to change by one hour the local time associated with these geographic indications during a change from winter time to summer time or from summer time to winter time.
US09025410B2	Semiconductor memory devices and semiconductor system having parameters, and methods of testing the same A semiconductor memory device may be effectively evaluated by a test that compares the phase of an internally generated control signal with the phase of an internally generated clock signal. Specifically, if the phase of the internal data strobe signal IDQS is synchronized with the phase of the internal clock signal ICLK through the test, the data strobe signal DQS may also be synchronized with the external clock signal CLK. Thus, the test may prevent certain critical parameters, for example, AC parameter tDQSCK, from being out of an allowable range over PVT (process, voltage, and temperature variation). The test helps ensure that the semiconductor memory device will operate properly in read mode.
US09025407B2	Apparatus and methods to provide power management for memory devices An apparatus, such as a nonvolatile solid-state memory device, may, in some implementations, include access line bias circuitry to set a bias level associated with a deselected access line(s) of a memory core in response to mode information. In one approach, access line bias circuitry may use linear down regulation to change a voltage level on deselected access lines of a memory core. A memory access device, such as a host processor, may be provided that is capable of dynamically setting a mode of operation of a memory core of a memory device in order to manage power consumption of the memory. Other apparatuses and methods are also provided.
US09025406B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit and method of driving the same A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a fuse circuit comprising a fuse configured to generate a fuse state signal corresponding to a rupture state of the fuse in response to an enable signal, a fuse state decision unit configured to determine whether or not the fuse state signal is normal based on a test signal, and generate an output enable signal according to a determination result, and a driving unit configured to output the fuse state signal in response to the output enable signal.
US09025394B2	Memory devices and control methods thereof A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a first signal line, a memory cell array, first and second voltage adjustment circuits. The memory cell array is divided into first and second areas and includes first memory cells in the first area and second memory cells in the second area. The first and second memory cells are coupled the first signal line. Each of the first and second memory cells has a reference node. The first voltage adjustment circuit adjusts voltages at the reference nodes of the first memory cells. The second voltage adjustment circuit adjusts voltages at the reference nodes of the second memory cells. The reference nodes of the first memory cells are coupled to a ground through the first voltage adjustment circuit. The reference nodes of the second memory cells are coupled to the ground through the second voltage adjustment circuit.
US09025393B2	Method of optimizing solid state drive soft retry voltages A method of optimizing solid state drive (SSD) soft retry voltages comprises limiting a number of voltage reads and properly spacing and determining the reference voltage at which each voltage is read based on desired Bit Error Rate (BER) and channel throughput. The method determines each reference voltage for a number of soft retry voltage reads based on a hard decision read. The spacing between each read reference voltage is constant since each SSD type requires a number of reads for an accurate presentation of soft retry voltages. The voltage distance between each successive read is limited to a multiple of the constant spacing while the multiple is based on success or failure of the first read. The method determines a limited number of reads, the constant spacing between reads, and a desired reference voltage for each read, thereby increasing valuable throughput of the channel and decreasing BER.
US09025392B1	Memory device with reduced neighbor memory cell disturbance In one embodiment, an apparatus, such as a memory device, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory cell, digit line driver, access line driver, clamping element, and control circuit. The memory cell and clamping element can be both coupled to a digit line. The control circuit can be configured to cause the clamping element to clamp the voltage of the digit line for a period of time while the digit line driver is caused to bias the digit line at a voltage level sufficient to enable selection of the memory cell. In addition, the control circuit can be configured to cause the access line driver to bias an access line coupled to memory cell when the voltage of the digit line is at the voltage level sufficient to enable selection of the memory cell.
US09025390B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device which performs improved erase operation According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and a control unit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix. The control unit erases data of the memory cells. The control unit interrupts the erase operation of the memory cells and holds an erase condition before the interrupt in accordance with a first command during the erase operation, and resumes the erase operation based on the held erase condition in accordance with a second command.
