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US09253776B2	Adaptive transition of user equipment In a wireless communication system, a base station application hosted on a base station may be configured to change, or switch, a wireless communication device located in the range of a respective cell between an idle state and a connected state.
US09253774B2	Scheduling method in a short distance wireless personal area network The present invention relates to a method of allocating a transmission band to a terminal in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). The method includes: determining an allocation period of a transmission band on the basis of characteristic information that a terminal has; transmitting a transmission band request to a WPAN coordinator; and receiving information relating to the transmission band allocation from the WPAN coordinator. The transmission band request includes the allocation period of the transmission band determined by the terminal; and the transmission band allocation is determined based on the transmission band allocation period determined by the terminal.
US09253773B2	Method and apparatus for wirelessly transacting simultaneous voice and data on adjacent timeslots A wireless method, apparatus, and system provide simultaneous transacting of voice and data on adjacent timeslots through a combination of channel access rules and sacrificing small audio portions when required. This includes wirelessly operating on at least two timeslots which are adjacent to one another, operating voice on a first timeslot of the at least two timeslots and monitoring a second timeslot of the at least two timeslots for data, and, responsive to a data transmission request and receiving voice on the first timeslot, discarding a portion of the voice in the first timeslot to provide a larger guard time for programming between the first timeslot and the second timeslot and transmitting data in the second timeslot based on the data transmission request.
US09253769B2	Pilot signal assignment A base station and a method therein are provided for supporting pilot channel selection for a mobile station. A base station has disposal of at least two pilot channels in its cell, and determines pilot channel(s) out of the pilot channels suitable to use for the mobile station. If the determined pilot channel(s) is not currently being used by the mobile station, then the base station starts to transmit the determined pilot channel(s) signals to the mobile station and receives a confirmation from the mobile station confirming their use. If the mobile station was using another pilot channel of the pilot channels than the determined pilot channel(s) and if no other mobile station is using the other pilot channel, then the base station terminates transmission of the other pilot channel.
US09253767B2	PSMP-based downlink multi-user MIMO communications A scheduling-based downlink MU-MIMO mechanism is proposed in a wireless communication system. An access point transmits a first scheduling message to a plurality of stations. The first scheduling message reserves a first transmission burst for channel sounding. The AP then transmits a sounding signal and in response receives channel state information (CSI) from the plurality of stations. Based on the CSI, the AP performs MU-MIMO encoding and applies transmit beamforming (precoding). The AP transmits a second scheduling message that reserves a second transmission burst for MU-MIMO transmission. The AP then transmits downlink data streams to multiple stations simultaneously. Finally, the AP receives uplink acknowledgements from the stations. In one embodiment, the scheduling-based MU-MIMO is implemented using PSMP scheduling technique. PSMP-based downlink MU-MIMO allows both 802.11n and 802.11ac stations to process multiple spatial streams with reduced complexity, enhanced performance, and significant power saving.
US09253757B2	Devices and methods for information about PLMN ID A mobile station (110) for use in a Radio Access Network, RAN (102), connected to a core network (101) in which there is one or more Public Land Mobile Networks, PLMNs (103, 104, 105). The mobile station (110) is arranged to select one of said PLMNs (103, 104, 105), and is arranged to communicate with its RAN (102) by means of Radio Link Control, RLC, data blocks. The mobile station is arranged to include the identity, ID, of its selected PLMN in an RLC data block, and to inform the RAN (102) of the presence of the ID of the chosen PLMN in the RLC data block by means of including a reserved or pre-defined value in the length indication field of the RLC data block.
US09253754B2	Multi-band channel capacity for meter network A communication system that relays data messages from or to a plurality of remote endpoints via RF gateways to a data accumulation site over one of a series of communication channels. The communication system monitors the signal-to-noise ratio of communication from each individual endpoint, which can be utility meters and related control or monitoring points, to a gateway. Based upon a quality of service and/or the signal-to-noise ratio of the communication of the endpoints to the gateways, the system assigns a desired communication channel to the endpoint. Each of the desired communication channels have varying data transmission rate and required SNR and each channel is selected based upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the transmissions from the endpoint to the gateways. If the signal-to-noise ratio changes for an endpoint, the system dynamically reassigns a different channel to the meter based upon the updated signal-to-noise ratio.
US09253752B2	Asset tracking system activated by predetermined pattern of asset movement An asset tracking system that optimizes the value per ping by tying the ping to a pattern of movements of the asset. The asset tracking device will send a ping to a remote host (i.e., receiver) when pre-determined condition(s) regarding the movement are met, conditions such as the pattern of movement, and number of movements within a time period. In such a manner, the value per ping is optimized, leading to increased battery life and decreased operational cost. To satisfy these conditions, the asset tracking device is equipped with appropriate sensors, actuators, and trigger mechanism(s). The sensors and actuators detect movements and/or confirm or recognize a sequence of movements. When the detected movements and/or sequence of movements match a predetermined, recognized pattern or condition, the trigger mechanism is activated, after which a data ping is sent.
US09253741B2	Wireless communication system, terminal device, and base station device It is provided a wireless communication system, which secondarily uses the same frequency as a primary system using, the wireless communication system comprising a mobile terminal and a base station. The mobile terminal detects a signal having the frequency; and requests, in a case where a broadcast signal transmitted from the base station is undetectable, the base station to increase a transmission power to a range that a signal does not reach a service area of the primary system, based on a location of a wireless transmitter of the primary system, a location of the base station of the wireless communication system, and a location of the mobile terminal of the wireless communication system. The base station increases the transmission power to the range that the signal does not reach the service area of the primary system in case of receiving the request to increase the transmission power.
US09253731B2	User equipment and a method therein for transmission power control of uplink transmissions A UE and a method therein for transmission power control of uplink transmissions are provided. The method comprises receiving, through signalling a configuration indicating at least one reference signal, RS, and a reference transmission power level for each indicated RS. The method further comprises measuring received power of the indicated at least one RS, and for each measured received power, determining a pathloss, PL, based on the measured received power and the reference transmission power level for each measured received power. The method further comprises determining an uplink transmission power based on at least one determined PL.
US09253729B1	Method and apparatus facilitating power conservation in wireless user equipment A method facilitating power conservation in a wireless user equipment includes storing carrier aggregation information in a storage device at a wireless user equipment, monitoring a power level of a battery in the wireless user equipment during operation in a wireless network, and varying a current support capability for a carrier aggregation feature and the carrier aggregation information in relation to the power level of the battery such that less secondary component carriers are supported by the wireless user equipment as the power level of the battery decreases. The wireless user equipment including the storage device and at least one processor configured to monitor the power level of the battery and to vary the current support capability for the carrier aggregation feature and the carrier aggregation information in relation to the power level of the battery. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions associated with the method is also provided.
US09253728B2	Operating geographic location systems In general, in one aspect, a method includes receiving, on a mobile device, an indication that an application executing on the mobile device has entered a background state, determining, based on data received from a location system of the mobile device, that the mobile device has remained within a geographic area during a time interval, the geographic area being defined by a radius determined according to an application type of the application, and disabling at least a portion of the location system of the mobile device.
US09253727B1	Adaptive transmission energy consumption A method, of operating an end node to wirelessly communicate with a central node, includes: receiving wirelessly a current instance of a beacon signal periodically-transmitted from the central node; measuring a received power, PB-RX, of the beacon signal; reading locally-stored values of PB-TX and G representing a presumed transmitted power of the beacon signal and a performance goal of the end node, respectively; determining, for a given channel, a path loss, PL, based on the PB-RX and the PB-TX; and adaptively setting an energy level, EN-TX, of a forthcoming message to be transmitted from the end node based on PL and G.
US09253724B2	Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, and communication method Provided are a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a communication method thereof that may decrease power consumption of a terminal by reducing an amount of time used by the terminal to overhear a frame or a packet to be transmitted to another terminal, or an amount of time used to receive a frame or a packet to be transmitted to the terminal.
US09253714B2	Scheduling prioritized network searches for a multi-mode communication device A multi-mode communication device having a scan optimizer capable of prioritizing scan frequencies for different radio access technologies (RATs) during a network search. The scan frequency prioritization may be based on various network coverage considerations associated with RAT availability, RAT density within a region, geographic location, historic attachment for the multi-mode device, an operation mode of the multi-mode device, etc. The multimode device can utilize its scan optimizer to generate an optimized scan schedule to be employed for a limited duration during a network search to improve its likelihood of success in detecting and/or attaching to a network associated with a prioritized RAT. A default scan schedule having equal scan frequency prioritization can be employed by the multi-mode device at a time when the limited duration of the optimized scan schedule expires and no networks associated with a prioritized RAT have been acquired.
US09253710B2	Access control method and apparatus of UE A method for controlling delay tolerant access of a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device based on a backoff mechanism is provided. The method includes receiving, at a terminal, a paging message including an access barring information update indicator from a base station, and receiving a System Information Block (SIB) including updated access barring information, the SIB being received regardless of modification periods. The terminal receives the SIB including the updated access barring information immediately without waiting for the arrival of next modification period, resulting in improvement of access barring efficiency.
US09253706B2	Method, apparatus, and system for local routing authorization A method includes: respectively initiating a local routing authorization request to a first local routing policy entity and a second local routing policy entity according to service flow information of a first mobile station, so as to enable the first local routing policy entity to perform local routing authorization for the first mobile station and enable the second local routing policy entity to perform local routing authorization for the second mobile station; and when a local routing authorization result of the first mobile station and a local routing authorization result of the second mobile station are both success, transmitting, through local routing, a service flow corresponding to the service flow information of the first mobile station and a service flow corresponding to the service flow information of the second mobile station.
US09253704B1	Intelligence in handover assessment for LTE/VoLTE calls to improve retainability A system and method to sustain an on-going voice call or other service during a handover, HO, by preventing the handover to a target cell that fails to admit all the mandatory Radio Access Bearers, RABs, as part of supporting one or more Quality of Service Class Identifiers, QCIs, associated with the ongoing service. When the source evolved Node B, eNB, prevents the HO to the best target cell, it may attempt the HO to the next best target cell. If the next best cell fails to admit all the mandatory RABs and if there are no other intra-LTE or inter-LTE cells available for HO, the source eNB may perform an inter-Radio Access Technology, RAT, HO using the Single Radio Voice Call Continuity, SRVCC, procedure. By preventing “partial” handovers, the retainability of an ongoing service is significantly improved. The target cells causing failure of particular RABs can be tracked using new counters.
US09253690B2	Method and apparatus for controlling cell reselection Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for controlling cell reselection, which relate to the field of communication terminal technologies. The method includes: when the signal strength of a current serving cell of a terminal is lower than a set value and the duration of which exceeds a first time period, acquiring signal strengths of the current serving cell and a neighboring cell within a second time period; determining signal stability of the current serving cell according to the signal strength of the current serving cell, and determining signal stability of the neighboring cell according to a signal strength of the neighboring cell; and keep the current serving cell when the signal stability of the neighboring cell is not better than the signal stability of the current serving cell. The embodiments of the present application are mainly applied to a cell reselection process.
US09253681B1	Physical resource block allocation for TTI bundling A wireless network receives one or more data segments transmitted by a wireless communication device (WCD) in or more transmission time intervals (TTIs), estimates a size of a next data segment to be transmitted by the WCD based at least in part on sizes of the one or more data segments transmitted by the WCD, and allocates a quantity of uplink resources (e.g., a number of physical resource blocks) to the WCD for use in one or more subsequent TTIs (e.g., TTIs used for TTI bundling) based at least in part on the estimated size of the next data segment. The network may refer to an algorithm, such as a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control algorithm, that specifies how sizes of successive data segments increase over time to predict the size of the next data segment based on the sizes of the one or more data segments.
US09253669B2	Network analysis method, information processing device, and computer-readable recording medium A network analysis method performed by a computer, the network analysis method includes receiving packets from a wired network, extracting a plurality of continuous packets transmitted by a communication device, and a plurality of acknowledgement packets transmitted by a wireless communication device in response to the plurality of continuous packets, and determining whether a delay is due to a wireless communication between the wireless communication device and an access point, based on a time interval of the plurality of continuous packets, and a time interval of the plurality of acknowledgment packets.
US09253665B2	Method and apparatuses for initialising a radio base station It is presented a method for initializing a radio base station. The method comprises the steps, performed in the radio base station, of: obtaining location data for the radio base station; receiving a configuration message over a first communication link, the configuration message matching the location data for the radio base station and the configuration message comprising at least one connectivity parameter; and establishing, based on the at least one connectivity parameter, a connection with a core network over a second communication link, the second communication link being different from the first communication link. This means that the first communication link can be used to obtain connectivity using the configuration message intended for the radio base station with the matching location. A corresponding radio base station, computer program and computer program product are also presented.
US09253661B2	System and method for modifying connectivity fault management packets The disclosed embodiments include a system, computer program product, and method for modifying communications of a communications network. For example, in one embodiment, a computer implemented method for modifying communications of a communications network comprises receiving performance information packets that includes network performance information associated with the communications network, and transmitting a command to a specified access point based on the network performance information. In certain embodiments, the command instructs the specified access point to perform at least one of reconfiguring itself based on a particular set of configuration parameters, restarting itself, running diagnostic routines, increasing buffered data, refreshing a routing table, modifying a routing table, terminating a particular process or processes, and terminating all operations.
US09253653B2	Access point configuration based on received access point signals An access point is configured based on signals received from one or more access points on a forward link. Such an access point may comprise, for example, a relatively small coverage area access point and/or an access point that is deployed in an ad-hoc manner. In some aspects, an access point may determine its location based on signals received from several neighboring macro access points. In some aspects, the timing of an access point may be synchronized to timing indicated by signals that are received from one or more neighboring access points.
US09253652B1	Ad hoc formation of a swarm for information collection and distribution Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for ad hoc formation of a swarm for information collection and distribution. The swarm may be operable to aggregate information from a plurality of mobile devices in a specific area, wherein the information may be related by subject or category. The swarm may be formed in response to a triggering event, wherein the triggering event may be location based. Once the swarm is formed, it may provide access for users to information which may include photos, videos, audio, location information and environmental information.
US09253650B2	Radio base station and communication control method including uplink resource reallocation An eNB assigns, to a UE, a pair of a PDSCH resource and a PUSCH resource that overlaps, in frequency band, with the PDSCH resource; and derives antenna weight that should be applied to the PDSCH resource, on the basis of a DMRS transmitted from the UE by using the PUSCH resource. When the assignment of the PUSCH is changed to another UE, the eNB derives the antenna weight, on the basis of a past uplink reference signal transmitted from the UE in a past time zone earlier than the PUSCH resource and in a frequency band overlapping with the frequency band of the PDSCH resource.
US09253647B2	Mobile device for a smart relay network A wireless relay node network includes a plurality of relay devices wherein each relay device is configured to receive a first wireless signal in a first frequency band, and transmit a second wireless signal derived from the first wireless signal using a first set of network use parameters. The plurality of relay devices includes at least a first relay device and a second relay device. The first relay device is configured to select the first set of network use parameters from network resources available for communicating over the wireless relay node network based, at least in part, on a control signal received from the second relay device. The second control signal identifies a second set of network use parameters used by the second relay device.
US09253645B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling dedicated transmissions in response to interference levels at neighboring base stations A network apparatus for use in a wireless time division duplex (TDD) code division multiple access communication system includes a processor configured to allocate a time slot in a frame for a plurality of cells for transmission of data over a forward access channel (FACH). Each of the plurality of cells is allocated a different time slot in the frame for transmission of the data over the FACH.
US09253633B2	Method and mobile device for generating a data authentication key The invention relates to a method for generating a data authentication key for allowing data communication over a wireless channel between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, comprising: associating said mobile devices to each other by means of said key. The invention comprises: allowing a shared physical or mechanical condition to be applied generally simultaneously upon said devices; detecting, in said first mobile device, said condition; defining, in said first mobile device, said authentication key based on the detected condition; and transmitting said key to said second mobile device. The invention also relates to a mobile device configured for generating a data authentication key for allowing data communication over a wireless channel to a further mobile device.
US09253619B2	Apparatus and method of data communications in millimeter wave network The method and apparatus of data communications for a transmitter in a millimeter wave network are provided. The method includes: generating a control physical layer (CPHY) preamble; generating a header, wherein the header includes a mode indicator; modulating and encoding a payload according to the mode indicator; generating a packet according to the control physical layer (CPHY) preamble, the header and the payload; and transmitting the packet.
US09253616B1	Apparatus and method for obtaining content on a cellular wireless device based on proximity A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch application communicates with the GPS receiver and other wireless devices operated by buddies registered in the users phone as part of buddy groups or individually. GPS position data and historical GPS position data can be exchanged between cell phones of buddies and instant buddies such as tow truck drivers via a buddy watch server. Emergency monitoring services can be set up with notifications to programmable individuals in case an individual does not respond. Positions and tracks can be displayed. TalkControl simplifies and automates the process of joining talk groups for walkie talkie services such as that provided by Nextel.
US09253615B2	Event planning within social networks Social networks often permit users to create events, and to invite one or more contacts of the user to as guests. However, conventional social networks may not sufficiently facilitate users in planning an event for which one or more event details are to be determined. According to the techniques presented herein, a social network may permit users to create an event plan, and may permit guests to submit event plan suggestions for various event plan details of the event plan. The social network may also assist the guests in selecting among the event plan suggestions, e.g., by accepting and tallying votes by the guests among alternative event plan suggestions, by providing event plan suggestions based on search engine results, and by presenting maps of event plan suggestions involving locations. The social network may also accept RSVPs, and may notify guests once a guest arrives at a location of the event.
US09253611B2	Method of handling a short message service re-delivery A method of handling a short message re-delivery for a network entity of a wireless communication system includes receiving a request corresponding to a transmission failure of a short message transmitted to a communication device without a Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network Number (MSISDN); generating a first correlation identification (ID) according to the request; and storing the first correlation ID with a short message service center (SMSC) address corresponding to the short message.
US09253593B2	Method, device and system for transmitting wireless data A method, device and system for transmitting wireless data are disclosed. In the present disclosure, a local mobile terminal not only may exchange information with a base station, but also may exchange information with other mobile terminals by using a short distance transmission system of the mobile terminals, and transmit, by combining Local Area Network (LAN) communication and Wide Area Network (WAN) communication are combined, data simultaneously via an LAN and a WAN. A target mobile terminal may also receive and send data via the LAN and the WAN. The present disclosure can implement multi-channel transmission of wireless data, thus relieving network load greatly and improving the efficiency of data transmission.
US09253591B2	Communications via a receiving device network A receiving device system arranged to distribute voice communications includes first and second receiving devices, each having a personal area network (PAN) transceiver, a programming transceiver to receive multimedia content, and a local area network (LAN) transceiver. The second receiving device is configured to accept input data via its PAN transceiver from a communications device, initiate communications with the first receiving device via the LAN, and communicate voice data received via the second PAN transceiver to the first receiving device via the LAN. The voice data is passed to a communications device via the PAN transceiver of the first receiving device. Users associated with each of the two communications devices may carry on a voice conversation via voice data being passed through each of the two receiving devices.
US09253589B2	Wireless local area network hotspot registration using near field communications A first device that includes a processor configured to transmit/receive a trigger message to/from a second device based on wireless short-range communication. The trigger message initiates a registration process within a wireless local area network (WLAN).
US09253583B2	Automated fitting of hearing devices Fitting a sound processing device for an individual is automated using a computer. Fitting and customization is carried out using natural sounds without specialized audiometric equipment or audiological expertise. Software for this purpose is downloaded from an internet portal. The computer plays back acoustic signals, and obtains user input reflecting the user's perceptions of the acoustic signals, from which a hearing map is derived, representing the user's hearing. An algorithm updates the device fitting based on the hearing map. Also provided is pre-sale virtual device fitting, whereby a virtual signal processing path is established in the computer, reflecting a signal processing function of a sound processing device of interest to the user. An algorithm updates parameters of the virtual processing path, based on the hearing map. Audio signals passed through the virtual processing path are played back to the user, giving the user an acoustic indication of future device performance.
US09253572B2	Methods and systems for synthetic audio placement Methods and systems for providing synthetic audio placement are described herein. In different aspects, the methods and systems may include a connection port to receive a plurality of remote audio signals included in a conference call, at least one of the plurality of remote audio connections being a single channel audio signal, a processor configured with the connection port to provide a sound field for placing the plurality of audio signals, the sound field providing synthetic audio placement of each of the plurality of remote audio signals, and a rendering output configured with the processor to project the plurality of remote audio within the sound field to a listener.
US09253568B2	Single-microphone wind noise suppression A technique for suppressing non-stationary noise, such as wind noise, in an audio signal is described. In accordance with the technique, a series of frames of the audio signal is analyzed to detect whether the audio signal comprises non-stationary noise. If it is detected that the audio signal comprises non-stationary noise, a number of steps are performed. In accordance with these steps, a determination is made as to whether a frame of the audio signal comprises non-stationary noise or speech and non-stationary noise. If it is determined that the frame comprises non-stationary noise, a first filter is applied to the frame and if it is determined that the frame comprises speech and non-stationary noise, a second filter is applied to the frame.
US09253563B2	Bone conduction speaker unit Problem: To provide a bone conduction speaker unit which can sufficiently prevent generation of sound leakage at the time of non-calling, and can be easily incorporated in a main body casing of mobile phones, and the like.Solution: A bone conduction speaker unit, being configured by incorporating a bone conduction speaker main body 2 in a housing 1, wherein an elastic plate 21 is fixed on a top face of a plate yoke 17 of the bone conduction speaker main body 2; an elastic base 22 is disposed on a rear face of a yoke 11; and an elastic cover 3 for holding a contact 5 which, upon a pressing force having been applied thereto in use, is abutted against the plate yoke 17 through the elastic plate 21 is loaded on the housing 1 with a gap “a” being held between a bottom face of the contact 5 and a top face of the elastic plate 21.
US09253560B2	Sound library and method At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a website configured to collect sound signatures from around the world and beyond. A communication device automatically stores acoustic information received by a microphone of the communication device. The acoustic information is analyzed for a trigger event. The trigger event stores the acoustic information, attaches metadata, creates a Gaussian Mixture Model, and measures sound pressure level. The communication device automatically sends the sound signature to a database when a communication path is opened to communication device. Each sound signature has associated metadata including a time stamp and geocode. Automatically collecting sounds using a communication device adapted for the process enables a database that captures sounds globally on a continuous basis.
US09253559B1	Audio input detection Methods, systems, and apparatus, for detecting that a component of a mobile device other than a card reader connected to the audio jack is a source of an input signal, including detecting that a card reader is connected to a mobile device via an audio jack of the mobile device. The actions include invoking an application to read captured card information sent from the card reader in response to a swipe of a transaction card. The actions include determining that the mobile device is not processing the captured card information sent from the card reader. The actions include determining that the mobile device is reading an input signal from the microphone source rather than the audio jack when the card reader is connected to the mobile device via the audio jack. The actions include changing the mobile device to processing the captured card information sent from the card reader.
US09253543B2	Remote control video modulator A video modulator is presented. The modulator includes a video input interface, a video modulation circuit, a video output interface, a communication interface, and control circuitry. The video input interface is configured to receive a video signal to be modulated, the video modulation circuit is configured to modulate the video signal, and the video output interface is configured to transmit the modulated video signal. The communication interface is configured to receive a command via a communication link to control the video modulator. The control circuitry is configured to receive the command from the communication interface and to control at least one of the video input interface, the video modulation circuit, and the video output interface based on the command.
US09253538B2	Display apparatus, apparatus for providing content video and control methods thereof A display apparatus includes a display unit which displays a content video thereon; a communication unit which communicates with an external server providing a social networking service (SNS); and a controller which receives from the external server feedback information of a part of a playing section of the content video based on feedback information of a plurality of users with respect to the content video, the feedback information being collected through the SNS, and provides feedback information of a user regarding the part of the playing section while the content video is played.
US09253534B1	System for sessionizing log events from a streaming log event source and reducing latency Systems and methods for reducing latency times associated with sessionizing log events from streaming logs are disclosed herein. In an aspect, event data related to user consumption of media content items can be monitored. Further, respective event data based at least in part on user playback of the media content items can be analyzed. In another aspect, pending and finalized event data can be summarized into a finalized playback record. In yet another aspect, the size of a time window can be adjusted based in part on observed logsaver latency. Further, in an aspect, watch time data can be integrated into a de-spamming pipeline.
US09253523B2	Methods and systems for recovering media content lost due to a channel change event An exemplary method includes a media content recovery system 1) detecting that a DVR device is tuned to a first channel used by a media content provider to distribute a first media content program, 2) dynamically storing, in response to the detecting, first program data representative of the first media content program in a local buffer residing on the DVR device and in a recovery buffer as the first media content program is distributed by the media content provider, and 3) directing the DVR device to use the first program data stored in the local buffer to present the first media content program by way of a display while the DVR device is tuned to the first channel. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09253519B2	Method and apparatus for automatically converting source video into electronic mail messages The invention relates to a method and system for automatically identifying video content within source video and transmitting the video content to an electronic mail client. The transmitted video content can be streaming video, video files, and/or other medium derived from the source video. An enhanced electronic mail client is also disclosed.
US09253517B2	Networked data projecting system, projector, and content projecting method A networked data projecting system includes a server for storing one or more content items, a projector for projecting a projection content item selected from the content items, and an information processing terminal. The projector includes an IC card terminal, and a projection content identifier storing unit for storing a projection content identifier of the projection content item in the IC card when the IC card is held over the IC card terminal while the projection content item is being projected by the projector. The information processing terminal includes a projection content requesting unit for reading the projection content identifier stored in the IC card and sending the projection content identifier to the server. The server includes a projection content transmitting unit for sending the projection content item corresponding to the projection content identifier to the information processing terminal.
US09253515B2	Channel bonding synchronization Different data communication architectures deliver a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures distribute data streams to bonded channels that are clocked independently. A system is provided for synchronizing the bonded channels.
US09253507B2	Method and device for interpolating images by using a smoothing interpolation filter Provided are a method of interpolating an image by determining interpolation filter coefficients, and an apparatus for performing the same. The method includes: differently selecting an interpolation filter, from among interpolation filters for generating at least one sub-pel-unit pixel value located between integer-pel-unit pixels, based on a sub-pel-unit interpolation location and a smoothness; and generating the at least one sub-pel-unit pixel value by interpolating, using the selected interpolation filter, pixel values of the integer-pel-unit pixels.
US09253491B2	Method and apparatus for transcoding a video signal The invention provides a method of transcoding a video signal made up of an input bit stream representative of frames of a video, each frame being made up of blocks of pixels, there being a corresponding block of data within the input bit stream for each block of pixels, the method comprising: for the bit stream of a frame of the video signal, identifying the type of frame; and for certain types of frame, disregarding a configurable proportion of the data in respect of plural blocks within the frame, thereby taking into account local motion activity within the frame.
US09253481B2	Determining contexts for coding transform coefficient data in video coding In one example, a device for coding video data includes a video coder configured to determine whether a transform coefficient of a video block is a DC transform coefficient, when the transform coefficient is determined to be the DC transform coefficient of the video block, determine a context for coding the transform coefficient based on the transform coefficient being the DC transform coefficient without regard for a size of the video block, and entropy code the transform coefficient using the determined context.
US09253479B2	Method and apparatus for displaying partial 3D image in 2D image display area To display at least one three-dimensional (3D) image in a two-dimensional (2D) image display area, a method and apparatus is provided for distinguishing a 3D image display area, in which the at least one 3D image is displayed, from the 2D image display area, and displaying a 2D image and a 3D image in the 2D image display area and the 3D image display area, respectively, thereby improving display resolution.
US09253477B2	Display apparatus and method for processing image thereof A display apparatus and method for processing an image in a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit, a receiving unit which receives a frame image including a first image and a second image and sync information of the frame image, a determination unit which determines whether the frame image is consistent with a reference pattern using the sync information, and an image processing unit which, if the frame image is inconsistent with the reference pattern, adjusts the frame image based on a level of inconsistency, and a controlling unit which controls the display unit to display the adjusted frame image.
US09253472B2	Method and apparatus for macro photographic stereo imaging A macro photographic apparatus for creating focus stacked images of a specimen may include a rigid longitudinal member having a longitudinal axis and including a camera mount thereon. A translation device may be fixed to the member for translating the specimen along the member toward and away from the camera mount. A rotation device may be mounted on the translation device. The rotation device may support the specimen and enable rotation of the specimen around first and second axes that are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the member. At any single position of the translation device along the longitudinal axis of the member, as the specimen is rotated around the first and second axes, the spatial location of the specimen remains substantially the same.
US09253469B2	Method for displaying 3D caption and 3D display apparatus for implementing the same A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. When the 3D display apparatus receives image signals of first and second images for implementing 3D image in a stereoscopic scheme, the 3D display apparatus receives closed caption data only for a base view determined from the first and second images. Then, the display apparatus determines the position of a closed caption for an extended view based on the closed caption data for the base view and a certain 3D caption information, and formats caption graphic data for the base view and the extended view to output 3D closed caption in a stereoscopic format.
US09253467B2	Method and apparatus for correcting errors in multiple stream-based 3D images The present invention relates to correcting errors of multiple stream-based 3D images. The present invention comprises a 3D image synchronizing unit which synchronizes a first image and a second image consisting the 3D image; a 3D image correcting unit which detects an error block in the first image, searches a corresponding block in the second image, and corrects the error block on the basis of the block information of said corresponding block; and a compositing unit which composites the corrected first image and the second image to generate a 3D stereoscopic image. According to the present invention, bit errors occurring when transmitting multiple stream of 3D image can be corrected, providing better quality of 3D images. Also, error correction can be easily performed by using the method of the present invention without complicated calculations.
US09253448B1	System and method for determination of contact lens orientation This invention provides a system and method to determine orientation/pose of a contact lens residing on the transparent bottom of a fluid-filled, typically opaque-sided cuvette. This allows the system to determine whether the subject contact lens is in a concave up or concave down orientation, and whether the lens is everted. An illuminator is aligned on a longitudinal axis of the cuvette through the contact lens at a position over the cuvette, and a vision system camera is aligned beneath the bottom of the cuvette on the axis. In alternate embodiments the axial locations of the camera and the illuminator can be varied. The camera acquires images of the contact lens. The vision system associated finds the appropriate contact lens edges and characteristics of features. These features allow each of the four poses to be distinguished and categorized for either an acceptable/good or unacceptable/bad pose within the cuvette.
US09253445B2	Terminal multipoint control unit, system and method for implementing high definition multiple pictures A terminal, multipoint control unit, system and method for implementing high definition multiple pictures are provided by the present invention. The method comprises the following steps of: a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) calculating a high definition video code stream format according to video conference control information, and sending a capability set containing the high definition video code stream format to a selected terminal; based on the high definition video code stream format in the capability set, the selected terminal encoding a high definition video image and sending the encoded high definition video code stream to the MCU; according to the video conference control information, the MCU synthesizing the received high definition video code stream image into multiple pictures, and obtaining the high definition multi-picture video code stream image and sending it to the terminals attending the conference.
US09253444B2	Multiple subscriber videoconferencing system A system, method, and device for use in videoconferencing. The method typically includes installing a videoconferencing services switch at an access point to an IP network, and registering a plurality of subscribers for videoconferencing services. Each subscriber typically has a plurality of endpoints. The method further includes receiving subscriber-specific settings to be applied to multiple videoconferencing calls from the plurality of endpoints associated with each subscriber. The method further includes storing the subscriber-specific settings at a location accessible to the switch, and configuring the switch to connect calls from the plurality of endpoints at each subscriber based on the corresponding subscriber-specific settings.
US09253441B2	Conference system, program and conference method There is provided a conference system which performs a remote conference by communicating conference data between a transmission terminal and a reception terminal. The transmission terminal receives input of the conference data including audio data, selects a real time mode of sequentially performing transmission of the input audio data and a package mode of performing transmission of the input audio data for each input of a predetermined unit amount, records the input audio data in the predetermined unit amount to generate audio record data when the package mode is selected, and transmits the input audio data to the reception terminal when the real time mode is selected and transmits the audio record data to the reception terminal when the package mode is selected. The reception terminal outputs the received input audio data preferentially over the received audio record data.
US09253437B2	Mobile communication method and mobility management node To provide a scheme for deciding a switching method for the video call when an UE#1 in video call with an UE#2 is caused to perform handover from an E-UTRAN to a UTRAN/GERAN. A mobile communication method according to the present invention is summarized by including the steps of: deciding the switching method for the video call, when a video bearer and a voice bearer which configure a path for the video call are set, by an IMS; and maintaining information on the decided switching method and association information with which information on the video bearer is in association with information on the voice bearer, by a mobile communication network and an eNB.
