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US09756767B2	Power conversion apparatus A power conversion apparatus includes: a cooling air passage defined with cooling fins of upper and lower converters and cooling fins of an inverter opposed to each other; upper and lower blowing fans provided upstream of the cooling air passage; and upper and lower sucking fans provided downstream of the cooling air passage and at positions offset from the converters. The blowing fans are provided for supplying cooling air from upstream of the cooling air passage, and the sucking fans are provided for discharging air from within a casing of the apparatus to the outside.
US09756763B2	Cooling fluid supply apparatus with safety mechanism and method for cooling heat load To provide a cooling fluid supply apparatus capable of continuing cooling a heat load even when supply of a cooling fluid stops while the heat load is running. A cooling fluid circulation path connecting a cooling fluid supply apparatus and a heat load and a heat-dissipating fluid circulation path connecting the cooling fluid supply apparatus and a heat-dissipating fluid supply apparatus are connected with bypass pipes and disposed therebetween. When a cooling fluid is supplied from the cooling fluid supply apparatus to the heat load, the cooling fluid circulation path and heat-dissipating fluid circulation path are disconnected by closing the bypass pipes and by using the overheating prevention valves. When the supply of the cooling fluid from the cooling fluid supply apparatus to the heat load is stopped, a heat-dissipating fluid from the heat-dissipating fluid supply apparatus is supplied to the heat load by connecting the cooling fluid circulation path and heat-dissipating fluid circulation path by using the overheating prevention valves.
US09756757B2	Flexible display apparatus A flexible display apparatus has a small thickness which makes it easy to wind or unwind a flexible display module. The flexible display apparatus includes a frame module, into or from which a flexible display module is wound or unwound, and a panel elevating module configured to vertically move the flexible display module via folding or unfolding of at least one retractable unit. The retractable unit includes joint members provided at ends of first and second links intersecting each other, and elastic members installed to the respective joint members and supported by the ends of the first and second links.
US09756754B2	Integrated power module packaging structure An integrated power module packaging structure includes a housing, a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a first pin, a second pin and a third pin. The housing has a cavity. The second circuit board is located above the first circuit board, and both them are received in the cavity. A switching module is disposed on the first circuit board. A high side current/voltage detecting device and a driving device are disposed on the second circuit board. The first pin, the second pin and the third pin are disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The first pin connects the high side current/voltage detecting device and the switching module in series. The second pin connects the switching module. The driving device controls the switching module through the third pin.
US09756751B1	Tunable vibration isolation system with integrated A-frame architecture for low phase noise radio frequency synthesizers A radio frequency (RF) frequency synthesizer includes a chassis housing that holds components of the RF frequency synthesizer. The chassis housing is installable into an instrument cabinet. A pair of mounting brackets are connected to opposing interior sides of the chassis housing and receive an A-Frame assembly which supports vibration sensitive RF circuitry and RF components. The A-Frame assembly is attached to the pair of mounting brackets in the chassis housing and provide a spatial separation between the kinematic inputs and the vibration sensitive RF circuitry and RF components. The A-Frame assembly includes a folded sheet, the folded sheet defining an angle between a first planar region and a second planar region, and may include a planar frame cross-member attached to the first planar region and the second planar region, the planar frame cross-member spanning the angle between the first and second planar regions.
US09756746B2	Movable display device An upper guide and a lower guide are provided on an escutcheon integrally attached to the chassis. An upper movable pin engageable with and disengageable from the upper guide, a lower movable pin engageable with and disengageable from the lower guide, and a fulcrum switching mechanism that reciprocates the upper movable pin and lower movable pin in the left-right direction are attached to a display body disposed in front of the escutcheon. The fulcrum switching mechanism makes the rotational fulcrum of the display body switchable between a first pivoting state, in which the upper movable pin is engaged with the upper guide and the lower movable pin is disengaged from the lower guide, and a second pivoting state, in which the lower movable pin is engaged with the lower guide and the upper movable pin is disengaged from the upper guide.
US09756745B2	Chassis drawer for modular information handling resources A drawer for receiving components may comprise an inner member, and intermediate member, and a carrier member. The carrier member may comprise a substantially planar top generally parallel to an inner member bottom, a substantially planar bottom generally parallel to the top, a carrier spine mechanically coupled between the top and the bottom, a plurality of bays, each bay having one or more structural components for receiving a modular information handling resource and configured such that the bay is accessed for insertion or removal of the modular information handling resource via a carrier member side of the carrier member generally parallel to an inner member side, and at least one web generally parallel to the inner member sides and mechanically coupling the carrier member to the intermediate member such that when the drawer is translated to an open position, each of the plurality of bays is accessible.
US09756744B2	Controlling rigidity of flexible displays Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses that can control rigidity of a flexible display. Embodiments of the present invention enable a user of the flexible display to control rigidity of the flexible display based on user preference, sensing information, program instruction, or combinations thereof. Embodiments of the present invention provide several ways to control rigidity of the flexible display by manipulating one or more rigidity control members disposed on the flexible display. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention provide a way to allow the flexible display to have varying rigidity throughout portions of the flexible display.
US09756743B2	Lock mechanism adapted to an electronic device and electronic device therewith A lock mechanism adapted to an electronic device with a base, a first casing and a second casing includes a sliding member, a push button, a latch member, a first guiding structure and a second guiding structure. The sliding member is disposed on the base in a slidable manner. The push button is combined with the sliding member for driving the sliding member to slide relative to the base. The latch member is disposed on the base in a slidable manner. The first guiding structure is disposed on the sliding member. The second guiding structure is disposed on the latch member. The second guiding structure cooperates with the first guiding structure for sliding relative to the first guiding structure when the sliding member slides relative to the base, so as to guide the latch member to a locking position for locking the first casing and the second casing.
US09756741B2	Electronic assembly and method of manufacture same An electronic assembly comprises a housing, a cover for the housing, a printed circuit board receivable in the housing, and a compliant pin header assembly. The compliant pin header assembly is mountable in the housing by inter-engaging features on the header assembly and the housing. The compliant pin header assembly has compliant pins for engaging corresponding features on the printed circuit board to connect the compliant pin header assembly electrically to the printed circuit board. The cover, when the electronic assembly is assembled, engages the housing and also engages the printed circuit board at a location spaced from an outer periphery of the printed circuit board.
US09756740B2	Electrical switch assembly An electrical switch assembly for an electrical appliance having an electrical load such as a motor, includes a housing with an opening, switch terminals, and an on/off mechanical switching module. The switch assembly includes an electronic control module operable with a semiconductor switching device to control operation of the load, and a heat sink in thermal contact with the switching device for dissipating heat. The heat sink is electrically conductive and is in electrical circuit connection with a first terminal of the switching device and one of the switch terminals. The heat sink closes the opening and forms part of the housing.
US09756738B2	Redistribution film for IC package A redistribution film for IC package is disclosed, which comprises a top redistribution layer configured on top of a bottom redistribution layer. The top redistribution layer is fabricated following PCB design rule, and the bottom redistribution layer is fabricated following IC design rule. Further, the interface between the top redistribution layer and the bottom redistribution layer is optionally made roughed to increase bonding forces therebetween.
US09756732B2	Device embedded substrate and manufacturing method of device embedded substrate A device embedded substrate (20), includes: an insulation layer (12) including an insulation resin material; an electric or electronic device (4) embedded in the insulation layer (12); a terminal (15) serving as an electrode included in the device (4); a conductor pattern (18) formed on the surface of the insulation layer (12); and a conducting via (21) for electrically connecting the conductor pattern (18) and the terminals (15) with each other. The conducting via (21) is made up of a large-diameter section (21a) having a large diameter and a small-diameter section (21b) having a smaller diameter than that of the large-diameter section (21a), in order starting from the conductor pattern (18) toward the terminal (15). A stepped section (17) is formed between the large-diameter section (21a) and the small-diameter section (21b). The large-diameter section (21a) is formed so as to penetrate a sheet-shaped glass cloth (11) disposed in the insulation layer (12).
US09756722B2	Transparent electroconductive film The transparent electroconductive film is provided with: a transparent substrate formed from a film-shaped polymer resin; a first hard coat layer laminated on one surface of the substrate; and a first transparent conductor layer laminated on the upper side of the first hard coating layer. The substrate has a film thickness of 2 to 250 μm. The first hard coating layer is formed from a curable resin containing an inorganic oxide, and has a film thickness of 0.01 μm to less than 0.5 μm, or more than 6 μm to 10 μm. The first transparent conductor layer is formed from at least one material selected from the group consisting of an inorganic oxide, a metal, and carbon, has a film thickness of 10 nm to 2 μm, and is patterned so as to have formed thereon a patterned section and a non-patterned section.
US09756718B2	Module board A module board includes a base substrate. Electronic components are mounted on a first principal surface of the base substrate. The mounted electronic components are sealed by a sealing resin containing an SiO2 filler. A top surface and side surfaces of the sealing resin are covered with a shield layer containing a carbon filler, which is flat powder, as a conductive component. A terminal electrode is formed on a second principal surface of the base substrate that is disposed opposite to the first principal surface of the base substrate.
US09756712B2	Device for treating a surface with a plasma A device for treating a surface with a dielectric barrier plasma, wherein the surface functions as a return electrode, having a housing (1), in which a high-voltage feed line, an electrode (8) which is connected to the high-voltage feed line, and a dielectric (9), which screens the electrode (8) with respect to the surface, are located, permits the plasma treatment of highly curved surfaces and of relatively large surface areas by virtue of the fact that the electrode (8) has the shape of a circle which is mounted in the housing (1) so as to be rotatable at least to a limited degree, and projects with a spherical section from an end-side opening (5) in the housing (1), and in that the electrode (8) is coated with the dielectric (9) in such a way that its spherical section projecting out of the housing (1) is covered by the dielectric (9) in every possible rotational position.
US09756705B2	Systems and methods for lighting and appliance control The present invention provides an LED lighting device and an LED lighting control system. The LED lighting device includes an LED lighting unit configured to emit light; an LED driving circuit configured to drive the LED lighting unit, the LED driving circuit being connected to the LED lighting unit; an infrared module configured to send infrared signals to an appliance; and a Wi-Fi module configured to receive and send data. The Wi-Fi module is connected to the infrared module, and sends received data to the infrared module. Embodiments consistent with the present disclosure provide integrated control of lighting and appliances.
US09756698B2	LED tube lamp with two operating modes compatible with electrical ballasts An LED tube lamp is disclosed. The LED tube lamp includes an LED module for emitting light, the LED module comprising an LED unit comprising an LED; a rectifying circuit for rectifying an external driving signal to produce a rectified signal; and a mode determination circuit configured to detect a state of a property of the rectified signal, for selectively determining on performing a first mode or a second mode of lighting according to the state of the property of the rectified signal; wherein when the LED tube lamp performs the first mode of lighting, the mode determination circuit allows continual current to flow through the LED unit until the external driving signal is disconnected from the LED tube lamp; and when the LED tube lamp performs the second mode of lighting, the mode determination circuit regulates the continuity of current to flow through the LED unit.
US09756697B2	Monolithic LED chip in an integrated control module with active circuitry A lighting device includes a monolithic LED chip flip-chip mounted onto an interconnect structure. The monolithic chip includes LED junctions formed from a single LED junction. An active electronic component is also mounted onto the interconnect structure at a distance from the monolithic chip that is less than five times the maximum dimension of the monolithic chip. The active electronic component controls LED drive currents independently supplied to the LED junctions. Different types of phosphor are disposed laterally above the various LED junctions. A color sensor measures the light emitted from the lighting device when drive currents are supplied to first and second LED junctions. The active electronic component then supplies more drive current to the first LED junction than to the second LED junction in response to the color sensor measuring the light emitted when the prior LED drive currents are supplied to the first and second LED junctions.
US09756685B2	Heating element A plane heating element includes a mesh that has warp threads and weft threads. A coating containing carbon nanotubes can be applied to the mesh. A water-repellent and electrically-insulating protective layer made of styrene butadiene copolymer can be additionally applied to the mesh.
US09756679B2	Discontinuous reception (DRX)-aware carrier sense adaptive transmission (CSAT) in shared spectrum Systems and methods for Discontinuous Reception (DRX)-aware Carrier Sense Adaptive Transmission (CSAT) communication in shared spectrum are disclosed. An access point, for example, may receive signals via a medium in accordance with a first RAT, and identify utilization of the medium associated with the first RAT based on the received signals. Based on the identified utilization of the medium, operation of a second RAT may be cycled between activated and deactivated periods of transmission over the medium in accordance with a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) communication pattern. A Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) may be transmitted to an access terminal associated with the second RAT to activate or deactivate the access terminal in accordance with the TDM communication pattern. The timing of the MAC CE transmission may be based on the TDM communication pattern and a DRX pattern associated with the access terminal.
US09756678B2	Systems and methods for multi-connectivity operation A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information. In response to receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information, a medium access control (MAC) entity of a secondary cell group (SCG) is released if any MAC entity of the SCG is established. In response to receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information, a MAC entity of a master cell group (MCG) is reset.
US09756672B2	Method and equipment for establishing device to device connection through dedicated discovery signal The present document relates to a wireless communication method, a user equipment, a network device, and a system. The method includes: a first user equipment sending a dedicated discovery signal; the first user equipment receiving a response message, wherein the response message is sent by a second user equipment which has detected the dedicated discovery signal; the first user equipment establishing a device-to-device connection with the second user equipment; and the first user equipment communicating with a network side through the device-to-device connection and a communication link between the second user equipment and the network side.
US09756671B2	Communicating apparatus, communication method, and storage medium storing program A communication mode for performing wireless connection of a communicating apparatus is decided based on a first command for performing wireless connection and a second command received following the first command.
US09756670B2	Method and system for notifying transport layer address A method and system for notifying a transport layer address are disclosed. The method includes: a first base station sending transport layer address information of an X2 gateway connected to the first base station to a second base station, wherein, the first base station is a home base station (step 10); and the second base station initiating an X2 connection establishment flow according to the received transport layer address information of the X2 gateway (step 20). The system includes: a first base station, configured to: send transport layer address information of an X2 gateway connected to the first base station to a second base station; wherein, the first base station is a home base station; and the second base station, configured to: initiate an X2 connection establishment flow according to the received transport layer address information of the X2 gateway.
US09756668B2	Communication systems and methods for flexible telematics at a vehicle A system for allocating communications resources for telematics communications includes a service provider, a gateway, a currently paired mobile device having at least first and second communications channels through which communication occurs to the service provider, sensing speed or acceleration of the mobile device based on internal data, detecting changes in speed or acceleration based upon the internal data, and determining that an event notification is to be sent to the service provider based upon the detected change in the speed or acceleration. A telematics device has at least a third communications channel through which communication occurs to the service provider. The telematics device and/or the mobile device determines which of the first, second, and third communications channels is to be used to communicate to the service provider and the respective one of the telematics device and the mobile device sends the event notification to the service provider.
US09756665B2	Network assisted automatic disaster trigger to enable device-to-device (D2D) ad hoc communication Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for automatically switching to D2D communication in a disaster situation is provided. One method includes receiving, by a user equipment, a list of base station sites comprising locations and geographical signal coverage of the base station sites and a list of Wi-Fi access points comprising locations and geographical signal coverage of the Wi-Fi access points. The method may also include creating at least one local database storing information received in the list of base station sites and the list of Wi-Fi access points.
US09756655B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring available channel information in a wireless local area network system Methods and apparatuses for acquiring/providing available channel information using Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are disclosed. AP (Access Point) station has a capability to acquire information for available channels from a database using a specific protocol related to an operation within the White Space (e.g. Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP)). And, non-AP station can retrieve the information for available channels by transmitting a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) initial request frame to the AP station, wherein the GAS initial request frame comprises an Advertisement Protocol Element whose element ID indicates the specific protocol, and receiving a GAS initial response frame comprising a White Space Map (WSM) the specific protocol. The WSM comprises one or more white space channel units, and each of the white space channel units comprises a channel number field indicating one of the available channels and a power constraint field indicating a maximum allowable power on the indicated channel.
US09756652B2	Preventing free-riding data traffic when scheduling uplink data A method performed by a communication network node is provided for scheduling of a User Equipment, UE, in a communication network which comprises the UE and the communication network node. The UE is arranged to communicate data on a plurality of bearers with the communication network node. In the method, one or more active bearers among the plurality of bearers are determined, the highest priority of the active bearers are determined, and a data transmission in uplink is scheduled for the UE based on the highest priority. By only taking active bearers in account when scheduling, UEs with non-active high priority bearer are prevented from performing free-riding traffic on lower prioritized bearers.
US09756643B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting device-to-device related information in wireless communication system A method is presented for configuring a device-to-device (D2D) mode by an eNodeB (eNB) in a wireless communication system. The eNB configures the D2D mode indicating which D2D mode a user equipment (UE) operates in for a D2D communication. The eNB transmits an information on the configured D2D mode to the UE. The D2D mode is one of an evolved-universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) planned mode or a UE autonomous mode. The E-UTRAN planned mode is a D2D mode in which the eNB controls radio resources for the D2D communication, and the UE autonomous mode is a D2D mode in which the UE controls radio resources for the D2D communication.
US09756642B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting control information in wireless communication system Disclosed is a method and a apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system. The present invention includes detecting In Device Coexistence (IDC) interference, and transmitting an IDC indication message to an eNB if there is at least one frequency influenced by the IDC interference, wherein the IDC indication message is configured to include a frequency list containing frequencies influenced by the IDC interference, and the frequency list is configured to include an IDC interference direction indicating a direction of an influence of the detected IDC interference.
US09756631B2	Adapting a number of aggregation levels for control channel elements Methods and apparatuses are provided for a User Equipment (UE) to receive control information. A Downlink Control Information (DCI) format to be monitored is identified. An aggregation level and a number of Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) candidates are identified based on the identified DCI format. Control information is received based on the identified aggregation level and the identified number of EPDCCH candidates.
US09756625B2	Enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission method and apparatus This application provides an enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: in a physical resource block set, separately arranging first resource groups in each physical resource block pair PRB pair, where the first resource groups are resource element groups eREGs or REGs, and the physical resource block set includes at least one of the physical resource block pairs; numbering second resource groups according to a correspondence between the first resource groups and the second resource groups in the physical resource block set, where the second resource groups are control channel element eCCE groups or control channel candidates; determining numbers of the second resource groups for transmitting an E-PDCCH; and mapping, according to the determined numbers, the E-PDCCH to the corresponding first resource groups for transmission. The technical solution of this application resolves an E-PDCCH transmission problem.
US09756624B2	Method and device for resource configuration The present invention discloses a method and a device for resource configuration, the method includes: at first a base station broadcasts public resource configuration to a user equipment on a broadcast channel, and then the base station obtains an available public resource after receiving public resource requesting information sent by a target user equipment in a desynchronization state, the target user equipment is a user equipment of the user equipments which is in a desynchronization state; finally the base station sends an index number of the available public resource to the target user equipment, so that the target user equipment performs data transmission through the available public resource corresponding to the index number of the available public resource. The present invention can be applied to the field of communication system.
US09756618B2	Terminal device, and buffer partitioning method Disclosed is a terminal apparatus in which: a decoding section (210) that stores, in a retransmission buffer, downlink data transmitted by each of the plurality of component carriers and decodes the downlink data; and a radio transmitting section (222) that transmits, using a first component carrier of the plurality of component carriers, a response signal for first downlink data received using the first component carrier and a response signal for second downlink data received using a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers. In addition, a second buffer is divided into regions respectively corresponding to retransmission processes based on a specific value determined by a combination of a first configuration pattern that is set in the first component carrier and a second configuration pattern that is set in the second component carrier.
US09756612B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving frame on the basis of frequency selection transmission A method for communicating in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes receiving allowed channel information from a second station, the allowed channel information indicating whether at least one channel is allowed for transmission, selecting, by the first station, at least one operating channel from the at least one allowed channel, and transmitting, by the first station, frames on the at least one selected operating channel. The allowed channel information comprises an allowed channel bitmap. Each bit of the allowed channel bitmap indicates each channel is allowed for the transmission.