US09025388B2	Method for kink compensation in a memory This disclosure concerns memory kink compensation. One method embodiment includes applying a number of sequentially incrementing programming pulses to a memory cell, with the sequential programming pulses incrementing by a first programming pulse step voltage magnitude. A seeding voltage is applied after applying the number of sequentially incrementing programming pulses. A next programming pulse is applied after applying the seeding voltage, with the next programming pulse being adjusted relative to a preceding one of the sequentially incrementing programming pulses by a second programming pulse step voltage magnitude. The second programming pulse step voltage magnitude can be less than the first programming pulse step voltage magnitude.
US09025378B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device has a memory block including memory strings with first and second selection transistors at opposite ends of the memory strings. A bit line is connected to the first selection transistor of each memory string and a sense amplifier is connected to the bit line. The memory block includes word lines connected to each memory cell transistor in the memory strings. The memory device also includes a controller to control an erase operation that includes applying an erase voltage to the word lines, addressing a first memory string by applying a selection voltage to a gate electrode of first and second selection transistors of the first memory string, then applying an erase verify voltage to the word lines and using the sense amplifier to read data of memory cell transistors in the first memory string, then addressing a second memory string without first discharging the word lines.
US09025377B2	Method of operating semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a method of operating a semiconductor memory device is disclosed. The method can include storing read-only data in at least one selected from a memory cell of an uppermost layer and a memory cell of a lowermost layer of a plurality of memory cells connected in series via a channel body. The channel body extends upward from a substrate to intersect a plurality of electrode layers stacked on the substrate. The method can include prohibiting a data erase operation of the read-only memory cell having the read-only data stored in the read-only memory cell.
US09025372B2	Large array of upward pointing p-i-n diodes having large and uniform current A monolithic three-dimensional memory array is provided that includes a first memory level and a second memory level disposed above or below the first memory level. The first memory level includes a plurality of vertically oriented p-i-n diodes that each include a bottom heavily doped p type region. The second memory level includes a plurality of vertically oriented p-i-n diodes that each include a bottom heavily doped n type region. Numerous other aspects are also provided.
US09025367B1	Method and apparatus for sensing tunnel magneto-resistance In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: an MRAM (magnetic random access memory) cell array comprising a plurality of MRAM cells including a calibration cell and a plurality of data cells; a reference MRAM cell controlled by a control signal; and a sensing-amplifier/latch; wherein: said plurality of data cells are used for storing user data; the calibration cell is used for a calibration purpose; the reference MRAM cell serves as a reference for comparison with a MRAM cell selected within the MRAM cell array; the sensing-amplifier/latch outputs a logical signal based on comparing a resistance of the MRAM cell selected within the MRAM cell array and a resistance of the reference MRAM cell; and the control signal is established in a calibration process by comparing a resistance of the calibration cell with the resistance of the reference MRAM cell.
US09025366B2	Main memory system storing operating system program and computer system including the same A main memory system is provided which includes a nonvolatile memory including a first memory area designated to store an operating system program and a second memory area designated to store user data; and a memory controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory such that the operating system program is loaded onto the second memory area from the first memory area. The nonvolatile memory may be one of a phase change RAM, a resistive RAM, and a magnetic RAM.
US09025352B2	Transformer tap-changing circuit and method of making same A transformer tap-changing circuit comprises an apparatus that includes a transformer comprising a secondary winding configured to inductively couple to a primary winding when a current is passed through the primary winding from an energy source, a first rectifier coupled to the secondary winding and configured to rectify a first AC voltage from the secondary winding into a first DC voltage, and a second rectifier coupled to the secondary winding and configured to rectify a second AC voltage from the secondary winding into a second DC voltage. The apparatus also includes a DC bus coupled to the first and second rectifiers and configured to receive the first and second DC voltages therefrom, wherein the first AC voltage is higher than the second AC voltage, and wherein the first DC voltage is higher than the second DC voltage.
US09025348B2	Drive circuit A drive circuit drives a normally-on high-side switch Q1 and a normally-off low-side switch Q2 that form a series circuit connected in parallel with a DC power source. The drive circuit includes a controller 10 that outputs a control signal to turn on/off the high- and low-side switches, a rectifier D2 having a first end connected to a connection point of the high- and low-side switches, a capacitor C2 that is connected to a second end of the rectifier and a first end of the DC power source and serves as a power source for the controller, and a driver (A1, AND1, Q3, Q4) that turns on/off the high- and low-side switches according to the control signal from the controller and a voltage from the capacitor.
