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US09439022B2	Playback device speaker configuration based on proximity detection Embodiments described herein involve configuring a playback device based on the detection of a barrier in proximity to the playback device. One embodiment may involve causing the playback device to play an audio content, where a first speaker of the playback device is arranged to output in a first direction and configured to play a component of the audio content; receiving proximity data that includes an indication of a barrier that is proximate to the playback device; detecting that the barrier is within a threshold proximity to the first speaker of the playback device; based on the detecting, causing the first speaker to be deactivated; and causing a second speaker of the playback device to play at least the component of the audio content, where the second speaker arranged to output in a second direction that is different from the first direction.
US09439021B2	Proximity detection using audio pulse Embodiments described herein involve configuring a playback device based on the detection of a barrier in proximity to the playback device. One embodiment may involve receiving proximity data that includes an indication of a barrier that is proximate to a playback device; detecting that the barrier is within a threshold proximity to a first speaker of the playback device based on the indication of the barrier that is proximate to the playback device; in response to the detecting, setting a playback configuration of the playback device; and causing the playback device to play an audio content according to the playback configuration.
US09439020B2	Audio signal processing unit and audio transmission system, in particular a microphone system The invention concerns an audio signal processing unit including a receiving unit adapted to receive at least a first audio signal and a pilot tone signal, a first audio signal amplifier adapted to obtain at least a second audio signal from an audio signal source by way of an audio signal input, and a pilot tone signal unit adapted to obtain the received pilot tone signal. The pilot tone signal unit is adapted to output a control signal in a first state if the pilot tone signal is received, and to output the control signal in a second state if the pilot tone signal is not received. The first audio signal amplifier is adapted to process the at least second audio signal in dependence on the state of the control signal.
US09439003B2	Uncomfortable sound pressure estimation system, uncomfortable sound pressure estimation processor, uncomfortable sound pressure estimation method, and computer program thereof An exemplary uncomfortable sound pressure estimation system includes an HTL section for receiving information of hearing threshold levels respectively for a plurality of frequencies; a UCL measurement determination section for determining at least two measurement points at which to measure uncomfortable sound pressures, the at least two measurement points defining a first and a second frequency concerning a first and a second hearing threshold level; a UCL measurement section for measuring uncomfortable sound pressures with respect to the at least two measurement points; a calculation section for calculating a criterion concerning auditory characteristics by using the respective hearing threshold levels and uncomfortable sound pressures for the at least two points; and a UCL estimation section for estimating an uncomfortable sound pressure at a frequency corresponding to a given acquired hearing threshold level, according to the predetermined criterion.
US09439002B2	Integrated package forming wide sense gap micro electro-mechanical system microphone and methodologies for fabricating the same A micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone is provided. The microphone includes: a package substrate having a port disposed through the package substrate, wherein the port is configured to receive acoustic waves; and a lid coupled to the substrate and forming a package. The MEMS microphone also includes a MEMS acoustic sensor disposed in the package and positioned such that the acoustic waves receivable at the port are incident on the MEMS acoustic sensor. The MEMS acoustic sensor includes: a back plate positioned over the port at a first location within the package; and a diaphragm positioned at a second location within the package, wherein a distance between the first location and the second location forms a defined sense gap, and wherein the MEMS microphone is designed to withstand a bias voltage between the diaphragm and the back plate greater than or equal to about 15 volts.
US09438993B2	Methods and devices to generate multiple-channel audio recordings Methods and devices to generate a multiple-channel audio recording are disclosed. An example method includes initiating a registration of a first device in response to determining that the first device is in a physical location of an event, sending first registration information to register the first device for the event, recording first audio via the first device, and sending the first audio for combination with second audio recorded via a second device.
US09438987B2	System with wireless earphones A system comprising a wireless earphone set and a client computing device, both of which are communicable with a host server via the Internet. The host server stores configuration parameters for the wireless earphone set that are transmittable to the wireless earphone set via the Internet, and that are configurable by an authenticated user of the client computing device via the host server to generate updated configuration parameters for the wireless earphone set. The updated configuration parameters for the wireless earphone set are transmitted by the host server to the wireless earphone set via the Internet.
US09438984B1	Wearable electronic pieces and organizer An organizer for wearable electronic pieces or wireless communication jewelry. The pieces may be of an enhanced ergonomic form, particularly suitable for long-term wear. For example, a uniquely located actuator may be provided and each piece may be configured to distribute a significant portion of its bulk away from the isolated location of a user's ear without sacrifice to audio or communicational integrity. Further, the securing extension that accommodates the actuator and secures the piece to the user's ear may occupy less than about 0.25 inches in width behind the user's ear. Additionally, the organizer manages unique protocols of recharge for a potential plurality of pieces. Additionally, charging takes place through a support mechanism which accommodates a discrete securing extension portion of a piece in a substantially matching fashion. Further, a casing of the piece is substantially displaced from the accommodating location. A charging device of the organizer is coupled to the support mechanism such that recharge of the piece may take place through a charge region of the discrete portion of the piece. Notably, the organizer is configured in such a manner that a plurality of pieces may be secured and recharged without the need for an individually dedicated and/or wire-based recharger for each and every piece in a collection of pieces.
US09438982B2	Systems and methods for detection of load impedance of a transducer device coupled to an audio device In accordance with systems and methods of the present disclosure, an audio device may include an electrical terminal, an audio circuit, and a transducer load detection circuit. The electrical terminal may couple a transducer device to the audio device. The audio circuit may generate an analog audio signal, wherein the analog audio signal is coupled to the electrical terminal. The transducer load detection circuit may detect a load impedance of the transducer device when the transducer device is coupled to the audio device from characteristics measured at the electrical terminal.
US09438979B2	MEMS sensor structure for sensing pressure waves and a change in ambient pressure A sensor structure, including: a first diaphragm structure, an electrode element, and a second diaphragm structure arranged on an opposite side of the electrode element from the first diaphragm structure is disclosed. The sensor structure may also include a chamber formed by the first and second diaphragm structures, where the pressure in the chamber is lower than the pressure outside of the chamber. A method for forming the sensor structure is likewise disclosed.
US09438973B2	Speaker A speaker includes a hollow casing, a vibration plate, a vibrator, a wireless communication unit, and a processor. The casing defines a receiving space. The vibration plate is secured to the casing, and includes a first portion received in the receiving space and a second portion protruding out of the casing. The vibrator is received in the receiving space and attached to the first portion. The processor is configured to control the vibrator to vibrate when the speaker receives a wireless signal via the wireless communication unit, thereby allowing the vibration plate to vibrate and output sound.
US09438972B2	Silicon based MEMS microphone, a system and a package with the same The present invention relates to a silicon based MEMS microphone, comprising a silicon substrate and an acoustic sensing part supported on the silicon substrate, wherein a mesh-structured back hole is formed in the substrate and aligned with the acoustic sensing part, the mesh-structured back hole includes a plurality of mesh beams which are interconnected with each other and supported on the side wall of the mesh-structure back hole, the plurality of mesh beams and the side wall define a plurality of mesh holes which all have a tapered profile and merge into one hole in the vicinity of the acoustic sensing part at the top side of the silicon substrate. The mesh-structured back hole can help to streamline the air pressure pulse caused, for example, in a drop test and thus reduce the impact on the acoustic sensing part of the microphone, and also serve as a protection filter to prevent alien substances such as particles entering the microphone.
US09438970B2	Detector remodulator and optoelectronic switch An optoelectronic packet switch comprising: switch input(s) for receiving optical packet signals; a passive optical router; a control unit; and a plurality of detector-remodulators (DRMs) configured to receive signals from the switch input(s) and to generate modulated optical signals for transmission to the input ports of the passive optical router. Each DRM comprising: detector(s) for converting an optical packet-signal received at the switch input(s) into an electrical packet-signal; modulator(s) for generating the modulated optical signals. Each modulator configured to: receive a wavelength-tuned input from a tunable laser; receive the electrical packet-signal from one of the detectors; and to generate a modulated optical signal at the tuned wavelength, the modulated signal containing the information of the electric packet-signal and the tuned wavelength chosen to select an output port of the passive optical router for the modulated optical signal; and an electronic circuit connecting each of the detector(s) to a corresponding modulator.
US09438969B2	Optical multiplexor switch for free space optical communication Device and method for optically switching a plurality of optical input signals include: receiving the plurality of optical input signals, wherein one or more of the optical input signals represent multiple channels at different channel frequencies; collimating the received plurality of optical input signals; removing noise between the channels by a comb filter; dispersing the collimated optical signals so that signals of different wavelength are separated by different angles; focusing the optical signals separated by different angles on a light switch device having a plurality of micromirrors; and controlling the light switch by a control signal to direct one or more of the optical signals separated by different angles to one or more output fibers for multicasting of the optical input signals.
US09438967B2	Display apparatus and control method thereof A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a signal reception configured to receive an image signal of content; a signal processor configured to process the image signal received by the signal reception according to a preset image processing process; a display configured to display a content image based on the image signal processed by the signal processor; a communicator configured to with a plurality of servers respectively providing a plurality of services related to the content; and a controller configured to display a keyword over the content image which is related to the content image displayed on the display, changing identifiers of the services related to the content on the display based on a preset user input with respect to the keyword being displayed, and being provided with the service related to the content based on the keyword from a server which corresponds to a selected identifier through selective input of the identifiers.
US09438963B2	Wireless audio transmission method and device A wireless audio transmission method and a device. The wireless audio transmission device includes: an audio processor that receives a digital audio signal from an external multimedia apparatus when the wireless audio transmission device is docked at the external multimedia apparatus, performing a predetermined signal processing operation of adding a sound effect to the received digital audio signal, and generating a composite signal; a wireless transmission processor to receive the composite signal generated by the audio processor and to convert the received composite signal into a wireless packet; and a wireless transmitter to modulate the wireless packet into an RF signal and to transmit the RF signal.
US09438948B1	AVN system having function of analyzing mirroring data and method of controlling mirroring data An AVN system of a vehicle includes a processor including a receiving unit that receives driving information of the vehicle, and receives mirroring data from an external wireless terminal through a wireless communication, a determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle is moving, based on the driving information, and determines a type of the mirroring data, whether the mirroring data are movie data or non-movie data, a control unit that, upon the determining unit determining that the vehicle is not moving, outputs the mirroring data as they are regardless of the type of the mirroring data, and upon the determining unit determining that the vehicle is moving, outputs the mirroring data as they are only when the mirroring data are the non-movie data, and an output unit that outputs the mirroring data to a display device.
US09438946B2	Methods and apparatus for device capabilities discovery and utilization within a content distribution network Methods and apparatus for determining and selecting digital coding and/or decoding technology, delivery bitrates, and resolution parameters for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE), and/or associated client devices, each having different display resolution, bitrate, and/or decoding capabilities profiles. The server determines the one or more capabilities possessed by the CPE or client device, and evaluates one or more program or content choices for possible delivery to that CPE or device based on its profile. The selection process may also take into consideration network and/or CPE operational considerations, such as conservation of downstream bandwidth, CPE uprating capability, client device power consumption, and the like.
US09438945B1	Method for continuously playing video clips without regeneration A method for continuously playing video clips without regeneration involves calling on clip records to be continuously played, making an index file according to the order of playback, during replay, finding out a game video of a current play node and its start position and end position, playing the game video to S second before an OUT point, starting to pre-read a video of the next play node and storing it in a memory, and when the current play node is played to its end, reading out the pre-read video from the memory and playing it, thereby achieving seamless playback.
US09438937B1	Video server that provides a user tailored video stream consistent with user input using content of a primary stream and an enhanced stream An enhanced stream associated with a primary stream can be selected. The enhanced stream can be time-synchronized to the primary stream. The enhanced stream can be associated with a secondary viewpoint linked to a primary viewpoint of the primary stream. The primary stream can be a broadcast signal of a digital television broadcast. The enhanced stream can be simultaneously presented on a secondary device and the primary stream on a primary device. The primary device can be a computing device and the secondary device can be a computing device.
US09438935B2	Hybrid video selection, delivery, and caching One or more devices, in a video content delivery network, store video content for one or more customer premise devices in a hierarchical storage, and provide real time video content from the hierarchical storage, via multicast or unicast, to the one or more customer premise devices. The one or more devices also provide non-real time video content from the hierarchical storage to the one or more customer premise devices during idle time periods associated with the network. The one or more devices further establish a license with the one or more customer premise devices to view video content in multiple formats, and establish a license with the one or more customer premise devices to view video content via multiple customer premise devices.
US09438933B2	Method and device for arithmetic coding of video, and method and device for arithmetic decoding of video Methods and apparatuses for arithmetic encoding/decoding of video data. The arithmetic decoding method includes arithmetically decoding prefix bit strings representing a two-dimensional location of a last significant coefficient in a block sequentially by using a context model, arithmetically decoding suffix bit strings in a bypass mode, and performing inverse binarization on the arithmetically decoded prefix bit strings and suffix bit strings to acquire the location of the last significant coefficient in the block.
US09438924B2	Video encoding apparatus, video decoding apparatus, video encoding method, and video decoding method A video encoding apparatus appends decoding delay correction information and display delay correction information to encoded video data in order to ensure that even when one or more pictures that are later in encoding order in the video data than a first picture that may potentially be spliced to a trailing end of other encoded video data have been discarded, the first picture and subsequent pictures in the encoded video data can be continuously decoded and displayed by a video decoding apparatus. The video decoding apparatus corrects the decoding delay and display delay of the first picture and its subsequent pictures by using the decoding delay correction information and display delay correction information.
US09438921B2	Video encoding method using offset adjustments according to pixel classification and apparatus therefor, video decoding method and apparatus therefor A video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus generate a restored image having a minimum error with respect to an original image based on offset merge information indicating whether offset parameters of a current block and at least one neighboring block from among blocks of video are identical.
US09438920B2	Picture encoding method, picture encoding apparatus, picture decoding method and picture decoding apparatus A picture encoding method includes: generating encoded data of a luminance component of a picture and encoded data of a first color difference component which has a first resolution; generating interpolated data by applying one of a plurality of upsampling filters to data obtained by decoding the encoded data of the first color difference component; calculating difference data by obtaining differences in corresponding pixels between the interpolated data and a second color difference component of the picture which has a second resolution higher than the first resolution; generating encoded data of the difference data; and generating a stream that contains filter information indicating the applied upsampling filter, the encoded data of the luminance component, the encoded data of the first color difference component, and the encoded data of the difference data.
US09438912B2	Video encoding/decoding methods, video encoding/decoding apparatuses, and programs therefor The computational complexity of a denoising filter is reduced while suppressing a reduction in coding efficiency. In a video encoding/decoding apparatus which uses a loop filter, a deviation degree calculating unit calculates the degree of deviation between a denoising target pixel and a surrounding pixel using a decoded image. A template shape setting unit limits a template shape so that its size is proportional to the degree of deviation relative to the maximum value of the degree of deviation in the decoded image. When noise of the target pixel is removed, weighted in accordance with the degree of similarity between a template of the target pixel and a template of each of search points in a search shape and the weighted sum of pixel values at the search points, the loop filter performs template matching using the limited template shape and removes noise of the target pixel.
US09438908B1	Motion vector interpolation based on true motion and layer information A method to produce a frame of video data includes receiving original frame true motion information, original frame object boundary information, and original frame layer information for at least two original frames of video data, and generating interpolation phase block-level motion and interpolation phase pixel-level layer information from the original frame block-level true motion information, original frame pixel-level object boundary information, and original frame pixel-level layer information for the original frame.
US09438904B2	Reduced look-up table for LM mode calculation A video codec comprising a processor configured to generate a prediction block for a chroma block, wherein the prediction block comprises a plurality of predicted chroma samples, wherein each of the plurality of predicted chroma samples is based on a first plurality of reconstructed luma samples located in a corresponding reconstructed luma block, a second plurality of reconstructed luma samples located in neighboring blocks of the corresponding reconstructed luma block, and a look-up table, wherein an index of the look-up table is based on the second plurality of reconstructed luma samples, wherein an index of the look-up table has less than 63 values.
US09438899B1	Statistically lossless compression system and method A statistically lossless transform (SLT) can be used with data (e.g., image data) to be compressed. Prior to compression, an SLT stabilizes the variance for a read noise+Poisson process. The SLT redistributes (image) data that has been quantized with a linear uniform quantizer and essentially assures there are no gaps in the output values (i.e., all output digital values are used). The SLT re-quantizes the data with a quantization interval width that is proportional to the standard deviation of the process.
US09438898B2	Reference picture lists modification Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed relating to modifications to reference picture lists used for multiple layer video coding. A bitstream that may include a reference picture list of a slice may be received. An indication to reposition a reference picture within the reference picture list from a first position to a second position may be received. An indication to insert a reference picture within the reference picture list at a position may be received. The reference picture may be repositioned and/or inserted in the reference picture list in response to receiving the indication. A reference picture previously associated with the position may be shifted in the reference picture list according to the indication to reposition and/or insert the reference picture, although an indication to reposition the reference picture previously associated with the position may not be received. The slice may be decoded using the reference picture list.
US09438894B2	Method of providing 3D image and 3D display apparatus using the same Provided are a three dimensional (3D) display apparatus, a method of setting up a graphic user interface (GUI) thereof, and 3D glasses. The method of providing a GUI of the 3D display apparatus operating in association with the 3D glasses includes receiving a signal including battery information from the 3D glasses, generating a GUI related to the battery information of the 3D glasses, using the battery information contained in the received signal, and displaying the generated GUI on a screen of the 3D display apparatus.
US09438888B2	Systems and methods for stereo imaging with camera arrays Systems and methods for stereo imaging with camera arrays in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating depth information for an object using two or more array cameras that each include a plurality of imagers includes obtaining a first set of image data captured from a first set of viewpoints, identifying an object in the first set of image data, determining a first depth measurement, determining whether the first depth measurement is above a threshold, and when the depth is above the threshold: obtaining a second set of image data of the same scene from a second set of viewpoints located known distances from one viewpoint in the first set of viewpoints, identifying the object in the second set of image data, and determining a second depth measurement using the first set of image data and the second set of image data.
US09438887B2	Depth measurement apparatus and controlling method thereof A depth measurement apparatus is adapted for acquiring a first and second image signals, calculating a correlation value for plural shift amounts, acquiring plural provisional shift amounts, reconstructing the first image signal using a filter corresponding to the provisional shift amounts, analyzing a contrast change by reconstruction, and determining depth on the basis of contrast analysis. The provisional shift amount is acquired by determining a first shift amount at which an extreme value of the correlation value is given, and a first range, which is a range of a predetermined shift amount including the first shift amount, into a plurality of second ranges, and acquiring provisional shift amounts for each of the second ranges.
US09438878B2	Method of converting 2D video to 3D video using 3D object models Method for converting 2D video to 3D video using 3D object models. Embodiments of the invention obtain a 3D object model for one or more objects in a 2D video scene, such as a character. Object models may for example be derived from 3D scanner data; planes, polygons, or surfaces may be fit to this data to generate a 3D model. In each frame in which a modeled object appears, the location and orientation of the 3D model may be determined in the frame, and a depth map for the object may be generated from the model. 3D video may be generated using the depth map. Embodiments may use feature tracking to automatically determine object location and orientation. Embodiments may use rigged 3D models with degrees of freedom to model objects with parts that move relative to one another.
US09438877B2	Disparity calculating device and distance calculating device A disparity calculating device 100 obtains a base image from a first camera 1 and a reference image from a second camera 2. An image dividing unit 101 divides each of the base image and reference image into multiple regions in accordance with dividing conditions set by a condition setting unit 102. A correction amount determining 103 calculates image shift amount for each of the divided regions, and determines correction amount based on the images shift amount thereof. A disparity calculating unit 104 performs correction of the image on each region of divided base images and divided reference images obtained from the image dividing unit 101 based on correction amount determined by the correction amount determining unit 103 to obtain disparity based on the images after correction.
US09438874B2	Image processing apparatus that is capable of correcting color shift, method of controlling the same, and storage medium An image processing apparatus capable of highly accurately detecting and correcting color shift of image data, caused by a chromatic difference of magnification. The image processing apparatus stores first color shift amount data including color shift amount information of the image data and accuracy information indicative of detection accuracy of the color shift. The image processing apparatus analyzes the image data to thereby determine second color shift amount data including color shift amount information of the image data and accuracy information indicative of detection accuracy of the color shift. The image processing apparatus corrects the color shift of the image data using the color shift amount information selected from the first and color shift amount data, based on the accuracy information included in the first color shift amount data and the accuracy information included in the second color shift amount data.
US09438866B2	Image sensor with scaled filter array and in-pixel binning Embodiments of an apparatus including a pixel array including a plurality of individual pixels grouped into pixel kernels having two or more individual pixels, wherein each pixel kernel includes a floating diffusion electrically coupled to all individual pixels in the kernel. A color filter array (CFA) is positioned over and optically coupled to the pixel array, the CFA comprising a plurality of tiled minimal repeating units, each including a plurality of scaled filters having a photoresponse selected from among two or more different photoresponses. Individual pixels within each pixel kernel are optically coupled to a scaled filter. Circuitry and logic coupled to the pixel array cause the apparatus to operate in a first mode wherein signals from a subset of individual pixels are individually transferred to their floating diffusion and read, resulting in a high-resolution, low-sensitivity sub-image and a second mode wherein signals from individual pixels in every pixel kernel are binned into the kernel's floating diffusion and read, resulting in a low-resolution, high-sensitivity image.
US09438859B2	Method and device for controlling a conference A method and communication system are disclosed for conducting a conference among sets of conference participants connected by a communication system. This system has at least one conference server, at least one image reproduction unit at each conference environment and at least one microphone at each conference environment. The method involves calculating respective virtual images of a majority of the conference environments, each virtual image containing at least one image corresponding to at least one conference participant who is present at that conference environment, calculating an aggregate representation of the virtual images of all conference environments and displaying the aggregate representation on at least one image reproduction unit. The method also calculates an individual representation for an individual conference participant and provides the individual participant with the individual representation while simultaneously providing to that individual the aggregate representation.
US09438845B2	System apparatus and device for facilitating network edge device backup and methods of operation thereof Disclosed is a system apparatus and device for facilitating backup of network edge devices, such as video cameras, and methods of operation thereof. A monitoring circuit(s) may detect inoperable electrical power condition(s) (IEPC) on the power-line of a network edge device. Upon detection of an IEPC, a backup power source may provide electrical power to the edge device. Upon detection of a connectivity fault between the edge device and its packet sink, a packet sink emulator may emulate a packet sink of the edge device.
US09438844B2	Video multiviewer system using direct memory access (DMA) registers and block RAM A video multiviewer system includes a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that includes a GPU memory. A video input module is operative with the GPU for receiving video data and transferring the video data to the GPU memory via a Direct Memory Access (DMA). A programmable circuit such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) includes a multi-ported and in one aspect a dual ported block Random Access Memory (RAM) configured for a plurality of DMA channels for receiving video data and allowing uninterrupted operation of consecutive DMA transfers of video data to the GPU memory. A display displays the multiple video windows based upon video data received within the GPU memory.
US09438835B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided which has a driving circuit operable to drive a circuit that has a delay, the semiconductor device including: an auxiliary driving circuit operable to accelerate drive of the driving circuit, which receives a drive signal of the driving circuit as an input signal.
US09438824B2	Video recording assembly A video recording assembly includes a cart that may be positioned on a support surface. A plurality of wheels is coupled to the cart. A track may be positioned on the support surface so the track extends between a starting point and an end point. A processor is coupled to the cart. A motor is coupled to the cart, the processor and the wheels. The motor may urge the cart along the support surface. A camera is coupled to the cart and the processor. The camera may record the athlete while the athlete is running. A sensor is coupled to the cart and the processor. The sensor may detect a motion of the athlete. A plurality of pins is coupled to the cart. The pins engage the track. The cart is guided between the starting and end points. The cart travels alongside the athlete when the athlete is running.
US09438818B2	Device and method for multimedia communications with picture orientation information Systems, devices, and methods for capturing and displaying picture data including picture orientation information are described. In one innovative aspect, a method for transmitting media information is provided. The method includes obtaining picture or video information, said picture or video information including image data and orientation information of a media capture unit when the picture or video information is obtained. The method further includes encoding said picture or video information, wherein the orientation information is included in a first portion and the image data is included in a second portion, the second portion being encoded and the first portion being distinct from the second portion. The method also includes transmitting the first portion and the second portion.
US09438812B2	Method for controlling exposure level of frame in image sensor, computer readable recording media for performing the method, and image processing system A method for controlling a frame exposure level, comprising: (a) determining a second integration time for the pixel array via a desired exposure level, and determining a second analog gain and a second digital gain via a desired total gain; (b) respectively applying the second analog gain and the second digital gain to amplify at least one second light sensing signal and at least one digital light sensing signal generated from the second light sensing signal; (c) computing a desired total gain for the third frame, and determining a third analog gain and a third digital gain via the desired total gain; and (d) respectively applying the third analog gain and the third digital gain to amplify at least one third light sensing signal and at least one digital light sensing signal generated from the third light sensing signal, and applying the second integration time to the pixel array.
US09438806B2	Photographing apparatus and photographing method for displaying combined avatar and map information related to a subject A digital camera includes: a display section displaying a photographing image obtained by photographing a subject; a signal processing and control section reading out information related to the subject and information related to surroundings of the subject from a database on the basis of position information and compass direction information about the digital camera; and a display control section selecting the information related to the subject according to the lens condition and performing control so as to display the selected information on the display section by superimposing the selected information on the photographing image.
US09438798B2	Systems and methods for combined staring and scanning focal plane arrays A combined scanning and staring (SCARING) focal plane array (FPA) imaging system having a plurality of modes of operation is provided. In one example, the SCARING FPA system includes a photodetector array with a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a plurality of photodetector rows, a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) coupled to the photodetector array, and a processor coupled to the ROIC. The processor coupled to the ROIC is configured to dynamically configure the SCARING FPA between a scanning mode of operation and a staring mode of operation.
US09438789B2	Display control apparatus and display control method A display control apparatus includes: a detection unit to detect touch operations; a display control unit to effect control such that a portion of an image is displayed on a display unit rather than an entire image; a portion changing unit to change a displayed portion of the image when a portion of the image is being displayed, according to a predetermined touch operation including moving of a touch position having been performed from outside of a predetermined region; and a control unit to effect control such that, when a portion of the image is being displayed, the displayed image is switched to a different image and a display portion of the different image is displayed on the display unit based on the display portion of the image before switching, according to the predetermined touch operation including moving of a touch position having been performed from outside the predetermined region.
US09438788B2	Information processing device and storage medium There is provided an information processing device including a storage control unit that causes shooting parameters to be stored, a change instruction unit that transmits an instruction to change the shooting parameters, and a change processing unit that, in response to the instruction from the change instruction unit, changes the shooting parameters without relying on a surrounding environment. The instruction from the change instruction unit does not indicate content of the change in the shooting parameters, but instructs execution of the change.
US09438783B2	Automatic tracking control apparatus for camera apparatus and automatic tracking camera system having same An automatic tracking control apparatus for a camera apparatus having a panning or tilting function, comprising an object recognition unit to recognize an object in picked-up image, a tracking object setting unit to set the recognized object as tracking object, an output position setting unit to set a position in the image for outputting the image of the tracking object, a control computing unit to output drive signal to locate the tracked object at the output position, and an image output unit to output an image in which an indication of the tracking object is superimposed on the image. Automatic tracking is suspended to change the position of the tracking object in the image by the output position setting unit, and automatic tracking is restarted by outputting a drive signal for driving the camera apparatus to locate the tracked object at the output position.
US09438781B2	Light emitting device having function for protection against static electricity, and image pickup apparatus A mechanism excellent in assembly workability of a light emitting device and capable of stably protecting a soldered portion between a lead wire and the electrode part of a flash discharge tube against static electricity. A strobe panel scatters light emitted by the flash discharge tube. A strobe base holds the strobe panel. A strobe cover is attached to the strobe base in a manner covering the flash discharge tube and the strobe panel. An elastic case shields between a gap between the strobe base and the strobe cover meet and the electrode part of the flash discharge tube, and between another gap between the strobe base and the strobe panel and the electrode part of the flash discharge tube. A non-conductive elastic adhesive is filled between the elastic case and the electrode part in a manner sealing the electrode part.
US09438776B2	Position detection apparatus A position detection apparatus includes an autofocus mechanism and an optical image stabilization mechanism by using a closed loop control, in which a magnet is commonly used as an autofocus magnet and an optical image stabilization magnet to achieve downsizing. The position detection apparatus includes the autofocus mechanism that moves a lens along an optical axis (Z axis) of the lens, and the optical image stabilization mechanism that moves the lens in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis. A permanent magnet is secured to the lens, and moves according to the movement of the lens. The amount of movement thereof is detected by position sensors. The permanent magnet for autofocus used in the autofocus mechanism and the permanent magnet for optical image stabilization used in the optical image stabilization mechanism is provided in the vicinity of the lens for common use.
US09438771B2	Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image pickup system, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus (100) includes a detection unit (102) configured to detect a first region in which one of a signal level of a color plane corresponding to at least one color filter of an image acquired from an image pickup element including a plurality of color filters and a signal level of a brightness plane generated from the image monotonically increases or monotonically decreases in a first direction in a predetermined section, a determination unit (103) configured to determine a second region in which color bleeding occurs, based on optical information on the color bleeding of an image pickup optical system and information on the first region, and a correction unit (104) configured to correct the image so as to reduce the color bleeding.
US09438768B2	Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image processing method and information storage medium The invention is directed to a reduction in the influence on a pathological diagnosis when an image reading apparatus is exchanged. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, there is provided an image processing apparatus that processes a biological image generated by capturing an image of a biological specimen in an image reading apparatus, including: an acquisition unit that acquires identification information of the image reading apparatus; a determination unit that determines a type of biological tissue included in the biological image; and a correction unit that adds a correction process to the biological image in correspondence with the identification information of the image reading apparatus and the type of biological tissue.
US09438764B2	Information processing apparatus which extracts a character string from a file name and collates it with address book information An information processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention acquires a file from a file generation apparatus and also acquires address book information including a facsimile number from an apparatus having a facsimile function. Then, the information processing apparatus extracts a character string from a predetermined position in a file name of the acquired file and collates the extracted character string with the acquired address book information to identify a facsimile number of a transmission destination of the acquired file.
US09438763B2	Image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus is disclosed. An image capturing section captures an image of light and obtains image data. An image display section displays the image data obtained by the image capturing section with a predetermined number of pixels. A storage section stores the image data obtained by the image capturing section. An interface section is connectable to an external storage device. A control section causes the image data obtained by the image capturing section to be stored to the external storage device connected through the interface section, when the captured image data are stored to the external storage device, the image data whose number of pixel exceeds the predetermined number of pixels to be converted into image data having the predetermined number of pixels, and the converted image data to be stored to the storage section.
US09438759B2	Method and system for adjusting depth values of objects in a three dimensional (3D) display A method of setting a plurality of depth values of a plurality of objects in a scene. The method comprises providing an image dataset depicting a scene comprising a plurality of objects having a plurality of depth values with a plurality of depth differences thereamong, selecting a depth range, simultaneously adjusting the plurality of depth values while maintaining the plurality of depth differences, the adjusting being limited by the depth range, and instructing the generation of an output image depicting the scene so that the plurality of objects having the plurality of adjusted depth values.
US09438752B1	Image reading device and image forming apparatus for detecting dirt at a document reading position An image reading device includes: a document conveyance section configured to convey an original document placed on a document loading chute; an original glass plate allowing the document conveyed from the document conveyance section to pass thereover; a reading unit that includes a light-emitting part including first, second, and third light sources and configured to emit light toward the document at a predetermined document reading position and a light-receiving part configured to receive light reflected on the document; a housing including a hollow letting part of light from the light-emitting part out of the image reading device; a foreign matter detecting section configured to detect a foreign matter on the original glass plate; and an operation control section configured to control the operation of the light-emitting part and, upon detection of the foreign matter, allow the light-emitting part to emit light in a different color from when reading the document.
US09438741B2	Spoken tags for telecom web platforms in a social network Techniques for assigning a spoken tag in a telecom web platform are provided. The techniques include receiving a spoken tag, comparing the spoken tag to a set of one or more template tags, if the spoken tag is a match to a template tag, assigning the spoken tag and updating frequency of the tag in the set of one or more template tags, and if the spoken tag is not a match to a template tag, assigning the spoken tag and registering the spoken tag as a new tag in the set of one or more template tags.
US09438739B2	Methods and apparatus for transferring an established communication session in a telecommunications network Measures for transferring an established communication session in a telecommunications network, the communication session being established between one of a plurality of communication clients associated with a user and a remote device associated with a remote party. At a call control system located in the signaling path for the established communication session, a communication session transfer request is received from a device associated with the user, the communication session transfer request having been generated by and transmitted from the device. Transfer of the established communication session from the one communication client in the plurality of communication clients to another communication client in the plurality of communication clients is initiated at the call control system. The transfer is conducted on the basis of a preconfigured data set, specific to the user, identifying one or more of the plurality of communication clients associated with the user.
US09438733B2	Methods and systems for data transfer and campaign management An online and offline communication processing and tracking using data processing and data/voice networks is described. A phone address from a phone address number pool is automatically assigned to a first entity. A call quality rating is determined and recorded. A call from a caller directed to the phone address is received at a call bridging system coupled to at least one network, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. Based at least in part on the call quality associated with the caller call, the caller call is assigned to a first location in a call queue. An outbound call is generated from the call bridging system and the inbound and the outbound calls are bridged. One or more parameters of the bridged call are compared to the call quality rating. An indication is recorded regarding the successful bridging of the calls in association with an entity identifier.