US09756610B2	Broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, broadcast signal receiving apparatus, and broadcast signal transceiving method in broadcast signal transmitting and receiving apparatuses Disclosed are a broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, a broadcast signal receiving apparatus, and a broadcast signal transceiving method in the broadcast signal transmitting and receiving apparatuses. The broadcast signal transmitting method comprises the steps of: compressing headers of data packets which are included in an Internet protocol (IP) stream identified by access information, wherein the compressed data packets include a first packet containing both static information and dynamic information in the header thereof, and a second packet containing dynamic information in the header thereof; splitting the static information from the header of the first packet and diverting the remaining part thereof into the second packet; outputting an IP stream, which includes the second packet, via a data physical layer pipe (PLP); outputting, via a common PLP, a common stream, which includes the static information of the header of the first packet split in the previous step, compression information and IP-PLP mapping information for linking the IP stream and the data PLP; generating a signal frame on the basis of the data from the data PLP and the data of the common PLP; and transmitting a broadcast signal which includes the signal frame.
US09756602B2	Node and method for radio measurement handling Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a first node, and corresponding methods therein, for obtaining an available radio measurement associated with a wireless device. Example embodiments presented herein are also directed towards a second node, and corresponding methods there, for providing an available radio measurement associated with the wireless device.
US09756599B2	Positioning reference signal (PRS) generation for multiple transmit antenna systems Disclosed embodiments pertain to a method of generating a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) sequence for a system comprising a plurality of physical transmitting antenna elements serving a single cell. In some embodiments, the method may comprise: assigning a distinct Physical Antenna Port (PAP) identifier (ID) to a subset of the plurality of physical transmitting antenna elements; and generating PRS sequences for the subset of the plurality of physical transmitting antenna elements, wherein each PRS sequence corresponds to a physical transmitting antenna element in the subset of the plurality of physical transmitting antenna elements, and each PRS sequence has a corresponding frequency shift based, at least in part, on the PAP ID (h) of the corresponding physical transmitting antenna element.
US09756598B2	Apparatus, system and method of one-sided round-trip-time (RTT) measurement Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of one-sided Round-Trip-Time (RTT) measurement. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a mobile device to receive bias information of an Access-Point (AP); perform a one-sided round-trip-time (RTT) measurement with the AP; and estimate a range between the mobile device and the AP based on the one-sided RTT measurement and the bias information.
US09756588B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting synchronization signal for device to device communication in wireless communication system Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. With respect to a D2D synchronization source to transmit a synchronization signal for D2D communication, the method includes: generating a D2D Synchronization Signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, by a synchronization source, the D2DSS to a D2D reception (Rx) UE, wherein the D2DSS includes a Primary D2D Synchronization Signal (PD2DSS) generated based on information associated with the synchronization source.
US09756587B2	Estimation apparatus, system, and computer program product According to an embodiment, an estimation apparatus includes first to fourth obtainers and an estimator. The first obtainer obtains, for each slave node, a piece of synchronization information in a network configuration including: nodes including a master node serving as a time synchronization source, one or more slave nodes serving as time synchronization destinations, and relay nodes; and paths connecting the nodes. The second obtainer obtains, for each path, a piece of band information. The third obtainer obtains, for each path, a piece of traffic information. The fourth obtainer obtains, for each relay node, a piece of path information. The estimator estimates a predetermined relay node causing reduction of accuracy of time synchronization between the master node and the one or more slave nodes, based on the one or more pieces of synchronization information, the pieces of band information, the pieces of traffic information, and the pieces of path information.
US09756583B2	Method and terminal for transmitting power headroom report in dual connection between terminal and base station One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system supporting 256 QAM. The method for receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system supporting 256 QAM comprises the steps of: receiving configuration information about power back-off; receiving downlink data transmitted on the basis of the configuration information about power back-off; and demodulating the received downlink data on the basis of the configuration information about power back-off, wherein the configuration information about power back-off may comprise information related to at least one of the following: whether to apply power back-off, the reduced amount of power of downlink data by power back-off, a frame index to which power back-off is applied, a subframe index and a resource to which power back-off is applied.
US09756579B2	Near field communication system and method for controlling transmission power of near field communication system A near field communication (NFC) system and method for controlling transmission power of the NFC system includes a NFC reader configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal having an initial amount of RF power, a NFC target device in selective communication with the NFC reader, and a NFC transmission power control platform disposed between the NFC reader and the NFC target device. The platform includes a microcontroller and at least one circuit in communication with the microcontroller and configured to determine an actual amount of RF power needed to sustain near field communications between the NFC reader and the NFC target device and configured to regulate the RF signal, where the regulated RF signal contains the actual amount of RF power needed to sustain near field communications between the NFC reader and the NFC target device.
US09756577B2	Method for defining parameter values for controlling the transmission power of a piece of user equipment A method for defining a parameter value for controlling the transmission power of a set of user equipment served by a cell defined by a base station of a cellular telecommunication network, includes, for the base station, receiving, from the set of user equipment located in the cell, a set of attenuation values including, respectively by piece of equipment, an attenuation value of a signal transmitted by the base station and received by the piece of user equipment and, if the piece of user equipment is also located in a non-serving cell, an attenuation value of a signal transmitted by the base station of the non-serving cell and received by the piece of user equipment; determining, from the set of received attenuation values, a value of a parameter for controlling the transmission power; and sending, to the set of user equipment served by the cell, the value of the control parameter.
US09756574B2	System and method for improving uplink control channels for weak communication links A method in a network node (115A-C, 120, 130) comprises providing (704) to a user equipment (UE) (110A-C) a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), the DPCCH having an associated first fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) for conveying transmit power control (TPC) commands to the UE for power controlling the DPCCH, the first F-DPCH having a first allocated slot format; providing (708) to the UE a dedicated physical control channel2 (DPCCH2) (502), the DPCCH2 comprising an uplink control channel power controlled by the network node for communicating TPC commands to the network node, the DPCCH2 having an associated second F-DPCH for conveying transmit power control commands to the UE for power controlling the DPCCH2, the second F-DPCH having a second allocated slot format different from the first allocated slot format; and communicating (712) to the UE an uplink TPC command on the second F-DPCH having the second allocated slot format.
US09756565B2	Throughput-based active mode trigger A method and apparatus for reducing gaps in data transmission between a device and at least one wireless access point connecting the first device to a central monitoring system. The device includes a radio that enables bidirectional data communication between the device and the at least one wireless access point, the radio being able to operate in a power save mode and an active transmission mode. A control processor selectively monitors a type and amount of data being transmitted between the radio and the at least one wireless access point to predict an occurrence of a gap in data transmission between the device and the at least one access point. The control processor, in response to predicting a gap in data transmission, automatically switches an operational mode of the radio from the power save mode to the active transmission mode for a predetermined amount of time enabling full bidirectional communication between the device and the at least one wireless access point for the predetermined amount of time preventing the gap in data transmission.
US09756556B2	Method for a device to communicate with another device One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communicating with another device using a first device having a converged personal network service (CPNS) enabled entity. The communication method comprises: a step for determining whether the mode of the CPNS enabled entity needs to be changed from gateway mode to coupling mode; and a step for changing the mode of the CPNS enabled entity from the gateway mode to the coupling mode, according to the results from the step for determining. When changed to the coupling mode, the CPNS enabled entity operates in personal network entity (PNE) mode to receive from the second device data for service of a second network, and the gateway mode to transmit the received service data to at least one of the entities that belong to a first network managed by the CPNS enabled entity. The communication method can include a step for controlling the synchronism of the CPNS enabled entity operating in the gateway mode and at least one of the entities, considering the synchronism of the CPNS enabled entity operating in the PNE mode and the second device.
US09756554B2	Active scanning method in wireless LAN system Disclosed is an active scanning method in a wireless LAN system. The active scanning method comprises: a step of transmitting a probe request frame via a predetermined channel; and a step of receiving, from an access point, a probe response frame corresponding to the probe request frame via a predetermined channel. The probe response frame includes main channel information on the access point. Thus, the access point can be quickly scanned.
US09756553B2	System and method for assisted network acquisition and search updates A method and system provide assisted acquisition of a wireless link between user equipment and a femtocell unit. After an initial calibration of timing and/or frequency information, the user equipment enters into a low-power state. The femtocell unit monitors for system updates using a network listen module that sniffs the air interface of one or more neighboring cells. Upon a trigger event, the femtocell unit provides aiding information, for example, timing and/or frequency information corresponding to a change in timing and/or frequency of the air interface, over a second radio, e.g., a wireless personal area network interface. Thus, the user equipment may remain in the low-power state and receive updates with respect to the wireless wide area network interface. Subsequently, upon wake-up, the user equipment may utilize the aiding information, for example, to recalibrate its timing and/or frequency. Thus, acquisition of the wireless link with the femtocell unit may be expedited.
US09756552B1	Reducing distractions caused by user devices in group settings Methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing distractions caused by user devices are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes processing items of activity arising from user devices within a group setting, wherein each device is associated with a participating user of the group setting and coupled to a distinct status indicator that designates the corresponding user device as engaging in distracting activity or not engaging in distracting activity. The method also includes comparing each of the items of activity to a collection of user device usage policies for the group setting that identifies context-dependent items of activity arising that serve as a distraction within the group setting. Also, the method includes generating a signal to modify the status indicator of at least one of the user devices corresponding to an item of activity deemed as serving as a distraction, and transmitting the signal to the given user devices.
US09756546B2	Targeting communications in a femtocell network The disclosed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) features to facilitate more efficient or more robust communication with a femtocell network. In particular, features such as a UMTS localized common pilot channel along with various UTRAN features can enable communications to be directed to specific targets such as to a specific home nodeB (HNB) or to a specific mobile device served by the HNB, while also reducing macro network load.
US09756544B2	Reconfigurable antenna system A user device selects a communication module from a plurality of communication modules of the user device to communicate first data to a first device in a first configuration, selects a first antenna from a plurality of antennas of the user device to communicate the first data in the first configuration, and couples the communication module to the first antenna in the first configuration. The user device additionally selects the communication module to communicate second data to a second device in a second configuration, selects the first antenna and a second antenna from the plurality of antennas to communicate the second data in the second configuration, and couples the communication module to the first antenna and the second antenna in the second configuration.
US09756536B2	Method and apparatus for managing information in a communication system In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention in a heterogeneous network, there is provided an apparatus, comprising a receiver configured to receive information from a local access point, the information comprising system information of a macro base station associated with the local access point. The information may be received responsive to a request and/or the information may comprise full system information. The at least one processing core may cause the apparatus to participate in a procedure with the macro base station based at least in part on the information.
US09756531B2	Method for determining radio resource control configuration in a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity and apparatus thereof A method for determining a radio resource control (RRC) configuration in a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, and an apparatus supporting the same is disclosed. The method for determining, by a base station (BS), a radio resource control (RRC) configuration in a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, includes transmitting, by a first BS, a first RRC configuration of a serving cell of the first BS or remained user equipment (UE) capability to a second BS configured in a UE, and receiving, by the first BS, a second RRC configuration of a serving cell of the second BS configured in the UE from the second BS. The first BS and the second BS are involved in dual connectivity for the UE, and the second RRC configuration is determined by the second BS based on the first RRC configuration or the remained UE capability.
US09756526B2	Method and apparatus for constructing very high throughput long training field sequences Techniques are provided for constructing or determining a training sequence as a part of transmission preamble to minimize (or at least reduce) a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) at a transmitting node. In one example, a long training field (LTF) sequence of a preamble is determined that combines a set of interpolating sequences with LTF tone values. The LTF tone values may cover at least a portion of bandwidth of a first size, with each of the LTF tone values repeated for different subcarriers. The phases of tones of the LTF sequence may be rotated per bandwidth of the first size and certain tones of the LTF sequence may have a stream of values at pilot locations. For example, the phases of tones of the LTF sequence may be rotated in an effort to reduce PAPR during a transmission of the LTF sequence.
US09756525B2	Traffic management for base stations backhauled over data-capped network connections A method includes receiving a connection request from a mobile device at a network device to allow connection of the mobile device to a core network of the first service provider through a first base station and determining whether a backhaul connection between the core network of the first service provider and the first base station is congested by the network device. The backhaul connection is determined to be congested when L is greater than (D−B)/T. When the first backhaul connection is determined to be congested, the method also includes preventing the first base station from connecting the mobile device to the core network.
US09756522B2	Session assignment and balancing A server device may determine session information that identifies a quantity of sessions established between each of one or more serving gateways (SGWs) and a packet data network (PDN) gateway (PGW); and direct a mobility management entity (MME) to assign additional sessions between the one or more SGWs and the PGW based on the session information.
US09756517B1	Efficient deployment of mobile test units to gather location-dependent radio-frequency data A technique for designing and testing drive-test plan for gathering location-dependent RF data is disclosed. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, one candidate drive-test plan is chosen for implementation over a second based on an economic cost-benefit analysis of both plans. This is in marked contrast to, for example, a selection of drive-test plans, or the design of a drive-test plan, based on a calibration-cost analysis, in which the data estimated to be the most effective to calibrate a radio-frequency tool is sought for a given cost or the least cost. Although a data-estimated-to-be-most-effective-to-calibrate-a-radio-frequency-tool vs. cost analysis is a species of cost-benefit analyzes in general, it is not an economic cost-benefit analysis because a data-estimated-to-be-most-effective-to-calibrate-a-radio-frequency-tool vs. cost analysis has deficiencies that an economic cost-benefit analysis does not.
US09756514B2	Device and method for controlling drive test in wireless communication system An apparatus and method for matching the radio channel measurement timing of Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) cycle with timings of the Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle are provided. The radio channel measurement method of a terminal according to the present invention includes configuring a DRX cycle, receiving a Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) cycle, comparing the DRX cycle and the MDT cycle, measuring, when the MDT cycle is an integer multiple of the DRX cycle, the radio channel at DRX timings matching with MDT timings, and storing a result of the measurement.
US09756508B2	System and method for determining the location of a station in a wireless environment A system for quantifying the shadow fading observed in a wireless environment having multiple wireless access points is also provided. A distance determination module is in signal communication with the wireless access points. The distance determination module determines a distance between a pair of the wireless access points based on location information that relates to the locations of the wireless access points at the wireless environment. A shadow fading determination module is also in signal communication with the wireless access points. The shadow fading determination module determines a shadow fading factor based on the distance between a pair of the wireless access points and based on RSS information received from one of the wireless access points in the pair of wireless access points.
US09756502B2	Reducing data use in limited data environment A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon. When executed, the instructions may cause a portable computing device to activate a data saving feature in response to determining that the portable computing device is in a limited data environment. The instructions may be configured to cause the portable computing device to at least determine that the portable computing device is in the limited data environment, and based on the determining that the portable computing device is in the limited data environment, prompt a user to activate the data saving feature.
US09756493B2	Method and apparatus for cooperative positioning in a wireless communication network According to the teachings herein, a wireless device that is a candidate for operating in the cooperative positioning advantageously activates that mode in response to detecting a warning situation. In some embodiments, the detection and/or activation operations are autonomously undertaken by the wireless device. In other embodiments, the wireless communication network provides warning situation detection and/or control of the cooperative positioning mode. More generally, the wireless communication network maintains a database identifying those wireless devices within a given service area that are cooperative positioning mode candidates—e.g., the devices having D2D communication capability and operational configurations that allow such operation. By the network providing such information in advance of a warning situation, the candidate devices have the information needed to efficiently discover or otherwise identify other such candidates.
US09756492B1	Simultaneous messaging system and method At least one of the embodiments described herein relate generally to a method of communicating an engagement to a plurality of active mobile devices, wherein each active mobile device is associated with an active user. The method may include providing at least one communication socket to each of the active mobile devices; receiving location data from those devices, information related to an engagement. In response to determining the location of the engagement, a first notification is provided to nearby active mobile devices to determine the corresponding active user's availability. In response to confirming the engagement, a second notification is sent to the nearby active mobile devices to confirm the corresponding active user's availability. An active user is selected among the confirmed available active users and a third notification is provided with the selection result.
US09756483B2	Method of single-cell point-to-multipoint transmission A method of single-cell point-to-multipoint (SCPTM) transmission for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises performing a query procedure to obtain information associated with a number of mobile device interesting or receiving at least a SCPTM service, and determining to turn on/off data transmission for the at least a SCPTM service, turn on/off feedback procedure for the at least a SCPTM service according to the obtained information, or to provide the obtained information to a group communication service application server (GCS AS).
US09756482B2	Selective use of single-link communication and group communication A method of controlling a communication mode of a device in a wireless communication network comprises determining a group communication performance for a group communication mode of the device, determining a single-link communication performance for a single-link communication mode of the device, comparing the group communication performance with the single-link communication performance, and controlling the device to operate in the group communication mode or the single-link communication mode based on the comparison.
US09756479B2	Method for calibrating the physical position and orientation of an electronic device A system and method for calibrating the location and orientation of an electronic device, including an electronic data device having a processor, permanent memory, temporary memory, program loading means, a visual display and display subsystem, user input devices, a motion detection subsystem, an orientation detection subsystem, and a geolocation subsystem. The electronic device is programmed with instructions that, when executed, cause the electronic device to visually display a virtual representation of a user-selected physical space on the electronic visual display and to display a position indicator corresponding to an initial location and orientation of the electronic data device in the user-selected physical space, and thereafter to adjust and correct the location according to either user manual inputs or movement of the electronic data device in the physical space.
US09756477B2	Device, methods, and systems for proximity localization using beacon switches The present disclosure is directed to an electronic device that transmits radio signals for indoor proximity localization and digital content delivery. In one embodiment, the device may be installed in a standard electrical wall switch and powered by an AC power source.
US09756474B1	Mobile device notification generation The methods and software application described herein monitor the acceleration experienced by a mobile device and determine when said acceleration exceeds a predetermined acceleration threshold that may be indicative of an unusually rapid acceleration or deceleration. In the event of a sudden acceleration or deceleration, the methods and mobile application described herein automatically trigger a timely, event-related notification to the user of the mobile device, such as displaying a banner on the mobile device's display, a text, electronic mail, or voice message.
US09756470B1	Providing information to a mobile device based on an event at a geographical location A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing information to a mobile device based on an event comprising detecting an occurrence of the event, determining if the event is a specific event and if the event occurred at or near a geographical location and sending an alert of the event to at least one mobile device if the event is the specific event, if the event occurs at or near the geographical location, and if the at least one mobile device is located at or near the geographical location.
US09756469B2	System with multiple conditional commit databases A system for processing a transaction is disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to check a condition using data in a first database, wherein the data is associated with a transaction, wherein the data in the first database is latched before checking the condition and is unlatched after checking the condition. The processor is further configured to indicate to a second database to check the condition using data in the second database, wherein the data is associated with the transaction. The data in the second database is latched before checking the condition and is unlatched after checking the condition. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US09756466B1	Providing geographic locations of a user's wireless device A method, system, and medium are provided for determining the identity of a user associated with a wireless device located near a geographic location at a specific time. In response to the occurrence of an event at a geographic location, a request can be issued by a wireless provider to users of wireless devices to provide the geographic locations of their respective devices and their identities to one or more entities. Upon receiving an affirmative response to the request, the wireless provider communicates information to the entities allowing the entities to contact the users to solicit information regarding the occurrence of the event. A wireless provider may send a request for authorization to users of wireless devices to provide geographic locations when the wireless devices enter a predefined geographic area.
US09756458B1	Determining user commonalities and differences Some examples include determining a proximity between a first user device and a plurality of other user devices based at least in part on comparing location information of the first user device with location information for the plurality of other user devices. Additionally, a commonality may be determined that is associated with at least some user profiles of the other users, but is unassociated with a user profile of the first user. For example, the commonality may have a frequency of occurrence among the user profiles of the other users that is greater than the frequency of occurrence among user profiles associated with a larger population. In other examples, a first portable computing device may receive profile information from a nearby second portable computing device for determining a compatibility between a first user profile and a second user profile.
US09756457B2	Method for establishing bluetooth connection and mobile terminal A method for establishing a Bluetooth® connection, a mobile terminal, a Bluetooth® device, and a system, where the method includes establishing data connections with at least two Bluetooth® devices, obtaining a voice connection instruction, where the voice connection instruction includes identification information of a target Bluetooth® device selected by a user from the Bluetooth® devices, and establishing a voice connection between the mobile terminal and the target Bluetooth® device according to the voice connection instruction. A voice connection is established with a Bluetooth® device selected by a user in order to improve an extent to which a Bluetooth® connection is established intelligently and a capability of interacting with the user. Therefore, the user can, according to needs, freely select a Bluetooth® device with which a connection is established, thereby improving convenience of the user in using the Bluetooth® device.