US09025340B2	Devices and stacked microelectronic packages with in-trench package surface conductors and methods of their fabrication Embodiments of methods for forming microelectronic device packages include forming a trench on a surface of a package body between exposed ends of first and second device-to-edge conductors, and forming a package surface conductor in the trench to electrically couple the first and second device-to-edge conductors. In one embodiment, the package surface conductor is formed by first forming a conductive material layer over the package surface, where the conductive material layer substantially fills the trench, and subsequently removing portions of the conductive material layer from the package surface adjacent to the trench. In another embodiment, the package surface conductor is formed by dispensing one or more conductive materials in the trench between the first and second exposed ends (e.g., using a technique such as spraying, inkjet printing, aerosol jet printing, stencil printing, or needle dispense). Excess conductive material may then be removed from the package surface adjacent to the trench.
US09025338B2	Fixing fitting of parts mounted on circuit board A fixing fitting includes a solder connecting plate part soldered and fixed to a surface of the circuit board by using a cream solder and a parts fixing part which is fixed to a connector to be mounted on the circuit board. On a solder connected surface of a lower surface of the solder connecting plate part, V grooves are formed which suck up the cream solder applied on the surface of the circuit board in accordance with a capillary phenomenon. Further, a plurality of communicating holes which communicate with tapered parts of the V grooves and can suck up the cream solder by the capillary phenomenon are bored from an upper surface to the lower surface of the solder connecting plate part with prescribed spaces provided between them in the direction where the V grooves extend.
US09025326B1	Server A server includes a server host including a tray, a main circuit, a left circuit board, a right circuit board, a rear circuit board, several first hard disk drives, several second hard disk drives and several third hard disk drives. The left, right and rear circuit boards are located at the left side, right side and rear side of the main circuit board, respectively, and all electrically connected to the main circuit board. The first hard disk drives are electrically connected to the main circuit board via the left and right circuit boards. The second hard disk drives are located at the left and right side of the rear circuit board. The third hard disk drives are located above the rear circuit board, and the second and third hard disk drives are electrically connected to the main circuit board via the rear circuit board.
US09025324B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes first and second bodies. The second body includes a display module and a supporting assembly. The supporting assembly includes a sliding component slidably disposed on the display module and a pivot component pivoted to the first body and the sliding component. When the second body expands from the first body through the rotation of the pivot component relative to the first body, the sliding component and the pivot component are adapted to rotate relative to each other so that a bottom side of the display module moves to a predetermined position on the first body. When the bottom side is located at the predetermined position, the sliding component and the display module are adapted to slide relative to each other so that the display module rotate around the bottom side, so as to change an included angle between the display module and the first body.
US09025322B2	Key control device for click pad The present disclosure relates to a key control device for click pad. The key control device is disposed below a click pad of a notebook computer, and comprises a frame and a sliding lever. The click pad is disposed at the frame. When a plurality of positioning parts of the sliding lever are interlocked with a plurality of locking parts of the frame, the frame and the click pad cannot have up-and-down movements and thus shutting down the key functions of the click pad. When the plurality of positioning parts of the sliding lever are not interlocked with the plurality of locking parts of the frame, the frame and the click pad can have up-and-down movements and thus activating the key functions of the click pad. Thereby, the key control device according to the present disclosure can control the activation or shutdown of the key functions of the click pad.
US09025316B2	Inkjet-printed flexible electronic components from graphene oxide An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).
US09025315B2	Electrochemical energy storage device with flexible metal current collector Electrochemical energy storage devices such as electric double layer capacitors include a flexible metal contact current collector establishing electrical contact with a conductive housing at numerous contact points. The flexible current collector simplifies manufacturing of the device and avoids laser welding on the conductive housing. The manufacture devices are operable with a reduced direct current resistance by virtue of the flexible current collector.
US09025314B2	Microporous separator-film for double-layer capacitors The invention relates to a biaxially orientated, single or multi-layered porous film made of propylene homopolymer and/or propylene block copolymer and ss-nucleation agent. Said film has a Gurley value of between 50 to <400 s and shrinkage in the longitudinal direction of <5% at 100 DEG C./1 hour, and a transverse shrinkage of <10% at 100 DEG C./1 hour.