US09253436B2	Video playback device, video playback method, non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon video playback program, video playback control device, video playback control method and non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon video playback control program A video playback device includes a sound-attached video storage unit, a text storage unit, a text list display control unit, a text specification unit and a sound-attached video portion playback control unit. In the sound-attached video storage unit, a sound-attached video is stored. In the text storage unit, texts for sounds of sound-attached video portions of the sound-attached video are stored in such a way as to be correlated with the respective sound-attached video portions. The text list display control unit controls to display the texts as a list. The text specification unit specifies a text in the displayed list as a specific text on the basis of a user operation. The sound-attached video portion playback control unit controls to hide the list and play a sound-attached video portion for the specific text.
US09253432B2	Information processing system, recording apparatus, portable device, information processing method, and program An information processing system includes a recording apparatus and a portable device, wherein the recording apparatus includes a recording control section, a selection section, a creation section, a digest information transfer control section, an operation information reception control section, and an operation information reflection section, and wherein the portable device includes a digest information reception control section, and an operation information transfer control section.
US09253431B2	Projection video display apparatus A projection video display apparatus includes: a converter that converts an input video signal having a first number of pixels and a first frame rate into a conversion video signal having a second number of pixels and a second frame rate, the second number of pixels being smaller than the first number of pixels, and the second frame rate being an n-th multiple (n is an integer of 2 or greater) of the first frame rate; an optical element that displaces an optical axis of the video light beam; an optical element driving unit that drives the optical element at a frequency F being a natural-number multiple of the first frame rate; and a rotating body that rotates at a rotation speed R. The rotation speed R is set so as to become a value within a predetermined range corresponding to the frequency F.
US09253428B2	Broadcasting system with digital television signals and metadata that modulate respective sets of OFDM carriers Digital television (DTV) broadcasting using COFDM modulation is designed to modulate orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexed (OFDM) mid-band carriers with metadata including synchronization signals and transmission-mode signals. DTV signals modulate OFDM carriers occupying portions of the frequency spectrum of the transmission channel that extend in frequency both below and above these mid-band carriers. The OFDM midband carriers are capable of signaling when a new broadcast service is used that differs from the one disclosed. The signaling is provided by modulating the midband carriers with respective elements of signature sequences, each of which signature sequences is composed of Zadoff-Chu sequences and repetitive pseudo-random sequences scrambled by a Zadoff-Chu sequence.
US09253422B2	Solid-state imaging element having image signal overflow path Since the great number of elements constituting a unit pixel having an amplification function would hinder reduction of pixel size, unit pixel n,m arranged in a matrix form is comprised of a photodiode, a transfer switch for transferring charges stored in the photodiode, a floating diffusion for storing charges transferred by the transfer switch, a reset switch for resetting the floating diffusion, and an amplifying transistor for outputting a signal in accordance with the potential of the floating diffusion to a vertical signal line, and by affording vertical selection pulse φVn to the drain of the reset switch to control a reset potential thereof, pixels are selected in units of rows.
US09253413B2	WDR pixel array, WDR imaging apparatus including the same and method for operating the same Disclosed is a WDR pixel array having high sensitivity under the middle intensity of illumination and high intensity of illumination by using the 4T pixel structure representing high sensitivity under the low intensity of illumination. According to the embodiment, the overflow charges generated under the very high intensity of illumination are not discarded or partially stored, but read through the 3T pixel operation, so that the WDR pixel array having high sensitivity under the middle intensity of illumination and high intensity of illumination can be obtained based on the 4T pixel structure without additionally providing a transistor or a photodiode for the high intensity of illumination in the WDR pixel array.
US09253406B2	Image capture apparatus that can display review image, image capture method, and storage medium A live view image generation unit sequentially displays on a display screen a captured image that is sequentially outputted from an image capture unit as a live view image. In a case of photographing and recording being directed, a review image generation unit displays a captured image for recording outputted from the image capture unit as a first review image on a portion of a display screen in a state of displaying the live view image. A photographing result evaluation unit evaluates a photographing result based on a captured image for recording outputted from the image capture unit according to an direction for photographing and recording. The review image generation unit performs display control to make a display form of the first review image different according to the evaluation result by the photographing result evaluation unit.
US09253402B2	Video anti-shaking method and video anti-shaking device A video anti-shaking method and a video anti-shaking device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first GRMV (global relative motion vector) of a current video frame relative to its previous video frame, and a sequence of second GRMVs of reference video frames relative to their respective previous video frames; calculating a sequence of third GRMVs of the reference video frames relative to the current video frame, respectively, based on the first GRMV and the sequence of second GRMVs; and filtering the sequence of third GRMVs to obtain a motion vector for compensating shaking of the current video frame. Camera shaking and intended motion can be distinguished.
US09253401B2	Imaging device and imaging method where shake adjusted image is divided into regions for parallel processing An imaging device includes an imaging processing unit that includes a solid-state imaging device outputting a pixel signal according to incident subject light and outputs a captured image according to the pixel signal output by the solid-state imaging device, image processing circuits that generate a photography image by performing image processing on a corresponding region within a processed region cut out from the captured image output from the imaging processing unit, and a division position determination unit that detects movement of a photography position at which the solid-state imaging device photographs a subject within a captured region of the solid-state imaging device.
US09253396B2	Variable gain column amplifier adapted for use in imaging arrays An imaging sensor using a novel bit line processing circuit, that circuit, and the method of processing the pixel outputs from an image sensor using that processing circuit are disclosed. The image sensor includes an array of pixel sensors, a signal digitizing circuit, and a digitizing controller. Each pixel sensor generates a voltage signal that is a function of a charge on the photodetector in that pixel sensor, and couples that voltage signal to a bit line in response to a first signal. The signal digitizing circuit is connected to the bit line, the digitizing circuit converting the voltage signal to a plurality of output digital values, the output digital values having selectable levels of digitization noise. The digitizing controller generates the level of noise based on the voltage signal. The signal digitizing circuit includes a variable gain amplifier and an ADC having a fixed number of bits.
US09253391B2	Image capture apparatus and control method for tracking of focus position Provided is an image capture apparatus that can perform focus detection based on a focus evaluation value indicating contrast of a subject image included in a focus detection area using an image signal output from an image sensor. In accordance with the extent of a blur amount of the subject image, the image capture apparatus determines how to use a method for performing focus detection through a reciprocating motion of a focus lens and a method for performing focus detection by moving the focus lens in a direction toward which the focus evaluation value increases. Focus detection is performed based on the determination.
US09253390B2	Image processing device, image capturing device, image processing method, and computer readable medium for setting a combination parameter for combining a plurality of image data It is inconvenient for a user that a UI for inputting a virtual focus position at the time of refocus and a UI for inputting a focus position at the time of image capturing exist separately from and independently of each other. An image processing device comprising a generation unit configured to generate combined image data obtained in a case of capturing an image with a second set value different from a first set value used in capturing an image with an image capturing device by using a plurality of pieces of captured image data obtained by the image capturing device, wherein the image capturing device is capable of capturing image data from a plurality of viewpoint positions and includes an operation unit for setting a set value of an image capturing parameter, and wherein the first and second set values are set via the operation unit.
US09253387B2	Camera module and camera apparatus and parallel link mechanism for reciprocating an image pickup device There is provided a camera module including: a lens; an image pickup device arranged on an optical axis of the lens; and an actuator section configured to reciprocate the image pickup device in an optical axis direction of the lens, wherein the actuator section includes a movable joint section on which the image pickup device is fixed, a parallel link mechanism section having a movable end section attached to the movable joint section and a mounting end section, and a movable element that is configured to perform displacement motion by a displacement amount depending on a level of a voltage to be applied and that is coupled to a coupling region between the movable joint section and the movable end section of the parallel link mechanism section in such a manner that the displacement motion is transmittable.
US09253374B2	Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same for obtaining and applying gamma characteristics to reduce a difference between light and dark areas of an image An image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a gamma characteristic (non-linear conversion characteristic) giving consideration to a difference between light and dark parts in a subject region is provided along with a method for controlling the same. A value indicating the difference between light and dark parts in the subject region is calculated based on image data. Then, by interpolating multiple basic gamma characteristics using the value indicating the difference between light and dark parts, a gamma characteristic depending on the difference between light and dark parts is generated and applied to the image data.
US09253372B2	Video display device and control method thereof Provided are a video display device and a method of controlling the same. The method includes: obtaining an uncompressed audio-visual (AV) content; playing the uncompressed AV content through the display unit; obtaining content information of the uncompressed AV content on the basis of a content section of the uncompressed AV content; obtaining content change time information and enhanced service information on the basis of the content information; and determining a delay time for obtaining the next content information on the basis of the content change time information.
US09253367B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a charging device that uniformly charges the image carrying member, an exposure device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrying member, a development device that applies a development bias voltage to form a visible image in which toner is adhered to the electrostatic latent image, a control portion that controls an exposure amount in the exposure device and the development bias voltage and a storage portion that stores an exposure condition and a development condition. The resolution of image data can be switched to at least two types, a standard resolution and a high resolution higher than the standard resolution, and when the resolution of the image data is set at the high resolution, the control portion controls the exposure amount in the exposure device to perform thinning processing on the image.
US09253366B2	Image forming apparatus and image reading device There is provided an image forming apparatus. A loading unit is capable of loading therein a plurality of documents. The document is conveyed from the loading unit to a document conveyance path. A reading member is configured to read an image of the document at a reading position set on the document conveyance path. A correction unit corrects a skew of the document with respect to a conveying direction. A correction execution unit executes a correction by the correction unit when a number of copies of the document is larger than a preset number.
US09253364B2	Display apparatus, display method, and computer program product A display apparatus that displays a preview of print data includes an input unit that receives input of a sheet handling method of a sheet on which the print data is printed from a user, a generating unit that dynamically generates a three-dimensional image representing a behavior, which is a continuous change in a form of the sheet on which the print data is printed, according to the input sheet handling method, and a display unit that displays, as a moving image, the three-dimensional image that is dynamically generated.
US09253349B2	Systems and methods for detecting and classifying objects in video captured using mobile devices A method includes capturing plural frames of video data using a mobile device. The frames are analyzed to determine whether any depict an object exhibiting one or more defining characteristics, and if so, whether those frame(s) depicting the object also satisfy one or more predetermined quality control criteria. If one or more of the frames depict the object and also satisfy the one or more predetermined quality control criteria, the method further includes automatically capturing an image of the object. Exemplary defining characteristics are specified for various types of object, particularly objects comprising documents. Related systems and computer program products are also disclosed. The presently disclosed techniques and systems represent translational developments across the fields of image processing and business process management. Improved analytical techniques enable processing of image captured using cameras rather than traditional scanner technology, and facilitate distribution, tracking and analysis of documents and information throughout business processes.
US09253343B2	Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium for providing a preview and/or display of a main display document generated from all parts of a print document An information processing apparatus generates a temporary display document including limited pages together with a main display document corresponding to print data, and displays the temporary display document until generation of the main display document is completed, thereby reducing a time taken to display a part of pages.
US09253333B1	Voice over packet (VOP) call detail recording (CDR) A method, system, and medium are provided for recording VOP calls at a premise to perform real-time processing of the VOP calls, charging for VOP calls at a premise with multiple users, and collecting call information in a VOP network. A call detail recording (CDR) device resides at a hotel, motel, or lodge premise to record telephone calls and set telephone charges of the guests staying at the hotel, motel, or lodge. The CDR device is not a PBX but allows a premise owner to control and provide real-time charges to users of services in a packet-based network at the hotel, motel, or lodge.
US09253330B2	Automatically record and reschedule conference calls for playback based upon calendar invitations and presence monitoring There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for managing conflicts with an attendee not able to join a conference call. The system schedules one or more conference calls and identifies a conflict between the schedules of the conference calls. The system automatically updates a corresponding user's electronic calendar based on the scheduled conference calls and schedules a bot to attend a conflicting conference call instead. The system records the conflicting conference calls that the bot attends. The system stores, in a storage device, the recorded conference calls as one or more files. The system schedules a follow up time for the attendee to listen to the recording.
US09253319B1	Methods and systems for call connecting calls The present invention relates generally to telecommunications and in particular to systems and methods for routing telephone calls. By way of example, a first address, such as a first phone number, can be associated with a telephonic terminal, such as a mobile phone. Incoming calls to the first address can be routed to the telephonic terminal or to other destinations based on telephonic terminal status.
US09253318B2	Method and apparatus for providing state information Methods and apparatus are provided for providing state information of a digital apparatus. State information for a user of the digital apparatus is determined based on the user's intention to perform communication. The state information is transmitted to a server. A display request for a contact list is received. A screen having a plurality of user items is displayed. Each of the plurality of user items corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of users in the contact list. At least one of the plurality of user items includes identification information of a user corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of user items, state information of the corresponding user that is received from the server, and at least one category indicator representing at least one recommended communication service category determined based on the state information of the corresponding user.
US09253317B2	System and method to track and log mobile communication device call status when the device is not in possession A mobile device logging and tracking system permits a communicative association between a mobile device and a receiving device. When the mobile device communicates data including an indication of an unanswered call to the receiving device, the receiving device is configured to store the data in a memory. The memory may be local or remote from the receiving device. The receiving device may then communicate information associated with the unanswered call to a first electronic device, which may be an appliance, a gaming system, another mobile communication device, or some other device having computing capability.
US09253309B2	Method and system for VPN isolation using network namespaces One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for providing exclusive access to a virtual private network (VPN) connection to an authorized application. During operation, the system creates a unique network namespace that is different from a default network namespace of a host system. The system then places a pseudo network interface associated with the VPN connection into the unique network namespace. Furthermore, the system places at least one socket for an authorized application into the unique network namespace. The system also precludes unauthorized applications on the host from accessing the unique network namespace, thereby facilitating exclusive access to the VPN connection by the authorized application.
US09253306B2	Device skins for user role, context, and function and supporting system mashups Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a communication system that provides various automated operations, including searches of public and private resources for third party information and presentation of the located third party information by a mashup and preparation of a mashup to combine different communication modes or modes in a common session.
US09253305B2	Image-based addressing of physical content for electronic communication In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: capturing image data for physical content, where the physical content includes a recipient image indicative of at least one desired recipient; performing image recognition on the captured image data to identify the recipient image; matching the recipient image with corresponding contact information to obtain address information for the at least one desired recipient; and addressing an electronic communication to the at least one desired recipient using the address information, where the electronic communication includes the captured image data for the physical content.
US09253303B2	Signal processing apparatus and storage medium There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a recognition section configured to recognize at least one of a state of a first user, a state of a second user, and a relationship between the first user and the second user, a signal processing unit configured to perform signal processing on voice information corresponding to voice articulated by the first user, or voice information corresponding to voice that is transmitted from a remote location and articulated by the second user, and a control unit configured to control the signal processing unit to perform signal processing on at least one of the voice information corresponding to the voice articulated by the first user, and the voice information corresponding to the voice that is transmitted from the remote location and articulated by the second user, in accordance with a recognition result of the recognition section.
US09253294B2	Device and method for providing a contiguous display area A device comprising a first and a second housing body and a display. The display has a first and a second display portion which are hingably connected to each other. Each display portion has a front face. The first housing body is hingably connected to the first display portion and hingably connected to the second housing body and the second housing body is hingably connected to the second display portion. And the device is configured to assume an open position and a closed position. The front faces of the display portions are arranged adjacent and facing each other in the closed position.
US09253293B2	Fault-tolerant communications in routed networks A method for providing fault-tolerant network communications between a plurality of nodes for an application, including providing a plurality of initial communications pathways over a plurality of networks coupled between the plurality of nodes, receiving a data packet on a sending node from the application, the sending node being one of the plurality of nodes, the data packet being addressed by the application to an address on one of the plurality of nodes, and selecting a first selected pathway for the data packet from among the plurality of initial communications pathways where the first selected pathway is a preferred pathway.
US09253292B2	Memory association to folder information A method, device, system, and a computer program product for association of memory to folder information are disclosed. The electronic device includes one or more memory elements and a sending module. Each of the memory elements is adapted to store folders therein, and the sending module is adapted to send a capability object and a folder-listing object to a receiving module. The capability object includes memory information corresponding to the one or more memory elements, and the folder-listing object includes folder information corresponding to a folder contained in one of the memory elements. The folder information includes an attribute identifying the one memory element containing the folder.
US09253290B2	Apparatus and methods for block acknowledgment compression Systems, methods, and devices for compressing block acknowledgment (ACK) frames/packets are described herein. In some aspects, a method of communicating in a wireless network includes generating a block acknowledgment frame comprising a plurality of fields in the following order: a block acknowledgment identifier field including an identifier of the block acknowledgment frame; a starting sequence control field including at least one of a sequence number and a function of a sequence number of a data unit for which the block acknowledgement frame is sent; and a block acknowledgement bitmap field indicating a received status of a number of data units. The method further includes wirelessly transmitting the block acknowledgment frame.
US09253289B2	Network connection hand-off using state transformations Some embodiments provide a director agent, a server agent, and a specialized hand-off protocol for improving scalability and resource usage within a server farm. A first network connection is established between a client and the director agent in order to receive a content request from the client from which to select a server from a set of servers that is responsible for hosting the requested content. A second network connection is established between the server agent that is associated with the selected server and a protocol stack of the selected server. The first network connection is handed-off to the server agent using the specialized hand-off protocol. The server agent performs network connection state parameter transformations between the two connections to create a network connection through which content can be passed from the selected server to the client without passing through the director.
US09253284B2	Historical browsing session management A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing provider. A client computing device requests a remote browse session instance at a network computing provider. The network computing and storage provider processes the requested content for display, and provides a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device for display. The network computing provider further provides a historical content representation corresponding to the requested content to a historical browse storage component for storage. The network computing provider may further provide historical content representations to the historical browse storage component for content directly or indirectly referenced by the requested content. The client computing device may subsequently search for content not previously displayed by the client computing device.
US09253282B2	Method and apparatus for generating, using, or updating an enriched user profile A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided in which a communications device is operable to provide an improved user experience or to improve the performance and/or operation of the device through use of an enriched user profile. In one aspect, the communications device may obtain an attribute including a user specific informational element from a component operable on the communications device. The communications device may generate a profile synopsis from the attribute by abstracting at least a portion of the user specific informational element from the attribute, and transmit the profile synopsis. The communications device may receive an enhanced informational element derived from an aggregation of profile synopses from a plurality of devices and may generate an enriched user profile by augmenting the attribute with at least a portion of the received enhanced informational element.
US09253277B2	Pre-fetching stored data from a memory Systems and methods for pre-fetching of data in a memory are provided. By pre-fetching stored data from a slower memory into a faster memory, the amount of time required for data retrieval and/or processing may be reduced. First, data is received and pre-scanned to generate a sample fingerprint. Fingerprints stored in a faster memory that are similar to the sample fingerprint are identified. Data stored in the slower memory associated with the identified stored fingerprints is copied into the faster memory. The copied data may be compared to the received data. Various embodiments may be included in a network memory architecture to allow for faster data matching and instruction generation in a central appliance.
US09253274B2	Service insertion architecture In one embodiment, an apparatus can include a service broker configured to: (i) register a service classifier, and to provide context information to the service classifier; and (ii) register a plurality of service nodes. The service broker can also receive capability and service requests from the service classifier. Further, the context information can include a service header, a reachability indication, and an encapsulation, where the service header and the encapsulation may be attached or related to a packet in the service classifier. In addition, the service classifier can use this information to redirect the packet to a first service node.
US09253262B2	Systems and methods for connecting media devices through web sockets Systems and methods are described herein for connecting client devices to applications on a server using web sockets. In one aspect, the systems and methods described provide for a routing table that may be used to direct communications between a client device and an application on a web server. The routing table may overcome challenges of implementing web sockets under current constraints of the web socket specification, the HTTP specification, and server implementations.
US09253260B1	Hybrid zone control system A system and method for using multiple ClimateTalk™ compliant thermostats in a zoned HVAC system are provided. The system may include a first ClimateTalk™ thermostat in a first zone, a second ClimateTalk™ thermostat in a second zone, a third ClimateTalk or 24v AC thermostat in a third zone, and a ClimateTalk™ HVAC unit and/or 24v AC HVAC unit, for servicing the demands in the first, second and third zones. A controller in the zoned HVAC system may establish a ClimateTalk™ network between the controller and the HVAC unit, where the controller may identify itself as the sole ClimateTalk™ thermostat in this network. The controller may also establish additional ClimateTalk™ networks between the controller and each of the first, second and third thermostats, by identifying the controller as a distinct ClimateTalk™ HVAC unit in each of the respective additional networks.
US09253258B2	Dynamic host integration Dynamic host integration techniques are provided. A Transaction-based system integrates heterogeneous hosts to perform various operations associated with the transaction-based system. A command handler implements a specific operation for a host system and a protocol handler implements a specific communication protocol for contacting and having the host system execute the specific operation. For any given transaction within the transaction-based system a command handler and a protocol handler are dynamically acquired and bound to the processing flow to execute a desired operation on a remote and heterogeneous host system.
US09253255B1	Content delivery network referral In general, techniques are described for managing content request referrals by keying content requests to a composite key data structure that maps end-user address prefixes and content identifiers to content delivery network servers of downstream CDNs. In one example, a CDN exchange includes a communication module to receive first network prefixes and first content identifiers from a first secondary content delivery network and to receive second network prefixes and second content identifiers from a second secondary content delivery network. A request router of the CDN exchange redirects the content request to the first secondary content delivery network or to the second secondary content delivery network according to a network address of the end user device and a content identifier for the content request.
US09253252B2	Systems and methods for cloud bridging between intranet resources and cloud resources Embodiments of the present solution provide a cloud bridge to bring network transparency between the otherwise disparate networks of the datacenter and cloud service provider. For example, appliances may be deployed in the datacenter and on the edge of the cloud. These appliances may be configured or designed and constructed to communicate with each other and recognize and understand the local IP and/or public IP network information of the on-premise datacenter of the enterprise and the cloud datacenter. These appliances may manage the flow of network traffic between the on-premise and cloud datacenters in a manner to appear and act seamlessly and transparently as a single network spanning both the on-premise and cloud data centers.
US09253232B2	System and method for uninterrupted streaming A streaming media presentation transmission error recovery system and network. In one embodiment, in the event of a connection failure to a selected server, an alternative “mirrored” server is selected to resume the transmission of a selected streaming media presentation. One embodiment of the present invention provides for transparent switching from an interrupted media data stream to a stream from a newly-created network connection by providing an overlap between media that has been received and the data that is received via the new connection.
US09253231B2	Retrieving and caching adaptive bitrate stream segments based on network congestion A cache device may receive a request for a first segment of an adaptive bitrate stream. The request may identify a particular time interval, of the adaptive bitrate stream, to which the first segment corresponds. The request may further identify a first bitrate at which the first segment is encoded. The cache device may determine a network congestion level of a network associated with the adaptive bitrate stream. The cache device may determine, based on the network congestion level, a second bitrate that is different from the first bitrate. The cache device may obtain a second segment of the adaptive bitrate stream. The second segment may be encoded at the second bitrate. The cache device may store the second segment for delivery to a client device.
US09253225B1	Real-time interaction during video viewing Community interaction during video viewing is provided. A video hosting website includes videos available for viewing. Users establish lists of friends, who are other users of the video hosting site. When a user logs on, her presence is made known by an interaction engine to her friends that are also logged in to the site. The user's activities are tracked and her friends are notified of those activities. Tracked activities may include viewing a video, rating a video, commenting on a video, uploading a video to the site, and adding a new friend. Friends are notified of these activities in one embodiment through one or more user interface elements. A user can select a user interface element to discover which of her friends are also watching the same video at that time. A user watching a video can summon her online friends to the watch page to watch collaboratively.
US09253219B2	System and method to influence SIP routing by sequenced applications A system and method to influence routing of a call by a sequenced application from among a plurality of sequenced applications is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a header for the call wherein the header comprises at least one directive from each of the plurality of sequenced applications. Further the method comprises arbitrating conflicts from among the one directive in the header in order to determine a set of sequenced application headers to at least partially execute. Finally, the determined set of sequenced application headers is at least partially executed.
US09253214B1	Systems and methods for optimizing data loss prevention systems The disclosed computer-implemented method for optimizing data loss prevention (DLP) systems may include (1) monitoring data distributed via at least one data-distribution channel, (2) detecting, by analyzing the distributed data, a plurality of partial violations of a set of DLP policies, (3) determining, based on a correlation between the plurality of partial violations, that the plurality of partial violations suggest a previously undetected DLP threat, and (4) formulating an adjustment to apply to the set of DLP policies to enable the set of DLP policies to detect the DLP threat in the future. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09253213B2	Query flow reconstruction in database activity monitoring systems Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for reconstructing a sequence of communications that occurred during a period of database activity monitor unavailability. A database activity monitor receives a first sequence of queries. The database activity monitor determines whether the database activity monitor became unavailable, and, in response to determining that the database activity monitor is unavailable, restarts the database activity monitor. The database activity monitor receives a second sequence of queries, and approximates a third sequence of queries, wherein the third sequence of queries occurred subsequent to the first sequence of queries and prior to the second sequence of queries. The database activity monitor validates the third sequence of queries with reference to a set of security policies.
US09253211B2	Managing communications between computing nodes Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, users may specify groups of computing nodes and optionally associated access policies for use in the managing of the communications for those groups, such as by specifying which source nodes are allowed to transmit data to particular destinations nodes. In addition, determinations of whether initiated data transmissions from source nodes to destination nodes are authorized may be dynamically negotiated for and recorded for later use in automatically authorizing future such data transmissions without negotiation. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09253206B1	Systems and methods for protecting an online service attack against a network-based attack Techniques for protecting an online service against network-based attacks are described. In some cases, protection is performed by way of a scalable protection service including a dynamically scalable set of virtual machines hosted by a cloud service that is distinct from a data center that hosts the online service. The protection service is coupled to the online service via a private link. When an attack is detected by the online service, network traffic bound for the online service is redirected from the public network to the protection service. The protection service then processes the network traffic, such as by dropping network traffic associated with the attack and forwarding legitimate network traffic to the online service via the private link.
US09253205B2	Invocation of system services through auxiliary interface The invention is directed to a user interface on a provided electronic device, the user interface including: (i) an auxiliary interface for receiving input from a user and providing output to the user; and (ii) a primary access interface. Using the auxiliary interface, a message to the user is provided, wherein the message is provided without requiring the user to be authenticated through the primary access interface. Input from the user is accepted through the auxiliary interface to access a service available from the provided electronic device, wherein access to the service is provided without requiring the user to be authenticated through the primary access interface.
US09253196B2	Content access control in a social network Disclosed are systems and methods associated with a social network application. A plurality of posts associated with a client system user is displayed. First and second posts in the plurality of posts are respectively associated with first and second recipient groups. While the posts are displayed, a post input area independent of the plurality of posts is also displayed. When the user selects the post input area, it is expanded by displacing the plurality of posts. Concurrently, a content item area is displayed within the expanded post input area. An input, comprising a content item, is received from the user in the content item area. An affordance is presented that enables the user to designate access control information corresponding distribution entities. The content item and the access control information are transmitted to a system whereupon access to the content item is restricted in accordance with the access control information.
US09253193B2	Systems and methods for policy based triggering of client-authentication at directory level granularity Systems and methods are disclosed for an appliance to authenticate access of a client to a protected directory on a server via a connection, such as a secure SSL connection, established by the appliance. A method comprises the steps of: receiving, by an appliance, a first request from a client on a first network to access a server on a second network, the appliance providing the client a virtual private network connection from the first network to the second network; determining, by the appliance, the first request comprises access to a protected directory of the server; associating, by the appliance, an authentication policy with the protected directory, the authentication policy specifying an action to authenticate the client's access to the protected directory; and transmitting, by the appliance in response to the authentication policy, a second request to the client for an authentication certificate. Corresponding systems are also disclosed.
US09253191B2	Method for generating smart contents, method for executing smart contents and method for providing N-screen service of smart contents A method for generating smart contents includes contents protected by a digital right management (DRM) technology; and metadata including information necessary to use the contents. Further, the method includes a smart code for protecting copyright of the contents and position information which the smart code is downloaded.
US09253186B2	Method and device for ensuring information integrity and non-repudiation over time The present invention relates to a method and a device for ensuring information integrity and non-repudiation over time. At least one example embodiment provides a mechanism for secure distribution of information, which information relates to an instance in time when usage of cryptographic key pairs associated with a certain brand identity commenced, as well as when the key pairs ceased to be used, i.e. when the key pairs were revoked. The mechanism further allows a company or an organization to tie administration of cryptographic key pairs and a procedure for verifying information integrity and non-repudiation to their own brand. This can be seen as a complement or an alternative to using a certificate authority (CA) as a trusted third party, which CA guarantees an alleged relation between a public key and the identity of the company or organization using the cryptographic key pair to which that public key belongs.
US09253165B2	Digital rights domain management for secure content distribution in a local network Systems and methods for secure content distribution to playback devices connected to a local network via a residential gateway using secure links are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a content server, a rights management server, a residential gateway configured to communicate with the content server and the rights management server via a network, and a playback device configured to communicate with the residential gateway via a local network. In addition, the residential gateway is configured to receive protected content from the content server, the playback device is configured to request access to the protected content from the residential gateway, the residential gateway is configured to request access to the protected content from the rights management server and the request includes information uniquely identifying the playback device, the rights management server is configured to provide access information to the residential gateway when the information uniquely identifying the playback device satisfies at least one predetermined criterion with respect to playback devices associated with the residential gateway, the residential gateway and the playback device are configured to create a secure link between the residential gateway and the playback device via the local network, and the residential gateway is configured to decrypt the protected content using the access information provided by the rights management server and to encrypt the decrypted content for distribution to the playback device via the secure link.
US09253160B2	Methods, systems, and media for secure connection management and automatic compression over metered data connections Methods, systems and media for facilitating compression over a metered data connection are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: detecting a new wireless network connection; determining that the new connection is metered; sending, via a proxy server, requests for content to a content server using the metered data connection; receiving, via the proxy server, content from the content server compressed by the proxy server using the metered data connection; detecting a second new wireless network connection; determining that the second new wireless network connection is not a metered data connection; causing the proxy server to inhibit compression of content sent to the user device in response to determining that the second new wireless network connection is not a metered data connection.
US09253154B2	Configuration management for a capture/registration system A method, apparatus, and system is described for distributing a rule to a distributed capture system and storing the rule in a global configuration database, wherein the rule defines an action for the distributed capture system to perform regarding packets intercepted by the distributed capture system.
US09253153B2	Anti-cyber hacking defense system Systems, devices, and methods for performing rate limiting on a received packet based on logged packet information and rules list determination where for each packet from a set of one or more packets, packet information is logged in a data store by comparing the received packet with previously received packets. Determining if the received packet is part of an established connection or if the received packet is part of a new connection and if determined that the packet is of an established connection, then performing a set of rules on a subset of packets, if however it is determined that the packet is of a new connection, then performing the set of rules on all the received packets. Additionally, determining whether the packet is part of a created rules list and if the packet is determined to be part of a created rules list, then bypassing filtering for the packet; if however the packet is determined to not be part of a created rules list, then assigning escalating time-based IP traffic blocks against the packet.
US09253151B2	Managing authentication requests when accessing networks Computer system, method and program for managing authentication requests. At a gateway device to a network, packets of a message intended for said network are received. In response, fields within payloads of said packets which contain authentication or authorization information are read. In response, the message is redirected to an authentication server. In response to receipt of the redirected message from the gateway device, the authentication server determines that a requester who sent the message to the gateway device is authorized to access a target resource specified in the message and responds to the gateway device that the requester is authorized to access the target resource. In response, the gateway device responds to the requester that the requester is authorized to access the target resource. In response to the response from the authentication server that the requester is authorized to access the target resource, the gateway device notifies a server hosting the target resource that the requester is authorized to access the target resource. If the gateway device receives a subsequent message from the requester to utilize the target resource, the gateway device forwards the message toward the server hosting the target resource.
US09253145B2	Electronic component with assignment of an address to the component An electronic component (10a, 10b), with assignment of an address to the component, comprises a first terminal (A10a) for the application of a first signal (SCL) and a second signal (SDA) different from the first signal, and a second terminal (A10b), different from the first terminal, for the application of the first signal (SCL) and the second signal (SDA). Depending on the external connection of the first and second terminals (A10a, A10b), the component is assigned an address by means of which the component is addressable.
US09253137B1	Concurrent display of conversation messages and social network posts by conversation message authors A client device displays message content from one or more email messages in a conversation thread. The client device displays, concurrently with the message content from the one or more email messages, one or more respective social network objects. Each displayed social network object has one or more selection portions, and each displayed social network object corresponds to a respective post by a respective participant in the conversation thread. In response to selection of a first portion of a respective social network object of the one or more displayed social network objects, the client device displays a respective social network page of the respective participant who authored the respective post corresponding to the respective social network object.