US09438728B2	Telephone number grouping service for telephone service providers An existing telephone service provider network may be adapted to associate a single telephone number with multiple telephone service user devices. The multiple provisioned telephone numbers may be grouped such that service activity originating from a device associated with one of the grouped telephone numbers appears to originate from a selected (and possibly different) one of the grouped telephone numbers, and such that service activity destined for a device associated with one of the grouped telephone numbers may be forwarded to one or more and/or each of the devices associated with the grouped telephone numbers. Any suitable set of provisioned telephone numbers may be grouped including, but not limited to, a set of two provisioned telephone numbers.
US09438727B2	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.
US09438724B2	Notification and troubleshooting of interruptions, failures, and updates Aspects of notification and troubleshooting of interruptions, failures, and updates are described. In one embodiment, a customer premises equipment (CPE) device determines a status of the CPE device, which may include a status of connectivity with a service provider. When the status indicates an error, a type of the error may be identified and a message selected for audible playback by the CPE device. The CPE device may further ring a telephonic device, to alert a user and playback the message to the user. The message may indicate that a connectivity error exists and, in some cases, assist the user to troubleshoot the error. In other aspects, the CPE device may receive an update from the service provider and ring the telephonic device, to advise the user of upgraded functions or features, for example, or provide a promotional message.
US09438722B2	Mobile telephone device A mobile telephone device provided with a video display mode displaying a video based on video data, and a telephone mode, includes: a display screen; a speaker; a memory for storing first display setting information and first sound setting information in the video display mode and second display setting information and second sound setting information in the telephone mode, wherein the second display setting information is configured to be set by a user input to provide a luminance that is greater than zero; and a processor configured to control the display module and the sound output module based on the first display setting information and the first sound setting information during the video display mode, and configured to control the display module and the sound output module based on the second display setting information and the second sound setting information during the telephone mode.
US09438718B2	Method for selecting and configuring wireless connections in an electronic device A method and apparatus for selecting and configuring Bluetooth connections in an Electronic device. A graphical user interface is displayed upon an electronic device. A current network profile is selected from multiple available Bluetooth network profiles displayed by the graphical user interface. When a current network profile is selected, the associated connection profile for the current network is automatically displayed. The electronic device is then connected to the current network by communicatively coupling with a Bluetooth wireless device coupled with the current network.
US09438694B1	Managing page-level usage data Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate management and monitoring of page-level usage data. Specifically, a client computing device may retrieve content from a remote system for local display. A local interaction monitoring component may monitor local interaction with the content, and transmit local interaction information to the remote system. In one embodiment, interaction may be monitored with regard to predefined portions of the content. In another embodiment, interaction may be transmitted to the remote server for processing, in order to generate page-level usage data. In still more embodiments, page level-usage data may be processed or formatted in order to facilitate ease of retrieval and display. In yet more embodiments, the remote system may enable clients, such as administrators, to view aggregate page-level usage data why viewing a corresponding content.
US09438692B2	Identity and policy enforced inter-cloud and intra-cloud channel Techniques for identity and policy enforced cloud communications are presented. Cloud channel managers monitor messages occurring within a cloud or between independent clouds. Policy actions are enforced when processing the messages. The policy actions can include identity-based restrictions and the policy actions are specific to the messages and/or clouds within which the messages are being processed.
US09438684B2	Automatic population of a network accessible content collection A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for automatically posting content to a network accessible content collection are described. User activity over a communication network from a client device is tracked and a triggering event is detected. In response to detecting the triggering event, a content item is automatically posted to a network accessible collection of content items viewable by additional users.
US09438683B2	Router-host logging According to a general aspect, a method includes receiving, at a network interface device at a user location, a request from a first machine located at the user location, the request including a first-machine identifier and a request to access through the network interface device a first location on a network. The method also includes logging, at the network interface device, the request from the first machine into a first-machine log for requests from the first machine, the logging into the first-machine log being based on the first-machine identifier. The method also includes receiving at the network interface device a request from a second machine located at the user location, the request from the second machine including a second-machine identifier and a request to access through the network interface device a second location on the network, and the network interface device, the first machine, and the second machine being located at a user location. The method further includes logging, at the network interface device, the request from the second machine into a second-machine log for all requests from the second machine, the logging into the second-machine log being based on the second-machine identifier.
US09438679B2	Method, apparatus, name server and system for establishing FCOE communication connection Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for establishing an FCoE communication connection and a name server. According to a WWN world wide name identifier of a target to be accessed, a destination MAC address used to access the target to be accessed is acquired. According to the destination MAC address, a login operation is performed for the target to be accessed, to establish an FCoE fiber channel over Ethernet communication connection, so that an FCoE initiator may directly establish a communication connection with an FCoE target, thereby reducing data transmission delay and lightening the processing load of an original FCoE forwarder.
US09438678B2	Methods and systems for appliance community service management A method and system for networking a plurality of appliances. The method and system include providing an appliance on a network, controlling operation of the appliance with a microcontroller, storing on a memory coupled with the microcontroller, computer executable instructions for operating the appliance, sensing the operation of the appliance, displaying information regarding the operation of the appliance, and communicating the operational data on a network. Network connectivity includes communication directly with a network, and with another appliance. A host system is connected to the network and adapted to receive the usage data and to transmit data to the appliance to influence operation of the appliance.
US09438672B2	Method for client specific database change propagation A new method is provided for a database client to interact with a database server that allows the client to observe all changes happening in the server. Using this method is efficient to aggregate changes at the database record level before delivering them to the client. The method can also ensure exactly-once delivery of every change to the client. This method is implemented in the database server by a new data structure that maintains all database pages being modified on a linked list. Any database can incorporate this method to provide this aggregated, exactly-once change observation functionality.
US09438671B2	System and method of managing pairing information associated with peer-to-peer device pairings Systems and methods of managing pairing information associated with peer-to-peer device pairings are disclosed herein. The pairing information can include link keys or other configuration data associated with eh peer-to-peer device pairing. The system can detect that a first electronic device has paired with a second electronic device via a peer-to-peer device pairing connection. The first electronic device can store pairing information associated with the peer-to-peer device pairing. The system can determine when the peer-to-peer device pairing terminates. For example, the system can determine that a peer-to-peer activity has terminated, that a timeout period has elapsed, or any other event indicative of a termination of a peer-to-peer device pairing. In response to the determination that the peer-to-peer device pairing terminates, the system can delete the pairing information, thereby efficiently utilizing the storage medium of the first computing device.
US09438660B2	Method and system for distributing art An art distribution system for distributing art to multiple display devices within an environment. The art distribution system provides a technique for specifying images to be displayed in an environment. The art distribution system provides a hierarchical representation of spaces within the environment. Each space may be further subdivided into subspaces. The art distribution system allows a user to select a space within the hierarchy and then to select an image that is to be displayed at the display devices within the selected space. The art distribution system then displays the selected image within the space including within all subspaces of the selected space. The art distribution system may allow a subsequent assignment of the image to a subspace to override within that subspace the previous selection of an image for the space.
US09438659B2	Systems for serving website content according to user status An example embodiment of a system for accelerating hosting performance may comprise one or more databases and one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network. For each of one or more web applications hosted on the one or more servers, the one or more databases may store a signature comprising a regular expression pattern indicating a status of a user of the web application. The status of the user may further indicate that the one or more servers and/or web applications are able to perform one or more actions. The one or more servers may determine whether the request includes a browser cookie. If so, the one or more proxy servers may determine whether the browser cookie matches the regular expression pattern for that web application. If the browser cookie matches the regular expression pattern, the user will be considered authenticated and the request for action will be processed accordingly.
US09438657B2	Efficient video delivery Efficient video delivery is disclosed. In some embodiments, at least a part of a video stream received from a video source is converted to a dividable video format file. The dividable video format file is split into a sequence of small files, and one or more of the sequence of small files is published.
US09438652B2	Tiered content streaming Techniques for providing live content at different quality levels to a user device include advertising content availability at multiple quality levels for selection by the user device, receiving a quality level selection from the user device, wherein the quality level selection matches one of the advertised multiple quality levels, determining whether the received quality level selection differs from a currently used quality level, when it is determined that the received quality level selection is different from the currently used quality level, reconfiguring a transcoder to transcode the live content to only the received quality level, and updating a metafile to include a first quality level at a first bitrate lower than a bitrate for the received quality level selection and a second quality level at a second bitrate higher than the bitrate for the received quality level selection.
US09438648B2	Industrial data analytics in a cloud platform Cloud-aware industrial devices feed robust sets of data to a cloud-based data analyzer that executes as a service in a cloud platform. In addition to industrial data generated or collected by the industrial devices, the devices can provide device profile information to the cloud-based analyzer that identifies the device and relevant configuration information. The industrial devices can also provide customer data identifying an owner of the industrial devices, contact information for the owner, active service contracts, etc. The cloud-based data analyzer leverages this information to perform a variety of custom analytics on the data and generate reports or notifications catered to the particular industrial assets' optimal performance and business goals of the owner's industrial enterprise, as well as perform real-time decision making and control.
US09438645B2	Correlating computing network events According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for correlating computing network events is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a plurality of events at an event manager residing on a host computing system; identifying a first resource associated with a first event; identifying a second resource associated with a second event; determining whether the first resource is associated with a deployment pattern; determining whether the second resource is associated with a deployment pattern; and responsive to determining that the first and second resources are each associated with a deployment pattern, correlating the first and second events responsive to the first and second resources being associated with a common deployment pattern.
US09438643B2	Multi-device conference participation In one embodiment a method includes connecting a primary video conference client device (PVCCD) to a video conference session; allocating: at least a first presentation segment of the video conference session to be presented by the PVCCD, and also allocating at least a second presentation segment of the video conference session to be presented by at least one secondary video conference client device (SVCCD), receiving a data stream associated with at least the first presentation segment, and presenting the first presentation segment on the PVCCD.
US09438642B2	Methods for coordinating communications between a plurality of communication devices of a user A communication device performs a method for coordinating communications between a plurality of communication devices of a user. The method includes detecting an active communication session on a primary communication device having user engagement, and determining a set of secondary communication devices in proximity to the user. The method further includes detecting an interruption event, at the primary communication device, during the active communication session. Additionally, the method includes determining that a first secondary communication device, in the set of secondary communication devices, has capability to process the interruption event, and transferring the interruption event to the first secondary communication device.
US09438641B2	State machine profiling for voice over IP calls An apparatus and method for detecting potentially-improper call behavior (e.g., SPIT, etc.) are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on finite-state machines (FSMs) that represent the legal states and state transitions of a communications protocol at a node during a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a library of FSM execution profiles associated with improper call behavior is maintained. When there is a match between the behavior of a finite-state machine during a call and an execution profile in the library, an alert is generated.
US09438640B2	Method and apparatus for minimizing application delay by pushing application notifications A method for minimizing application initialization delay comprising sending, from a privileged application executing on a mobile device, a registration message to a server, receiving, at the privileged application, a response message from the server, extracting, from the response message, application information and notifying the mobile device of the application information.
US09438618B1	Threat detection and mitigation through run-time introspection and instrumentation A system and method for threat detection and mitigation through run-time introspection. The system and method comprising receiving a request to monitor a computing environment. Based on the received request, the system and method further includes determining a set of introspection points for monitoring the computing environment. receive a request to monitor a computing environment, measuring at individual introspection points of the set of introspection points to obtain a set of measurements, generating a graph of a set of resources in the computing environment, wherein the graph correlates individual resources in the set of resources to other resources based on at based at least in part on the set of measurements, and determining whether to perform a security action based at least in part on whether an evaluation of the graph indicates a threat to the computing environment.
US09438615B2	Security risk management Among other things, traces are received of activities of an online user who is associated with an entity. By analysis of the traces a security state of the entity is inferred. Also, a map is generated between (a) technical assets that contribute to security characteristics of respective entities and (b) the identities of the entities that are associated with the respective technical assets. At least part of the generating of the map is done automatically. A user can be engaged to assist in the generating of the map by presenting to the user through a user interface (a) data about the technical assets of entities and (b) an interactive tool for associating the technical assets with the identities of the entities.
US09438611B2	Managing a blocked-originator list for a messaging application Managing a blocked-originator list for a messaging application, including: detecting, by a list management module, a list management initiation event for a blocked-originator list, the blocked-originator list including a plurality of originators from which incoming messages are blocked; determining a number of entries in a blocked-originator list; determining a maximum number of entries in the blocked-originator list; determining whether the number of entries in the blocked-originator list is equal to the maximum number of entries in the blocked-originator list; and responsive to determining that the number of entries in the blocked-originator list is equal to the maximum number of entries in the blocked-originator list: deleting an entry from the blocked-originator list in dependence upon entry removal rules; and adding the new entry to the blocked-originator list.
US09438609B2	Device verification prior to registration Embodiments are directed to registering a device to receive notifications. In one scenario, a computer system receives a notification registration request from a computing device. The computer system generates a registration secret which includes identification information that uniquely identifies the computing device, and sends the generated registration secret including the information that uniquely identifies the computing device to a notification service. The computer system receives a hash value from the computing device, where the hash value is generated based on the identification information of the generated registration secret. The computer system computes another hash value based on the identification information of the received registration secret to determine whether the second hash value matches the first hash value, and upon determining that the second hash value matches the first hash value, the computer system registers the computing device to receive notifications from the notification service.
US09438605B2	Determining response signature commonalities An analyzer can obtain data regarding signal characteristics in each of multiple communication channels within an access network. The analyzer can use that data to create signatures corresponding to each of the multiple channels. Based on similarities between signatures, the analyzer may then identify clusters of signatures associated with devices that share channels or portions of channels.
US09438602B2	Evolving rule based contact exchange Methods and systems are described for managing a user's contact data which use evolving sequential sets of rules where the applicability of each set depends upon adherence or proper application of a prior set. In an embodiment, an initial set of restrictions are generated based on input from a first user, the restrictions relating to contact made by a second user to the first user. These initial restrictions are subsequently modified in response to the second user contacting the first user based on the contact made and a characteristic of the contact. The methods may apply to any form of contact between the first and second users and in an embodiment applies to contact made by the second user to a cellular telephone number belonging to the first user.
US09438600B2	Apparatus and methods for distributing and storing electronic access clients Apparatus and methods for efficiently distributing and storing access control clients within a network. In one embodiment, the access clients include electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs), and an eSIM distribution network infrastructure is described which enforces eSIM uniqueness and conservation, distributes network traffic to prevent “bottle necking” congestion, and provides reasonable disaster recovery capabilities. In one variant, eSIMs are securely stored at electronic Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) appliances which ensure eSIM uniqueness and conservation. Access to the eUICC appliances is made via multiple eSIM depots, which ensure that network load is distributed. Persistent storage is additionally described, for among other activities, archiving and backup.
US09438596B2	Systems and methods for secured global LAN This invention relates to a method and a network device for establishing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) among Local Area Networks (LANs). The method uses a cloud controller that has a static IP address to control a plurality of network devices. The method comprises receiving, at the cloud controller, messages indicative of dynamic public network addresses associated with the first and second network devices; pre-assigning, at the cloud controller, the first and second network devices to an account maintained by the cloud controller; and sending an authorization message to the dynamic public network addresses associated with the first and second network devices to authorize the first and second network devices to establish a virtual network comprising two private networks to which the first and second network devices belong.
US09438595B2	Network resource access control methods and systems using transactional artifacts Methods and systems are provided for use with digital data processing systems to control or otherwise limit access to networked resources based, at least in part, on transactional artifacts and/or derived artifacts.
US09438594B2	Method and apparatus for establishing tunnel data security channel Sending an authentication request message to an authentication device, receiving an authentication response message sent by the authentication device, where the authentication response message includes a trust relationship information element which is used for indicating a trust relationship of a current access, and establishing an S2c tunnel security association according to the trust relationship of the current access. The trust relationship when the non-3GPP access side accesses the EPS network may be obtained, thereby ensuring establishment of a correct S2c tunnel security data channel.
US09438592B1	System and method for providing unified transport and security protocols The system and method described herein may provide unified transport and security protocols. In particular, the unified transport and security protocols may include a Secure Frame Layer transport and security protocol that includes stages for initially configuring a requester device and a responder device, identifying the requester device and the responder device to one another, and authenticating message frames communicated between the requester device and the responder device. Additionally, the unified transport and security protocols may further include a Secure Persistent User Datagram Protocol that includes modes for processing message frames received at the requester device and the responder device, recovering the requester device in response to packet loss, retransmitting lost packets sent between the requester device and the responder device, and updating location information for the requester device to restore a communications session between the requester device and the responder device.
US09438587B2	System and method for user authentication Disclosed are a system and method for controlling a user log in and log out process. The system may include the use of a near field communication (“NFC”) transmitter, a Bluetooth transmitter, or an RFID transmitter worn or carried by the user, such as by embedding the transmitter in a fob, bracelet or ID badge, and a receiver, which may be connected to the computer, which receives user data from the transmitter. The computer may be equipped with software modules (e.g., an operating system or application) that would extract user data from the receiver in order to manage the log in and log out process based on the location of the user.
US09438583B2	Certificate generation method, certificate generation apparatus, information processing apparatus, and communication device A certificate generation method executed by a computer, includes receiving specific information and configuration information of a communication device collected by an information processing apparatus, the specific information and the configuration information being transmitted from the communication device provided with the information processing apparatus having tamper resistance; determining a communication address of the communication device based on the specific information if a combination of the received specific information and the received configuration information of the communication device is equivalent to information stored beforehand in a storage unit; generating an electronic certificate including a part of or all of the specific information and the configuration information, and the determined communication address; and transmitting the electronic certificate to the communication device.
US09438581B2	Authenticating data at a microcontroller using message authentication codes A system and method of verifying data at a microcontroller using message authentication codes (MACs) includes generating at a microprocessor of the microcontroller a valid MAC using valid data; transmitting the valid MAC to a peripheral of the microcontroller along with the valid data; receiving an authentication message at the microprocessor from the peripheral in response to transmitting the valid MAC; generating at the microprocessor an invalid MAC, which is created by changing one or more bits of the valid MAC; transmitting the invalid MAC to the peripheral along with the valid data in response to the authentication message; and receiving a second authentication message at the microprocessor from the peripheral in response to transmitting the invalid MAC.
US09438578B2	Digital communication biometric authentication A biometric authentication system is disclosed that provides authentication capability using biometric data in connection with a challenge for parties engaging in digital communications such as digital text-oriented, interactive digital communications. End-user systems may be coupled to devices that include biometric data capture devices such as retina scanners, fingerprint recorders, cameras, microphones, ear scanners, DNA profilers, etc., so that biometric data of a communicating party may be captured and used for authentication purposes.
US09438577B2	Query interface to policy server A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.
US09438576B2	Apparatus and method for validation and authorization of device and user by global positioning and non-prompted exchange of information An authorization and validation system and method for mobile financial transactions uses (1) historic Global Positioning System (GPS) and time at specific locations and (2) both visible and invisible prompts to allow access to assets and performance of financial transactions. Said system and method also determines when the mobile device, tablet or smart phone, is lost or is operated by an impersonator. Special attention is devoted when said system is engaged in determining whether the user is under threat or not.
US09438572B2	Establishing a device-to-device communication session A method is disclosed for establishing a device-to-device communication session between mobile devices (MD1, MD2) which are mutually connectable via a D2D communication channel (DDC) and individually connectable to a mobile network (MN), comprising: preloading (120) an initiation key on each of the mobile devices (MD1, MD2), the initiation key being associated with a validity period; and on each of the mobile devices (MD1, MD2), verifying (140) a validity of the initiation key based on a current time; if the initiation key is deemed valid, generating (160) a session key using the initiation key by using the initiation key in performing (164, 166) a key agreement procedure between the mobile devices (MD1, MD2) over the D2D communication channel (DDC), the key agreement procedure resulting in the session key if the initiation key used by each of the mobile devices matches; and establishing (180) the D2D communication session over the D2D communication channel (DDC) based on the session key.
US09438571B2	Securely connecting control device to target device In an approach, a target computing device receives a pairing request from a controller computing device, the pairing request including controller credentials that were previously received by the controller computing device from an authentication server computer and encrypted under a service key. The target computing device forwards the pairing request to the authentication server, the authentication server computer being configured to return a pairing response based at least in part on the controller credentials. The target computing device receives the pairing which includes a shared secret encrypted under a target device key and the same shared secret encrypted under a controller key. The target computing device decrypts the shared secret encrypted under the target device key and forwards the shared secret encrypted under the controller key to the controller device. Using the decrypted shared secret, the target computing device establishes a secure connection to the controller computing device.
US09438569B2	Secured embedded data encryption systems Devices generate security vectors based on their own attributes. A device's security vectors compose its transformation matrix. The devices securely share copies of their transformation matrices with other devices. A transmitting device adds its unique MAC to packets, encrypts those packets using its own transformation matrix, and transmits those packets. A receiving device uses its copy of the transmitting device's transformation matrix to decrypt the data in a packet, determining whether a MAC extracted from that packet matches the transmitting device's MAC. The receiving device can permit or prevent further processing of the packet's data depending on whether the MACs match. Each device can store a copy of a same program that can be used to derive derivative security vectors from existing security vectors. Each device in the network can derive the same set of derivative vectors for any selected other device in the network, thereby “evolving” the transformation matrices.
US09438564B1	Managing pooled VPN proxy servers by a central server A method, system and computer program product for managing pooled VPN proxy servers by a central server is provided. The method includes receiving information from a plurality of computers wherein the information received is used for registering, with a central server, the respective computer as a VPN proxy server. The method also includes receiving a request from a client device for a VPN proxy server and sending a list of registered VPN proxy servers to the client device.
US09438556B1	Flexibly configurable remote network identities A network gateway is implemented on behalf of a customer entity. The network gateway may be implemented using a distributed computer system and the network gateway may connect a network of the customer entity to a public communications network. The network gateway may include network-related services without the need for adding specialized hardware. The network gateway may be provisioned programmatically in response to instructions received from the customer entity. The network gateway may be provisionable and accessible over several different types of data connections. The network gateway, by virtue of being implemented on a distributed computer system, is scalable upon demand without additional input by the customer entity.
US09438555B2	Communicating with a distribution system via an uplink access point The present disclosure discloses a system and method for communicating with a distribution system via an uplink access point. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive, at a first network device, an original packet from a client device; identify a source MAC address of the original packet as a MAC address of the client device; identify an IP address of the original packet as an IP address of the client device; generate a modified packet from the original packet by changing the source MAC address from the MAC address of the client device to a MAC address of the first network device; preserve the IP address in the modified packet to be the IP address of the client device; and forward the modified packet from the first network device to a second network device.
US09438554B2	Cross platform messaging Described herein are methods and systems for displaying an email conversation similar to an instant message format by integrating aspects of an email system with an instant messaging interface. In one aspect, messages may be sent over existing email channels using email protocols through email servers and an email system (e.g., email client and/or email server) may identify the messages as cross-platform messages (CPM) based on whether the message body includes either no or only predefined content, or the message includes a predefined unique identifier. If a message is identified as a CPM then the message is treated similar to an instant message and may be displayed in a threaded view. In some embodiments, messages having content in the body may be treated as conventional email messages.
US09438552B2	Messaging for notification-based clients The claimed subject matter provides a method for communicating with a client. The method includes receiving a notification token that identifies the client. The method further includes registering the client to receive a message when the client is not connected to the server. The method also includes sending the message to the client when the client does not have a connection to the server, based on the registering and the notification token. The message may be sent using a notification channel.
US09438551B1	Preventing a user from missing unread documents According to one exemplary embodiment, a processor-implemented method for informing a user that an important unread email (IUE) will be removed from an online communication inbox, wherein the IUE is a high priority email determined by an algorithm is provided. The method may include determining, by the processor, if the online communication inbox associated with the user has received the IUE. The method may also include determining if an email removal event associated with the received IUE will occur within a threshold time. The method may then include displaying a notification to the user of the email removal event based on determining that the email removal event will occur within the threshold time.
US09438550B2	Mobile device power management in data synchronization over a mobile network with or without a trigger notification A method for transferring data between a mobile device and a client includes sending transactions from the mobile device to the client over a first connection and determining how often to receive new data.
US09438545B2	Message-based collaboration Techniques for providing a message-based collaboration including receiving, from a message communications system, an electronic message, the electronic message including content, and associated with one or more characteristics; comparing at least one of the one or more characteristics of the electronic message to one or more triggering rules; based on the comparing, converting the content of the electronic message to a format of a collaboration communications system; and preparing a collaboration message employed within the collaboration communications system for electronic transmission that includes the converted content of the electronic message.
US09438542B1	Linking selected messages in electronic message threads Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for linking selected messages in electronic message threads. In one embodiment, related messages are identified and graphic elements associated with a first message are displayed on a user interfaces. Responsive to receiving a user interaction with the graphical element, a second message can be viewed, where the second message either responds to the first message or is responded to by the first message. Displaying graphical elements associated with related messages can eliminate potential confusion between users in group messages.
US09438536B2	50 Gb/s Ethernet using serializer/deserializer lanes Systems, devices, and methods of implementing 50 Gb/s Ethernet using serializer/deserializer lanes are disclosed. One such device includes circuitry operable to provide a media access control (MAC) interface. The MAC interface is associated with a port having a 50 Gb/s link rate. The device also includes circuitry operable to generate Ethernet frames from data received at the MAC interface and circuitry operable to distribute the Ethernet frames across a group of serial/deserializer (SERDES) lanes associated with the port, the group having size N. The device also includes circuitry operable to transmit the distributed Ethernet frames on each of the SERDES lanes at a 50/N Gb/s rate.
US09438533B2	Methods and apparatus for standard protocol validation mechanisms deployed over a switch fabric system An apparatus includes a destination edge device configured to receive a first validation packet according to a switch fabric validation protocol. The destination edge device is configured to validate multiple data paths through a distributed switch fabric from a source edge device to the destination edge device based on the first validation packet. The destination edge device is configured to send, in response to receiving the first validation packet, a second validation packet to a peripheral processing device. The destination edge device is also configured to send the second validation packet according to a validation protocol different from the first validation protocol.
US09438526B2	Network controlled client caching system and method A communication system, cache, computer readable medium and method for exchanging delay-tolerant data content or in-advance data content (19) between a user terminal (12) and a communication network (14) with which the user terminal (12) communicates. The method includes storing the delay-tolerant data content or in-advance data content (19) into a network cache (18) of the communication network (14); gathering at the network cache (18) network information related to a status of the communication network (14); receiving user terminal information at the network cache (18) from a user cache (22) located at the user terminal (12); and transferring the delay-tolerant data content or in-advance data content (19) from the network cache (18) to the user cache (22) based on the network information and the user terminal information.
US09438523B2	Method and apparatus for deriving a packet select probability value A method and apparatus for deriving a packet select probability value for a data packet. The method comprises determining a queue length value for a target buffer of the data packet, calculating a queue congestion value based at least partly on the queue length value and a packet select queue length range, and calculating the packet select probability value for the data packet based at least partly on an exponential function e−x, where x is computed based at least partly on the queue congestion value.
US09438509B2	Default gateway redundancy support across SPB networks Methods, systems and computer readable media for default gateway redundancy support across SPB networks are described. In some implementations, the method can include enabling peer network information exchange on a per-network basis between a plurality of switches in a network and advertising a first address and a second address from each switch in the plurality of switches to the other switches. The method can also include storing, at each switch, the first address and the second address received from the other switches in the plurality of switches. The method can further include routing, at a first switch, traffic for a second switch when the first switch detects that the traffic can be routed more efficiently without being sent to the second switch.
US09438498B2	Resource optimization method, IP network system and resource optimization program There is provided a resource optimization method enabling a stable live migration. An amount of generated traffic that is anticipated to be generated is estimated based on the number of subscribers to be processed by a SIP server on a virtual machine (step S1). Since it is not necessary to perform a live migration of the virtual machine when the estimated amount of generated traffic is less than or equal to an optimum value predetermined as throughput of physical hardware on which the virtual machine operates (“Yes” in step S2), monitoring of the number of number of subscribers is continued by returning to step S1. Meanwhile, when the estimated amount of generated traffic exceeds the optimum value (“No” in step S2), an optimum physical hardware which has a margin for processing the amount of generated traffic is selected, and the virtual machine live-migrates to the selected physical hardware (step S3).
US09438496B2	Monitoring link quality between network devices The present disclosure discloses a system and method for monitoring link quality between internetworking devices. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: generate, at a first internetworking device, a marker-request packet that includes a current marker ID; send, from the first internetworking device, the marker-request packet to a second internetworking device; receive, at the first internetworking device, a marker-reply packet that responds to the marker-request packet from the second internetworking device, the marker-reply packet including the current marker ID and a previous marker ID; and determine, at the first network device, a link quality between the first internetworking device and the second internetworking device based at least in part on the marker-reply packet.
US09438495B2	Visualization of resources in a data center A system and method are disclosed for monitoring usage of resources (e.g., hosts, instances, applications, etc.) in a datacenter. Customers, developers and system administrators can collect and track metrics, gain insight, and react to keep applications and businesses running smoothly by providing system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. Users can programmatically retrieve monitoring data and view heat maps to assist in troubleshooting, spotting trends, and taking automated action based on the state of a cloud environment. Users can further monitor resources in real-time, so that metrics such as CPU utilization, latency, memory usage, transaction volumes, error rates, etc. can be visualized.
US09438491B1	Service monitor for monitoring a network connection to track the performance of an application running on different mobile devices Some embodiments provide a network service monitor that operates on a number of different mobile devices to track and monitor network services that an application is using. The network service monitor of some embodiments includes a monitored connection object to capture data relating to the network service from a network connection each time the application uses the network connection to access the network service. The network service monitor then sends captured data to a performance monitoring server in order to present, based on the captured data and other captured data from other mobile devices, at least one performance report relating to the performance of the network service as used by the same application across a number of mobile devices. In some embodiments, the network connection is a socket connection.
US09438489B2	Computing a performance characteristic of a network device A traffic profile or description of a mix of different types of traffic is provided to compute, using a model, a performance characteristic of a network device. The model relates a performance characteristic of the network device to parameters associated with different types of traffic.
US09438484B2	Managing multi-level service level agreements in cloud-based networks Embodiments relate to managing multi-level service level agreements (SLAs) in cloud-based networks. A resource managing module can manage resources in the cloud-based networks in response to the detection of one or more triggering events. In embodiments, the triggering events can be changeovers in time periods, or meeting or exceeding thresholds associated with end user operation of the resources in the cloud-based networks. The multi-level SLAs can specify how to adjust the resources in the cloud-based networks in response to the detection of the triggering events. The resource managing module can adjust applicable resources in the cloud-based networks as specified by the multi-level SLAs.
US09438483B2	System and method of implementing quality of service over a packet-based Network A method includes, at a first network endpoint, determining whether a second network endpoint supports receipt of a stream of packets having a quality of service indicator. The method further includes, at the first network endpoint, in response to determining that the second network endpoint supports receipt of the stream of packets having the quality of service indicator, generating and sending the stream of packets having the quality of service indicator and including forward error correction data to the second network endpoint.
US09438471B1	Multi-blade network traffic management apparatus with improved failure handling and methods thereof A network traffic management cluster, medium and method is disclosed. The cluster includes a plurality of network traffic management devices, a backplane switch coupled to the network traffic management devices. A network traffic management device of the plurality includes a network interface and a hardwire failover switch. The switch has a primary bus coupled to the network interface and a secondary bus coupled to the backplane switch. The switch passes network traffic to the network interface via the primary bus when the network traffic management device is operational. The switch automatically redirects the network traffic to the backplane switch via the secondary bus when the network traffic management device experiences a failure. The backplane switch redistributes the redirected network traffic to one or more other network traffic management devices in the cluster.
US09438467B1	Methods of obtaining application media packages An application media package for accessing and displaying Internet content includes a definition for rendering a graphical user interface and a URL pointing to Internet content that may be downloaded and presented within said user interface. An application media viewer may be used in association with the application media package to manage the collection, organization, sharing, and rendering of a plurality of such Packages. Such Application Media Packages may be obtained via a web browser displaying links thereto. They may also be obtained through functionality provided by said Application Media Viewer. Links to Application Media Packages may be shared among user, for example by email. Groupings of Application Media Packages may be created by users or Package providers, and such groupings may be shared amongst users.
US09438466B1	Migrating virtual machines between oversubscribed and undersubscribed compute devices In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code to cause a processor to receive, at a management device, an instantiation request for a first virtual machine. The code includes code to cause the processor to identify a first compute device at a first time such that the first compute device is undersubscribed at the first time. The code includes code to cause the processor to send an instruction to instantiate the first virtual machine at the compute device, and receive a signal indicating that a boot process associated with the first virtual machine is complete and that the virtual machine is instantiated at the first compute device. The code includes code to cause the processor to send at a second time, a signal to migrate the first virtual machine from the first compute device to a second compute device in response to the boot process being complete.
US09438465B2	Determining the context of a computing device In some embodiments a remote request is received relating to a context of a computer after the computer has been powered off. A sensor of the computer is turned on to obtain context information of the computer from the sensor. The obtained context information is provided from the computer to a remote device while the computer is still powered off. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09438462B2	Soft bit un-uniform quantization method, apparatus, computer program and storage medium The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a soft bit un-uniform quantization method, apparatus, computer program and storage medium. The soft bit un-uniform quantization method comprises: determining a threshold value; obtaining a quantization step according to the threshold value; obtaining a first data after a QAM demodulating and before a Turbo decoding in a wireless communication system; and performing a soft bit un-uniform quantization on the first data to obtain a quantization result according to the threshold value and the step. According to the present disclosure, the data after the QAM demodulating and before the Turbo decoding may obtain a distinguished Euclidean distance value and thus the performance can be improved greatly.