US09756456B2	Wireless communication network association and security for control of industrial equipment in harsh environments In certain embodiments, a system includes a master node device. The master node device includes communication circuitry configured to facilitate communication with a welding power supply unit via a long-range communication link, and to facilitate wireless communication with one or more welding-related devices via a short-range wireless communication network. The master node device also includes control circuitry configured to associate the one or more welding-related devices with the short-range wireless communication network. The master node device further includes means for manually initiating association of the one or more welding-related devices with the short-range wireless communication network.
US09756449B2	Method and device for processing sound data for spatial sound reproduction The invention relates to a method and device for processing sound data comprising determining a listener position; determining a virtual sound source position; receiving sound data; processing the sound data for reproduction by at least one speaker to let the listener perceive the processed sound data reproduced by the speaker to originate from the virtual sound position. This provides the listener with a realistic experience of sound by the speaker. Implementation of the invention allows sound data to be provided also in a dynamic environment, where positions of the listener, the virtual sound source or both can change. For example, sound data may be reproduced by a mobile device by means of headphones to a moving listener, where the virtual sound source is a shop. As the listener moves, the sound data is processed such that when reproduced via the headphones, it is perceived as to originate from the shop.
US09756447B2	Acoustic control apparatus According to an embodiment, a control filter coefficient is calculated in such a manner that a second spatial average of one or more complex sound pressure ratios at one or more target binaural positions when a first loudspeaker and a second loudspeaker emit a second acoustic signal and a first acoustic signal is approximated to a first spatial average of one or more complex sound pressure ratios at the one or more target binaural positions when a target virtual acoustic source emits the first acoustic signal.
US09756440B2	Maintaining spatial stability utilizing common gain coefficient In a system and method for maintaining the spatial stability of a sound field a background noise estimate may be estimated for each of a first signal and a second signal. A first gain coefficient may be calculated responsive to the first audio signal and the background noise estimate of the first audio signal. A second gain coefficient may be calculated responsive to the second signal and the background noise estimate of the second signal. The gain coefficients may be calculated using one or more gain coefficient calculators. A common gain coefficient may be selected from one of the first gain coefficient and the second gain coefficient. The selected common gain coefficient may be one that results in a least amount of audio signal modification and may be applied to each of the first signal and the second signal.
US09756438B2	Proximity discovery using audio signals Various technologies pertaining to computing data that is indicative of a location of a client computing device are described herein. A client computing device is configured to capture an audio signal, the audio signature being indicative of acoustics of surroundings of the client computing device. A signature is generated based upon a high frequency portion of the captured audio signal, and the signature is compared with other signatures. The other signatures are generated based upon high frequency portions of audio signals captured by other computing devices. A determination regarding the client computing device being co-located with a second client computing device is made based upon the comparison of the signature with the other signatures.
US09756436B2	Terminal to control audio output path and method for controlling audio output path between terminals According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a terminal and a method for controlling an audio output path is provided. The terminal includes: an audio output path setting unit to determine an audio output path for one or more audio data when one or more audio event occurs; an audio output unit to output a first audio data in a first audio output path; and a data communication unit to transmit one or more audio data other than the first audio data to external terminal(s) by setting a second audio output path.
US09756426B2	Loudspeaker A loudspeaker includes a diaphragm body having a dome shape protruding upwardly, a magnetic circuit disposed below the diaphragm body, a voice coil coupled to the diaphragm body, an edge coupled to an outer circumference of the diaphragm body, and a frame coupled to the edge. The edge includes a first coupling portion provided at an outer circumference of the edge, a second coupling portion provided at an inner circumference of the edge and coupled to an outer circumference of the diaphragm body, and a roll portion disposed between the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion. The edge has a surface facing downward. The frame has a connecting surface disposed below the second coupling portion and coupled to the surface of the edge at the first coupling portion of the edge. This loudspeaker can decrease distortion of sound.
US09756412B1	Circumaural to supra-aural convertible headphone earcups A convertible earcup for a headphone. The earcup includes an earcup frame, a driver positioned within the earcup frame and an earpad coupled to the earcup frame. The earpad is operable to be converted between a first configuration in which the earpad comprises a first diameter and a second configuration in which the earpad comprises a second, different diameter. A convertible headphone system including a set of earcups. Each earcup within the set of earcups includes a speaker unit and an earpad, and the earpad is convertible between a first diameter and a second diameter.
US09756411B2	Harmonica microphone with improved control of audio feedback A hands-free harmonica microphone for controlling undesired audio feedback, the microphone comprising: a reflective curved microphone chamber, a harmonica mount, a transducer, associated electronics and a neck brace attachment apparatus for connecting the microphone to commercially available harmonica holders (neck braces). In one embodiment, the harmonica mount is detachably coupled (magnetically or otherwise) to the microphone chamber. In another embodiment, the harmonica mount is integrated to the microphone chamber so that is also possible to mount the harmonica directly onto the microphone chamber.
US09756410B2	Digital microphone interface supporting multiple microphones Extending a microphone interface. One microphone interface extension includes a controller, a parent microphone, and a child microphone. The controller outputs a controller clock signal. The parent microphone receives the controller clock signal and generates a first data signal. The child microphone generates a second data signal and outputs the second data signal to the first parent microphone. The parent microphone receives the second data signal from the child microphone and outputs a combined data signal to the controller based on the first data signal and the second data signal. The parent microphone outputs the combined data signal to the controller on a phase of a microphone clock signal derived from the controller clock signal.
US09756406B1	Systems, apparatus, and methods for a configurable gearbox Systems, apparatus, and methods for a configurable gearbox with a variable number of input lanes and output lanes and a multiplexer for each output lane that can be configured to dynamically select any of the input lanes during each clock cycle.
US09756397B1	Online forum for video distribution Systems and methods for an online forum for video distribution are provided. A video file having a first format is received from a first client. The received video file is converted from the first format to a second format and is stored on a server, where the converted video file is accessible to a second client.
US09756386B2	Content utilization support method, computer-readable recording medium, and content utilization support apparatus A content utilization support method executed by a computer, including detecting a section of a content based on operation information on the content and user information, the detected section being a section whose play frequency by single user is more than a predetermined value, comparing a first distribution that is a distribution of attribute information of users in a first group and a second distribution that is a distribution of attribute information of users in a second group, the first group being a group of the users whose play frequency of the detected section is more than predetermined value, the second group being a group of the users whose play frequency of the detected section is equal to or less than predetermined value, and outputting information that indicates the detected section and attribute information whose difference between the first distribution and the second distribution is larger than a predetermined threshold.
US09756385B1	Source device and method of transmitting content A source device and a method of transmitting content are provided. The source device includes a controller configured to check a version of a content protection method supported by a sink device from the repeater, to encrypt the content based on a version of the content protection method applied to the content, and to set a value of type information of the content protection method based on the version of the content protection method applied to the content and the version of the content protection method supported by the sink device, and a communicator including communication circuitry configured to transmit the encrypted content and the type information of the content protection method to the repeater, wherein the type information of the content protection method for determining whether the content received from the source device is output to the sink device from the repeater, based on the version of the content protection method supported by the sink device.
US09756382B2	System and method for operating electronic device supporting enhanced data processing, apparatus and terminal supporting the same A system for operating an electronic device supporting enhanced data processing is provided. The system includes a plurality of electronic devices supporting playback of content; and a managing device delivering content whose data is processed by a certain electronic device among the plurality of electronic devices to a preset electronic device when playback of the content in the certain electronic device is requested.
US09756378B2	Single file PVR per service ID Systems and methods for recording multiple broadcast television programs to a single file may include receiving user selection for recording a first media content and a second media content, determining the first media content and the second media content are provided on a single television service, and tuning to the television service to receive the first media content via a tuner of the television receiver. The systems and methods may include recording the first media content as a first permanent recording to a master file, receiving the second media content via the tuner of the television receiver, and recording the second media content as a second permanent recording to the master file.
US09756376B2	Multi-lingual audio streaming Digital video data and digital multiple-audio data are extracted from a source, using a hardware processor in a content source device within a premises. The extracted digital video data is processed for display on a main display device in the premises; and the extracted digital multiple-audio data is processed into a primary soundtrack in a primary language, to be listened to within the premises in synchronization with the displayed extracted digital video data. The primary soundtrack corresponds to the displayed extracted digital video data, in the primary language. The extracted digital multiple-audio data is processed into at least one secondary audio asset, different than the primary soundtrack; and the at least one secondary audio asset is transmitted to a personal media device within the premises, for apprehension by a user of the personal media device in synchronization with the displayed extracted digital video data.
US09756375B2	Predictive server-side rendering of scenes A server device and method are provided for use in predictive server-side rendering of scenes based on client-side user input. The server device may include a processor and a storage device holding instructions for an application program executable by the processor to receive, at the application program, a current navigation input in a stream of navigation inputs from a client device over a network, calculate a predicted future navigation input based on the current navigation input and a current application state of the application program, render a future scene based on the predicted future navigation input to a rendering surface, and send the rendering surface to the client device over the network.
US09756374B2	Advertisement targeting scheme in a multicast ABR environment based on throttled ad channel streaming A scheme for providing targeted advertisements in a multicast adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming environment. In one implementation, ads specific to a subscriber's demographic profile and relevant to the genre of a tuned MABR media channel may be downloaded in a gateway (GW) or into a network storage system. In another implementation, multicast ABR streams of ads may be triggered at specific points (e.g., insertion markers in a multicast ABR media channel) that can be selectively joined by a GW node based on demographics and channel genre. In yet another implementation, continuously streaming multicast ad channels may be switched at suitable points in a multicast ABR media channel based on targeting parameters.
US09756371B2	Authorization method and system for smart TV and smart TV applying the same An authorization method for a smart TV is provided. When an application is to be activated, it is determined whether machine authorization information is stored. When the machine authorization information is stored, a client certificate corresponding to the application is searched for. When the client certificate is found, it means the application is authorized. The application authorized by a server can then be activated.
US09756370B2	Predicting content popularity A method includes receiving media data corresponding to a media content item. The method further includes analyzing the media data to determine characteristics of the media content item based on first visual information contained in the media content item. The method further includes analyzing the characteristics of the media content item based on a media popularity model to generate a prediction of whether the media content item is likely to exceed a popularity threshold within a particular period of time. The method further includes determining, at the computing device, a network location at which to store the media content item based on the prediction.
US09756368B2	Methods and apparatus to identify media using hash keys Methods and apparatus are disclosed to correct hash keys. An example method involves accessing a first metered hash key and first reference metadata associated with the first metered hash key. Accessing second reference metadata associated with a second hash key adjacent to the first metered hash key. Determining if the first metered hash key is unexpected. When the first metered hash key is unexpected, generating an error level using a first bitwise comparison of the first metered hash key and the second hash key. Determining if the error level satisfies a threshold. When the error level satisfies the threshold, storing the second hash key as the first metered hash key.
US09756352B2	Video decoding apparatus and method A video decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video bitstream having frames of video data encoded in rows of macroblocks. The video decoding apparatus comprises a parsing unit configured to receive the encoded video bitstream and to interpret the encoded video bitstream to generate items of macroblock information to be used for reconstructing the video frames of video data. The parsing unit is configured to store the items of macroblock information in a memory in bitstream order. The video decoding apparatus further comprises a line control unit configured to generate line control information associated with each row of macroblocks, the line control information comprising a sequence of pointers to the items of macroblock information stored in the memory, such that sequentially reading the sequence of pointers accesses the items of macroblock information in raster scan order. The line control information is stored in said memory in association with said items of macroblock information. A reconstruction pipeline is configured to reconstruct the frames of video data with reference to the line control information.
US09756346B2	Edge-selective intra coding Edge-selective intra coding may include encoding a first input block, generating a first reconstructed block by decoding the first encoded block, determining a reconstruction error block based on a difference between the first input block and the first reconstructed block, identifying a second input block from the first input frame, and determining a plurality of refined context pixels. Determining a plurality of refined context pixels may include identifying a plurality of context pixels from the reconstruction error block, generating a plurality of encoded context pixels by encoding the plurality of context pixels, generating a plurality of reconstructed context pixels by decoding the plurality of encoded context pixels, and adding at least a portion of the reconstruction error block and the plurality of reconstructed context pixels. The method may include generating a second encoded block by encoding the second input block based on the plurality of refined context pixels.
US09756345B2	Video encoding method and apparatus, and video decoding apparatus To allow a finer quantization control according to the property of an image within a macroblock, quantization parameter values are allowed to be changed in units of sub-blocks equal to or smaller than the macroblock in a similar manner as in motion compensation and orthogonal transform processes. A finer-tuned quantization control is performed, for example, by selecting fine and coarse quantization parameters respectively for corresponding sub-blocks if a plurality of images having different properties coexist within the macroblock.
US09756341B2	Method and apparatus for intra prediction within display screen The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for intra prediction. The intra prediction method for a decoder, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of entropy-decoding a received bitstream, generating reference pixels to be used in the intra prediction of a prediction unit; generating a prediction block from the reference pixels on the basis of a prediction mode for the prediction unit and reconstructing an image from the prediction block and a residual block, which is obtained as a result of entropy encoding, wherein the reference pixels and/or the prediction block pixels are predicted on the basis of a base pixel, and the predicted pixel value can be the sum of the pixel value of the base pixel and the difference between the pixel values of the base pixel and the generated pixel.
US09756340B2	Video encoding device and video encoding method Disclosed is a video encoding device including an arithmetic contents determining unit that takes into consideration the arithmetic contents of an SAO arithmetic operation performed on a local decoded image of an already-encoded block pointed to by a motion vector which is searched for through a motion-compensated prediction process performed by a motion-compensated prediction unit, to determine the arithmetic contents of an SAO arithmetic operation to be performed on a local decoded image after a deblocking filter process performed by a deblocking filter unit.
US09756338B2	Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, program, and integrated circuit An image decoding method includes: restoring a selected prediction mode used in prediction at a time of coding; and decoding a current block included in coded image data to generate a decoded block, according to the prediction based on the selected prediction mode. The restoring includes: determining a first estimated prediction mode; determining a second estimated prediction mode different from the first estimated prediction mode; and restoring the selected prediction mode based on the mode information, the first estimated prediction mode, and the second estimated prediction mode.
US09756327B2	Quantization matrix and deblocking filter adjustments for video coding A device may include a video coder to determine an equivalent quantization parameter (QP) for a decoded block of video data using a quantization matrix for the decoded block of video data, determine deblocking parameters based on the determined equivalent QP, and deblock an edge of the decoded block based on the determined deblocking parameters. In particular, the video coder may determine equivalent QPs for two neighboring blocks defining a common edge, and deblock the common edge based on the equivalent QPs. The video coder may determine deblocking parameters, such as β and tc values, based on the equivalent QPs. The video coder may then deblock the common edge based on the deblocking parameters, e.g., determine whether to deblock the common edge, determine whether to apply a strong or a weak filter to the common edge, and determine a width (in number of pixels) for a weak filter.
US09756325B1	Noise detection device of display module and noise detection method A noise detection device of a display module, including: a storage module, a processing module and an encoding module; the storage module is used to store parallel video data, the processing module is used to transmit the stored parallel video data to the encoding module, the encoding module is used to convert the stored parallel video data into serial video data through encoding and to transmit the converted serial video data to a timing controller of a display module; the processing module is used to receive mini-LVDS data generated by the timing controller based on the converted serial data, and to convert the mini-LVDS data into the parallel video data; the processing module is used to compare the stored parallel video data with the converted parallel video data, and to determine whether the display module is qualified for noise control according to the comparison result.
US09756323B2	Video quality objective assessment method based on spatiotemporal domain structure A video quality objective assessment method based on a spatiotemporal domain structure firstly combines a spatiotemporal domain gradient magnitude and color information for calculating a spatiotemporal domain local similarity, and then uses variance fusion for spatial domain fusion. The spatiotemporal domain local similarity is fused into frame-level objective quality value, and then a temporal domain fusion model is established by simulating three important global temporal effects, which are a smoothing effect, an asymmetric track effects and a recency effect, of a human visual system. Finally, the objective quality values of the distorted video sequence are obtained. By modeling the human visual temporal domain effect, the temporal domain weighting method of the present invention is able to accurately and efficiently evaluate the objective quality of the distorted video.
US09756321B2	Three-dimensional image display device and method of displaying three dimensional image A three-dimensional image display device and a method for displaying a three-dimensional image, and particularly relates to a three-dimensional image display device improving movement degradation and a method for displaying a three-dimensional image. A three-dimensional image display device includes: a display panel; a movement determining unit determining whether an object of a 3D image moved in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the display panel based on image information; a hole-filling unit filling a hole generated according to the movement of the object with an edge region of the object to compensate a movement degradation when it is determined that the object moved in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the display panel; and a 3D input image signal generator generating a 3D input image signal based on the image information compensated with the movement degradation.
US09756317B2	Holographic display method and apparatus using optical fiber array backlight for portable device The present invention discloses a holographic display apparatus including a light irradiating unit configured to irradiate light using an optical fiber array backlight, a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to perform modulating the irradiated light, a lens configured to irradiate hologram images based on the modulated light, a pupil tracking unit configured to acquire location of an observer's pupil by pupil tracking, and a hologram generating unit configured to generate parallax hologram images that correspond to the location of pupil.
US09756315B2	Endoscopic system to display three-dimensional picture A picture switch is performed to select a right picture and a left picture, a right picture and a right picture, or a left picture and a left picture without changing the kind and format of a video signal before and after a switch of a 2D picture and a 3D picture of an endoscopic system, and a picture shift is performed to horizontally shift the right picture and the left picture, and the pictures are then output to a monitor.
US09756310B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and program An information processing device includes an API (Application Programming Interface) only for reading/writing of an offset value, which is data providing disparity to a graphics image to generate an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye from the original image, arranged to store the offset value in an internal storage region that is a storage region inside of a reproducer configured to reproduce images, and to read out the offset value stored in the internal storage region.
US09756303B1	Camera-assisted automatic screen fitting In described examples, solid field patterns are projected onto screens via at least one projector. The screens include user-defined sub-screens. The projected solid field patterns are image captured as imaged solid patterns via at least one camera. For camera perspective planes of the at least one camera, first corner coordinates of the sub-screens are determined, based on differences in pixel values of the imaged solid patterns. Homography matrices are associated with the camera perspective planes and associated with projector perspective planes of the at least one projector. For the projector perspective planes, the first corner coordinates are transformed to second corner coordinates of the sub-screens, based on the homography matrices. Images are projected based on the second corner coordinates.
US09756302B2	Multi-projection system and data processing apparatus A multi-projection system configured to display output frames as a single screen by display frames displayed by display devices, respectively, the system includes a screen position setting unit that sets output frame position data that is data of position of each of the output frames in the single screen when synthesizing the output frames to the single screen, and display frame position data that is data of position of each of the display frames in the single screen; an output frame obtaining unit that obtains output frames; an output frame synthesizing unit that synthesizes the output frames based on the output frame position data; a display frame generating unit that generates the display frame for each of the display devices using a part of the synthesized image based on the display frame position data; and display units that display the generated display frames, respectively.
US09756300B2	Compact optical projection apparatus A compact optical projection apparatus. An apparatus for light projection includes at least one illumination device; a cover prism including a curved surface positioned to receive illumination light rays and a total internal reflection surface positioned to internally reflect the light rays towards an asymmetric reflector surface positioned opposite the total internal reflection surface, the asymmetric reflector surface configured to reflect the received light rays out of the cover prism at an emitter side of the cover prism; a spatial light modulating the illumination light rays with image data to form image light rays; a reverse total internal reflection (RTIR) prism positioned between the spatial light modulator and the emitter side of the cover prism and further comprising a total internal reflection surface configured to totally internally reflect the image light rays out of the RTIR prism into a light projection device. Additional apparatus are disclosed.
US09756295B2	Simultaneous recording of a live event and third party information Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to live event recording and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for recording a live event. In this regard, in one embodiment of the invention, a live event recording method can be provided. The live event recording method can include wirelessly acquiring third party information regarding a live performance from a third party information source over a computer communications network, and simultaneously recording both the live performance and also the third party information onto a single recordable medium.
US09756292B2	System and method for distributing digital video streams from remote video surveillance cameras to display devices A video distribution server distributes digital video streams captured by remote video surveillance cameras to appropriate display devices for rendering thereon. The video distribution server selects one or more display devices to receive each digital video stream and instructs the selected display devices to establish respective media sessions with the appropriate remote surveillance cameras to enable the digital video streams to be streamed to the selected display devices via respective point-to-point connections.