US09253135B2	Notification management Computer-implemented methods for providing a single notification for display in an application from multiple received notifications are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first notification for an application and receiving a second notification for the application subsequent to the first notification, and analyzing content of the first notification and content of the second notification. The method also includes determining, based on the analysis, whether the second notification is related to the first notification, and providing, for display, a single notification includes at least a portion of the content of the first notification and at least a portion of the content of the second notification when the second notification is related to the first notification. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US09253115B2	Methods and systems for controlling network service quality Methods and systems are provided for controlling network service quality. According to an aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method is provided for controlling levels of quality of service (QoS) for transmitting data between a terminal and a destination. The method comprises enforcing a first level of a QoS to a connection between the terminal and the network, receiving a user-requested, second level of the QoS from the terminal, identifying a currently-available level of the QoS on the network, determining a third level of the QoS based at least in part on the currently-available level of the QoS on the network and the second level of the QoS, and enforcing the third level of the QoS. Methods and system are provided for enabling users at the terminals to specify online a level of network QoS, and the system dynamically changes the quality level and the plan to satisfy the request.
US09253113B2	Customizable model for throttling and prioritizing orders in a cloud environment A method for controlling the provisioning of a service associated with a customer order is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving, by a cloud infrastructure system, an order for a service from a plurality of service provided by the cloud infrastructure system, the cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices. Additionally, the method may comprise determining, by a computing device from the one or more computing devices, based upon a set of rules and system-related information, whether the order is to be forwarded for provisioning one or more resources for enabling the order. Then, based upon the determining, the method may forward the order for provisioning of the one or more resources or not forwarding the order for provisioning.
US09253110B2	Best-effort scheduled access Embodiments of the invention provide a best-effort scheduled access method and system that enable nodes to request, and a hub to assign, tentative, but not committed, scheduled allocations, referred to as unscheduled bilink allocations, in which data traffic is transferred between the nodes and the hub on a best-effort basis. The tentative allocations will be available if the network of the hub still has enough bandwidth, but will be shifted or reduced otherwise. This invention unifies tentative and committed scheduled allocations in the same access framework, thereby facilitating access scheduling and offering access flexibility.
US09253103B2	Managing streaming bandwidth for multiple clients A method, system and a computer program product. The method may include: allocating or receiving allocated bit rates to a plurality of streaming media flows, each streaming media flow comprises a plurality of chunks and is expected to flow over a last mile channel that is bandwidth limited; receiving a plurality of chunk requests from clients that are hosted on user devices, each chunk request indicates a requested bit rate for streaming a media chunk that belongs to the streaming media flow; changing at least one chunk request to comply with an allocated bit rate, if the requested bit rate does not comply with the allocated bit rate, to provide at least one new chunk request; and sending the at least one new chunk request to a media streamer that is expected to stream the streaming media flow to the user device.
US09253102B2	Time weighted queuing scheduler for machine-to-machine communications A device may receive machine-to-machine (M2M) traffic associated with two or more M2M applications. The M2M traffic may include information that identifies two or more priority levels associated with the M2M traffic. The device may determine parameters associated with managing the M2M traffic. The device may determine a traffic rate, an overall holding time, and an outgoing traffic rate associated with the M2M traffic. The device may determine a normalization factor based on the overall holding time and the parameters. The device may determine a set of priority level holding times based on the normalization factor, the overall holding time, and the parameters. Each priority level holding time may be associated with a priority level of the two or more priority levels. The device may manage the M2M traffic based on the set of priority level holding times and the outgoing traffic rate.
US09253096B2	Bypassing congestion points in a converged enhanced ethernet fabric Embodiments relate to bypassing congestion points in a network. An aspect includes sampling queues of a plurality of switches in a network. When packet congestion is detected at a congestion point of a first switch, the packet flow contributing to the packet congestion is identified. A congestion notification message indicating the identified packet flow is then propagated to upstream switches, which are upstream from the first switch in the network. The congestion notification message is then snooped by the upstream switches. Virtual queues within the upstream switches are associated with the identified packet flow to hold packets associated with the identified packet flow. The packets associated with the identified packet flow are then re-routed to bypass the packet congestion in the first switch.
US09253083B2	Network system According to an aspect, a network system comprises a ring-type network, and a master transmission apparatus. The master transmission apparatus includes blocking unit, conversion unit and transmission unit. The blocking unit prohibits relay of the transmission frame received through a first virtual transmission line and a second virtual transmission line. The conversion unit changes transmission path information included in the transmission frame from the first virtual transmission line to the second virtual transmission line. The transmission unit transmits the transmission frame including the transmission path information changed by the conversion unit.
US09253078B2	Networks having multiple paths between nodes and nodes for such a network A method of operating a network that contains a plurality of nodes is disclosed. The plurality of nodes include a first node and a second node with the first and second nodes being connected via a first path and a second path that are different. The method includes operating the network in first and second modes of operation. In the first mode, traffic between the first and second nodes is transmitted over the first path and not the second path. In the second mode, traffic is transmitted over the first and second paths. The mode of operation is selected based upon a level of traffic between the first and second nodes.
US09253071B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for test configuration optimized decoding of protocol messages in a network device test system A network equipment device test system includes a message blueprint data structure for storing blueprint data for messages to be decoded. The network equipment test device further includes a message decoder for decoding received messages by accessing the message blueprint data structure and matching information elements in the received messages with information elements in the message blueprint data structure. The network equipment test device further includes a message blueprint data structure configurator for receiving, as input, test configuration data, and for configuring the message blueprint data structure for optimized decoding of messages based on the test configuration data.
US09253070B2	Predicted outputs in a streaming environment According to embodiments of the disclosure, methods, systems, and computer program products for initializing a streaming application are disclosed. The method may include compiling code on a compiler system, the compiling of the code including establishing an operator graph having a plurality of processing elements including a first processing element and a second processing element. The compiling of code including receiving a first compiler directive specifying an operator sub-graph included in the operator graph, the operator sub-graph containing one or more processing elements from the plurality of processing elements. The compiling of code including receiving a second compiler directive identifying the first processing element, the first processing element configured to bypass the operator sub-graph by transmitting a predicted output tuple to the second processing element in response to determining that a processing condition exists in the operator graph.
US09253068B1	Network application classification for network traffic management Network traffic with encrypted packet payloads is classified based on monitored Domain Name System (DNS) query requests and responses. A network appliance, or some other computer, receives a DNS query request for a network name (e.g., host name) of a content server, and starts monitoring for a corresponding DNS query response. The network appliance receives the DNS query response and parses the DNS query response to retrieve an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the network name. The network appliance classifies the IP address as belonging to the content server or a network application associated with the content server. When the network appliance subsequently receives packets with a source or destination address that matches the IP address, the network appliance classifies the received packets as belonging to the content server or a network application associated with the content server.
US09253064B2	System and method for selfish child clustering A system and method for selfish child clustering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a selfish node; and a plurality of servicing nodes each connected to the selfish node, wherein the selfish node selects a first one of the servicing nodes to service requests therefrom; and wherein the selfish node evaluates a responsiveness of the first one of the servicing nodes and, responsive to a determination that the responsiveness of the first one of the servicing nodes is unacceptable, the selfish node selects a second one of the servicing nodes to service requests therefrom.
US09253062B2	Byte by byte received data integrity check A method and an apparatus for testing a network. A source port unit may generate a packet including a payload, the payload comprising a content identifier and content data in accordance with the content identifier, and transmit the packet via the network. A destination port unit may receive the packet and extract the content identifier and received content data from the received packet. The destination port unit may obtain expected content data in accordance with the extracted content identifier and compare the expected content data and the received content data.
US09253037B2	Virtualization system provision A method for providing a virtualization system includes receiving a plurality of virtualization system requirements from a customer that include a plurality of information handling systems (IHSs), at least one storage, and a plurality of configuration details. A primary IHS and a secondary IHS are designated, and configuration data, an application interface, and a primary IHS operating system are provided on the primary IHS. Following physical connection of the plurality of the IHSs and in response to activation of the primary IHS, a primary IHS first boot process initiates the application interface that then automatically activates the secondary IHS and uses the configuration data to automatically configure the at least one storage. In response to activation of the secondary IHS, a secondary IHS operating system on the secondary IHS initiates a secondary IHS first boot process that automatically configures virtualization software installed on the secondary IHS.
US09253035B2	Reducing switch state size in flow-based networks Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for reducing switch state size in flow-based networks. A method includes installing a first hop rule on a first hop switch in a network for a given flow that originates from the first hop switch, wherein the rule adds tags onto a given packet that matches a description of the given flow, wherein the tags correspond to output ports used for forwarding the given packet on each subsequent switch in the network on the path of the given flow; installing and analyzing forwarding rules at each subsequent switch in the network on the path of the given flow to confirm a match with the given packet at each subsequent switch based only on the outermost tag on the given packet; and removing the outermost tag from the given packet and forwarding said given packet to the output port corresponding to said removed outermost tag.
US09253034B1	Mass activation of network devices Techniques are described for initializing a plurality of network devices with similar network configurations, such as a common management device, platform, operating system, and network hostname. In one example, a management device comprises a computer-readable medium encoded with instructions for a configlet generator module and a device manager module and a processor to execute modules stored in the computer-readable medium of the management device. The processor executes the configlet generator module to generate a bulk configlet for a plurality of network devices, wherein the bulk configlet comprises a bulk identifier. The processor also executes the device manager module to receive a network session request from one of the plurality of network devices, wherein the network session request includes the bulk identifier, and to send specific configuration data to the one of the plurality of network devices in response to the network session request.
US09253027B2	Graceful handling of critical traffic blackholing faults In one embodiment, a network device may detect a data plane critical fault condition, while a corresponding control plane is not experiencing a critical fault condition. In response to a network device based critical fault condition, the network device may activate and advertise an increased and expensive usable metric for each network interface of the network device. On the other hand, in response to an interface based critical fault condition, the network device may activate and advertise an increased and expensive usable metric for one or more particular network interfaces of the interface based critical fault, and signals, over the control plane to a corresponding network device at an opposing end of each particular network interface of the interface based critical fault, a request to activate and advertise an increased and expensive usable metric at the opposing end of each particular network interface.
US09253022B2	Managed object version identification Systems and methods for determining a version of a standard publication that is supported by a network element are provided. Version map information is requested and received from an external node in a managed network, including publication identifiers for at least one of the network elements. Each network element identified in the version map has an associated publication version and an indication of if the publication can be applicable to its directly or indirectly inferior nodes in the hierarchical instance tree. If a particular network element does not have a corresponding publication identifier in the received version map information, it can be determined if the network element can use the publication identifiers of a superior network element in the hierarchy.
US09253017B2	Management of a data network of a computing environment An integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.
US09253013B1	Efficient delivery of content by virtualization of dynamic interaction with the document object model A method of updating a document object model (DOM) is disclosed. A request by a web browser for information to update the DOM is intercepted by intercepting an interaction with the DOM. The request is converted to a server request as part of a client-server protocol, requesting at least a portion of the information from a server. The server request is sent to the server. A first server response including at least a portion of the information from the server is received. The first server response is processed according to the client-server protocol to determine a first update to the DOM. The first update is applied to the DOM.
US09253011B2	Session-server affinity for clients that lack session identifiers The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates interaction between a client and a web application. During operation, the system identifies a request that lacks a session identifier from the client to the web application. Next, the system obtains a client identifier associated with the client from the request. If a cached session identifier is found for the client identifier, the system adds the cached session identifier to the request. Finally, the system forwards the request to the web application.
US09253009B2	High performance station Systems and methodologies are described for processing information at a device operating in a wireless communication system. Techniques for in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) calibration, interference cancellation, channel estimation, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and rank metric calculation are provided herein. As provided herein, one or more of the described techniques can be used to adjust the performance of a wireless station in the presence of impairments to the wireless station and/or a communication link used by the wireless station.
US09253007B1	Methods and systems for rapid detection of digital content within RF signals Systems and methods are disclosed for rapid detection of digital content within received radio frequency (RF) signals. The disclosed embodiments digitize received RF signals and apply a cyclic prefix correlation to generate correlation values that are accumulated over a plurality of symbol times. The accumulated correlation values are then stored in a dump register after these plurality of symbol times, and the accumulated correlation values are used to determine whether or not digital content is present within the broadcast channel being analyzed. The disclosed embodiments are useful, for example, in determining whether DAB (Digital Radio Broadcast) digital content is present within audio broadcast channels by detecting the cyclic prefix within the DAB transmissions.
US09252996B2	Apparatuses and methods to change information values Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a component to change a value of a bit among a number of M bits of information when the M bits have the same value and when M exceeds a selected value. At least one of such embodiments can include a transmitting component to provide the information to a connection. At least one of such embodiments can include a receiving component to receive the information from the connection. In at least one of such embodiments, the selected value can include a maximum number of consecutive bits having the same value that such a receiving component can be configured to receive. Other embodiments including additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US09252993B2	Frequency division multiplexing system with selectable rate An OFDM system uses a normal mode which has a symbol length T, a guard time TG and a set of N sub-carriers, which are orthogonal over the time T, and one or more fallback modes which have symbol lengths KT and guard times KTG where K is an integer greater than unity. The same set of N sub-carriers is used for the fallback modes as for the normal mode. Since the same set of sub-carriers is used, the overall bandwidth is substantially constant, so alias filtering does not need to be adaptive. The Fourier transform operations are the same as for the normal mode. Thus fallback modes are provided with little hardware cost. In the fallback modes the increased guard time provides better delay spread tolerance and the increased symbol length provides improved signal to noise performance, and thus increased range, at the cost of reduced data rate.
US09252989B2	Data-dependent equalizer circuit A data dependent equalizer circuit includes a plurality of noise prediction filters. Respective ones of the noise prediction filters are configured to filter noise in sample data for at least one predetermined non-return to zero (NRZ) condition. A plurality of equalizers is communicatively coupled with the plurality of noise prediction filters. Respective ones of the plurality of equalizers are configured to yield equalized sample data that corresponds to the at least one predetermined NRZ condition for one or more of the noise prediction filters.
US09252985B2	Impedance matching between FPGA and memory modules Embodiments of the present invention provide impedance matching between a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and memory modules in a semiconductor storage device (SSD) system architecture. Specifically, a set (at least one) of memory modules is coupled to an FPGA. A damping resistor is placed at the impedance mismatching point to reduce signal noise.
US09252973B1	Converting electronic messages to message posts A system and method is disclosed for converting electronic messages to message posts. An electronic message client may be integrated with a social network. An electronic message composed using the electronic message service may be designated for one or more recipients who are also members of a social network associated with a sender of the electronic message. On determining that the one or more recipients are members of the social network; at least a portion of the electronic message may be provided as a message post to a message stream associated with the one or more recipients.
US09252972B1	Policy control using software defined network (SDN) protocol A network device includes an internal policy engine that makes local policy decisions for packet flows and controls policies applied by service modules and forwarding components of the network device. The policy engine interacts with an external policy server to receive policies using software defined networking (SDN) protocol as if the data plane of the network device were directly exposed to the external policy server by the SDN protocol.
US09252969B2	Method for transmitting data A method is described for transmitting data between participants of a serial, ring-shaped communications arrangement in which the participants are serially connected to one another, wherein a data packet is passed from a participant provided as a master to further participants provided as slaves, wherein the data packet is passed from slave to slave, and wherein address information of the data packet is altered by each slave.
US09252964B2	Dynamically optimized many tree multicast networks In one embodiment, an example method is provided and includes sending link data from a node to a control entity; querying the control entity for a Many Tree assignment; receiving the Many Tree assignment from the control entity at the node; and joining a Many Tree based on the Many Tree assignment.
US09252960B2	System for establishing a cryptographic key depending on a physical system In systems for establishing a cryptographic key depending on a physical uncloneable function (PUF) it may be a problem that internal information correlated with the cryptographic key is leaked to the outside of the system via a side-channel. To mitigate this problem a cryptographic system for reproducibly establishing a cryptographic key is presented. The system comprises a physical system comprising a physical, at least partially random, configuration of components from which an initial bit-string is derived. An error corrector corrects deviations occurring in the initial bit-string. Through the use of randomization the error corrector operates on a randomized data. Information leaking through a side channel is thereby reduced. After error correction a cryptographic key may be derived from the initial bit-string.
US09252947B1	Secure key distribution service A secure key distribution server (SKDS) determines the identity of a requesting server without use of a shared secret by resolving the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to a network address and comparing it with the network address of a key request. A credential string may also be used as part of the identification. Once identity is established, keys may be securely distributed. The SKDS may also be implemented in a peer-to-peer configuration.
US09252941B2	Enhanced digital signatures algorithm method and system utilitzing a secret generator The present invention is a digital signatures scheme method and system that permits the generation of a digital signature in a manner whereby the generator is kept secret. The inclusion of a secret generator in the digital signatures scheme may reduce the potential for an attack upon the scheme to be successful. The present invention may incorporate a signing procedure and a verification procedure. The signing procedure may facilitate the determination of a group, and the identification of the generator from the group. The signing procedure may also keep the generator secret and may generate a digital signature of a message. The generator may be kept secret by one or more conditions, and one or more public keys may be utilized by the digital signatures scheme. The verification procedure may be a verification procedure operable to obtain the message and the digital signature and to verify the digital signature. Embodiments of the present invention may achieve processing of the signing procedure and/or verification procedure at a fast rate of speed, which may further diminish the chance of a successful attack upon the digital signatures scheme. Embodiments of the present invention may further generate variations of digital signatures.
US09252935B2	Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.
US09252934B2	Support of network based positioning by sounding reference signal A method of network-based positioning using sounding reference signal (SRS) is proposed. An eNodeB configures a number of parameters of a periodic SRS transmission for a user equipment (UE). The eNodeB then transmits SRS configuration data for SRS measurements performed by a location measurement unit (LMU). The SRS configuration data includes cell-specific SRS bandwidth configuration and UE-specific SRS bandwidth configuration. The SRS configuration data may further include a number of antenna ports for SRS transmission, SRS frequency hopping bandwidth configuration, information on whether SRS sequence-group hopping is enabled, and ΔSS when SRS sequence hopping is enabled. Upon receiving the SRS configuration data, the LMU is able to perform timing measurements over the received SRS signals from the UE. In one embodiment, the LMU detects SRS dropping to avoid performance degradation of the network-based positioning.
US09252927B2	Signaling processing method, base station, and user equipment Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signaling processing method. The method includes: in a downlink subframe set, generating a downlink assignment index (DAI) respectively for a downlink subframe that has a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to be sent, where a value of the DAI is generated according to a preset rule and a sequence of carrier first and then subframe; and sending the PDCCH to the user equipment, where the PDCCH carries the DAI. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a transmission delay is shortened and transmission efficiency is improved.
US09252926B2	System and method for retransmissions in a wireless communications system A method for a communications system, with a sender, which transmits data as packets to a receiver. The receiver transmits quality values to the sender representing the reception quality of packets received with errors. The receiver stores information regarding a number of received data packets, and there is a relay transceiver between the sender and the receiver. Both the relay transceiver and the sender can encode data packets into composite packets, M and to transmit composite packets to the receiver. Said stored information in the receiver comprises the data in correctly received packets and information regarding the reception quality of packets received with errors and the data of those packets, and the stored information is used by the receiver to decode composite packets, thereby extracting the data in the packets of the composite packets.
US09252921B2	Method of multiplexing over an error-prone wireless broadcast channel Provided is a method and system for transmitting information. The method includes determining stream length information for at least one data stream to be transmitted and associating the stream length information with a system parameter message. The system parameter message including the associated stream length information is transmitted separately from the data stream. This process facilitates de-multiplexing of individual streams and the processing of stream data even if one or more individual streams are received in error.
US09252903B2	System and method for accounting for time that a packet spends in transit through a transparent clock Despite a recent revision, IEEE 1588™-2008 does not provide a complete implementation for PTP (precision time protocol) that accounts for variable delays introduced by network components. According to a broad aspect, the present disclosure provides implementations that account for variable delays introduced by network components. Therefore, the amount of time that a packet spends in transit through a transparent clock can be accounted for. According to another broad aspect, there is provided a master-slave mode that allows a transparent clock to function as a master or a slave to another clock.
US09252901B2	Method and apparatus for managing synchronization groups in wireless communication system A synchronization group management apparatus of a node recognizes a node belonging to a different group if groups having mobility are moved and located in the same area, and performs an operation of merging the different groups into one group by changing the frame start time and the synchronization reference time of the node.
US09252900B2	Universal synchronization engine based on probabilistic methods for guarantee of lock in multiformat audio systems Various embodiments are described herein related to techniques for synchronizing a slave device to a master device that communicates using a unified bus communication protocol or some aspect thereof. In one example, the method may comprise assuming a first mode of operation for the unified bus communication protocol; searching for a synchronization pattern at one or more locations in transmitted data according to the first mode of operation; obtaining synchronization when the located synchronization pattern is verified according to at least one synchronization rule for the mode of operation; and if synchronization is not obtained based on the assumed first mode of operation, a second mode of operation for the unified bus communication protocol is assumed and the searching and obtaining acts are carried out on the transmitted data according to the second mode of operation.
US09252897B2	Multi-feed event viewing A method may include receiving a number of video feeds from video capture devices located at an event venue. The number of video feeds may be dynamically analyzed to determine feed information associated with the number of video feeds. A request to view a multi-feed event may be received from a user device. At least some of the number of video feeds may be provided to the user device in response to the request. Feed information corresponding to the at least some of the number of video feeds may be provided based on the dynamically analyzing.
US09252894B2	Method and arrangement for supporting calibration of correlated antennas Method and arrangement for supporting calibration of correlated antennas. The method involves determining a timing difference τ between the correlated antennas based on variations in carrier signal strength over frequency in at least one direction from the correlated antennas and providing the determined timing difference τ for use in calibration of the correlated antennas.
US09252888B2	Coherent optical receiver device and coherent optical receiving method In a coherent optical receiver device, the control process for keeping received signals in high quality is complicated, therefore, a coherent optical receiver device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a coherent optical receiver receiving input signal light; an input power monitor obtaining input power information determined on the basis of the power of the input signal light; a local oscillator connected to the coherent optical receiver; and a controller connected to the coherent optical receiver, the input power monitor, and the local oscillator; wherein the coherent optical receiver comprises a 90-degree hybrid circuit, a photoelectric converter, and an amplifier; the input power monitor is disposed in the optical path of the input signal light in a stage preceding the amplifier; and the controller obtains the input power information from the input power monitor and controls the power of local oscillation light output from the local oscillator on the basis of the input power information.
US09252886B2	Optical transmitter Disclosed is an optical transceiver 1 including a phase locked loop circuit 3a configured to receive a reference clock CL1 and remove a jitter component of the reference clock CL1; a second phase locked loop circuit 3b configured to receive an output of the first phase locked loop circuit, generate a multiplied clock CL3 synchronized with the output, and when the frequency of the output deviates from a predetermined range and is in an abnormal state, output an alarm signal ALM1; and an optical transmitter module 5 configured to output an optical output signal modulated based on the multiplied clock CL3 and electrical signals D1, D2, D3, and D4 from the outside.
US09252885B2	Method for manufacturing wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus and wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus A method for manufacturing a wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus, includes arranging laser devices in a line and fixing the laser devices to a first substrate, fixing to a second substrate reflectors arranged to multiplex laser beams emitted from the laser devices and to generate wavelength multiplexed light, and arranging collimator lenses on paths of the laser beams, adjusting positions of the collimator lenses so that the laser beams making up the wavelength multiplexed light become parallel and, thereafter, fixing the collimator lenses to the first substrate.
US09252874B2	Power management for remote antenna units in distributed antenna systems Power management for a remote antenna unit(s) (RAUs) in a distributed antenna system. Power can be managed for an RAU configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the RAU. For example, the RAU may be configured to include power-consuming RAU modules to provide distributed antenna system-related services. As another example, the RAU may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the RAU to external power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the RAU, the power-consuming RAU modules and/or external power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the RAU. In this instance, the power available at the RAU can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the RAU.
US09252873B2	Methods, apparatuses, and systems for monitoring signal strength in an optical network An optical transceiver, optical network and methods for using the same are disclosed. The optical transceiver and/or optical network and related methods may be useful for independently monitoring the optical transceiver and/or optical network. The optical transceiver generally includes an optical receiver configured to receive optical information; circuitry configured to calculate signal strength values of the received optical information from a plurality of remote optical transmitters; logic configured to process the signal strength values for each of the plurality of remote optical transmitters; and one or more memories configured to store the signal strength values. Optionally, the optical transceiver may notify a system or host when the transceiver, network or component thereof is operating outside a predetermined threshold.
US09252864B2	Method and apparatus for fast beam-link construction in mobile communication system A method of forming a beam-link by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system using a beamforming scheme includes determining at least one downlink beams to be used for downlink transmission and/or reception, transmitting a reference signal to a Mobile Station via the at least one downlink beam, receiving the reference signal via an uplink beam from the Mobile station, and updating the at least one downlink beam to increase a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Accordingly, a beam-link using an initial beam-link between the BS and the MS and adaptive beamforming can be rapidly constructed in a high frequency band BDMA cellular system.
US09252862B2	MIMO preamble for initial access with an unknown number of transmit antennas For certain embodiments, a preamble sequence associated with a particular number of transmit antennas may allow a receiving mobile station to determine the number of transmit antennas used for transmission. The preamble sequence may be selected from one of a set of Constant Amplitude and Zero Auto Correlation (CAZAC) sequences corresponding to all of the supported number of transmit antennas. As a result, a receiving station may be able to determine the sequence sent by correlation and, thereby determine the number of antennas used for transmission. Given the number of transmit antennas, the mobile station may then perform MIMO channel estimation during initial synchronization to recover the channel taps between each transmit and each receive antenna.
US09252860B1	Method and apparatus for generating a second steering matrix based on a first steering matrix for use in transmit beamforming of a packet in wireless communication Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with beamforming with steering submatrix selection are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet for transmit beamforming and identifying a first steering matrix. The first steering matrix includes weights, set forth in n rows and c columns, that are applicable to be applied to the packet in transmit beamforming of the packet. The method includes generating a second steering matrix having weights set forth in less than n rows or less than c columns. The weights of the second steering matrix are selected from the weights of the first steering matrix. The method includes providing the weights from the second steering matrix to a transmitter transmitting the packet for transmit beamforming of the packet.
US09252859B2	Method for signalling resources to a radio station and radio station therefor The present invention relates to a method for signaling a plurality of transmission parameters for a plurality of communications between a primary station and a plurality of respective secondary stations in a multi-user MIMO mode, comprising the steps of (a) signaling the value of at least one first transmission parameter in a multicast message to at least two secondary stations, the value of the first transmission parameter being common to the respective communications corresponding to the at least two secondary stations, and (b) signaling the value of at least one second transmission parameter in a plurality of unicast messages to each secondary stations of the plurality of secondary stations.
US09252855B2	Signal generation method and signal generation device A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US09252853B2	Techniques for beamforming to mitigate multi-user leakage and interference Examples are disclosed for beamforming to mitigate multi-user leakage and interference. The examples include an evolved node B (eNB) receiving feedback from user equipment (UEs) to indicate strongest or highest channel gains for various beams included in a plurality of beam sets. A selection process or scheme may then be implemented to select individual beams for a UE that minimizes or reduces leakage caused by the UE's use of a given beam. Reducing leakage may reduce interference to other UEs using other beams. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09252851B2	Method and apparatus of performing outer loop link adaptation operation The present invention discloses a method and apparatus of performing outer loop link adaptation (OLLA) operation. This method may comprise: accelerating in an initial probing phase, increase of an OLLA scaling factor until obtaining a negative result regarding codeword selection; and fine modifying, in a fine modification phase, the scaling factor using an upturn factor and a downturn factor in response to the result regarding codeword selection so that a channel quality indication, which is modified using the scaling factor, is matched with its actual value. Compared with the prior art, the technical solution as provided in the present invention can quickly modify a CQI to match its actual value, thus this solution may effectively mitigate the CQI mismatch, improve the CQI feedback accuracy, and further enhance the cell throughput performance and frequency utilization.
US09252846B2	Systems and methods for detecting and identifying a wireless power device Embodiments are directed to detecting and identifying a type of a wireless power device in a wireless power transfer field. According to one aspect, systems and methods are disclosed which describe limiting power transfer to non-compliant devices and detection of undesired power absorbers, such as metal objects, in a wireless power system. A method may include detecting one or more non-compliant devices and/or undesired wireless power absorbers positioned within a charging region of a wireless power transmitter. The method may further include limiting an amount of power transmitted by a transmitter in response to the detection, or reducing the amount of power received by the non-compliant device.
US09252845B2	Near-field communications and routing Near-field communications (NFC) with NFC reader devices are facilitated. In accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a NFC circuit that wirelessly communicates with different types of local NFC readers using an NFC protocol, a host circuit having one or more modules that communicate with one of the types of local NFC readers via the NFC circuit, and second (e.g., secure) modules that respectively communicate with a specific one of the different types of local NFC readers, also via the NFC circuit, using secure data stored within the second module. A routing circuit is responsive to an NFC communication received from a specific one of the NFC readers, by identifying one of the first and second modules that communicates with the specific one of the NFC readers, and routing NFC communications between the specific one of the NFC readers and the identified one of the modules.
US09252841B2	Building, transmitting, and receiving frame structures in power line communications Systems and methods for building, transmitting, and receiving frame structures in power line communications (PLC) are described. Various techniques described herein provide a preamble design using one or more symbols based on a chirp signal that yields a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). According to some techniques, the preamble may be constructed with one or more different types and/or number of symbols configured to identify a PLC domain operating in close physical proximity to another PLC domain. According to other techniques, one or more preamble symbols may be interspersed within a header portion of a PLC frame to facilitate estimation of a frame boundary and/or sampling frequency offset, for example, in the presence of impulsive noise. According to yet other techniques, a PLC detector may be capable of receiving and decoding two or more types of PLC frames (e.g., using different PLC standards).
US09252839B2	Method and device for cancelling interference between a signal carried by a carrier power line and a signal carried by a telephone line The present invention concerns a method and device for cancelling interference between a signal carried by a carrier current line of a system distributing digital services at the home of a subscriber and a signal carried by a telephone line of said system that is situated close to the carrier current line. The method is characterized in that it consists of obtaining the signal carried by the carrier current line, filtering it in order to obtain an estimate of the signal that disturbs the signal carried by the telephone line and subtracting this estimate from the signal carried by the telephone line.
US09252838B1	Alternative techniques for processing wireless communication backhaul A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for transmitting wireless data across a coaxial cable. In one aspect, a set of computer-readable media provides a method that includes receiving a request from a mobile device for data and transmitting the data across a coaxial cable to a cable modem. The method further includes sending the data to the mobile device through a base station, wherein the base station communicates with the cable modem in order to receive the data.
US09252834B2	Low power long range transmitter A transmitter device arranged to encode a set of digital input data into a succession of modulated chirps, whereby said digital input data are encoded according to a Gray code into codewords (320, 321, 322) having a plurality of bits, and having an interleaver that distributes the bits (C00, . . . Cnn) of each codeword into a series of digital modulation values (S0, . . . S7), at different bit positions, and to synthesize a series of modulated chirps whose cyclical shifts are determined by the modulation values. A special frame structure is defined in order to ensure high robustness, and variable bit-rate flexibility.
US09252833B2	Power efficient driver architecture Disclosed are various embodiments for providing a power-efficient driver architecture supporting rail-to-rail operation in full duplex mode. A driver is configured to drive a duplex signal over a transmission medium. A hybrid is configured to recover a received signal from the duplex signal. The received signal is generated by a remote transceiver. The driver is configured to drive the duplex signal based at least in part on the received signal recovered by the hybrid.
US09252831B2	Multi-tap adaptive filter for transmit signal leakage cancellation Exemplary embodiments are directed to systems, devices, and methods for mitigating effects of transmit signal leakage. A transceiver may include a transmitter and a receiver. The transceiver may further include a multi-tap analog adaptive filter coupled to each of the transmitter and the receiver and configured to generate an estimated transmit leakage signal based on at least a portion of a transmit signal from the transmitter and an error signal from the receiver.
US09252828B2	Methods and arrangements for switching antenna mode with reduced power consumption In a first antenna mode in a multi-antenna port radio access node, a set of logical antenna ports and its associated resource elements are mapped to a first set of physical antenna ports. Each physical antenna port comprises at least one power amplifier. Switching from first antenna mode to a second antenna mode is initiated upon receipt of information triggering antenna mode switching at a first point of time. During a time interval from the first point of time to a second point of time, the logical antenna ports are re-mapped to a second set of physical antenna ports. At the second point of time, at the end of the time interval, the antenna mode is switched to a second antenna mode by changing supply of power to each physical antenna port represented in the first set of physical antenna ports but not in the second set of antenna ports.
US09252814B2	Combined group ECC protection and subgroup parity protection A method and system are disclosed for providing combined error code protection and subgroup parity protection for a given group of n bits. The method comprises the steps of identifying a number, m, of redundant bits for said error protection; and constructing a matrix P, wherein multiplying said given group of n bits with P produces m redundant error correction code (ECC) protection bits, and two columns of P provide parity protection for subgroups of said given group of n bits. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the matrix P is constructed by generating permutations of m bit wide vectors with three or more, but an odd number of, elements with value one and the other elements with value zero; and assigning said vectors to rows of the matrix P.