US09438460B2	Partial discrete fourier transform-spread in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system A method of transmitting data may include converting a stream of serial data bits into a set of parallel quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols. The method may additionally include applying a partial discrete Fourier transform-spread technique to transform a block of low-frequency subcarriers into a single-carrier QAM signal. The single-carrier QAM signal may bear information of a first subset of QAM symbols from the set of parallel QAM symbols. The method may additionally include transforming one or more remaining QAM symbols to form one or more subcarriers. Each of the one or more subcarriers may bear information of a corresponding QAM symbol from the one or more remaining QAM symbols. The method may additionally include generating a hybrid signal that includes the single-carrier QAM signal and the one or more subcarriers. The method may additionally include transmitting the hybrid signal.
US09438459B2	Multi-partition radio frames Techniques relating to generating and receiving radio frames with multiple partitions are disclosed. A mobile device may include a wireless radio, one or more antennas, and one or more processors. In some embodiments, the mobile device is configured to receive a frame of wireless data that includes a plurality of partitions and partition data. In some embodiments, the plurality of partitions each include multiple orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and different ones of the partitions have different frequency transform sizes (e.g., different FFT sizes). In some embodiments, the partition data indicates the frequency transform sizes for the ones of the partitions. In some embodiments, the mobile device is configured to select, based on the partition data, one or more of the plurality of partitions and decode the selected one or more partitions to determine data represented by the OFDM symbols in the selected one or more partitions.
US09438448B2	Maintaining communication connections during temporary network disruptions Network disconnections are automatically detected between a client application and a server When a disconnection is detected by either the client or server, a determination is made as to whether the disconnection is a temporary disconnection or a longer-lasting disconnection. While disconnected, attempts are made to automatically reconnect the client and server. During the disconnected period, a subset of communication functions remain operable. When the connection is restored, presence/availability information is automatically delivered to the client.
US09438440B2	Proximity detection of internet of things (IoT) devices using sound chirps In an embodiment, a connection is established between first and second Internet of Things (IoT) devices. After a determination is made to execute a proximity detection procedure, the second IoT device outputs an audio emission and a data packet at substantially the same time. The first IoT device detects the audio emission via a microphone and receives the data packet. The first IoT device uses correlation information to correlate the detected audio emission with the data packet, whereby the correlation information is contained in the detected audio emission, the data packet or both. The first IoT device uses the correlation between the detected audio emission and the data packet to calculate a distance estimate between the first and second IoT devices.
US09438430B2	System and method for measuring current in hybrid power over ethernet architecture Systems and methods of measuring current in a power over Ethernet (PoE) system are provided. The PoE system includes an integrated circuit component having a controller, an internal transistor, a replica transistor, and an external transistor. Current in the system can be indirectly measured by enabling and disabling the transistors in known ways and then measuring the current through the replica transistor. The actual current in the system can be calculated based on the measured currents, thereby allowing for a PoE system that is capable of measuring current without a resistor in series with the external transistor.
US09438427B2	Method and system for providing a plurality of tamperproof digital certificates for a plurality of public keys of a device A method and system for providing a plurality of tamperproof digital certificates for a plurality of public keys of a device by a certification authority wherein a respective signing request for requesting a digital certificate is initially created for each of a plurality of public keys, where the signing request for the ith public key is signed using the jth private key in accordance with a signing rule, the jth private key being dissimilar to the ith private key belonging to the ith public key, and wherein all signing requests are transmitted to the same certification authority in each case, and each signing request is verified in the certification authority, in which case a check is performed to determine whether the ith signing request has been signed using the jth private key in accordance with the signing rule.
US09438411B1	Method and apparatus for synchronizing digital messages A method and system for synchronizing digital messages. A digital message includes a start-of-message indicator, followed by a key word, followed by the message payload. Before transmitting the digital message, the payload is combined in an exclusive-OR operation with the key word, which is chosen from a pre-designated pool of key words. Each pool represents a message of different type, which is type is related to word length. The key word and start-of-message indicator are appended to the resulting exclusive-OR digital message and transmitted. On receipt, the start-of-message indicator indicates the start of the message, and the key word determines the message word length and, after a second exclusive-OR operation with the key word, restores the original digital message. The start of the message is positively identified without additions to the message payload and without the key word ever appearing in the payload during transmission.
US09438410B2	Semiconductor apparatus and system A semiconductor apparatus includes a transmission block and a reception block. The transmission block may convert an input signal into two or more synchronization signals, some bits of which have longer data valid windows than the other bits, and output the two or more synchronization signals. The reception block may generate the output signal by capturing bits having longer data valid windows between the two or more synchronization signals.
US09438409B1	Centering baud-rate CDR sampling phase in a receiver In an example, an apparatus for clock data recovery (CDR) includes a data slicer operable to generate data samples derived from a transmitted signal, and an error slicer operable to generate error samples derived from a transmitted signal. The apparatus further includes a CDR circuit operable to generate sampling clock phase for the data slicer and the error slicer from output of the data samples and the error samples. The apparatus further includes a decision adapt circuit operable to set a decision threshold of the error slicer, wherein for each main-cursor data sample of the data samples the decision adapt circuit is operable to adjust the decision threshold based on a function of at least one pre-cursor data sample, at least one post-cursor data sample, or a combination of at least one pre-cursor data sample and at least one post-cursor data sample.
US09438406B1	Methods and systems for implementing an inter-frequency measurement procedure in the presence of a closed access node Systems and methods are described for implementing an inter-frequency measurement procedure in a wireless communication network. A group of wireless devices are selected based on a selection criteria. A first parameter value associated with a first access node is received from the selected group of wireless devices at the first access node. Proximity of a second access node to the first access node is estimated based on the received first parameter value. A second parameter value that is similar to the first parameter value and associated with the first access node is received from a non-selected wireless device. Quality indicators for the non-selected wireless device are monitored at the first access node. A relationship between the received first parameter value and the quality indicators for the non-selected wireless device is determined. An inter-frequency measurement procedure based on the determined relationship is initiated.
US09438392B2	Radio communication device, radio communication method, and radio communication system In a radio communication, a UE terminal uses a CSI-RS as a reference signal for point selection only in the case of a scenario 4, and uses a CRS as a reference signal for point selection in the cases of scenarios 1 to 3 other than the scenario 4. Through RRC signaling, an eNodeB notifies the UE terminal of the fact that the measurement of a specific cell ID will be performed using a CSI-RS, that is, a cell ID using a CSI-RS as a reference signal for point selection. The operations suppress overhead of reference signals and improve a point selection update frequency.
US09438385B2	Data stream division to increase data transmission rates A method and system for transmitting data is provided. The method includes receiving by a first interface device, data. The data is divided into a plurality of data packets and stored within an internal buffer. A first group of data packets are transmitted to a network node communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The first group of data packets are transmitted from the first communication device to a second interface device via a first communication network. A second group of data packets are transmitted to a first communication device communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The second group of data packets are transmitted from the first communication device to the second interface device via a second communication network associated with the first communication device.
US09438378B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system The present invention provides a data processing method that includes receiving a broadcasting signal in which mobile service data are multiplexed with main service data, extracting transmission-parameter-channel signaling information and fast-information-channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, parsing first program table information describing virtual channel information of an ensemble and a service provided by the ensemble using the FIC signaling information, the ensemble corresponding to a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, obtaining information from the first program table information, the information representing that second program table information including a descriptor describing event information of the mobile service data is received, parsing the second program table information, storing the event information and displaying service guide information including the event information.
US09438374B2	Radio channel utilization The concepts relate to radio channel utilization. One example can channel bond a first available channel from a first radio frequency band with a second available channel from a second radio frequency band. The example can transmit a portion of a forward error correction coded data stream over the first available channel and a different portion of the forward error correction coded data stream over the second available channel.
US09438367B2	Method and system for providing an external optical data packet to a destination node of a packet optical network A method and a system for providing an external optical data packet to a destination node of a packet optical network are described. The packet optical network includes a plurality of nodes and a first optical data channel for optically communicating local optical data packets between the plurality of nodes. The external optical data packet is optically converted for a transmission to the destination node over a second optical data channel of the packet optical network, the first and second optical data channels being independent of each other, the converted external optical data packet is optically transferred to the packet optical network, and the converted external optical data packet is transmitted to the destination node over the second optical data channel.
US09438364B2	Method for synchronizing distributed clocks by the precision time protocol, in a telecommunication network The method includes sending a Sync message from a first peer-to-peer transparent clock to a second peer-to-peer transparent clock, estimating the path delay of the transmission path traveled by the synchronization message from the first to the second peer-to-peer transparent clocks, and taking this path delay into account for updating the time information carried by a synchronization message. The estimating includes creating a list of the network addresses of the network interfaces traversed by the synchronization message; ordering the first list into the order in which the network interfaces have been traversed by the Sync message; creating a second list by reversing the order of the first list; communicating the second list to the second peer-to-peer transparent clock; and using the mechanism available at the transport protocol level, to constrain the respective paths of Pdelay_Req and Pdelay_Resp messages so that their respective paths map to the second and first ordered lists of traversed interfaces.
US09438353B2	Optical receiver for compensating DC offset Disclosed is an optical communication receiver capable of compensating a DC offset while preventing an input load effect. The optical communication receiver includes an optical signal detector; an amplifier inputted with a photocurrent outputted from the optical signal detector; and a DC offset compensation unit provided therein with a third transistor and a fifth transistor which are connected in series to each other to prevent an input load effect, wherein the DC offset compensation unit compensates a DC offset by outputting at least a portion of DC current inputted to the amplifier to ground through the third transistor and the fifth transistor when the photocurrent is an over current more than a predetermined set value.
US09438342B2	Methods, systems, and devices for integrating wireless technology into a fiber optic network The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic network configuration having an optical network terminal located at a subscriber location. The fiber optic network configuration also includes a drop terminal located outside the subscriber location and a wireless transceiver located outside the subscriber location. The fiber optic network further includes a cabling arrangement including a first signal line that extends from the drop terminal to the optical network terminal, a second signal line that extends from the optical network terminal to the wireless transceiver, and a power line that extends from the optical network terminal to the wireless transceiver.
US09438339B1	Automatic detection of infrared extender or blaster A method for automatically detecting an infrared blaster or an infrared receiver includes detecting receipt of an infrared device by a media device. The media device has an internal infrared receiver and a processor. The method further includes determining if the infrared device is an infrared extender or an infrared blaster. When the infrared device is an infrared extender, the method includes disabling the internal infrared receiver and connecting the infrared device to the processor of the media device. When the infrared device is an infrared blaster, the method includes connecting the infrared device to the processor of the media device and not disabling the internal infrared receiver.
US09438337B2	Control system for multi-beam free space optical endpoint Free space optics (FSO) is a wireless technology that utilizes optical frequencies. Previously available FSO transceivers are restricted to point-to-point links because of the high directivity of laser light used to transmit data. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein include a multi-beam FSO apparatus that is less reliant on point-to-point links, and includes a lens assembly and a planar array of optical communication devices. The lens assembly includes at least one surface shaped to direct ingress light received substantially within a first angular range towards a focal plane, and to direct egress light away from the focal plane into the first angular range. The planar array includes a plurality of optical communication devices arranged in association with the focal plane of the lens assembly, wherein each of the plurality of optical communication devices characterizes at least one of a plurality of optical communication link endpoints.
US09438334B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving time division duplex frame configuration information in wireless communication system A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving Time Division Duplex (TDD) frame configuration information are disclosed. The base station transmits TDD frame configuration information as system information to a user equipment through a common control channel so as to dynamically change the TDD frame configuration according to uplink and downlink traffic conditions. The base station may deliver the same system information to all user equipments in the cell, removing ambiguity in User Equipment (UE) operations and avoiding interference. In comparison to an existing method of delivering TDD frame configuration information through system information update, the disclosed method enables user equipments to rapidly cope with traffic changes. In addition, user equipments may receive and apply TDD frame configuration information at the same time.
US09438330B2	Methods and apparatus for reordering data in an evolved high speed packet access system Method and apparatus for receiving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transmissions are disclosed. An HS-DSCH medium access control (MAC-ehs) entity receives MAC-ehs protocol data units (PDUs) via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) while in one of Cell_FACH, Cell_PCH, and URA_PCH states. The reordering PDUs included in the MAC-ehs PDUs may be sent to a next processing entity without performing reordering of the PDUs. A certain reordering queue may enter a suspend state upon occurrence of a triggering event and MAC-ehs PDUs distributed to the reordering queue in the suspend state may be forwarded to the next processing entity without performing reordering. MAC-ehs reset procedure may be extended for a certain transmission such that the MAC-ehs reset is performed after receiving a MAC-ehs PDU in a target cell.
US09438324B2	Method of assigning precoding vectors in a mobile cellular network A method for assigning precoding vectors in a mobile cellular network as well as a base station. The base station provides a code book comprising indexed precoding vectors to mobile stations associated with the base station via a downlink channel. A mobile station selects indices of preferred precoding vectors from the code book and reports the indices to the base station via an uplink channel. The mobile selects indices of preferred companion precoding vectors from the code book that shall preferably be used by the base station for other mobile stations served by the base station on the same time/frequency resource, and reports the indices associated with the preferred companion precoding vectors to the base station via the uplink channel. For each mobile station, the base station determines a precoding vector based on the reported indices of the preferred precoding vectors and the reported indices of the preferred companion precoding vectors.
US09438316B2	Control apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium In the first state in which the position of an external device is included in the first area where a power supply unit executes wireless power supply and is included in the second area wider than the first area where a communication portion performs communication, the power supply unit is controlled to execute wireless power supply. It is determined whether the state of the external device has transited from the first state to the second state in which the position of the external device is included in the second area and is outside the first area. If it is determined that the state has transited from the first state to the second state, information based on the power supply executed in the first state is communicated with the external device via the communication portion.
US09438315B2	Wireless power adapter A wireless power adapter includes a receiver coil system, a transmitter coil system and a conversion stage. The receiver coil system is compatible with a specification and can efficiently receive wireless power transmitted by a transmitter compliant with that specification. The transmitter coil system is compatible with a different specification and can produce wireless power to be efficiently transmitted to a receiver compliant with that specification. The conversion stage converts between the two specifications.
US09438313B2	Smart NFC antenna matching network system having multiple antennas and user device including the same At least one example embodiment provides a near field communication (NFC) antenna matching network system connected to an NFC transceiver. The NFC antenna matching network system includes a matching circuit connected to first and second antenna terminals and to the NFC transceiver. The matching circuit is configured to match impedances of the NFC antenna network matching system and the NFC transceiver. The NFC antenna matching network system includes a plurality of NFC antennas connected in parallel with the first and second antenna terminals. Each of the NFC antennas includes a source coil and a resonance coil. The source coil is connected between the first antenna terminal and the second antenna terminal. The resonance coil is physically separated from the source coil and configured to exchange signals with the source coil via inductive coupling.
US09438308B2	Echo cancellation with quantization compensation An apparatus having a first circuit and a second circuit is disclosed. The first circuit is configured to generate a first intermediate signal by expanding a first input signal subjected to a quantization. The second circuit is configured to generate a second intermediate signal based on a second input signal. The second intermediate signal approximates an echo in the first input signal caused by the second input signal. The second circuit is also configured to generate a third intermediate signal by companding the second intermediate signal to compensate the quantization of the first input signal.
US09438307B2	Robust time shift tracking UWB receiver A robust time shift tracking UWB receiver. After translating in baseband by a quadrature demodulator, the received UWB pulsed signal is integrated on successive time windows, and then sampled. The complex samples are then correlated with a coding sequence from the transmitter and then transmitted on the one hand to a phase estimator and a demodulating/detecting module. The latter estimates the symbol emitted and provides it to the estimator which removes the modulation effect for estimating, at each time-symbol, the phase of the complex samples. A phase rotation follow-up module determines a compensated phase rotation and a non-compensated phase rotation from a reference instant. Controlling means deduce from the non-compensated phase rotation a time offset to be applied to the integration windows.
US09438305B2	Method for transmitting non binary error correcting code words with CCSK modulation, and corresponding signal and device The invention concerns a method for transmitting symbols of non binary error correcting code words via a transmission channel. The method comprises a first modulation associating each code word symbol of p bits with a sequence of at least 2p chips from 2p possible sequences, a second modulation to modulate the phase or amplitude of a carrier signal with the sequences associated with the code words, and a step of transmitting the modulated carrier signal via said transmission channel. According to the invention, the first modulation is a spread spectrum modulation of the cyclic code shift keying type using a basic pseudo-random sequence of at least 2p chips, the possible 2p sequences being obtained by a circular shift of the basic pseudo-random sequence and a cyclic prefix is inserted into each symbol to be transmitted.
US09438304B2	Ultra wideband modulation for body area networks A symbol modulation system applicable to a body area network is disclosed herein. The symbol modulation system includes a symbol mapper. The symbol mapper is configured to determine a time within a predetermined symbol transmission interval at which a transmission representative of the symbol will occur. The time is determined based on a value of a symbol and a value of a time-hopping sequence. The time is selected from a plurality of symbol value based time slots, and a plurality of time-hopping sequence sub-time-slots within each symbol value based time slot. The symbol mapper is configured to generate a single guard interval within the symbol transmission interval. The single guard interval is positioned to terminate the symbol transmission interval.
US09438301B2	PLL circuit, calibration method, and wireless communication apparatus In the stop state of a VCO and an injection locked frequency divider, an ILFD controller sets the control parameter of an injection locked frequency divider on the basis of the frequencies of a reference signal and the frequency-divided signal measured according to the control parameter of the injection locked frequency divider. While the injection locked frequency divider is operated and in the stop state of the VCO, the ILFD controller sets the control parameter of the injection locked frequency divider on the basis of the frequencies of the reference signal and the frequency-divided signal measured according to the control parameter of the injection locked frequency divider.
US09438299B2	Stretchable strap cover for electronic device A stretchable strap cover for a handheld electronic device has a flexible and elastic pad with four apertures formed in the pad and extending through the thickness of the pad, and four straps defined between the four apertures and the perimeter of the pad. The pad has at least two configurations, including: 1) an initial configuration in which the pad is separate from the handheld electronic device, an in which the pad is unstretched with an initial unstretched perimeter, length and width, and in which the pad is flat and disposed in a flat layer having a thickness the same as the thickness of the pad, with the straps and the apertures disposed in the flat layer; and 2) an installed configuration in which the pad is coupled to the handheld electronic device, the pad being stretched and under tension, and the straps being disposed out of the flat layer.
US09438292B2	Vehicle communication apparatus A vehicle communication apparatus includes an antenna module, a wireless communication device placed and physically separated from the antenna module, a first communication cable and a second communication cable. The antenna module includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The wireless communication device includes a first antenna-connecting sending portion, a second antenna-connecting receiving portion, an adjustment portion, a memory, and a loss amount calculation portion calculating a loss amount by the first communication cable. The adjustment portion adjusts the sending power of the sending wave radiated from the first antenna based on the loss amount calculated by the loss amount calculation portion, and equalizes the sending power with a reference power.
US09438287B2	Apparatus and method for mitigating loss of signal content Described is an apparatus comprising: a first sampler to oversample a signal, the signal being processed for transmission through a channel having a notch region; a bandpass filter with passband response to filter the oversampled signal in the notch region; and a first modulator to translate the filtered signal to a higher frequency band than a frequency band of the notch region. Described is a method performed by a transmitter, the method comprising: oversampling a signal; and translating, in response to the oversampling, signal content in a notch region of a channel to a frequency band which is higher than a frequency band of the notch region.
US09438276B2	Method and apparatus for improved performance of iterative decoders on channels with memory Systems and methods for improving the performance of iterative decoders on various channels with memory are disclosed. These systems and methods may reduce the frequency or number of situations in which the iterative decoder cannot produce decoded data that matches the data that was originally sent in a communications or data storage system. The iterative decoder includes a SISO channel detector and an ECC decoder and decodes the coded information according to at least one iterative decoding algorithm in regular decoding mode and/or at least one iterative decoding algorithm in error-recovery mode.
US09438275B2	Transmission apparatus and transmission method A transmission apparatus includes a mapping unit configured to map a first information associated with detecting an error of a frame into a payload area of the frame; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the frame including the first information and a second information associated with detecting an error of the frame.
US09438269B1	Accelerating codeset conversion in a computing environment A method for accelerating codeset conversion in a computing environment is provided. The method may include, among other things, receiving one or more requests for codeset conversion. The one or more requests may be received, for example, from a client over a communications network. A change in the one or more requests for codeset conversion may be detected. In response to detecting the change, a subset of codeset converters may be selected from among a library of codeset converters to be included in a codeset conversion accelerator. The codeset conversion accelerator may be, among other things, reprogrammed with selected subset of codeset converters. The one or more received requests may be subsequently rerouted to the reprogrammed codeset conversion accelerator.
US09438268B2	Current type D/A converter, delta sigma modulator, and communications device This D/A converter includes a plurality of D/A converter elements, each comprising current sources configured to supply output currents to output nodes, and first switches configured to control the output currents. The output nodes are connected to a capacitor section having second switches and a capacitive load. The D/A converter further includes a switch control circuit configured to control the first switches responsive to digital signals, and also control the second switches in accordance with the control of the ON/OFF state of the first switches.
US09438264B1	High-speed capacitive digital-to-analog converter and method thereof A circuit having a capacitor coupling a first circuit node to a second circuit node; a first switch network configured to couple the second circuit node to either a first reference voltage or a second reference voltage in accordance with a value of a logical signal; and a second switch network configured to couple the second circuit node to a third reference voltage when the logical signal undergoes a transition but decouple the second circuit node from the third reference voltage when the logical signal finishes the transition.
US09438262B1	Method for testing differential analog-to-digital converter and system therefor A method and circuit for testing an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are provided. The method comprises: coupling a single-ended output of an analog signal source to a differential input of an amplifier; coupling a differential output of the amplifier to a differential input of the ADC; alternately providing first and second test signals from the single-ended output of the analog signal source to first and second input terminals of the differential input of the amplifier; amplifying the first and second test signals to generate amplified differential signals at the differential output of the amplifier; providing the amplified differential signals to the differential input of the ADC; and determining if an output of the ADC is as expected. An offset may also be provided to the differential output of the amplifier. The method allows an ADC having a differential input to be tested using a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) having a single-ended output.
US09438259B2	Circuit, an integrated circuit, a transmitter, a receiver, a transceiver, a method for generating a processed oscillator signal, an apparatus for generating a processed oscillator signal, and software-related implementations A circuit according to an example includes a digital-to-time converter configured to receive an oscillator signal and to generate a processed oscillator signal based on the received oscillator signal in response to a control signal, and a time-interleaved control circuit configured to generate the control signal based on a time-interleaved technique.
US09438251B2	Clock generating circuit, semiconductor device including the same, and data processing system A method for generating an internal clock signal by a clock generating circuit, including generating the internal clock signal based on an external clock signal, adjusting a phase of the internal clock signal by using a phase control value to synchronize with a phase of the external clock signal based on a phase difference between the external clock signal and the internal clock signal, switching operation modes including a first operation mode in which a phase of the internal clock signal is controlled at a predetermined cycle by updating the phase control value and a second operation mode in which a phase of the internal clock signal is fixed by fixing the phase control value, and the switching includes switching from the second operation mode to the first operation mode in response to a trigger signal.
US09438246B1	System and method for qubit readout A system is provided for multiplexed readout of qubits. The system comprises a plurality of bandpass (BP) filter resonant sections that are each coupled to a different respective point on a read line, wherein each BP filter resonant section is coupleable to a respective qubit through a respective qubit readout resonator. The system further comprises a plurality of tunable couplers, wherein each tunable coupler is coupled between a respective BP filter resonant section and a qubit readout resonator, and a coupling controller that controls the coupling strength of each qubit to the read line by controlling the impedance of each tunable coupler of the plurality of tunable couplers.
US09438242B2	Systems and methods for reducing power consumption in semiconductor devices A method of making a first timing path includes developing a first design of the first timing path with a first logic circuit and a first functional cell, wherein the first functional cell comprises a first transistor that is spaced from a first well boundary. The timing path is analyzed to determine if the first timing path has positive timing slack. If the analyzed speed of operation shows positive timing slack, the design is changed to a modified design to reduce power consumption of the first timing path by moving the first transistor closer to the first well boundary. Also the first timing path is then built using the modified design to reduce power consumption of the first timing path by reducing leakage power consumption of the first transistor.
US09438237B1	High-yielding standard cell library and circuits made therefrom An improved 20/22 nm standard cell library, as depicted in FIGS. 1-491, achieves surprisingly significant improvements in manufacturing yield, as compared to a commercially-used library for the same fabrication process. The invention relates to product ICs made using this library (or topologically equivalent variants thereof), as well as processes for making such product ICs using said library (or its variants).
US09438226B2	Semiconductor device including functional circuits In some aspects of the invention, provided is a semiconductor device capable of compensating sufficiently instantaneous drop of power source voltage without enlarging device scale extremely. When digital circuit and power device driving circuit are formed on chip in the state connected to power source in common in parallel, for digital circuit of functional circuit remaining abnormal state after power source recovery and analog circuit and power device driving circuit of functional circuit retaining continuously normal state even before power source recovery, resistors are formed on chip in power source E side of the functional circuits, and in addition, capacitors are formed on chip 1 in parallel with the functional circuits, and consequently, it becomes possible to enlarge each resistance value of resistors as compared with a case of attaching externally resistors and capacitors in the entire chip.
US09438216B2	Compensation time computing method and device for clock difference The present invention provides a method for computing compensation time for clock difference between a first chip and a second chip. The method comprises emitting, by the second chip, a pulse with a fixed pulse length to the first chip; measuring, by the first chip, a pulse length of the pulse; computing the compensation time according to the measure pulse length and the fixed pulse length; and setting the compensation time to the second chip.
US09438213B2	Low power master-slave flip-flop A flip-flop circuit may include a master latch and a slave latch. Each latch may have a transparent mode and a storage mode. The slave latch may be in storage mode when the master latch is in transparent mode; and vice-versa. A clock signal may control the mode of each latch through a pair of clock-gated pull-up transistors and a pair clock-gated of pull-down transistors, for a total of four clock-gated transistors. The clock-gated transistors may be shared by the master latch and the slave latch. Fewer clock-gated transistors may be required when they are shared, as opposed to not being shared. Clock-gated transistors may have parasitic capacitance and consume power when subjected to a varying clock signal, due to the charging and discharging of the parasitic capacitance. Having fewer clock-gated transistors thus may reduce the power consumed by the flip-flop circuit.
US09438212B2	Concurrent true and complement signal generation A circuit generates low-skew true and complement output signals from an input signal using an inverter, true signal generation circuitry, and complement signal generation circuitry. The inverter operates between a high-voltage reference source (VDD) and a low-voltage reference source (VSS) and inverts the input signal to generate a delayed complement input signal. The true signal generation circuitry, which comprises a p-type transistor in series with an n-type transistor, (i) operates between (a) one of VDD and VSS and (b) one of the true input signal and the complement input signal and (ii) generates a true output signal. The complement signal generation circuitry, which also comprises p-type transistor in series with an n-type transistor, (i) operates between (a) one of VDD and VSS and (b) one of the true input signal and the complement input signal and (ii) generates a complement output signal.
US09438211B1	High speed latch and method An embodiment latch device includes a first stage having circuitry that receives a differential input and generates a clocked data signal according to a clock signal and the differential input, and a second stage connected to the first stage and having circuitry that generates differential outputs according to the clock signal and the clocked data signal. The second stage further has a reset circuit that resets a latch storage to a high value according to the clock signal.
US09438207B2	Semiconductor device, electronic component, and electronic device A semiconductor device includes a logic circuit capable of storing configuration data. The logic circuit includes a latch circuit, an arithmetic circuit, a delay circuit, and a first output timing generation circuit. The latch circuit has a function of receiving a pulse signal and a reset signal and outputting a first signal. The delay circuit has a function of receiving the first signal and outputting a second signal. The first signal controls power supply to the arithmetic circuit and the delay circuit. The second signal is obtained by delaying the first signal so as to correspond to a delay in a critical path of the arithmetic circuit. The first output timing generation circuit has a function of receiving a third signal obtained by a logical operation on the first signal and the second signal and outputting the reset signal.
US09438201B2	Composite substrates for acoustic wave elements, and acoustic wave elements A composite substrate for an acoustic wave element includes a support substrate 1 and a propagation substrate 3 for propagating an acoustic wave. The propagation substrate is bonded to the support substrate 1 and composed of a piezoelectric single crystal. The propagation substrate 3 includes a surface lattice distortion layer 11 in which crystal lattices of the piezoelectric single crystal are distorted.
US09438199B2	Component package including matching circuit and matching method thereof Provided herein is a component package including a matching unit and a matching method thereof, the matching unit including: a substrate; a transmission line formed on the substrate, the transmission line being connected to a terminal of the component package; a bonding wire electrically connecting the transmission line and a central component; and a capacitor unit having a plurality of capacitors electrically connected with the transmission line by wiring connection, wherein an inductance of the matching unit is variable by adjusting a length of the bonding wire, and a capacitance of the matching unit is variable by increasing or reducing the number of capacitors electrically connected to the transmission line, of among the capacitors inside the capacitor unit, by extending or cutting off the wiring connection.
US09438196B2	Integrated tunable filter architecture An apparatus and method for a frequency based integrated circuit that selectively filters out unwanted bands or regions of interfering frequencies utilizing one or more tunable notch or bandpass filters or tunable low or high pass filters capable of operating across multiple frequencies and multiple bands in noisy RF environments. The tunable filters are fabricated within the same integrated circuit package as the associated frequency based circuitry, thus minimizing R, L, and C parasitic values, and also allowing residual and other parasitic impedance in the associated circuitry and IC package to be absorbed and compensated.
US09438194B2	Apparatus and method for dynamically adapting a user volume input range on an electronic device Method of dynamically adapting user volume input range on mobile device having global volume range starts by receiving a volume input selection from a user that is level included in user volume input range. User volume input range is a portion of global volume range. Device's processor then detects ambient noise level surrounding device and adjusts user volume input range from current portion of global volume range to different portion of global volume range based on detected ambient noise level. Volume input selection remains at the same level included in user volume input range after user volume input range is adjusted. Processor may identify sound profile that corresponds to ambient noise level being detected and adjusts user volume input range to a different portion of the global volume range based on identified sound profile. Other embodiments are also described.
US09438185B2	Devices and methods for increasing reliability of scalable periphery amplifiers Devices and methods for improving reliability of sealable periphery amplifiers is described. Amplifier segments of the sealable periphery architecture can be rotated to distribute wear. Further, extra amplifier segments can be implemented on amplifier dies to extend the overall lifetime of amplifiers.
US09438182B2	Digital class-D amplifier and digital signal processing method A digital class D amplifier (10) is disclosed, comprising a pulse width modulator (PW Mod) comprising: a digital loop filter (Loop F) adapted to receive an input signal (x[n]) and a feedback signal (fb[n]), the digital loop filter (Loop_F) being adapted to process at a clock frequency (f_s) said input and feedback signals for providing as output a filtered digital signal (w[n]); a PWM conversion module (PW_CM) having an input (24) for receiving the filtered digital signal (w[n]) and having a first output (25) connected to the digital loop filter (Loop F), the PWM conversion module being adapted for processing the filtered digital signal (w[n]) and providing at said first output (25) the feedback signal (fb[n]). The PWM conversion module (PW_CM) comprises: a first comparator (CMP_N) adapted to compare the filtered digital signal (w[n]) with a first reference triangular waveform (VTn[n]) for providing as output a first PWM signal (yn[n]), the first reference triangular waveform having a frequency (f_osc) much lower than said clock frequency (f.s); a second comparator (CMP_P) adapted to compare the filtered digital signal (w[n]) with a second reference triangular waveform (VTp[n]) for providing as output a second PWM signal (yp[n]), the second reference triangular waveform (VTp[n]) being the inverse of the first triangular waveform (VTn[n]), said first (yn[n]) and second (yp[n]) PWM signals representing a differential output pulse width modulated signal (yn[n],yp[n]).
US09438181B1	Amplification of signals output from bridge-tied load audio amplifiers Disclosed boost amplifiers are used with a BTL amplifier that outputs balanced audio signals and that has an output current capacity and a dynamic power capacity. Disclosed amplifiers include an audio amplifier with a dynamic power capacity and that amplifies the balanced audio signals and applies them to a load, at least one diode that receives audio signals and produces single-ended input power signals, and at least one regulator that converts the single-ended input power signal into a regulated power signal of a higher magnitude. The boost regulator presenting a variable input impedance to the BTL amplifier such that the output current capacity of the BTL amplifier is not exceeded. Disclosed amplifiers also include a DC power reservoir that stores power from the regulated power signal and supplies sufficient power that the dynamic output power capacity of the audio amplifier exceeds the dynamic power capacity of the BTL amplifier.