US09756288B2	Tiering and manipulation of peer's heads in a telepresence system In a telepresence system, a local station receives images of participants at remote stations processed to isolate the remote participant in the image from image background. The local station merges the images of the participants at the remote stations to generate an output image in which a first remote participant appears to partially overlay another participant. The output image undergoes display at the local station.
US09756278B2	Image processing system and image capturing apparatus An image processing system includes an image capturing apparatus and an image processing apparatus to perform development processing of RAW images captured by the image capturing apparatus. The image capturing apparatus includes a first development unit configured to develop a piece of RAW image data, a recording unit configured to record the piece of first developed image data, and an image display unit. The image processing apparatus includes a second development unit configured to develop the piece of RAW image data received from the image capturing apparatus and an access information transmitting unit configured to transmit a piece of access information for the obtained piece of second developed image data. The image capturing apparatus controls display of an image to be played and displayed on the display unit based on the piece of access information.
US09756276B2	Display apparatus and method for controlling display apparatus A display apparatus (projector) includes an evaluating section (image analysis section) that evaluates the type of 3D format in accordance with which an inputted image signal is formatted, an OSD data storage section (OSD memory) that stores OSD data, an OSD data dividing section (OSD processing section) that divides the OSD data stored in the OSD data storage section into columns or rows, a determining section (control unit 20) that determines, based on a result of the evaluation made by the evaluating section, whether to cause the OSD data dividing section to divide the OSD data into columns or rows, and a superimposing section (OSD processing section) that causes the OSD data dividing section to divide the OSD data based on the division determined by the determining section and superimposes the divided OSD data on a 3D formatted image.
US09756265B2	Information processing apparatus recognizing certain object in captured image, and method for controlling the same An information processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an input image, an extraction unit configured to extract from the input image one or more regions corresponding to one or more objects included in a foreground of the operation surface in accordance with the reflected positional information and positional information of the operation surface in the space, a region specifying unit configured to specify an isolation region, which is not in contact with a boundary line which defines a predetermined closed region in the input image, from among the one or more regions extracted by the extraction unit, and a recognition unit configured to recognize an adjacency state of a predetermined instruction object relative to the operation surface in accordance with the positional information reflected from the portion corresponding to the isolation region as specified by the region specifying unit.
US09756252B2	Image device and image-capturing device with timing control circuit for outputting first vertical synchronization signal and second vertical synchronization signal An image device is adapted to control an image-capturing section and a display section. The image-capturing section captures an image of a subject and generate image-capture data in synchronization with a first vertical synchronization signal. The display section displays an image on the basis of image data in synchronization with a second vertical synchronization signal. The image device includes an image-data-generation section configured to generate the image data on the basis of the image-capture data, and a timing generator configured to output the first vertical synchronization signal and the second vertical synchronization signal. The second vertical synchronization signal is outputted after a predetermined period from a timing at which the first vertical synchronization signal is outputted. The predetermined period is shorter than a period of one cycle of the first vertical synchronization signal and variable. The first vertical synchronization signal and the second vertical synchronization signal are synchronized.
US09756251B2	Digital device and method of controlling therefor A digital device configured to attach a multimedia to a message and a method of controlling therefore is disclosed. The digital device according to the present specification can attach an image using a wearable device based on a user input inputted on the digital device or the wearable device in the middle of writing a message.
US09756248B1	Methods and systems for camera drift correction A method, system, and apparatus for video frame alignment comprises collecting video data comprising at least two video frames; extracting a line profile along at least one line profile in each of the at least two video frames; selecting one of the at least two video frames as a reference video frame; segmenting each of the at least one line profiles into a plurality of segmented line profile group segments; aligning the plurality of segmented line profiles with the segmented line profiles in the reference video frame; translating each of the at least two video frames for each of the plurality of corresponding segmented line profile alignments; and removing a camera shift from the at least two video frames according to the translation and alignment of the plurality of segmented line profiles with the plurality of segmented line profile in the reference video frame.
US09756246B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus is such that in a case where an operation is instructed by an operation member, a mode changing unit changes operation modes or control amounts in the operation modes of at least two controllers from among a plurality of controllers.
US09756244B2	Panoramic-imaging digital camera, and panoramic imaging system A panoramic photography digital camera for easily photographing a plurality of images having different orientations without any vignetting in order to generate a panoramic image and to provide a photography system using the panoramic photography digital camera are provided. A panoramic photography digital camera includes: a wide-angle lens having an angle of view at least larger than 180 degrees; a camera body disposed closer to a rear side than the wide-angle lens and positioned at a position that does not fall within the angle of view; a digital imaging element included in the camera body; an image processor that processes image data obtained by the digital imaging element and outputs or stores the image data in a predetermined image format; a level for checking the level of the camera body; and a first connector for connection to a legged platform used when mounting the camera during photographing. A nodal point of the wide-angle lens is positioned on the center of rotation during photographing of panoramic images, and the level provided on an upper surface of the camera body and the first connector provided on a lower surface of the camera body are disposed so as to be positioned on the same line that passes through the center of rotation when seen from above.
US09756242B2	Communication terminal, display method, and computer program product A communication terminal displays thumbnails for predetermined-region images in a panoramic image and accepts a selection of a predetermined thumbnail so as to display the predetermined-region image corresponding to the accepted thumbnail. This brings about an effect that a user can easily find a desired panoramic image or a desired predetermined-region image in the panoramic image.
US09756239B2	Image processing device, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method An image processing device includes a shooting scene determining section that determines a shooting scene, a correlation evaluation value calculating section that calculates correlation evaluation values between a target pixel and surrounding pixels, a weight setting section that sets, when the shooting scene is a low correlation scene, heavy weights to the correlation evaluation value calculated from the surrounding pixels having high correlativities, an isolated-point degree calculating section that subjects the correlation evaluation values to weight addition to calculate an isolated-point degree, and an FPN correcting section that corrects a pixel value of the target pixel according to a magnitude of the isolated-point degree correction.
US09756236B2	Photographing apparatus and control method for photographing apparatus A photographing apparatus comprises a focus adjustment lens capable of movement in an optical axis direction, an operation member for designating a movement amount on movement direction of the focus adjustment lens as a result of being operated, an operation time detector for detecting operation time based on operation amount of the operating member, a target position calculation section for calculating target position that the focus adjustment lens is moved to, based on operation amount of the operating member, and a controller for changing the target position based on the operation time, and repeatedly executing control to move the focus adjustment lens to the target position, wherein the controller sets a movement velocity of the focus adjustment lens, at an estimated time for recommencing movement of the focus adjustment lens, so that the focus adjustment lens moves to the target position.
US09756228B2	Low profile camera and vision sensor A camera configured for a predetermined environment can be made low profile in the following manner. The camera includes an image sensor that has a light sensitive portion that can sense light from the predetermined environment. A substantially opaque mask is disposed above the light sensitive portion of the image sensor and has at least one opening through which the image sensor senses light. The low profile structure of the camera can be realized with substantially transparent material disposed between the substantially opaque mask and the image sensor that has index of refraction that is greater than an index of refraction of the predetermined environment. Accordingly, light through the opening refracts as it passes through the substantially transparent material to the image sensor.
US09756222B2	Method and system for performing white balancing operations on captured images Embodiments of the present invention are operable to perform automatic white balancing operations on images captured by a camera system through the use of weights derived through crowdsourcing procedures. Embodiments of the present invention use crowdsourced weight data resident on the camera system in combination with sampled image data of a captured image to determine a likely illuminant source. When performing automatic white balancing operations on the captured image, embodiments of the present invention may also compute a confidence score which may present the user with a choice to either use the likely illuminant determined using the crowdsourced weights or the camera system's default or normal automatic white balancing correction algorithm.
US09756215B2	System for, and method of, controlling target illumination for an imaging reader An array of pixels of a solid-state imaging sensor having a rolling shutter is sequentially exposed to capture images from an illuminated target over successive frames for image capture by an imaging reader. The target is illuminated at a peak output power level for a fractional time period of a frame, and is not illuminated for at least a portion of a remaining time period of the frame for increased energy efficiency. Only a sub-array of the pixels is exposed during the fractional time period in which the target is being illuminated at the first output power level.
US09756204B2	Image reading device for reading image of document, image forming apparatus, and image reading method A document feed portion of an image reading device is capable of feeding a document placed on a first document placement portion, to a predetermined reading position. A size detection portion detects a size of the document placed on the first document placement portion. A storage processing portion stores size information indicating the size of the document detected by the size detection portion, into a predetermined storage medium. An image reading portion performs a reading process of scanning a read surface of the document placed on a second document placement portion, to read an image. A setting portion sets the size information stored into the storage medium by the storage processing portion, as size information to be used for the reading process by the image reading portion.
US09756203B2	Image processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium A multifunction peripheral (MFP) acquires a display setting of an operation unit in the MFP, which is associated with a user at a client terminal, when accessed from the client terminal. The MFP performs control so that display of an operation screen of the MFP in the client terminal becomes display according to the acquired display setting of the operation unit.
US09756195B2	Communication apparatus capable of communicating with external apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, and storage medium A communication apparatus includes a connection unit that connects to a recording medium on which content data and management information about the content data are recorded, a communication unit that communicates with an external apparatus, and a control unit that, in a case where the communication apparatus has received a request for the management information about the content data from the external apparatus, reads out, in response to the request, the management information about the content data from the recording medium and controls the communication unit to transmit the read-out management information to the external apparatus, and reads out header information recorded in a header region of the content data from the header region and store the read-out header information.
US09756190B2	Systems and methods for setting up internet protocol communications A proxy server of an Internet protocol (IP) telephony system determines when a call setup message generated by a first of the IP telephony system's customers is directed to a second of the IP telephony system's customers. When that occurs, the call setup message is forwarded directly to a call cluster operated by the IP telephony system and that services the second customer. As a result, the call is handled internally by the IP telephony system, and there is no need to involve a second telephony system in conducting the requested call. The proxy server may also insert information into the call setup messaging to flag the call as an internal call between two customers of the IP telephony system.
US09756189B2	Method and system for routing and security for telephone calls over a packet-switched network A server, upon receiving a request to complete a call over a packet-switched network, looks up an address on the packet-switched network on a local table. If the local table does not contain a matching address, the server asks a routing server to identify a receiving server address. The routing server identifies a suitable address and sends a message to the originating server containing the address. The routing server may consider such factors as the volume of calls currently being handled by various potential receiving servers in selecting a receiving server. The receiving server then receives, via the packet-switched network, a message requesting a telephone connection to a second telephone device. Before completing the connection to the second telephone device, information in the message representing the address of the device on the packet-switched network that originated the message is identified. The address information is compared to selected predetermined addresses for permitted origins of the message. The permitted origins may be other servers or clients of the receiving server. If the address in the message corresponds to a predetermined permitted address, the server will proceed with completion of the call. If the address in the message does not correspond to a predetermined permitted address, the server will refuse to complete the call.
US09756188B2	Method and telecommunication system for initiating an enhanced communication connection The invention relates generally to a method for initiating an enhanced communication connection, between a calling party (A) and a called party (B), within a telecommunication network system comprising multiple interconnected networks, said enhanced communication connection comprising a circuit switched connection and a packet-switched connection, the method according to the invention is characterized in the steps of processing the setting up of said circuit-switched connection and said packet-switched connection based on one single response invoked by said called party (B). In one embodiment of the method the single response could be the pressing of a button or the selection of a displayed icon on a terminal.
US09756186B2	Portable continuity object A method for providing continuity over a series of transactions is provided, comprising the steps of (a) creating a Portable Continuity Object (PCO) as a defined digital package by an instance of PCO software executing on a computerized appliance also capable of communication transaction; (b) providing identity of a person, an address of a communication device and a continuity context in the PCO; (c) sharing the PCO in related transactions, with the PCO updated with information concerning individual transactions by digital equipment enhanced with an instance of PCO software; and (d) providing context continuity in succeeding transactions by accessing the PCO by one or both parties to a transaction.
US09756185B1	System for automated call analysis using context specific lexicon A system and method for automated call analysis using context specific lexicons. A system includes memory and a processor configured to executed instructions. The system includes a recording component, a lexicon component, an analysis component, and a display component. The lexicon component defines a plurality of context specific lexicons, with each context specific lexicon having elements associated with one of a plurality of unique conversation segments. The analysis component configured to identify elements of the context specific lexicons, and associate each identified element with a time location in a telephonic conversation. The display component configured to graphically present a multi-line graph such that the intersections of the lines indicate transitions between the unique conversation segments.
US09756181B2	Phone number identification systems and methods A system for initiating phone calls includes a database including records related to one or more second users, each of the second users being associated with an identifier and a phone number, a phone including a controller in communication with the database, and a memory in communication with the controller. The memory including program instructions executable by the controller that, when executed by the controller, cause the controller to provide a user interface that receives a phone call request from a first user, wherein the phone call request includes the identifier associated with a one of the second users and does not include the phone number associated with the one of the second users, and, in response to receiving the phone call request, initiating the phone call over a telephone network from the phone to the phone number associated with the one of the second users.
US09756162B2	Electronic device and control method A mobile phone includes a communication module for establishing a master-slave relationship with another electronic device to perform communication. The mobile phone determines a carrying state and performs control related to the master-slave relationship of the communication module based on a determination result of the carrying state. By this configuration, the mobile phone can improve user's convenience with respect to the use modes of electronic devices between which the master-slave relationship is established. For example, when it is determined that the carrying state is a carried state, the mobile phone may make the communication module subordinate to the other electronic device.
US09756157B2	Electronic apparatus The connector reception portion is configured such that, when the battery pack is housed in the battery housing portion, the battery cylindrical portion is positioned at the connector reception portion of the battery housing portion, and thereafter, while the battery pack is inclined so that the battery cylindrical portion is located diagonally forward down with respect to the battery mounting surface, the battery cylindrical portion is inserted and fitted within the peripheral wall of the connector reception portion, and the battery pack is inclined so that an inclination angle is smaller while the battery pack is pushed forward in this fitted-and-inserted state, thereby the battery pack is laid on the battery mounting surface of the battery housing portion, and the battery connector is connected to the connection terminals in a direction parallel to the battery mounting surface.
US09756155B2	Housing wall A housing wall for a data communications device includes a metallic and electrically conductive main body. A slotted area having a number of slots is provided in a region of the housing wall, in such a way that in a region of the slotted area the housing wall is permeable to magnetic fields for inductively coupling-in signals for wireless communication.
US09756146B2	Secure boot download computations based on host transport conditions Systems, methods and computer readable media for secure patch downloading from a host to a target, with improved security computation operations based on transport conditions. The method may include receiving a packet of the patch from the host; verifying that the packet is not a retransmission of a previously received packet; if the verification succeeds, performing a first type of security computation based on the packet; if the verification fails and the content of the packet differs from the content of the previously received packet, stopping further performance of the first type of security computation until a final packet of the patch is received; performing a second type of security computation based on one or more of the received packets; and determining a security status of the patch based on a comparison of the first type of security computation and the second type of security computation.
US09756145B2	Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and computer product An information providing apparatus includes a processor configured to input an inquiry for a change date candidate for changing specifications of hardware resources used in information processing related to a service; and a storage unit configured to store at least one among a planned backup date for a process result of the information processing related to the service and a planned restore date for the information processing related to the service using the process result. The processor is further configured to determine as the change date candidate, a date within at least one period among a first period from a date of input of the inquiry until the planned backup date and a second period after the planned restore date, by referring to the storage unit, and to output the determined change date candidate.
US09756140B2	Tracking user behavior relative to a network page Disclosed are various embodiments for tracking user behavior relative to a network page and identifying user interest in various content items of the network page according to the user behavior. A network page that includes multiple content items is rendered for display in a client. A user action is obtained relative to the network page. A user behavior report is sent to one or more servers. The user behavior report indicates the user action, a timestamp associated with the user action, and one or more of the content items that are associated with the user action.
US09756137B2	Method and apparatus for migrating active communication session between terminals An apparatus and method are disclosed for migrating between terminals. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network proxy having a controller that manages a communications interface in a communication system. The controller can be programmed to receive a request to migrate a first terminal to a third terminal while active communications are taking place on a first voice channel connecting the first terminal to a second terminal, establish a second voice channel with the third terminal, connect the first and second voice channels, and terminate without action of an end user of the first terminal a connection between the first terminal and the first voice channel. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09756135B2	Accessing network services from external networks A method for accessing network services from external networks includes receiving at a cloud-based server a bridge setup request from a private communication system, establishing a bridge connection between the cloud-based server and the private communication system, establishing a communication path between the cloud-based server and a cloud-based application, receiving a request from a cloud-based entity that is directed to an enterprise service hosted within the private communication system, transmitting the request to the enterprise service over the bridge connection, receiving a response from the enterprise service over the bridge connection, and transmitting the response to the cloud-based entity. Related computer program products and systems are also disclosed.
US09756129B2	WSDL/WADL reference definition integration A system transfers interface documents for a web service, such as WSDL or WADL documents. The documents include a service document and one or more reference definition documents. The system parses the service document to extract the location of the reference definition documents. The system moves the service document to a temporary storage location, and moves the reference definition documents to the temporary storage location. The system then, for each document that references one of the reference definition documents, modifies its location value to the temporary storage location.
US09756128B2	Switched direct attached shared storage architecture Various embodiments for implementing a switched direct attached shared storage architecture as disclosed herein include: providing a plurality of compute nodes, each compute node having integrated compute capabilities, data storage, and a network interface controller (Host NIC), the plurality of compute nodes being in data communication with each other via a local area network, the plurality of compute nodes each including distributed storage processing software resident thereon; providing a plurality of physical data storage devices in data communication with a storage controller; and enabling data communications in a data store switch fabric between the plurality of compute nodes and the plurality of physical data storage devices via the Host NIC and the storage controller, the data store switch fabric encapsulating data requests from the plurality of compute nodes into data frames for transport to corresponding physical data storage devices.
US09756124B1	Content delivery network referral In general, techniques are described for managing content request referrals by keying content requests to a composite key data structure that maps end-user address prefixes and content identifiers to content delivery network servers of downstream CDNs. In one example, a CDN exchange includes a communication module to receive first network prefixes and first content identifiers from a first secondary content delivery network and to receive second network prefixes and second content identifiers from a second secondary content delivery network. A request router of the CDN exchange redirects the content request to the first secondary content delivery network or to the second secondary content delivery network according to a network address of the end user device and a content identifier for the content request.
US09756118B2	Virtual performance monitoring decoupled from hardware performance-monitoring units The current document is directed to virtualized PMUs provided by virtualization layers. The currently disclosed virtualized PMUs are decoupled from the underlying PMU hardware features of processors on which the virtualization layer executes. The decoupling is achieved, in part, by time multiplexing the underlying hardware PMU registers to provide a greater number of virtualized PMU registers than the number of hardware-PMU registers provided by at least some of the underlying hardware PMUs. The decoupling is also achieved by providing for monitoring, by the virtualized PMU registers, of computed processor events and approximated processor events in addition to the processor events monitored by the underlying hardware PMUs. In addition, the virtualized PMU registers are implemented, in certain implementations, to support a variety of different monitoring modes, including monitoring of processor events that occur only during execution of the virtualization layer and monitoring of hardware-thread-specific processor events.
US09756117B2	Retrieval of a file from multiple storage nodes A method, and associated system and computer program product, for retrieving a file from a distribution of storage nodes. A client computer sends a request for a file to a proxy layer and in response, the proxy layer generates a script for obtaining the requested file and sends the script to the client computer. The client computer executes the script, resulting in portions of the requested file being obtained from respective storage nodes in a storage layer. The portions of the requested file are concatenated to form the requested file.
US09756112B2	Method and system for managing service quality according to network status predictions Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining predicted available bandwidths for an end user device, monitoring buffer occupancy of a buffer of the end user device, determining bit rates for portions of media content according to the predicted available bandwidths and according to the buffer occupancy, and adjusting bit rates for portions of media content according to the predicted available bandwidths and according to the buffer occupancy during streaming of the media content to the end user device over a wireless network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09756106B2	Methods and systems for estimating quality of experience (QoE) parameters of secured transactions An apparatus is provided for estimating one or more quality of experience (QoE) parameters associated with a specific terminal. The apparatus includes a traffic processor configured to acquire a plurality of transactions for providing multimedia content to a specific terminal. At least one of such transactions is a secured transaction. The apparatus further includes a QoE parameter estimator configured to detect a quality level variation event based on the transactions and the sizes of the transactions, and to estimate one or more QoE parameters based on the detection of the quality level variation event.