US09252809B2	Using FEC statistics to tune serdes Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) operation is optimized for signals based on signal error statistics. Forward Error Correction (FEC) may provide feedback of error statistics or error correction statistics to a SerDes tuner, which uses the statistics to selectively tune or adjust SerDes operating parameters, such as vertical and horizontal sampling or slicing offsets, gain and equalization, to decrease the bit error rate (BER). Statistics report which bits and patterns are corrected and to what values. Knowledge of expected and actual signals is leveraged to correlate detected errors with underlying problems and solutions to optimize SerDes operation. Each node in a network, such as a Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON), is enabled to fine tune its operation independently for each logical or physical channel.
US09252808B1	Ping-pong run length limit encoder A run length limit encoder includes a subdivided threshold lookup table to encode data using multi-level enumeration.
US09252797B1	Return-to-zero digital-to-analog converter with overlapping time delayed pulse generation The embodiments described herein provide a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The DAC implements a stepped return-to-zero (RZ) pulse scheme, where the DAC output includes the superposition of multiple time-offset RZ pulses. In one embodiment, the DAC includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a current source, and a current sink. The first switching element generates first RZ pulses, and the second switching element generates second RZ pulses, where the second RZ pulses are time-offset from the first RZ pulses. The first RZ pulses and second RZ pulses are combined to provide stepped RZ pulse output signal.
US09252795B2	Distribution system for optical reference A system for distributing a reference oscillator signal includes a clock having a reference oscillator and a femtosecond laser stabilized by the reference oscillator. The system also includes at least one beamsplitter configured to split the femtosecond laser. The system further includes one or more remote nodes that are spaced from the clock. The remote nodes are configured to generate reference signals based on the split femtosecond laser.
US09252794B1	Frequency calibration with real-time resistor trimming An on-chip frequency calibration apparatus is described. A ring oscillator generates a clock signal. A trimmable resistor is coupled to the ring oscillator. A frequency detector detects the frequency of the clock signal generated from the ring oscillator. The frequency detector includes a frequency divider component that divides the frequency of the clock signal by a predetermined number to derive an output signal having a pulse duration that is equal to at least one period of the clock signal, a capacitor, a capacitor charging current source, and a capacitor charge transistor directs a charging current generated from the capacitor charging current source to the capacitor as a function of the output signal generated from the frequency divider component. A resistor trimming unit trims the trimmable resistor in response to determining that the frequency detected by the frequency detector is less than a target frequency threshold.
US09252791B1	Phase locked loop and method for generating an oscillator signal A phase locked loop (PLL) system generates an oscillator signal by providing a fixed control voltage to a programmable voltage to current converter having switch selection inputs and a variable current output. Logic values are provided to the switch selection inputs to adjust a control current at the variable current output and a frequency of the oscillator signal is adjusted based on the control current. The logic values are fixed when a first condition is reached, which is based on the frequency of the oscillator signal, a division factor, and an input reference signal frequency. The fixed control voltage provided to the programmable voltage to current converter is then replaced with a charge pump control voltage based on an error signal. The error signal is based on a comparison of the input reference signal frequency and a fraction of the oscillating frequency.
US09252787B2	Method for control of phase in an oscillatory circuit A method for the control of a phase shift between a transmission signal and a received signal of an electromechanical transducer unit to a predetermined value in an oscillatory circuit. The received signal is sampled at discrete points in time predetermined based on the transmission signal. Sampled voltage values are compared with desired values, which the received signal assumes at the respective points in time, when the predetermined phase shift is present, and, in the case of a deviation of a voltage value from its desired value, based on the sign of the deviation, the frequency of the transmission signal is decreased or increased.
US09252785B2	Clock recovery for a data receiving unit Clock recovery for a data receiving unit is disclosed. Clock recovery can include obtaining an early/late signal from an incoming data stream. The early/late signal indicates if a set of one or more data samples of the incoming data stream tends to be earlier or later than an edge of a phase-rotated clock signal provided depending on a phase offset value. Clock recovery can include updating a phase rotation counter value in response to the early/late signal. Clock recovery can include determining the phase offset value depending on a rounded phase rotation counter value. The phase offset value can be further determined by selecting one of a set of options including maintaining, increasing, or decreasing the rounded phase rotation counter value. The selecting is performed depending on the early/late signal and depending on the phase rotation counter value.
US09252781B2	Oscillator An oscillator uses a differential signal corresponding to a difference between an oscillation output f1 of a first oscillator circuit and an oscillation output f2 of a second oscillator circuit as a temperature detection value, and outputs a control signal for reducing an influence caused by a temperature characteristic of the oscillation output f1 based on the differential signal. The oscillator includes a switching unit configured to alternately switch between a first state where a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal are connected to a storage unit for access of an external computer to the storage unit, and a second state where the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal are respectively connected to a first signal path and a second signal path via a frequency reduction unit such that the output signals from the frequency reduction unit are extracted to an external frequency measuring unit.
US09252775B2	High-voltage level-shifter Described herein is a high-voltage level-shifter (HVLS) that can be used for both NMOS and PMOS bridges, exhibits a higher voltage tolerance for over-clocking than traditional level-shifters, has reduced crowbar current in its input driver, and no contention in its output driver. The HVLS comprises an input driver including a first signal conditioning unit, the input driver operating on a first power supply level and for conditioning an input signal as a first signal in the first signal conditioning unit; and a circuit to receive the first signal and to provide a second signal based at least in part on the first signal, the second signal being level-shifted from the first power supply level to a second power supply level, wherein the second power supply level is higher than the first power supply level.
US09252765B2	N-well switching circuit A dual-mode PMOS transistor is disclosed that has a first mode of operation in which a switched n-well for the dual-mode PMOS transistor is biased to a high voltage. The dual-mode PMOS transistor has a second mode of operation in which the switched n-well is biased to a low voltage that is lower than the high voltage. The dual-mode PMOS transistor has a size and gate-oxide thickness each having a magnitude that cannot accommodate a permanent tie to the high voltage. An n-well voltage switching circuit biases the switched n-well to prevent voltage damage to the dual-mode PMOS transistor despite its relatively small size and thin gate-oxide thickness.
US09252761B2	Voltage threshold calibration techniques for level detectors Some embodiments relate to a level detector, comprising a current mirror including first and second current legs to carry first and second signals, respectively. The first current leg includes a first variable resistor and the second current leg includes a second variable resistor. During a calibration mode, a switching element provides a predetermined reference voltage across first and second control terminals of the first and second variable resistors, respectively. During a non-calibration mode, the switching element decouples the predetermined reference voltage from the first and second control terminals, and provides a signal across the first and second control terminals. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09252755B1	Shared logic for multiple registers with asynchronous initialization A control circuit is provided that enables a register to provide a synchronous initialization capability as well as an asynchronous capability despite the register having no asynchronous input.
US09252754B2	Scan flip-flop, method thereof and devices having the same A scan flip-flop, which performs a normal operation latching a data input and a scan operation latching a scan input, includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a latch. The first circuit determines a voltage of an intermediate node based on a clock signal, one of the data input and the scan input, and data of a latch input node. The second circuit determines the data based on the clock signal, the voltage of the intermediate node and the data input during the normal operation, and determines the data based on the clock signal and the voltage of the intermediate node during the scan operation. The latch latches the data based on the clock signal.
US09252750B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit and operating method thereof The present invention is made to not only reduce voltage drop when a power supply circuit makes a selection between a power supply voltage from a main power supply and a backup power supply voltage from an auxiliary power supply, but also reduce the power consumption of the auxiliary power supply. The power supply circuit, which is in a semiconductor integrated circuit, includes a measurement circuit, a switch control circuit, and a switch circuit. The switch circuit includes a first switch element and a second switch element. The first switch element is coupled between an output terminal and a first input terminal. The second switch element is coupled between the output terminal and a second input terminal. The measurement circuit operates on the main power supply voltage at the first input terminal and compares the main power supply voltage with the auxiliary power supply voltage.
US09252746B2	Control device, frequency control method, and receiving device A control device of a receiving device includes an interference wave detector that detects an interference wave within an intermediate frequency band in a signal converted by a mixer that converts a reception signal of a radio frequency band with a certain radio frequency as a center into an intermediate signal of the intermediate frequency band based on a signal of a local oscillation frequency different from the radio frequency. The control device further includes a frequency controller that changes the local oscillation frequency so that the intermediate frequency band gets away from a band of the interference wave when the interference wave is detected.
US09252733B2	Switchable filters and design structures Switchable and/or tunable filters, methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method of forming the filters includes forming at least one piezoelectric filter structure comprising a plurality of electrodes formed on a piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming a micro-electro-mechanical structure (MEMS) comprising a MEMS beam formed above the piezoelectric substrate and at a location in which, upon actuation, the MEMS beam shorts the piezoelectric filter structure by contacting at least one of the plurality of electrodes.
US09252730B2	Audio processing device and audio systems using the same An audio processing device is provided. The audio processing device includes a shaper. The shaper receives a digital input audio signal and generates an output audio signal at an output terminal according to the digital input audio signal. The shaper includes a gain adjustment unit and a shaping unit. The gain adjustment unit receives the digital input audio signal and adjusts the digital input audio signal to generate a gained audio signal. The shaping unit receives the gained audio signal. When the shaper operates in a first mode, the shaping unit shapes an envelope of the gained audio signal to generate a shaped audio signal, and the shaped audio signal serves as the output audio signal.
US09252724B2	2G support for 2G and 3G/4G envelope tracking modulator There is provided an amplification stage including an envelope tracking modulated supply for tracking a reference signal, comprising a low frequency path for tracking low frequency variations in the reference signal and for providing a first output voltage, and a high frequency path for tracking high frequency variations in the reference signal and for providing a second output voltage, and a combiner for combining the first and second output voltages to provide a third output voltage, the amplification stage further comprising a first amplifier arranged to receive the first output voltage as a supply voltage, and a second amplifier arranged to receive the third output voltage as a supply voltage, wherein the first and second amplifiers are enabled in different modes of operation.
US09252721B2	Power decrease based on packet type Techniques for controlling one or more audio amplifiers in or associated with a device coupled on a local area network are disclosed. An example playback device includes a processor, an amplifier, a network interface, and a memory. The memory includes a software module that, when executed by the processor, causes the playback device to: operate in a first power mode in which the amplifier consumes a first amount of power; while operating in the first power mode, determine that a defined time has passed since receiving, via the network interface, a specified type of data packet; and based on determining that the defined time has passed since receiving the specified type of data packet, transition from operating in the first power mode to operate in a second power mode in which the amplifier consumes a second amount of power, wherein the first amount of power is greater than the second amount of power.
US09252717B2	Phase noise reduction in LC-VCO An approach for a transconductance cell for use in a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is provided. The transconductance cell includes a first NFET stack connected in series to a first PFET stack. The transconductance cell includes a second NFET stack connected in series to a second PFET stack. The first NFET stack and the first PFET stack are cross-coupled to the second NFET stack and the second PFET stack. The first NFET stack and the second NFET stack are connected to a tail node. The first PFET stack and the second PFET stack are connected to a power supply node.
US09252714B2	Transmission signal power control device and communication apparatus A transmission signal power control device includes: at least one low-power attenuator configured to attenuate amplitude of a transmission signal when an absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is smaller than or equal to a clipping threshold; a power amplifier configured to amplify the transmission signal output from the at least one low-power attenuator; and a control unit configured to stop operation of the power amplifier when the absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is smaller than or equal to a value and operate the power amplifier when the absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is larger than the value.
US09252699B2	Control device and control method for vehicular rotating electric machine When a command frequency to a rotating electric machine is included in an inverter lock frequency band, a frequency switching section switches the command frequency to a frequency outside the inverter lock frequency band by changing a slip frequency command value. In response to this, a torque command change section changes a torque command to a second rotating electric machine other than a first rotating electric machine of which the slip frequency is changed such that a torque fluctuation caused by the change of the slip frequency command value is canceled out.
US09252697B2	Motor controller A motor controller configured to control an SRM includes an inverter connected to an SRM, a torque and flux estimator configured to estimate a torque and a flux generated in the SRM as an estimated torque and an estimated flux, based on output from the inverter and a rotor angle of the switched reluctance motor, a switching pattern selector configured to select one of a plurality of switching patterns based on comparing a result of a reference torque and the estimated torque, comparing a result of a reference flux and the estimated flux, and a flux phase angle, and performing switching of the inverter in accordance with a selected switching pattern, and a reference flux calculator configured to obtain the reference flux from a flux trajectory and the rotor angle changing the flux trajectory, the flux trajectory indicating a relationship between the rotor angle and the reference flux.
US09252691B2	Back electromagnetic force (BEMF) sense system One embodiment includes a back-electromagnetic force (BEMF) sense system. The system includes a sense amplifier configured to measure an amplitude of a selected one of a plurality of phase voltages relative to a center tap voltage associated with a servo motor for the calculation of an associated BEMF voltage. The plurality of phase voltages can be provided to the sense amplifier via a respective plurality of control nodes. The selected one of the plurality of phase voltages on a respective one of the control nodes can be selected based on coupling the other of the plurality of control nodes associated with the other of the plurality of phase voltages to a voltage source configured to provide a predetermined voltage magnitude.
US09252690B2	Generating a coil switching signal for a brushless DC motor Some embodiments provide a system that generates a coil switching signal for a brushless DC motor. During operation, the system determines a magnetic field of the brushless DC motor at a first time and a magnetic field of the brushless DC motor at a second time. Then, the coil switching signal is generated based on a relationship between the magnetic field determined at the first time and a first predetermined threshold, and the magnetic field determined at the second time and a second predetermined threshold.
US09252683B2	Tracking converters with input output linearization control In a preferred embodiment, a voltage inverter comprises a voltage converter circuit and a controller. The voltage inverter produces a time-varying output voltage from an input voltage, which can be a DC input voltage or an AC input voltage. The controller provides a control signal at a duty ratio determined dynamically by a set of signals. The set of signals include the time-varying output voltage, a predetermined output voltage, a gain factor and an inductor current in the voltage converter circuit. The predetermined output voltage can have an AC waveform or an arbitrary time-varying waveform. The voltage inverter operates to match the time-varying output voltage to the predetermined output voltage. Input-output linearization is used to design a buck inverter, and input-output linearization with leading edge modulation is used to design boost and buck-boost inverters under conditions where left half plane zero effects are present.
US09252669B2	AC/DC converter, and AC power adapter and electronic apparatus using the same The present invention provides an Alternating Current/Direct Current (AC/DC) converter employing measures not only against residual voltage but also to reduce power consumption. The AC/DC converter receives an Alternating Current (AC) voltage through a concentric plug and converts the AC voltage into a Direct Current (DC) voltage. A discharge path is disposed on a path from a discharge terminal to a ground terminal. A detection circuit compares a wave detection voltage with a predetermined threshold voltage, and enables the discharge path to be turned on when the wave detection voltage is continuously lower than the threshold voltage for a predetermined detection time.
US09252667B2	Electromechanical inductors and transformers Devices and systems for power electronic circuits are provided. Embodiments of the present invention enable high density inductive energy storage by using electromechanical coupling between an electrically conducting inductive element and a mechanical resonator to passively store energy via both electromagnetic and mechanical mechanisms. A microelectromechanical inductor (MEMI) is provided utilizing a magnet and a conductor. In a specific embodiment, the MEMI includes a permanent magnet on a compliant layer centrally disposed within a spiral coil. In a further embodiment, a second coil is provided near the magnet to provide a resonating transducer.
US09252658B2	Level-crossing based circuit and method with offset voltage cancellation A level-crossing based circuit with offset voltage cancellation includes a first level-crossing detector section having a first output capacitor, wherein the first level-crossing section is configured to charge the first output capacitor to a first voltage corresponding to an input signal. The first voltage includes a first offset voltage. The level-crossing based circuit also includes a second level-crossing detector section having a second output capacitor, wherein the second level-crossing detector section is configured to discharge the second output capacitor to a second voltage corresponding to the input signal such that the second voltage includes a second offset voltage that is substantially equal in magnitude to the first offset voltage and opposite in polarity to the first offset voltage relative to an average of the first voltage and the second voltage.
US09252657B2	Phase-displacement of a power converter in a wind turbine A wind turbine generator comprising: an electrical generator configured to generate AC signals, a plurality of power converters operated by a gating signal, each power converter configured to convert the AC signals from electrical generator into fixed frequency AC signals, a transducer configured to measure the combined output from the power converters, and a controller configured to phase-displace the gating signal of one of the power converters to substantially minimize harmonic components of the combined output.
US09252648B2	Power generator and power generating system A power generator 100 of the present invention is configured to be used in a state that the power generator 100 is fixedly attached to a vibrating body formed of a magnetic material. The power generator 100 includes a main unit 1 having a power generating unit 10 configured to generate electric power by utilizing vibration and a base 23 having one surface on which the power generating unit 10 is supported and another surface 230 opposed to the one surface; and at least one permanent magnet 911 disposed on the side of the other surface 230 of the base 23 in a state that the permanent magnet 911 can be displaced or deformed in a thickness direction of the base 23. When the main unit 1 is fixedly attached to the vibrating body through an attachment 9 including the permanent magnet 911, the main unit 1 is configured to generate the electric power by utilizing vibration of the vibrating body.
US09252638B2	Rotary electric machine A rotary electric machine according to the present invention is a rotary electric machine including: a heat sink mounted with a power circuit; a housing for containing incorporated components; and a frame for containing a rotor and a stator core; the heat sink, the housing, and the frame being coaxially and integrally configured. In the rotary electric machine, there are included a lead frame connected to a power circuit, and a connector portion connected to the lead frame and being for connecting to the outside; the heat sink is made of metal; and the housing is made of resin.
US09252633B2	System and method for accelerated assessment of operational uncertainties in electrical power distribution systems A system for accelerated assessment of operational uncertainties in an electrical power distribution system includes a plurality of utility assets, and a distribution analysis (“DA”) system. DA system includes a preparation module configured to identify a first network model and a reduced network model for the electrical power distribution system. DA system also includes an input module configured to identify a plurality of scenarios, and a reduced-model-analysis module configured to analyze the reduced network model using the plurality of scenarios, generating a first set of results, and to select a subset of scenarios based on the first set of results. DA system further includes a full-model-analysis module configured to analyze the first network model using the subset of scenarios, generating a second set of results. DA system also includes a command module configured to dispatch configuration commands to utility assets based on the second set of results.
US09252623B2	Protection apparatus for secondary battery A battery pack includes a secondary battery; and a protection device including: a measurement unit coupled to the secondary battery and configured to measure a temperature and a voltage of the secondary battery; a temperature estimation unit coupled to the measurement unit and configured to estimate a future temperature of the secondary battery; and a charging/discharging unit coupled to the secondary battery and configured to adjust a current or an input voltage applied to the secondary battery based on the future temperature and the voltage of the secondary battery.
US09252614B2	Vehicle comprising battery A vehicle including a battery, a plug receiving portion for receiving a plug for supply an electric power to be charged in the battery or a plug for receiving an electric power discharged from the battery, a lid for closing the plug receiving portion and a light for illuminating the plug receiving portion. In the vehicle, when the state of the vehicle becomes a running mode indicating a state that the running of the vehicle is permitted, the light is turned off.
US09252611B2	Magnetic field shielding sheet for a wireless charger, method for manufacturing same, and receiving apparatus for a wireless charger using the sheet Provided are a magnetic field shield sheet for a wireless charger, which blocks an effect of an alternating-current magnetic field generated when a charger function for a portable mobile terminal device is implemented in a non-contact wireless manner on a main body of the portable mobile terminal device and exhibits excellent electric power transmission efficiency, a method of manufacturing the sheet, and a receiver for the wireless charger by using the sheet. The sheet includes: at least one layer thin magnetic sheet made of an amorphous ribbon separated into a plurality of fine pieces; a protective film that is adhered on one surface of the thin magnetic sheet via a first adhesive layer provided on one side of the protective film; and a double-sided tape that is adhered on the other surface of the thin magnetic sheet via a second adhesive layer provided on one side of the double-sided adhesive tape, wherein gaps among the plurality of fine pieces are filled by some parts of the first and second adhesive layers, to thereby isolate the plurality of fine pieces.
US09252607B2	Communication terminal, charge control program and charge control method A communication terminal having a secondary battery and configured to control charge of the secondary battery, a charge control program, and a charge control method of the communication terminal are provided. The communication terminal includes a first detection unit configured to detect a temperature, a second detection unit configured to detect a transmission power of an electric wave, a charge unit configured to perform intermittent charge to the secondary battery, and a change unit configured to change a duty ratio of the intermittent charge by the charge unit based on the temperature detected by the first detection unit and the transmission power detected by the second detection unit.
US09252603B2	Auxiliary power device, memory system having the same, and cell balancing method thereof An auxiliary power device includes an auxiliary power source having first and second charging cells connected in series, a cell balance circuit configured to sense a charging voltage between the first and second charging cells, generate a balance voltage based on the sensed charging voltage, and applies the generated balance voltage between the first and second charging cells, and a microprocessor configured to diagnose the first and second charging cells based on the sensed charging cells and control the cell balance circuit.
US09252594B2	Load driving device A load driving device includes a power storage device, a first power converter, a ring-shaped filter, a first output-side power line, and a first input-side power line. The first output-side power line extends through an opening so that a first output-side common mode current caused by switching the first switching element flows inside the opening through the first output-side power line in a first output-side flow direction. The first input-side power line extends through the opening so that a first input-side common mode current caused by switching the first switching element flows inside the opening through the first input-side power line in a first input-side flow direction same as the first output-side flow direction.
US09252592B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a rectifier coupled between a circuit ground and a terminal for coupling to an external circuit, a transistor-enhanced current path coupled to the rectifier, and a switching circuit coupled to the transistor-enhanced current path and coupled between the terminal and the circuit ground. The switching circuit is configured to turn off the transistor-enhanced current path during normal operation, and turn on the transistor-enhanced current path when an electrostatic discharge occurs at the terminal.
US09252587B2	Automatic reset discrimination system and method for a self powered electronic protection device An apparatus and method for selectively automatically resetting an electronic protection device. The electronic protection device may protect a motor load by disconnecting the load from a power source when the current drawn by the load exceeds a threshold, when the power source suffers from a phase imbalance or phase loss, or when another condition is detected. The electronic protection device discriminates between different types of fault conditions and determines whether to suppress an automatic reset function of the device. The electronic protection device includes a reset energy storage device for automatically resetting the electronic protection device following a trip event using energy from the reset energy storage device. In operation, the electronic protection device detects a fault condition not calling for an automatic reset, then discharges the reset energy storage device and trips the electronic protection device before the reset energy storage device recharges.
US09252583B2	Method of wrapping elongate material, especially cable harnesses, with a sheath A method of wrapping elongate material with a sheath having first and second single-sided adhesive tapes the tapes laminated to one another with an offset, a free edge of the first adhesive tape aligned parallel to the center axis such that, relative to the center axis of the material, the adhesive of the first adhesive tape lies outwards, the first adhesive tape of the sheath guided by the free edge onto the material, and wound around the material so that the first adhesive tape essentially completely envelopes the material, the second adhesive tape also wound around the material, the exposed adhesive of the second adhesive tape bonding to the exposed adhesive of the first adhesive tape, so that the material is surrounded by at least two plies of adhesive tape.
US09252582B2	Plug-in type bus bar A plug-in type busbar for connecting with a relay or a breaker includes an insulating housing and a plurality of conductive busbar parts insulated from each other in the insulating housing. Two interface sets are provided on two ends of the busbar respectively. One interface set on one end of one busbar can be inserted in the other interface set of the other bus bar. The busbar is connectable with adjacent busbars through the interface sets at both ends thereof. At least an electrical connection is formed between the adjacent two busbars after the adjacent two busbars are inserted each other. When a longer busbar is demanded, an extended structure can be obtained by simply connecting two busbars together, and a connection of the busbars can be completed by connecting the insulating housing in a plugged manner.
US09252574B2	Method for inserting and removing cables A method for installing and removing a row of cables from a cable array is provided. The method includes providing an installation tool having a first body with a plurality of arms extending from one side. The plurality of arms being configured to receive a cable connector body, the plurality of arms including at least one first projection extending from one of the plurality of arms. The installation tool is moved onto a row of cables held coupled together by a bracket, each of the cables in the row of cables having a cable connector body. The connector bodies are engaged into receptacles and the bracket is moved with the at least one first projection.
US09252566B2	Method of manufacturing light emitting element A method of manufacturing a light emitting element includes, sequentially, (a) forming a mask layer for selective growth; (b) forming a layered structure body by layering a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer; (c) forming, on the second surface of the second compound semiconductor layer, a second electrode and a second light reflecting layer formed from a multilayer film; (d) fixing the second light reflecting layer to a support substrate; (e) removing the substrate for manufacturing a light emitting element, and exposing the first surface of the first compound semiconductor layer and the mask layer; and (f) forming a first light reflecting layer formed from a multilayer film and a first electrode on the first surface of the first compound semiconductor layer.
US09252560B2	Optical scanning and imaging systems based on dual pulsed laser systems The invention relates to scanning pulsed laser systems for optical imaging. Coherent dual scanning laser systems (CDSL) are disclosed and some applications thereof. Various alternatives for implementation are illustrated, including highly integrated configurations. In at least one embodiment a coherent dual scanning laser system (CDSL) includes two passively modelocked fiber oscillators. The oscillators are configured to operate at slightly different repetition rates, such that a difference δfr in repetition rates is small compared to the values fr1 and fr2 of the repetition rates of the oscillators. The CDSL system also includes a non-linear frequency conversion section optically connected to each oscillator. The section includes a non-linear optical element generating a frequency converted spectral output having a spectral bandwidth and a frequency comb comprising harmonics of the oscillator repetition rates. A CDSL may be arranged in an imaging system for one or more of optical imaging, microscopy, micro-spectroscopy and/or THz imaging.
US09252543B2	Dual orientation connector assembly with interior magnetic component A dual orientation connector assembly for mating with a mating connector in two directions, including: an insulative housing defining a side wall, a printed circuit board (PCB) received in the housing, a mating member soldered on the PCB, a cable extending from an end of the insulative housing, and a magnetic component disposed in the insulative housing to provide a retaining force for retaining to the mating connector. The mating member includes a mounting portion received in the insulative housing, a mating portion extending out of the side wall of the insulative housing for mating with the mating connector, and a number of terminals mounted in the mating portion. The mating portion includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. The first surface and the second surface have the same number of the terminals.
US09252539B2	Internally switched female receptacle or connector with plug-latching safety interlock An internally switched female receptacle or connector for use with IEC 60309-2 configuration plugs and the like. Various plug-latching and plug-actuated safety interlock arrangements coordinate strictly axial plug movement relative to the receptacle with the closing and opening of sleeve contacts and terminal pressure contacts. A continuous ground feature ensures grounding of the primary electrical circuit throughout plug insertion and withdrawal. An optional low-current lighting control circuit powers an LED status indicator. A modular clocking design enables variable angular positioning of the terminals during manufacture.
US09252533B2	Data cabling jack device and data cabling assembly structure A data cabling jack device for configuring a plurality of cables on an assembly frame is provided. The data cabling jack device includes a housing and an engaging structure. The housing has an accommodation space, wherein the housing includes a jack side and a cable side opposite to the jack side. The engaging structure is disposed on the housing and has an engaging switch and an engaging portion, wherein the engaging switch is switched between a release position and an engaging position. The release position and the engaging position are respectively disposed nearby the cable side and the jack side. The engaging portion engages the assembly frame when the engaging switch is switched from the release position to the engaging position to drive the engaging portion to protrude out of the assembly frame.
US09252527B2	Multiple wire connecting terminal A relay terminal (10) made of copper or copper alloy and configured to join an aluminum wire (20) and a copper wire (30) by being electrically connected to the aluminum wire (20) and the copper wire (30) includes a first barrel portion (11) to be caulked and crimped to an aluminum core (21) of the aluminum wire (20) made of aluminum or aluminum alloy, which is a metal different from copper or copper alloy constituting the relay terminal (10), a second barrel portion (12) to be caulked and crimped to a copper core (31) of the copper wire (30), a bottom plate (13) configured to link the first barrel portion (11) and the second barrel portion (12), and a projecting portion (41) (water drainage portion (40)) provided on the bottom plate (13) and configured to restrict the intrusion of water from the second barrel portion (12) toward the first barrel portion (11).
US09252518B2	Electric connection structure of electronic component An electric connection structure of an electronic component includes: an electric conductor that has a connection pin formed of an electric conductive metal and in which a contact is formed in an end portion opposite to the connection pin; an electronic component that has a metal terminal for inputting and outputting an electric signal, on a bottom surface which opposes the electric conductor; and a housing that has a holding portion for holding the electric conductor and a fixing portion for fixing the electronic component, wherein the electronic component is brought into contact with the housing, and is fixed by the fixing portion so that the contact is elastically deformed and the metal terminal and the contact are electrically connected to each other.
US09252514B2	Connector A contact unit includes a first conduction path in the form of a thin film arranged along a peripheral surface of an insulating elastic body, a second conduction path arranged along the first conduction path, and a connecting conduction path electrically connecting the first and second conduction paths to each other. A frame has a through hole. The frame supports the contact unit so that the first conduction path exposed from both openings of the through hole is brought into contact with connection objects and that the second conduction path is entirely received in the through hole.
US09252503B2	Grounding device having a grounding plate and an insulated connecting wire An electrical grounding device can have a grounding plate and an insulated connecting wire. Having an insulated connecting wire reduces or prevents corrosion of the connecting wire by the surrounding underground soil. A grounding assembly is also provided and can have such a grounding device. The grounding assembly can include additional grounding devices which can also have an insulated connecting wire. A method of measuring resistance to ground of a grounding device of a grounding assembly having a multiple grounding devices and one or more bonding wires routed through a conduit is also disclosed. Having all but one of the connecting wires and bonding wires insulated or insulating all the connecting wires of the grounding devices of the grounding assembly allows measurement of resistance to ground by electrically disconnecting all but the connecting wire of the grounding device to be tested, contacting one terminal of an ohm meter to the connecting wire of the grounding device to be tested and contacting the other terminal of the ohm meter to the earth or ground, and reading the ohm meter.
US09252494B2	Frequency-variable antenna circuit, antenna device constituting it, and wireless communications apparatus comprising it An antenna device comprising an antenna element disposed on a mounting board separate from a main circuit board, a coupling means disposed on the mounting board such that it is electromagnetically coupled to the antenna element, and a frequency-adjusting means disposed on the mounting board such that it is connected to the coupling means, the antenna element comprising first and second strip-shaped antenna elements integrally connected for sharing a feeding point, the second antenna element being shorter than the first antenna element; the coupling means being formed on a dielectric chip attached to the mounting board, and having a coupling electrode electromagnetically coupled to part of the first antenna element. The frequency-adjusting means comprises a parallel resonance circuit comprising a variable capacitance circuit and a first inductance element, and a second inductance element series-connected to the parallel resonance circuit.
US09252487B2	Circular polarized compound loop antenna Embodiments provide single-sided and multi-layered circular polarized, self-contained, compound loop antennas (circular polarized CPL). Embodiments of the CPL antennas produce circular polarized signals by using two electric field radiators physically oriented orthogonal to each other, and by ensuring that the two electric field radiators are positioned such that an electrical delay between the two electric field radiators results in the two electric field radiators emitting their respective electric fields out of phase. Ensuring the proper electrical delay between the two electric field radiators also maintains high efficiency of the antenna and it improves the axial ratio of the antenna.
US09252486B2	Dual-band series-aligned complementary double-V antenna, method of manufacture and kits therefor A planar monopole antenna for dual-band Wi-Fi application is disclosed. The antenna has a ground copper and a radiation copper. The radiation copper is adhered to a substrate and has an arrowhead-shaped pattern connected to a long-wide pattern. The arrowhead and long-wide patterns are aligned along the longitudinal direction of the antenna. The ground copper is adhered to the substrate and has a rectangularly-shaped pattern with an opening at one end thereof for the reception of the base of the long-wide pattern of the radiation copper in the longitudinal direction. Reception of the radiation copper into the opening of the ground copper forms an U-shaped separation that is approximately 0.6 mm wide. The antenna has a gross span of approximately 45 mm and a width of approximately 7 mm.
US09252484B2	Antenna device and method of antenna configuration A communication antenna device (D), on board a motor vehicle, for communicating with an antenna of a portable device, includes: a communication antenna (A) including a first part (A1) having a maximum number of primary windings (E1MAX) and a second part (A2) having a maximum number of secondary windings (E2MAX), a microcontroller (10) electrically connected to the antenna (A), a first switching element (M1), for connecting the first part and/or the second part to the microcontroller (10), a second switching element (M2), for connecting a determined number of primary windings (E1i) of the first part to the microcontroller (10), a third switching element (M3), for connecting a determined number of secondary windings (E2j) of the second part to the microcontroller (10), and elements for controlling (20) the first, second and third switching elements.