US09025313B2	Energy storage devices with at least one porous polycrystalline substrate In one embodiment, a structure for a energy storage device may include at one polycrystalline substrate. The grain size may be designed to be at least a size at which phonon scattering begins to dominate over grain boundary scattering in the polycrystalline substrate. The structure also includes a porous structure containing multiple channels within the polycrystalline substrate.
US09025312B2	Electric double layer capacitor A collector for an electric double layer capacitor including a conductive sheet, and a film adhered on surface of the conductive sheet and including carbon fine particle and polysaccharide and/or cross-linked polysaccharide. An electrode for an electric double layer capacitor including a collector having a conductive sheet and a film adhered on surface of the conductive sheet, and a film including activated carbon and adhered on surface of the film of the collector. The film of the collector includes carbon fine particle and polysaccharide and/or cross-linked polysaccharide. An electric double layer capacitor including an electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte. The electrode includes a collector having a conductive sheet and a film adhered on surface of the conductive sheet, and a film including activated carbon and adhered on surface of the film of the collector. The film of the collector includes carbon fine particle and polysaccharide and/or cross-linked polysaccharide.
US09025310B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body having first and second side surfaces and third and fourth end surfaces, a plurality of internal electrodes and having one ends exposed to the third or fourth end surface, and first and second side margin parts formed so that an average thickness from the first and second side surfaces to edges of the internal electrodes is 18 μm or less, wherein when the first or second side margin part is divided into two regions by a virtual line obtained by connecting mid points of distances between the edges of the internal electrodes and points at which lines extended from the internal electrodes contact the first or second side surface, when a region adjacent to the internal electrodes is defined as S1 and a porosity of S1 is defined as P1, P1 is in a range of 1 to 20 (1≦P1≦20).
US09025305B2	High surface resistivity electrostatic chuck In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an electrostatic chuck. The electrostatic chuck comprises an electrode, and a surface layer activated by a voltage in the electrode to form an electric charge to electrostatically clamp a substrate to the electrostatic chuck, the surface layer including a charge control layer comprising a surface resistivity of greater than about 1011 ohms per square.
US09025296B2	Transient voltage suppressor A transient voltage suppressor may include a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) having an anode coupled to Vcc. The SCR may include a PNP transistor (Q2) and an NPN transistor (Q3), the PNP transistor having a base in common with a collector of the NPN transistor and the PNP transistor having a collector in common with a base of the NPN transistor. The TVS may further include a Zener diode having an anode and cathode, wherein the anode is directly coupled to the base of the NPN transistor and/or the cathode is directly coupled to the base of the PNP transistor, and an additional NPN transistor (Q1). The cathode of the SCR may be directly coupled to a base of the additional NPN transistor, and a collector and emitter of the additional NPN transistor may be directly coupled in series between VCC and ground.
US09025295B2	Protective device and protective module A protective device includes a substrate, an electrode layer, a metal structure, an outer cover and an arc extinguishing structure. The electrode layer is disposed on the substrate. The electrode layer includes at least one gap. The metal structure is disposed on the electrode layer and located above the gap, and the metal structure has a melting temperature lower than a melting temperature of the electrode layer. The outer cover is disposed on the substrate and covers the metal structure and a portion of the electrode layer. The arc extinguishing structure is disposed between the outer cover and the substrate. A protective module is further provided.
US09025291B2	Protective device and method for preventing supply voltage sag of microcontroller from sagin electronic cigarette A protective device and method for preventing supply voltage of microcontroller from sag in electronic cigarette is provided, comprising a microcontroller, a power supply module, a field effect transistor, an energy storage circuit, wherein, the energy storage circuit is connected between the microcontroller and the power supply module, the energy storage circuit supplies electric power to the microcontroller when an over current or short circuit occurs, and maintains the supply voltage of the microcontroller not being less than its minimal operating voltage in a certain period of time; the microcontroller processes the over current or short circuit signal and turns off the MOSFET to cut off the current flow in a load circuit. The unstable or uncontrollable phenomena of the microcontroller in the existing technology are resolved. The circuit of the present invention is simple and low cost.