US09756105B2	Method and arrangement for controlling sessions in a communication network A method and an apparatus in a multimedia network node (312), for providing a relevant service level for a first subscriber (A) in a multimedia session with a second subscriber (B). A service level policy has been defined for each subscriber. A session negotiation message (3:1) sent by the first subscriber is first obtained. A required service level of the first subscriber is then detected from a service level parameter that the first subscriber has added to the negotiation message. The policy is updated (3:2a) for the second subscriber if the required service level cannot be allowed in the first subscriber's receive direction according to the original policy of the second subscriber, to allow that network resources are reserved (3:3) for the session such that the first subscriber will receive media (3:4) with the required service level.
US09756098B2	Multi-tenant over-the-top multicast Some embodiments provide a multi-tenant over-the-top multicast solution that integrates the per user stream customizability of unicast with the large scale streaming efficiencies of multicast. The solution involves an application, different multicast groups streaming an event with different customizations, and a manifest file or metadata identifying the different groups and customizations. The solution leverages the different multicast groups in order to provide different time shifts in the event stream, different quality level encodings of the event stream, and different secondary content to be included with a primary content stream. The application configured with the manifest file or metadata dynamically switches between the groups in order to customize the experience for a user or user device on which the application executes. Switching from multicast to unicast is also supported to supplement available customizations and for failover.
US09756092B2	Distribution and synchronization of a social media environment A system is configured to receive, from a first client device, a request to join a social media environment in which a second client device is participating; provide, to the first client device, information regarding media content associated with the social media environment and a number of playback positions from which to begin playback of the media content; receive, from the first client device, information selecting a playback position for the media content; provide, to the first client device, the media content via the social media environment beginning at the selected playback position; monitor interactions with the social media environment by the first client device and the second client device; detect a change of state for the social media environment; and provide, to the second client device, information associated with the change of state for the social media environment.
US09756090B2	Technique for providing services in a service provisioning network The invention relates to techniques for providing services in a service provisioning network (100′), wherein a service-related message (118) is routed by a service routing node (104′) to a service hosting node (106′). A method embodiment of the invention comprises in the service routing node the steps of receiving, e.g. from the service hosting node, service availability information (124) indicating an availability of the service in the service hosting node; and establishing, based on the received service availability information, a service routing rule.
US09756087B2	Method, system and network nodes for performing a sip transaction in a session initiation protocol based communications network Methods, systems and network nodes for performing a SIP transaction are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method, performed by a second node of sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message in a SIP-based communications network from a first node to a third node using the second node, may include receiving, by the second node acting as a SIP proxy, from the first node, the SIP message. Further, the method may include determining routing information for forwarding the SIP message to the third node. Also, the method may include sending, by the second node, to the first node, a pivot request to request that the first node forward the SIP message directly to the third node without traversing the second node. The pivot request may include the routing information.
US09756078B2	Proactive internet connectivity probe generator Described herein are reception of first processor-executable program code and a configuration file specifying a target internet protocol address, an asset-identifying information type, and a security protocol, and execution of the received first processor-executable program code to identify a first one or more network communication interfaces of the first computing system, generate a message including information conforming to the asset-identifying information type, the information identifying a first asset, secure the message based on the security protocol, and transmit the secure message to the target internet protocol address via each of the first one or more network communication interfaces.
US09756072B2	Employing physical location geo-spatial co-ordinate of communication device as part of internet protocol A current physical location value associated is incorporated with a communication device as part of internet protocol (IP). An IP management component obtains current physical location information of a wireless communication device and modifies the IP address to incorporate the current physical location value corresponding to the current physical location of the communication device as part of the IP address of the communication device to prevent undesired intrusions by hackers, as communications associated with the communication device are routed to/from the communication device that is at the current physical location. If the communication device moves to a new location, the IP management component can perform a new IP address modification to modify the IP address to incorporate a new physical location value associated with the communication device.
US09756071B1	DNS denial of service attack protection Exemplary embodiments for protecting a data network from a DNS denial of service attack are disclosed. The systems and methods provide for the use of a shared DNS cache between DNS UDP and DNS TCP proxy servers, to enable detection and mitigation of DNS denial of service attacks.
US09756059B2	Token based automated agent detection Service providers may operate one or more services configured to detect requests generated by automated agents. A CAPTCHA may be transmitted in response to requests generated by automated agents. The CAPTCHAs may be included in a modal pop-up box configured to be displayed by a client application displaying a webpage to a customer of the service provider. Furthermore, the CAPTCHAs included in the modal pop-up box may be rendered inactive and caused not to be displayed by client application executing the webpage. Submitted solutions to CAPTCHAs may be presented with a cookie that enables access to resources of the service provider without restriction. Cookies may be tracked and their use may be used to detect automated agent activity.
US09756057B2	System and method for enhanced display-screen security and privacy A security method that includes assigning a sensitivity value for a communication with a sensitivity determining module including at least one hardware processor. Following assignment of the sensitivity value to the communication, the communication is formatted for display. When sensitivity value exceeds a security threshold, the communication is parsed into a sequence of fragments. The communication is transmitted as the sequence of fragments when said sensitivity value exceeds the security threshold.
US09756049B2	System and method for managing several mobile devices simultaneously A learning management system and method. Controllable devices, generally intended for students of a smart classroom, are each operable in a locked configuration and in an unlocked configuration. A controller device, generally intended for a teacher of a smart classroom, is configured to send command signals over a communication network. A server system interprets and handles communications between the controllable devices and the controller device such that when a locking signal is sent from the teacher's controller device, the server system sets each of the controllable devices to the locked configuration in which the user interface of each controllable device is controlled by the controller device, and when an unlocking signal is received from the teacher's controller device, the server system sets each of the controllable devices from the locked configuration to the unlocked configuration in which the user interface is operable independently of the controller device.
US09756047B1	Embedding security posture in network traffic Embedding security posture in network traffic is disclosed. Security posture information is received. The security posture information is embedded into a message. The message including the security posture information is sent from a mobile device to a service node. The service node uses the security posture information to validate the mobile device to access a service. The service accesses the service based at least in part on the validation.
US09756046B2	Network system and communication device therein A network system includes first nodes and a second node. Each first node is directly communicatively connected to the second node, or each first node is indirectly communicatively connected to the second node through another first node. The second node includes a network layer and an application layer. When a new node desires is joining the first nodes, the network layer sends an update signal including first network address information of the new node. The application layer is configured to connect to a database and perform an authentication on the first network address information of the new node based on a node list in the database. When the new node passes the authentication, the application layer stores the update signal in the database.
US09756040B2	User authentication method with enhanced security A user authentication method with enhanced security is provided. The method includes generating a first common authentication key if a user of the user terminal enters a private password and providing the generated first common authentication key to an authentication server, registering the first common authentication key and user information by matching the first common authentication key with the user information, generating a second common authentication key in real time if the user enters the private password, generating a server authentication key, generating first server authentication information by calculating a one time password (OTP) by using the server authentication key as an operation key, generating a user authentication key, generating first user authentication information by calculating an OTP by using the user authentication key as an operation key, and performing user authentication based on whether the first server authentication is identical to the first user authentication.
US09756025B2	System and method for secured content delivery A content delivery platform is provided that includes generating a first content package of content that is encrypted with a unique symmetric key, and a second content package including a link encrypted with the key to the first content package. The first content package is stored in a repository, and a request including the key is transmitted to a first computing device associated with a mail exchange for an encryption key file. An encryption key file is generated using the unique symmetric key and together with a authorizing token is received. A third content package is generated that is encrypted using the encryption key file and includes the encrypted link. The third content package is transmitted to a distributor gateway and the encrypted link is accessible in response to the consumer decrypting the third content package. The link is available to provide to access to the content for the consumer.
US09756024B2	Computer-implemented cryptographic method for improving a computer network, and terminal, system and computer-readable medium for the same A method at a terminal in a multiple-node digital communications network, comprising any one or more of: generating at least one symmetric first key(s), across all participating nodes in the multiple-node digital communications network and securely distributing the at least one first key(s) in encrypted form to multiple participating nodes of the multiple-node digital communications network, using at least one asymmetrically established second key(s), the participating nodes including at least one message-transmitting node(s) and at least one message-receiving node(s); generating at least one symmetric third key(s) for one or more communication session that includes one or more communications from the at least one message-transmitting node(s) to the message-receiving node(s); encrypting at least one payload message using the at least one third key(s) at the at least one message-transmitting node(s), sending the encrypted at least one payload message, and receiving the encrypted at least one payload message at the at least one message-receiving node(s); encrypting the at least one third key(s) using the at least one first key(s), sending the encrypted at least one third key(s), and receiving the encrypted at least one third key(s) at the at least one message-receiving node(s); decrypting the at least one third key(s) using the securely distributed at least one first key(s), at the at least one message-receiving node(s); and decrypting the at least one encrypted payload message using the decrypted at least one third key(s), at the at least one message-receiving node(s). A terminal, system, and computer readable medium are also disclosed.
US09756023B2	Token-based secure data management In some implementations, tokens that are representative of sensitive data may be used in place of the sensitive data to maintain the security of the sensitive data. For example, data may be separated into sensitive data and nonsensitive data, and at least the sensitive data is securely delivered to a data storage service. The data storage service generates a token that is representative of the sensitive data and stores the sensitive data as secure data. The data storage service may deliver the token to an entity that also receives the nonsensitive data, and the entity may use the token in place of the sensitive data. In some implementations, different tokens are generated each time the same piece of sensitive data is submitted for storage as secure data. Further, in some implementations, access policies define authorizations regarding which entities are able to resolve a token to access the actual sensitive data.
US09756021B2	Secure messaging A method for transmitting an encrypted message from a messaging server (106) to a handset (104) comprising the steps of receiving, at the messaging server (106) and from a sender computer (102), a message to be sent to the handset (104) and a handset identifier associated with the handset and determining that the handset is not registered with the messaging server (106) by determining that the handset identifier does not have an associated handset encryption key stored at the messaging server. The handset (104) is registered by sending a notification to the handset requesting registration, receiving back a handset encryption key associated with the handset identifier; and storing the handset encryption key against the handset identifier at the messaging server which is to be used to encrypt the received message before sending. Prior to registering the handset (104), intermediate encryption of the message may be employed to create an intermediate encrypted message to be stored at the messaging server.
US09756020B2	Persistent uniform resource locators (URLs) for client applications acting as web services Techniques to provide persistent uniform resource locators (URLs) for client applications acting as web services are described herein. In one or more implementations, the techniques utilize standard protocols and libraries (e.g., standard HTTP) without relying upon custom/propriety plug-ins. An intermediary server functions as a tunnel service is configured to provide functionality for handling communications between endpoints on behalf of client applications. Additionally, the tunnel service provides a mechanism to generate and assign persistent URLs (or comparable addresses) to client applications. Entities seeking to interact with the client applications use corresponding URLs to direct requests via the tunnel service and down to the appropriate client application. Local storage associated with the client application is employed to store the credentials, such that the URL persists across multiple sessions and the same URL is generated repeatedly by the tunnel service each time corresponding and valid credentials are supplied by a client.
US09756019B2	DNS-based captive portal with integrated transparent proxy to protect against user device caching incorrect IP address A captive portal system includes a login database, a web server, and a name server. The name server receives a DNS request from a user device, queries the login database to determine whether the user device is logged in, and responds to the DNS request with the IP address of the web server as a resolved IP address of the specified domain name when the user device is not logged in. The web server accepts a connection request from the user device to the IP address of the web server, receives an HTTP request specifying a non-local target URL from the user device, queries the login database to determine whether the user device is logged in according to the source address of the user device, and acts as a transparent proxy between the user device and the non-local target URL when the user device is logged in.
US09756016B2	Security services for end users that utilize service chaining Embodiments described herein provide security for end users of User Equipment (UE) that utilize service chaining for Service Data Flows (SDFs). One embodiment comprises a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) that determines that a service chain is enabled for a SDF requested by an end user of a UE. The PCRF identifies a service function implemented in the service chain that processes the SDF based on a generic security policy, and identifies a security rule for the end user for filtering the SDF by the service function. The PCRF provides the security rule to the service function for filtering the SDF within the service chain.
US09756015B2	Creating network isolation between virtual machines A method, system, and program product for creating network isolation between virtual machines is provided, including receiving, by a security virtual machine (SVM), an outgoing network packet from a virtual machine (VM). The source internet protocol (IP) address and a source media access control (MAC) address is extracted from the outgoing network packet. A zone identifier table is searched for a zone id, whereby the zone identifier table includes the source IP address and the source MAC address. The outgoing network packet is sent to a physical Ethernet adapter connected to an external network switch whereby the external network switch is connected to an external network, based on the zone id not being found in the zone identifier table. The outgoing network packet is sent to a physical Ethernet adapter that is connected to an internal switch, based on the zone id being found in the zone identifier table.
US09756012B1	Domain name service information propagation A computing resource service receives a request from a customer to assign a domain name to a computing resource. The computing resource service may submit a query to a domain name system service to determine whether the domain name has been reserved for the customer. The domain name system service may provide an encrypted alias record corresponding to the requested domain name and specifying one or more identifiers of customers for whom the domain name has been reserved. The computing resource service may decrypt the alias record and determine whether the customer corresponds to one of the one or more identifiers within the alias record. If the customer does correspond to one of the one or more identifiers within the alias record, the computing resource service may assign the domain name to the computing resource.
US09756008B2	Bridging relationships across enterprise and personal social networks A user interface (UI) may be provided that allows a user to connect a first identity in a first social community to another identity in another social community by allowing the user to specify the first identity and another identity. Responsive to a user utilizing the UI, the user may be presented with an option to identify connections in the first social community according to a criteria with members associated with another identity in said another social community. A list of identified connections may be presented.
US09756007B1	Systems and methods for detecting compromised messaging accounts A computer-implemented method for detecting compromised messaging accounts may include maintaining a behavior database that associates a plurality of messaging accounts with messaging behaviors that typify each of the messaging accounts. The method may also include detecting an attempt by a user to send a message from a messaging account. In addition, the method may include determining that the messaging account has potentially been compromised by comparing features of the message with messaging behaviors associated with the messaging account in the behavior database. Finally, the method may include verifying that the user is an owner of the messaging account in response to the determination that the messaging account has potentially been compromised. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09756002B2	Systems and methods for email attachments management Systems and methods consistent with various disclosed embodiments provide for managing email attachments. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed for managing email attachments. The system may include a memory storing software instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to perform one or more operations. The operations may include providing an interface for converting an original attachment to an email. The operations may also include converting the original attachment to a modified attachment based on input received through the interface. The operations may further include substituting the original attachment to the email with the modified attachment, and providing information to send the email with the modified attachment.
US09756000B1	Obfuscation of email addresses A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for facilitating two-way email communication in manner that obfuscates sender and recipient email addresses. The method includes receiving a correspondence request indication; assigning a first transaction address to a sender and a second transaction address to a recipient; receiving a message from the sender; associating the message from the sender with the first transaction address; and causing a transmission of the message from the sender to the recipient using the first transaction address. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US09755995B2	System and method for applying gesture input to digital content A system and method for managing messages within an application interface that includes receiving a message stream; providing a navigational menu to a set of message streams; detecting an initiated gesture item for at least one message within a view of the navigational menu; tracking gesture-state within a progressive order of gesture-states; identifying an action of the gesture-state wherein the action corresponds to the current view and relative ordering of the navigational menu; and applying the message sorting action on the message according to a final gesture-state.
US09755992B2	Distributed online optimization for latency assignment and slicing A system and method for latency assignment in a system having shared resources for performing jobs including computing a new resource price at each resource based on latencies in a previous iteration. The new resource price is sent to a task controller that has at least one subtask running at the resource. Each subtask has an initial deadline. New deadlines for the subtasks in a task are determined based on the new resource prices at the task controller. The new deadlines are sent to the resources where at least one subtask in the task is running to improve system performance.
US09755989B2	Resource-aware system, method and program product for managing request traffic based on a management policy Under the present invention, the performance of a set of system resources is monitored in response to incoming request traffic. When a system resource is approaching an overload condition, a corrective action is identified and implemented. Overload thresholds for each system resource and appropriate corrective actions are contained within a management policy. Based on a performance history of the corrective actions, the management policy can be changed/revised.
US09755986B1	Techniques for tightly-integrating an enterprise storage array into a distributed virtualized computing environment Techniques are directed to a cloud-integrated enterprise-class data storage array. It includes (a) an enclosure, (b) a set of storage drives mounted in the enclosure, (c) network interface circuitry mounted in the enclosure, the network interface circuitry communicatively connecting the cloud-integrated enterprise-class data storage array to a network to form a distributed virtualized computing environment, and (d) a redundant set of storage processors mounted in the enclosure. The redundant set of storage processors are configured to (1) process data storage operations directed at the set of storage drives in a highly-available and deterministic manner and (2) operate a cloud storage management node of the distributed virtualized computing environment to manage assignment of logical disks to respective virtual machines of the distributed virtualized computing environment, the logical disks including storage from the set of storage drives. A method and computer program product are also provided.
US09755981B2	Snooping forwarded packets by a virtual machine A method for performing LRO aggregation on packets being forwarded by a VM is provided. The method segments the LRO aggregated packet according to the Maximum Segment Size (MSS) of the TCP protocol before forwarding the segmented packets to their destination. The method snoops the packets being forwarded for its MSS parameter before using the snooped MSS parameter to perform Transmit Segmentation Offload (TSO) operation. The PNIC performs both the aggregation operation (LRO) and the segmentation (TSO) within its own hardware without consuming CPU cycles at the host machine. The PNIC receives the MSS parameter from the network stack as a metadata that accompanies a LRO aggregated packet.
US09755974B2	Communication device A communication device has: a sensor configured to output sensing data; a count signal communication part configured to count a count signal received from a control device directly or via another communication device and transmit the counted count signal and to store a value of the received count signal; and a data communication part configured to transmit the sensing data outputted by the sensor or the sensing data received from another communication device, in correspondence with the stored value of the count signal.
US09755972B1	Protocol-independent receive-side scaling A system and method for protocol independent receive side scaling (RSS) includes storing a plurality of RSS hash M-tuple definitions, each definition corresponding to one of a set of possible protocol header combinations for routing an incoming packet, the set of possible protocol header combinations being modifiable to include later-developed protocols. Based on initial bytes of the incoming packet, a pattern of protocol headers is detected, and used to select one of the plurality of RSS hash M-tuple definitions. The selected RSS hash M-tuple definition is applied as a protocol-independent arbitrary set of bits to the headers of the incoming packet to form a RSS hash M-tuple vector, which is used to compute a RSS hash. Based on the RSS hash, a particular queue is selected from a set of destination queues identified for the packet, and the packet is delivered to the selected particular queue.
US09755965B1	Forwarding tables for virtual networking devices Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for forwarding tables for virtual networking devices. The system first identifies local virtual machines hosted on a local host connected to the system, the system having virtual tunneling capabilities. The system then generates a forwarding table for the system. Next, the system populates the forwarding table with local entries including bindings for the local virtual machines hosted on the local host and adds a default route in the forwarding table pointing to a default forwarder function, wherein the default route is configured to handle all non-local traffic relative to the system and the local host.
US09755955B2	Single queue link aggregation A method for transmitting a packet on a logical port comprising two or more physical ports comprises receiving a packet of a class of service; storing the packet in a memory; maintaining a lookup table relating a plurality of identifiers to at least one physical port; storing a pointer to the stored packet in the memory in a single pointer list for the class of service along with a selected one of the identifiers; and copying the stored packet to one or more physical ports corresponding to the selected identifier for transmission on at least one of the physical ports. In one implementation, a plurality of the physical ports are grouped into a logical port, and the received packet is processed to determine its logical port and its class of service.
US09755953B1	Multi-path routing control for an encrypted tunnel The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for applying unique routing rules to encrypted data packets being transmitted via a tunneling protocol. Because encrypted data packets are unintelligible at intermediary points along a secured link or “tunnel,” a multi-path router located between the tunnel endpoints is typically unable to apply unique routing rules. To enable unique routing, the disclosed method relies on a unique identifier that is associated with the secured link established between an initiator and a receiver (i.e., the tunnel endpoints). The unique identifier is transmitted with one or more encrypted data packets and is used at intermediary points to differentiate the encrypted data packets so that unique routing rules can be applied.