US09252483B2	Active antenna system An improved active antenna system is distinguished inter alia by the following features: comprising a first antenna group (5) which is provided for transmitting and receiving operation, comprising a second antenna group (10) which is provided for receiving operation, the two antenna groups (5, 10) are arranged above one another, and the supply network (N11, N12) of the first antenna group (5) has an amplitude distribution which is frequency-dependent, i.e. dependent on a transmitting and a receiving frequency.
US09252482B2	Magnetic field pass through surfaces in carbon fiber reinforced polymers This document discloses one or more systems, apparatuses, methods, etc. for integrating coil antennas in a carbon fiber chassis portable device. More particularly, the carbon fiber chassis portable device containing unidirectional weave carbon fibers in its chassis—to support near field communications (NFC) related functions—is described.
US09252478B2	Method of manufacturing stamped antenna A method of manufacturing a stamped antenna includes providing a sheet of metallic material for a first partial stamping that forms an antenna including at least one pilot hole, traces, contacts, carriers connected to the traces, and tie-bars between the traces. The antenna is placed on a fixture having at least one fixture pin that is inserted through the at least one lot hole. A pressure sensitive adhesive including at least one die cut hole is placed on the fixture, with the fixture pin being inserted through the die cut hole aligning the antenna and the pressure sensitive adhesive such that an adhesive region of the pressure sensitive adhesive is positioned on the traces of the antenna. The pressure sensitive adhesive is then bonded to the traces of the antenna. A second complete stamping is then performed on the antenna, including pressure sensitive adhesive, to remove the carriers and tie-bars.
US09252474B2	Coupling arrangement A coupling arrangement for the transfer of a microwave signal includes a motherboard having a first substrate with a first microstrip conductor, and a module having a second substrate with a second microstrip conductor. The module is attached to the motherboard such that the motherboard conductor by means of a connection is in electrical contact with the module conductor, whereby the microwave signal may be transferred between the motherboard conductor and the module conductor. The connection includes the motherboard conductor connected to a substrate integrated waveguide on the motherboard, which substrate integrated waveguide is connected to the module conductor via a slot coupling.
US09252463B2	Battery charging system having multiple charging modes The present application provides a charging system having a charger and a battery. The charging system provides a quick-charging mode and a normal-charging mode. The quick-charging mode may be activated to charge the battery if certain conditions are met and the charging system may also have an indicating device for indicating when the quick-charging mode is finished. More specifically, the charger of the present application provides selective charging modes and provides an ultra-quick charging solution which may be controlled by the changes in the temperature of the battery and which can increase the charging power to quickly provide enough energy to finish a work task.
US09252454B2	Secondary battery of excellent productivity and safety Disclosed is a secondary battery having a structure in which a jelly-roll having a cathode/separator/anode structure is mounted in a cylindrical battery case, wherein a plate-shaped insulator mounted on the top of the jelly-roll includes a woven fabric or a knit fabric made of fibers.
US09252447B2	Composite anode for a solid oxide fuel cell with improved mechanical integrity and increased efficiency A composite anode for a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), comprising an anode support layer (ASL) of Ni—YSZ and an anode functional layer (AFL) of Ni—GDC, displays enhanced mechanical stability and similar or improved electrical efficiency to that of a Ni—GDC ASL for otherwise identical SOFCs. A SOFC employing the composite anode can be used for power generation at temperatures below 700° C., where the composite anode may include a second AFL of GDC disposed between the Ni—GDC layer and a GDC electrolyte.
US09252433B2	Liquid reserve batteries for munitions A method for producing power from a liquid reserve battery. The method including heating a liquid electrolyte and forcing the heated liquid electrolyte into gaps dispersed in a battery cell.
US09252423B2	Method for producing electrode assembly A method for producing an electrode assembly includes: obtaining a porous active material molded body by molding a constituent material containing a lithium multiple oxide in the form of particles by compression, and then performing a heat treatment at a temperature of 850° C. or higher and lower than the melting point of the used lithium multiple oxide; forming a solid electrolyte layer by applying a liquid containing a constituent material of an inorganic solid electrolyte to the surface of the active material molded body including the inside of each pore of the active material molded body, and then performing a heat treatment; and bonding a current collector to the active material molded body exposed from the solid electrolyte layer.
US09252422B2	Positive electrode for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including same Disclosed is rechargeable lithium battery that includes a positive electrode including a positive active material layer, a negative electrode including a negative active material and an electrolyte wherein the positive active material layer includes a positive active material, a binder, a conductive material, and an activated carbon, the activated carbon includes micropores in which manganese ions are adsorbed and trapped, and the activated carbon is included in an amount of about 0.1 wt % to about 3 wt % based on the total weight of the positive active material layer.
US09252415B2	Power sources suitable for use in implantable medical devices and corresponding fabrication methods Arrays of planar solid state batteries are stacked in an aligned arrangement for subsequent separation into individual battery stacks. Prior to stacking, a redistribution layer (RDL) is formed over a surface of each wafer that contains an array; each RDL includes first and second groups of conductive traces, each of the first extending laterally from a corresponding positive battery contact, and each of the second extending laterally from a corresponding negative battery contact. Conductive vias, formed before or after stacking, ultimately couple together corresponding contacts of aligned batteries. If before, each via extends through a corresponding battery contact of each wafer and is coupled to a corresponding conductive layer that is included in another RDL formed over an opposite surface of each wafer. If after, each via extends through corresponding aligned conductive traces and, upon separation of individual battery stacks, becomes an exposed conductive channel of a corresponding battery stack.
US09252410B2	Power storage apparatus A power storage apparatus includes a power storage module having a plurality of power storage elements which are aligned in one direction; a device placed adjacently to the power storage module in the direction of the alignment of the power storage elements; a high-voltage cable used in charge and discharge of the power storage module; and a support structure configured to support the high-voltage cable at a plurality of points to position the high-voltage cable along a reference path. The high-voltage cable is configured to electrically connect an electrode terminal of the power storage module to the device. The electrode terminal is one of two electrode terminals of the power storage module and is located on a farther side of the power storage module from the device.
US09252409B2	Middle or large-sized battery pack of novel air cooling structure A middle- or large-sized battery pack having two or more hexahedral battery modules, each including a plurality of chargeable and dischargeable plate-shaped unit cells, mounted in a pack case, wherein the battery pack removes heat generated during the charge and discharge of the unit cells using an air cooling method, the unit cells of each of the battery modules are vertically stacked such that the number of the unit cells corresponds to a height of a battery pack installation space defined in a vehicle while neighboring unit cells are spaced apart from each other such that a coolant channel is defined between the respective unit cells, the pack case is formed in a shape corresponding to the battery pack installation space in the vehicle, and a coolant for removing heat from the unit cells is introduced through at least one side of the pack case.
US09252407B2	Battery module A battery module including a plurality of battery cells and a cover, each battery cell having a vent portion aligned in one direction, and the cover being over the vent portions, the cover including an internal cavity and at least a portion of the internal cavity including a heat-resistance member.
US09252403B2	Rechargeable battery A rechargeable battery may include an electrode assembly that performs a charge and discharge action, a case in which the electrode assembly is inserted, a cap plate coupled to an opening of the case, and an electrode terminal in a terminal hole of the cap plate. The electrode terminal may include a plate terminal outside the cap plate and corresponding to the terminal hole, the plate terminal including a through-hole, a first groove, and a second groove, and a rivet terminal, the rivet terminal passing through the terminal hole, being inserted in the through-hole, and being riveted to the plate terminal at an upper end of the rivet terminal. The first groove may extend from the through-hole at an upper end side of the rivet terminal, and the second groove may extend from the first groove to an outer side of the plate terminal.
US09252394B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus encapsulated with hydrophobic organic film and manufacturing method thereof An organic light emitting display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a substrate, an organic light emitting unit on the substrate, and a film encapsulation layer on the organic light emitting unit. The film encapsulation layer includes a hydrophobic organic layer disposed at an outermost portion of the film encapsulation layer.
US09252390B2	Production method for joined body, and joined body A method for manufacturing a joined body composed of a first substrate and a second substrate joined together by sealing resin material attached to a predetermined area of the first substrate includes: attaching a sheet material to the first substrate so as to cover the predetermined area, the sheet material including a sheet base material and the resin material provided on one main surface of the sheet base material; forming, after the attaching, in the sheet material, a slit by reducing a thickness of the resin material along an outline of the predetermined area; and separating, after the forming, part of the resin material inside the slit from the sheet base material to keep the part of the resin material inside the slit on the predetermined area of the first substrate and not to keep the rest of the resin material outside the slit on the first substrate.
US09252387B2	Illumination device having light-transmitting resin defining appearance of illumination device An illumination device includes a light-emitting element, a wire connected to the light-emitting element to supply electric power to the light-emitting element, and a light-transmitting resin configured to hold the light-emitting element and the wire in one piece. The light-transmitting resin defines an appearance of the illumination device. Light emitted from the light-emitting element is transmitted through the light-transmitting resin to be radiated from an outer surface of the light-transmitting resin.
US09252385B2	Organic light emitting device An organic light emitting device includes a base substrate defining an active area and a pad area that surrounds the active area, an organic light emitting layer formed on the active area, a first protective layer formed to cover the active area, where the organic light emitting layer is formed, and the pad area, a second protective layer formed to cover the first protective layer, and a dam formed between the first protective layer and the second protective layer, wherein the dam is located at a boundary between the active area and the pad area and includes a groove that is positioned separate from an outer portion of the active area.
US09252381B2	Organic electronic device and method for producing the same There is provided an organic electronic device that can exhibit a long lifetime while having a facilitated production process. An organic electronic device and a method for producing it, wherein the organic electronic device comprises two or more electrodes facing each other on a substrate, and an organic functional layer that includes at least a hole injecting layer and/or a hole transporting layer situated between two electrodes, wherein the hole injecting layer and/or hole transporting layer is formed as a thin-film from a fluid material that comprises anionic metal oxide clusters that include at least one metal element selected from among elements of Group 5, Group 6 or Groups 8-10 of the Periodic Table, the metal oxide clusters being polyoxometalates, dissolved or uniformly dispersed or mixed in an aqueous solvent.
US09252372B2	Complexes for use in optoelectronic components The invention relates to the use of a multinuclear metal or transition metal complex in an organic electronic device, said complex having a small ΔE spacing, particularly between 50 cm−1 and 2000 cm−1, between the lowest triplet state and the singlet state that is higher and is achieved by thermal backfilling from the triplet. The invention further relates to the use of the strong absorptions of such multinuclear metal complexes, particularly in OSCs.
US09252371B1	Organic photoelectronic device and image sensor and electronic device An organic photoelectronic device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 or 2, and a ratio between a FWHM of a light absorption curve depending on a wavelength of the first compound in a solution state and in a thin film state satisfies the following Relationship Equation 1: FWHM2/FWHM1<2.5. In the Relationship Equation 1, FWHM1 is a FWHM of the light absorption curve depending on a wavelength in a solution state, and FWHM2 is a FWHM of the light absorption curve depending on a wavelength in a thin film state.
US09252358B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same First, a trench penetrating first conductive layers and interlayer insulating layers is formed. Next, a column-shaped conductive layer is formed to fill the trench via a side wall layer. Then, after formation of the side wall layer, by migration of oxygen atoms between the side wall layer and the first conductive layers or migration of oxygen atoms between the side wall layer and the interlayer insulating layers, a proportion of oxygen atoms in the side wall layer adjacent to the interlayer insulating layers is made larger than a proportion of oxygen atoms in the side wall layer adjacent to the first conductive layers, whereby the side wall layer adjacent to the first conductive layers is caused to function as the variable resistance element.
US09252354B2	Vertical hall device with highly conductive opposite face node for electrically connecting first and second hall effect regions Vertical Hall device with highly conductive node for electrically connecting first and second Hall effect regions. A vertical Hall device comprises a first Hall effect region and a different second Hall effect region, both in a common semiconductor body. The first and second Hall effect regions have a main face and an opposite face, respectively. A highly conductive opposite face node is in ohmic contact to the opposite face of the first Hall effect region and the opposite face of the second Hall effect region in the semiconductor body. The vertical Hall device also comprises a first pair of contacts in or at the main face of the first Hall effect region and a second pair of contacts in or at the main face of the second Hall effect region. A convex circumscribing contour of the second pair of contacts is disjoint from a convex circumscribing contour of the first pair of contacts. Alternative embodiments comprise a pair of contacts and an opposite face node contact.
US09252349B2	Resonator element, resonator, oscillator, and electronic device A resonator element capable of improving impact resistance is provided. A quartz crystal resonator element is a resonator element formed by etching a Z plate which is cut at predetermined angles with respect to the crystal axes of a quartz crystal. The quartz crystal resonator element includes a base, a pair of resonating arms extending from the base in the Y-axis direction, and a positive X-axis notch and a negative X-axis notch formed by notching the base in the X-axis direction. The positive X-axis notch is formed by notching the base from the negative side of the X axis towards the positive side so that the width of the positive X-axis notch increases as it approaches the outer circumference.
US09252345B2	Light emitting device and lighting system A light emitting device includes a conductive support member, a first conductive layer disposed on the conductive support member, a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer, a light emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and an insulation layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a first expansion part penetrating through the second conductive layer, the second semiconductor layer and the active layer, and includes a second expansion part extending from the first expansion part and being disposed in the first semiconductor layer. The insulation layer is disposed on the lateral surface of the first expansion part, and wherein the lateral surface of the second expansion part contacts with the first semiconductor layer.
US09252344B2	Structural component and method for producing a structural component The invention relates to a structural component which comprises a support (1), an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (2) having at least one lateral face (2a), further comprising a connecting means (3), a first molded element (4), and a second molded element (5), the optoelectronic semiconductor chip (2) being mechanically connected to the support (1) by the connecting means (3). The first molded element (4) covers an exposed outer face of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip (2) and the first molded element (4) covers an exposed outer face of the connecting means (3). The second molded element (5) covers an exposed outer face of the first molded element (5) and the second molded element (5) has a higher modulus of elasticity at room temperature than the first molded element.
US09252323B2	Method for manufacturing nitride semiconductor element A first nitride semiconductor layer laminating step includes a first step and a second step. In the first step, an entire upper surface of the sapphire substrate is coated with a first nitride semiconductor layer, while supplying oxygen. In the second step, crystals of the first nitride semiconductor layer are grown by supplying oxygen at a smaller flow rate than that of oxygen supplied in the first step, or without supplying the oxygen.
US09252321B2	Opto-mechanical alignment Technologies are generally described for manufacturing an optical device by attaching a light-emitting element to an optical element through a resin. In various examples, a method is described, where a substrate is provided to have a through-hole at a position in the substrate where an optical element is to be mounted. A resin in liquid state may be injected into the through-hole in the substrate. Further, an optical element having a light-emitting portion may be mounted on the substrate such that a center of the tight-emitting portion is self-aligned with a center of the through-hole due to a surface tension of the resin in liquid state. The resin may be cured such that the optical element is fixed to the substrate.
US09252320B2	Thin film structures and devices with integrated light and heat blocking layers for laser patterning Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning.
US09252318B2	Solution containment during buffer layer deposition Improved methods and apparatus for forming thin-film layers of chalcogenide on a substrate web. Solutions containing the reactants for the chalcogenide layer may be contained substantially to the front surface of the web, controlling the boundaries of the reaction and avoiding undesired deposition of chalcogenide upon the back side of the web.
US09252316B2	Ultra thin hit solar cell and fabricating method of the same Disclosed is an ultra-thin HIT solar cell, including: an n- or p-type crystalline silicon substrate; an amorphous silicon emitter layer having a doping type different from that of the silicon substrate; and an intrinsic amorphous silicon passivation layer formed between the crystalline silicon substrate and the amorphous silicon emitter layer, wherein the HIT solar cell further includes a transparent conductive oxide layer made of ZnO on an upper surface thereof, and the surface of the crystalline silicon substrate is not textured but only the surface of the transparent conductive oxide layer is textured, and thereby a very thin crystalline silicon substrate can be used, ultimately achieving an ultra-thin HIT solar cell having a very low total thickness while maintaining light trapping capacity.
US09252313B2	Monolithic multiple solar cells A monolithic multiple solar cell includes at least three partial cells, with a semiconductor mirror placed between two partial cells. The aim of the invention is to improve the radiation stability of said solar cell. For this purpose, the semiconductor mirror has a high degree of reflection in at least one part of a spectral absorption area of the partial cell which is arranged above the semiconductor mirror and a high degree of transmission within the spectral absorption range of the partial cell arranged below the semiconductor mirror.
US09252312B2	Solar cell module and manufacturing method therefor The present invention provides a solar cell module which keeps backing film from being scratched and prevents the occurrence of scratches. The solar cell module (10) of the present invention is provided with a surface protecting member (12), backing film (13), a plurality of solar cells (11) arranged between the surface protecting member (12) and the backing film (13) and electrically connected by means of wiring members (16), a filler material (14) for sealing the solar cells (11) between the surface protecting member (12) and the backing film (13), and transition wiring (20) electrically connected with the wiring members (16). Here, at least the end portion of transition wiring (20) positioned in a corner portion of the solar cell module is arranged so as to be positioned closer to the surface protecting member (12) than other portions of the transition wiring (20).
US09252310B2	Wear reduction system for rooftop mounts A building rooftop mounting structure including a sacrificial material that allows freedom of movement between itself and the rooftop as well as between itself and the mounting structure.
US09252309B2	Hot bar soldering A solar cell module comprises a solar cell die that is soldered to a substrate. The substrate comprises one or more power contacts. A power conductor is soldered to a power contact, thereby electrically coupling the power conductor to the solar cell die. A pre-heat module heats a first side of the substrate at a first area to a first temperature for a first duration. Then, a solder heat source solders a power conductor to a power contact at a second area of the substrate at a second temperature for a second duration. The resulting solder connection at the power conductor is less prone to cold-solder defects. The temperature of the pre-heat module is controlled to promote curing of an RTV sealant used in the manufacture of the solar cell module. The temperature of the solder heat source is controlled to avoid burning and degrading of the RTV sealant.
US09252306B2	Multilayer thin-film photoelectric converter and its manufacturing method A thin film photoelectric converter including a transparent conductive layer, a laser light absorption layer, a back electrode layer, a semiconductor photoelectric conversion layer and a transparent electrode layer stacked on a translucent substrate. The laser light absorption layer is parted into regions by first kind parting line grooves, and the photoelectric conversion layer is parted into regions by third kind parting line grooves penetrating the laser light absorption layer, the rear surface electrode layer and the photoelectric conversion layer. The transparent electrode layer is parted into regions by fourth kind parting line grooves penetrating the laser light absorption layer, the rear surface electrode layer, the photoelectric conversion layer and the transparent electrode layer. A receiving side transparent electrode region of one cell is electrically connected to a back electrode region of an adjacent cell through the first kind groove, the transparent conductive layer and the third kind groove.
US09252301B2	Solar cell and method for manufacturing solar cell A solar cell includes semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type; second semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type; first electrode; second electrode; and insulating layer. First semiconductor layer and second semiconductor layer are formed on rear surface. When one end portion of insulating layer which is formed on first semiconductor layer and which is on a side close to first electrode is defined as first insulating-layer end portion and another end portion of insulating layer on a side close to second electrode is defined as second insulating-layer end portion in arrangement direction x, a distance from end point of second-semiconductor-layer end portion in contact with rear surface to second insulating-layer end portion in arrangement direction x is shorter than a distance from end point to first insulating-layer end portion in arrangement direction x.
US09252299B2	Solar cell module, solar cell and solar cell module manufacturing method A solar cell module 100 comprises a light reflection member 12 placed on the light receiving surface of a n-type semiconductor substrate 11 and having a light reflecting surface 12A facing the light receiving surface protection member 2. The light reflection member 12 is positioned on an opposite side to the n-side connecting electrode 14n across the n-type semiconductor substrate 11.
US09252298B2	Photodiode device with reducible space charge region The photodiode device comprises a doped region (2) contiguous with a contact region (3) of the same conductivity type located at the substrate surface (1′), an appertaining anode or cathode connection (7, 11), a further contact region (5) of an opposite conductivity type at the substrate surface, and a further anode or cathode connection (8, 12). The contact region (3) is arranged at least on opposite sides of an active area of the substrate surface that covers the further contact region (5). A lateral pn junction (16) and an associated space charge region is formed at the substrate surface by a boundary of one of the contact regions, the boundary facing the other contact region. A field electrode (6) is arranged above the lateral pn junction, separated from the lateral pn junction by a dielectric material (10), and is provided with a further electrical connection (9, 13) separate from the anode and cathode connections. By the field electrode (6), the space charge region at the surface (1′) is reduced and the peripheral dark current of the photodiode decreases considerably.
US09252297B2	Optoelectronic device and the manufacturing method thereof An optoelectronic device comprises an optoelectronic semiconductor stack layer; a conductive layer on the optoelectronic semiconductor stack layer, the conductive layer comprising a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, and a side surface; a first barrier layer covering the top surface; a second barrier layer covering the bottom surface; and a first metal oxide layer, wherein the first metal oxide layer covers the side surface, the first barrier layer, and the second barrier layer.
US09252291B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a first memory portion. The first memory portion includes a first base semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a first channel semiconductor layer, a first base tunnel insulating film, a first channel tunnel insulating, a first charge retention layer and a first block insulating film. The first channel semiconductor layer is provided between the first base semiconductor layer and the first electrode, and includes a first channel portion. The first base tunnel insulating film is provided between the first base semiconductor layer and the first channel semiconductor layer. The first channel tunnel insulating film is provided between the first electrode and the first channel portion. The first charge retention layer is provided between the first electrode and the first channel tunnel insulating film. The first block insulating film is provided between the first electrode and the first charge retention layer.
US09252266B2	Wide band gap semiconductor device and method for producing the same A wide band gap semiconductor device is disclosed. A first trench in a gate electrode part and second trench in a source electrode part (Schottky diode) are disposed close to each other, and the second trench is deeper than the first trench. A metal electrode is formed in the second trench to form a Schottky junction on a surface of an n-type drift layer in the bottom of the second trench. Further, a p+-type region is provided in part of the built-in Schottky diode part being in contact with the surface of the n-type drift layer, preferably in the bottom of the second trench. The result is a small wide band gap semiconductor device which is low in on-resistance and loss. Electric field concentration applied on a gate insulating film is relaxed to suppress lowering of withstand voltage and increase avalanche breakdown tolerance at turning-off time.
US09252265B2	Shielded gate trench MOS with improved source pickup layout A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of trenches using a first mask. The trenches include source pickup trenches located in outside a termination area and between two adjacent active areas. First and second conductive regions separated by an intermediate dielectric region are formed using a second mask. A first electrical contact to the first conductive region and a second electrical contact to the second conductive region are formed using a third mask and forming a source metal region. Contacts to a gate metal region are formed using a fourth mask. A semiconductor device includes a source pickup contact located outside a termination region and outside an active region of the device.
US09252263B1	Multiple semiconductor device trenches per cell pitch A semiconductor device includes a plurality of field plate trenches formed in a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of gate trenches formed in the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from the field plate trenches, and a plurality of device cells having a cell pitch defined by a distance from one side of a field plate trench to the same side of an adjacent field plate trench. Each device cell includes a first doped region of a first conductivity type and a second doped region of a second conductivity type adjacent the first doped region in a part of the semiconductor substrate disposed between the adjacent field plate trenches that define the cell pitch. At least some of the device cells have more than one gate trench per cell pitch.
US09252261B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same An anode region 106 is formed on a bottom portion of a trench 105 in which a gate electrode 108 is formed or in a drift region 102 immediately under the trench 105. A contact hole 110 is formed in the trench 105 at a depth reaching the anode region 106. A source electrode 112 is embedded in the contact hole 110 while interposing an inner wall insulating film 111 therebetween. The anode region 106 and the source electrode 112 are electrically connected to each other in a state of being insulated from the gate electrode 108 by the inner wall insulating film 111.
US09252259B2	Methods and apparatus of metal gate transistors Methods and devices for forming a contact over a metal gate for a transistor are provided. The device may comprise an active area, an isolation area surrounding the active area, and a metal gate above the isolation area, wherein the metal gate comprises a conductive layer. The contact comprises a first contact part within the conductive layer, above the isolation area without vertically overlapping the active area, and a second contact part above the first contact part, connected to the first contact part, and substantially vertically contained within the first contact part.
US09252247B1	Apparatus and method for reducing the interface resistance in GaN Heterojunction FETs The interface resistance between the source/drain and gate of an HFET may be significantly reduced by engineering the bandgap of the 2DEG outside a gate region such that the charge density is substantially increased. The resistance may be further reduced by using an n+GaN Cap layer over the channel layer and barrier layer such that a horizontal surface of the barrier layer beyond the gate region is covered by the n+GaN Cap layer. This technique is applicable to depletion and enhancement mode HFETs.
US09252244B2	Methods of selectively growing source/drain regions of fin field effect transistor and method of manufacturing semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor The inventive concepts provide methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes patterning a substrate to form an active pattern, forming a gate pattern intersecting the active pattern, forming a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate pattern, forming a growth-inhibiting layer covering an upper region of the gate pattern, and forming source/drain electrodes at opposite first and second sides of the gate pattern.
US09252239B2	Semiconductor power devices manufactured with self-aligned processes and more reliable electrical contacts This invention discloses semiconductor power device that includes a plurality of top electrical terminals disposed near a top surface of a semiconductor substrate. Each and every one of the top electrical terminals comprises a terminal contact layer formed as a silicide contact layer near the top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The trench gates of the semiconductor power device are opened from the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and each and every one of the trench gates comprises the silicide layer configured as a recessed silicide contact layer disposed on top of every on of the trench gates slightly below a top surface of the semiconductor substrate surround the trench gate.
US09252233B2	Air-gap offset spacer in FinFET structure The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a FinFET device having sidewalls spacers comprising an air gap that provides for a low dielectric constant, and an associated apparatus. In some embodiments, the method is performed by forming a fin of semiconductor material on a semiconductor substrate. A gate structure, having a gate dielectric layer and an overlying gate material layer, is formed at a position overlying the fin of semiconductor material. Sidewall spacers are formed at positions abutting opposing sides of the gate structure. Respective sidewall spacers have a first layer of insulating material abutting the gate structure and a second layer of insulating material separated from the first layer of insulating material by an air gap. By forming the FinFET device to have sidewall spacers with air gaps, the parasitic capacitance of the FinFET device and a corresponding RC time delay are decreased.
US09252229B2	Inversion thickness reduction in high-k gate stacks formed by replacement gate processes A method of forming a transistor device includes forming an interfacial layer on a semiconductor substrate, corresponding to a region between formed doped source and drain regions in the substrate; forming a high dielectric constant (high-k) layer on the interfacial layer, the high-k layer having a dielectric constant greater than about 7.5; forming a doped metal layer on the high-k layer; performing a thermal process so as to cause the doped metal layer to scavenge oxygen atoms diffused from the interfacial layer such that a final thickness of the interfacial layer is less than about 5 angstroms (Å); and forming a metal gate material over the high-k dielectric layer.
US09252226B2	Thin film transistor array panel and manufacturing method thereof Provided is a thin film transistor array panel. The thin film transistor array panel according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes: a gate wiring layer disposed on a substrate; an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the gate wiring layer; and a data wiring layer disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer, in which the data wiring layer includes a main wiring layer including copper and a capping layer disposed on the main wiring layer and including a copper alloy.
US09252224B2	Self-aligned insulated film for high-k metal gate device An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric over the substrate, a metal gate structure over the semiconductor substrate and the gate dielectric, a dielectric film on the metal gate structure, the dielectric film comprising oxynitride combined with metal from the metal gate, and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) on either side of the metal gate structure.
US09252215B2	Constrained epitaxial source/drain regions on semiconductor-on-insulator finFET device A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of semiconductor fins on an insulator layer of a semiconductor substrate, and forming a plurality of gate stacks on the insulator layer. Each gate stack wraps around a respective portion of the semiconductor fins. The method further includes forming a dielectric layer on the insulator layer. The dielectric layer fills voids between the semiconductor fins and gate stacks, and covers the semiconductor fins. The method further includes etching at least one portion of the semiconductor fins until reaching the insulator layer such that at least one cavity is formed. The cavity exposes seed regions of the semiconductor fins located between adjacent gate stacks. The method further includes epitaxially growing a semiconductor material from the seed regions to form source/drain regions corresponding to a respective gate stack.
US09252210B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device capable of decreasing a reverse leakage current and a forward voltage is provided. In the semiconductor device, an anode electrode undergoes Schottky junction by being connected to a surface of an SiC epitaxial layer that has the surface, a back surface, and trapezoidal trenches formed on the side of the surface each having side walls and a bottom wall. Furthermore, an edge portion of the bottom wall of each of the trapezoidal trenches is formed to be in the shape bent towards the outside of the trapezoidal trench in the manner that a radius of curvature R satisfies 0.01 L
US09252200B2	Semiconductor device In a first semiconductor chip, a first multilayer interconnect layer is formed on a first substrate, and a first inductor is formed in the first multilayer interconnect layer. In a second semiconductor chip, a second multilayer interconnect layer is formed on a second substrate. A second inductor is formed in the second multilayer interconnect layer. The first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip overlap each other in a direction in which the first multilayer interconnect layer and the second multilayer interconnect layer face each other. In addition, the first inductor and the second inductor overlap each other when seen in a plan view. At least one end of a first insulating film does not overlap the end of a facing region, in a Y direction.
US09252197B2	Display panel and display device A display panel includes: a plurality of pixel circuits formed in a matrix on a substrate; an insulating layer covering the plurality of pixel circuits; a plurality of light emitting elements connected to the plurality of pixel circuits, and arranged in a matrix on the insulating layer; a filtering layer including a light transmitting section at least in a part of a region facing the light emitting element and a light shielding section formed in a same plane as the light transmitting section, and formed on an opposite side from the pixel circuit in relation to the light emitting element; a light reflecting section formed in a region facing the light shielding section, and between the light emitting element and the filtering layer; and a light receiving element formed in a region facing the light shielding section, and on the pixel circuit side in relation to the light emitting element.
US09252195B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area and a display unit formed over the first substrate in the display area and configured to display an image. The display device also includes a plurality of first reinforcing members formed over the first substrate in the non-display area, wherein the first reinforcing members are spaced apart from each other. The display device further includes a second substrate formed over the first substrate with the display unit interposed therebetween, and a sealant formed in the non-display area and substantially sealing the first and second substrates, wherein the sealant is interposed between the display area and the plurality of first reinforcing members.
US09252189B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory element, nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, and method for manufacturing nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A nonvolatile semiconductor memory element includes: a variable resistance element including a first electrode, a variable resistance layer, and a second electrode, and having a resistance value which changes according to a polarity of an electric pulse applied between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a current steering element which is electrically connected to the variable resistance element, allows a current to flow bidirectionally, and has a nonlinear current-voltage characteristic. The current steering element (i) has a structure in which a first current steering element electrode, a first current steering layer, and a second current steering element electrode are stacked in this order, and (ii) includes a second current steering layer which covers side surfaces of the first current steering element electrode, the first current steering layer, and the second current steering element electrode.
US09252187B2	Devices and methods for measurement of magnetic characteristics of MRAM wafers using magnetoresistive test strips Methods for testing magnetoresistance of test devices with layer stacks, such as MTJs, fabricated on a wafer are described. The test devices can be fabricated along with arrays of similarly structured memory cells on a production wafer to allow in-process testing. The test devices with contact pads at opposite ends of the bottom electrode allow resistance across the bottom electrode to be measured as a surrogate for measuring resistance between the top and bottom electrodes. An MTJ test device according to the invention has a measurable magnetoresistance (MR) between the two contact pads that is a function of the magnetic orientation of the free layer and varies with the length and width of the MTJ strip in each test device. The set of test MTJs can include a selected range of lengths to allow the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) and resistance area product (RA) to be estimated or predicted.
US09252186B1	Pixel array and display device A pixel array and a display device are provided. The pixel array includes a two-dimensional array that is formed by arranging a plurality of color sub-pixels and a plurality of white sub-pixels in the row direction and in the column direction, the color sub-pixels include color sub-pixels in three different colors. For color sub-pixels in each color in each row, color sub-pixels with the same color in the same row are arranged so that, the odd-numbered column sub-pixel and the even-numbered column sub-pixel alternate one by one, or they are disposed by way of groups each including two odd-numbered column sub-pixels alternating with even-numbered column sub-pixels or by way of groups each including two even-numbered column sub-pixels alternating with odd-numbered column sub-pixels.
US09252183B2	Solid state image pickup apparatus and method for manufacturing the same When forming a hollow portion between each color filter, in order to realize the formation of the hollow portions with a narrower width, a plurality of light receiving portions are formed on the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of color filters corresponding to each of the light receiving portions are formed above the semiconductor substrate, a photoresist is formed on each color filter, side walls are formed on the side surfaces of the photoresist, and a hollow portion is formed between each color filter by performing etching using at least the side walls as a mask.