US09438180B2	Radio frequency power amplifier and method for increasing power added efficiency and linearity A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier is disclosed. The RF power amplifier includes an impedance transformation circuit, a current unit gain amplifier, and an output match circuit. The impedance transformation circuit receives a first input power signal and outputs a second input power signal correspondingly, wherein the impedance transformation circuit transforms an input impedance to an output impedance according to an impedance matching parameter for increasing power added efficiency of a pre-stage circuit. The current unit gain amplifier provides a linear transimpedance so as to transmit an input current to an output impedance, and then generate a linear output power for increasing power added efficiency of the current unit gain amplifier, wherein the impedance matching parameter is determined by a first system voltage, a second system voltage, and a predetermined power gain value.
US09438178B1	Mixer impairment correction based on volterra series Techniques for compensating for signal impairments introduced by a mixer are discussed. One example system employing such techniques can include mixer predistortion circuitry configured to receive signal in-phase (I) and signal quadrature (Q) components of a signal and to generate a mixer predistortion signal based at least in part on the signal I and Q components, wherein the mixer predistortion signal compensates for nonlinearities caused by a mixer that upconverts the signal. Optionally, imbalance correction circuitry to compensate for gain and phase imbalance and/or skew correction circuitry to compensate for gain and phase skew can also be included.
US09438175B2	Cascode amplifier In one embodiment, a cascode amplifier includes an amplifier circuit, a replica circuit, a bias circuit, and a feedback circuit. The amplifier circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The second transistor is cascode-connected to the first transistor. The replica circuit includes a third transistor and a fourth transistor. The third transistor has a control terminal connected to a control terminal of the first transistor. The fourth transistor is cascode-connected to the third transistor. The bias circuit applies a bias voltage to a control terminal of the second transistor and a control terminal of the fourth transistor. The feedback circuit performs a feedback control of a voltage of the control terminal of the third transistor. The feedback circuit reduces the difference between a reference current and a current at a predetermined point of the replica circuit.
US09438172B2	Digital multi-level envelope tracking for wide-bandwidth signals Digital envelope tracking with multilevel supply voltages is performed for wide-bandwidth signals. A digital control component generates a digital control code that facilitates switching of resistor values of one or more resistors coupled between a power amplifier and a supply voltage of plurality of supply voltages. A driver component supplies an envelope voltage of the plurality of supply voltages for the power amplifier as a function of the digital control code.
US09438165B2	RC oscillator A method includes using a current source to provide a charging current to a capacitor of a resistor-capacitor (RC) tank of an RC oscillator. The method includes using a resistor of the current source as a resistor for the RC tank.
US09438162B2	Solar panel mounting with bias element A solar panel mounting system may include a solar panel mounting assembly for mounting to a support structure. The solar panel mounting assembly may include a restraining element, a retaining element and a biasing assembly that supports the restraining and retaining elements. The support structure may include an upper surface and a lower surface spaced from the upper surface. The biasing assembly may further include a biasing element that resiliently urges the retaining element toward a securing element for supporting a solar panel that is positioned between the retaining element and the upper surface of the support structure, and resiliently urges the restraining element toward the lower surface of the support structure. A retention device may resiliently bias the solar panels of a solar panel assembly together on a support structure.
US09438150B2	Method of controlling a brushless permanent-magnet motor A method of controlling a brushless permanent-magnet motor. The method includes commutating a winding of the motor at times relative to zero-crossings of back EMF in the winding. Commutation is then advanced when the motor operates over a first speed range, and commutation is retarded when the motor operates over a second speed range higher than that of the first speed range.
US09438147B2	Position detecting apparatus and driving system The position detecting apparatus includes a comparing part that compares the value of the digital signal output from the AD converter and a reference value that is based on a preset reference amplitude at the timings and outputs a control signal responsive to a result of the comparison. The position detecting apparatus includes an amplitude controlling part that controls amplification factors of the first amplifier and the second amplifier in such a manner that the value of the digital signal output from the AD converter comes closer to the reference value in response to the control signal output from the comparing part.
US09438134B2	System and method for off-line ups A method of operating an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) includes generating, during a portion of an output cycle, a substantially sinusoidal output voltage responsive to a plurality of pulse width modulation (PWM) control signals provided to a power conversion circuit of the UPS, comparing the output voltage to a reference root mean square (RMS) voltage at each of a plurality of time intervals during the portion of the output cycle, calculating a PWM control signal scaling factor based on each of the comparisons to the reference RMS voltage, and maintaining the output voltage at substantially the reference RMS voltage by applying the calculated PWM control signal scaling factor to at least one of the plurality of PWM control signals. The method may include detecting that the output voltage has reached a maximum output voltage level and clamping the output voltage to a steady state output voltage reference level.
US09438127B2	Reverse current control for an isolated power supply having synchronous rectifiers In certain example embodiments, a system is provided that includes a circuit. The system also includes a reverse current control module that provides an isolated power supply in order to protect one or more devices in a power chain during one or more testing activities having one or more requirements.
US09438120B2	Systems and methods for fast kilovolt switching in an X-ray system A system includes a two-channel inverter for receiving a non-zero variable input voltage, first and second input channels each electrically coupled to the two-channel inverter, a transformer having a primary winding in electrical communication with the first and second input channels and secondary windings, and an active resonant circuit in electrical communication with the secondary windings for generating a switching output voltage at each of two different voltage levels. The active resonant circuit includes switching devices arranged in an anti-parallel configuration, a capacitor electrically coupled in series with the switching devices for receiving and storing energy during a first portion of a resonance cycle and for discharging the energy during a second portion of the resonance cycle, an inductor electrically coupled in series with the capacitor and the switching devices for transferring the energy to and from the capacitor during the resonance cycle, and an output.
US09438112B2	Power converter including integrated driver for depletion mode group III-V transistor In one implementation, a power converter includes an output stage integrated circuit (IC) on a group III-V die, and a driver IC for driving the output stage IC, the driver IC fabricated on a group IV die. The power converter also includes a composite power switch split between the group III-V die and the group IV die, wherein a depletion mode group III-V transistor of the composite power switch is monolithically integrated in the group III-V die, and a group IV control switch of the composite power switch is monolithically integrated in the group IV die. As a result, the depletion mode group III-V transistor may be operated as an enhancement mode transistor.
US09438100B2	Non-transformer isolated DC-DC power supply including shut down circuit A direct current-to-direct current (DC-DC) power supply includes a voltage converter module that converts an input voltage having a first voltage level into an output voltage having a second voltage level that is less than the first voltage level. An over-voltage detection module receives the second voltage and generates an over-voltage signal indicating an over-voltage condition of the DC-DC power supply. A shutdown module receives the over-voltage signal and generates a shutdown signal in response to the over-voltage condition. An over-voltage protection module interposed between the shutdown module and the input of the voltage converter module. The over-voltage protection module is configured to selectively inhibit delivery of the input voltage to the voltage converter module in response to the shutdown signal.
US09438094B2	Connecting system for connection of an electric machine to a converter The arrangement of an electric machine, a connecting system and a converter, includes the connecting system connected between the electric machine and the converter. The connecting system has an enclosure that houses non-shielded conductors each non-shielded conductor is connected between a phase of the electric machine and the inner side of the converter. The non-shielded conductors of the connecting system that are connected to an operating phase of the electric machine are adjacent to conductors of the connecting system that are not connected to operating phases of the electric machine.
US09438091B2	Permanent magnet machine with two stators A permanent magnet machine includes two stationary stators and a rotating rotor. Electromagnetic fields occurring in one stator are displaced by an angle of thirty electrical degrees with respect to electromagnetic fields occurring in the other stator due to currents fed to the stators.
US09438088B2	Rotating electrical machine unit with a power inverter having a ring-shaped casing A rotating electrical machine unit includes a rotating electrical machine including a ring-shaped stator and a rotator provided inside of the stator, and a power inverter including a ring-shaped first casing and a power module accommodated in the first casing and integrated with the rotating electrical machine by being stacked in such a manner that a lower surface of the first casing is in contact with an upper surface of the stator. The power inverter has a first coolant path formed to have a ring shape in the first casing. The power module has a heat radiation unit arranged in the first coolant path and exchanging heat with a cooling medium flowing in the first coolant path.
US09438081B2	Canned type rotating electrical machine A rotating electrical machine according to the present invention includes a can formed in a tubular shape and made of fiber reinforced plastic. At least a part of a first end portion of the can is located on a radially outer side of an adhered portion of a first end member, and a resin-based adhesive is filled in a gap between the part of the first end portion and the adhered portion of the first end member. At least a part of a second end portion of the can is located on a radially outer side of an adhered portion of a second end member, and the resin-based adhesive is filled in a gap between the part of the second end portion and the adhered portion of the second end member.
US09438077B2	Electric machine rotor bar and method of making same A method, system, and apparatus including an electric machine having a plurality of rotor bars and a first coupling component configured to electrically couple the plurality of rotor bars together. Each rotor bar of the plurality of rotor bars includes a first metallic material having a first electrical resistivity and a second metallic material cast about the first material, where the second metallic material has a second electrical resistivity greater than the first electrical resistivity. The first metallic material has a first end and a second end opposite the first end and the first coupling component is coupled to the first end of the first metallic material.
US09438076B2	Stator lamination stack indexing and retention An electrical device including a housing having an inner surface, a lamination assembly and at least one pin extending from an inner surface of the housing. The lamination assembly has at least one slot therein. The lamination assembly is clocked to a position so that the at least one pin coacts with the at least one slot to rotationally orient the lamination assembly. The at least one pin additionally acts to constrain the lamination assembly from axial removal from the housing thereby rotationally and axially limiting movement of the lamination assembly to a predetermined range of movement within the housing.
US09438074B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting wireless power A method and a wireless power transmitter are provided for transmitting wireless power to at least one wireless power receiver. The method includes setting, by the wireless power transmitter, a search channel to be used for communication with the at least one wireless power receiver; detecting at least one of an energy level and a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) value of a signal received on the search channel; and determining whether to designate the search channel as a communication channel based on the detection results.
US09438073B2	Power supply switching circuit, real time clock device, electronic apparatus, mobile unit, and method of controlling power supply switching circuit A power supply switching circuit includes a switching circuit that electrically connects a VCC terminal and a VBK terminal in a connected state, a switch control circuit, and a power supply monitoring circuit that monitors a voltage of the VCC terminal, and outputs a voltage of the VBK terminal. The switch control circuit switches a mode from a normal mode in which the switching circuit is intermittently connected to a standby mode in which the switching circuit is opened according to an output signal of the power supply monitoring circuit.
US09438070B2	Articles with electrical charging surfaces An electrical article with cord-free charging zone provides users in a work area with access to low-voltage charging for portable electronic devices, in which electrical current is conveyed upon placement of an electronic device within the charging zone. The electrical article is configured for use in a work area, and includes a housing, a low voltage charging zone with power unit, and an electrical power input. The charging zone is defined along at least a portion of an upper surface of the housing. The low voltage power unit is operable to cordlessly convey electrical power to a portable electrical or electronic device that is positioned at the low voltage charging zone.
US09438065B2	Portable electronic device, wireless charging device for the same, and wireless charging system A wireless charging device may include: a transmitting unit configured to receive a high-frequency AC current and generate magnetic energy; and a first fixing unit disposed on a rear surface of the transmitting unit and configured to generate a designated magnitude or more of attractive force.
US09438057B2	Drive control device, drive control method and drive control program A drive control device that is capable of ensuring user convenience. The drive control device (100) is a device that controls the drive of an electronic device driven by means of the power of a battery, and comprises a battery information management section (280) and a battery state assessment section (300). Said battery information management section (280) manages the remaining power of a rechargeable battery, replaceable battery or other type of reserve battery for the electronic device, and/or whether a reserve battery exists. On the basis of the remaining power of the reserve battery and/or whether a reserve battery exists, said battery state assessment section (300) determines whether to drive the electronic device in a power-saving mode when the remaining power of a battery mounted in the electronic device has decreased to no more than a preset battery capacity.
US09438054B2	Battery charger integrated circuit chip An on-chip digital communication interface circuit is to be directly coupled to a counterpart interface circuit of a separate battery-side gas gauge circuit. An on-chip battery charging control circuit controls battery charging voltage and current that is supplied from a separate power source interface circuit to a battery cell terminal, according to charging voltage and current limits. The charging limits are read from the gas gauge circuit and in effect carry out a selected one of several different battery charging profiles. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09438048B2	Modular battery cell architecture and control method Embodiments of the invention relate to a configuration of a multi-cell battery pack, with at least two cells electrically connected in a first parallel arrangement, which is connected in series to a second parallel arrangement of at least two additional cells. Each cell is locally connected to a sensor to sense and control the current of the cells in parallel or parallel-series combination in the multi-cell battery pack. A control module is in communication with each sensor, and associated instructions electrically remove or disable a cell from the multi-cell battery pack determined to be defective based on measurements from an associated sensor. Accordingly, the configuration measures and monitors a state of health of each cell in the multi-cell battery pack, the measurements including temperature, voltage and current sensing.
US09438042B2	Direct current power delivery system and method A power transmission system includes a first unit for carrying out the steps of receiving high voltage direct current (HVDC) power from an HVDC power line, generating an alternating current (AC) component indicative of a status of the first unit, and adding the AC component to the HVDC power line. Further, the power transmission system includes a second unit for carrying out the steps of generating a direct current (DC) voltage to transfer the HVDC power on the HVDC power line, wherein the HVDC power line is coupled between the first unit and the second unit, detecting a presence or an absence of the added AC component in the HVDC power line, and determining the status of the first unit based on the added AC component.
US09438039B2	Demand response determination apparatus and method for determining a power threshold using an over-consumption false positive rate and unloading electric power equipment when the power threshold is exceeded A demand response determination apparatus and a demand response determination method thereof are provided. The demand response determination apparatus connects to an electric power system via a network. The demand response determination apparatus receives power consumption information from the electric power system and decides a power consumption mode of the electric power system according to the power consumption information. The demand response determination apparatus calculates demanded power according to the power consumption mode and determines whether the demanded power exceeds a power consumption threshold. The demand response determination apparatus informs the electric power system to unload electric power equipment when the demanded power exceeds the power consumption threshold.
US09438025B1	Radiation hardened chip level integrated recovery apparatus, methods, and integrated circuits Methods, apparatus, and integrated circuits that provide radiation hardening through chip level integrated recovery are provided. The apparatus may include first and second circuits within a partition of an integrated circuit and a state machine configured to monitor current leakage of the first circuit while the first circuit is powered on and to power on the second circuit and power off the first circuit when the monitored first circuit current leakage exceeds a first current leakage threshold. The method may include powering a first circuit of a partition within an integrated circuit, monitoring current leakage of the first circuit while the first circuit is powered on and the second circuit is powered off, and powering off the first circuit and powering on the second circuit when the monitored first circuit current leakage exceeds a first current leakage threshold.
US09438023B2	Power entry unit electrical power distribution system An electrical power system including a first power entry unit, at least one receptacle and a second power entry unit. The at least one receptacle is electrically connected to the first power entry unit. The second power entry unit is electrically connectable to the at least one receptacle. The first power entry unit and/or the second power entry unit include at least one detection device. Either the first power entry unit or the second power entry unit being a selected power entry unit and the remaining one being an other power entry unit. The detection device being configured to detect an attempted electrical power connection of both the selected power entry unit and the other power entry unit to the at least one receptacle.
US09438015B2	Triangle flap arc vent An arc blast vent for an electrical equipment enclosure has a plate forming a part of the enclosure with triangular cutouts arranged within a regular polygonal area of the plate and having a frame of the plate material in between them. Substantially identical triangle shaped flaps, each having hold downs along and adjacent to a first leg of the triangle for attachment to the plate, and in from the first leg have a line of perforations through the triangle forming a weakened area for a deformable hinge. Each of the triangle shaped metal flaps have the second and third legs with their edges resting without tenacious engagement on the frame of the plate material.
US09438013B2	Drive assembly for an electrical switching apparatus racking assembly A drive assembly for an electrical switching apparatus racking assembly is provided. The drive assembly includes a positioning assembly, a motor assembly, and a control assembly. The positioning assembly is structured to impart movement to said carriage assembly and to move said carriage assembly from said first position to said second position. The motor assembly is structured to impart movement to said positioning assembly. The control assembly is structured to control said motor assembly. The control assembly is in electronic communication with the motor assembly. The motor assembly is operatively coupled to the positioning assembly.
US09438008B1	Temperature insensitive external cavity lasers on silicon A technique related to a semiconductor chip is provided. An optical gain chip is attached to a semiconductor substrate. An integrated photonic circuit is on the semiconductor substrate, and the optical gain chip is optically coupled to the integrated photonic circuit thereby forming a laser cavity. The integrated photonic circuit includes an active intra-cavity thermo-optic optical phase tuner element, an intra-cavity optical band-pass filter, and an output coupler band-reflect optical grating filter with passive phase compensation. The active intra-cavity thermo-optic optical phase tuner element, the intra-cavity optical band-pass filter, and the output coupler band-reflect optical grating filter with passive phase compensation are optically coupled together.
US09437993B2	Device for imparting electrical energy to one or more plugs A device for imparting electrical energy to one or more male plugs, the device including at least three female receiving ports for receiving the blades from one or more male plugs wherein the at least three female receiving ports are positioned within the device side by side such that the first female receiving port is capable of receiving a hot blade from the male plug, the second female receiving port is capable of receiving a neutral blade from the male plug and the third female receiving port is capable of receiving a hot blade from the male plug.
US09437981B2	Cable connector assembly with improved grounding structure A cable connector assembly comprises a pair of cables each having two conductive wires, a grounding layer, and an outer jacket. The connector is electrically connected with the cables and has an insulative housing and a number of electrical contacts retained to the insulative housing. The electrical contacts include plural signal contacts electrically connected with the conductive wires, plural grounding contacts, and plural grounding pins backwardly integrally extending from the grounding contacts. The grounding pin is disposed between the outer jacket and the grounding layer to electrically connect with the grounding layer.
US09437980B2	Connector A connector includes a plurality of signal contacts and a plurality of non-signal contacts arranged on at least one contact array plane, a ground plate disposed on a ground plane parallel to the contact array plane so as to face the plurality of signal contacts and the plurality of non-signal contacts, and an insulator which holds the plurality of signal contacts, the plurality of non-signal contacts and the ground plate, at least one of the non-signal contacts being disposed between each of the signal contacts and other of the signal contacts, the ground plate having at least one opening at a location facing the at least one of the non-signal contacts disposed between each of the signal contacts and other of the signal contacts, none of the signal contacts being disposed on the ground plane.
US09437976B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector (100) includes: an insulative housing (10) defining a number of receiving spaces (120); a number of contacts (20) mounted to the insulative housing for transmitting high speed signal, each of the contacts including a mating portion (21), a mounting portion (22) received in one of the receiving spaces, and a connecting portion (23) connecting the mating portion and the mounting portion, a gap formed between each mounting portion and corresponding one of the receiving spaces; and a number of insulative members (52) inserted into the receiving spaces respectively to fill the gaps to adjust the impedance of the contacts.
US09437964B2	RF coaxial cable connector with retention member An electrical connector assembly is adapted for electrical connecting and retained on a wireless module with a receptacle RF connector mounted on an end of the wireless module is provided. The assembly includes a coaxial cable connector including a connector end and a coaxial cable extending from the connector end and a retention member including a main base and a retention cavity in front of the main base, the main base defining a corresponding cable receiving groove through a front end and a rear end of the main base. The retention cavity further defines a projecting portion elastically pressing against a surface of the end of the wireless module when the end of the wireless module, the receptacle RF connector and the connector end of the coaxial cable connector are receiving in the retention cavity and the coaxial cable go through the cable receiving groove.
US09437963B1	Strain reliever having two different portions encircling two different portions of a connector of a cable A strain reliever that relieves strain on a cable (particularly a Lightning® cable) having a connector with a first portion and a second portion that are coaxially disposed and of different widths so as to form a first shoulder therebetween. The width of the cable is different from the width of the second portion of the connector of the cable so as to form a second shoulder therebetween. The strain reliever includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion encircles the first portion of the connector of the cable. The second portion extends from the first portion, and encircles the second portion of the connector of the cable.
US09437960B2	Dustproof cover for charging port of electronic device and charging base corresponding to dustproof cover A dustproof cover of the disclosure is inserted into a charging port of an electronic device to prevent dust entering into the charging port. The charging port includes a pair of charging terminals. The dustproof cover includes a plug, a cover body fixed with one end of the plug, a plurality of metal connecting posts, and a conductive part located between the plug and the cover body. A first end of each metal connecting post extends into the plug, and a second end of each metal connecting post is electrically connected to the conductive part. In use, the plug is inserted into the charging port, the plurality of metal connecting posts contact the charging terminals, the conductive part is electrically connected to the charging terminals, and the cover body covers the charging port. The present disclosure also discloses a charging base corresponding to the dustproof cover.
US09437959B2	Slim line while in use cover and methods for making and using the same In one embodiment, a while in use cover assembly 10, comprising: a lid 14 hingedly attached to a base 12 having a back wall 64; and socket assembly 52,152 comprising a receiver socket 20 attached to the lid 14 and/or the base 12, and located between the lid 14 and the base 12; wherein the receiver socket 20 comprises a face 122 with blade apertures configured to receive a power cord plug 86; wherein the socket face 122 changes orientation with respect to the back wall 64 when the lid is opened; and wherein the while in use cover assembly 10 is configured to be attached to an outlet socket 50.
US09437952B2	Connector assembly having self-adjusting male and female connector elements A connector assembly includes a male connector element that is manually expandable to control tightness of fit in a and a female connector element. The male connector element is having a first and a second portion configured by longitudinally bi-furcating the male connector element and includes a chamfered portion, a radially adjusting mechanism and a screw. The chamfered portion is axially configured on male connector element and receives the radially adjusting mechanism that moves the first and second portions relative to each other. The screw axially passes through male connector element and radially moves the radially adjusting mechanism to adjust the gap between the first and second portions to adjust external dimension of male connector element. The female connector element is having a tubular configuration that receives male connector element and is having a plurality of longitudinal slits configured thereon, walls of the female connector element are urged radially inwards towards the male connector element to maintain contact there-between by a spring element.
US09437949B2	Electrical cable assembly configured to be mounted onto an array of electrical contacts Cable assembly including a carrier board having a terminating side and a mounting side that face in opposite directions. The terminating side includes a contact array of electrical contacts. The mounting side includes a mating array of electrical contacts. The contact array and the mating array are interconnected to each other through conductive pathways of the carrier board. The contact array along the terminating side overlaps with the mating array along the mounting side. The carrier board is configured to be mounted onto an electrical component having a two-dimensional array. The cable assembly also includes a plurality of cables having cable end portions that are coupled to the carrier board. The cable assembly includes a shield assembly that extends over the terminating side and covers the cable end portions and the contact array.
US09437940B1	Terminal block connector A terminal block connector, having a front shell, a rear shell, a metal contact assembly, wire insertion openings, and pullable caps. The metal contact assembly is formed by front flexible metal strips and rear metal strips. The front flexible metal strips are tilted upwardly. Top portions of the rear metal strips have protruding strips. The tilted portions of the front flexible metal strips are positioned below the protruding strips and are in contact therewith. Bulges are provided on the top portion of the front shell each having two troughs on its two sides. One end of a pullable cap is a pulling grip, another end of which contains two symmetrical press strips. The symmetrical press strips are inserted into corresponding troughs. A press tip is formed at a bottom part of each press strip. Recesses corresponding to the press tips are provided on the front flexible metal strips.
US09437932B1	Two-arm delta mode spiral antenna A two-arm delta mode spiral antenna includes a dielectric substrate having an upper side, a lower side, and an outward edge. A flat top cone with cylinder sidewall is attached to the lower side of the dielectric substrate, forming a scalable feed cavity. Two spiraling conductive radiator arms are mounted on the dielectric substrate. A magic-T is electrically connected to the two spiraling conductive radiator arms.
US09437925B2	Communication device and antenna element therein A communication device including a ground element and an antenna element is provided. The antenna element is disposed adjacent to an edge of the ground element. The antenna element includes a loop metal element and a branch metal element. The loop metal element has a first end and a second end. The first end is coupled to a signal source. The second end is coupled to the ground element. The loop metal element includes a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is separated from the second segment by a gap. The first segment includes the first end, and the second segment includes the second end. The branch metal element has a third end and a fourth end. The third end is coupled through an inductive element to a connection point on the loop metal element. The fourth end is open.
US09437917B2	Antenna designs According to one embodiment of the invention, a network device comprises a plurality of antennas comprising a first antenna, wherein the first antenna comprises: a first set of one or more elements that form an Alford loop and that is configured for electrical excitation via a current transmitted over a conductive medium from a signal source and a second set of one or more elements that is configured for electromagnetic induction without contact with the conductive medium from the signal source.
US09437908B2	Dielectric waveguide filter with direct coupling and alternative cross-coupling A dielectric waveguide filter comprising a block of dielectric material including a plurality of resonators defined by a plurality of slots defined in the block of dielectric material. The resonators are arranged on the block of dielectric material in one or more rows and columns. First and second RF signal input/output electrodes are defined on the block of dielectric material. A first direct RF signal transmission path for the transmission of an RF signal is defined by the first and second RF signal input/output electrodes and the plurality of resonators. In one embodiment, internal windows define a first direct RF signal transmission means and additional RF signal transmission means define alternate or cross-coupling paths for the transmission of the RF signal from resonators in one column to resonators in another column. In one embodiment, the filter is comprised of two separate blocks of dielectric material which have been coupled together.
US09437906B2	Electrode mesh galvanic cells The present invention is directed to the fabrication of thin aluminum anode batteries using a highly reproducible process that enables high volume manufacturing of the galvanic cells. A thin aluminum anode galvanic cell having a meshed structure is provided which includes a catalytic metal layer positioned on a patterned silicon substrate, an etched dielectric layer positioned to cover the catalytic metal layer, the catalytic metal layer serving as an etch stop for the etched dielectric layer and an etched aluminum layer positioned to cover the dielectric layer, the dielectric layer serving as an etch stop for the etched aluminum layer.
US09437903B2	Method for cooling a lithium-ion battery pack Systems are disclosed for battery modules with cooling systems. In accordance with disclosed embodiments, the cooling system may be disposed against an external surface of a housing of the battery module. The cooling system may utilize a coolant to remove heat generated by cells within the battery module, to prevent the cells from aging prematurely. Embodiments of the cooling system may include cold plates, tubes, fins, and plates, or a combination thereof, which may route the coolant along the surface of the battery module housing. Such features may create a large effective cooling surface against the battery module housing to promote a high heat transfer rate from the cells to the coolant.
US09437893B2	In-membrane micro fuel cell An in-membrane micro fuel cell comprises an electrically-insulating membrane that is permissive to the flow of cations, such as protons, and a pair of electrodes deposited on channels formed in the membrane. The channels are arranged as conduits for fluids, and define a membrane ridge between the channels. The electrodes are porous and include catalysts for promoting the liberation of a proton and an electron from a chemical species and/or or the recombination of a proton and an electron with a chemical specie. The fuel cell may be provided a biosensor, an electrochemical sensor, a microfluidic device, or other microscale devices fabricated in the fuel cell membrane.
US09437892B2	System and method for converting chemical energy into electrical energy using nano-engineered porous network materials An energy conversion device for conversion of chemical energy into electricity. The energy conversion device has a first and second electrode. A substrate is present that has a porous semiconductor or dielectric layer placed thereover. The porous semiconductor or dielectric layer can be a nano-engineered structure. A porous catalyst material is placed on at least a portion of the porous semiconductor or dielectric layer such that at least some of the porous catalyst material enters the nano-engineered structure of the porous semiconductor or dielectric layer, thereby forming an intertwining region.
US09437890B2	Purge assembly for a fuel cell system A fuel cell purge apparatus for a fuel cell system has a separator defining a chamber for receiving a recirculated fuel stream including a fluid and impurities. The apparatus has a drain conduit with an outer passage connected to the chamber. The outer passage forms a fluid trap to collect the fluid. The drain conduit also has an inner passage nested within the outer passage through the fluid trap for delivering the impurities to a purge valve. The inner passage has a free end extending into the chamber of the separator.
US09437886B2	Fuel cell system and method for stopping power generation in fuel cell system An oxygen-containing gas supply device of a fuel cell system is equipped with an oxygen-containing gas supply flow passage that communicates with an oxygen-containing gas inlet of a fuel cell. An oxygen-containing gas discharge flow passage communicates with an oxygen-containing gas outlet of the fuel cell. A compressor is disposed in the oxygen-containing gas supply flow passage and a supply flow passage sealing valve is disposed downstream from the compressor in the oxygen-containing gas supply flow passage. A discharge flow passage sealing valve is disposed in the oxygen-containing gas discharge flow passage, and a discharge fluid circulation flow passage that communicates with the oxygen-containing gas discharge flow passage is disposed at a location upstream from the discharge flow passage sealing valve, while also communicating with the oxygen-containing gas supply flow passage at a location upstream from the compressor.
US09437885B2	Fuel cell stack A fuel cell stack is provided that includes unit cells that include a manifold, an open end plate that is disposed at one side of the unit cells and that has a reaction gas inlet and outlet that are connected to the manifold, and a closed end plate that is disposed at the other side of the unit cells and that closes the manifold. In particular, the open end plate includes a first slanted surface that adjusts a flow of a reaction gas at a reaction gas inlet and a manifold interface. A first alignment protrusion forms the first slanted surface and that aligns the unit cells, and the closed end plate includes a second slanted surface that adjusts flow of a reaction gas at the manifold interface. Additionally, a second alignment protrusion forms the second slanted surface and aligns the unit cells accordingly.
US09437884B2	Self-tuning thermal control of an automotive fuel cell propulsion system A fuel cell system that employs an on-line self-tuning algorithm that provides temperature control of a fuel cell stack in response to disturbances on the system. The system includes a thermal sub-system having a cooling fluid pump that pumps a cooling fluid through the fuel cell stack, a temperature sensor that measures the temperature of the cooling fluid out of the stack, a radiator that cooling the cooling fluid from the fuel cell stack and a by-pass valve that selectively controls how much of the cooling fluid flows through the radiator or by-passes the radiator. A controller controls the position of the by-pass valve in response to a temperature signal from the temperature sensor. The controller calculates a plurality of variables and a dead-time value, and determines whether the dead-time value should be increased, decreased or kept the same based on an estimate of a dead-time plant model.
US09437870B2	Nano-silicon composite lithium ion battery anode material coated with poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) as carbon source and preparation method thereof A high-performance new silicon composite material for a negative electrode of a lithium ion battery and a preparation method thereof by utilizes a conductive polymer PEDOT and a water solution dispersant PSS as a coating layer of nano-Si powder and a carbon source. The Si/C composite material taking a Si-containing type lithium storage material as a main active substance is prepared by firstly polymerizing PEDOT: PSS on the surface of Si through in-situ polymerization reaction and then performing high-temperature carbonization treatment on a prepared Si/PEDOT: PSS composite under an inert atmosphere. The prepared composite material is doped with a small amount of S element. Nano-Si particles are uniformly embedded in a PEDOT: PSS polymer and a carbon matrix. A high yield is achieved by using cheap raw materials and a simple and environment-friendly process. The prepared Si/C composite material has very low initial irreversible capacity loss (2.8%) and excellent charge-discharge.
US09437869B2	Positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the positive electrode It is an object of the present invention to provide a positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries that can suppress decreases in the discharge capacity and discharge voltage even when continuous charging is performed at high temperature and that can also suppress decreases in the discharge voltage and energy density even in the charge and discharge after the continuous charging, and to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that uses the positive electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material composed of a mixture containing lithium cobalt oxide 21 having a surface to which an erbium compound 22 is partly adhered and lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide and a binder. The content of the lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide is 1% by mass or more and 50% by mass or less relative to the total amount of the positive electrode active material.
US09437864B2	Asymmetric battery having a semi-solid cathode and high energy density anode Embodiments described herein relate generally to devices, systems and methods of producing high energy density batteries having a semi-solid cathode that is thicker than the anode. An electrochemical cell can include a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector and an ion-permeable membrane disposed between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector. The ion-permeable membrane is spaced a first distance from the positive electrode current collector and at least partially defines a positive electroactive zone. The ion-permeable membrane is spaced a second distance from the negative electrode current collector and at least partially defines a negative electroactive zone. The second distance is less than the first distance. A semi-solid cathode that includes a suspension of an active material and a conductive material in a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte is disposed in the positive electroactive zone, and an anode is disposed in the negative electroactive zone.
US09437863B2	Surface coating method and a method for reducing irreversible capacity loss of a lithium rich transitional oxide electrode A surface coating method and a method for reducing irreversible capacity loss of a lithium rich transitional oxide electrode are disclosed herein. In an example of the surface coating method, a dispersion of a lithium rich transitional oxide powder and an oxide precursor or a phosphate precursor in a liquid is formed. The liquid is evaporated. The forming and evaporating steps are carried out in the absence of air to prevent precipitation of the oxide precursor or the phosphate precursor. Hydrolyzation of the oxide precursor or the phosphate precursor is controlled under predetermined conditions, and an intermediate product is formed. The intermediate product is annealed to form an oxide coated lithium rich transitional oxide powder or the phosphate coated lithium rich transitional oxide powder.
US09437860B2	Traction battery assembly having snap-in bus bar module A traction battery includes a cell having a terminal defining a surface with a top and at least one sidewall. The traction battery also includes a busbar having an interior defining a top engaging with the top of the terminal, and at least one side surface engaging with the sidewall. One of the side surface and the sidewall includes a projection and the other of the side surface and the sidewall includes a receptacle for receiving the projection.