US09755951B2	Financial network A network system that facilitates financial transactions. A software defined network may operate to provide a variety of trading related services to a variety of customers with a low latency. Core or processor affinity for routing processes may improve speeds of routing. Data capture through a shared memory space may allow for a variety of analytics without introducing unacceptable delay.
US09755944B2	Apparatus for testing data communications on two wire combined power and data network systems for automation Apparatus for testing data communications on two wire combined power and data network systems for automation, comprising a control means and connection means adapted to connect said apparatus to a subject network segment, in which said control means comprises data signal output means adapted to impart a test data signal to said subject segment via said connection means, and a data signal disruption means adapted to vary one or more physical layer attributes of said test data signal which affect its functional quality and/or to vary one or more physical layer attributes of said subject segment which are capable of affecting the functional quality of data signals carried thereon.
US09755933B2	Method and system for measuring audio transmission delay A method and a system for measuring an audio transmission delay are provided. Synchronization operation is performed on transmission of an original audio codebook to be tested between a transmitter and a receiver. A transmitter starts sending the original audio codebook to be tested to a receiver in response to sending start instruction information, and stops sending the original audio codebook to the receiver in response to sending end instruction information. The receiver starts capturing the original audio codebook from the transmitter in response to receiving start instruction information and stops capturing the original audio codebook from the transmitter in response to receiving end instruction information. The audio transmission delay is obtained based on a test audio codebook captured by the receiver and the original audio codebook pre-stored in the receiver.
US09755905B2	Method, node device and system for establishing label switched path Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for advertising link bandwidth information. The method comprises sending a link state advertisement (LSA) message, which comprises bandwidth information of a link, to a plurality of network nodes in a network. The bandwidth information comprises a plurality of link bandwidths and availabilities corresponding to the plurality of link bandwidths respectively. Each availability is a time scale that the corresponding link bandwidth is ensured.
US09755904B2	Reconfiguration record measurement test method and network side The present document provides a logged measurement reconfiguration test method, comprising: when a terminal already has a logged measurement configuration, a network side sending a new logged measurement configuration to the terminal; the network side detecting whether there is a measurement log for the logged measurement configuration that is already had by the terminal or not, and if yes, the test fails; otherwise the network side detecting whether there is a measurement log for the logged measurement configuration that is already had by the terminal or not after the terminal enters into an idle state and stays there for a specified period of time. The present document further provides a network side.
US09755898B2	Elastically managing a service node group Some embodiments provide an elastic architecture for providing a service in a computing system. To perform a service on the data messages, the service architecture uses a service node (SN) group that includes one primary service node (PSN) and zero or more secondary service nodes (SSNs). The service can be performed on a data message by either the PSN or one of the SSN. However, in addition to performing the service, the PSN also performs a load balancing operation that assesses the load on each service node (i.e., on the PSN or each SSN), and based on this assessment, has the data messages distributed to the service node(s) in its SN group. Based on the assessed load, the PSN in some embodiments also has one or more SSNs added to or removed from its SN group. To add or remove an SSN to or from the service node group, the PSN in some embodiments directs a set of controllers to add (e.g., instantiate or allocate) or remove the SSN to or from the SN group. Also, to assess the load on the service nodes, the PSN in some embodiments receives message load data from the controller set, which collects such data from each service node. In other embodiments, the PSN receives such load data directly from the SSNs.
US09755897B1	Enhanced throttle management system Techniques for enhancing a throttle management system are disclosed. A throttle management system can be configured to scale down a number of permits available for connections to a data source. The throttle configuration parameters can be viewed by an administrator and modified during the runtime operation of the computer system effecting the throttle.
US09755892B2	Integrated device managment over Ethernet network A clustered network may include a plurality of switch boxes where a master switch box may communicate and control hardware devices in remote switch boxes. The switch boxes in the network may each include a multiplexer, for example, a field programmable array (FPGA) that may process message requests related to hardware devices of a switch box. If the hardware device is in a remote switch box, then the FPGA of the master switch box may process the status data from the remote switch box so that a local processor in the master switch box can read the status data.
US09755891B2	Systems, devices, and methods for generating latency bounded decisions in a telecommunications network The various embodiments include methods, computing devices and communication systems for controlling services in a communications network. A communications server may be configured to receive bounding information from a first server, decision making information from a second server, and a request to generate a decision from any of a number of different systems or components. The communications server may define bounds for generating the decision based on the received bounding information, and generate the decision based on the received decision making information and defined bounds. The communication server may send the generated decision to a third server implementing a functional system, such as a server in policy management system, policy enforcement system, charging system, or mobile application server system.
US09755882B2	Small data techniques and configurations in a wireless communication network Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for triggering transmission of data payloads in a wireless communication network. An apparatus may include one or more computer-readable media having instructions and one or more processors coupled with the one or more computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to implement an interworking function (IWF) to receive, from a Machine Type Communication (MTC) server, a trigger request to trigger sending of a data payload over a wireless communication network, the data payload being smaller than a preconfigured threshold, and send, in response to the trigger request over a reference point to a module including a Mobility Management Entity (MME) or a Serving GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Support Node (SGSN), a trigger notification to trigger sending of the data payload over the wireless communication network.
US09755863B2	High data rate multilevel clock recovery system Digital receiver systems and clock recovery techniques for use in digital receiver systems are provided to implement asynchronous baud-rate clock recovery systems for high data rate serial receivers multilevel line modulation. A two-stage postcursor ISI equalization system is provided to efficiently emulate a 4-level DFE (decision feedback equalization) system, for example, while converting a 4-level equalized signal to s 2-level equalized signal. For example, a two stage postcursor ISI equalization system includes a DFE stage which operates on a most significant component of a given 4-level data symbol, followed by a DFFE (decision-feedforward equalizer) stage which operates on a least significant component of the given 4-level data symbol. In parallel with the DFFE stage, an estimate of the least significant component is subtracted from the equalized 4-level data symbol to convert the 4-level data symbol to a 2-level symbol.
US09755862B2	Signal transfer device for transferring signal by balanced transmission A signal transfer device includes a signal transmitter, a first amplitude adjustment component, an adjustment signal output component, a detector and a second amplitude adjustment component. The signal transmitter outputs signals to first and second transfer paths based on single-phase or differential input signal. The first amplitude adjustment component adjusts at least one of amplitudes of the signals transferred to the first and second transfer paths based on a predetermined amplitude ratio. The adjustment signal output component outputs adjustment signals to the first and second transfer paths. The detector detects the adjustment signals. The second amplitude adjustment component adjusts at least one of the amplitudes of the signals transferred to the first and second transfer paths based on detection result of the detector.
US09755854B2	Tag conversion apparatus A controller of a tag conversion apparatus configured holds tag conversion information associating addresses of communication apparatuses and information on tags of tagging schemes for network separation, analyzes a frame input from one of the plurality of ports and determine a current tagging scheme of the frame, determines a tagging scheme associated with a destination address of the frame based on the tag conversion information, and converts the frame to a frame of the tagging scheme associated with the destination address based on the tag conversion information when the tagging scheme associated with the destination address and the current tagging scheme are different.
US09755847B2	Method and system for sharing and discovery A method for sharing media within a chat room system, including: in response to receipt of a sharing selection from a user at a device, rerouting an audio output from a default audio output of the device to a virtual audio output, capturing a primary audio stream generated by an application executed on the device with the virtual audio output, sending the primary audio stream to an external server for distribution to secondary user devices, receiving a secondary audio stream from the external server and concurrently playing the primary audio stream and secondary audio stream at an audio output of the device.
US09755841B2	Method, apparatus and system for security application for integrated circuit devices At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed involves providing a restricted access protocol for accessing a memory device. A first memory portion of a memory device is selected for providing an access confirmation. At least one of setting or resetting of memory cells of the first memory portion is performed. A first voltage is provided for switching the memory cells. The first voltage is associated with a predetermined switching probability. A first input signal comprising at least one address associated with the memory cells is provided. A first responsive signal is received in response to the input signal. The first responsive signal comprises data relating to the state of the memory cells. An access key is provided for the access confirmation based upon a relationship between the first input signal and the first responsive signals for providing an access key.
US09755836B2	Identifying and locating authenticated services using broadcast encryption Provided are techniques to enable, using broadcast encryption, a device to locate a service offered by a server with the knowledge that the service offered by the server is a trusted service. A signed enhanced Management Key Block (eMKB) includes a trusted service locator (TSL) that includes one or more records, or “trusted service data records” (TSDRs), each identifying a particular service and a corresponding location of the service is generated and transmitted over a network. Devices authorized to access a particular service parse the eMKB for the end point of the service, connect to the appropriate server and transmit a request.
US09755832B2	Password-authenticated public key encryption and decryption Examples of techniques for password-authenticated public key encryption and decryption are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented for password-authenticated public key decryption may include generating, by a first user processing system, a public key and a secret key and further generating an authenticated public key using the public key and an authentication password. The method may also include transmitting, by the first user processing system, the authenticated public key to a second user processing system. Additionally, the method may include receiving, by the first user processing system, a ciphertext from the second user processing system. The method may further include decrypting, by the first user processing system, the ciphertext using at least one of the secret key and the authentication password to generate a data message.
US09755829B2	Generation of cryptographic keys Method for generating a pair of public and private cryptographic keys in the additive group of integers modulo n, where n is the product of two prime numbers p and q, the method including the following steps: calculating a public exponent e for said public key, and calculating a private exponent d for said private key from said public exponent and said public modulus, where d·e=1 mod λ(n), λ(n) being the least common multiple between p-1 and q-1, characterized in that the method furthermore comprises a step: of checking to check that λ(n)=0 mod (p-1) and λ(n)=0 mod (q-1).
US09755828B2	Communication device, communication method, computer program product, and communication system According to a communication device includes a sharing processing unit, a storage, and a controller. The sharing processing unit shares an encryption key with one or more external devices. The storage stores therein the encryption key. The controller compares a current amount representing an amount of the stored encryption key with a specified reference amount and performs control to continue or stop sharing processing, which is performed by the sharing processing unit, for sharing the encryption key on the basis of a comparison result.
US09755826B2	Quantum key distribution device, quantum key distribution system, and quantum key distribution method According to an embodiment, a quantum key distribution device includes a sharer, a key distillation processor, a first manager, and a second manager. The sharer is configured to share a photon string with the another quantum key distribution device using quantum key distribution via a quantum distribution channel, and obtain a photon bit string corresponding to the photon string. The key distillation processor is configured to generate a link key from the photon bit string. The first manager is configured to store the link key as a link transmission key. The second manager is configured to store, in a storage, a first application key from an application key to be used in cryptographic data communication, encrypt a second application key from the application key, using the link transmission key, and send the encrypted second application key to another quantum key distribution device via a classical communication channel.
US09755819B2	Phase calibration of clock signals A receiver with clock phase calibration. A first sampling circuit generates first digital data based on an input signal, a sampling phase of the first sampling circuit controlled by a first clock signal. A second sampling circuit generates second digital data based on the input signal, a sampling phase of the second sampling circuit controlled by a second clock signal. Circuitry within the receiver calibrates the clocks in different stages. During a first calibration stage, a phase of the second clock signal is adjusted while the first digital data is selected for generating the output data. During a second calibration stage, a phase of the first clock signal is adjusted while the first digital data is selected for the output data path.
US09755816B2	Dynamic TDD configuration method and a base station using the same Accordingly, the present disclosure is directed to a dynamic time division duplex (TDD) configuration method and a base station using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to A dynamic TDD configuration method, applicable to a base station, and the method includes the steps of transmitting a current time division duplex (TDD) configuration, selecting a dynamic TDD configuration based on the current TDD configuration after transmitting the current TDD configuration, and transmitting the dynamic TDD configuration, wherein, the dynamic TDD configuration is a subset of an allowable set comprising one or more possible TDD configurations by which each downlink subframe of the current TDD configuration is not re-configured to a uplink subframe by the dynamic TDD configuration selected from the allowable set.
US09755805B2	Communication apparatus and communication method thereof This invention is directed to a terminal apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of reception quality of control information even in a case of employing SU-MIMO transmission system. A terminal (200), which uses a plurality of different layers to transmit two code words in which control information is placed, comprises: a resource amount determining unit (204) that determines, based on a lower one of the encoding rates of the two code words or based on the average value of the reciprocals of the encoding rates of the two code words, resource amounts of control information in the respective ones of the plurality of layers; and a transport signal forming unit (205) that places, in the two code words, the control information modulated by use of the resource amounts, thereby forming a transport signal.
US09755799B2	Coordinating transmission of positioning reference signals and non-reference signals A base station coordinates transmission of positioning reference signals and non-reference signals. The base station includes a transceiver to detect a reference signal transmitted by one or more other base stations in one or more physical resource blocks. The base station also includes a processor to identify a pattern of resources allocated to the one or more other base stations based on the one or more physical resource blocks including the reference signal. The transceiver is to bypass transmission of non-reference signals in physical resource blocks indicated by the pattern.
US09755785B2	Receiver for wireless communication network with extended range Techniques for detecting and demodulating a signal/transmission are described. Signal detection is performed in multiple stages using different types of signal processing, e.g., using time-domain correlation for a first stage, frequency-domain processing for a second stage, and time-domain processing for a third stage. For the first stage, products of symbols are generated for at least two different delays, correlation between the products for each delay and known values is performed, and correlation results for all delays are combined and used to declare the presence of a signal. For demodulation, the timing of input samples is adjusted to obtain timing-adjusted samples. A frequency offset is estimated and removed from the timing-adjusted samples to obtain frequency-corrected samples, which are processed with a channel estimate to obtain detected symbols. The phases of the detected symbols are corrected to obtain phase-corrected symbols, which are demodulated, deinterleaved, and decoded.
US09755781B2	Broadcast system and method for error correction using redundant data A control device for use in a broadcast system includes a broadcast controller that controls a broadcast transmitter of the broadcast system that broadcasts broadcast signals in a coverage area for reception by terminals including a broadcast receiver and a broadband receiver, and a broadband controller that controls a broadband server of a broadband system that provides redundancy data to terminals within the coverage area. The broadband controller is configured to control the provision of redundancy data by the broadband server for use by one or more terminals which use the redundancy data together with broadcast signals received via said broadcast system for recovering content received within the broadcast signals and/or provided via the broadband system.
US09755779B2	Digital representations of analog signals and control words using different multi-level modulation formats A method implemented by a transmitter, comprising encoding digital in-phase and quadrature-phase (IQ) data associated with a plurality of analog signals according to a first multi-level modulation format to produce a modulated IQ signal, encoding control information associated with the plurality of analog signals according to a second multi-level modulation format that is different from the first multi-level modulation format to produce a modulated control signal, aggregating the modulated IQ signal and the modulated control signal via time-division multiplexing (TDM) to produce an aggregated TDM signal, and transmitting the aggregated TDM signal over a communication channel.
US09755778B2	Optical network unit (ONU) for low latency packet transmission in time division multiplexing-passive optical network (TDM-PON), method of operating the same, and apparatus for controlling ONU Provided are an Optical Network Unit (ONU) for low latency packet transmission in a Time Division Multiplexing-Passive Optical Network (TDM-PON), a method of operating the ONU, and an apparatus for controlling the ONU. The method includes: receiving, from a base station, first bandwidth allocation information regarding a bandwidth allocated by the base station to a terminal for uplink packet transmission; and transmitting a bandwidth allocation request, which is based on the received first bandwidth allocation information, to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) before completing packet reception from the base station.
US09755777B2	Optical transmitter and optical transmission method An optical transmitter includes a dummy optical source, a polarized wave beam coupler, and an auto gain control (AGC)-system amplifier. The dummy optical source outputs, out of an optical signal in which an optical path signal and an optical packet signal are mixed, a dummy signal having a wavelength identical to that of the optical packet signal. The polarized wave beam coupler multiplexes the dummy signal with the optical signal so that the dummy signal is orthogonal to the optical signal so as to output an output signal. The AGC-system amplifier inputs the output signal, and amplifies the output signal with a predetermined amplification factor corresponding to a power difference between input power and output power of an optical amplifier.
US09755774B1	Master/slave negotiation associated with a synchronous ethernet network A device may determine a link master/slave relationship for an Ethernet link associated with a connection between a component of the device and a component of another device. The device may determine that Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) is to be enabled on the Ethernet link. The device may identify the component of the device as a SyncE slave or a SyncE master associated with enabling SyncE on the Ethernet link. The device may provide an indication that the component of the device has been identified as the SyncE slave or the SyncE master. The device may determine a SyncE master/slave relationship associated with enabling SyncE on the Ethernet link. The SyncE master/slave relationship may supersede the link master/slave relationship without altering the link master/slave relationship. The device may cause the component of the device to recover a clock based on the SyncE master/slave relationship rather than the link master/slave relationship.
US09755772B1	Vehicle communication system for receiving frequency modulation and digital audio broadcast radio frequency bands An antenna system for a vehicle that includes at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna that receives both a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) RF broadcast and a frequency modulation (FM) RF broadcast. A single amplifier coupled to one or more antennas is used to process both the DAB and FM broadcasts.
US09755770B2	Method, device and system of encoding a digital interactive response action in an analog broadcasting message Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of generation of a modified digital media file based on encoding of a digital media file with decodable data such that the decodable data is indistinguishable through a human ear from a primary audio stream. In one embodiment, a method includes validating a user as a publisher, associating a response action to a message of the user, using a processor and a memory, generating a unique identifier through a hash function applied to the response action, encoding a digital media file with a decodable data using the unique identifier such that the decodable data is indistinguishable from a primary audio stream through a human ear, and generating a modified digital media file based on the encoding of the message with the decodable data such that the decodable data is indistinguishable from a primary audio stream through the human ear.
US09755766B2	Front end module for automatic test equipment Example automatic test equipment (ATE) includes: a test instrument for outputting test signals to test a device under test (DUT), and for receiving output signals from the DUT, with the test instrument including a front-end module, and with the front-end module including internal circuitry for performing functions relating to the DUT; and external circuitry for performing the functions relative to the DUT via the test instrument, with the external circuitry being external to the front-end module and being shared among multiple front-end modules or channels of the test instrument. The test instrument is configurable to use either (i) the internal circuitry, (ii) the external circuitry, or (iii) a combination of circuits in the internal circuitry and the external circuitry to perform the functions.
US09755752B2	Method for manufacturing an optical communication device A method of manufacturing an optical communication device aligns an optical sub-assembly and an optical modulator on a carrier wafer. A first sub-mount supports the optical sub-assembly and a second sub-mount supports the optical modulator. Pre-defined break lines are placed on the carrier wafer to accommodate separation of the sub-assembly and the optical modulator. The first sub-mount connects the optical sub-assembly to a thermoelectric cooler by either an epoxy, a spacer layer, or both. The optical sub-assembly is aligned in the x/y/z directions relative to the second sub-mount in a position to match an optical height of the optical modulator in the z-direction, wherein the z-direction is a vertical direction relative to the carrier wafer.
US09755746B1	Systems and methods for digitally splitting an optical line terminal across multiple fibers The physical layer of an optical line terminal (OLT) of an optical network is split across multiple fibers so that the OLT has a plurality of optical transceivers for respectively communicating across a plurality of optical fibers. Thus, each optical transceiver is in communication with a smaller number of optical network units (ONUs) relative to an embodiment for which a single optical transceiver is employed, thereby reducing the transmit power requirements of the optical network. Accordingly, less expensive optical components, such as lasers, can be used at the OLT and the ONUs. In addition, the split at the OLT is implemented digitally, and the digital components of the OLT are arranged such that various performance benefits are realized. As an example, the OLT may be configured such that data and/or overhead may be simultaneously transmitted in the upstream direction thereby increasing the upstream throughput and capacity of the optical network.
US09755745B2	Device for simultaneous data and power transmission over an optical waveguide A device and a method for simultaneous full-duplex data and power transmission over a single optical waveguide, which connects a base station and a remote station. At the base station a high power laser source emits a first laser beam for carrying power and a base station low power laser source emits a second laser beam for carrying data over the optical waveguide from the base station to the remote station. An optical interface couples the laser beams into the optical waveguide. The laser beams are received at corresponding first and second remote station optical receivers. At the remote station, a third laser beam is emitted by a remote station low power laser source for carrying data from the remote station to the base station and the beam is received at the base station optical receiver. The wavelengths of the first, second and the third laser beams are distinct.