US09252179B2	Image sensor structures An image sensor structure is provided. The image sensor structure includes a substrate including a central area and a peripheral area, a sensing area including a plurality of pixels located at the central area of the substrate, a plurality of bond pads disposed at the peripheral area of the substrate, and an array of protrusions disposed between the bond pads and the sensing area and surrounding the sensing area, wherein a largest distance between any two points of the protrusion under a top view is getting smaller from the peripheral area to the central area.
US09252169B2	Solid-state imaging device and imaging system A solid-state imaging device includes: a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; and a second semiconductor substrate including at least a part of a peripheral circuit arranged in a main face of the second semiconductor substrate, the peripheral circuit generating a signal based on the charge of the photoelectric conversion element, a main face of the first semiconductor substrate and the main face of the second semiconductor substrate being opposed to each other with sandwiching a wiring structure therebetween; a pad to be connected to an external terminal; and a protection circuit electrically connected to the pad and to the peripheral circuit, wherein the protection circuit is arranged in the main face of the second semiconductor substrate.
US09252167B2	Active device array substrate An active device array substrate includes a flexible substrate, a gate electrode, a dielectric layer, a channel layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a pixel electrode. The flexible substrate has a transistor region and a transparent region adjacent to each other. The gate electrode is disposed on the transistor region. The dielectric layer covers the flexible substrate and the gate electrode. A portion of the dielectric layer disposed on the gate electrode has a first thickness. Another portion of the dielectric layer disposed on the transparent region has a second thickness less than the first thickness. The channel layer is disposed above the gate electrode. The source electrode and the drain electrode are electrically connected to the channel layer. The pixel electrode is disposed on the dielectric layer which is disposed on the transparent region. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode.
US09252163B1	Array substrate, method for manufacturing the same, and display device In the present disclosure, it is provided an array substrate including a pad area, signal lines arranged on the substrate, conductive connection lines arranged at least on the pad area and directly connected to a flexible circuit, and conductive connection lines arranged at least on the pad area and directly connected to a flexible circuit. The conductive connection lines may be connected to the signal lines through a via hole, and may include a first wire and a second wire electrically connected to each other. The second wire may be arranged in such a manner that a contact area between the conductive connection lines and the flexible circuit is not less than a predetermined threshold when the flexible circuit is displaced in a first direction relative to the first wire. The first direction may be substantially perpendicular to an extending direction of the first wire.
US09252158B2	Thin film transistor array panel and method of manufacturing the same A thin film transistor array panel includes a first insulating substrate, a gate electrode positioned on the first insulating substrate, a gate insulating layer positioned on the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer positioned on the gate insulating layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode positioned on the semiconductor layer and spaced apart from each other, in which the semiconductor layer includes three or more amorphous silicon layers having different bandgap energies from one another in order to reduce a leakage current and improve performance of a liquid crystal display.
US09252150B1	High endurance non-volatile memory cell The present disclosure relates to a non-volatile memory cell structure, and an associated method. A non-volatile memory cell includes two transistors spaced apart from one another with floating gates connected together by a floating gate bridge. During the operation, the non-volatile memory cell is programmed and erased from one first transistor and read from the other second transistor. Since the floating gates of the two transistors are connected together and insulated from other ambient layers, stored charges can be controlled from the first transistor and affect a threshold of the second transistor.
US09252149B2	Device including active floating gate region area that is smaller than channel area A device including a drain, a channel, a floating gate, and a control gate. The channel surrounds the drain and has a channel area. The floating gate includes an active floating gate region that has an active floating gate region area. The control gate is coupled to the active floating gate region via a control capacitance, wherein the active floating gate region area is smaller than the channel area.
US09252139B2	Stacked semiconductor package and method for manufacturing the same A stacked semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip having a first surface and a second surface which faces away from the first surface and including first bonding pads which are formed on the first surface and first through electrodes which pass through the first surface and the second surface; a second semiconductor chip stacked over the second surface of the first semiconductor chip, and including second bonding pads which are formed on a third surface facing the first semiconductor chip and second through electrodes which pass through the third surface and a fourth surface facing away from the third surface and are electrically connected with the first through electrodes; and a molding part formed to substantially cover the stacked first and second semiconductor chips and having openings which expose one end of the first through electrodes disposed on the first surface of the first semiconductor chip.
US09252137B2	Semiconductor substrate and semiconductor chip A semiconductor substrate capable of detecting operating current of a MOSFET and diode current in a miniaturized MOSFET such as a trench-gate type MOSFET is provided. A semiconductor substrate includes a main current region and a current sensing region in which current smaller than main current flowing in the main current region flows. The main current region has a source electrode disposed on a main surface, the source electrode being in contact with a p-type semiconductor region (body) and an n+-type semiconductor region (source), and the current sensing region has a MOSFET current detecting electrode and a diode current detecting electrode on a main surface, the MOSFET current detecting electrode being in contact with the p-type semiconductor region (body) and the n+-type semiconductor region (source), the diode current detecting electrode being in contact with the p-type semiconductor region (body).
US09252128B2	Panelized backside processing for thin semiconductors A semiconductor manufacturing method includes attaching a first die to a substrate panel. The method also includes applying a mold compound after attaching the first die to the substrate panel to the first die and the substrate panel. The method further includes thinning the first die and the mold compound after applying the mold compound. Attaching the die to the substrate panel before thinning eliminates usage of a carrier wafer when processing thin semiconductors.
US09252124B2	Circuit module having a substrate, semiconductor chip, and molding material formed by dicing A circuit module including: a wiring substrate having a shape elongated in one direction; a semiconductor chip mounted on the wiring substrate; and a molding material that molds the semiconductor chip, wherein end faces of the molding material that extend along a lengthwise direction of the wiring substrate and intersect with a lateral direction of the wiring substrate are formed by dicing performed along end faces of a partial region of the wiring substrate.
US09252121B2	Thermal interface material on package A packaged assembly is disclosed, including thermal interface material dispensed on an organic package and methods of manufacturing. The method includes dispensing a thermal interface material (TIM) on an electronic assembly. The method further includes removing volatile species of the TIM, prior to lid placement on the electronic assembly. The method further includes placing the lid on the TIM, over the electronic assembly. The method further includes pressing the lid onto the electronic assembly.
US09252120B2	Copper post solder bumps on substrates A method of assembling a semiconductor flip chip comprising a wafer having solderable electrical conducting sites and a substrate having electrical connecting pads and electrically conductive posts operatively associated with the pads and extending away from the pads to terminate in distal ends, comprises the pre-assembly steps of solder bumping the distal ends through openings in a solder mask by injection molding solder onto the distal ends so that the distal ends extend into the mask through the openings to produce a solder bumped substrate, and soldering the solder bumped substrate to the sites.
US09252118B2	CMOS-compatible gold-free contacts A semiconductor metallurgy includes a ratio of germanium and palladium that provides low contact resistance to both n-type material and p-type material. The metallurgy allows for a contact that does not include gold and is compatible with mass-production CMOS techniques. The ratio of germanium and palladium can be achieved by stacking layers of the materials and annealing the stack, or simultaneously depositing the germanium and palladium on the material where the contact is to be manufactured.
US09252115B1	Method for forming semiconductor layout Apparatuses and methods for an improved semiconductor layout are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention provide a microelectronic device including a microelectronic die and one or more redistribution paths formed thereon for electrically interconnecting at least one bond pad with an exposed portion of the redistribution path. The redistribution paths, bond pads, and exposed portions may be configured to result in the device having a width narrowed by at least the width of the bond pads due to their absence on at least one edge.
US09252113B2	No-exposed-pad ball grid array (BGA) packaging structures and method for manufacturing the same A no-exposed-pad ball grid array (BGA) packaging structure includes a metal substrate, a first die coupled to a top surface of the metal substrate, and a plurality of outer leads formed on the metal substrate and extending to the proximity of the die. A metal layer that contains a plurality of inner leads corresponding to the plurality of outer leads and extending to the proximity of the die is formed on the metal substrate by a multi-layer electrical plating process such that a lead pitch of the plurality of inner leads is significantly reduced. Furthermore, the die and the plurality of inner leads are connected by metal wires, and a plurality of solder balls is attached to a back surface of the plurality of outer leads and a die pad. The die, the plurality of inner leads, and the metal wires are sealed with a molding compound.
US09252104B2	Complementary back end of line (BEOL) capacitor A complementary back end of line (BEOL) capacitor (CBC) structure includes a metal oxide metal (MOM) capacitor structure. The MOM capacitor structure is coupled to a first upper interconnect layer of an interconnect stack of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The MOM capacitor structure includes a lower interconnect layer of the interconnect stack. The CBC structure also includes a second upper interconnect layer of the interconnect stack coupled to the MOM capacitor structure. The CBC structure also includes a metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitor layer between the first upper interconnect layer and the second upper interconnect layer. In addition, CBC structure also includes a MIM capacitor structure coupled to the MOM capacitor structure. The MIM capacitor structure includes a first capacitor plate having a portion of the first upper interconnect layer, and a second capacitor plate having a portion of the MIM capacitor layer(s).
US09252094B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming an interconnect structure with conductive material recessed within conductive ring over surface of conductive pillar A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die with a first conductive layer formed over an active surface of the semiconductor die. An insulation layer is formed over the active surface of the semiconductor die. A second conductive layer is conformally applied over the insulating layer and first conductive layer. Conductive pillars are formed over the first conductive layer. Conductive rings are formed around a perimeter of the conductive pillars. A conductive material is deposited over the surface of the conductive pillars within the conductive rings. A substrate has a third conductive layer formed over a surface of the substrate. The semiconductor die is mounted to a substrate with the third conductive layer electrically connected to the conductive material within the conductive rings. The conductive rings inhibit outward flow of the conductive material from under the conductive pillars to prevent electrical bridging between adjacent conductive pillars.
US09252089B2	Universal lead frame for flat no-leads packages A universal lead frame for semiconductor packages includes a solid lead frame sheet comprising an electrically conductive material and a plurality of columns etched into the lead frame sheet and distributed with a predetermined lead pitch so that the universal lead frame has a solid first main side opposite the columns and a patterned second main side opposite the first main side. A method of manufacturing the universal lead frame includes providing a solid lead frame sheet of an electrically conductive material and etching a plurality of columns into the lead frame sheet so that the columns are distributed with a predetermined lead pitch and the universal lead frame has a solid first main side opposite the columns and a patterned second main side opposite the first main side. A method of manufacturing molded semiconductor packages using the universal lead frame is also provided.
US09252076B2	3D packages and methods for forming the same Embodiments of the present disclosure include a semiconductor device, a package and methods of forming a semiconductor device and a package. An embodiment is a semiconductor device including a molding material over a first substrate with a first opening having a first width in the molding material. The semiconductor device further includes a second opening having a second width in the molding material with the second width being greater than the first width. A first connector is in the first opening and a second connector is in the second opening.
US09252070B2	Three-dimensional mounting semiconductor device and method of manufacturing three-dimensional mounting semiconductor device A three-dimensional mounting semiconductor device includes a layer structure including a plurality of first substrates with a trench-shaped concavity formed in and a plurality of second substrates with semiconductor elements formed in, which are alternately stacked, wherein an unevenness defined by a size difference between the first substrate and the second substrate is formed on a side surface, and a first through-hole are defined by an inside surface of the trench-shaped concavity and a surface of the second substrate, and a third substrate jointed to the side surface of the layer structure and having an unevenness formed on a surface jointed to the layer structure which are engaged with the unevenness formed on the side surface of the layer structure.
US09252069B2	High power module cooling system A cooling apparatus includes a direct-bonded copper (“DBC”) substrate, the DBC substrate having a plurality of micro-structure tabs formed on a fluid impingement side of the DBC substrate, and a jet head in complementary opposition to the fluid impingement side. The jet head has a first plurality of micro-jets facing the fluid impingement side, each of the first plurality of micro-jets having a nozzle, and a second plurality of micro-jets facing the fluid impingement side so the jet head is configured to deliver a fluid to the plurality of micro-structure tabs through the first and second plurality of micro-jets.
US09252064B2	Fingerprint module and manufacturing method for same A fingerprint module of fingerprint identification chip is provided. The fingerprint module includes a substrate, a fingerprint identification chip, a molding layer, a color layer, and a protecting layer. The substrate includes a pair of surfaces and a plurality of pads. The surfaces are on the opposite sides of the substrate. The pads are exposed on one of the surfaces. The fingerprint identification chip electrically connects with the substrate according to at least a wire. The molding layer disposes on the substrate and covers the fingerprint identification chip and the wire. The color layer disposes on the molding layer. The protecting layer disposes on the color layer.
US09252058B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a semiconductor device and systems incorporating the same include transistors having a gate metal doped with impurities. An altered work function of the transistor may alter a threshold voltage of the transistor. In certain embodiments, a gate metal of a first MOSFET is doped with impurities. A gate metal of a second MOSFET may be left undoped, doped with the same impurities with a different concentration, and/or doped with different impurities. In some embodiments, the MOSFETs are FinFETs, and the doping may be a conformal doping.
US09252055B2	Wafer dicing press and method and semiconductor wafer dicing system including the same In a wafer dicing press for reducing time and cost for wafer dicing and for evenly applying a dicing pressure to a whole wafer, a wafer dicing press includes a support unit supporting a first side of a wafer; and a pressurization device applying a pressure, by dispersing the pressure, to a second side of the wafer so that a laser-scribed layer of the wafer operates as a division starting point. Accordingly, the wafer dicing press reduces laser radiation and pressure-application times for dividing a wafer into semiconductor devices. This increased efficiency is achieved without increasing the likelihood of damaging the wafer.
US09252039B2	Electrostatic chuck apparatus An electrostatic chuck apparatus includes a pedestal part including a side surface, an electrostatic chuck including a side surface and provided on the pedestal part, an adhesive part including a side surface and provided between the pedestal part and the electrostatic chuck, the adhesive part containing a resin adhesive agent that adheres the pedestal part and the electrostatic chuck together, a recess part provided in a portion of the side surface of the pedestal part and a portion of the side surface of the electrostatic chuck, the recess part being provided in an area that includes a side surface of the adhesive part, the recess part being provided along an outer periphery of the pedestal part, an outer periphery of the adhesive part, and an outer periphery of the electrostatic chuck, and a focus ring engaged with the recess part and covering the side surface of the adhesive part.
US09252037B2	Vacuum treatment apparatus and a method for manufacturing A vacuum treatment apparatus and method for manufacturing has a plurality of treatment chambers for treating workpieces, in particular silicon wafers, a transfer chamber attached to the treatment chambers communicating via respective openings and having handling zones located adjacent to each of the treatment chambers. A workpiece carrier is arranged within the transfer chamber and configured to transfer the workpieces between the handling zones, and one or more handlers for moving the workpieces between the handling zones and the treatment chambers. The transfer chamber is ring-shaped about an axis and the openings have opening substantially parallel thereto. This way, forces on the transfer chamber are redirected to a large support structure and thus, a cost-effective, light and still rigid mechanical construction can be achieved.
US09252036B2	Substrate transfer system, substrate processing system, and substrate transfer robot A substrate transfer system includes a substrate transfer robot disposed in a robot installment area defined between a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus includes a first cassette, a second cassette and a first wall. The second apparatus includes a second wall. The substrate transfer robot transfers a substrate from each of the first cassette and the second cassette to the second apparatus. The substrate transfer robot includes a hand and an arm. The arm includes a first arm rotatable about a center of rotation. The first cassette is closer to the center of rotation than the second cassette. The arm moves with being partially disposed beyond the second wall in plan view and the arm moves without being disposed beyond the second wall in plan view when taking out the substrate from the first cassette.
US09252034B2	Substrate processing system and substrate transferring method A substrate processing system and substrate transferring method is capable of improving substrate-transferring efficiency by transferring a substrate bi-directionally through a substrate transferring device between two rows of processing chambers, and transferring the substrate to a precise position by rotating the substrate transferring device. The processing system includes a transfer chamber, a bi-directional substrate transferring device; and processing chambers which apply a semiconductor-manufacturing process to the substrate. The processing chambers are linearly arranged along two confronting rows, and the transfer chamber is between the two rows of processing chambers. The substrate transferring device includes a moving unit inside the transfer chamber; a bi-directional substrate transferring unit in the moving unit, that transfers the substrate to the processing chamber through a bi-directional sliding movement; and a rotating unit between the moving unit and the bi-directional substrate transferring unit, that rotates the bi-directional substrate transferring unit at a predetermined angle.
US09252031B2	Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same Provided is a semiconductor package including a lower package, an interposer on the lower package, and an upper package on the interposer. The lower package may include a lower package substrate, a lower semiconductor chip on the lower package substrate, and a lower heat-transfer layer on the lower semiconductor chip. The interposer may include an interposer substrate, first and second heat-transfer openings defined by recessed bottom and top surfaces, respectively, of the interposer substrate, an upper interposer heat-transfer pad disposed in the second heat-transfer opening, and an upper heat-transfer layer disposed on the upper interposer heat-transfer pad. The upper package may include an upper package substrate, an upper package heat-transfer pad, which may be disposed in a third heat-transfer opening defined by a recessed bottom surface of the upper package substrate, and an upper semiconductor chip disposed on the upper package substrate.
US09252029B2	Thermal interface material on package A packaged assembly is disclosed, including thermal interface material dispensed on an organic package and methods of manufacturing. The method includes dispensing a thermal interface material (TIM) on an electronic assembly. The method further includes removing volatile species of the TIM, prior to lid placement on the electronic assembly. The method further includes placing the lid on the TIM, over the electronic assembly. The method further includes pressing the lid onto the electronic assembly.
US09252023B2	Etching method and apparatus An etching method comprises etching an oxide layer with a first dc bias of a plasma chamber, removing a photoresist layer with a second dc bias of the plasma chamber and etching through a liner film with a third dc bias of the plasma chamber. In order to reduce the copper deposition on the wall of the plasma chamber, the third dc bias is set to be less than the first and second dc bias.
US09252020B2	Composite material, method of producing the same, and apparatus for producing the same Proposed are a composite material having a high adhesiveness, wherein non-penetrating pores that are formed in a silicone surface layer are filled up with a metal or the like without leaving any voids by using the plating technique and the silicone surface layer is coated with the metal or the like, and a method of producing the composite material. A composite material, which has a high adhesiveness between a second metal or an alloy of the second metal (106a, 106b) and a silicone surface, can be obtained by filling up non-penetrating pores that are formed in the surface of a silicone substrate (100) substantially with a second metal or an alloy of the second metal (106a) with the use of the autocatalytic electroless plating technique wherein a first metal located at the bottom of the non-penetrating pores as described above serves as the starting point, and coating the surface of the silicone substrate (100) with the second metal (106b).
US09252015B2	Ultra-shallow junction semiconductor field-effect transistor and method of making An ultra-shallow junction semiconductor field-effect transistor and its methods of making are disclosed. In the present disclosure, a mixture film is formed on a semiconductor substrate with a gate structure formed thereon using a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process, which employs a mixture of metal and semiconductor dopants as a target. The PVD process is followed by annealing, during which ultra-shallow junctions and ultra-thin metal silicide are formed. After removing the mixture film remaining on the semiconductor substrate, an ultra-shallow junction semiconductor field-effect transistor is formed. Because the mixture film comprises metal and semiconductor dopants, ultra-shallow junctions and ultra-thin metal silicide can be formed in a same annealing process. The ultra-shallow junction thus formed can be used in semiconductor field-effect transistors for the 14 nm, 11 nm, or even further technology node.
US09252013B2	Methods and articles including nanomaterial A method of depositing a nanomaterial onto a donor surface comprises applying a composition comprising nanomaterial to a donor surface. In another aspect of the invention there is provided a method of depositing a nanomaterial onto a substrate. Methods of making a device including nanomaterial are disclosed. An article of manufacture comprising nanomaterial disposed on a backing member is disclosed.
US09252011B2	Method for forming a layer on a substrate at low temperatures A method for forming an oxide layer on a substrate is described, wherein a plasma is generated adjacent to at least one surface of the substrate by means of microwaves from a gas containing oxygen, wherein the microwaves are coupled into the gas by a magnetron via at least one microwave rod, which is arranged opposite to the substrate and comprises an outer conductor and an inner conductor. During the formation of the oxide layer, the mean microwave power density is set to P=0.8-10 W/cm2, the plasma duration is set to t=0.1 to 600 s, the pressure is set to p=2.67-266.64 Pa (20 to 2000 mTorr) and a distance between substrate surface and microwave rod is set to d=5-120 mm. The above and potentially further process conditions are matched to each other such that the substrate is held at a temperature below 200° C. and an oxide growth is induced on the surface of the substrate facing the plasma.
US09251998B2	Plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus includes: a radio frequency (RF) power source which applies an RF power to a lower electrode; a direct current (DC) power source which applies a DC voltage to an upper electrode; a ground member for the DC voltage that is a ring shape formed of a conductive material, that is arranged in the processing chamber such that at least a part of the ground member is exposed to the processing space, and that forms a ground potential with respect to the DC voltage applied to the upper electrode; and a plurality of vertical movement mechanisms which move the ground member for the DC voltage in a vertical direction to adjust a grounding state of the ground member for the DC voltage.
US09251993B2	X-ray tube and anode target According to one embodiment, an X-ray tube including an electron emission source which emits an electron, an anode target which comprises a target layer emitting an X-ray by the electron from the electron emission source, and a substrate supporting the target layer and composed from a carbide-strengthened molybdenum alloy, an evacuated outer surrounding envelope which contains the electron emission source and the anode target, a diffusion barrier layer which is integrally formed with the substrate by a powder metallurgy method on a part of a top surface of the substrate and is composed of a high-melting-point metal lacking of carbon-element content compared with carbon-element content in the substrate, and a thermal radiation film which is formed on at least a part of a top surface of the diffusion barrier layer and composed of metallic oxide.
US09251992B2	Stereo X-ray generating device The purpose of the present invention is to provide a stereo x-ray radiation device that is small and for which handling is simple. One cathode that functions as an emitter and two anodes that function as targets are disposed in a single straight-tube shaped vacuum vessel. The stereo x-ray generating device is characterized by the cathode being a cold cathode disposed in the center part of the vessel, the anodes being disposed each to one end of the vessel, and the spaces between the anodes disposed in the two ends of the vessel and the cathode being constituted such that the same can be moved closer or apart along the axial line of the vessel.
US09251989B2	Method of making field emitter A method of making a field emitter includes following steps. A carbon nanotube layer is provided, and the carbon nanotube layer includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. A carbon nanotube composite layer is formed via electroplating a first metal layer on the first surface and electroplating a second metal layer on the second surface. A first carbon nanotube layer and a second carbon nanotube layer is formed by separating apart the carbon nanotube composite layer, wherein a fracture surface is formed in the carbon nanotube composite layer, a number of first carbon nanotubes in the first carbon nanotube layer are exposed from the fracture surface, and a number of second carbon nanotubes in the second carbon nanotube layer are exposed from the fracture surface.
US09251983B2	Depth-activated sensor switch and method A switch for a marine seismic sensor. The switch includes a bellows having a closed end, a side portion and an open end, wherein the side portion connects the closed end to the open end, the closed end includes a conductive surface, and the side portion acts as a spring; a base plug that includes first input and first output contacts on a first side and second input and second output contacts on an opposite side; and a plug located in the open end of the bellows and configured to form a chamber, inside which the second input contact and the second output contact are provided. The conductive surface short-circuits the second input contact and the second output contact when a pressure larger than a predetermined pressure (P) acts on the conductive surface.
US09251968B2	Free-standing hybrid nanomembrane as energy storage electrode and the fabrication method thereof Disclosed is a free-standing hybrid nanomembrane capable of energy storage. The free-standing hybrid nanomembrane includes carbon nanotube sheets and a conducting polymer coated on the carbon nanotube sheets. The carbon nanotube sheets are densified sheets formed by evaporating an alcohol from carbon nanotube aerogel sheets. The conducting polymer is coated on the carbon nanotube sheets by vapor phase polymerization. Further disclosed is a method for fabricating the free-standing hybrid nanomembrane.
US09251960B2	Dual stage EMI filter and offset highly efficient multi-polar active capacitor electrodes for an active implantable medical device A multipolar feedthrough filter capacitor assembly for an active implantable medical device includes a feedthrough filter capacitor including a first active electrode plate, a second active electrode plate and a plurality of ground electrode plates. The plates are in spaced parallel relation disposed within a monolithic dielectric substrate where the first and second active electrode plates are disposed between the plurality of ground electrode plates. A first conductive terminal pin is disposed through the feedthrough filter capacitor electrically coupled to the first active electrode plate and in non-conductive relation to both the second active electrode plate and ground electrode plate. A second conductive terminal pin may be disposed through the feedthrough filter capacitor electrically coupled to the second active electrode plate and in non-conductive relation to both the first active electrode plate and ground electrode plate.
US09251955B2	PZT-based ferroelectric thin film and method of forming the same A PZT-based ferroelectric thin film is formed by coating a PZT-based ferroelectric thin film-forming composition on a lower electrode of a substrate one or two or more times, pre-baking the composition, and baking the composition to be crystallized, and this thin film includes PZT-based particles having an average particle size in a range of 500 nm to 3000 nm when measured on a surface of the thin film, in which heterogeneous fine particles having an average particle size of 20 nm or less, which are different from the PZT-based particles, are precipitated on a part or all of the grain boundaries on the surface of the thin film.
US09251953B2	Method of manufacturing a common mode filter A method of manufacturing common mode filter having heterogeneous laminates, the method includes steps of providing a nonmagnetic insulating substrate; forming a magnetic layer; forming a first lead; forming a first insulating layer; forming a first through hole; forming a first coil; forming a second insulating layer; forming a second coil; forming a third insulating layer; forming a second through hole; forming a second lead; forming a fourth insulating layer; and depositing a first magnetic material.
US09251950B2	Magnetic element for wireless power transmission and method for manufacturing same The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a magnetic element for wireless power transmission, which is capable of feeding power with high power transmission efficiency, while increasing the heat dissipation performance; and a method for manufacturing the magnetic element for wireless power transmission magnetic element for wireless power transmission have configurations that respectively comprise planar coils through which an alternating current passes and magnetic parts which are arranged in parallel in the intervals between the copper wires of the planar coils when viewed in cross section. The magnetic parts comprise an epoxy resin in which iron-based amorphous particles FINEMET® serving as magnetic particles are dispersed, and the magnetic parts are integrated with the planar coils by being bonded to the planar coils in an electrically insulated state by means of the epoxy resin.
US09251946B2	Compact A compact 10 is obtained by compression-molding coated soft magnetic particles covered with insulating coatings, and is a modified frustum body having, as a main body, a frustum portion 113 sandwiched between plate-shaped portions 111 and 112 arranged in opposing relation. A vertical cross-section of the compact 10 is made up of a trapezoidal surface 113s, a long-side rectangular surface 111s joining to a long side of the trapezoidal surface 113s, and a short-side rectangular surface 112s joining to a short side of the trapezoidal surface 113s.
US09251937B2	Heat stable nanoparticle preparations and associated methods thereof A method of sterilizing a nanoparticle preparation at a high temperature is provided. A plurality of nanoparticles are purified to form the preparation, wherein the nanoparticles comprise at least a core and a shell and the shell comprises one or more ligand species attached to the core. The nanoparticle preparation is made by a purified nanoparticle composition, a carrier fluid and an excess of the one or more ligand species not attached to the core. The ligand species attached to the core and the excess ligand species added after purification are structurally identical. The nanoparticle preparation provided by the present invention may be used as contrast agents in medical imaging techniques such as X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging.
US09251926B2	Collective conductor and method for producing collective conductor A collective conductor includes a plurality of conductive wires that is arranged collectively; and a copper foil that is wound around the collectively-arranged conductive wires and fusion-bonded to the conductive wires, and the copper foil has a tin plating on the side in contact with the conductive wires.
US09251918B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes: a bank including a normal area including normal columns, and a redundancy area including redundancy columns and to be replaced with a failure column of the normal area; sense amplifiers connected to the normal area; and a redundancy sense amplifier connected to the redundancy area. A normal replacement unit is formed of normal columns allocated to each of the sense amplifiers. A redundancy replacement unit is formed of redundancy columns allocated to the redundancy sense amplifier. The redundancy replacement unit is smaller than the normal replacement unit.
US09251915B2	Seamless fail analysis with memory efficient storage of fail lists A method for testing memory devices under test (DUTs) using automated test equipment (ATE) is presented. The method comprises retrieving a portion of raw test data from a memory device under test (DUT). It also comprises comparing the portion of raw test data with expected test data to determine failure information, wherein the failure information comprises information regarding failing bits generated by the memory DUT. Next, the method comprises utilizing paging to transfer data comprising the failure information to a filtering module and filtering out the failure information from transferred data using the filtering module. Further, it comprises updating a fail list using the failure information, wherein the fail list comprises address information for respective failing bits within the memory DUT. Finally, it comprises repeating all the prior steps for the next block of raw test data.
US09251913B2	Infrastructure for performance based chip-to-chip stacking A method and system for an infrastructure for performance-based chip-to-chip stacking are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A critical path monitor circuit (infrastructure) is configured to launch a signal from a launch point in a first layer, the first layer being a first circuit. The infrastructure is further configured to create an electrical path to a capture point. The signal is launched from the launch point in the first layer. A performance characteristic of the electrical path is measured, resulting in a measurement, wherein the measurement is indicative of a performance of the first layer when stacked with a second layer in a 3D stack without actually stacking the first and the second layers in the 3D stack, the second layer being a second circuit.
US09251911B2	Shift register circuit A shift register circuit includes first-type and second-type shift registers, each comprising a pull-down control circuit, a pull-down circuit, a key pull-down circuit, a 3D-mode pull-up circuit, and a 2D-mode pull-up circuit. The pull-down circuit is connected to the pull-down control circuit. The key pull-down circuit, connected to the pull-down circuit, pulls down a driving signal and a gate control signal. When the 2D-mode pull-up circuit operates, a first-type shift register generates a driving signal for a second-type shift register. When the 3D-mode pull-up circuit operates, a first-type shift register generates another driving signal for another first-type shift register.
US09251910B2	Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof Provided are a semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof. The semiconductor memory device may include a memory cell array having a plurality of strings each including a drain select transistor, a plurality of drain side memory cells, a pipe transistor, a plurality of source side memory cells, and a source select transistor. The semiconductor memory device may also include a peripheral circuit suitable for providing a plurality of operation voltages including an erase verify voltage to the plurality of strings, and a control logic suitable for controlling the peripheral circuit to adjust a voltage level of the erase verify voltage applied to a selected memory cell, from among the plurality of drain side memory cells and the plurality of source side memory cells, according to a distance between the selected memory cell and the pipe transistor when an erase verify operation is performed.
US09251908B2	Memory kink checking This disclosure concerns memory kink checking. One embodiment includes selectively applying one of a plurality of voltages to a first data line according to a programming status of a first memory cell, wherein the first memory cell is coupled to the first data line and to a selected access line. An effect on a second data line is determined, due at least in part to the voltage applied to the first data line and a capacitive coupling between at least the first data line and the second data line, wherein the second data line is coupled to a second memory cell, the second memory cell is adjacent to the first memory cell, and the second memory cell is coupled to the selected access line. A kink correction is applied to the second data line, responsive to the determined effect, during a subsequent programming pulse applied to the second memory cell.
US09251905B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit including a voltage boosting or lowering circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a reference voltage generation circuit configured to generate a reference voltage, and a voltage changing circuit configured to generate a second voltage from a first voltage based on a difference between the second voltage and the reference voltage and apply the second voltage to a load capacitance. The reference voltage generation circuit includes a variable current source and a capacitor which are connected in series and is configured to change the reference voltage linearly.
US09251904B2	Nonvolatile memory device and memory system including the same A nonvolatile memory device may include a memory cell array which is arranged in rows and columns and has multi-level memory cells; a voltage generator providing a plurality of read voltages to a selected row of the memory cell array; and control logic performing a plurality of page read operations using the read voltages. A first read voltage and a second read voltage among the plurality of read voltages are each associated with a higher probability of occurrence of a bit read error than at least one other read voltage among the plurality of read voltages. The control logic uses the first read voltage and the second read voltage in different page read operations than each other.
US09251896B2	Variable resistance nonvolatile memory device and method for writing into the same In a method for writing into a variable resistance nonvolatile memory device according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a verify write operation of newly applying a voltage pulse for changing a resistance state is performed on a variable resistance element which does not satisfy a determination condition for verifying that the resistance state has been changed despite application of a voltage pulse for changing the resistance state, and the determination condition in the verify write operation is relaxed when an average number of times of verify write operation, having already been performed on all or part of a plurality of variable resistance elements that are targets for write operation, exceeds a predetermined number of times.