US09025279B2	Pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet and magnetic disk drive A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet according to the present invention includes a base including a metal layer, a first plastic film layer A, and a second plastic film layer B and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a surface of the second plastic film B. The metal layer is positioned between the first plastic film layer A and the second plastic film layer B. The metal layer has a thickness of 2 μm to 15 μm. A total of a thickness Ta of the first plastic film layer A and a thickness Tb of the second plastic film layer B is within a range of 25 μm to 70 μm.
US09025276B1	Space efficient enclosures for different sized drives Systems and manufacturing methods are disclosed herein that can beneficially reduce manufacturing cost while providing size efficient enclosures to house hard drives or other types of storage drives. An enclosure system can be used for separately housing one of two storage devices having different thicknesses. A first portion can be interchangeable with both storage devices. Second and third portions can each have a thickness to size efficiently accommodate the thickness of one storage device. Each of the second and third portions has an engagement surface to engage the first portion forming an enclosure. Either the first portion, or both second and third portions can comprise an opening or a shock mounting element. When the opening or the shock mounting element are on both the second and third portions, the opening or the shock mounting element is collectively identically spaced from the engagement surface on both the second and third portions.
US09025266B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device, magnetic disk storage device, and electronic apparatus A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a p-type substrate to which a ground voltage is applied and a floating-type NMOSFET which is integrated on the p-type substrate and to which a negative voltage lower than the ground voltage is applied. The floating-type NMOSFET includes an n-type buried layer buried in the p-type substrate, a high voltage n-type well formed on the n-type buried layer and floats electrically, a p-type drift region formed in the n-type well, an n-type drain region and an-type source region formed in the p-type drift region, and a gate electrode formed on a channel region interposed between the n-type drain region and the n-type source region. The high voltage n-type well includes an n-type tunnel region, with a higher impurity concentration than that of the high voltage n-type well, inside a peripheral region formed so as to surround the p-type drift region.
US09025264B1	Methods for measuring media performance associated with adjacent track interference Methods for measuring media performance associated with adjacent track interference are provided. One such method includes iteratively writing data to a target track for each of a plurality of n frequencies, measuring a first signal amplitude and a first noise for each of the n sectors on the target track, writing an aggressor track pattern proximate the target track, measuring a second signal amplitude and a second noise for each of the n sectors on the target track, calculating a weighted sum for each of the signal amplitude measurements for each of the plurality of n frequencies, and calculating a weighted sum for each of the noise measurements for each of the plurality of n frequencies, and repeating the writing the aggressor track pattern, the measuring the second signal amplitude and the second noise, and calculating the weighted sums for preselected numbers of times.
US09025263B2	Write current and fly height adjustment for compensating media coercivity variation A data storage device with compensation for coercivity variations in a magnetic disk storage medium is disclosed. Two procedures are executed to perform the coercivity compensation. In a first procedure, typically performed prior to writing of data, the coercivity at a number of locations on the disk is measured and stored. A second procedure writes data to locations on a magnetic disk storage medium having varying coercivities. To maintain writing widths within predefined limits, a writing parameter is varied according to a predetermined relationship between the value of the writing parameter and the coercivity. Choices of writing parameter comprise the writing current and fly height. The method may be employed for both data writing and self-servo writing of servo patterns.
US09025262B1	Systems and methods for asymmetry detection based on a synchronization mark Systems and methods are provided for evaluating an asymmetry metric. A receiver receives a synchronization signal, a filtered signal, and a reference signal. A processor processes the synchronization signal and the reference signal to obtain a peak indicator signal, identifies a first set of values and a second set of values from the filtered signal based at least in part on the peak indicator signal, and evaluates an asymmetry metric from the first set of values and the second set of values.
US09025244B2	Illuminating system and an optical viewing apparatus incorporating said illuminating system An illuminating system (21) is provided for an optical viewing apparatus (1) which can be operated in a fluorescence mode. The illuminating system includes at least one broadband light source (31) for illuminating a viewed object (3) and at least one narrowband light source (37) for exciting fluorescence in the viewed object (3) and/or for background illumination in the fluorescence mode. The illuminating system further includes a light conductor (23) having a light source end inlet end (49) and an outlet end (25) facing toward the viewed object. Furthermore, the illuminating system (21, 210) includes a superposer (43) for superposing the light of the narrowband light source (37) with the light of the broadband light source (31). The superposer (43) is mounted at the inlet end (49) or at the light source side ahead of the inlet end (49) of the light conductor (23).