US09755738B2	Crosstalk suppression in a multi-photodetector optical channel monitor An optical device includes an optical port array having first and second optical inputs for receiving optical beams and a first plurality of optical outputs associated with switching functionality and a second plurality of optical outputs associated with channel monitoring functionality. A dispersion element receives the optical beam from an input and spatially separates the beam into a plurality of wavelength components. The focusing element focuses the wavelength components. The optical path conversion system receives the plurality of wavelength components and selectively directs each one to a prescribed one of the optical ports. The photodetectors are each associated with one of the optical outputs in the second plurality of optical outputs and receive a wavelength component therefrom. The controller causes the optical path conversion system to simultaneously direct each of the wavelength components to a different one of the optical outputs of the second plurality of optical outputs.
US09755737B2	Multi-layer network resiliency systems and methods Systems and methods providing resiliency between a server layer and a client layer include determining a minimal spanning tree in the client layer; determining a Steiner tree in the server layer based on vertices associated with the minimal spanning tree in the client layer; and determining one or more resiliency paths in the client layer based on the minimal spanning tree and the Steiner tree, wherein the one or more resiliency paths are added to the minimal spanning tree in the client layer based on potential failures in the Steiner tree. For example, the server layer is an optical layer and the client layer is a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) layer.
US09755735B2	Optical end monitoring apparatus and method of operating the apparatus An optical end monitoring apparatus in an optical communication network includes an optical transmitting unit, an optical receiving unit, and a decision unit. The optical transmitting unit generates first and second optical signals with different wavelengths and transmits the first and second optical signals to the optical end terminal over an optical cable. The optical receiving unit receives reflection signals corresponding to the respective first and second optical signals. The decision unit determines whether the optical end terminal is connected to the optical cable using a difference between magnitudes of the respective received reflection signals.
US09755732B1	Systems and methods for satellite communications using a space tolerant protocol A method is provided that can include designating as a control node, a first communication node of a plurality of communication nodes associated with a satellite communications system. The method can include, designating as a listening node, a second communication node of the plurality of communication nodes. The listening node is responsive to instructions provided by the control node. The method includes receiving, at a tuning module, one or more input tuning factors, wherein the one or more input tuning factors can include at least a resource burden factor. Responsive to receiving the one or more input tuning factors, the method includes adjusting by the tuning module, one or more tunable output parameters. The method includes sending, from the control node to the listening node, instructions comprising one or more of the tunable output parameters, and executing the instructions at the listening node.
US09755724B2	Electronic apparatus for determining relay apparatus and method thereof The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus for determining a relay apparatus and a method thereof. An electronic apparatus according to various embodiments includes a communication unit that transmits and receives data. The electronic apparatus also includes a controller that determines whether disconnection between an electronic apparatus operating as a relay apparatus and at least one client apparatus is expected. The control also, if the disconnection is expected, informs the at least one client apparatus of the expected disconnection. The control also determines whether a status of the electronic apparatus satisfies a condition for a change to a new relay apparatus and informs the at least one client apparatus that the electronic apparatus no longer operates as the relay apparatus if the condition for a change to a new relay apparatus is satisfied. The control also determines any one of the at least one client apparatus as the new relay apparatus. The control also informs the at least one client apparatus of the determination on the new relay apparatus. Further, other embodiments are possible.
US09755719B2	Method for configuring codebook in multi-antenna wireless communication system and device therefor The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting a signal by a transmitting end in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas including a plurality of vertical domain antennas and a plurality of horizontal domain antennas. Specifically, the present invention comprises the steps of: pre-coding a signal for multiple antennas, using a specific pre-coding matrix selected on the basis of a first codebook for the plurality of vertical domain antennas and a second codebook for the plurality of horizontal domain antennas; and transmitting the pre-coded signal to a receiving end, wherein the specific pre-coding matrix is defined by using a Kronecker product of a first pre-coding matrix selected from the first codebook according to at least one first selection vector and a second pre-coding matrix selected from the second codebook according to at least one second selection vector.
US09755716B2	Codebook construction A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises having 1-layer, 2-layer, 3-layer, and 4-layer codebooks for 4 transmit antenna (4TX) transmission, each codebook including a plurality of precoding matrices, (precoding data with one of the plurality of precoding matrices, and transmitting, to a user equipment, the precoded data, wherein each of the 1-layer and 2-layer codebooks comprises a first codebook and a second codebook, and wherein each precoding matrix in the first codebook comprises a first index and a second index. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed.
US09755715B2	Distortion-aware multiple input multiple output precoding Precoding parameters used for precoding of a source are selected to minimize distortion that would otherwise be induced in the source during encoding and transmission of the source over a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channel.
US09755708B2	High data rate uplink transmission A user equipment device has a control information decoder configured to receive and decode an uplink scheduling grant. A transmit module is configured to receive a rank indicator (RI) extracted by the decoder and adapt a transmission rank in response to the RI. At least two transmit antennas are configured to transmit according to the RI.
US09755695B2	Input/output signal processing circuit and input/output signal processing method The present invention discloses an input/output (I/O) signal processing circuit and processing method. The I/O signal processing circuit includes a level adjustable I/O circuit and an adjustment circuit. The I/O signal processing circuit includes an output driver and/or an input comparator. The output driver transmits an output signal via a signal transmission line according to an output data. The output driver has an adjustable high operation voltage level and an adjustable low operation voltage level, which determine a high level and a low level of the output signal, respectively. The input comparator receives an input signal via the signal transmission line and comparing the input signal with an adjustable reference voltage, so as to generate an input data. The adjustment circuit generates an adjustment signal according to voltage drop related information, to correspondingly adjust the adjustable high and low operation voltage level and/or the adjustable reference voltage.
US09755694B2	Wall-embedded power line communication device A “wall-embedded” power-line-communication (PLC) enabled device connecting with the home network backbone through the PLC technology is disclosed. The wall-embedded PLC enabled device includes at least a system module, a front panel, and a holder. With flexible, modular architecture, the device can easily optionally integrate required functions, such as sensors, actuators and so on, or additional heterogeneous communication interfaces, to extend the service coverage, to support the specific smart-house services, and other uses.
US09755691B2	Method and system for mitigating the effects of a transmitted blocker and distortions therefrom in a radio receiver A radio receiver processing path has a mixer with active interference/blocker cancellation to reduce the intensity of leaked and undesired signals by using a replica of the transmitted signal, emulating the phase and attenuation through the leakage path and subtracting the emulated signal within the mixer. Intermodulation distortions are predicted through the use of nonlinear modeling in the digital baseband between the baseband transmitter and baseband receiver and subsequently subtracted from the received signal. The nonlinear basis functions are combined to model the composite nonlinearity in the signal path based on digital baseband transmitted data. The modeled nonlinearity is subtracted from the received signal, and the result is observed and used to guide the nonlinear modeling parameters using self-contained control loops.
US09755682B2	Cases having selectable RF shielding Device cases with selectable RF shielding are described. Some implementations can include a case for an electronic device. The case can include selectable radio frequency (RF) shielding, such as a Faraday cage. The shielding can be selectable via a mechanically activated switch (e.g., slidable or rotatable), or an electrically activated switch.
US09755681B2	Radio-frequency front-end and receiver The present invention relates to various embodiments of a Radio-Frequency (RF) front-end for use in a receiver, a diversity receiver and a method for operating a diversity receiver.
US09755678B2	Low noise transconductance amplifiers Provided herein are apparatus and methods for transconductance amplifiers, such as split cascode low-noise transconductance amplifiers (LNTAs). In an embodiment, an LNTA includes split current paths each coupled to a different mixer by way of a different alternating current (AC) coupling capacitor. The split current paths of the LNTA can be enabled during different modes of operation, such as when the input to the LNTA is within different frequency bands.
US09755674B2	Method for encryption obfuscation A system and method provide a signal carrier; an overt persistent digital channel containing a host signal and carried on the signal carrier; a non-persistent channel encoded onto the host signal by timing variation of the host signal, the non-persistent channel including access data for accessing hidden information in the host signal.
US09755656B2	Digital protective relay The present disclosure relates to provide an active erroneous sample elimination device or erroneous sample elimination method for a relay capable of correctly implementing erroneous sample elimination processing even during a plurality of electrical disturbances mixed with an electrical quantity detection signal, and a digital protective relay according to the present disclosure may include a converter that samples an analog signal and converts the sampled signal to a digital signal; and a processor that searches an inflection point at which an electrical variation quantity varies from an increase to a decrease or from a decrease to an increase based on the digital signal, and compares an electrical variation quantity prior to and subsequent to the inflection point with a preset electrical quantity.
US09755649B1	Protection against tamper using in-rush current A method for protecting an integrated circuit device against security violations includes monitoring a component of the integrated circuit device for security violations. A security violation of the component of the integrated circuit device is then identified. The component of the integrated circuit device is then internally destroyed in response to the identified security violation by providing current to the component beyond a tolerable limit of the component.
US09755645B1	Current source logic gate A current source logic gate with depletion mode field effect transistor (“FET”) transistors and resistors may include a current source, a current steering switch input stage, and a resistor divider level shifting output stage. The current source may include a transistor and a current source resistor. The current steering switch input stage may include a transistor to steer current to set an output stage bias point depending on an input logic signal state. The resistor divider level shifting output stage may include a first resistor and a second resistor to set the output stage point and produce valid output logic signal states. The transistor of the current steering switch input stage may function as a switch to provide at least two operating points.
US09755641B1	High speed high voltage switching circuit A control circuit for an electronic switch includes a first power switch receiving a common input signal and a first voltage input and a second power switch receiving the common input signal and a second voltage input. The first and second power switches switchably connect the first voltage input and the second voltage input, respectively, to a common output in response to the common input signal. The second voltage input is opposite in polarity to the first voltage input, and the first power switch and the second power switch are configured to asynchronously connect the first voltage input and the second voltage input, respectively, to the common output in response to the common input signal, the electronic switch being switched according to the first voltage input or the second voltage input being connected to the common output.
US09755638B2	Output discharge techniques for load switches An output discharge circuit for a load switch may include a capacitor coupled between a power rail of the output discharge circuit and a ground lead, and a diode coupled between a power input of the output discharge circuit and the power rail. The output discharge circuit may charge the capacitor via a current path formed by the diode while power is being supplied to the load switch. When the power supply to the output discharge circuit is turned off, the diode may prevent the capacitor from discharging through the current path, and the stored charge on the capacitor may be used to power the output discharge switch for a period of time after the power supply has been turned off. In this way, the output discharge circuit may continue to discharge the output of the load switch even when power is no longer being supplied to the load switch.
US09755637B2	Drive circuit for semiconductor element and semiconductor device A primary circuit produces a first on-pulse and a first off-pulse synchronized with a rising edge and a falling edge of an input signal, respectively. A level shift circuit produces a second on-pulse and a second off-pulse formed by shifting the voltage level of the first on-pulse the first off-pulse, respectively. A secondary circuit outputs an output pulse rising and falling in synchronization with the second on-pulse and the second off-pulse, and holds the output when both of the pulses are high. When the reference potential rises, the pulse corresponding to the state of the input signal during the rise of the second potential in the first on-pulse and the first off-pulse is regenerated and one of the second on-pulse and the second off-pulse is thereby made high after the end of the rise of the second reference potential to retransmit the state of the input signal.
US09755634B2	Low current start up including power switch The present document relates to a start-up circuit comprising a power switch wherein a circuit charges a supply voltage capacitor. The capacitor provides a supply voltage to a power switch; the power switch forms a switched power converter with a power converter network. The circuit comprises a source and gate interface for coupling the circuit to the power switch; a capacitor interface couples the circuit to the supply voltage capacitor; a start-up path couples the gate interface to the capacitor interface; wherein the startup path provides a voltage at the gate interface which is at or above a threshold voltage of the power switch; and a charging path couples the source interface to the capacitor interface; wherein the charging path provides a charging current to the capacitor interface, when the power switch is in on-state.
US09755631B2	Apparatus and method for reducing di/dt during power wake-up Described is an apparatus which comprises: a power gate transistor coupled to an ungated power supply node and a gated power supply node, the power gate transistor having a gate terminal; a resistive device; a first transistor coupled in series with the resistive device together forming a pair, the first transistor also coupled to the gate terminal of the power gate transistor; a capacitive device coupled in parallel to the series coupled pair of the first transistor and resistive device; and a second transistor coupled to the gate terminal of the power gate transistor and the ungated power supply node.
US09755626B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device having delay circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit device may include a first circuit, a second circuit, and a delay circuit. The first circuit may include an output node. The second circuit may include an output node. The delay circuit may be coupled between the output node of the first circuit and the output node of the second circuit to selectively delay an output signal from the first circuit and an output signal from the second circuit.
US09755622B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit, latch circuit, and flip-flop circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit connected between a first node and a second node includes first to fourth transistors. When a signal at the second node changes, the fourth transistor is turned on, and a potential obtained by shifting a third potential by the threshold of the fourth transistor is applied to the gate of the second transistor.
US09755620B1	Device for detecting and correcting timing error and method for designing typical-case timing using the same A device for detecting and correcting timing error and a method for designing typical-case timing using the same is disclosed. The device includes two datapath units connected with first and second multiplexers and two transition detectors. Each datapath unit receives and calculates an input signal to generate a speculation value and a correct value. Then, the speculation value and the correct value are transmitted to the first and second multiplexers and the transition detectors determine whether transition of the outputted speculation value is unstable. If yes, the datapath unit outputting the speculation value is stalled for a period of time for correction, whereby the second multiplexer outputs the correct value. If no, the datapath unit outputs the speculation value, then the present invention uses the undertaken timing as a setting specification to complete a circuit design. The present invention can improve system efficiency and power of the whole circuit.
US09755610B2	Transformer of the balanced-unbalanced type A transformer of the balanced-unbalanced type includes a primary inductive circuit and a secondary inductive circuit housed inside an additional inductive winding connected in parallel to the terminals of the secondary circuit and inductively coupled with the primary circuit and the secondary circuit.
US09755608B1	Generating squeezed states of the microwave field left-handed transmission line resonator A technique relates to a superconducting microwave device. A left-handed resonator include at least one unit cell. A non-linear dispersive medium is connected to the left-handed resonator, such that one end of the left-handed resonator is connected to the non-linear dispersive medium and an opposite end of the left-handed resonator is connected to a port. The left-handed resonator and the non-linear dispersive medium are configured to output a quantum signal in a squeezed state.
US09755600B1	Linear gain code interleaved automatic gain control circuit An example automatic gain control (AGC) circuit includes a base current-gain circuit having a programmable source degeneration resistance responsive to first bits of an AGC code word. The AGC circuit further includes a programmable current-gain circuit, coupled between an input and an output of the base current-gain circuit, having a programmable current source responsive to second bits of the AGC code word. The AGC circuit further includes a bleeder circuit, coupled to the output of the base current-gain circuit, having a programmable current source responsive to logical complements of the second bits of the AGC code word. The AGC circuit further includes a load circuit coupled to the output of the base current-gain circuit.
US09755598B2	Method and apparatus for level control in blending an audio signal in an in-band on-channel radio system A method for processing a digital audio broadcast signal includes: separating an analog audio portion and a digital audio portion of the digital audio broadcast signal; determining the loudness of the analog audio portion and the digital audio portion over a first short time interval; using the loudness of the analog and digital audio portions to calculate a short term average gain; determining a long term average gain; converting one of the long term average gain or the short term average gain to dB; if an output has been blended to digital, adjusting a digital gain parameter by a preselected increment to produce a digital gain parameter; if an output has not been blended to digital, setting the digital gain parameter to the short term average gain; providing the digital gain parameter to an audio processor; and repeating the above steps using a second short time interval.
US09755595B1	Settling time reduction for low noise amplifier A device includes: a transistor having an input terminal configured to receive an input signal and to amplify the input signal; a bias current source configured to set a bias current of the input terminal of the transistor, the bias current source having a control input for receiving a control signal for selecting the bias current to have one of a plurality of selectable bias current levels; a bias resistance connected between the bias current source and the input terminal of the transistor; a bypass switch for selectively bypassing a first part of the bias resistance; and a control circuit for controlling the bypass switch to bypass the part of the bias resistance for a predefined time period in response to a change in the bias current level, and for controlling the bypass switch to stop bypassing the first part of the bias resistance after the predefined time period expires.
US09755593B2	Method for compensating a power amplification unit of a wireless RF module The present invention relates to a method for compensating a power amplification unit of a wireless RF module that includes a baseband unit, a RF transceiver unit, a power amplification unit and a control unit. The baseband unit is connected to the power amplification unit through the control unit and the RF transceiver unit. Based on the characteristic of the power amplification unit, the baseband unit provides a control signal to regulate the output signal characteristic of the power amplification unit, or provides a RF transceiver unit control signal to regulate the characteristics of the RF signal being transmitted by the RF transceiver unit to the power amplification unit, or to regulate the characteristics of the baseband signal being transmitted to the RF transceiver unit, enabling the characteristics of the output signal of the power amplification unit to meet the specifications of the related system.
US09755592B2	Power amplifier modules including tantalum nitride terminated through wafer via and related systems, devices, and methods One aspect of this disclosure is a power amplifier module that includes a power amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal and tantalum nitride terminated through wafer via. The power amplifier includes a heterojunction bipolar transistor and a p-type field effect transistor, in which a semiconductor portion of the p-type field effect transistor corresponds to a channel includes the same type of semiconductor material as a collector layer of the heterojunction bipolar transistor. A metal layer in the tantalum nitride terminated through wafer via is included in an electrical connection between the power amplifier on a front side of a substrate and a conductive layer on a back side of the substrate. Other embodiments of the module are provided along with related methods and components thereof.
US09755590B2	Circuits for low noise amplifiers Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are provided, the LNAs comprising: a common gate matching network; a capacitord; a resistord; a coild, wherein a side1 of coild is coupled to a side1 of capacitord, a side1 of resistord, and a V+ and a side2 of the coild is coupled to a side2 of capacitord, a side2 of resistord, and a network input; a capacitors; a resistors; a coils, wherein a side1 of coils is coupled to an LNA input, a side1 of capacitors, a side1 of resistors, and a network output and a side2 of coils is coupled to a side2 of the capacitors, a side2 of resistors, and ground; and an output coil that is magnetically coupled to coild and coils and having a side1 coupled to a first terminal of an LNA output and a side2 coupled to a second terminal of the LNA output.
US09755584B2	Amplifier According to one embodiment, an amplifier includes: a transistor; a ground circuit connected to a ground terminal of the transistor; a first capacitor connected between an output terminal of the transistor and the ground circuit; a first inductor connected to the output terminal of the transistor; a second capacitor connected between the first inductor and the ground circuit; a bias circuit connected between the first inductor and the ground circuit; a first circuit connected to the output terminal of the transistor, the first circuit including a second inductor and a third capacitor connected in series to the second inductor; a fourth capacitor connected between the first circuit and a load circuit; a fifth capacitor connected between an output terminal of the first circuit and the ground circuit; and a third inductor connected between a terminal on a load circuit side of the fourth capacitor and the ground circuit.
US09755583B2	Using fractional delay computations to improve intermodulation performance Enhancing the intermodulation performance of an RF power amplifier by determining a coarse time delay represented by an integer TI; determining a reference point for a transmitted signal waveform of the RF power amplifier; shifting the waveform by a set of offsets including a plurality of non-integer fractional steps; correlating the transmitted signal waveform with a feedback signal waveform to obtain a respective correlation value for each of corresponding fractional steps; obtaining an accurate fractional delay value by selecting a fractional step having a highest respective correlation value; applying the obtained correct fractional delay value to the transmitted signal waveform to provide a compensated transmitted signal waveform and combining the compensated transmitted signal waveform with the feedback signal waveform to reduce at least one intermodulation product of the RF power amplifier.
US09755580B2	Tunable logarithmic amplifier The disclosure concerns a tunable logarithmic detector amplifier (TLDA) system where dynamic tuning functionality is applied to resonant circuits used for feedback control as well as applying tuning to the amplifier. Control signals for the tuning function are generated from the baseband processor. The control of the amplifier tuning and resonator tuning can be performed from information derived from baseband where metrics such as SNR, SINR or CQI are used to optimize system performance. Bandwidth and sensitivity of the receiver are key specifications targeted for optimization using this technique. This technique can be implemented in designs where a wide bandwidth is required.