US09251894B2	Accessing a resistive memory storage device Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a device and methods of accessing the device. The device can include a plurality of memory cells, each cell including a plurality of resistive memory components each designed to store data as resistance and an access transistor configured to control access to the plurality of resistive memory components. A wordline is configured to enable access to the set of resistor memory components by enabling the access transistor. A plurality of bitlines are each connected to a respective and different set of resistive memory components from each of the plurality of memory cells. A bitline controller is configured to access the plurality of resistive memory components by applying a first voltage to a first set of the plurality of bitlines and a second voltage to a second set of bitlines.
US09251890B1	Bias temperature instability state detection and correction A memory device with an age-detect-and-correct (ADAC) circuit that detects skew caused by bias temperature instability fatigue (that is, bias temperature instability stress accumulated over time), and counters skew by selectively adjusting the proportion (measured temporally) of active state operation to idle state operation. Also, a memory burn-in device using a similar ADAC circuit.
US09251888B1	SRAM cells with vertical gate-all-round MOSFETs A Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell includes a first and a second pull-up transistor, a first and a second pull-down transistor forming cross-latched inverters with the first and the second pull-up transistors, and a first and a second pass-gate transistor. Each of the first and the second pull-up transistors, the first and the second pull-down transistors, and the first and the second pass-gate transistors includes a bottom plate as a first source/drain region, a channel over the bottom plate, and a top plate as a second source/drain region. A first isolated active region is in the SRAM cell and acts as the bottom plate of the first pull-down transistor and the bottom plate of the first pass-gate transistor. A second isolated active region is in the SRAM cell and acts as the bottom plate of the second pull-down transistor and the bottom plate of the second pass-gate transistor.
US09251883B2	Single phase GSHE-MTJ non-volatile flip-flop Systems and methods are directed to a single-phase non-volatile flip-flop (NVFF), which includes a master stage formed from a dual giant spin Hall effect (GSHE)-magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure, the dual GSHE-MTJ structure comprising a first GSHE-MTJ and a second GSHE-MTJ coupled between a first combined terminal and a second combined terminal, and a slave stage formed from a first inverter coupled to a second inverter. During a single clock cycle of a clock, a first data value is read out from the slave stage when a clock is in a high state and a second data value is written into the master stage, when the clock is in a low state. The first and second inverters are cross coupled in a latch configuration to hold the first data value as an output, when the clock is in the low state.
US09251876B1	Retiming programmable devices incorporating random access memories A method of retiming a circuit that includes a RAM having data stored therein, a register following the RAM, and registers preceding the RAM for registering input, address and enable signals of the RAM includes pushing a value in the register following the RAM back into a memory location in the RAM, pushing back data stored in the RAM and initial values in the registers preceding the RAM to accommodate the value pushed back from the register following the RAM, and setting new values in the registers preceding the RAM so that, on a first clock cycle after retiming, the circuit assumes a condition before retiming. The method also may be used to configure a programmable logic device with a user logic design.
US09251870B2	Ground-referenced single-ended memory interconnect A system is provided for transmitting signals. The system comprises a first processing unit, a cache memory, and a package. The first processing unit comprises a first ground-referenced single-ended signaling (GRS) interface circuit and the second processing unit comprises a second GRS interface circuit. The cache memory comprises a third and a fourth GRS interface circuit. The package comprises one or more electrical traces that couple the first GRS interface to the third GRS interface and couple the second GRS interface to the fourth GRS interface, where the first GRS interface circuit, the second GRS interface, the third GRS interface, and the fourth GRS interface circuit are each configured to transmit a pulse along one trace of the one or more electrical traces by discharging a capacitor between the one trace and a ground network.
US09251868B2	Multilayered semiconductor device An object of the invention is to make effective use of the structure of a multilayered semiconductor device that uses penetration electrodes in such a manner that the layered chips obtain stable internal power supply voltages with no increase in current consumption or in the area of the layered chips. Internal power supply generation circuits furnished in each of the layered core chips have their outputs commonly coupled via electrodes penetrating the layered core chips. This allows electrical charges to be shared among the core chips, optimizes internal power consumption of the multilayered semiconductor device as a whole, and inhibits fluctuations in the internal power supply voltages.
US09251866B2	Semiconductor memory device and body bias method thereof A semiconductor memory device is provided which includes a function block including a plurality of transistors; a body bias control unit configured to detect a command and to generate a body bias selection signal according to the detection result; and a body bias generator configured to generate a body voltage according to the body bias selection signal and to provide the body voltage to bodies of the plurality of transistors, wherein the body bias generator down-converts a power supply voltage supplied from an external device to generate the body voltage.
US09251859B2	Drive vibration prevention system A drive vibration prevention system includes a fan and a drive. The drive includes a vibration detection device and a vibration notification pin. A management engine is coupled to the drive and the fan. The management engine is operable to determine whether the vibration notification pin is being asserted in response to the vibration detection device detecting a vibration that exceeds a predetermined threshold. In response to determining that the vibration notification pin is being asserted, the management engine retrieves vibration data from the drive. The management engine then modifies a fan speed of the fan using the vibration data. Drives may be grouped into drive groups that output a single vibration notification signal to the management engine, and in response to the assertion of a vibration notification pin in the drive group, the management engine retrieves vibration data from each of the drives in that drive group.
US09251858B2	Method and apparatus for providing stackable hard-disk drive carrier using pull-out drawers A method and apparatus for providing a stackable hard-disk drive (“HDD”) carrier using pull-out drawers and fasteners are disclosed. The carrier, in one embodiment, includes an inner case or drawer and an outer frame casing. The inner cage includes a base plate, a front cover, a first side panel, and a second side panel, wherein the first and second side panels are hinged to the base plate. The inner cage is configured to house a removable HDD. The first and second side panels also include fasteners for securing the HDD to the inner cage. The outer frame casing is configured to receive the inner cage via its two opposite guiding walls. The guiding walls are configured to allow extending the inner cage to a predefined distance from the outer frame casing for accessing the HDD.
US09251856B1	Read failover method and apparatus for a data storage system A reader failover system and method are described for a data storage system. At least two reader systems, including a first reader element and a second reader element, situated on the same head, are employed to read a magnetic storage medium. In an aspect, the head is a two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) head. Control circuitry detects when the first reader system provides less than a predetermined performance or fails, and thereafter causes the second reader system, but not the first reader system, to read the magnetic storage medium. In an aspect, a buffer stores a first reader element signal until the control circuitry detects whether or not the first reader element provides less than a predetermined performance or fails. In an aspect, when a reader element fails, data recovery is performed, and all of, or a majority of, the media continues to be readable, improving the data storage system robustness.
US09251855B2	Efficient media processing Some embodiments provide a media-editing application. The application includes several image processing destinations for performing operations on video images. The application includes a scheduling engine for scheduling disk read, decode, and graphics processing operations to perform on images to prepare the images for the several destinations. The scheduling engine includes a first set of instructions for scheduling images based on a speed at which a particular one of the several destinations processes the images when none of the destinations require images in real-time. The scheduling engine includes a second set of instructions for scheduling images based on a real-time clock when at least one of the several destinations requires images in real-time.
US09251853B2	Method, medium, and system generating video abstract information A method, medium, and system generating a video abstract with high processing speeds, may include a detecting of an event candidate section from video data, based on audio information, a detecting of shot change information from the detected event candidate section, a detecting of final event sections from the detected event candidate section, based on the detected shot change information and visual information, and a generating of video abstract information by merging the extracted final event sections.
US09251847B2	Damping structure for tape head system A tape head system. The tape head system includes: a head for reading from and/or writing to magnetic tape; a support; and at least one leaf spring assembly supporting the head moveably relative to the support so as to allow the head to follow a motion of the tape, the at least one leaf spring assembly including at least one leaf spring and at least one damping element configured for damping a motion of the head relative to the support.
US09251845B2	Multi-level enumerative encoder and decoder A storage system includes a storage medium operable to maintain a data set, a read/write head assembly operable to write the data set to the storage medium and to read the data set from the storage medium, a multi-level enumerative encoder operable to encode the data set before it is written to the storage medium as encoded data, wherein the enumerative encoder applies an enumeration using a plurality of level-dependent bases, and a decoder operable to decode the data set after it is read from the storage medium.
US09251841B1	Disc drive including a tray support mechanism and disc drive modules incorporating the same Technology is provided for a disc drive for use in a disc drive module having two or more opposed disc drives. The disc drive comprises a disc drive housing and a disc tray movable in and out of the disc drive housing between an open position and a closed position. A support tab is pivotably coupled to the disc tray and pivotable between an extended position and a stowed position. The support tab is biased toward the extended position and is mateable with an opposing disc drive when the disc tray is in the open position. A bumper is positioned in the disc drive housing to abut the support tab and rotate the support tab toward the stowed position when the disc tray is moved from the open position to the closed position.
US09251830B1	Waveguide cladding layer with transparent heat sink for heat-assisted magnetic recording device An apparatus comprises a slider of a magnetic recording head having an air bearing surface (ABS), a write pole terminating at or near the ABS, and a near-field transducer (NFT) adjacent the write pole. A light delivery arrangement extends through the slider and terminates at the ABS. The light delivery arrangement is configured to communicate light through the slider and to the NFT. A transparent heat sink layer abuts a terminal end portion of the light delivery arrangement and terminates at the ABS. The heat sink layer has a thermal conductivity greater than that of the light delivery arrangement.
US09251816B2	Magnetic sensor shield pinned by a high-coercivity ferromagnet A magnetic sensor may generally be configured as a data reader capable of sensing data bits from an adjacent data storage medium. Various embodiments of a magnetic element may have at least a magnetic stack that contacts at least a first shield. The first shield can have at least one synthetic antiferromagnetic structure (SAFS) that is pinned by a high-coercivity ferromagnetic (HCFM) layer.
US09251805B2	Method for processing speech of particular speaker, electronic system for the same, and program for electronic system An object of the present invention is to process the speech of a particular speaker. The present invention provides a technique for collecting speech, analyzing the collected speech to extract the features of the speech, grouping the speech, or text corresponding to the speech, on the basis of the extracted features, presenting the result of the grouping to a user, and when one or more of the groups is selected by the user, enhancing, or reducing or cancelling the speech of a speaker associated with the selected group.
US09251793B2	Method, apparatus, and system for automatically monitoring for voice input based on context In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a current context associated with a mobile computing device and determining, based on the current context, whether to switch the mobile computing device from a current mode of operation to a second mode of operation during which the mobile computing device monitors ambient sounds for voice input that indicates a request to perform an operation. The method can further include, in response to determining whether to switch to the second mode of operation, activating one or more microphones and a speech analysis subsystem associated with the mobile computing device so that the mobile computing device receives a stream of audio data. The method can also include providing output on the mobile computing device that is responsive to voice input that is detected in the stream of audio data and that indicates a request to perform an operation.
US09251792B2	Multi-sample conversational voice verification A system and method of verifying the identity of an authorized user in an authorized user group through a voice user interface for enabling secure access to one or more services via a mobile device includes receiving first voice information from a speaker through the voice user interface of the mobile device, calculating a confidence score based on a comparison of the first voice information with a stored voice model associated with the authorized user and specific to the authorized user, interpreting the first voice information as a specific service request, identifying a minimum confidence score for initiating the specific service request, determining whether or not the confidence score exceeds the minimum confidence score, and initiating the specific service request if the confidence score exceeds the minimum confidence score.
US09251789B2	Speech-recognition system, storage medium, and method of speech recognition A speech recognition system that recognizes speech data is provided. The speech recognition system includes a speech recognition part that performs speech recognition of the speech data, and calculates a likelihood of the speech data with respect to a registered word that is pre-registered, a reliability judgment part that performs reliability judgment on the speech recognition based on the likelihood, and a judgment reference change processing part that changes a judgment reference for the reliability judgment, according to an utterance speed of the speech data.
US09251784B2	Regularized feature space discrimination adaptation A method and apparatus are provided for training a transformation matrix of a feature vector for an acoustic model. The method includes training the transformation matrix of the feature vector. The transformation matrix maximizes an objective function having a regularization term. The method further includes transforming the feature vector using the transformation matrix of the feature vector, and updating the acoustic model stored in a memory device using the transformed feature vector.
US09251779B2	Noise reduction apparatus A noise reduction apparatus includes a noise reduction amount calculator. The noise reduction amount calculator includes a difference calculator that obtains a difference between a level of the noise detected by a first noise detecting microphone and a level of the noise detected by a second noise detecting microphone when control sound is not output, a storage unit that stores the difference, an estimated noise value calculator that estimates a noise level that is to be detected by the second noise detecting microphone when the control sound is output, based on the level of the noise detected by the first noise detecting microphone when the control sound is output and the difference, and a reduction amount calculator that calculates a noise reduction amount on the noise reduction target position, based on the estimated noise value and the level of the noise detected by the second noise detecting microphone when the control sound is output.
US09251770B1	Multi-staged cam assembly for drum pedal A multi-staged cam assembly comprises a connecting element 1 secured to a tip of a stamping pedal 2; a cam 10 of which a front end is secured to the other end of the element 1, wherein the element 1 is guided along an outer periphery of the cam 10; a drive shaft 6 to which a drum beating rod 5 is fixed; and a revolving body 3 comprising a boss 14 and a space keeping plate 16, wherein a hole 7 for the drive shaft 6 is formed in the boss 14. An elongated hole 17 is formed in the middle of the plate 16. A bolt 22 is inserted in the hole 17 and screwed in a screw hole 21 in the front face of the cam 10, such the cam 10 is fixed at a desired position. A length from the center of the hole 7 of the boss 14 to the back end of the cam 10 is varied in a multi-staged way according to the fixed position of the bolt 22 in the hole 17.
US09251733B2	Display panel, display device, and electronic unit A display panel including: a panel section including a display region where a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a gap region provided in a gap between the pixels; and a barrier section including a plurality of transmissive regions in a two-dimensional arrangement, and a light-blocking region to be around each of the transmissive regions. The transmissive regions are each configured to make entirely visible any one of the pixels therethrough when a viewer views the panel section not from a front but from a first or second direction via the barrier section, the pixels are each configured by a plurality of sub-pixels varying in type, and the sub-pixels in each of the pixels are arranged not in stripes but differently.
US09251732B2	Method and system for image dithering A method of dithering of an image is described. The method includes analyzing each of a plurality of pixels of the image, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels exhibits integer value N-bit color depth and determining a particular index value of each pixel of the image, a particular numerical value associated with a particular color component of each pixel of the image, and a particular threshold value associated with the particular color component of each pixel of the image. The particular threshold value is common between pixels of the image separated by a predetermined number of pixels. The method further includes modifying, based on the determining, each of the plurality of pixels of the image to exhibit integer value M-bit color depth, wherein integer value M is less than integer value N.
US09251728B2	Method of driving a 3D display panel with enhanced left-eye image and right-eye image luminance difference and display apparatus for performing the method In a method of driving a display panel, a first data voltage having a first potential difference with respect to a reference voltage is outputted to pixel units of the display panel during a first frame which the data voltage has a same polarity with respect to the reference voltage as a data voltage of a following frame, and a second data voltage having a second potential difference less than the first potential difference is output to pixel units of the display panel during a second frame in which the data voltage has a polarity with respect to the reference voltage that is reversed with respect to a data voltage of a following frame.
US09251724B2	Beverage identification tiles A beverage identification tile is provided that includes a sheet of material and a plurality of beverage type identifiers. The sheet of material has a first face and a second face which have a polygonal shape defined by a plurality of edges. A different beverage type identifier of the plurality of beverage type identifiers is printed along each edge of the plurality of edges of the first face and of the second face. A shelf labeling system includes a shelf, a plurality of slots, and the beverage identification tile. The shelf includes a front wall, a back wall, and a base mounted between the front wall and the back wall. The sheet of material is sized to slide into a slot of the plurality of slots formed in the front wall along an edge of the front wall with a beverage type identifier visible above the edge.
US09251722B2	Map information display device, map information display method and program There is provided a map information display device including an operating tool detector for, on a display panel where map information MI and view image information VI are displayed, detecting a position and a pointing direction of an operating tool M in touch with an area corresponding to the map information; and a display controller for controlling display of the view image information in accordance with a view point on the map information indicated by the position of the operating tool and a line-of-sight direction on the map information indicated by the pointing direction of the operating tool.
US09251717B2	Augmentative and alternative communication language system A method and device for providing a language system. The method includes displaying a home screen including a first plurality of user selectable communication keys, wherein each communication key represents a first word. In response to receiving a first indication of a user selection of a first key, it is determined whether the first key is linked to a secondary screen. If the first key is not linked to a secondary screen, an audible signal representing the first word is output. Otherwise, a secondary screen is displayed including a second plurality of communication keys that are related to the first word and a communication key that represents the first word. The device includes appropriate hardware for performing the method. In both the method and device, the language system is configured to output an audible output of a user selected word after no more than two user selections.
US09251710B2	Air traffic analysis using a linear inequalities solver Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for solving large systems of linear equations, such as for aircraft traffic control and analysis, are disclosed. A method for aircraft traffic control, includes receiving as input, airspace sector information and aircraft traffic information, configuring a homogeneous system of linear inequalities comprising a plurality of linear inequalities based upon the airspace sector information and the aircraft traffic information, and resolving the homogeneous linear system to determine a second airspace sector information and a second aircraft traffic information, wherein the second airspace sector information and the second aircraft traffic information are based upon a predetermined future point of time, and wherein the resolving includes at least one of reducing a maximum infeasibility of the homogeneous linear system and reducing a sum infeasibility of the homogeneous linear system.
US09251707B2	Highly accurate system for wrong-way driving detection and deterrence The present invention is a highly accurate detector system for detecting and responding to wrong-way driving incidents. An optimum configuration and combination of sensors gather data corresponding to predetermined vehicle movement test parameters; a set number of parameter deviations from pre-determined thresholds will initiate various sensor signals. The sensor signals may be transmitted to the computer processor, which may in turn produce a range of system outputs. In various embodiments, system outputs may include but are not limited to outputs activating other system components, outputs initiating data storage and analysis, and outputs interfacing and communicating with other systems.
US09251698B2	Forest sensor deployment and monitoring system A method and apparatus for managing a location. Soil sensor units are deployed in the location in a forest from a group of aerial vehicles. Information is generated about a number of soil conditions in the location in the forest using the soil sensor units in the location. The information is transmitted from the soil sensor units to a remote location for analysis.
US09251693B2	Providing notification that an electronic device is located at a vehicle A method of providing an alert that a portable electronic device has been left at a vehicle. The method comprises determining that an occupant has exited the vehicle. The method further comprises detecting that a portable electronic device is located at the vehicle. When it has been determined that the occupant has left the vehicle and that the electronic device has been left behind, the method still further comprises generating an alert to notify the occupant that the electronic device has been left at the vehicle. A system for performing or utilizing the above-described methodology is also provided.
US09251692B2	GPS directed intrusion system with data acquisition A GPS directed intrusion system with data acquisition is provided. Some methods can include detecting a threat event associated with a monitored facility, collecting data relevant to the threat event, and transmitting the data relevant to the threat event to a mobile device of an authority figure dispatched to the monitored facility. Some methods can also include placing a surveillance device associated with the monitored facility in a tracking mode, tracking motion captured by the surveillance device, and transmitting data representative of the motion to a mobile device of an authority figure dispatched to the monitored facility.
US09251686B1	Personal safety tracking using an apparatus comprising multiple sensors A system and method for facilitating personal safety tracking via an apparatus with multiple sensors are disclosed. The sensors may include a water sensor, an accelerometer, a water pressure sensor, an ambient temperature sensor, and/or any other sensors. The apparatus may be configured to generate various alerts in response to signals generated by the sensors. For example, the apparatus may generate a drowning alert when a submersion signal is generated and a drowning acceleration signature is detected in the same period. As another example, an abduction alert may be generated when an abduction acceleration signature and an out-of-boundary situation is detected for the apparatus. The alerts generated by the apparatus may be transmitted to a server or a client device associated with the apparatus for further processing, which may include generating a notification for presentation on the client device in response to an alert being received from the apparatus.
US09251683B2	Flame detector using a light guide for optical sensing A multi-sensor fire detector includes first and second flame sensors which are coupled to an external environment by a rigid, tapered, optical coupling element. An external end of the coupling element has a cured hemispherical shape with a viewing angle approaching one hundred eighty degrees. Processing and control circuits coupled to the sensors make a determination as to the presence of a fire condition.
US09251674B2	Human machine interface and alert display method A human machine interface includes a display screen coupled to a processing device. The display screen is disposed on a case and displays an image frame. In the processing unit, a comparing module compares a first trigger signal stored in a storage unit with a monitored signal transmitted from a signal source. A notification signal is generated when the first trigger signal is detected appearing in the monitored signal. A control module receives the notification signal and generates a first alert signal to display in the image frame or on the case.
US09251668B2	Wagering game with multiple overlying reel strips for triggering events or outcomes A method is provided for enabling a portal game on a wagering game device, the method including the acts of using a processor operatively associated with the wagering game device to conduct a wagering game on the wagering game device in accord with a first math model and using a portal game controller, which may be the processor operatively associated with the wagering game device or a separate controller operatively associated with both the portal game and the wagering game device, to overlay a portal game over the wagering game, the portal game having a second math model that is mathematically independent from the first math model of the wagering game.
US09251663B1	Computer activated instant winner lottery ticket game system and method A system and method for selling pre-printed instant-winner lottery tickets by use of a central computer communicating with widely-distributed enclosed vending machines and other terminals. Tickets used in the system either have no play data marked on them, or all of the data is in encrypted machine-readable form on the ticket. Deferred disclosure of win/loss results is provided at the ticket buyer's option. Internet tickets including gift tickets are created by using them to defer reporting game results until later inquiry by the recipient. The win/loss results can be retrieved remotely by the use of laptops, PCs and other mobile devices, at a time after sale. A two-ticket game is provided, preferably presenting poker hands on each of a pair of tickets for comparison with one another. Preferably, each ticket provides a traditional instant-winner game with a chance for an added instant-winner progressive jackpot prize.
US09251662B2	Method and system for varying take-out on pari-mutuel wagers In a method of pari-mutuel wagering, one or more primary bettors place wagers having an applicable base take-out rate, and thus yielding a base pari-mutuel payout for winning wagers. One or more secondary bettors may place wagers having an applicable modified take-out rate (preferably lower than the base take-out rate), thus yielding a higher payout for winning wagers than the base payout. In one embodiment, primary bettors may place wagers through a host, such as a track. Secondary bettors may place wagers through a non-host distributor, such as an off-track betting location (OTB). Secondary bettors may apply take-out points to lower the base take-out rate to a new modified take-out rate which is applicable to their wager.
US09251657B2	Skill calibrated hybrid game Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention include: a gambling game; an entertainment game; and a game world engine constructed to communicate, to the real world engine, gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that triggers a wager in the gambling game, the game world engine utilizing a skill calibration module constructed to receive, from the entertainment software engine, player performance information for the player, analyze the player performance information to determine the player's skill level in playing the entertainment game, determine whether the terms of the wager of the gambling game are calibrated in a manner appropriate to the player's skill level in the entertainment game, and send, to the real world engine, a command that causes the real world engine to calibrate the terms of the wager in the gambling game.
US09251650B2	Method and system for operating instances of a game Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.
US09251644B2	Amusement devices and games including means for processing electronic data where users can change selections Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases such as long shot bias and favorite bias. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases relating to the Monty Hall paradox. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may include wagering on hands of cards, e.g., poker wagering games.
US09251643B2	Multimedia interface progression bar A method comprising displaying a display area adapted to display a multimedia element, displaying a progression bar adapted to represent at least a portion of a duration of the multimedia element, and providing an indicator associated with the progression bar, the indicator being displayable at a timely position along the at least a portion of a duration of the multimedia element and is further adapted to timely enable an action when the multimedia element is played, the display bar includes a movable play position indicator and wherein the action is enabled on a basis of a proximity between the indicator and the play position indicator, the action encompassing timely displaying an image.
US09251638B2	Bracket supporting apparatus A bracket supporting apparatus includes a side plate, two fixing brackets, a first mounting bracket defining a first through hole, and a second mounting bracket defining a second through hole. Each of the two fixing brackets includes a connection portion defining a fixing hole. Two supporting portions extend from two sides of the connection portion. A mounting portion extends from one side of each of the two supporting portions. The two supporting portions of each of the two fixing brackets are substantially parallel to the first mounting bracket and the second mounting bracket. The mounting portions are fixed to the side plate. A first fastener passes through each of the first through holes, the second through holes, and the fixing holes to fix the first mounting bracket and the second mounting bracket to each of the two fixing brackets.
US09251624B2	Point cloud position data processing device, point cloud position data processing system, point cloud position data processing method, and point cloud position data processing program The device includes a unit obtaining an object's point cloud position data, a unit obtaining the object's image data, a unit in which co-relationship between point cloud position data obtained in the point cloud position data obtaining unit through a primary viewpoint or image data obtained in the image data obtaining unit through the primary viewpoint and image data obtained in the image data obtaining unit through a secondary (different from the primary) viewpoint are identified, a unit forming a three-dimensional model by the data obtained in the point cloud position data obtaining unit, and a unit controlling displaying of the model formed in the model forming unit on a displaying device. The model forming unit forms a three-dimensional model having direction seen from the secondary viewpoint, depending on the co-relationship identified in the co-relationship identifying unit. Operators see the model seen from the secondary viewpoint as an image.
US09251619B2	Image synthesis device An image processing device, including an analyzer calculating cutting data and difference data from image data, a selector receiving data from a working node, the data including cutting data, cost data, and position data, an assembler receiving data from working nodes and from a predecessor node and calculating updated node data as a function of the cost data, a driver configured to call the analyzer with image data of an input image, call the selector with an input node and with the cutting data calculated by the analyzer, call the assembler with the successor nodes determined by the selector as working nodes and with the input node as a predecessor node, and repeatedly call the selector and the assembler using one of the updated nodes as a working node for the selector, until a condition relating to the cutting data and the position data of an updated node is satisfied.
US09251618B2	Skin and flesh simulation using finite elements, biphasic materials, and rest state retargeting The movement of skin on an animated target, such as a character or other object, is simulated via a simulation software application. The software application creates a finite element model (FEM) comprising a plurality of finite elements based on an animated target. The software application attaches a first constraint force to a node associated with a first finite element in the plurality of finite elements. The software application attaches a second constraint force to the node. The software application detects a movement of the first finite element that results in a corresponding movement of the node. The software application determines a new position for the node based on the movement of at least one of the first finite element, the first constraint force, and the second constraint force.
US09251616B2	Time-dependent client inactivity indicia in a multi-user animation environment A method for managing a multi-user animation platform is disclosed. A three-dimensional space within a computer memory is modeled. An avatar of a client is located within the three-dimensional space, the avatar being graphically represented by a three-dimensional figure within the three-dimensional space. The avatar is responsive to client input commands, and the three-dimensional figure includes a graphical representation of client activity. The client input commands are monitored to determine client activity. The graphical representation of client activity is then altered according to an inactivity scheme when client input commands are not detected. Following a predetermined period of client inactivity, the inactivity scheme varies non-repetitively with time.
US09251604B2	Apparatus and method for generating tomography image A method of generating a tomography image includes performing a depth scan on one spot on a surface of a subject using modulated light received from a spatial light modulator, obtaining depth scan data for each of a plurality of patterns of the spatial light modulator by repeating the depth scan on the spot for each of the plurality of patterns, forming a matrix R representing a vector space based on a correlation of signal values of the depth scan data for each of the plurality of patterns, performing a matrix decomposition on the matrix R, dividing the vector space into a noise subspace and a signal subspace based on a matrix obtained by the matrix decomposition, constructing a vector space based on either one or both of components of the signal subspace and components of the noise subspace, and generating a tomography image based on the reconstructed vector space.
US09251599B2	Tracking assistance device, a tracking assistance system and a tracking assistance method that enable a monitoring person to perform a task of correcting tracking information A tracking assistance device includes: a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that causes captured images stored in a recorder to be displayed on a monitor and, in response to an input operation performed by a monitoring person to designate a moving object to be tracked, sets the designated moving object as a target to be tracked; a candidates selection unit that selects, as a candidate(s), a moving object(s) highly relevant with the moving object set as the target to be tracked; a candidate image presenting unit that extracts, as a candidate image(s), a captured image(s) in which the candidate moving object(s) is(are) included, and causes the monitor to display the candidate image(s) is(are) such that the monitoring person selects an appropriate candidate image; and a tracing information correction unit that changes the target to be tracked to the moving object associated with the selected candidate image and corrects the tracing information accordingly.
US09251594B2	Cropping boundary simplicity Cropping boundary simplicity techniques are described. In one or more implementations, multiple candidate croppings of a scene are generated. For each of the candidate croppings, a score is calculated that is indicative of a boundary simplicity for the candidate cropping. To calculate the boundary simplicity, complexity of the scene along a boundary of a respective candidate cropping is measured. The complexity is measured, for instance, using an average gradient, an image edge map, or entropy along the boundary. Values indicative of the complexity may be derived from the measuring. The candidate croppings may then be ranked according to those values. Based on the scores calculated to indicate the boundary simplicity, one or more of the candidate croppings may be chosen e.g., to present the chosen croppings to a user for selection.
US09251590B2	Camera pose estimation for 3D reconstruction Camera pose estimation for 3D reconstruction is described, for example, to enable position and orientation of a depth camera moving in an environment to be tracked for robotics, gaming and other applications. In various embodiments, depth observations from the mobile depth camera are aligned with surfaces of a 3D model of the environment in order to find an updated position and orientation of the mobile depth camera which facilitates the alignment. For example, the mobile depth camera is moved through the environment in order to build a 3D reconstruction of surfaces in the environment which may be stored as the 3D model. In examples, an initial estimate of the pose of the mobile depth camera is obtained and then updated by using a parallelized optimization process in real time.
US09251589B2	Depth measurement apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and depth measurement program A depth measurement apparatus calculates depth information on a subject in an image by using a plurality of images having different blurs taken under different imaging parameters, and includes a region segmentation unit that segments at least one of the images into regions based on an image feature amount, wherein in each of the regions pixels are presumed to be substantially equal in depth to the subject, and a depth calculation unit that calculates a depth for each region resulting from the segmentation by the region segmentation unit and serving as a processing target region for depth calculation, and sets the calculated depth as the depth of the processing target region.
US09251579B2	System and method for measuring images of object A computing device reads an entire image of an object. The entire image is spliced by a plurality of part images. A user selects an area on the entire image. The computing device determines a first number of first pixel points between a center point of the selected area and a center point of each covered image. The converted images are part images that the selected area covers. The coordinate values of the center point of the selected area are calculated according to the first number of pixel points and a size of each pixel point of the entire image. The computing device calculates coordinate values of each point of a selected area according to the size of each pixel point and the coordinate values of the center point of the selected area.
US09251569B2	Removing noise from an image via efficient patch distance computations Systems and methods herein provide for reduced computations in image processing and a more efficient way of computing distances between patches in patch-based image denoising. One method is operable within a processing system to remove noise from a digital image by generating a plurality of lookup tables of pixel values based on a plurality of comparisons of the digital image to offsets of the digital image, generating integral images from the lookup tables, and computing distances between patches of pixels in the digital image from the integral images. The method also includes computing weights for the patches of pixels in the digital image based on the computed distances and applying the weights to pixels in the digital image on a patch-by-patch basis to restore values of the pixels.
US09251568B1	Pseudo-skeleton based image enhancement for document image reproduction In a document image enhancement method, text character strokes are enhanced in a way such that areas closer to the center (skeleton) of each stroke are enhanced (e.g. made darker) by greater amounts than areas farther away from the center. Each text or line region of the input image is first binarized to generate a binary image containing connected components corresponding to character strokes and lines. Multiple levels of pseudo-skeletons are computed for each connected component, for example by using successive thinning. Multiple pseudo-skeleton difference areas, i.e. differences between successive levels of pseudo-skeletons, are generated. Pixels located in different pseudo-skeleton difference areas are enhanced by different amounts, by applying different inverse-degradation functions. Graphical regions of the input image may be treated with edge enhancement.
US09251564B2	Method for processing a stereoscopic image comprising a black band and corresponding device A method for processing a stereoscopic image that includes a first image and a second image that has at least one first black band. To reduce the display errors linked to black bands, the method estimating at least one first parameter representative of the at least one first black band generating a third image from the stereoscopic image by disparity compensated interpolation. The third image includes at least one second black band, with at least one second parameter representative of the at least one black band being a function of at least one first parameter. The invention also relates to a corresponding stereoscopic image processing module and a display device including the processing module.
US09251560B2	Medical image diagnosis apparatus and phase determination method using medical image diagnosis apparatus In order to provide a medical image diagnosis apparatus and a phase determination method using a medical image diagnosis apparatus that can determine an appropriate movement phase when obtaining a tomographic image corresponding to a specific movement phase, there are provided a storage unit that stores material distribution information, which is acquired from an object including a target organ that moves periodically, and movement information, which is measured together with the material distribution information, an image reconstruction unit that reconstructs a plurality of tomographic images of different movement phases using the material distribution information and the movement information, a superimposed image creation unit that creates a superimposed image by superimposing the plurality of tomographic images, a specific position calculation unit that calculates a specific position of the target organ based on the superimposed image, and a specific phase determination unit that determines a specific phase of the target organ based on the specific position.