US09437859B2	Battery cell interconnect and voltage sensing assembly and a battery module A battery cell interconnect and voltage sensing assembly is provided. The assembly includes a plastic frame member having a first side and a second side, and first, second, third and fourth elongated apertures extending therethrough. The assembly further includes an elongated interconnect member coupled to the plastic frame member and extends past both the first and third apertures. The elongated interconnect member is coupled to both a first electrical terminal of a first battery cell extending through the first elongated aperture, and a first electrical terminal of a second battery cell extending through the third elongated aperture. The elongated interconnect member has a spade lug coupled to a wire harness assembly.
US09437851B2	Electric storage battery support apparatus An apparatus for supporting a battery comprises a tray including a support surface, a recess having a elevation that is lower than an elevation of the support surface, ribs located in the recess and extending to the elevation of the support surface, thermal insulation supported on the ribs and the upper surface, and a battery contacting the insulation and supported on the ribs and the support surface.
US09437843B2	Organic light emitting diode display device and method of manufacturing the same The OLED display device includes a substrate, a first electrode located on the substrate, a pixel defining layer located on the first electrode to expose a part of the first electrode, a fluorine-based polymer layer located on the pixel defining layer, an organic layer located on the first electrode, and a second electrode located on the entire surface of the substrate. The method of manufacturing the OLED display device includes forming a first electrode on a substrate, forming a pixel defining layer on the first electrode, forming a fluorine-based polymer layer on the pixel defining layer, patterning the fluorine-based polymer layer and the pixel defining layer by laser ablation to open a part of the first electrode, forming an organic layer on the opened first electrode, and forming a second electrode on the entire surface of the substrate.
US09437841B2	OLED display structure and OLED display device Disclosed are an OLED display structure and an OLED display device having the OLED display structure. The OLED display structure comprises: a substrate (10), and an OLED pixel layer (20), an o-light and e-light splitting and converting device (5) and a circular polarizer layer (6) which are formed on the substrate (10) in sequence; the o-light and e-light splitting and converting device (5) is adapted to divide a light beam into o-light and e-light, and to convert the o-light and the e-light into circularly polarized light which has the same polarization state as the circular polarizer layer (6); the circular polarizer layer (6) is adapted to allow passage of the circularly polarized light which has the same polarization state as it. With the display structure, the light transmittance is improved, and the pixel current of the OLED pixel layer (20) is reduced, and thereby energy is saved.
US09437836B2	Method for improving the reflectivity of aluminum in OLED structure The present disclosure discloses a method for improving the reflectivity of aluminum in OLED structure. The OLED structure includes a top ITO layer, a middle reflective layer made by aluminum and a bottom ITO layer. The method comprises; forming a bottom ITO layer; coating the aluminous reflective layer on the surface of the bottom ITO layer and forming an aluminum oxide layer on the surface of the aluminous reflective layer uniformly by introducing plenty of oxygen gas simultaneously; adjusting the velocity of coating the aluminous reflective until the aluminum oxide layer is formed; and forming an top ITO layer on the surface of the aluminum oxide layer. The present disclosure can repair and cover the defects on the surface of the metal aluminum film and can reduce the concavities and hillocks on the surface of the metal aluminum film. Consequently, the reflectivity of aluminum in OLED structure is improved.
US09437835B2	Transparent infrared-to-visible up-conversion device Embodiments of the invention are directed to a transparent up-conversion device having two transparent electrodes. In embodiments of the invention, the up-conversion device comprises a stack of layers proceeding from a transparent substrate including an anode, a hole blocking layer, an IR sensitizing layer, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, a cathode, and an antireflective layer. In an embodiment of the invention, the up-conversion device includes an IR pass visible blocking layer.
US09437816B2	Phase change memory structures and methods A method of forming a phase change material memory cell includes forming a number of memory structure regions, wherein the memory structure regions include a bottom electrode material and a sacrificial material, forming a number of insulator regions between the number of memory structure regions, forming a number of openings between the number of insulator regions and forming a contoured surface on the number of insulator regions by removing the sacrificial material and a portion of the number of insulator regions, forming a number of dielectric spacers on the number of insulator regions, forming a contoured opening between the number of insulator regions and exposing the bottom electrode material by removing a portion of the number of dielectric spacers, and forming a phase change material in the opening between the number of insulator regions.
US09437813B2	Method for forming resistance-switching memory cell with multiple electrodes using nano-particle hard mask In a fabrication process for reversible resistance-switching memory cells, a bottom electrode layer is coated with nano-particles. The nano-particles are used to etch the bottom electrode layer, forming multiple narrow, spaced apart bottom electrode structures for each memory cell. A resistance-switching material is then deposited between and above the bottom electrode structures, followed by a top electrode layer. Or, insulation is deposited between and above the bottom electrode structures, followed by planarizing and a wet etch to expose top surfaces of the bottom electrode structures, then deposition of the resistance-switching material and the top electrode layer. When the resistance state of the memory cell is switched, there is a smaller area in the bottom electrode for a current path, so the switching resistance is higher and the switching current is lower.
US09437806B2	Piezoelectric thin film, method of manufacturing the same, piezoelectric thin film manufacturing apparatus and liquid ejection head A piezoelectric thin film is manufactured by sequentially executing: a step of coating a substrate by applying a coating solution containing an organic solvent and a piezoelectric thin film precursor to form a coating layer; a step of evaporating the organic solvent from the coating layer in a windless environment to obtain a dried coating layer containing the piezoelectric thin film precursor; and a step of heating the dried coating layer to form a piezoelectric thin film from the dried coating layer containing the piezoelectric thin film precursor.
US09437803B2	Piezoelectric actuator A piezoelectric actuator, in particular for injectors in internal combustion engines, is provided which includes a piezoelectric module including a ceramic body and two end pieces which clamp the ceramic body axially in place, and an electrical connecting element which is secured on the piezoelectric module and which includes two contact plates leading to the ceramic body. To increase the robustness of the connecting element and to avoid fractures in the contact plates under high vibrational stresses, the contact plates are designed as one-piece metal stampings including at least partially embossed stamped edges.
US09437801B2	Piezoelectric device and method for using same A piezoelectric device, which has bipolar polarization-electric field (Pr-E) hysteresis characteristics of a piezoelectric material asymmetrically biased, when a first and second coercive electric fields respectively having smaller and larger absolute values are defined as Ec1 and Ec2 and a bias ratio of the coercive electric field is defined as [(Ec2+Ec1)/(Ec2−Ec1)]×100[%], includes a piezoelectric element unit including a piezoelectric body film whose bias ratio is 20% or more, the piezoelectric element unit operating with an electric field intensity smaller than that of the first coercive electric field. The piezoelectric device includes a refresh voltage applying circuit configured to apply a voltage to maintain operation performance of the relevant device, the voltage having an electric field intensity larger than the electric field intensity for operating the device and being equal to or less than three times \|Ec1\|, such that a polarized state of the piezoelectric body film is restored.
US09437785B2	Light emitting diodes including integrated backside reflector and die attach Light emitting diodes include a silicon carbide substrate having first and second opposing faces, a diode region on the first face, anode and cathode contacts on the diode region opposite the silicon carbide substrate and a hybrid reflector on the silicon carbide substrate opposite the diode region. The hybrid reflector includes a transparent layer having an index of refraction that is lower than the silicon carbide substrate, and a reflective layer on the transparent layer, opposite the substrate. A die attach layer may be provided on the hybrid reflector, opposite the silicon carbide substrate. A barrier layer may be provided between the hybrid reflector and the die attach layer.
US09437781B2	Light emitting device Disclosed is a light emitting device which includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer, a first current blocking layer, a second current blocking layer arranged on the light emitting structure to be separated from each other, a light-transmitting conductive layer arranged on the first current blocking layer, the second current blocking layer and the light emitting structure, first electrode and second electrode electrically coupled to the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer, respectively, a through hole formed through the light-transmitting conductive layer, the second conductive semiconductor layer and the active layer to a portion of the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a through electrode arranged inside the through hole. Here, the through electrode does not overlap the first current blocking layer in a vertical direction.
US09437777B2	Semiconductor device with antenna and light-emitting element When a conductive layer occupying a large area is provided in a coiled antenna portion, it has been difficult to supply power stably. A memory circuit portion and a coiled antenna portion are disposed by being stacked together; therefore, it is possible to prevent a current from flowing through a conductive layer occupying a large area included in the memory circuit portion, and thus, power saving can be achieved. In addition, the memory circuit portion and the coiled antenna portion are disposed by being stacked together, and thus, it is possible to use a space efficiently. Therefore, downsizing can be realized.
US09437772B2	Method of manufacture of advanced heterojunction transistor and transistor laser Methods of manufacture of advanced heterojunction transistors and transistor lasers, and their related structures, are described herein. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US09437765B2	Solar cell module and solar cell module manufacturing method A solar cell module includes: a plurality of solar cell elements that have electrodes on surfaces thereof; a tab wire that connects the electrodes of the plurality of solar cell elements; and a resin portion that is provided in a discontinuous manner on the surfaces and that bonds the tab wire and the surfaces to each other. The tab wire extends in a predetermined direction along the electrodes, and the resin portion is discontinuously arranged along the tab wire. A bus bar electrode extends in a non-linear shape. The bus bar electrode is provided such that the bus bar electrode passes a plurality of vertices that are each positioned spaced apart in a short-side direction of the bus bar electrode from a center position of the bus bar electrode in the short-side direction. The resin portion is provided avoiding the vicinity of the vertices.
US09437763B2	Trench process and structure for backside contact solar cells with polysilicon doped regions A solar cell includes polysilicon P-type and N-type doped regions on a backside of a substrate, such as a silicon wafer. A trench structure separates the P-type doped region from the N-type doped region. Each of the P-type and N-type doped regions may be formed over a thin dielectric layer. The trench structure may include a textured surface for increased solar radiation collection. Among other advantages, the resulting structure increases efficiency by providing isolation between adjacent P-type and N-type doped regions, thereby preventing recombination in a space charge region where the doped regions would have touched.
US09437762B2	Elevated pocket pixels, imaging devices and systems including the same and method of forming the same An elevated photosensor for image sensors and methods of forming the photosensor. The photosensor may have light sensors having indentation features including, but not limited to, v-shaped, u-shaped, or other shaped features. Light sensors having such an indentation feature can redirect incident light that is not absorbed by one portion of the photosensor to another portion of the photosensor for additional absorption. In addition, the elevated photosensors reduce the size of the pixel cells while reducing leakage, image lag, and barrier problems.
US09437745B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same The present invention provides a semiconductor device which is provided with an oxide semiconductor TFT that can be reduced in the parasitic capacitance by suppressing process damage to a channel, while reducing the channel length (L). A semiconductor device of the present invention is provided with: a gate electrode (3) that is provided on a substrate (1); a first insulating layer (5) that is formed on the gate electrode (3); an island-shaped oxide semiconductor layer (7) that is formed on the first insulating layer (5); a source electrode (11) and a drain electrode (13) that are electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer (7); and a protective layer (9) that covers the upper surface of the oxide semiconductor layer (7). The source electrode (11) and/or the drain electrode (13) is arranged on a portion of the side faces of the oxide semiconductor layer (7) and a portion of the side faces of the protective layer (9), but does not cover the upper face of the protective layer (9).
US09437741B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a transistor having excellent electrical characteristics is provided. Alternatively, a semiconductor device having a high aperture ratio and including a capacitor capable of increasing capacitance is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film overlapping the gate electrode, an oxide insulating film in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, a first oxygen barrier film between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor film, and a second oxygen barrier film in contact with the first oxygen barrier film. The oxide semiconductor film and the oxide insulating film are provided on an inner side of the first oxygen barrier film and the second oxygen barrier film.
US09437739B2	Finfet seal ring A semiconductor device includes a first front-end-of-line (FEOL) seal ring on a substrate, the seal ring comprising ring-shaped fin-like structures, integrated circuitry formed on the substrate, the integrated circuitry being circumscribed by the first seal ring, an isolation zone between the seal ring and the integrated circuitry, the isolation zone comprising a set of fin structures, each fin structure facing a same direction.
US09437732B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a fin-shaped semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate and extends in a first direction with a first insulating film around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer. A pillar-shaped semiconductor layer resides on the fin-shaped semiconductor layer. A width of the bottom of the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, perpendicular to the first direction is equal to a width of the top of the fin-shaped semiconductor layer perpendicular to the first direction. A gate insulating film is around the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a metal gate electrode is around the gate insulating film. A metal gate line extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction of the fin-shaped semiconductor layer and is connected to the metal gate electrode.
US09437731B2	Semiconductor device having vertical channel, resistive memory device including the same, and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, a plurality of pillars extending to a direction perpendicular to a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a stress providing layer formed in the semiconductor substrate between pillars and forming a junction with the semiconductor substrate below each pillar to cause lattice deformation in the pillar, a source region having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type formed in the semiconductor substrate below the pillar, a drain region having the second conductivity type formed in an upper portion of the pillar, a gate insulating layer formed on a lateral surface of the pillar and a surface of the stress providing layer, and a gate electrode formed to surround the lateral surface of the pillar.
US09437727B2	Semiconductor element including active region, low resistance layer and vertical drift portion A drain drift portion is a first parallel p-n structure, largely corresponding to a portion directly below a p-type base region forming an active region, formed by first n-type regions and first p-type regions being alternately and repeatedly joined. The periphery of the drain drift portion is an edge termination region formed of a second parallel p-n structure aligned contiguously to the first parallel p-n structure and formed by second n-type regions and second p-type regions being alternately and repeatedly joined. An n-type buffer layer is provided between the first and second parallel p-n structures and an n+ type drain layer. A p+ type drain region is selectively provided inside the n+ type drain layer in the edge termination region, penetrating the n+ type drain layer in the depth direction.
US09437710B2	Method for improving transistor performance through reducing the salicide interface resistance An embodiment of the invention reduces the external resistance of a transistor by utilizing a silicon germanium alloy for the source and drain regions and a nickel silicon germanium self-aligned silicide (i.e., salicide) layer to form the contact surface of the source and drain regions. The interface of the silicon germanium and the nickel silicon germanium silicide has a lower specific contact resistivity based on a decreased metal-semiconductor work function between the silicon germanium and the silicide and the increased carrier mobility in silicon germanium versus silicon. The silicon germanium may be doped to further tune its electrical properties. A reduction of the external resistance of a transistor equates to increased transistor performance both in switching speed and power consumption.
US09437702B2	Electronic component manufacturing method and electrode structure It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic component manufacturing method, capable of suppressing reduction in a trench opening and suppressing diffusion of a metal film embedded in a trench. An embodiment of the present invention is an electronic component manufacturing method, including the steps of: forming a first electrode constituting layer (e.g., a TiAl film) in a recess (e.g., a trench) formed in a workpiece; forming an ultrathin barrier layer (e.g., a TiAlN film) by forming a nitride layer by plasma-nitriding a surface of the first electrode constituting layer; and forming a second electrode constituting layer (e.g., an Al wiring layer) on the ultrathin barrier layer.
US09437701B2	Integrated circuit devices with counter-doped conductive gates Integrated circuit devices with counter-doped conductive gates. The devices have a semiconductor substrate that has a substrate surface. The devices also have a first well of a first conductivity type, a source of a second conductivity type, and a drain of the second conductivity type. A channel extends between the source and the drain. A conductive gate extends across the channel. The conductive gate includes a first gate region and a second gate region of the second conductivity type and a third gate region of the first conductivity type. The third gate region extends between the first and second gate regions. The devices further include a gate dielectric that extends between the conductive gate and the substrate and also include a silicide region in electrical communication with the first, second, and third gate regions. The methods include methods of manufacturing the devices.
US09437698B2	Semiconductor device including a gate structure wrapped around a fin structure Methods and structure for a semiconductor device is disclosed, which provides a semiconductor device that includes an integral semiconductor fin structure having a middle section defining a channel region of the semiconductor device. The middle section includes an embedded root portion protruding from an insulating surface on a substrate and a suspended overhead portion arranged above the root portion, which is separated from the overhead portion by a predetermined distance. The root portion and the overhead portion respectively define a substantially identical channel direction. The device further includes a gate structure disposed over the fin structure at the middle section. The gate structure wraps around a cross-section of the overhead portion and caps over the protruded portion of the root portion.
US09437697B2	Semiconductor device having buried gate structure and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a device isolation region defining an active region in a substrate, and gate structures buried in the active region of the substrate. At least one of the gate structures includes a gate trench, a gate insulating layer conformally formed on an inner wall of the gate trench, a gate barrier pattern conformally formed on the gate insulating layer disposed on a lower portion of the gate trench, a gate electrode pattern formed on the gate barrier pattern and filling the lower portion of the gate trench, an electrode protection layer conformally formed on the gate insulating layer disposed on an upper portion of the gate trench to be in contact with the gate barrier pattern and the gate electrode pattern, a buffer oxide layer conformally formed on the electrode protection layer, and a gate capping insulating layer formed on the buffer oxide layer to fill the upper portion of the gate trench.
US09437695B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate in which a recess is provided on a back surface thereof, and a shape of the recess is reflected on a surface of a metal film which is also provided on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US09437690B2	Silicon carbide substrate, semiconductor device, and methods for manufacturing them A silicon carbide substrate has a first main surface, and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. A region including at least one main surface of the first and second main surfaces is made of single-crystal silicon carbide. In the one main surface, sulfur atoms are present at not less than 60×1010 atoms/cm2 and not more than 2000×1010 atoms/cm2, and carbon atoms as an impurity are present at not less than 3 at % and not more than 25 at %. Thereby, a silicon carbide substrate having a stable surface, a semiconductor device using the substrate, and methods for manufacturing them can be provided.
US09437675B1	eDRAM for planar III-V semiconductor devices Electronic devices including eDRAM structures are formed with a semi-insulating III-V semiconductor layer that suppresses parasitic leakage between the eDRAM transistor and the buried plate of an operatively associated trench capacitor. A low bandgap III-V semiconductor layer is used to form the buried plate.
US09437666B2	OLED display device that prevents shorting of interconnections during manufacture thereof An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a sealant arranged between the first and second substrates to adhere the first and second substrates together, a plurality of interconnections arranged on one of the first and second substrates and a plurality of cladding parts covering at least a portion of each of the plurality of interconnections at a location that corresponds to the sealant, each of the cladding parts including a material having a higher melting point than that of the interconnections. By including the cladding parts, a short circuit between the interconnections caused by heat applied to the sealant can be prevented, and safety and reliability of the OLED display device can be improved.
US09437664B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device may include a display area for displaying an image. The display device may further include a peripheral area that surrounds the display area. The display device may further include a pixel disposed in the display area. The display device may further include a bus line disposed in the peripheral area and configured to transmit a signal. The display device may further include a connection conductor set electrically connected to the bus line. The display device may further include a branch line electrically connected to the connection conductor set, configured to receive the signal from the bus line, and configured to transmit the signal to the pixel, wherein a portion of the branch line is disposed in the display area.
US09437663B2	Array substrate and fabrication method thereof, and display device An array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises: a pattern of an organic light-emitting layer (11); a pattern of an active layer (4a) located in a thin film transistor region and a pattern of an absorbing layer (4b) located in an open region, which are arranged in a same layer, wherein, the pattern of the absorbing layer (4b) is located in a light outgoing direction of the pattern of the organic light-emitting layer (11), and is made of a transparent material having an ultraviolet absorbing function. In this way, the pattern of the absorbing layer located in the open region can absorb ultraviolet light from outgoing light, so that damage to eyes caused by the outgoing light can be reduced; and the pattern of the active layer and the pattern of the absorbing layer are arranged in a same layer, which, as compared with a manner of separately arranging a layer of an ultraviolet absorbing layer in the array substrate, can reduce a thickness of the array substrate, which is conducive to lighting and thinning a display device.
US09437653B2	Stress sensing devices and methods Embodiments relate to stress sensors and methods of sensing stress. In an embodiment, a stress sensor comprises a vertical resistor. The vertical resistor can comprise, for example, an n-type resistor and can have various operating modes. The various operating modes can depend on a coupling configuration of terminals of the resistor and can provide varying piezo-coefficients with very similar temperature coefficients of resistances. Comparisons of resistances and piezo-coefficients in differing operating modes can provide a measure of mechanical stresses acting on the device.
US09437652B2	CMOS compatible thermopile with low impedance contact An integrated circuit containing CMOS transistors and an embedded thermoelectric device may be formed by forming active areas which provide transistor active areas for an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor of the CMOS transistors and provide n-type thermoelectric elements and p-type thermoelectric elements of the embedded thermoelectric device. Stretch contacts with lateral aspect ratios greater than 4:1 are formed over the n-type thermoelectric elements and p-type thermoelectric elements to provide electrical and thermal connections through metal interconnects to a thermal node of the embedded thermoelectric device. The stretch contacts are formed by forming contact trenches in a dielectric layer, filling the contact trenches with contact metal and subsequently removing the contact metal from over the dielectric layer. The stretch contacts are formed concurrently with contacts to the NMOS and PMOS transistors.
US09437643B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit device having pixel regions in a photodiode array region and having, in each of the pixel regions, a waveguide holding hole having a substantially perpendicular sidewall above the photodiode and embedded with a silicon oxide-based sidewall insulating film reaching the bottom surface of the hole and two or more silicon nitride-based insulating films having a higher refractive index on the inner side of the hole. This structure makes it possible to prevent deterioration of pixel characteristics of an imaging device, such as CMOS sensor, which is rapidly decreasing in size.
US09437638B2	Photodetector for imaging system There is disclosed a substrate including at least one photodetector, the photodetector having a first active area on a first surface of the substrate and a second active area on a second surface of the substrate, wherein the photodetector is provided with a conductive via electrically isolated from the substrate, said conductive via extending through the photodetector from the first surface of the substrate to the second surface of the substrate for connecting the first active area to the second surface of the substrate, the second surface providing electrical connections for the first and second active areas of the photodetector.
US09437631B2	Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method of the same, and electronic apparatus A solid-state imaging device includes plural photodiodes which are formed in a photodiode area of a unit pixel with no element separating area interposed therebetween and in which impurity concentrations of pn junction areas are different from each other.
US09437630B2	Semiconductor photomultiplier The present disclosure relates to photon detectors. In particular, the present disclosure relates to high sensitivity photon detectors such as semiconductor photomultipliers. A semiconductor photomultiplier is described which comprises an array of interconnected photosensitive microcells; and at least one dark count rate (DCR) suppression element associated with the array.
US09437624B2	Thin film transistor substrate, display apparatus comprising the same, method of manufacturing thin film transistor substrate, and method of manufacturing display apparatus A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, a flat display apparatus including the TFT substrate, a method of manufacturing the TFT substrate, and a method of manufacturing the flat display apparatus, the thin film transistor (TFT) substrate including a substrate; a first gate electrode on the substrate, the first gate electrode including a first branch electrode and a second branch electrode that are spaced apart from one another; a polysilicon layer on the first gate electrode and insulated from the first gate electrode; and a second gate electrode on the polysilicon layer, the second gate electrode being insulated from the polysilicon layer and overlying the first and second branch electrodes.
US09437623B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same It is an object to obtain a liquid crystal display device in which a contact defect is reduced, increase in contact resistance is suppressed, and an opening ratio is high. The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device having a substrate; a thin film transistor provided over the substrate, which includes a gate wiring, a gate insulating film, an island-shaped semiconductor film, a source region, and a drain region; a source wiring which is provided over the substrate and is connected to the source region; a drain electrode which is provided over the substrate and is connected to the drain region; an auxiliary capacitor provided over the substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode; and a protective film formed so as to cover the thin film transistor and the source wiring, where the protective film has an opening, and the auxiliary capacitor is formed in the area where the opening is formed.
US09437617B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to each other, wherein a first channel region of a driving transistor of the first pixel has a reverse U-shaped pattern, and a second channel region of a driving transistor of the second pixel has a pattern opposite the pattern of the first channel region.
US09437612B1	Three-dimensional memory A three-dimensional memory, which includes memory cell stacked structures. The memory cell stacked structures are stacked by a plurality of memory cell array structures and insulation layers alternatively, and each memory cell array structure includes word lines, active layers, composite layers and sources/drains. The word lines, the active layers and the composite layers extend along a Y direction. The active layers are disposed between the adjacent word lines. The composite layers are disposed between the adjacent word lines and the adjacent active layers, and each composite layer includes a first dielectric layer, a charge storage layer and a second dielectric layer in sequence from the active layers. The sources/drains are disposed in the active layers at equal intervals. A memory cell includes two adjacent sources/drains, the active layer between the two adjacent sources/drains, the first dielectric layer, the charge storage layer and the second dielectric layer on the active layer, and the word lines.
US09437609B2	Vertical channel-type 3D semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing the same A vertical channel-type 3D semiconductor memory device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes a multi-layer film formed by depositing alternating layers of insulation and an electrode material on a substrate. The device also includes through-holes formed by etching the film to the substrate. The device also includes gate stacks formed by depositing barrier storage and a tunnel layers in sequence on inner walls of the through-holes. The device also includes hollow channels formed by depositing a channel material on the tunnel layer. The device also includes drains for bit-line connection in top portions of the hollow channels. The device also includes sources formed in contact regions between through-holes and the substrate in bottom portions of the hollow channels.
US09437606B2	Method of making a three-dimensional memory array with etch stop A method of making a semiconductor device including forming a sacrificial feature over a substrate, forming a plurality of etch through regions having an etch through material and an etch stop region having an etch stop material over the sacrificial feature, forming a stack of alternating layers of a first material and a second material over the plurality of the etch through regions and the plurality of the etch stop regions, etching the stack to form a plurality of openings through the stack and through the etch through regions to expose the sacrificial feature, such that the etch through material is etched preferentially compared to the first and the second materials of the stack, removing the sacrificial feature through the plurality of openings and etching the stack to form a slit trench up to or only partially through the etch stop region, such that the first and the second materials of the stack are etched preferentially compared to the etch stop material.
US09437603B2	Wing-type projection between neighboring access transistors in memory devices A flash memory device is disposed on a semiconductor substrate. The flash memory device includes flash memory cells arranged in rows and columns. Respective flash memory cells include respective access transistors and respective floating gate transistors. The respective access transistors have respective access gates, and the respective floating gate transistors have respective control gates arranged over respective floating gates. First and second wordlines extend substantially in parallel with one another and correspond to first and second rows which neighbor one another. The first wordline is coupled to access gates of access transistors along the first row. The second wordline is coupled to access gates of access transistors along the second row. Nearest edges of the first and second wordlines include at least one wing which extends laterally outward from a sidewall of one of the first and second wordlines towards a sidewall the other of the first and second wordlines.
US09437602B2	Temperature compensation method for high-density floating-gate memory A temperature compensation technique is provided for a non-volatile memory arrangement. The memory arrangement includes: a memory circuit (12) having a floating gate transistor (P3) operating in weak-inversion mode and a varactor (Cv) with a terminal electrically coupled to a gate node of the floating gate transistor; a first current reference circuit (14) having a floating gate transistor (PI); a second current reference circuit (16) having a floating gate transistor (P2); and a control module (18) configured to selectively receive a reference current (I1, I2) from a drain of the floating gate transistor in each of the first and second current reference circuits. The control module operates to determine a ratio between the reference currents received from the first and second current reference circuits, generate a tuning voltage (Vx) in accordance with the ratio between the reference currents and apply the tuning voltage to the varactor in the memory circuit.
US09437601B1	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a stacked body, and a semiconductor pillar. The stacked body includes first insulating layers and conductive layers. The conductive layer includes silicon. At least one of the conductive layers includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion includes a first element selected from at least one of boron and phosphorus. The second portion includes the first element. The third portion is provided between the first portion and the second portion in a stacking direction of the conductive layers and the first insulating layers. The third portion includes a second element. The second element is selected from at least one of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and germanium. The semiconductor pillar pierces through the stacked body. The semiconductor pillar extends in the stacking direction.
US09437591B1	Cross-domain electrostatic discharge protection device A cross-domain electrostatic protection device having four embedded silicon controlled rectifiers (a QSCR structure) embedded in a single cell. Two grounded-gate NMOS transistors are embedded into the cross-domain electrostatic protection device for reducing trigger voltage of the QSCR structure. Furthermore, an external trigger circuit and a bias circuit are applied to the cross-domain electrostatic protection device to reduce trigger voltage of the QSCR structure and leakage current.
US09437588B1	Middle of-line architecture for dense library layout using M0 hand-shake A dense library architecture using an M0 hand-shake and the method of forming the layout are disclosed. Embodiments include forming first and second active areas on a substrate, at the top and bottom of a cell, separated from each other; forming first through third gate lines perpendicular to the active areas, where the first and third gate lines are dummy gates at the cell edges; forming trench silicide segments on each of the active areas, between the first, second, and third gate lines; forming first and second M1 metal lines between the first and second gate lines and the second and third gate lines, respectively; forming a M0 segment between the first and second active regions perpendicular to the M1 metal lines; forming a CB between the M0 segment and the second gate line; and forming a V0 from the first metal line to the M0 segment.
US09437578B2	Stacked IC control through the use of homogenous region A package includes a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a substrate, a plurality of dielectric layers underlying the substrate, a dielectric region penetrating through the plurality of dielectric layers, and a metal pad overlapped by the dielectric region. A conductive plug penetrates through the substrate, the dielectric region, and the metal pad.
US09437569B2	High density substrate routing in BBUL package Discussed generally herein are devices that include high density interconnects between dice and techniques for making and using those devices. In one or more embodiments a device can include a bumpless buildup layer (BBUL) substrate including a first die at least partially embedded in the BBUL substrate, the first die including a first plurality of high density interconnect pads. A second die can be at least partially embedded in the BBUL substrate, the second die including a second plurality of high density interconnect pads. A high density interconnect element can be embedded in the BBUL substrate, the high density interconnect element including a third plurality of high density interconnect pads electrically coupled to the first and second plurality of high density interconnect pads.
US09437568B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device having a multilayer interconnection Certain embodiments provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including forming a first interconnection layer having a first conductive layer and a first insulating layer which are exposed from a surface of the first interconnection layer, forming a second interconnection layer having a second conductive layer and a second insulating layer which are exposed from a surface of the second interconnection layer, forming a first non-bonded surface on the surface of the first insulating layer by making a partial area of the surface of the first insulating layer lower than the surface of the first conductive layer, the partial area containing surroundings of the first conductive layer, and connecting the surface of the first conductive layer and the surface of the second conductive layer and bonding the surface of the first insulating layer excluding the first non-bonded surface and the surface of the second insulating layer.
US09437567B2	Semiconductor devices with ball strength improvement A semiconductor device includes a contact region over a substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a metal pad over the contact region. Additionally, the semiconductor device includes a post passivation interconnect (PPI) line over the metal pad, where the PPI line is in contact with the metal pad. Furthermore, the semiconductor device includes an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM) layer over the PPI line. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a plurality of solder balls over the UBM layer, the plurality of solder balls being arranged at some, but not all, intersections of a number of columns and rows of a ball pattern.
US09437564B2	Interconnect structure and method of fabricating same A structure comprises a passivation layer formed over a semiconductor substrate, a connection pad enclosed by the passivation layer, a redistribution layer formed over the passivation layer, wherein the redistribution layer is connected to the connection pad, a bump formed over the redistribution layer, wherein the bump is connected to the redistribution layer and a molding compound layer formed over the redistribution layer. The molding compound layer comprises a flat portion, wherein a bottom portion of the bump is embedded in the flat portion of the molding compound layer and a protruding portion, wherein a middle portion of the bump is surrounded by the protruding portion of the molding compound layer.
US09437563B2	Bump structures in semiconductor packages and methods of fabricating the same The bump structure includes a metal pattern disposed on an electrode pad to have a vertical sidewall and a recessed region surrounded by the vertical sidewalls, a metal post including a lower portion inserted into the recessed region and a protruded portion upwardly extending from the lower portion, and a passivation spacer on a sidewall of the metal post. The metal post is electrically connected to the electrode pad.
US09437561B2	Semiconductor chip with redundant thru-silicon-vias A semiconductor chip with conductive vias and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a first plurality of conductive vias in a layer of a first semiconductor chip. The first plurality of conductive vias includes first ends and second ends. A first conductor pad is formed in ohmic contact with the first ends of the first plurality of conductive vias.
US09437554B2	Semiconductor package having magnetic substance and related equipment Provided is a semiconductor device. A semiconductor chip is disposed on a substrate. A first magnetic substance, a second magnetic substance and a third magnetic substance which are spaced apart from one another are formed on the semiconductor chip. The first magnetic substance and the second magnetic substance can be adjacent an edge of the semiconductor chip. The third magnetic substance can be adjacent a center of the semiconductor chip. The third magnetic substance is between the first magnetic substance and the second magnetic substance.
US09437550B2	TSV without zero alignment marks Semiconductor device and method of forming a semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate. A dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. The dielectric layer includes an upper and lower level. The upper level of the dielectric layer is patterned to form at least first and second trench openings and alignment mark openings. One of the first and second trench openings serve as a through via (TV) trench while another trench opening serves as an interconnect trench. A TV opening aligned to the TV trench is formed. The TV opening extends partially into the substrate. A conductive layer is formed over the substrate to fill the trenches and the openings.
US09437546B2	Method of forming stacked trench contacts and structures formed thereby Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may include forming a structure comprising a first contact metal disposed on a source/drain contact of a substrate, and a second contact metal disposed on a top surface of the first contact metal, wherein the second contact metal is disposed within an ILD disposed on a top surface of a metal gate disposed on the substrate.