US09025239B2	Multi-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier A double-clad (DC) multicore (MC) Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) for dense-wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) is disclosed. The DC-MC-EDFA comprises a length of DC-MC Erbium-doped fiber (EDF) that is core-matched spliced to a MC tapered signal-pump fiber combiner (TFC). For some embodiments, the optical signals are coupled into the DC-MC-EDF by the MC-TFC, and the pump energy is also coupled into the DC-MC-EDF by the MC-TFC. For some embodiments, the optical signals are also transmitted out of the DC-MC-EDF through the MC-TFC.
US09025229B2	Electromagnetically actuated microshutter The invention relates to an electromagnetically actuated microshutter comprising: a moveable plate that can rotate about an axis, connected to a stationary frame by two arms aligned on both sides of the plate to said axis, and comprising on its periphery a conductive loop; and below the assembly formed by the stationary frame and the moveable plate, a group of magnets having distinct magnetic orientations, arranged in such a manner so as to create, in regard to the moveable plate, a lateral magnetic field, in the plane of the frame, oblique in relation to the axis of rotation.
US09025224B2	Image-color-correcting method using a multitouch screen A method for correcting the color of an image using a multi-touch capable touch-screen of a digital device used for photo or video equipment. The method turns away from the traditional three ways color correction systems or slide system used for conventional color correction control device by effectively using movements of hands and the line of them. Accordingly, the number of controls for color correction of images may be reduced.
US09025221B2	Sheet conveying device and image reading apparatus A sheet conveying device including: a separating roller; a separating piece; and conveying rollers. The separating roller conveys each sheet along a predetermined conveying path in a conveyance direction. The separating piece provides a first nip position in cooperation with the outer peripheral surface of the separating roller for nipping a sheet or sheets therebetween. The conveying rollers are provided at positions downstream of the separating roller in the conveyance direction and provide a second nip position where the sheet is nipped therebetween for conveying the sheet conveyed by the separating roller in the conveyance direction. An imaginary flat plane is defined by connecting the first nip position and the second nip position. The separating piece has a portion positioned downstream of the first nip position and protruding toward the separating roller beyond the imaginary flat plane.
US09025217B2	Document, image forming apparatus, cover plate, image reading apparatus, image forming method, and image reading method There is provided a document, wherein a measurement image for measuring a position of an image relative to a document is formed on a first surface thereof, a designation image for designating a document position, at which the document is placed on an image reading apparatus that reads an image, is formed on a second surface thereof, and wherein the document is spaced from an end portion of a reading region of the image reading apparatus by placing the document in accordance with the designation of the designation image, and the designation image is formed such that the measurement image is placed in the reading region of the image reading apparatus.
US09025214B2	Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and computer-readable medium An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a character recognition unit, and a display unit for a display according to a language which is set. The reading unit reads out a document and generates image data. The character recognition unit recognizes a character included in the image data in order to orient the image data upright. The display unit displays information specifying an orientation of the character in the document with respect to the reading unit, when the language which is set is a language which is not recognizable by the character recognition unit.
US09025212B2	Scanner device and image forming apparatus having the same A scanner device according to one aspect of the present disclosure has a first mode for reading a normal object placed on a document table, and a second mode for reading a self-luminous object placed on the document table. The scanner device has a light detecting portion and a control portion. The light detecting portion detects light of an object placed on the document table. The control portion switches the reading mode between the first mode and the second mode on the basis of a detection result of the light detecting portion.
US09025194B2	Data transmission apparatus for transferring data to an output device for outputting data, printer, information processing apparatus, and control method thereof To reduce power consumption, a data transmission apparatus comprises: a memory; a timing instruction unit which indicates a start timing of outputting data from the memory; a first interface which outputs data stored in the memory according to the timing instruction unit; a second interface which transfers the data from the first interface to a buffer; and a control unit which issues a command to perform transition of the first interface and the second interface to a power saving state based on the data output start timing indicated by the timing instruction unit, and a sum of a time required to perform transition of the first interface and the second interface to the power saving state and a time required to return from the power saving state.

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