US09251559B2	Image generation device, camera device, image display device, and image generation method A camera device is provided with: an imaging unit for generating an area image obtained by shooting an area from above; and a display image generation unit for generating a display image of a target moving in the area using a clip image which is clipped from the area image. In this case, a rotation angle of a current frame is calculated on the basis of the rotation angle of the previous frame and a reference angle of the current frame. As a result, a rapid change in an orientation of the target displayed in the display image can be suppressed.
US09251552B2	Method and apparatus for managing image data for presentation on a display An apparatus may include a memory and graphics logic operative to render a set of one or more data frames for storage in the memory using a received set of data of a digital medium, and output one or more control signals at a first interval. The apparatus may also include a display engine operative to receive the one or more control signals from the graphics logic, retrieve the set of one or more data frames from the memory, and send the one or more data frames to a display device for visual presentation. The one or more data frames may be sent periodically in succession at a second interval corresponding to a native frame rate of the digital medium.
US09251546B2	System and method for evaluating operation of a vehicle with respect to a plurality of environmental factors A system installed with a vehicle for evaluating operation of the vehicle with respect to environmental factors includes: (a) operational sensors for sensing data relating to operational factors of the environmental factors; (b) an operational information store coupled with selected sensors for storing operational data received from the selected sensors relating to the operational factors; (c) an operational standards store for storing operational standards associated with operating the vehicle; (d) an operational standard compliance evaluation unit coupled with the information store and coupled with the standards store for effecting comparison of the operational data with the operational standards to ascertain an operational comparison result, and determining whether the vehicle complies with the standards based upon the comparison result; and (e) an operational report and store unit coupled with the compliance evaluation unit for receiving the operational determination and generating at least one report relating to the operational determination.
US09251545B2	Rights management for content aggregators An arbitrator receives a request to use a plurality of content in an aggregation. The arbitrator determines whether there exist proper rights to use the plurality of content in the aggregation. The requestor is communicated whether permission is granted. The determination may include negotiating for extending right of use by an arbitrator. This negotiation may communicate with content hosting service(s) or the content author(s). The determining step retrieves, stores, and maintains rights information to and from an information store which is accessible by the rights management system.
US09251543B2	Predictive method, apparatus and program product Methods, Apparatus and Program Products for predicting resource usage data, weather data and econometric data, such as: demands on resources such as electrical power, water supply, communications infrastructure; temperature, humidity, wind speed, solar radiation, and degree days; and commodity price, gross domestic product, and a price index.
US09251542B2	Waferstart processes and systems for integrated circuit fabrication A waferstart process for integrated circuit fabrication includes entering order information from requested wafers into a computer through a data input interface of the computer. A container is provided including supplied wafers and having a machine-readable medium associated therewith. The machine-readable medium is encoded with wafer data pertaining to the supplied wafers. The wafer data is entered from the machine-readable medium associated with the container into the computer. The order information and the wafer data are compared within the computer to create a verified data set in the computer upon the computer determining that the supplied wafers in the container correspond to the requested wafers in the order information. The verified data set is stored in a storage medium within the computer. The supplied wafers are transferred from the container to a front opening unified pod after creating the verified data set.
US09251541B2	System and method for automated detection of never-pay data sets Data filters, models, and/or profiles for identifying and/or predicting the never-pay population (for example, those customers that make a request for credit and obtain the credit instrument but over the life of the account, never make a payment) can be useful to various commercial entities, such as those issuing mortgages, home equity lines of credit, consumer or business lines of credit, automobile loans, credit card accounts, or those entities providing services, such as utility services, phone services, and the like.
US09251538B1	System and method for automatically filling webpage fields A computer-implemented method for automatically populating fields of a webpage. The method includes transmitting data from a browser add-on installed in a second webpage to a code segment inserted in a first webpage, where the code segment is configured to populate one or more fields included in the first webpage with received data, where the browser add-on is not installed in the first webpage, and where the first webpage is displayed on a display device in a web browser application executing on a computer system; and executing the code segment to populate the fields included in the first webpage with the received data.
US09251537B2	Customization of an e-commerce display for a social network platform A first computer identifies electronic commerce activity related to a first user. The first computer retrieves a first data, wherein the first data is coupled to the electronic commerce activity. The first computer analyzes the first data and generates a second data. The first computer generates an electronic commerce display for a social network platform using the second data, wherein the electronic commerce display includes at least one timeline of the electronic commerce activity of the first user.
US09251534B2	Offer inclusion for over the top (OTT) content Inspection of over the top (OTT) content to facilitate offering non-OTT content or other content and/or services as an alternative to the OTT content is contemplated. The OTT content may be inspected at an access point configured to provide a broadband or other connection between a device consuming the OTT content and a device sourcing the content. Data packets or other signaling may be added to the OTT content at the access point in order to announce the offer.
US09251532B2	Method and apparatus for providing search capability and targeted advertising for audio, image, and video content over the internet The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted advertisement, search capability and/or other functionality based on the content of the file or podcast.
US09251528B1	Conversion of loyalty program points to commerce partner points per terms of a mutual agreement A computer converts a first quantity of loyalty program points of a loyalty program possessed by a member held in a first account to a second quantity of different loyalty program points possessed by the member held in a second account in accordance with a fixed ratio. The loyalty program points and the different loyalty program points are non-fungible, non-negotiable units of exchange. A mutual agreement exists between program operators to permit the conversion. Responsive to the converting: the first quantity of loyalty program points is subtracted from the first account; the second quantity of different loyalty program points is added to the second account; and the entity compensates the commerce partner in accordance with mutual agreement.
US09251526B2	Server apparatus, terminal apparatus, user's degree of interest calculation method, user's degree of interest calculation program, terminal program, recording medium having program recorded therein, and an information providing system A server apparatus according to the invention obtains, from a terminal apparatus, scroll operation information conducted on a display area of the terminal apparatus, and obtains content identification information for identifying the content displayed at the display area, and calculates the user's degree of interest in the content identified by the obtained content identification information.
US09251515B2	System and method for preventing fraud in the secondary market for gift cards Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for preventing and detecting fraud in the secondary gift card market are disclosed herein. An example system can identify an event associated with a prepaid gift account associated with a secondary market for reselling prepaid gift accounts, the prepaid gift account having a verified initial balance established prior to the event. Based on the event, the system can perform a reverification of the verified initial balance of the prepaid gift account to yield an updated balance. If the verification indicates that the updated balance is different from the verified initial balance, the system can perform a corrective action. The event can be receiving the prepaid gift account, listing the prepaid gift account for sale, transferring the prepaid gift account between parties, converting the prepaid gift account to a different form, an elevated fraud risk, a user request, a regular balance checking interval, or random selection.
US09251514B2	Systems and methods for identifying biometric information as trusted and authenticating persons using trusted biometric information Systems and methods of identifying biometric information as trusted and authenticating persons using trusted biometric information are provided. Biometric information can be identified as trusted by comparing it to other biometric information and/or based on the age of the biometric information and/or receiving correct answers to questions based on personal information. Once biometric information has been identified as trusted it can be used as part of an authentication process by receiving biometric information from a person to be authenticated and comparing the received biometric information with the trusted biometric information.
US09251508B2	Intelligent message processing Systems, methods, and devices for intelligent message processing are presented. With regard to a message, an intelligent message processor component (IMPC) can intelligently identify a desired file folder and archive the message in the folder in response to as little as one user interface (UI) control manipulation (e.g., click), when the intelligent message processor UI (IMPUI) is activated. When the IMPUI is activated, the IMPC automatically parses the message and identifies, or allows the user to identify, a keyword/phrase in the message. The IMPC automatically identifies the desired folder based on the identified keyword/phrase, and the user can click on the identified keyword/phrase to store the message in the identified file folder. The IMPUI also can comprise other UI controls that can, e.g., forward a message to another user, archive the message or related attachment in a remote storage destination, perform a customized message process, etc.
US09251507B2	Reducing email message size A method, system and computer program product for supporting email message size reduction. Example operations may include identifying a first email recipient that is to receive a full version of an email message (full email message), identifying a second email recipient representing a new class of email recipient that is to receive a summary version of the email message (summary email message), and performing an action to facilitate the full email message being sent to the first email recipient and the summary email message being automatically generated from the full email message and sent to the second email recipient. The foregoing operations may be performed in one way by an email client and in another way by an email server. The email client and the email server may share responsibility for reducing email message size. Alternatively, the email client (or another implementing entity) may act alone.
US09251506B2	User interfaces for content categorization and retrieval Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide a scenario desktop for recording a current event scenario and a content desktop for presenting information about a previously recorded event scenario. When a first event scenario is detected on the mobile device, the scenario desktop is presented on the mobile device. The scenario desktop exists in parallel with a default primary desktop of the mobile device. An information bundle is created for the first event scenario, including one or more documents accessed through the scenario desktop during the first event scenario. Access to the one or more documents is automatically provided on the mobile device during a second event scenario related to the first event scenario. The access is provided through the content desktop existing in parallel with the primary desktop and the scenario desktop.
US09251494B2	System and method for tracking customer personal information in a warehouse management system A system and method for a warehouse management system for tracking devices with customer private information. The system includes one or more testing devices for testing devices to determine whether the customer personal information is present. The system further includes a receiving system operable to receive devices for entry as inventory. The shipping system prevents the devices from being entered as inventory in response to the testing device determine CPI is present on one or more of the devices. The system further includes a shipping system operable to prevent the one or more devices from being shipped to a recipient in response to determining the CPI is present on the one or more devices.
US09251484B2	Predicting likelihood of on-time product delivery, diagnosing issues that threaten delivery, and exploration of likely outcome of different solutions A task effort estimator may determine a probability distribution of an estimated effort needed to complete unfinished tasks in a project based on one or more of a set of completed tasks belonging to a project and attributes associated with the completed tasks belonging to the project, a set of completed tasks not belonging to the project and attributes associated with the completed tasks not belonging to the project, or the combination of both. A project completion predictor may determine a probability distribution of completion time for the project based on the probability distribution of an estimated effort needed to complete the unfinished tasks in the project, and one or more resource and scheduling constraints associated with the project.
US09251483B2	Performance optimization of business processes by stochastic environmental changes Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for optimizing applications, such as applications included in a business process. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving information representative of one or more interfaces and aspects of each of the interfaces. The interfaces may be adjustable by a business process supervisor. The business process supervisor may adjust one or more aspects of the one or more interfaces. The results of the adjustment may be received and used to determine optimum settings to the one or more interfaces. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US09251479B2	Multi-interval dispatch method for enabling dispatchers in power grid control centers to manage changes A method is provided that enables dispatchers in power grid control centers to manage changes by applying multi-interval dispatch. A multi-stage resource scheduling engine and a comprehensive operating plan are used. Multiple system parameter scenarios are coordinated.
US09251477B2	Online registration and block tracking for travel wholesalers, agencies and hotels A system and method for providing reservation capabilities to a reservation or property management system via a plurality of Internet web sites. Each booking party is directed to a web site containing common content and content specific to the type of booking party, such as a travel agent, wholesaler, or traveler. The system ensures the complete and accurate collection of data regarding a customer and the customer's reservation request through the use of distributed software components and association with customer profiles. Each booking party may create or modify customer profile information to be associated with reservations. The product or service provider may establish and maintain its own set of commission rates, fee amounts and discount values for each type of booking party, thereby allowing the provider to control accuracy and completeness of reservations, as well as revenue flow to the booking parties.
US09251472B1	Method and system for monitoring a building A computerized method and system for monitoring a building, including: accepting data regarding building operation data, generating a statistical model based on the data, comparing current building performance to the statistical model, determining whether the current building performance is normal or abnormal, and displaying information indicating abnormal and/or normal operating conditions.
US09251463B2	Knowledge transfer in smart environments Activity templates are generated from one or more existing smart environments (e.g., source spaces) based on sensor data from the one or more existing smart environments that corresponds to known activities. A target activity template is then generated for a new smart environment, e.g., the target space. The source space activity templates are then mapped to the target activity templates to enable recognition of activities based on sensor data received from the target space.
US09251462B2	Emotion script generating, experiencing, and emotion interaction An emotion script generating apparatus, comprising means to receive emotion data, in which the emotion data is obtained according to measurable physiological parameters reflective of a user's emotions; and means to generate emotion script using the emotion data based on a predefined template. An emotion script experiencing apparatus, comprising means to receive emotion script, wherein the emotion script is generated using emotion data and is based on a predefined template, the emotion data capable of being obtained according to measurable physiological parameters reflective of a user's emotions; and means to affect a user by using emotion data extracted from the emotion script, so as to cause the user to experience the emotion script.
US09251450B2	Image processing system and method of print job for executing print process in normal and secure mode and creates print job cancellation log An image processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a print job received from outside is a normal print job or an authentication print job, and a control unit. When the determination unit determines that the received print job is the authentication print job, the control unit executes authentication print processing based on the received authentication print job. When the determination unit determines that the received print job is the normal print job, the control unit executes authentication print processing based on the received normal print job instead of executing normal print processing.
US09251440B2	Multiple step non-deterministic finite automaton matching Disclosed is a hardware NFA cell array used to find matches to regular expressions or other rules in an input symbol stream. The cell array scans multiple symbols per clock cycle by comparing multiple symbol classes against multiple input symbols per cycle in parallel, signaling bundles of multiple transitions from parent cells to child cells and updating NFA state status by multiple steps. To retain high frequency operation, the cell array will not resolve transition chains from a first cell to a second cell to a third cell in a single cycle. When a chain is required, the cell array takes fewer steps in one cycle to break the chain into separate cycles. To detect multi-transition chains, each cell compares symbol classes to future symbols in advance and back-communicates future match positions to parent cells in the array as launch hazards.
US09251437B2	System and method for generating training cases for image classification A system and method for generating training images. An existing training image is associated with a classification. The system includes an image processing module that performs color-space deformation on each pixel of the existing training image and then associates the classification to the color-space deformed training image. The technique may be applied to increase the size of a training set for training a neural network.
US09251420B2	System for mapping and identification of plants using digital image processing and route generation The present invention relates to a system and method for mapping of plants. Homogenous and heterogeneous flora areas called clusters are identified in remote sensing images and routes to the plant clusters are generated. The plants are classified using morphological data from foliar images of plants present in the clusters.
US09251418B2	Method of detection of points of interest in a digital image A camera (10) produces a sequence of images (12) processed by a point of interest search algorithm (14) that is parameterizable with a detection threshold (τ) such that the number (N) of points of interest detected in the image varies as a function of the threshold level. The characteristic giving the number (N) of detected points of interest as a function of the threshold (τ) is modelled by a square root decreasing exponential function, which is dynamically parameterizable with values linked to the image to be analyzed. The method comprises the steps of: a) determining (18) values of parameterization of the decreasing exponential function for the current image; b) predicting (18), for this current image, an optimum value of the threshold by using the modelled characteristic, parameterized with the values determined at step a); and c) applying (14), for at least one later image, the point of interest search algorithm with the optimum threshold value (τ) computed at step b).
US09251414B2	Note recognition and management using color classification This disclosure describes techniques for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes. For example, techniques are described for recognizing physical notes present within a physical environment, capturing information therefrom and creating corresponding digital representations of the physical notes, referred to herein as digital notes or software-based notes. At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature system and methods for note recognition using color classification. The system receives a visual representation of a scene having one or more notes, where each note has a color. The system generates indicators indicative of color classes of pixels in the visual representation. The system further determines a general boundary of one of the notes based on the indicators.
US09251408B2	Gesture recognition module and gesture recognition method A gesture recognition module for recognizing a gesture of a user, includes a detecting unit, including at least one image capture device, for capturing at least one image of a hand of the user, to obtain a first position and a second position of the hand sequentially; a computing unit, electrically coupled to the detecting unit, for determining a first angle between a first virtual straight line connected between a fixed reference point and the first position and a reference plane passing through the fixed reference point, and determining a second angle between a second virtual straight line connected between the fixed reference point and the second position and the reference plane; and a determining unit, electrically coupled to the computing unit, for determining a relation between the first angle and the second angle, to decide whether a gesture of the hand is a back-and-forth gesture.
US09251405B2	Systems and methods for enhancement of facial expressions A system for enhancing a facial expression includes a processing circuit is configured to receive video of a user, generate facial data corresponding to a face of the user, analyze the facial data to identify a facial expression, enhance the facial data based on the facial expression, and output modified video including the enhanced facial data.
US09251402B2	Association and prediction in facial recognition Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to address intrapersonal variations encountered during facial recognition. For example, some implementations employ an identity data set having a plurality of images representing different intrapersonal settings. A predictive model may associate one or more input images with one or more images in the identity data set. Some implementations may use an appearance-prediction approach to compare two images by predicting an appearance of at least one of the images under an intrapersonal setting of the other image. Further, some implementations may utilize a likelihood-prediction approach for comparing images that generates a classifier for an input image based on an association of an input image with the identity data set.
US09251400B2	Learning apparatus, method for controlling learning apparatus, detection apparatus, method for controlling detection apparatus and storage medium A learning apparatus comprises a plurality of detection units configured to detect a part or whole of a target object in an image and output a plurality of detection results; an estimation unit configured to estimate a state of the target object based on at least one of the plurality of detection results; a classification unit configured to classify the image into a plurality of groups based on the state of the target object; and a weight calculation unit configured to calculate weight information on each of the plurality of detection units for each of the groups based on the detection results.
US09251393B2	Barcode reading test tube holder Tube holders for use in a lab environment include an optical device to allow the observation of barcode information on a sample tube. The optical device can include a lens or camera. Tube holders can also include reflective surfaces or mechanical mechanisms to allow the tube to be rotated such that reading a barcode does not require a strict initial orientation of the tube when placed in the tube holder. Arrays of tubes can include optical guides to allow barcodes to be read by an external imaging device.
US09251390B2	Item identification device antenna An item identification device antenna which provides better field coverage for reading item identification tags. The item identification device antenna includes a first portion coupled to a tag reader for reading a tag on an item, wherein the first portion is for radiating an electromagnetic field at a predetermined frequency, and a second portion in the electromagnetic field for resonating at the predetermined frequency to radiate another electromagnetic field for reading the tag. The tags may include radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
US09251389B2	Communication terminal, computer-readable storage medium, and communication method A communication terminal includes a first communication unit which has a power supply function by electromagnetic induction and writes or reads information in an active or passive mode, and a second communication unit having a communication capability higher than that of the first communication unit. A mode in which the first communication unit is functioning, the active mode or the passive mode, is determined. Communication via the second communication unit is controlled based on the determination result.
US09251381B1	Solid-state storage subsystem security solution A solid-state storage subsystem, such as a non-volatile memory card or drive, includes a main memory area that is accessible via standard memory access commands (such as ATA commands), and a restricted memory area that is accessible only via one or more non-standard commands. The restricted memory area stores information used to control access to, and/or use of, information stored in the main memory area. As one example, the restricted area may store one or more identifiers, such as a unique subsystem identifier, needed to decrypt an executable or data file stored in the main memory area. A host software component is configured to retrieve the information from the subsystem's restricted memory area, and to use the information to control access to and/or use of the information in the main memory area.
US09251372B1	Secure service for receiving sensitive information through nested iFrames Methods and systems for receiving sensitive information include receiving a request for entering sensitive information, the request received from a user interface rendered on a client device. The methods and systems rely upon nested iframes, each of which is hosted by a different server. An inner iframe is hosted by a server within a secure zone, such as a digital vault. A middle iframe is hosted within the secure zone and is invoked by an intermediate server. An outer iframe is hosted by a server that provides the user interface. The server that provides the user interface may be hosted by a cloud service provider, for example. Using the nested iframes and the network topology described in the present disclosure, users are able to exchange sensitive information with a server within the secure zone through a user interface provided outside the secure zone.
US09251366B2	Augmented reality based privacy and decryption A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for decrypting a document are disclosed. For example, the method captures a tag on an encrypted document, transmits the tag to an application server of a communication network to request a per-document decryption key, receives the per-document decryption key if the tag is authenticated, and decrypts a portion of the encrypted document using a temporary decryption key contained in the tag, the tag decrypted with the per-document decryption key.
US09251364B2	Search hit URL modification for secure application integration A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety of sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.
US09251355B2	Field level database encryption using a transient key Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, system, and computer program product for implementing user specific encryption in a database system. A computer receives a query statement including a user specific key and data, the data including data needing encryption and non-encrypted data. The computer encrypts the data needing encryption using the user specific key. The computer inserts both the encrypted data and the non-encrypted data into a table row in a database. The computer creates a hash of the user specific key, and stores the hash of the user specific key in the table row with the data.
US09251339B2	Core dump privacy during application failure Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to core dump generation during application fault handling and provide a method, system and computer program product for privacy preservation of core dump data during application fault handling. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for privacy preservation of core dump data during application fault handling can be provided. The method can include receiving a crash signal for an application and generating a core dump with object data for the application. The method further can include obfuscating the object data in the core dump and writing the core dump with obfuscated object data to a file. In this way, the privacy of the object data in the core dump can be preserved.
US09251336B1	Secure versioning of software packages To provide a secure installation and execution software environment, locked version numbers are maintained. A locked version number associated with a software program may be stored. When a request is received to update the software program with an update package, a package number of the update package may be compared to the locked version number. The software program may be updated with the update package if the package number is at least as recent as the locked version number, and the updating of the software program with the update package may be restricted if the package number is earlier than the locked version number.
US09251331B2	Simplified user registration Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include receiving, at a computing device, a security token identifier and a request to access one or more resources of the computing device. The computing device obtains information that identifies one or more domains each having a trust relationship with the domain associated with the computing device. The computing device determines that an entry in a first data store associated with a first domain of the one or more domains matches the security token identifier. In response to the determining that an entry in the first data store matches the security token identifier, the computing device updates a local data store such that, in the local data store, the security token identifier is associated with first domain information that identifies the first domain. The computing device grants the requested access to one or more resources of the computing device.
US09251330B2	Secure management of a smart card A smart card comprises: a processing circuit; a memory that contains a protected object; an activity detector that receives a signal that describes a planned activity of a person who is in physical possession of the smart card; and an activity analyzer that evaluates features of the planned activity. In response to the activity analyzer determining that a predefined risk associated with the planned activity exceeds a predetermined value, the activity analyzer: issues an instruction to the person who is in physical possession of the smart card to provide a biomarker to a biosensor that is physically contained within the smart card; and receives, from the biosensor, real-time biometric data for the person who is in physical possession of the smart card.
US09251327B2	Method and system for providing behavioral bi-directional authentication An approach for authenticating parties engaged in a web-based transaction without compromising the integrity or anonymity of the parties is described. An authentication platform receives, from a first application associated with a first party, an authentication request that has been redirected in response to a transaction initiated with a second application associated with a second party. The authentication platform forwards knowledge based assessment information to the first application that is based on determined behavioral information for authenticating the second party to the first party. A valid response to the knowledge based assessment information by the first application provides authentication of the first party to the second party.
US09251326B2	Personal digital key initialization and registration for secure transactions A system and method provide efficient, secure, and highly reliable authentication for transaction processing and/or access control applications. A personal digital key (PDK) is programmed using a trusted programming device to initialize and/or register the PDK for use. In one embodiment, the initialization and registration processes are administered by a specialized trusted Notary to ensure the processes follow defined security procedures. In a biometric initialization, the programming device acquires a biometric input from a user and writes the biometric data to a tamperproof memory in the PDK. In registration, the Programmer communicates to one or more remote registries to create or update entries associated with the user PDK. Once initialized and registered, the PDK can be used for various levels of secure authentication processes.
US09251320B2	Matched content use restriction system A system may be configured to receive an upload, from a first user device, of a basis content item that includes first content; determine whether a first user of the first user device has a right to restrict a use of the first content in an in-use content item uploaded by a second user device when the in-use content includes the first content; in response to determining that the first user has the right, store the basis content in the system; in response to determining that the first user does not have the right, discard the basis content; receive an upload, from a second user device, of a first in-use content item; and determine whether the first in-use content item matches the basis content item.
US09251319B2	Method and apparatus for using non-volatile storage device A method and apparatus for using a non-volatile storage device includes reading device identification information from the non-volatile storage device, application identification information corresponding to a content application related to a type of content to be protected or utilized among a plurality of content applications is acquired, usage identification information is generated using the device identification information and the application identification information, and protecting or utilizing content using the usage identification information.
US09251316B2	Content sharing system, information communication apparatus, content sharing method, and communication method When a user who shares content is selected in a first information communication apparatus used by one of the users who share content, sharing space securement information for the selected user is generated and transmitted to the server. When sharing space connection information for accessing a sharing space, which is generated by the server based on the sharing space securement information, is received by the first information communication apparatus, the sharing space connection information transmitted to the second information communication apparatus used by the user who share the content.
US09251308B2	Simulation method, system, and program System and method for achieving reproducibility of a simulation operation while reasonably keeping an operation speed. A peripheral scheduler clears completion flags of all the peripheral emulators to thereby start parallel operations thereof. Then, based on processing break timing set for the individual peripheral emulators, the peripheral scheduler finds one of the peripheral emulators which is scheduled to reach a processing break at the earliest. The found peripheral emulator is referred to as a peripheral P. In a case where a time of the processing break of the peripheral P is T, the peripheral scheduler continues execution of processor emulators and plant simulators up until a time point of the time T. The peripheral scheduler waits for setting of a completion flag of the peripheral P. In response to the setting, the peripheral scheduler performs data synchronization among the peripheral P, the processor emulators, and the plant simulators.
US09251288B2	Thumbnail distribution system, server, client and program A thumbnail distribution system includes a client device and a server communicatable with each other by using a hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP). A client device includes a request generating unit, a request transmitting unit, a response receiving unit, and a data processing unit. The request generating unit generates an HTTP request having a request line storing a file name of a file store in a storing unit. The request transmitting unit transmits the HTTP request. The response receiving unit receives an HTTP response having a response body storing a thumbnail corresponding to the file having the file name stored in the request line. The data processing unit performs a data processing based on the thumbnail stored in the response body. The request receiving unit receives the HTTP request transmitted from the request transmitting unit. The response generating unit generates the HTTP response based on the HTTP request. The response transmitting unit transmits the HTTP response to the response receiving unit.
US09251269B2	Accounting for authorship in a web log search engine Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine is provided. The method includes receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query blog content and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query. The method additionally includes evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query and computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria. Finally, the method includes presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.
US09251262B1	Identifying media queries A computer device obtains a search query; obtains product search results based on the search query and a products search index that includes information regarding documents associated with products; determines a category associated with a set of result of the product search results; identifies candidate queries for the search query; determines whether the category matches one of the candidate queries; identifies that the search query is associated with a type of media identified by the category when the category matches one of the candidate queries; and provides, in response to identifying that the search query is associated with the type of media, a result document based on the type of media.
US09251261B2	Method and system for metadata driven testing of malware signatures Techniques are disclosed for evaluating the effectiveness of a malware signature. A query tool translates a markup language malware signature definition into a database query. The query is then executed against a database of application features to identify software packages that the signature would identify as malware. The results of the query are compared with threat information stored in the database and classified as being true/false positives and true/false negatives.
US09251257B2	Deleting a file on reading of the file A digital file may be stored on a storage device and deleted upon reading of the file. In one example, at least a portion of the stored file may be read, such as by a processor. In response to the reading of the stored file, at least part of the at least a portion of the stored file that has been read may be deleted. In further examples, the at least part of the at least a portion of the stored file may be deleted progressively while the stored file is being read, after a triggering event, or after a delay in time. According to another example, a user may provide an indication representative of the at least part of the at least a portion of the stored file that is to be deleted after the at least a portion of the stored file is read.
US09251254B2	Controlling the execution speed of a processor in an audio processing system This disclosure is directed to techniques for controlling the execution speed of a processor that executes audio processing algorithms. In some examples, the execution speed of the processor may be controlled based on one or more delay parameters that are obtained from querying one or more tasks that execute the audio processing algorithms. The delay parameters that are returned by the tasks in response to the queries may, in some examples, be dependent upon one or more algorithm-specific parameters that are used to configure the audio processing algorithms. The techniques of this disclosure may be used to reduce the amount of power consumed by a processor that is configured to execute one or more audio processing algorithms in an audio communication device, which may be particularly useful in audio communication devices where power resources are limited, such as, e.g., a mobile phone.
US09251253B2	Expeditious citation indexing Methods and systems for indexing patent related prior art citations are disclosed. Electronic documents can be obtained from one or more patent information systems. An OCR process can be performed on some of the electronic documents. Citations within the documents can be identified and compared to a trusted records list. The citations can be associated with one or more predetermined categories. For example, citations can be categorized into groups such as when a reference is cited (e.g., with original filing, pre and post allowance), who provided the reference (e.g., cited by the applicant, or the examiner), and how the reference is characterized (e.g., statutory basis, combination of references). The citations and corresponding categories can be output to a user or made available for subsequent processing.
US09251252B2	Context server for associating information based on context A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided for associating information (including information and services) based upon context. In one example, an apparatus includes interface logic for receiving, during a session (e.g., during a media object capture, upload session, data transfer session, or the like), context information from a user device, and user-generated information associated with the context information. The context information may relate to time, date, location, ambient conditions, biometric (e.g., relating to the user of the device), device/user identification, or combinations thereof. The apparatus further including association logic for associating service information, different from the context information, with the user-generated information based on the context information. The associated service information may include empirical information such as a map of a particular location, the map including points of interest.
US09251251B2	Dynamic language model Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for speech recognition. One of the methods includes receiving a base language model for speech recognition including a first word sequence having a base probability value; receiving a voice search query associated with a query context; determining that a customized language model is to be used when the query context satisfies one or more criteria associated with the customized language model; obtaining the customized language model, the customized language model including the first word sequence having an adjusted probability value being the base probability value adjusted according to the query context; and converting the voice search query to a text search query based on one or more probabilities, each of the probabilities corresponding to a word sequence in a group of one or more word sequences, the group including the first word sequence having the adjusted probability value.
US09251250B2	Method and apparatus for processing text with variations in vocabulary usage Text is processed to construct a model of the text. The text has a shared vocabulary. The text is partitioned into sets and subsets of texts. The usage of the shared vocabulary in two or more sets is different, and the topics of two or more subsets are different. A probabilistic model is defined for the text. The probabilistic model considers each word in the text to be a token having a position and a word value, and the usage of the shared vocabulary, topics, subtopics, and word values for each token in the text are represented using distributions of random variables in the probabilistic model, wherein the random variables are discrete. Parameters are estimated for the model corresponding to the vocabulary usages, the word values, the topics, and the subtopics associated with the words.
US09251248B2	Using context to extract entities from a document collection Described is using context information obtained from entity mentions in likely relevant documents to extract entity mentions from documents that are ambiguous with respect to their relevance to a domain. A list of entities is input into an entity extraction mechanism, which processes a large collection of documents to determine data (counts) corresponding to frequency of entity mentions. Infrequently mentioned entities are specific entities, while frequently mentioned entities are non-specific (generic or ambiguous) entities. The context surrounding mentions of the specific entities is processed to obtain interesting context terms (words, phrases or both) for the domain. The interesting context terms are then compared against the contexts of non-specific entity mentions to determine whether each non-specific entity mention is relevant to the domain. A result set containing only relevant documents or relevant mentions collection is output.
US09251247B2	Reporting including filling data gaps and handling uncategorized data A reporting system is described herein that allows a report author to declare data reporting structures that specify to a reporting application how to dynamically categorize data with changing or potentially unknown characteristics. The reporting system may extend RDL and the data grouping provided by Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services by adding new elements to the XML-based RDL schema. The reporting system allows the report author to specify for the system to fill gaps in the data, so that the report has a similar layout even as data changes from period to period. The reporting system also allows the report author to specify whether data that does not fit any predefined group bucket is displayed in a report. Thus, the reporting system allows unsophisticated database users to define reports that group data consistently regardless of missing values or other changes in the underlying data.
US09251245B2	Generating mappings between a plurality of taxonomies A method, a system and a computer program product create mappings between taxonomies in which documents are classified from a category of a taxonomy to one or more categories within a master taxonomy based on a statistical model and classification score values. The document classifications are analyzed to determine a mapping between the taxonomy category and a corresponding category of the master taxonomy, where the category is mapped to the corresponding category in the master taxonomy in response to sufficient classification score values for the documents.
US09251244B1	Method and system for generation of hierarchical search results The system receives a query and then identifies classifications of the data that may satisfy the received query. The system then displays the identified classifications. In response to selection of a displayed classification, the system displays sub-classifications when the selected classification has sub-classifications and displays the data within the classification when the selected classification has no sub-classifications. In another aspect, the system generates search results for items that are hierarchically classified. For classifications within the hierarchy of classifications, the system generates a search entry containing terms describing the items within that classification. The system then receives a search criteria. The system selects as initial search results those search entries whose terms most closely match the received search criteria. The system can then adjust the initial search results based on the hierarchy of classifications.

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