US09437543B2	Composite contact via structure containing an upper portion which fills a cavity within a lower portion A contact via cavity can be filled with a lower structure and an upper structure. The lower structure can be a conductive structure that is formed by depositing a conformal conductive material, and subsequently removing an upper portion of the conformal conductive material. A disposable material portion can be formed at a bottom of the cavity to protect the bottom portion of the conformal conductive layer during removal of the upper portion. After removal of the disposable material, at least one conductive material can fill the remainder of the cavity to form the upper structure. The upper structure and the lower structure collectively constitute a contact via structure. Alternatively, the lower structure can be a dielectric spacer with an opening therethrough. The upper structure can be a conductive structure that extends through the dielectric spacer, and provides an electrically conductive vertical connection.
US09437542B2	Chip package structure A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a chip, at least one inducting coil, a molding compound and a redistribution circuit layer. The chip includes an active surface, a back surface opposite to the active surface. The inducting coil is disposed around a periphery region of the chip. The molding compound covers the chip and the periphery region and exposes the active surface. The inducting coil is disposed at the molding compound. The redistribution circuit layer covers the active surface, part of the molding compound and part of the inducting coil, and electrically connects the chip.
US09437540B2	Additional etching to increase via contact area An integrated circuit structure includes a dielectric layer, and a conductive line in the dielectric layer. The conductive line has a first top surface and a second top surface lower than the first top surface, and a sidewall connecting the first top surface to the second top surface. A via includes a portion overlying the second top surface of the conductive line. The via is electrically coupled to the conductive line through the second top surface and the sidewall of the conductive line.
US09437539B2	Dielectric region in a bulk silicon substrate providing a high-Q passive resonator Structures and methods of making a dielectric region in a bulk silicon (Si) substrate of a mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) provide a high-Q passive resonator. Deep trenches within the bulk Si substrate in <100> directions are expanded by wet etching to form contiguous cavities, which are filled by Si oxide to form a dielectric region. The dielectric region enhances the quality (Q) of an overlying passive resonator, formed in metallization layers of the mixed-signal IC.
US09437532B2	Substrate for semiconductor package and process for manufacturing A semiconductor package substrate includes a core portion, an upper circuit layer and a plurality of pillars. The pillars are disposed on and project upward from the upper circuit layer. Top surfaces of the pillars are substantially coplanar. The pillars provide an electrical interconnect to a semiconductor die. Solder joint reliability as between the substrate and the semiconductor die is improved.
US09437530B2	Combined packaged power semiconductor device A combined packaged power semiconductor device includes flipped top source low-side MOSFET electrically connected to top surface of a die paddle, first metal interconnection plate connecting between bottom drain of a high-side MOSFET or top source of a flipped high-side MOSFET to bottom drain of the low-side MOSFET, and second metal interconnection plate stacked on top of the high-side MOSFET chip. The high-side, low-side MOSFET and the IC controller can be packaged three-dimensionally reducing the overall size of semiconductor devices and can maximize the chip's size within a package of the same size and improves the performance of the semiconductor devices. The top source of flipped low-side MOSFET is connected to the top surface of the die paddle and thus is grounded through the exposed bottom surface of die paddle, which simplifies the shape of exposed bottom surface of the die paddle and maximizes the area to facilitate heat dissipation.
US09437523B2	Two-sided jet impingement assemblies and power electronics modules comprising the same Power electronics modules having jet impingement assemblies utilized to cool heat generating devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a jet impingement assembly includes coupled manifold plates having a fluid inlet and outlet, a distribution surface, and a collection surface. The distribution surface of the first and second manifold plate is coupled to define a distribution manifold having a fluid distribution channel and one or more arrays of orifices extending through both manifold plates. Heat transfer plates are coupled to each manifold plate's collection surface forming impingement chambers. The heat transfer plates include one or more arrays of fins extending toward the collection surface of each manifold plate fluidly coupled to the fluid outlet. The first and second manifold plates and the first and second heat transfer plates are positioned in a horizontal stack such that the fluid inlets of both manifold plates are adjacent.
US09437517B2	Semiconductor apparatus including a heat dissipating member A semiconductor apparatus is provided. The semiconductor apparatus includes: a base having a main surface on which a terminal is disposed; a first semiconductor device retained on the main surface of the base and having a top surface on which an electrode is disposed and a bottom surface facing the main surface of the base; a connection member connecting the terminal and the electrode; an encapsulant disposed on the main surface of the base and covering the terminal, the first semiconductor device and the connection member; and a heat dissipating member disposed on the encapsulant and having a space that opens in a direction extending perpendicular to the main surface of the base. The encapsulant is disposed in the space and, in a side view of the base, a peak of the connection member is located inside the space.
US09437512B2	Integrated circuit package structure An integrated circuit (IC) package structure is provided, including: a first integrated circuit (IC) package, including: a first package substrate, having opposite first and second surfaces, wherein a first semiconductor chip is disposed over a first portion of the first surface of the first package substrate. In addition, a second integrated circuit (IC) package is disposed on a second portion different from the first portion of the first surface of the first package substrate, including: a second package substrate, having opposite third and fourth surfaces, wherein a second semiconductor chip is disposed over a portion of the third surface of the second package substrate, and the second semiconductor chip has a function different from that of the first semiconductor chip.
US09437511B2	Method and structure for wafer-level packaging A method for wafer-level packaging includes providing a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of semiconductor chips connected by connection stems in the wafer. The method further includes forming a plurality of through holes in the connections stems; forming a protective layer covering the wafer with a plurality of positions for planting soldering balls exposed. The protective layer includes an upper protective layer formed on a top side of the wafer, a lower protective layer formed on a back side of the wafer, and a plurality of middle protective layers formed in the through holes. The upper protective layer is connected to the lower protective layer through the plurality of the middle protective layers. The method also includes forming soldering balls on the positions for planting soldering balls and finally, forming a plurality of packaged individual semiconductor chip structures by cutting the wafer along the connection stems with the through holes.
US09437510B2	Opto-electrical device and method for manufacturing thereof An opto-electrical device is provided that comprises a cover (10), a barrier structure (20), an opto-electrical structure (30) and a plurality of transverse electrical conductors (40). Therein—the cover (10) includes a metal foil (12) and a patterned electrically conductive layer (14) carried by and electrically insulated from the metal foil,—the opto-electrical structure (30) is sandwiched between the cover (10) and the barrier structure (20), wherein the opto-electrical structure (30) comprises at least an opto-electrical layer (32) and a transparent electrically conductive layer (34), the opto-electrical structure having a first main surface (31) facing towards the cover (10),—the plurality of transverse electrical conductors (40) extend from the metal foil (12) or the patterned electrically conductive layer (14) of the cover (10) through the at least one opto-electrical layer (32) to said transparent electrically conductive layer (34),—the cover (10) extends beyond said first main surface (31) of the opto-electrical structure (30).
US09437505B2	Method of measuring contamination amount of vapor phase growth apparatus, and method of manufacturing epitaxial wafer Carry out a vapor etching step of cleaning an inside of a chamber of a vapor phase growth apparatus by vapor etching using HCl gas (S1). Carry out an annealing step of sequentially annealing a predetermined number of silicon wafers, one by one, in a non-oxidizing atmosphere (S2, S3). Repeat the vapor etching step and the annealing step a prescribed number of times. After having carried out the vapor etching step and the annealing step the prescribed number of times (S4: Yes), collect contaminants on the surface of each of the wafers, and measure the Mo concentration using ICP-MS (S5). Evaluate the cleanliness of the vapor phase growth apparatus on the basis of each Mo concentration value and the relationship between the Mo concentrations (S6). Thus, provided is a method with which it is possible to measure, with high sensitivity, the contamination amount of a vapor phase growth apparatus.
US09437495B2	Mask-less dual silicide process A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a mask layer, such as an oxidized layer, over first source/drain regions in a first device region. A dielectric layer, such as an interlayer dielectric layer, is formed and patterned to expose the first source/drain regions and second source/drain regions in a second device region. A silicide treatment is performed on the second source/drain regions while the mask layer protects the first source/drain regions. The mask layer is then removed and a silicide treatment is performed on the first source/drain regions.
US09437492B2	Substrate for alternative semiconductor die configurations A method of assembling semiconductor devices with semiconductor dies of alternative different configurations uses the same substrate panel. The dies of the selected configuration are placed in an array, mounted, and connected to internal electrical contact pads on a first face of the panel using main fiducial markings and an array of subsidiary fiducial markings corresponding universally to arrays of semiconductor dies of the different alternative configurations. The pitch of the subsidiary fiducial markings is equal to the spacing between adjacent rows of the internal electrical contact pads on the panel and is a sub-multiple of the pitch of the array of dies.
US09437491B2	Method of forming chip with through silicon via electrode The present invention provides a method of forming a chip with TSV electrode. A substrate with a first surface and a second surface is provided. A thinning process is performed from a side of the second surface so the second surface becomes a third surface. Next, a penetration via which penetrates through the first surface and the third surface is formed in the substrate. A patterned material layer is formed on the substrate, wherein the patterned material layer has an opening exposes the penetration via. A conductive layer is formed on the third surface thereby simultaneously forming a TSV electrode in the penetration via and a surface conductive layer in the opening.
US09437482B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming shielding layer over active surface of semiconductor die A semiconductor wafer contains a plurality of semiconductor die separated by a non-active area of the semiconductor wafer. A plurality of contact pads is formed on an active surface of the semiconductor die. A first insulating layer is formed over the semiconductor wafer. A portion of the first insulating layer is removed to expose the contact pads on the semiconductor die. An opening is formed partially through the semiconductor wafer in the active surface of the semiconductor die or in the non-active area of the semiconductor wafer. A second insulating layer is formed in the opening in the semiconductor wafer. A shielding layer is formed over the active surface. The shielding layer extends into the opening of the semiconductor wafer to form a conductive via. A portion of a back surface of the semiconductor wafer is removed to singulate the semiconductor die.
US09437462B2	Underfill material and method for manufacturing semiconductor device by using the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device by using underfill material includes: a semiconductor chip mounting step configured to mount a semiconductor chip having a solder bump on a substrate via an underfill film including a film forming resin having a weight average molecular weight of not more than 30000 g/mol and a molecular weight distribution of not more than 2.0, an epoxy resin, and an epoxy curing agent; and a reflow step configured to solder-bond the semiconductor chip and the substrate by a reflow furnace. The film forming resin of the underfill material has a weight average molecular weight of not more than 30000 g/mol and a molecular weight distribution of not more than 2.0, and accordingly, the viscosity at the time of heat melting can be reduced, and a semiconductor chip can be mounted at a low pressure.
US09437458B2	Method of electrically isolating leads of a lead frame strip A lead frame strip includes a plurality of connected unit lead frames, each unit lead frame having a die paddle and a plurality of leads connected to a periphery of the unit lead frame. The lead frame strip is processed by attaching a semiconductor die to each of the die paddles and covering the unit lead frames with a molding compound after the semiconductor dies are attached to the die paddles. Spaced apart cuts are formed in the periphery of each unit lead frame that sever the leads from the periphery of each unit lead frame and extend at least partially into the molding compound in regions of the periphery where the leads are located so that the molding compound remains intact between the cuts. The lead frame strip is processed after the cuts are formed, and the unit lead frames are later separated into individual packages.
US09437457B2	Chip package having a patterned conducting plate and method for forming the same According to an embodiment of the present invention, a chip package is provided. The chip package includes: a patterned conducting plate having a plurality of conducting sections electrically separated from each other; a plurality of conducting pads disposed on an upper surface of the patterned conducting plate; a chip disposed on the conducting pads; a plurality of conducting bumps disposed on a lower surface of the patterned conducting plate, wherein each of the conducting bumps is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the conducting sections of the patterned conducting plate; and an insulating support layer partially surrounding the conducting bumps.
US09437451B2	Radical-component oxide etch A method of etching exposed silicon oxide on patterned heterogeneous structures is described and includes a remote plasma etch formed from a fluorine-containing precursor. Plasma effluents from the remote plasma are flowed into a substrate processing region where the plasma effluents combine with a nitrogen-and-hydrogen-containing precursor. Reactants thereby produced etch the patterned heterogeneous structures with high silicon oxide selectivity while the substrate is at high temperature compared to typical Siconi™ processes. The etch proceeds without producing residue on the substrate surface. The methods may be used to remove silicon oxide while removing little or no silicon, polysilicon, silicon nitride or titanium nitride.
US09437449B2	Uniform, damage free nitride etch An integrated circuit may be formed by forming a sacrificial silicon nitride feature. At least a portion of the sacrificial silicon nitride feature may be removed by placing the integrated circuit in a two-step oxidized layer etch tool and removing a surface layer of oxidized silicon from the sacrificial silicon nitride feature using a two-step etch process. The two-step etch process exposes the integrated circuits to reactants from a plasma source at a temperature less than 40° C. and subsequently heating the integrated circuit to 80° C. to 120° C. while in the two-step oxidized layer etch tool. While the integrated circuit is in the two-step oxidized layer etch tool, without exposing the integrated circuit to an ambient containing more than 1 torr of oxygen, at least a portion of the sacrificial silicon nitride feature is removed using fluorine-containing etch reagents, substantially free of ammonia.
US09437448B2	Substrate treatment method and substrate treating apparatus A hydrofluoric acid is supplied to a surface of a substrate, and a native oxide film formed on the surface is corroded to be removed, exposing silicon in the surface of the substrate. Then, a rinse solution such as alcohols is supplied to the surface of the substrate, and then, the hydrofluoric acid is washed off from the surface. After that, a dopant solution, which is a dopant-containing chemical solution, is supplied to the surface of the substrate. The dopant solution comes into contact with the surface of the substrate, which is not hydrogen-terminated and has silicon exposed, thereby forming a dopant-containing monolayer thin film on the surface in a short period of time.
US09437447B2	Method for patterning a substrate for planarization Techniques disclosed herein include increasing pattern density for creating high-resolution contact openings, slots, trenches, and other features. A conformal spacer is applied on a bi-layer or tri-layer mandrel (multi-layer) or other relief feature. The conformal spacer thus wraps around the mandrels and is also deposited on an underlying layer. A fill material is deposited to fill gaps or spaces between sidewall spacers. A CMP planarization step then removes substrate stack material down to a material interface of the bi-layer or tri-layer mandrel, with a middle or lower material of the mandrel being a CMP-stop material. This technique essentially cuts off or removes rounded features such as upper portions of sidewall spacers, thereby providing a spacer material with a planar top surface that can be uniformly etched and transferred to underlying layers.
US09437438B2	Electroless plating process and tin-silver plating solution therein An electroless plating process includes providing a semiconductor substrate which has a substrate and a copper pillar disposed on the substrate; providing a tin-silver plating solution includes 0.1-50 wt % tin and 1×105-2 wt % silver; and performing a reduction reaction, wherein the semiconductor substrate is disposed in the tin-silver plating solution for making tin and silver of the tin-silver plating solution deposit jointly on the copper pillar surface to form a tin-silver co-deposition layer. The tin-silver co-deposition layer is able to enhance the coupling strength between the copper pillar of the semiconductor substrate and the other semiconductor substrate and is also able to reduce the time and cost of the process performing tin-plating and silver-plating separately.
US09437434B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor device includes an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer over a substrate; and a first gate feature in the ILD layer, the first gate feature comprising a first gate material and having a first resistance, wherein the first gate material comprises a first conductive material. The semiconductor device further includes a second gate feature in the ILD layer, the second gate feature comprising a second gate material and having a second resistance higher than the first resistance, wherein the second material comprises at least 50% by volume silicon oxide.
US09437432B1	Self-compensating oxide layer A method of conformally doping a device on a semiconductor workpiece is disclosed. An oxide layer is applied to all surfaces of the device. Further, the thickness of the oxide layer on each surface is proportional to the energy that ions impact that particular surface. For example, ions strike the horizontal surfaces at nearly a normal angle and penetrate more deeply into the workpiece than ions striking the vertical surfaces. After creating an oxide layer that has a variable thickness, a subsequent dopant implant is performed. While ions strike the horizontal surfaces with more energy, these ions pass through a thicker oxide layer to penetrate the workpiece. In contrast, ions strike the vertical surfaces with less energy, but traverse a much thinner oxide layer to penetrate the workpiece. The result is a conformally doped device.
US09437422B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and substrate processing method A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes: forming a film containing a predetermined element, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate by repeating a cycle. The cycle includes: (a) supplying a source gas containing the predetermined element and a halogen element to the substrate; (b) supplying a first reactive gas containing three elements including carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen to the substrate; (c) supplying a nitriding gas as a second reactive gas to the substrate; (d) supplying an oxidizing gas as a third reactive gas to the substrate; and (e) supplying an hydrogen-containing gas as a fourth reactive gas to the substrate, wherein (a) through (e) are non-simultanelously performed.
US09437420B2	Capacitors including amorphous dielectric layers and methods of forming the same A capacitor can include a crystallized metal oxide dielectric layer having a first dielectric constant and an amorphous metal oxide dielectric layer, on the crystallized metal oxide dielectric layer, where the amorphous metal oxide dielectric layer has a second dielectric constant that is less than the first dielectric constant and is greater than a dielectric constant of aluminum oxide.
US09437417B2	Low temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film and method of producing the same, array substrate and display apparatus A method for producing a low temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film, comprising steps of: providing a substrate; forming a thermal conduction and electrical insulation layer, a buffer layer and an amorphous silicon layer on the substrate in this order; and performing a high-temperature treatment and a laser annealing on the amorphous silicon layer to convert the amorphous silicon layer to a polycrystalline silicon thin film, wherein the thermal conduction and electrical insulation layer comprises regular patterns distributed on the substrate.
US09437412B2	Multi-electrode ion trap This invention relates generally to multi-reflection electrostatic systems, and more particularly to improvements in and relating to the Orbitrap electrostatic ion trap. A method of operating an electrostatic ion trapping device having an array of electrodes operable to mimic a single electrode is proposed, the method comprising determining three or more different voltages that, when applied to respective electrodes of the plurality of electrodes, generate an electrostatic trapping field that approximates the field that would be generated by applying a voltage to the single electrode, and applying the three or more so determined voltages to the respective electrodes. Further improvements lie in measuring a plurality of features from peaks with different intensities from one or more collected mass spectra to derive characteristics, and using the measured characteristics to improve the voltages to be applied to the plurality of electrodes.
US09437410B2	System and method for applying curtain gas flow in a mass spectrometer A system of mass spectrometry is disclosed having an ion source for generating ions at substantially atmospheric pressure. The system has a sampling member with an orifice disposed therein. The sampling member forms a vacuum chamber with a mass spectrometer. The system also has a curtain plate between the ion source and the sampling member. The curtain plate has an aperture therein, having a cross-section and being spaced from the sampling member to define a flow passage between the curtain plate and the sampling member, and to define an annular gap between the orifice and the aperture. The area of the annular gap is less than the cross-sectional area of the aperture. The system also has a power supply for applying a voltage to the curtain plate, and a curtain gas flow mechanism for directing a curtain gas into the flow passage and the annular gap.
US09437404B2	Sputtering apparatus A sputtering apparatus is provided with an elongated target holder, a substrate holder having a substrate receiving surface, and a mask assembly having an opening configured between the target holder and the substrate holder. The mask assembly is comprised of a first and second masking part having facing edges that form the opening and are disposed parallel to the substrate receiving surface and independently movable in a direction perpendicular to the length of the target holder and parallel to the substrate receiving surface, or in a direction perpendicular to the substrate receiving surface.
US09437402B2	Plasma processor and plasma processing method An etching chamber 1 incorporates a focus ring 9 so as to surround a semiconductor wafer W provided on a lower electrode 4. The plasma processor is provided with an electric potential control DC power supply 33 to control the electric potential of this focus ring 9, and so constituted that the lower electrode 4 is supplied with a DC voltage of, e.g., −400 to −600 V to control the electric potential of the focus ring 9. This constitution prevents surface arcing from developing along the surface of a substrate to be processed.
US09437399B2	Plasma equipment There is provided plasma equipment including a power supply that supplies a RF power; a chamber in which plasma is generated, and a processing target to processed by the plasma is provided; an antenna coil that is provided on a top surface of the chamber, and is connected to the power supply to receive the RF power; and a resonance coil that is provided to be electrically insulated or cut off from the antenna coil. The resonance coil receives electromagnetic energy applied from the antenna coil to allow a current to flow, and the plasma is generated within the chamber. It is possible to increase the degree of freedom for an installation position of the resonance coil, and it is possible to increase plasma density.
US09437393B2	Method for forming an electrical connection to an sample support in an electron microscope holder An electrical connector for use in electron microscopy sample holders. The electrical connector provides electrical contacts to the sample support devices which are positioned in the sample holders for electrical, temperature and/or electrochemical control.
US09437384B2	Circuit breaker and apparatus including slot-retained armature linkage and methods of fabricating the same A circuit breaker includes a frame, at least one conductor supported by the frame, and a breaker mechanism supported by the frame and including a trip bar assembly that actuates the breaker mechanism. The circuit breaker also includes a magnetic armature assembly including an armature plate configured to move responsive to a current in the at least one conductor and an elongate link member (e.g., a rod) coupling the armature plate to the trip bar and having at least one flanged portion retained in at least one keyed slot in at least one of the armature plate and the trip bar assembly. The elongate link member may have a narrowed portion sized to allow passage of the link member through a narrowed portion of the at least one keyed slot to facilitate engagement of the at least one flanged portion in the at least one keyed slot.
US09437378B2	Keyswitch device A keyswitch device includes a pair of links for supporting a key top, each provided on the support sheet and including a first arm and a second arm, and a frame for supporting the links, provided on the support sheet. Each link includes a rotation shaft provided at a first end and a slide shaft provided at a second end of each of the first arm and the second arm. The rotation shaft is rotatably placed on one of the frame and the key top. The slide shaft is slidably placed in a corresponding one of guide grooves provided on the other of the frame and the key top. A connecting groove is provided in the first arm of at least one of the links. A connecting shaft is provided on the second arm of the other of the links, and is movably placed in the connecting groove.
US09437372B1	Process for producing graphene foam supercapacitor electrode A process for producing a supercapacitor electrode, comprising: (a) preparing a graphene dispersion containing an optional blowing agent; (b) depositing the dispersion onto a supporting substrate to form a wet layer; (c) removing the liquid medium from the wet layer to form a dried layer of graphene material; (d) heat treating the dried layer at a temperature from 80° C. to 3,200° C. to induce volatile gas molecules from the non-carbon elements or to activate the blowing agent for producing a layer of solid graphene foam having a physical density from 0.01 to 1.7 g/cm3 and a specific surface area from 50 to 3,300 m2/g; and (e) impregnating the foam with an electrolyte to form a layer of pre-impregnated graphene foam, which is compressed to form the electrode. This process leads to a supercapacitor having a large electrode thickness, high active mass loading, high tap density, and exceptional energy density.
US09437371B2	Nitrile-substituted silanes and electrolyte compositions and electrochemical devices containing them Described herein are liquid, organosilicon compounds that including a substituent that is a cyano (—CN), cyanate (—OCN), isocyanate (—NCO), thiocyanate (—SCN) or isothiocyanate (—NCS). The organosilicon compounds are useful in electrolyte compositions and can be used in any electrochemical device where electrolytes are conventionally used.
US09437369B2	Conductive material with charge-storage material in voids A conductive material includes a graphene-nanonsheet material, with charge-storage material in voids in and/or coating the graphene material. The charge-storage material may include any of a variety of types of carbon, including carbon black, acetylene black, furnace black, carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes, graphene in the form of wrinkled sheets of graphene, carbon nano-onions, or hydrothermal-synthesized nanospheres of carbon material. Alternatively, the charge-storage material may be non-carbon pseudocapacitive materials. Also, the charge-storage material may involve Faradaic processes similar to those observed with battery electrodes. The conductive material may be formed or placed on a conductive or a dielectric substrate. One or more gaps may be formed in the conductive material, with the conductive material forming two or more electrodes. The electrodes may then be covered with an electrolyte material, to produce an electric double layer capacitor.
US09437362B2	Apparatus and method for wireless power reception An apparatus and a method for wireless power reception are provided. A wireless power receiver includes a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive a power. The wireless power receiver further includes a power consuming unit configured to consume the power, until a voltage applied to a load reaches a predetermined value, so that an amount of a power transferred from the receiving unit to the load is less than or equal to an initial accommodation power amount of the load.
US09437361B2	Three-phase high frequency transformer A three-phase high frequency transformer has: a ferrite core formed from three solid-cylindrical cores and a ceiling plate and a bottom plate; and three sets of coils having primary coils of a predetermined inner diameter that are formed by bending flat wires plural times in width directions of the flat wires, and secondary coils that are formed such that an inner diameter is the same as the inner diameter of the primary coils by bending flat wires, that have a width that is different than a width of the flat wires of the primary coils, in width directions of the flat wires, and the flat wires that structure the secondary coils are interposed within intervals of the flat wires that structure the primary coils, and the three sets of coils are structured such that inner peripheries of the primary coils and the secondary coils coincide, and are disposed such that the respective solid-cylindrical cores are inserted in respective inner portions, and the primary coils and the secondary coils are Δ-connected or Y-connected.
US09437360B2	Structure of transformer An improved structure of a transformer includes a bobbin covering at least a portion of a magnetic core set which has a magnetic loop passing through the bobbin, wherein winding grooves and at least one connecting portion extending sideways are provided on the outer peripheral side of the bobbin, and a plurality of notches with lateral openings are provided on the connecting portion. Coils are wound in the winding grooves of the bobbin. The coils have at least a plurality of line ends, each line end passing through a different notch. One positioning pin is embedded in each of the winding grooves near the lateral opening. The positioning pins hold the respective line ends in place by pressing against them. A casing is fitted on the outer peripheral side of the coils to create separation between the coils and the magnetic core set. The casing is provided with a hollow opening such that the outer peripheral side of the coils facing the airflow is exposed to improve the overall heat dissipating efficiency.
US09437359B2	Reinforcement-free tank for an electromagnetic apparatus A reinforcement-free tank for an electromagnetic apparatus, as may be immersed in a fluid is provided. The tank may include a pair of mutually-opposite side walls. Each side wall may have at least one curved segment defining a vertically-curving profile between a top edge and a bottom edge of a side wall. A pair of mutually-opposite end walls. Each end wall may have a substantially vertically-extending semi-cylindrical shape defining a vertically-straight profile between a top edge and a bottom edge of an end wall. A plurality of vertically-extending joining members. Each joining member may be configured to provide a transition between the vertically-curving profile of a side wall and the vertically-straight profile of a corresponding end wall. The walls can withstand vacuum and overpressure conditions which can develop in the tank, without a reinforcing member connected to the walls.
US09437354B2	Voltage surge protector having a pressure release mechanism A voltage surge protector consisting of a plurality of varistors connected in a column, an upper electrode connected to the upper edge of the column of varistors, a lower electrode connected to the lower edge of the column of varistors, an insulating housing that surrounds the column of varistors, a fiberglass cover that surrounds the insulating housing and a weatherproof protective cover provided with barriers mounted on the fiberglass cover. The protector has a mechanism to release pressure during a voltage surge, which consists of a hole in a transversal direction for each varistor of the column of varistors inside the insulating housing, the holes being helicoidally distributed along the length of the housing of insulating material and of a depth less than the thickness of the insulating housing.
US09437350B2	Electrical line for a motor vehicle An electrical line (5) for electrically conductively connecting two units arranged in a motor vehicle, where the units have insulated electrical conductors surrounded by a common electrically effective screen. Over the entire length of the line (5) the construction of the line includes at least one light conductor (10) which is connected in the operating position to an evaluating unit (12) coupled to a switching element (11), and is integrated in the screen (9) of the line (5), or is arranged directly underneath the screen (9) of the line (5) while being in contact with the line (5), so that damage to the line (5) leads with certainty at least to a deformation of the light conductor (10) which leads to a signal which can be recognized by the evaluating unit (12).
US09437343B2	Proton conductor An exemplary proton conductor according to the present disclosure has a perovskite-type crystal structure expressed by the compositional formula AaB1-xB′xO3-δ. The A element is an alkaline-earth metal and is contained in a range of 0.4
US09437339B2	Leaf assembly for a multi-leaf collimator and multi-leaf collimator The invention relates to a leaf assembly (102) for a multi-leaf collimator, comprising a leaf frame (104) and a plurality of leaves (106) for shielding beams (108) from a selected area, wherein the leaves (106) are arranged sideways and adjacently in the leaf frame (104) for shielding beams (108) being emitted from a radiation source (110) located above the assembly (102), wherein each leaf (106) is mounted in the leaf frame (104) displaceably in an adjusting direction (112) being oriented perpendicularly related to said beams (108), and wherein the leaf frame (104) provides a linear guidance (114) for each leaf (106) within the adjusting direction (112), being designed in a such a way that the leaf frame (104) is adapted to allow for lateral movement of the leaves (106) superposing said linear guidance (114), thus allowing mutual abutting of the leaves (106). Furthermore, the invention relates to a multi-leaf collimator comprising two leaf assemblies (102) according to the invention, wherein the assemblies (102) are arranged to face each other within the adjusting direction (112). The invention is based on the objective of designing a leaf assembly (102) for a multi-leaf collimator and a multi-leaf collimator in such a way that the occurrence of leak-age radiation may be diminished.
US09437336B2	Isotope-specific separation and vitrification using ion-specific media Apparatuses, processes and methods for the separation, isolation, or removal of specific radioactive isotopes from liquid radioactive waste, these processes and methods employing isotope-specific media (ISM). In some embodiments, the processes and methods further include the vitrification of the separated isotopes, generally with the ISM; this isotope-specific vitrification (ISV) is often a step in a larger scheme of preparing the radioactive isotopes for long-term storage or other disposition. A variety of ISM are disclosed.
US09437329B2	Semiconductor device with initialization operation and boot-up operation A semiconductor device includes: a first block, which is initialized during an initialization mode; and a second block, which is initialized while the first block latches first signals during a boot-up mode. Herein, the second block may latch second signals after being initialized during the boot-up mode.
US09437328B2	Apparatus and method for applying at-speed functional test with lower-speed tester A device under test has a connection interface, a controller, and a functional block. The connection interface is used to receive a test pattern transmitted at a first clock rate and output a functional test result. The controller is used to sample the test pattern by using a second clock rate and accordingly generate a sampled test pattern, wherein the second clock rate is higher than the first clock rate. The functional block is used to perform a designated function upon the sampled test pattern and accordingly generate the functional test result.
US09437326B2	Margin tool for double data rate memory systems A tool for testing a double data rate (“DDR”) memory controller to ensure that data strobe transitions are aligned with data eyes to achieve a desired data integrity during data transfers between the memory controller and the memories. After the memory controller completes its training sequence during the initialization process, the tool sweeps the data strobe transition across the data eye. At each timing step during the sweep, several tests may be conducted to check for integrity of functionality. The tool thus generates a pass/fail margin table. The locations of the data strobe transitions selected by the memory controller during its previously run training sequence are then added to this tool-generated margin table. The result is essentially a pseudo data eye, reconstructed including the data strobe transition with the data eye. An inspection of the location of the data strobe transition with the data eye may be utilized to show the range of timing steps available before the data strobe transition would fail to capture valid data from the incoming data eye.
US09437325B2	TFT array substrate, display panel and display device A TFT array substrate is disclosed. The TFT array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, and a gate driving circuit connected to the gate lines. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages of shift registers, where odd-numbered stages of shift registers are cascaded-connected to each other, even-numbered stages of shift registers are cascaded-connected to each other, and the odd-numbered stages of shift registers and the even-numbered stages of shift registers are disposed at opposite ends of the gate lines.
US09437316B2	Continuous adjusting of sensing voltages The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for continuous adjusting of sensing voltages. A number of embodiments include continuously monitoring an error rate associated with sense operations performed on a group of memory cells, and continuously adjusting a sensing voltage used to determine a state of the memory cells of the group based, at least partially, on the error rate.
US09437313B2	Non-volatile memory device and related read method using adjustable bit line connection signal A nonvolatile memory device comprises a memory cell array and a voltage generator. The memory cell array comprises a plurality of memory cells connected in series between a string selection transistor connected to a bit line and a ground selection transistor connected to a source line. The voltage generator provides read voltages to word lines of memory cells selected from among the plurality of memory cells during a read operation. The read voltages of the selected memory cells differ from each other according to their respective distances from the string selection transistor.
US09437312B2	Management of write-protected data in a semiconductor memory Systems and methods of finalizing a semiconductor memory are disclosed. A method includes receiving an instruction to finalize data at a data storage device that includes a controller coupled to a semiconductor memory. The data storage device also includes a status indicator to indicate a finalize status of the semiconductor memory. In response to receiving the instruction to finalize the data at the data storage device, the status indicator is set to a finalize value. Write to the semiconductor memory operations are prevented by the controller in response to the status indicator having the finalize value.
US09437299B2	Systems and methods for order scope transitions using cam A data processing system includes a content addressable memory (CAM). Each entry of the CAM corresponds to a task and is configured to store a current scope of each task. A random access memory (RAM) is configured to shadow information of the CAM. Transition position storage circuitry is configured to store transition age positions for tasks. Control circuitry is configured to, in response to a command to transition a selected task to a destination scope, access the RAM to determine the current scope for the selected task, use the current scope to perform a match determination with the CAM to determine if any entries corresponding to tasks other than the selected task match the current scope; and for any matching entries, updating a transition age position in the transition position storage circuitry for the corresponding task within the current scope.
US09437295B2	Semiconductor system including semiconductor memory apparatus and temperature control method thereof A semiconductor memory apparatus and a temperature control method thereof are provided. The semiconductor memory apparatus includes a temperature adjustment unit suitable for adjusting a temperature of a memory cell, and a temperature control unit suitable for sensing a temperature of the temperature adjustment unit, comparing a sensed temperature with a reference temperature range, and controlling the temperature adjustment unit to adjust the temperature thereof within the reference temperature range based on a comparison result.
US09437289B2	Electronic device Provided an electronic device including a semiconductor memory unit. The semiconductor memory unit includes: a plurality of storage cells each including a variable resistance element of which resistance is changed in response to a current flowing across the variable resistance element and a selecting element coupled to one end of the variable resistance element; a plurality of word lines corresponding to the respective storage cells and each coupled to a selecting element of a corresponding storage cell; a first line coupled to one ends of the plurality of storage cells; a second line coupled to the other ends of the plurality of storage cells; a voltage adjuster configured to adjust the voltage levels of back bias voltages of the selecting elements of the plurality of storage cells; and an access control unit electrically coupled to the first and second lines and passing an access current to a selected storage cell among the plurality of storage cells.
US09437278B2	Low latency synchronization scheme for mesochronous DDR system A method for data synchronization is provided according to certain embodiments. The method comprises receiving data, a data clock signal, and a clean clock signal, sampling the data using the data clock signal, synchronizing the sampled data with the clean clock signal, and outputting the synchronized sampled data. The method also comprises tracking a phase drift between the data clock signal and the clean clock signal, and pulling in the output of the synchronized sampled data by one clock cycle of the clean clock signal if the tracked phase drift reaches a first value in a first direction.
US09437277B1	Mechanism for data generation in data processing systems An integrated circuit includes enable circuitry coupled to receive transmit data and configured to set a clock enable to a first logic state when a data value of the transmit data changes to a different logic state. The circuit also includes clock control circuitry coupled to receive the clock enable and a data rate clock and configured to provide a filtered data rate clock, wherein the data rate clock is provided as the filtered data rate clock while the clock enable is the first logic state. The circuit also includes a flip flop having a clock input coupled to receive the filtered data rate clock, a data output coupled to provide final transmit data in response to the filtered data rate clock, and an inverting data input coupled to the data output, wherein the final transmit data corresponds to a first delayed version of the transmit data.
US09437272B1	Multi-bit spin torque transfer magnetoresistive random access memory with sub-arrays A device includes a first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element having a first read margin and a second MTJ element having a second read margin. The first read margin is greater than twice the second read margin. The device also includes an access transistor coupled between the first MTJ element and the second MTJ element. A gate of the access transistor is coupled to a word line. The first MTJ element, the second MTJ element, and the access transistor form a multi-bit spin torque transfer magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) memory cell.
US09437264B2	Memory operation latency control An integrated circuit with memory can operate with reduced latency between consecutive operations such as read operations. At a first time, a first operation command is finished on a memory array on an integrated circuit. At a second time, a second operation command is begun on the memory array. A regulated output voltage from the charge pump is coupled to word lines in the memory array. From the first time to the second time, a regulated output voltage is maintained at about a word line operation voltage such as a read voltage.
US09437259B2	Memory system including memory chips having serially and parallel arranging input/output A memory may include first to Nth cell arrays configured to include a plurality of memory cells and one or more first to Nth data input/output pads respectively corresponding to the first to Nth cell arrays, wherein the one or more first to Nth data input/output pads are configured to input/output data to/from the first to Nth cell arrays.
US09437240B1	Write encroachment mitigation system The disclosed technology provides for a method and system comprising determining a write-encroachment threshold of a recording medium as a percentage of cross-track width of tracks in the recording medium, determining a track as off-track based on a position error signal level for the track exceeding the write-encroachment threshold, flagging one or more tracks substantially near the off-track, and writing write data for the one or more flagged tracks to a media cache. In a recovery process, the write data can be later transferred back to the flagged tracks.
US09437238B2	System and method of processing seismic data on a co-processor device A system and method for processing seismic data on one or more co-processor devices that are operatively coupled to a host computing system via a communications channel. The compression of input data transmitted to the co-processor device and/or the size of the storage provided on the co-processor device may enhance the efficiency of the processing of the data on the peripheral device by obviating a bottleneck caused by the relatively slow transfer of data between the host computing system and the co-processor device or by the relatively slow transfer of data within the co-processor device between the co-processor information storage and the co-processor.
US09437232B1	Magnetic recording disk drive with write position error signal values written in the data tracks for compensation of track misregistration A hard disk drive is adapted to take the most recent estimated read head positions (the position error signal or PES values) that are obtained during writing and write those values into the data sectors as written PES (WPES) values. The WPES values are available on readback for use as a predictor of the positions in which subsequent data sectors were written and are also available for use in a data recovery procedure should a particular data sector fail to be recovered. In two-dimensional magnetic recording, the difference between the WPES value and the read PES value is a quantity required to rapidly select the best 2D equalizer. The PES values may be encoded prior to being written into the data sectors. The WPES values are appended to the data sectors after the preamble and sync fields, which occur after every servo sector.
US09437229B2	Isolator element for heat-assisted magnetic recording An apparatus with a slider body, a laser diode, and an isolator element. The slider body has an optical pathway extending therealong. The laser diode is configured to emit light along the optical pathway. The isolator element is disposed in the optical pathway to reduce optical feedback along the optical pathway back to the laser diode. In some embodiments, the isolator element is disposed in the optical pathway between the laser diode and the slider body.
US09437228B2	Near field transducer for heat assisted magnetic recording An antenna for heat assisted magnetic recording is disclosed. The antenna includes an optically opaque material and an optically transparent material positioned on the optically opaque material, the optically transparent material includes a half bowtie shape which includes a first half-wing substantially shaped in form of a right angle trapezoid, having a height substantially equal to the overall height of the half bowtie, a second half-wing substantially shaped in form of a mirror image of the first half-wing and formed proximate and coupled to the first half-wing by a substantially rectangular aperture having an aperture width and an aperture height. The aperture height is as small as 1 nm.
US09437223B2	Magnetoresistive element, method of manufacturing magnetoresistive element, magnetic head, and magnetic recording and reading apparatus A magnetoresistive element according to an embodiment includes: a multilayer element including a first magnetic layer, a magnetization direction of the first magnetic layer being pinned, a nonmagnetic layer disposed on the first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer disposed in a first region on the nonmagnetic layer, a magnetization direction of the second magnetic layer being pinned and antiparallel to the magnetization direction of the first magnetic layer, and a third magnetic layer disposed in a second region that is different from the first region on the nonmagnetic layer near one of two opposite end faces of the nonmagnetic layer, a magnetization direction of the third magnetic layer being changeable by an external magnetic field, a lower face of the nonmagnetic layer being in contact with an upper face of the first magnetic layer.
US09437218B2	Magnetic recording head and magnetic recording apparatus According to an embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes a main magnetic pole and a spin torque oscillator. The spin torque oscillator includes a first perpendicular free layer, a second perpendicular free layer, and a first spacer layer, each of the first perpendicular free layer and the second perpendicular free layer including a magnetic anisotropy axis in a direction perpendicular to a film plane of the spin torque oscillator. An effective perpendicular magnetic anisotropy magnetic field of the first perpendicular free layer is smaller than an effective perpendicular magnetic anisotropy magnetic field of the second perpendicular free layer, and a current is applied from the first perpendicular free layer side to the second perpendicular free layer side.
US09437216B2	Method of transmitting data in a communication system A method of receiving at a terminal a first signal transmitted via a communication network, said method comprising the steps of; receiving at the terminal the first signal comprising a plurality of data elements; analyzing characteristics of the first signal; receiving from a user of the terminal a second signal to be transmitted from the terminal; analyzing characteristics of the second signal to detect audio activity in the second signal; and applying a delay between receiving at the terminal and outputting from the terminal at least one of said plurality of data elements; and adjusting the delay based on the analyzed characteristics of the first signal and on the detection of audio activity in the second signal.
US09437204B2	Transform encoding/decoding of harmonic audio signals An encoder (20) for encoding frequency transform coefficients (Y(k)) of a harmonic audio signal include the following elements: A peak locator (22) configured to locate spectral peaks having magnitudes exceeding a predetermined frequency dependent threshold. A peak region encoder (24) configured to encode peak regions including and surrounding the located peaks. A low-frequency set encoder (26) configured to encode at least one low-frequency set of coefficients outside the peak regions and below a crossover frequency that depends on the number of bits used to encode the peak regions. A noise-floor gain encoder (28) configured to encode a noise-floor gain of at least one high-frequency set of not yet encoded coefficients outside the peak regions.
US09437197B2	Encoding device, encoding method, and program This technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, and a program capable of improving audio quality and more efficiently encoding audio. A first high-frequency encoding circuit encodes a high-frequency range based on a low-frequency subband signal and a high-frequency subband signal and obtains a high-frequency code amount. A low-frequency encoding circuit encodes a low-frequency signal with a code amount determined by the high-frequency code amount and a low-frequency decoding circuit decodes the encoded low-frequency signal. A subband dividing circuit divides a decoded low-frequency signal obtained by decoding into decoded low-frequency subband signals of a plurality of subbands and a second high-frequency encoding circuit generates a high-frequency code string such that a code amount of the high-frequency code string for obtaining a high-frequency component is not larger than the high-frequency code amount based on the decoded low-frequency subband signals and the high-frequency subband signals. The present invention is applicable to the encoding device.
US09437192B2	Method and device of matching speech input to text A method and device for matching speech to text are disclosed, the method including: receiving a speech input, the mentioned speech input carrying input speech information; obtaining initial text corresponding to the input speech information, and respective pinyin of the initial text; generating at least one approximate pinyin for the initial text based on predetermined pronunciation similarity information; and from a preset mapping relationship table, obtaining additional text corresponding to the respective pinyin of the initial text or to the at least one approximate pinyin of the initial text, wherein the preset mapping relationship table includes a respective record for each word in a word database, including respective pinyin and at least one respective approximate pinyin for said each word, and a respective mapping relation between said respective pinyin, said at least one respective approximate pinyin, and said each word.
US09437184B1	Elemental artificial cell for acoustic lens A cell for manipulating an acoustic wave includes a plurality of spokes radiating from a hub and a plurality of concentrically arranged leaves. Each leaf is supported by at least one spoke and is formed by a plurality of circumferentially distributed fingers. Each finger is connected to at least one spoke.
US09437182B2	Active noise reduction method using perceptual masking A method of active noise reduction is described which comprises receiving an audio signal (132) to be played, receiving a noise signal (105, 107, 116, 118, 126), indicative of ambient noise (111), from at least one microphone (104, 106), and generating a noise cancellation signal (114) depending on both, said audio signal (132) and said noise signal (105, 107, 116, 118, 126).
US09437181B2	Off-axis audio suppression in an automobile cabin The suppression of off-axis audio in an audio environment is provided. Off-axis audio may be considered audio that does not originate from a region of interest. The off-axis audio is suppressed by comparing a phase difference between signals from two microphones to a target slope of the phase difference between signals originating from the region of interest. The target slope can be adapted to allow the region of interest to move with the location of a human speaker such as a driver.
US09437176B2	Top-tuning system for hand percussion instrument Disclosed is a tuning system for tuning a hand percussion instrument having a head and a shell. The tuning system comprises a rim, the rim secured to the head of the instrument, the rim comprising at least one receptacle, the receptacle positioned at outer periphery of the rim such that the receptacle body is below the plane of the rim, a side plate assembly, the side plate assembly secured to the shell of the instrument, a tuning rod, the tuning rod having a first end secured to the receptacle for varying the tension on the head, and the tuning rod having a second end secured to the side plate assembly.
US09437175B2	Anterior load carriage stability and mobility support system The present invention relates generally to the field of an anterior load carriage stability and mobility support system, and more particularly to marching band equipment and marching drum stability and mobility support belt for a marching drummer in K-12 primary or secondary, a collegiate, a drum and bugle corps or the like. A device capable of providing a support mechanism for the lumbar region of a user's back that allows for load distribution from loads placed anteriorly and inferiorly to the drummer's body. A preferred embodiment of the device includes a large piece and two smaller pieces of neoprene fabric, dual straps sewn along the sides of the belt, removable commercial grade closed cell foam sheets, and two plastic tubing for a sturdy structure with flexibility and versatility, and Velcro® sewn along the straps and on the obverse side of the belt for easy and secure attachment of the straps.
US09437174B2	Magnetic guitar slide holder The present invention is a slide holder for use with a guitar having a headstock and a plurality of strings to support a slide. The slide holder comprises a block having a cavity and a magnet disposed in the cavity. The housing is made from a compressible material so the slide holder can be secured between the headstock and the strings of the guitar. A slide may be magnetically secured to the strings of the guitar thereby providing a support for the slide when not used.
US09437168B2	Gate driving circuit and display device including the same A gate driving circuit and display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages, each stage including a first input portion configured to apply an input signal to a first node based on a first clock signal, a first output portion configured to output a second clock signal as a gate output signal based on a first node signal applied to the first node, a second input portion configured to apply the first clock signal to a second node based on the first node signal, a second output portion configured to output a first voltage as the gate output signal based on a second node signal applied to the second node, and an output control portion configured to activate the first output portion based on an output control signal.
US09437145B2	Gamma reference voltage generating circuit, method for measuring voltage-transmission curve and display device The present disclosure provides a gamma reference voltage generating circuit including a center voltage generation unit, a gamma reference voltage generation unit configured to generate positive and negative gamma reference voltages and control the positive gamma reference voltage and the negative gamma reference voltage to be symmetrical with respect to the center voltage; a first voltage divider unit including a first terminal for receiving the positive gamma reference voltage and a second terminal for receiving the center voltage; and a second voltage divider unit including a first terminal coupled with the second terminal of the first voltage divider unit and a second terminal for receiving the negative gamma reference voltage.
US09437144B2	Liquid crystal display panel, image displaying method and image displaying system The present invention relates to an image displaying method including: providing a liquid crystal display panel with multiple three-pixel display units, each three-pixel display unit including a first red sub-pixel unit, a first green sub-pixel unit and a first blue sub-pixel unit; demarcating a display region of the liquid crystal display panel to form multiple four-pixel display units, each four-pixel display unit including four the three-pixel display units; and providing four-pixel data signals of image including a red pixel data signal, a green pixel data signal, a blue pixel data signal and a fourth pixel data signal inputted to the liquid crystal display panel and thereby displaying the image thereon. The present invention also provides an image displaying system for carrying out the image displaying method.
US09437143B2	Display device A display device includes pixel electrodes formed in an image display area of a substrate, a common electrode formed in the image display area, inside signal lines formed inside the image display area, and electrically connected to the pixel electrodes, outside signal lines formed outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the inside signal lines, and a common line formed inside and outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the common electrode. An image is displayed under a control of a light using an electric field developed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. A coupling capacitance is formed between the inside signal lines and the common electrode. The outside signal lines each include a first portion, and a second portion higher in electric resistance than the first portion and the inside signal lines.
US09437132B2	Devices and methods for providing access to internal component Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for applying concealment of components of an electronic device. In one embodiment, an electronic device may include a component that is disposed behind a display (e.g., a transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display) that is configured to selectively become transparent at certain transparency regions. Additionally, the electronic device includes data processing circuitry configured to determine when an event requesting that the component be exposed occurs. The data processing circuitry may control portions of the display to become transparent, to expose the component upon the occurrence of the event requesting that the component be exposed.
US09437119B1	Method for fabricating simulated tissue structures by means of multi material 3D printing A synthetic eye model includes an enclosed lens capsule, a removable cortex material within the lens capsule, and an outer support for the lens capsule. A synthetic eye model assembly includes an eye segment comprising a lens capsule and an outer support and a base for detachably engaging the eye segment. The synthetic eye model and assembly can be made by 3D printing. A method of practicing eye surgery and a method of making a three-dimensional synthetic tissue model of an anatomical tissue structure are also disclosed.
US09437113B2	Method and apparatus for planning air refueling for aircraft A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for planning refueling. In one advantageous embodiment, the apparatus includes an air refueling plug-in application capable of calculating air refueling routes for a formation of aircraft and a plurality of plug-in applications. A framework capable of providing framework services to the air refueling plug-in application and the plurality of plug-in applications is present. The apparatus also includes a first interface for the air refueling plug-in application and the plurality of plug-in applications to receive the framework services from the framework. The apparatus also has a second interface for the air refueling plug-in application and plurality of plug-in applications to provide services from one plug-in application to another plug-in application. The first interface and the second interface are independent of the air refueling plug-in application and plurality of plug-in applications.
US09437108B2	Estimation of actual conditions of a roadway segment by weighting roadway condition data with the quality of the roadway condition data Actual conditions of a roadway segment are estimated by providing roadway condition data to a processor for the roadway segment from a plurality of different types of sources of the roadway condition data, assigning a quality to each of the plurality of different types of sources of the roadway condition data, and estimating in the processor the actual conditions of the roadway segment by using the roadway condition data and the quality of each of the plurality of different types of sources of the roadway data. The quality determines weightings given to each of the plurality of different types of sources.
US09437107B2	Event-based traffic routing One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for to creating an avoidance zone spatially proximate a venue, where the avoidance zone is created based upon identifying road segments where increased traffic congestion is expected due to an event at the venue. Information pertaining to the avoidance zone, such as a description of road segments to avoid and/or expected travel delays, may be provided to a route planner configured to develop vehicle routes. In this way, the route planner can take into consideration the impact of events on one or more road segments when planning a route.
US09437105B2	System and method for optimized appliance control A device receives a request from a controlling device, such as a remote control, smart phone, or the like, where the request is intended to have one or more target devices perform one or more functional operations. The device responds to the request by applying the optimum methodology to propagate one or more commands to each intended target appliance to cause each intended target appliance to perform the intended one or more functional operations.
US09437092B2	Smoke detection Various apparatus and methods for smoke detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of training a classifier for a smoke detector comprises inputting sensor data from a plurality of tests into a processor. The sensor data is processed to generate derived signal data corresponding to the test data for respective tests. The derived signal data is assigned into categories comprising at least one fire group and at least one non-fire group. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) training is performed by the processor. The derived signal data and the assigned categories for the derived signal data are inputs to the LDA training. The output of the LDA training is stored in a computer readable medium, such as in a smoke detector that uses LDA to determine, based on the training, whether present conditions indicate the existence of a fire.
US09437089B2	Monitoring camera and monitoring camera control method An image signal processing DSP subjects an image captured by an imaging element having a zoom lens to image processing for identifying a tracking target. In accordance with zoom information generated by the image signal processing DSP, the main CPU controls the zoom lens and controls a turn table that moves the imaging element in panning and tilting directions in accordance with pan and tilt information, to track the tracking target. During tracking of the tracking target, a determination is made, from information about movements of the tracking target generated by the image signal processing DSP, as to whether or not the target to be tracked has intruded the inside of the area from the outside. In a case where the target has intruded the inside of a preset area from the outside, an alarm command is produced when the target continually remains in the area for; e.g., one second.
US09437080B2	Apparatus for generating alternative gaming device outputs An apparatus for outputting an alternative output through an electronic gaming device output device has been developed. The invention includes an electronic gaming device with game logic circuitry that commands a gaming device output device to generate an output. The electronic gaming device output is interrupted before it is output and the output device generates an alternative output.
US09437074B2	Gaming device and method having purchasable enhanced paytables An apparatus and method for a game having a paytable selection feature which may be implemented with a primary or base game, a secondary or bonus game, or both. In one embodiment, the gaming device employs an initial paytable and enables a player pay a fee to purchase a different paytable for a plurality of plays of the game. If the player chooses to purchase a different paytable, the gaming device determines a game outcome for a plurality of plays of the game and provides any awards based on the different paytable. If the player does not choose to select a different paytable, the gaming device determines a game outcome for each of those plays and provides any awards based on the initial paytable. In one embodiment, the player has the opportunity to see the different paytable prior to paying the fee to purchase it.
US09437069B1	Coin processing systems, methods and devices Systems, methods and devices for processing coins are presented herein. A coin processing system is disclosed which includes a housing with a coin input area for receiving a batch of coins, a controller with a communication interface operatively attached to the housing, and a coin processing unit for counting, discriminating, and/or valuing coins received from the coin input area. The coin processing system also includes a mobile coin receptacle removably disposed within the housing and configured to receive coins from the coin processing unit. The mobile coin receptacle is configured to wirelessly communicate information to the communication interface of the controller. The mobile coin receptacle can include one or more electrical contacts that mate with one or more electrical contacts on the housing to wirelessly communicate the information.
US09437066B2	Coin wrapper sheet An improved coin wrapper sheet for machine or hand wrapping a stack of like-diameter coins includes one or more tabs that can be easily gripped and pulled by the user to open the coin wrapper and release the coins.
US09437065B2	Settlement system, settlement method, and cash settlement device A settlement system includes a register having a reception unit that receives a manual input of information corresponding to at least a part of deposited money from a customer and a transmission unit that transmits a sum amount of money corresponding to the purchased product and manually input information manually input through the reception unit to a cash settlement device and the cash settlement device that calculates an amount of inserted money by recognizing and counting the inserted money, calculates a total amount of the money deposited from the customer by using the amount of the inserted money and the manually input information received from the register, calculates an amount of change based on the total amount of money and the sum amount of money received from the register, and dispenses change money.
US09437062B2	Electronic lock authentication method and system An electronic lock authentication system and associated method including an electronic lock and a cellular phone in communication with a network and in wireless communication with the electronic lock. The electronic lock has a lock identification and is configured to transmit the lock identification wirelessly to the cellular phone. The cellular phone has a phone identification and is configured to transmit the lock identification and the phone identification to the network. The network is configured to make a decision in real time whether the cellular phone is permitted access to the electronic lock based on the lock identification and the phone identification, and is further configured to transmit a grant/deny message to the cellular phone based on the decision, and the cellular phone is configured to transmit the grant/deny message to the electronic lock.
US09437061B2	Arrangement for the authorised access of at least one structural element located in a building The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the authorized access of at least one structural element located in a building. The arrangement comprises a remote server which is arranged in a long-range network and allocates and stores a personalized access authorization, in connection, via a first bidirectional communications channel, with a control unit located in the building and used to control said at least one structural element, a terminal which is allocated to a user, registered at the server and connected to said server via a second bidirectional communications channel, and a positioning and identification system for said terminal, which is located in the building and/or global and in communicative connection with the control unit and/or terminal.
US09437059B2	Gatekeeper lock system Disclosed is an electronic lock for a door having a locking mechanism, a file transfer and storage interface and programmable control circuit. This system also provides a communication interface and data transmission. The locking mechanism is coupled to the door and movable between a locked position in which the door opening is inhibited and an unlocked position in which the door is allowed to open. File transfer and storage interface and programmable control circuit is coupled to the gate and is operable to validate user credentials. The programmable control circuit is coupled to the gate and is operable to move the locking mechanism between the locked position and the unlocked position at least partially in response to user credentials read.
US09437056B2	Methods and apparatus for operating flight control systems of aircrafts Methods and apparatus for operating flight control systems of aircrafts are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a flight control system including a first sensor and a second sensor. The example apparatus also includes a processor to, based on data from the first and second sensors, determine first and second input values and, based the input values, determine an approximate location of a jam in the flight control system of an aircraft.
US09437048B2	Searching method for plane area of 3D model A method for searching plane area on a 3D model comprises following steps of: obtaining an outline of the 3D model; setting a lowest point of the outline based on a datum axis to be a locate point; extending from the locate point along another two axes to search all coordinate points within the outline at a substantially height on the datum axis with the locate point; reserving of the information of the continual coordinate points which can constitute a plane area; recording the plane area; amending value on the datum axis to add fixed variable of the locate point; executing above steps repeatedly until the locate point is amended to be the highest point of the outline based on datum axis. The present disclosure can actually search for all plane area on the outline of the 3D model, so as to help the combination with other 3D models.
US09437040B2	System, method, and computer program product for implementing anti-aliasing operations using a programmable sample pattern table A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing anti-aliasing operations using a programmable sample pattern table. The method includes the steps of receiving an instruction that causes one or more values to be stored in one or more corresponding entries of the programmable sample pattern table and performing an anti-aliasing operation based on at least one value stored in the programmable sample pattern table. At least one value is selected from the programmable sample pattern table based on, at least in part, a location of one or more corresponding pixels.
US09437036B2	Medical system, medical imaging apparatus, and method of providing three-dimensional marker A medical system, a medical imaging apparatus, and a method of setting a 3-dimensional (3D) marker on a 3D image are provided. The medical imaging apparatus a display unit displaying a 3-dimensional (3D) ultrasound image generated by using 3D data; a user input unit receiving first input information for selecting a predetermined point of the 3D ultrasound image; and a processor detecting 3D geometry information of a 3D marker that corresponds to the predetermined point in the 3D data based on the first input information, and setting the 3D marker on the 3D image based on the 3D geometry information that is detected.
US09437024B2	Transformation function insertion for dynamically displayed tracer data A visualization system for a tracer may include a processing pipeline that may generate tracing data, preprocess the data, and visualize the data. The preprocessing step may include a mechanism to process user-defined expressions or other executable code. The executable code may perform various functions including mathematical, statistical, aggregation with other data, and others. The preprocessor may perform malware analysis, test the functionality, then implement the executable code. A user may be presented with an editor or other text based user interface component to enter and edit the executable code. The executable code may be saved and later recalled as a selectable transformation for use with other data streams.
US09437023B2	Data binding graph for interactive chart Embodiments include accessing a graph including a source node that defines source data, and downstream derived node(s) that receive upstream data and perform a modification operation on the data. A first visualization node, bound to the source node, displays a first visualization of the source data as defined by the source node, including binding a first visualization user interface (UI) element to the source data. A second visualization node, bound to a derived node, displays a second visualization of the source data as modified by the derived node, including binding a second visualization UI element to the data as modified by the derived node. The second visualization is modified based on input at the first visualization, by propagating the input from the source node through the graph to the derived node, and modifying the second visualization UI element at the second visualization to reflect the input.
US09437022B2	Time-based visualization of the number of events having various values for a field Systems and methods are provided for visualizing the number of events having different values for a field of interest over a selected time range. The events may be derived from machine data obtained from one or more data sources. User input received via a graphical user interface may specify the field of interest, a time range, and a time granularity for displaying counts of the number of events having various values during different time slots within the selected time range. Events including the specified field during the user-selected time range are identified and values for the field are extracted from the identified events. A visualization indicating a relation between a number of the events occurring within each of a plurality of time slots over the selected time range and each of the unique extracted values of the field is provided to the user via the graphical user interface.
US09437019B2	Processing combining-character sequences Particular embodiments of a computing device receive an indication of a character encoding system and a combining-character sequence. The character encoding system may comprise one or more ranges of character elements. The combining-character sequence may comprise two or more character elements. The two or more character elements may comprise at least one base letter and one or more combining marks. A mapping code may be determined for the combining-character sequence. If no mapping code exists, a next-available mapping code may be determined, and the combining-character sequence may be stored in association with the next-available mapping code in a data store on the computing device. A corresponding glyph may be determined based on the mapping code—if no glyph exists, the glyph may be generated or retrieved from a server and stored in association with the mapping code in the data store. Information may be provided to display the glyph.
US09437013B2	Simplified real time location-dependent color-coded display (“chloropleth”) system and method The various embodiments herein provide a system for indicating a position-dependent color-coded information to a user with respect to a color-indicator map. The system comprises a mobile device to determine a location of the user, transmit that information to the server and receive a numerical score, display color-coded information, and repeat this process every couple of seconds. The details of the location of the user from the mobile device is received by a server. The server is associated with a computing device which is configured to calculate a numerical score with respect to the location and transmit that information back to the mobile device. The system further comprises of an RGB LED or array of RGB LEDs in communication with the mobile device which is configured to display position-dependent color-coded information to the user with respect to a color-indicator map.
US09437006B2	Method and system for object reconstruction A system and method are presented for use in the object reconstruction. The system comprises an illuminating unit, and an imaging unit (see FIG. 1). The illuminating unit comprises a coherent light source and a generator of a random speckle pattern accommodated in the optical path of illuminating light propagating from the light source towards an object, thereby projecting onto the object a coherent random speckle pattern. The imaging unit is configured for detecting a light response of an illuminated region and generating image data. The image data is indicative of the object with the projected speckles pattern and thus indicative of a shift of the pattern in the image of the object relative to a reference image of said pattern. This enables real-time reconstruction of a three-dimensional map of the object.
US09437004B2	Surfacing notable changes occurring at locations over time An exemplary method for surfacing feature changes occurring over time at a location is provided. The method includes identifying sets of images captured at a location over a period of time. The sets of images depict objects at the location. Visual changes at the location over the period of time are determined for a given physical feature of the objects depicted in images from the sets of images based on at least a comparison of features in corresponding areas of a first and a second 3D geometry of the location associated with the images. The first and second 3D geometries depict physical features of objects at the location at different times. The sets of images may be ranked based on the determined visual changes for each set. A given set of images from the sets of images may be selected for display on a user interface based on the ranking.
US09437000B2	Odometry feature matching Methods and systems for determining features of interest for following within various frames of data received from multiple sensors of a device are disclosed. An example method may include receiving data from a plurality of sensors of a device. The method may also include determining, based on the data, motion data that is indicative of a movement of the device in an environment. The method may also include as the device moves in the environment, receiving image data from a camera of the device. The method may additionally include selecting, based at least in part on the motion data, features in the image data for feature-following. The method may further include estimating one or more of a position of the device or a velocity of the device in the environment as supported by the data from the plurality of sensors and feature-following of the selected features in the images.
US09436997B2	Estimating rainfall precipitation amounts by applying computer vision in cameras A method and system are provided. The method includes storing a set of references images without rain and spanning a plurality of different light conditions. The method further includes capturing, using a camera, an image of a scene with rain. The method also includes selecting a reference image from the set of reference images based on the light condition of the captured image. The method additionally includes performing an arithmetic subtraction image processing operation between the captured image and the reference image to generate a subtraction image. The method further includes estimating an amount of rain in the subtraction image based on previously calibrated values.
US09436989B2	System and method for rapid quantitative dynamic molecular imaging scans Methods and systems for controlled administration of a tracer and quantification of uptake of the tracer by a target organ are described. The method includes administering a tracer to a patient and imaging at least two regions of the patient's body that cannot be imaged simultaneously. An input function for the tracer can be determined by imaging a first region of the patient's body during selected times, and using an injector to administer the tracer in a manner that accurately estimates the input function when this first region is not being imaged. One or more additional regions of the body may then be imaged to create data that may be used to estimate the input function. One or more parameters may then be estimated from each additional region of the body based on the input function and the imaging data gathered from each region.
US09436977B2	Grayscale compensation method and system for defect on display panel A method of grayscale compensation to defects on a display panel includes: (A) obtaining a set of coordination of the defect on the display panel, and determining a defect area where the defect locates based on the set of coordination; (B) obtaining a gamma curve of the defect, a gamma curve of a background of the defect area, and a standard gamma curve of the background of the display panel; (C) obtaining a standard gamma curve of the defect and a standard gamma curve of the background of the defect area; and (D) calculating a grayscale-compensation value for each grayscale of the defect, based on the standard gamma curve and the standard gamma curve of the background of the defect area. The present invention is to reduce calculation, and to achieve the best compensation to defects on a display panel.
US09436970B2	Display co-processing In embodiments of display co-processing, a computing device includes a display, a full-power processor, and a low-power processor that can alter visual content presented by the display without utilizing the full-power processor. The low-power processor can, responsive to a request from the full-power processor, generate additional display data to update display data stored in a frame-buffer of the display. The low-power processor can then transmit the additional display data to the frame-buffer effective to alter at least a portion of the visual content presented by the display. In some embodiments, the additional display data is transmitted via a protocol converter that forwards the display data to the display using a display-specific communication protocol.
US09436965B2	Interactive map for grouped activities within a financial and social management system Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for a financial and social management system that provides improved tracking and management related to how, where, when, and with whom a user enters into activities. The financial and social management system captures activity information and images from various sources of information, including but not limited to social networking accounts, e-receipts, location determination devices, and the like, and associates the activity information and images with the activities. The financial and social management system may display the activities, activity information, and images in an interactive map using markers. The markers in the interactive may be displayed as a function of the time of the activity, include images, or transaction data related to the activity. Positioning information related to the location of the user at the time of the activities may also be overlaid on the interactive map.
US09436964B2	Systems and methods for mandated services verification A method and system for verifying cardholder compliance or non-compliance with a mandated services requirement by a third party using a payment card payment card network coupled to a database are provided. The method includes receiving sets of predetermined parameters that each define a transaction for one or more mandated services, receiving, by the computer device, transaction data for a plurality of transactions, determining, by the computer device, transactions for one or more mandated services from the plurality of received transactions using the received sets of parameters, summarizing the transaction data from the determined transactions, and transmitting the summarized transaction data to the third party, the summarized transaction data demonstrating cardholder compliance or noncompliance with the mandated services requirement.
US09436961B2	System and method for selling a product through an adaptable purchase interface A system and method for providing online commerce that includes at an online commerce platform, configuring a product profile for selling; providing a URI link of the online commerce platform that is unique to the product profile; at the online commerce platform, receiving an request to the link; identifying a referral channel of the request; conditionally selecting a product purchase interface mode from a set of interface modes at least in part based on the referral channel; transmitting a response of the selected product purchase interface mode in reply to the request; and at the purchase interface, completing a purchase from the product purchase interface.
US09436951B1	Facilitating presentation by mobile device of additional content for a word or phrase upon utterance thereof A method for presenting additional content for a word that is part of a message, and that is presented by a mobile communication device, includes the steps of: presenting the message, including emphasizing one or more words for which respective additional content is available for presenting by the mobile communication device; receiving an utterance that includes an emphasized word for which additional content is available for presenting by the mobile communication device; and presenting the additional content for the emphasized word included in the utterance received by the mobile communication device. These steps are performed by the mobile communication device.
US09436950B2	Integrating sponsored media with user-generated content A variety of computer based service that permit users to edit, compose, upload, or otherwise generate content also provide for the integration of sponsored media into presentations along with user-generated content. An exemplary service generates text based on user input, provides tags based on the text to a sponsored media repository, receives a sponsored media data structure in return, and formats sponsored media from the data structure for display to the user.
US09436947B2	Systems and methods for conducting surveys Systems and methods for conducting one or more surveys are provided herein. In certain embodiments, one or more participants may be identified to take part in a survey. Each of the participants may be associated with a respective user computing device. The user computing devices may present each of the participants with content to rate and/or review. In this manner, each of the participants may provide a review and/or rating of the content via the user computing devices. Further, based at least in part on the review and/or rating of the content, a survey profile of the content may be determined.
US09436946B2	Selecting content based on entities present in search results Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for providing content to a user. A method includes: receiving a query; receiving query results based on the query; determining for each of a predetermined number of top results entities associated therewith; using the determined entities to either augment or filter the query producing an enhanced query; and using the enhanced query to identify one or more sponsored content items for presentation to a user along with the query results.
US09436945B2	Interactive map-based search and advertising A computer system locates objects and content by navigating an aerial or satellite image map of a geographic region. The system determines a search region corresponding to the geographic region by use of geospatial information associated with the geographic region. Once the search region is determined, the system searches a database for objects and content that are associated with the search region and that satisfy certain predetermined criteria and characteristics. Relevant ads are then shown to the user within an interactive mapping experience.
US09436944B2	Electric vehicle charging station mobile device payment system Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for a mobile device payment system for electric vehicle charging stations (“EVCSs”) or electric vehicle supply equipment (“EVSE”). This system can be used to control the access to EVCS or EVSE and to ensure proper billing for the use of EVCS or EVSE.
US09436943B1	Method and system for authorizing long-lived transactions A method of authorizing a transaction may include receiving, by a hosted service from a client device, a request to access an account and determining whether a user of the client device is permitted to access the account. The method may include, in response to determining that the user is permitted to access the account, receiving, from the client device, a request to initiate a transaction, determining whether the transaction is a long-lived transaction, in response to determining that the transaction is a long-lived transaction, creating a transaction credential associated with the long-lived transaction, and determining, based at least in part on the transaction credential, whether the execution of the long-lived transaction is authorized.
US09436933B2	Wireless time attendance system and method A system and method for tracking and communicating time and attendance data for workers at a remote worksite is disclosed. A portable time and attendance device is configured to receive and store worker time attendance data and transmit the data to a remote computer via a wireless network, such as a wireless cellular communications network. In order to conserve battery power, a main unit of the device periodically queries an electronic time and attendance clock of the device according to a pre-established schedule to determine if new worker time and attendance data has been received. If so, according to the pre-established schedule, the new worker time and attendance data is transmitted to the remote computer via the wireless network. Otherwise, certain functions and components of the device remain in a low battery usage sleep mode.
US09436931B2	Remote prompting infrastructure The invention relates to a method and apparatus for sending and receiving prompts to end-users inside and outside the home. A prompt, for example, a message, image, or sound is presented to the end user in order to notify them of a health event, serve as a simple reminder, helps them through their daily activities. The invention includes, for example, the following components: a remote prompting client which runs on the end-user's home network and is typically associated with a physical display device. This entity has the ability to receive a prompt request from a remote prompting host, and display the prompt to the end-user; and a remote prompting host which runs on the end-user's home network and has the ability to scan the network and discover all existing remote prompting clients.
US09436930B2	Method and apparatus for recognizing image content Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for recognizing image contents. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for recognizing image contents, comprising: providing at least a first image pair and a second image pair to a user; obtaining a first answer and a second answer from the user, wherein the first answer and the second answer respectively indicate the user's determination on whether the image contents in the first image pair and the second image pair are same or not; and modifying a weight of the second image pair in response to the first answer matching a predetermined answer. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for recognizing image contents.
US09436928B2	User graphical interface for displaying a belonging-related stream A system and machine-implemented method for providing a user profile associated with a first user for display including a stream area displaying one or more belonging-related posts including a user link to a user associated with the post and a belonging link to a belonging associated with the post, receiving an indication of a user selection of the user link associated with a post, providing a contact profile of a user associated with the post for display upon receiving the indication of the user selection of the user link, receiving an indication of a user selection of the belonging link to the belonging associated with a post and providing a belonging profile of the belonging associated with the post for display upon receiving the indication of the user selection of the belonging link by the first user.
US09436927B2	Web-based multiuser collaboration Tools and techniques are described for web-based multiuser collaboration. These tools may provide methods that enable users to collaborate remotely on documents using respective browsers. These methods may send representations of portions of a given document to the browsers, and associate portions of the documents with particular users. The browsers may receive representations of commands as provided by the users, and may determine whether to execute the commands at the browser. The methods may also include receiving from the browsers revisions to the portions of the document, and storing these portions of the document in storage areas that are configured for storing content that has changed relatively recently.
US09436917B2	Accelerating learning by sharing information between multiple learning machines In one embodiment, variables maintained by each of a plurality of Learning Machines (LMs) are determined. The LMs are hosted on a plurality of Field Area Routers (FARs) in a network, and the variables are sharable between the FARs. A plurality of correlation values defining a correlation between the variables is calculated. Then, a cluster of FARs is computed based on the plurality of correlation values, such that the clustered FARs are associated with correlated variables, and the cluster allows the clustered FARs to share their respective variables.
US09436908B2	Apparatus and methods for rate-modulated plasticity in a neuron network Apparatus and methods for activity based plasticity in a spiking neuron network adapted to process sensory input. In one approach, the plasticity mechanism of a connection may comprise a causal potentiation portion and an anti-causal portion. The anti-causal portion, corresponding to the input into a neuron occurring after the neuron response, may be configured based on the prior activity of the neuron. When the neuron is in low activity state, the connection, when active, may be potentiated by a base amount. When the neuron activity increases due to another input, the efficacy of the connection, if active, may be reduced proportionally to the neuron activity. Such functionality may enable the network to maintain strong, albeit inactive, connections available for use for extended intervals.
US09436902B1	RFID integrated circuits with large contact pads An RFID IC assembly having a repassivation layer and a conductive redistribution layer may be assembled onto a tag substrate with an additional layer. The additional layer includes one or more etchants for creating an opening in a nonconductive barrier layer between the assembly and the substrate, and may also include an adhesive for attaching the assembly to the substrate.
US09436901B2	Method of incorporating an element in a data carrier A method of placing an element onto a data carrier, where there is a placement actuator arranged to be able to secure the element. A transport layer is advanced until the element is located between the placement actuator and the data carrier in a desired position. The actuator is moved towards the data carrier so that it secures the element. The transport layer is then retracted to detach the element from it and then the placement element is moved towards the data carrier to bring the element into contact with the data carrier at the desired position.
US09436899B2	RFID transponder An integrated circuit (1a) for a transponder (1), wherein said integrated circuit (1a) is switchable between a TTF (transponder talks first) and an RTF (reader talks first)-mode within a switching timeframe (TF2), wherein the position of the switching timeframe (TF2) is shif table in relation to a timeframe (TF1) allocated to the TTF-mode. In a preferred embodiment, the switching timeframe (TF2) is before a timeframe (TF1) allocated to the TTF-mode by default. After initialization of the transponder (1), the switching timeframe (TF2) is switched to a position after the timeframe.
US09436896B2	Chip card holder and portable electronic device with same A chip card holder includes a tray and a protecting member. The tray includes a receiving portion and a handle portion. The receiving portion is configured to receive a chip card. The handle portion is positioned at a side of the receiving portion. The protecting member is sleeved on the receiving portion and resists the handle portion. The protecting member is made of elastic material so as to prevent outside contamination from entering the chip card holder.
US09436894B2	Image alignment apparatus and image alignment method of using the same Provided are an image alignment apparatus and an image alignment method using the same. The image alignment apparatus includes a first conversion function estimation unit for estimating a first conversion function based on feature point information that is extracted from a first image, which is captured by using a first image sensor, and a second image, which is captured by using a second image; and a second conversion function estimation unit for estimating a second conversion function based on motion information that is extracted from the first image and the second image.
US09436879B2	Method for recognizing traffic signs For recognizing traffic signs that include a main sign and an associated additional sign, a method involves using a camera to record image data of an environment outside a vehicle, evaluating the image data to detect the presence and the class of the main sign and to detect the presence and partially classify the content of the additional sign by pattern recognition, performing text recognition to read and interpret text of the additional sign, and comparing the recognized text with actual current situational information to determine whether the main sign is currently applicable.
US09436877B2	Pedestrian right of way monitoring and reporting system and method A system and method for monitoring vehicle traffic and collecting data indicative of pedestrian right of way violations by vehicles is provided. The system comprises memory and logic for monitoring traffic intersections and recording evidence indicating that vehicles have violated pedestrian right of way. Two sensor modalities collecting video data and radar data of the intersection under observation are employed in one embodiment of the system. The violation evidence can be accessed remotely by a traffic official for issuing of traffic citations.
US09436873B2	Method and system for monitoring the skin color of a user This invention relates to a method and a system for monitoring skin color of a user. The system comprises a capturing unit, an obtaining unit, a deriving unit and a determining unit. The capturing unit captures at least one image of the user over a predetermined time period, and the obtaining unit obtains motion-related information of the user over the predetermined time period. The deriving unit derives visual information from the at least one image on the basis of the motion-related information, and the determining unit determines the skin color on the basis of the derived visual information. In this way, the skin color of the user can be effectively monitored without exposing the user to strong environmental light.
US09436869B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring nerve fiber structure information of object by using MRI system A method of obtaining fiber structure information of a nerve fiber in an object by using an MRI system includes: obtaining image information of voxels of the object; setting a tracking start area including at least one voxel of the object; setting at least one voxel adjacent to the tracking start area as a tracking processing area; determining a similarity between image information of a voxel included in the set tracking processing area and a voxel included in the tracking start area; and obtaining the fiber structure information according to the determined similarity.
US09436851B1	Geometric encrypted coded image A method, system and computer program for defining a geometric code is provided. The method for generating a geometric code includes the steps of defining a first geometric shape, defining a size of a second geometric shape as a change in size from the first geometric shape, defining a position of the second geometric shape as a change in position from the first geometric shape, and displaying the first geometric shape and the second geometric shape. A system for imaging the defined geometric code includes a processor performing the steps of segmenting the imaged code, partitioning the segmented imaged code, determining a gray level of each portion of the partitioned segmented imaged code, and determining a code represented by each segmented portion of the partitioned segmented imaged code.
US09436842B2	Distributed fragments file system The present invention relates to a distributed storage scheme, wherein every file is optionally encrypted, optionally interleaved, fragmented, and the various fragments stored on different constituent storage systems commensurate with the storage mechanisms supported by those storage providers.
US09436834B1	Techniques using an encryption tier property in a multi-tiered storage environment Techniques are described for storing data. A plurality of storage tiers are provided including a first set and a second set of storage tiers of physical devices. Data stored on any physical device in the first set is stored in an encrypted form. Data stored on any physical device in the second set is not stored in an encrypted form. A first value is specified for a first setting that is any of a tiering preference and tiering requirement indicating that at least one data portion of a logical device is to be stored on physical device(s) of a storage tier storing data in an encrypted form. Responsive to specifying the first value as the first setting, the at least one data portion of the logical device currently stored on physical device(s) of the second set are relocated to physical device(s) of the first set.
US09436831B2	Secure erase in a memory device The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable secure erase in a memory device. In one aspect, the method includes detecting a secure erase trigger. The method further includes determining a secure erase algorithm from among one or more secure erase algorithms to use in accordance with the detected secure erase trigger. The method further includes performing a secure erase operation in accordance with the selected secure erase algorithm, the secure erase operation including: (1) signaling a secure erase condition to a plurality of controllers on the memory device, (2) erasing one or more non-volatile memory devices on the memory device, (3) monitoring the secure erase operation, and (4) recording data related to the secure erase operation.
US09436827B2	Attesting a component of a system during a boot process A method for attesting a component of a system during a boot process. The method includes steps of: verifying that the system is in a trusted state; in response to verifying that the system is in a trusted state, requesting an enrollment of the system wherein the requesting step further comprises the step of: retrieving enrollment data associated with the system; retrieving current input data associated with the component of the system; comparing the current input data against the enrollment data in order to determine whether the system can retain its trusted state; wherein in response to the comparing step, if the current input data matches the enrollment data, the system retains its trusted state; and accepting the trusted state until receipt of a notification, from the system having a retained trusted state, of an update to the system.
US09436814B2	Fail-safe licensing for software applications Technologies are generally described to provide a fail-safe licensing system. An example system may include a quorum detection module of an instance of a software program configured to query a licensing queue corresponding to the software program for messages to determine a number of active instances of the software program. Based on a comparison of the determined number of active instances and a maximum number of allowed instances of the software program, the quorum detection module may be configured to determine whether the instance of the software program is authorized. In response to a determination that the instance of the software program is authorized, the quorum detection module may generate a unique instance identification tag and post a message to the licensing queue, where the message includes an indication that the instance of the software program is active and an indication of the generated unique instance identification tag.
US09436812B2	Platform-hardened digital rights management key provisioning Embodiments of an invention for platform-hardened digital rights management key provisioning are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes an execution unit to execute one or more instructions to create a secure enclave in which to run an application to receive digital rights management information from a provisioning server in response to authentication of the application by a verification server.
US09436808B2	Dynamic network construction A dynamic network is disclosed herein. The dynamic network can include a central server, one or several user devices, one or several remote servers, and a database server. The dynamic network can be created in response to a user request for content to be used in a compilation. The central server can identify one or several of the remote servers as potentially containing the requested content, and can communicate with the identified one or several of the remote servers to receive that content. Additionally, the server can identify and connect with one or several servers containing terms of use information for the requested content.
US09436807B2	Method and apparatus for providing digital rights management service in the cloud A computer implemented method and apparatus for providing digital rights management service in the cloud. The method comprises receiving, at a cloud-based server, a request for a digital rights license from a client device, wherein the digital rights license enables accessing of protected digital media content on the client device; determining, by the cloud-based server, an external license server to facilitate processing the request; routing the request to the external license server; receiving, at the cloud-based server, the requested digital rights license from the external license server; and routing, by the cloud-based server, the requested digital rights license to the client device.
US09436806B2	Content protection in a wireless network A method for operating a device to protect an application from unauthorized operation is provided. The application will fail to operate on the device when the device is defined outside a selected operating region. The method includes transmitting the selected operating region for the application, and receiving the application and a geographic identifier associated with the application. The geographic identifier is configured to identify the selected operating region wherein the application will operate on the device. The method further includes transmitting a request to execute the application on the device. The request includes the geographic identifier. Further included in the method is receiving a code. The code prevents an execution of the application on the device if the code is a disable code. The disable code indicates that the device is operating outside the selected operating region. An apparatus for content protection in a wireless network is also provided.
US09436805B1	Method and system for transfer of subscription media A method of receiving media content at a networked media viewing device at a first location includes transmitting, to an entity associated with a central authority, a request to purchase a temporary access license. A request to establish a connection with a source device at a second location capable of transmitting media content to the first location is transmitted to the central authority. Content is received at the networked media viewing device at the first location via a content link established with the source device at the second location.
US09436796B2	Method and apparatus for determining common node logical connectivity A method, system, and computer-readable medium are described that enable efficient design processes for integrated circuits. In particular, tools are described which enable an integrated circuit designer to visualize an integrated circuit design without combinational logic and, from such visualization, identify locations in the design of common node logical connectivity. This information enables the designer to identify potential areas where the integrated circuit design can be improved.
US09436788B2	Method of fabricating an integrated circuit with block dummy for optimized pattern density uniformity The present disclosure provides one embodiment of an IC method that includes receiving an IC design layout including a plurality of main features; choosing isolation distances to the IC design layout; oversizing the main features according to each of the isolation distances; generating a space block layer for the each of the isolation distances by a Boolean operation according to oversized main features; choosing an optimized space block layer and an optimized block dummy density ratio of the IC design layout according to pattern density variation; generating dummy features in the optimized space block layer according to the optimized block dummy density ratio; and forming a tape-out data of the IC design layout including the main features and the dummy features, for IC fabrication.
US09436779B2	Techniques of efficient XML query using combination of XML table index and path/value index A mechanism is provided for accessing XML data in a database system using a combination of a XML Table Index table and a XML Path Index table. By using a combination of a XML Table Index and a XML Path Index, both selection access and navigational access involved in a query can be optimized. For example, the XML Table Index gives the database system an ability to readily evaluate the predicate expression, thereby improving the selection access. Moreover, in some embodiments, the selection access can be further improved by using secondary indexes on columns contained in the XML Table Index table. In a complementary manner, the XML Path Index table gives the database system an ability to navigate to a specific location given a path expression, thereby improving the navigational access. Thus, by combining both tables, both selection and navigational accesses are improved.
US09436772B2	Appending a uniform resource identifier (URI) fragment identifier to a uniform resource locator (URL) A method, computer program product, and/or system dynamically appends a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) fragment identifier to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A web browser on a client device displays a webpage, and accesses the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) coding for the webpage. HTML identification attributes are detected for the content that is being rendered within the web browser. A URI fragment identifier corresponding to the HTML identification attribute that is being rendered at the top of the web browser window is determined and is appended to the end of the URL of the webpage that is displayed in the URL box of the web browser. Detection of the content that is being rendered at the top of the web browser window occurs responsive to a command to scroll to a new section of the webpage.
US09436771B1	Informative systems and methods for perishable food storage An informative food storage system and method is presented herein. The system comprising a container with a scannable code and a client device configured to record the scannable code and to access or maintain a database comprising information associated with one or more scannable codes. The client device may be configured to create, edit, delete, and display information associated with each scannable code. The information may comprise a plurality of data on food stored in the container comprising the scannable code and on the container itself. The method may comprise storing food in a container comprising a scannable code. The scannable code may be recorded by an informative food storage system. Information associated with the scannable code may be displayed, edited, and maintained in a database with information on each scannable code stored in an account or refrigerator. Information from the database may be input, edited, and output by the system on a client device.
US09436765B2	System for deep linking and search engine support for web sites integrating third party application and components A system and method for a website including a detector to detect and analyze at least the source of at least one incoming request and a uniform resource locator (URL) handler to parse the incoming request. The system and method also include a coordinator with access to at least one third party application to coordinate between the URL handler and at least one third party application and at least one renderer to receive the output of the coordinator and the detector and to generate at least one of a regular website page, an indexing adapted page and a sitemap according at least to the source of the incoming request.
US09436763B1	Infrastructure enabling intelligent execution and crawling of a web application In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a structured document of a network application, processing the structured document to generate a model representation of the structured document, tracking one or more interactions occurring during the processing of the structured document, the one or more interactions including one or more outgoing requests transmitted by the one or more computing systems or incoming responses received by the one or more computing systems, and generating a behavior model of the web application based on one or more of the interactions.
US09436760B1	Measuring accuracy of semantic graphs with exogenous datasets Provided is a process including: obtaining a semantic similarity graph having nodes corresponding to documents in an analyzed corpus and edges indicating semantic similarity between pairs of the documents; for at least a plurality of nodes in the graph, evaluating accuracy of the edges based on neighboring nodes and an external corpus by performing operations including: identifying the neighboring nodes based on adjacency to the respective node in the graph; selecting documents from an external corpus based on references in the selected documents to entities mentioned in the documents of the neighboring nodes; and determining how semantically similar the respective node is to the selected documents.
US09436755B1	Determining and scoring task indications Methods and apparatus related to determining and scoring task indications. For example, methods and apparatus may determine a plurality of interrogative sentences in a plurality of messages, determine starting n-grams of the interrogative sentences, determine task indications based on the starting n-grams, and determine task association scores for the task indications. Each task indication may be determined based on a set of one or more starting n-grams that share similarities. One or more individuals and/or applications may assign one or more task association measures to a task indication based on likelihood that the task indication is associated with a task request. The task association score for the task indication may be determined based on the task association measures that are assigned to the task indication.
US09436750B2	Frame based data replication in a cloud computing environment A device may receive information associated with a write operation to be performed on a storage volume included in a cloud computing environment, and may divide the information into a group of write frames. Each write frame may include a respective portion of the information. The device may determine information that identifies members of a replication set associated with the storage volume. The device may provide each write frame to each member. The device may receive a reply frame, associated with a write frame, from a member. The device may determine that the reply frame is a last reply frame associated with the write frame and may modify source information to form a modified reply frame. The device may provide the modified reply frame. The modified reply frame may be provided to indicate that the portion of the write operation, associated with the write frame, has been successfully performed.
US09436735B1	Access path optimization through system statistics In an approach for calculating one or more access paths during bind time, a computer receives a query. The computer identifies one or more access paths for processing the received query, wherein the one or more access paths include steps associated with retrieving data from a database based on the received query. The computer calculates resource costs associated with processing the received query on the one or more identified access paths based on one of more of: resources utilized to perform steps associated with processing the received query, and system statistics associated with the one or more identified access paths.
US09436734B2	Relative performance prediction of a replacement database management system (DBMS) Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for pre-migration performance prediction of a database management system (DBMS). In an embodiment of the invention, a method for pre-migration performance prediction of a DBMS can include executing a calibration workload in a target DBMS to produce a conversion factor of cost of executing the calibration workload to temporal performance of executing the calibration workload. The method also can include subsequently submitting a sample workload from a database of a source DBMS for evaluation of cost of execution on an empty replica of the database in the target DBMS. Finally, the method can include predicting a temporal performance of the sample workload in the target DBMS as a product of the conversion factor and the cost of execution of the sample workload on the empty replica of the database in the target DBMS.
US09436725B1	Live data center test framework Systems and methods are described for testing computing resources. In one embodiment, a search space of computing settings is analyzed in accordance with weighted data that maps computing performance parameters with the computing settings. A subset of the computing settings is selected to generate a test population to optimize at least one computing performance parameter. One or more computing devices in a computing environment are configured in accordance with the test population, and the test conditions are iteratively updated based on test results in accordance with the test population and a fitness function.
US09436707B2	Content-based image ranking Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking search results for queries. The method includes calculating a visual similarity score for one or more pairs of images in a plurality of images based on visual features of images in each of the one or more pairs; building a graph of images by linking each of one or more images in the plurality of images to one or more nearest neighbor images based on the visual similarity scores; associating a respective score with each of one or more images in the graph based on data indicative of user behavior relative to the image as a search result for a query; and determining a new score for each of one or more images in the graph based on the respective score of the image, and the respective scores of one or more nearest neighbors to the image.
US09436704B2	System for normalizing, codifying and categorizing color-based product and data based on a universal digital color language A system for normalizing, codifying and categorizing divergent color systems into a universal color language. A server connected to a communications network receives, processes, codifies and categorizes divergent color data from a merchant system. A middleware engine of the server receives a data feed comprising a plurality of color swatches or images from the merchant system, and normalizes the data feed into a common format. A server processor extracts image data comprising a plurality of product images from the normalized data feed, identifies and converts at least one dominant product color in each product image to a digital value based on color component intensity values, and assigns a hexadecimal code of the universal color language to each product image that is closest to the digital value of each product image. A product categorization engine categorizes each product image into one of a plurality of product categories.
US09436703B2	Apparatus and method for providing map data and system thereof A system and a method are provided that are capable of providing map data for supporting a variety of user network environments and selecting data zones freely. A navigation terminal includes a reception unit adapted to receive a file in which map data of a specific zone is stored, from a map provision server; and an execution unit adapted to execute a navigation function on the specific zone using the file. The file is produced by an individual unit with respect to each of geographic areas divided by a mesh unit having a variable size. The size of the mesh unit is decided according to the amount of information included in the geographic area such that the file has an equalized size.
US09436693B1	Dynamic network access of snapshotted versions of a clustered file system The various embodiments are directed towards enabling access to snapshotted versions of files in a distributed file system. The distributed file system may receive a file system operation request that includes at least an entry-ID and a snapshot-ID. File system operation requests may include operations such as reads, writes, moves, or the like. Directory entries that match the entry-ID and the snapshot-ID may be looked up and retrieved from the distributed file system. The retrieved directory entries may also be arranged to include a generation-ID. In the directory entry matching the snapshot-ID, if the generation-ID and the snapshot-ID are different, another directory entry may be looked up from the distributed file system using the entry-ID and the generation-ID. Then the initially requested file system operation may be performed on the retrieved directory entry.
US09436691B2	Hierarchical multimedia program composition A computer-based method for media composition of a family of related time-based media programs. The method involves creating a master program with time-based elements of video and/or audio as well as time-based and non-time-based metadata, creating a derivative program that includes derivative elements, defining an inheritance relationship between the master program and the derivative program that specifies elements of the master program to be inherited by the derivative program, and causing the derivative program to inherit the specified elements from the master program in accordance with the inheritance relationship. User interfaces are provided for creating, editing, and viewing hierarchical trees of related programs.
US09436690B2	System and method for predicting a geographic origin of content and accuracy of geotags related to content obtained from social media and other content providers A system and method for managing geotag data associated with content within a geofeed is provided. The content may be tagged with metadata such as geotag data that may specify a location where the content was created. The generated content may be geotagged by one or more geotag sources including a GPS-enabled device, a user input, a content provider, a user profile, or other sources. The system may determine the geotag data for the content that is not already associated with geotag data. The system may determine a confidence level of the geotag data, whether already geotagged or not. The confidence level may be indicative of a likelihood that the geotag data accurately describes a location where the content was actually created.
US09436681B1	Natural language translation techniques Techniques are described for translating natural language input to a machine-readable form that accurately represents the semantic meaning of the input intended by the user.
US09436675B2	Method and device for phonetizing data sets containing text A method for phonetizing text-containing data records that include graphemes includes: phonetizing the data records by converting the graphemes in the data records into phonemes, and storing the phonemes as phonetized data records; and preprocessing to condition the graphemes for the phonetization by modifying the graphemes on a language-defined and/or user-defined basis. The preprocessing of the graphemes and the conversion of the graphemes into phonemes are performed in parallel on different computation units or different portions of the computation units.
US09436673B2	Automatic application of templates to content An apparatus and method applying a layout template to content are disclosed herein. A plurality of content included in a visual workspace is automatically grouped into one or more clusters, one or more content of the plurality of content being at different spatial position from each other. At least one cluster is automatically located to a respective content placeholder included in the layout template. The clusters with the layout template are presented in accordance with the automatically locating of the clusters.
US09436666B1	Sharing geographical information between users Users can collaborate to annotate a map by sharing geographical information. Map data can be stored locally or remotely while annotations are stored in an annotation server. A presentation device such as a personal computer can use the map data to display a map and can access the annotations on the annotation server and display them. Different users can edit the annotations and save them on the annotation server. The annotations presented to users who are simultaneously viewing them can be synchronized. Presentation devices can download modules for sharing geographical information from servers such as web servers.
US09436665B2	Synchronizing annotations between printed documents and electronic documents An image of a printed document portion is provided to a synchronizer. The synchronizer retrieves an electronic version of the printed document and identifies an electronic text portion that is textually similar to a printed text portion. The synchronizer detects an annotation in the printed document portion and inserts a corresponding digital annotation into the electronic document.
US09436661B2	System and method for generating an interactive endless belt routing diagram A system and method for generating an interactive routing diagram for an endless belt is disclosed. The routing diagram illustrates a plurality of components associated with an accessory drive system. The system includes a display, a routing database, and a processor. The routing database stores a routing table associated with the routing diagram. The routing table stores routing information indicating a location of at least one hyperlinked character displayed on the routing diagram. The hyperlinked character is associated with a specific component of the accessory drive system. The processor is in communication with the display and the routing database. The processor executes an instruction for generating an image of the routing diagram on the display. The processor also executes an instruction for generating an image of the hyperlinked character upon the routing diagram, where the hyperlinked character is linked to data associated with the specific component.
US09436652B2	Honeyport active network security A device comprises a processor. The processor is configured to generate a first signal using a first communication protocol. The first signal corresponds to data received by the processor. The processor is configured to generate a second signal using a second communication protocol. The second signal comprises fabricated data generated by the processor. Additionally, the processor is configured to transmit the first signal. The processor is also configured to transmit the second signal.
US09436632B2	Accessing data stored in a command/address register device A register not connected to a data bus is read by transferring data across an address bus to a device connected to the data bus, from which the data is read by a device connected to the data bus. The register resides in a register device connected via the address bus to a memory device that is connected to both the address bus and the data bus. A host processor triggers the register device to transfer information over the address bus to a register on the memory device. The host processor then reads the information from the register of the memory device.
US09436630B2	Using dual phys to support multiple PCIe link widths Systems described herein enable PCIe device components to be used with multiple PCIe topologies and with host systems of varying configurations. In some cases, a number of varying PHYs and PCIe cores are utilized to increase the number of applications and/or specifications that may be satisfied with a host interface design. Further, some systems described herein may include a number of synchronizers, clock multiplier units, and selectors to create a host interface that can be configured for a number of applications. Despite increasing the flexibility of the usage of systems disclosed herein, costs can be reduced by using the systems of the present disclosure for PCIe based devices.
US09436620B2	Methodology for detecting problematic connections with peripheral devices Implementations of the present disclosure provide methods and systems for identifying peripheral devices with which problematic connections have been established. According to one embodiment, a method for detecting a model of peripheral device for which problematic connections with a computerized unit are common is disclosed. The method involves receiving values of each of one or more features of a particular connection between a computerized unit and a peripheral device, using the received values to determine a score for each of the features of the particular connection, calculating an overall connection score from the scores for each of the features, and generating a problematic peripheral device report including the model of the peripheral device if the overall connection score is indicative of a problematic connection.
US09436613B2	Central processing unit, method for controlling central processing unit, and information processing apparatus A central processing unit, connected to a main memory among a plurality of central processing units each including a cache memory, includes a control unit. The control unit executes a process including: classifying the plurality of central processing units into a smaller number than a total number of the plurality of central processing units, and writing to the main memory presence information indicating whether or not the same data as data stored in the main memory is held in a cache memory included in any of the central processing units that belong to a corresponding central processing unit group, for each central processing unit group of a plurality of central processing unit groups obtained by the classifying.
US09436607B2	Locking a cache line for write operations on a bus Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for locking a cache line for a burst write operations on a bus. A cache line is allocated in a cache for a target address. A lock is set for the cache line, wherein setting the lock prevents the data in the cache line from being cast out. Data is written to the cache line. All the data in the cache line is flushed to the target address over a bus in response to completing writing to the cache line.
US09436595B1	Use of application data and garbage-collected data to improve write efficiency of a data storage device A data storage device includes a plurality of flash memory devices. A memory controller is configured to receive a request from a host computing device to write a first logical block of application data to the data storage device, write the first logical block to a data buffer, wherein a size of the data buffer is larger than the logical block and may store multiple logical blocks, write one or more logical blocks of garbage-collected data to the data buffer, and write the logical blocks in the data buffer to the data storage device when the data buffer becomes full. The data buffer written to the data storage device includes at least one logical block of application data and at least one logical block of garbage-collected data. In an alternative implementation, garbage-collected data may be written to the data buffer upon expiration of a timer.
US09436588B2	Efficient method data recording According to one general aspect, a method may include monitoring the execution or at least a portion of a software application. The method may also include collecting subroutine call information regarding a plurality of subroutine calls included by the portion of the software application, wherein one or more of the subroutine calls is selected for detailed data recording. The method may further include pruning, as the software application is being executed, a subroutine call tree to include only the subroutine calls selected for detailed data recording and one or more parent subroutine calls of each subroutine calls selected for detailed data recording.
US09436583B1	Minimally disruptive debugging in a production environment For debugging an application in a production environment, a breakpoint is set in the application. Responsive to the setting, recording is begun of information about a processing of a request in the application. Reaching the breakpoint is detected in the application during the processing of the request. A replica of the application is created including the breakpoint, the application becoming a primary application and the replica becoming a secondary application in a production environment. In the secondary application, a debugging operation is performed during a processing of a copy of the request after the breakpoint in the secondary application.
US09436579B2	Real-time, multi-tier load test results aggregation A method for real-time analysis of results from a load test performed on a target website includes periodically computing first-level aggregated test results within each of a plurality of load server instances that generate a load on the target website. The first-level aggregated test results are computed from data received by each of the load server instances from the target website every first time interval. The first-level aggregated test results are then periodically sent from each of the load server instances to an associated one of a plurality of analytic server instances every second time interval. The first-level aggregated test results are aggregated by each of the analytic server instances to produce second-level aggregated test results, which test results may then further aggregated to produce third-level aggregated test results at a data storage instance in real-time.
US09436574B2	Method for operating interface with external device and electronic device implementing the same A method and an apparatus are provided for operating an interface with an external device in an electronic device. A connection of the external device to the electronic device is recognized. It is determined whether the external device is a SAW device. A request signal is transmitted to the SAW device when the external device is the SAW device. A response signal corresponding to the request signal is received from the SAW device. The response signal is processed. Data is output according to the processed response signal.

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