US09755571B2	Photovoltaic mounting system with chemical flashing Photovoltaic mounting systems having sealant injection system are provided herein. Such sealant injection systems provide improved directional control of sealant flow and improved sealing of roof penetrations during mounting with one or more fasteners. Such systems can include a bracket assembly having a removable sealant injection package. The sealant injection package includes a collapsible sealant injection reservoir and is adapted to provide directionally controlled release of sealant upon collapse. Such a system can further include sealant injection guides that direct flow of sealant during mounting and pads or caps that cover and enclose the injected sealant so as to ensure adequate sealing of any roof penetrations and maintain its integrity over time. Such systems further allow for sealant injection packages to be interchanged or replaced as needed and allow for ready removal or replacement of the bracket after mounting while maintaining the seal of any roof penetrations.
US09755568B2	System and method for detecting loss of input phase by sensing before power rectifier A system for detecting a decrease in or loss of an input phase to a motor. A power rectifier rectifies and combines three input voltages to produce an output voltage to power the motor. A PFC circuit manages the power flowing to the motor. A sensing circuit located between the power rectifier and the PFC senses a voltage level of the power rectifier's output voltage. Alternatively, a sensing rectifier is connected before the power rectifier, and the sensing circuit senses the voltage level of the sensing rectifier's output voltage. A microprocessor compares the sensed voltage level to a threshold voltage level which is indicative of the decrease in or loss of one of the three input voltages, and if the former drops below the latter, then the microprocessor sends a signal to either shut off the motor or cause the PFC circuit to reduce the power flowing to the motor.
US09755565B2	Motor drive device When a control device determines, based on a sampling number in one period of a target modulation factor waveform, that the sampling number is less than a predetermined value in a case where a two-phase modulation scheme is selected and the target rotation number increases, the control device switches a modulation scheme from the two-phase modulation scheme to a three-phase modulation scheme.
US09755564B2	Controller for motor generator An alternating current that is to be supplied to a motor generator is controlled by controlling an inverter using a target output of the motor generator and a result of detection of an angle-of-rotation sensor, and a voltage step-up is controlled in accordance with the target output of the motor generator. During operation of the motor generator, a stepped-up voltage obtained through the step-up converter is set to be higher (S13) when learning of the point of origin of the angle-of-rotation sensor has yet to be completed (S11), than when learning of the point of origin of the angle-of-rotation sensor has been completed. This eliminates malfunctions occurring in motor operation when learning of the point of origin of the angle-of-rotation sensor has yet to be completed.
US09755562B2	Power convertor, controller, and method for changing carrier frequency A power convertor includes a power conversion unit, a PWM controller, and a frequency changer. The power conversion unit includes a plurality of switching elements. The PWM controller is configured to perform PWM control of the plurality of switching elements. The frequency changer is configured to change a carrier frequency in the PWM control. The frequency changer includes an outputter, an integrator, and a frequency determiner. The outputter is configured to output a control value in accordance with a control deviation with respect to a control target. The integrator is configured to integrate the control value output from the outputter. The frequency determiner is configured to determine the carrier frequency based on an integral value obtained by the integrator.
US09755559B2	Vibrator motor speed determination in a mobile communications device One embodiment relates to testing and verifying vibrator motor operation during manufacturing of a device and during in-the-field use. The test relies on an integrated motion sensor or other mechanical measurement circuitry, such as, for example, an accelerometer. In one embodiment, a speed determination for a vibrator motor performance during initial manufacture of the device. Subsequently, when vibration is detected during the in-the-field use, the vibration may be sampled using the integrated mechanical measurement circuitry. Once sampled, a speed may be determined based on a resonance of the sampled signal. Over time, the various speed determinations for the vibrator motor may be analyzed to determine an overall health of the vibrator motor. A threshold for detecting when the overall health of the vibration motor over time has degraded may be predetermined. A notification of a degradation of vibrator motor performance is sent to either a manufacturer or user of the mobile communications device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09755557B2	Field-winding rotating electrical machine A field current limiting section includes a field current limitation instructing section for, when a field current limitation determining section determines that a determination value has reached a predetermined determination threshold value, generating a field current limiting instruction to a field current control section so as to limit field current to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined permissible value during a predetermined field current limitation time Tlim. A field current limitation releasing section outputs a field current limitation releasing instruction to the field current limiting section so as to release limitation of the field current during a predetermined field current limitation release time TC. When having received the field current limitation releasing instruction from the field current limitation releasing section, the field current limiting section releases limitation of the field current during the predetermined field current limitation release time.
US09755549B2	Three level neutral point clamped converter with improved voltage balancing An NPC converter is controlled by estimating current flow during the short vector periods of a space vector modulation drive signal. The current estimation is used to close a first order inner current regulator loop that steers current to either the upper capacitor or the lower capacitor of a DC link. An outer voltage regulator measures the voltage imbalance across the capacitors and drives the inner current loop. By managing the associated duty cycle of each vector a bias current is formed that balances the capacitor voltages.
US09755543B2	Power supply device and semiconductor device Switching loss is reduced by decreasing the switching frequency of a PFC power supply in light load condition, whereas the switching frequency is maintained high in heavy load operation. Efficiency in light load operation is thus improved without enlarging a boosting inductor and an output smoothing capacitor. A capacitor is provided in a triangular wave generating circuit and the triangular wave generating circuit outputs a triangular wave by charging and discharging this capacitor. Charging and discharging of the capacitor are controlled by an oscillation frequency control circuit output current which is input to a comparator.
US09755542B2	Direct-current power transmission power conversion device and direct-current power transmission power conversion method In a power converter which performs power conversion between plural-phase AC and DC, variation in voltage of the DC capacitor in each converter cell is detected, and when the variation exceeds a predetermined value, a DC voltage command value as a control target value in a DC voltage control unit which controls DC voltage between DC buses is corrected by being increased or decreased. Thus, when AC grid failure occurs, the capacitor voltage of each converter cell is maintained and the operation continuity is improved.
US09755534B2	High efficiency high frequency resonant power conversion A power converter comprises a switch network coupled to an input voltage, a power transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, wherein the primary winding is coupled to the switch network, and the secondary winding is coupled to a rectifier, wherein the rectifier is coupled to an output voltage, a primary resonant tank having a first resonant capacitor and a first resonant frequency, and coupled to the primary winding of the power transformer and the switch network, and a regulation circuit configured to control the output voltage of the power converter to be substantially proportional to the input voltage and the switch network to operate at a frequency substantially close to the first resonant frequency.
US09755533B2	Resonant inverter and resonant power source unit A resonant inverter is provided that includes a first switch and a second switch alternately turned on and off, a first inverter including the first switch and a first resonant circuit including a first coil and a first capacitor, and a second inverter including the second switch and a second resonant circuit including a second coil and a second capacitor. The first coil, the second coil, and a third capacitor constitute a third resonant circuit.
US09755529B2	Flyback power converter and controller and driver thereof The present invention provides a flyback power converter and a control circuit thereof. The flyback power converter includes a transformer, a power switch, a driver, a synchronous rectification (SR) switch, a controller, and a signal coupler circuit. The transformer has a primary winding and a secondary winding. The power switch controls the conduction time of the primary winding; and the SR switch controls the conduction time of the secondary winding. The controller controls the SR switch and generates an ON pulse signal and an OFF pulse signal in a normal operation mode. When an output voltage reaches a lower limit voltage, the flyback power converter operates in the normal operation mode. The driver generates a switching signal according to the ON pulse signal and the OFF pulse signal in the normal operation mode, to determine a start conduction time point and an end conduction time point of the primary winding.
US09755525B2	Power converter circuit and power limit control circuit thereof A power converter circuit includes a transformer for converting a primary side voltage to a secondary side voltage and generating an output current. A power limit control unit senses the secondary side voltage to obtain a waveform feature of the primary side voltage, and decides a target of the output current according to the waveform feature of the primary side voltage. When the primary side voltage drops to a threshold, the output current is reduced.
US09755521B2	Interleaved switching power supply and control method for the same A control circuit for an interleaved switching power supply having a plurality of parallel coupled power stage circuits, can include: a feedback circuit that receives an output voltage of the interleaved switching power supply, and generates an output voltage feedback signal; a ripple generator that receives a plurality of switching control signals, and generates an AC ripple signal having a frequency that is N times a switching frequency; an adder circuit that adds the output voltage feedback signal with the AC ripple signal, and generates a superposition signal; a comparison circuit that receives the superposition signal and a reference voltage, and generates a comparison signal; and a frequency divider circuit that divides the comparison signal into a plurality of turn on control signals configured to control turn on of a plurality of main power switches in the plurality of power stage circuits.
US09755516B2	Switched mode DCDC converter efficiency improvement by adaptive driver stage In a switched mode inductive DCDC converter having a first mode that conducts a first current path through an inductor and through a first switch, and a second mode that conducts a second current path through the inductor and through a second switch, a detecting component detects a parameter. The detecting component outputs a biasing signal extend the turn OFF time of one of the switches in order to decrease a voltage build up on the other switch.
US09755506B2	Efficient voltage conversion An apparatus for providing on-chip voltage-regulated power includes a switched capacitor voltage conversion circuit that receives an elevated power demand signal and operates at a base rate when the elevated power demand signal is not active and at an elevated rate when the elevated power demand signal is active. The switched capacitor voltage conversion circuit comprises an auxiliary set of transistors that are disabled, when the elevated power demand signal is not active and enabled, when the elevated power demand signal is active. The apparatus may also include a droop detection circuit that monitors a monitored power signal and activates the elevated power demand signal in response to the monitored power signal dropping below a selected voltage level. The monitored power signal may be a voltage input provided by an input power supply for the switched capacitor voltage conversion circuit. A corresponding method is also disclosed herein.
US09755500B2	Power feed device of inductive charging device A power feeding device of a non-contact charging device includes a power factor improvement circuit which converts an AC power supply to DC, and improves a power factor, a smoothing capacitor connected to an output end of the power factor improvement circuit, an inverter circuit which includes a plurality of switching elements, and generates an AC signal using a voltage of the smoothing capacitor as a power supply, a power feeding section which feeds power based on the AC signal to a power receiving device, and a control circuit which modulates at least one of a duty factor or an operation frequency of each of the switching elements of the inverter circuit in synchronization with the AC power supply.
US09755495B2	Magnetic reluctance coupling having two rotors A simplified magnetic reluctance coupling for coupling a first shaft to a second shaft, has a hollow cylindrical stator which has at least one magnet that is/are distributed around the circumference of the stator. The reluctance coupling also has a first rotor, which is supported in such a way that it can rotate within the stator, is connected to a first shaft in a rotationally fixed manner, and has a plurality of ferromagnetic first portions distributed around the circumference thereof and spatially separated from one another, as well as a second rotor, which is supported in such a way that it can rotate within the first rotor, is connected to the second shaft in a rotationally fixed manner, and has a plurality of ferromagnetic second portions distributed around the circumference thereof.
US09755483B2	Rotor for rotating electrical machine, and rotating electrical machine provided with said rotor Provided is a rotating electrical machine wherein it is possible to sufficiently cool an electronic device attached to a rotor by means of a liquid refrigerant. A rotor for a rotating electrical machine is provided with a shaft supported in a rotatable manner, a rotor core secured to the shaft, an electronic device disposed so as to rotate along with the shaft and the rotor core, a coil wound around the rotor core and connected to the electronic device, and a cooling structure for sequentially cooling the electronic device and the coil by means of a liquid refrigerant supplied from the shaft.
US09755477B2	Magnetic mounting with force compensation The aim of the invention is to better compensate for specifiable forces on a magnetic mounting. This is achieved by a magnetic mounting device with a first magnet device (10), which is designed in an annular manner and which has a central axis, for retaining a shaft on the central axis in a rotatable manner by means of magnetic forces. The magnetic mounting device additionally has a second magnet device (12), which is independent of the first magnet device (10), for compensating for a specifiable force acting on the shaft. In this manner, the magnetic mounting device can compensate for the gravitational force or forces based on imbalances.
US09755468B2	Electric motor/generator with multiple individually controlled turn-less structures Systems and methods for generating currents in a plurality of CTS that may be independently controlled by a microprocessor. In some cases, a DC power source (such as a battery) is connected to each inverter. In other cases, a rechargeable DC power source (such as a capacitor) is connected to each inverter. Multiple controllable, turn-less structures may be provided in a suitable configuration with a single, main control processor or alternatively, with both a main control processor and several intermediate level command modules, each intermediate level command module coupled to a respective one of the inverters to control currents through each conductor of the respective inverter.
US09755467B2	Open-type induction motor There is provided an open-type induction motor, and more particularly, to an open type induction motor in which a rotor has a structure allowing air to flow therein, thus enhancing cooling efficiency of the rotor and a stator. The open-type induction motor includes: a stator including an iron stator core having a radial duct hole and a stator coil wound around the iron stator core; and a rotor disposed in a hollow of the stator so as to be rotatable by magnetism generated by the stator coil, and including a rotational shaft, a plurality of iron rotor cores stacked in an axial direction of the rotational shaft and coupled to the rotational shaft, a rotor coil coupled to the plurality of iron rotor cores, and duct plates stacked between the plurality of iron rotor cores and outwardly discharging air present at the inner side of the iron rotor cores.
US09755463B2	Electric machine An electric machine comprise a first carrier having an array of electromagnetic elements and a second carrier having electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles, the second carrier being arranged to move relative to the first carrier. An airgap is provided between the first carrier and the second carrier. The electromagnetic elements of the first carrier include posts, with slots between the posts, one or more electric conductors in each slot, the posts of the first carrier having a post height in mm. The first carrier and the second carrier together define a size of the electric machine. The magnetic poles having a pole pitch in mm. The size of the motor, pole pitch and post height are selected to fall within a region in a space defined by size, pole pitch and post height that provides a benefit in terms of force or torque per weight per excitation level.
US09755461B2	Non-contact power feeding apparatus There are provided with: a secondary winding 20 to which an electric power is supplied in a non-contact manner from a primary winding 10 by an alternating-current power source; a first circuit section 21 connected in parallel to the secondary winding 20; and a second circuit section 22 connected in series to a parallel circuit of the secondary winding 20 and the first circuit section 21. An impedance of the first circuit section 21 is larger than an impedance of the second circuit section.
US09755456B1	Control circuit for wireless power A power control circuit for wirelessly powering a device is described. The circuit comprises a series of sub-circuits that condition and modify electrical power received from near-field resonant inductive coupling. In addition, the power control circuit consists of a reserve power source of at least one capacitor. A switching circuit consisting of an ideal diode OR-ing circuit is provided that receives and selects between the primary and secondary electrical power sources based on their measured voltages.
US09755454B1	Methods and apparatus for providing redundant power supply protection with power zones for electronic devices In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a set of power supply units where each power supply units from the set of power supply unit is associated with a power zone from a set of power zones. The apparatus can also includes a redundant power supply unit and a set of electronic devices where each electronic device from the set of electronic devices is associated with a power zone from the set of power zones. Additionally, each electronic device from the set of electronic devices is operatively coupled to a power supply unit from the set of power supply units for that power zone and is also operatively coupled to the redundant power supply unit.
US09755450B2	Charging method, charging device, and electronic device for the same A charging method includes a step of transmitting a start command to a charging device by an electronic device that pre-stores a charging authority therein when the electronic device determines the charging authority to be valid. The charging device is communicatively connected to the electronic device and includes an electrifying interface electrically connected to the electronic device. The start command causes the charging device to provide a power signal at the electrifying interface for charging the electronic device therethrough.
US09755448B2	LED luminaire with integrated battery backup An LED luminaire with an integrated battery backup is divided into a hidden infrastructure portion and a decorative body portion. The luminaire body has a main lighting deck with at least one LED mounted thereon and a decorative skirt extending from the main lighting deck. A diffuser panel is received over the main lighting deck. The hidden infrastructure portion includes a light fixture housing configured and arranged to be mounted within a building infrastructure, an emergency battery backup assembly received within the light fixture housing wall, and a housing fixture bracket secured within the light fixture housing to support the emergency backup assembly in the upper portion of the light fixture housing.
US09755446B2	Mobile charging table with hinged tabletop and selectively accessible battery compartment opening A mobile charging table and a method of use are configured for ease of mobility and ease of service. The table has a tabletop, a base, a battery powered charging hub, and a battery compartment. The tabletop may be connected to the base by a hinge arrangement permitting tabletop movement between its first and second positions. Movement of the tabletop to its second position exposes an opening of the battery compartment for servicing a battery that supplies power to the charging hub. In the flipped down position, the tabletop extends substantially horizontally to overlie the opening in the battery compartment and to allow user(s) to use the tabletop as a workspace.
US09755440B2	Charging control device and charging control method A charging control device includes a plurality of battery packs including a secondary battery therein, one or two or more power input units configured to input power, a power integration unit configured to integrate the power input by the one or two or more power input units to one power, and a main control unit configured to measure the quantity of power input to the power integration unit and determine the quantity of power supplied from the power integration unit to the battery packs based on the measured quantity of power so as to control simultaneous charging of the plurality of battery packs.
US09755432B2	Alternate arm converter An alternate arm converter includes at least one converter limb that defines first and second limb portions. Each limb portion includes at least one director switch connected in series with a chain-link converter between one of two DC terminals and an AC terminal of the converter. The chain-link converters are operable to generate a voltage waveform at the AC terminal, and the director switches are operable to switch the respective chain-link converters in and out of circuit between the respective DC terminal and the AC terminal. The converter also includes a controller configured to selectively control the switching of each director switch to form a current circulation path including each limb portion and the DC network. The controller, during formation of the current circulation path, forces an alternating current to flow through the current circulation path to transfer energy between the chain-link converters of the limb portions.
US09755428B2	Current limiter circuit system An apparatus comprising a steady state sensing circuit, a switching circuit, and a detection circuit. The steady state sensing circuit is connected to a first, a second and a third node. The first node is connected to a first device, the second node is connected to a second device, and the steady state sensing circuit causes a scaled current to flow at the third node. The scaled current is proportional to a voltage difference between the first and second node. The switching circuit limits an amount of current that flows between the first and second device. The detection circuit is connected to the third node and the switching circuit. The detection circuit monitors the scaled current at the third node and controls the switching circuit to limit the amount of the current that flows between the first and second device when the scaled current is greater than a desired level.
US09755426B2	Fault current limiter Described herein are fault current limiters including an input terminal for electrically connecting to a power source that provides a load current, and an output terminal for electrically connecting with a load circuit that draws the load current. The fault current limiters include a magnetically saturable core including at least one coil receiving limb disposed intermediate at least two return limbs, wherein the limbs longitudinally extend between at least two yokes, and wherein the at least two yokes and the at least two return limbs define at least a portion of one or more magnetic flux return paths for the at least one coil receiving limb. The fault current limiters further includes at least one AC coil disposed about the at least one coil receiving limb for carrying the load current between the input terminal and the output terminal. The fault current limiters also includes a magnetic biasing system for magnetically biasing the core such that, in response to one or more characteristics of the load current, the at least one AC coil moves from a low impedance state to a high impedance state.
US09755425B2	Power switch device Power switch devices having an overload limit are provided. The overload limit may be adjusted based on an inductance coupled with the power switch device.
US09755423B2	Overvoltage protection for a synchronous power rectifier A circuit is described that includes a rectifier configured to rectify a DC output from an AC input, a sensing unit configured to detect a voltage level of the DC output, and a control unit configured to control the rectifier based on the voltage level of the DC output. The control unit is configured to control the rectifier output by at least controlling the rectifier to rectify the DC output from the AC input if the voltage level of the DC output does not indicate an overvoltage condition at the circuit. In addition, the control unit is configured to control the rectifier based on the voltage level of the DC output by at least controlling the rectifier to shunt current from the AC input if the voltage level of the DC output does indicate the overvoltage condition.
US09755419B2	Systems and methods for detecting and determining sources of power disturbances in connection with effective remediation Apparatus and methods for selective protection of an electrical load from disturbances on an input power line. A power protection circuit includes a selectively variable inrush current limiting circuit and a switch for disconnecting the input power line from the load. A control circuit determines that the electrical load is in a first operational state, such as a standby mode or normal operation, or a second operational state, such as full operation at rated current. The power protection circuit provides variable inrush current limiting to the electrical load in response to a first category of disturbances when the electrical load is in the first operational state. The power protection circuit inhibits disconnecting the electrical load in response to a second category of disturbances when the electrical load is in the second operational state. Species of selectively variable current limiting circuits are also described.
US09755415B2	End termination for three-phase insulated conductors A fitting for coupling ends of cores of three insulated conductors includes an end termination placed over end portions of the three insulated conductors. The end termination includes three separate openings that pass through the end termination longitudinally. Each of the insulated conductors passes through one of the openings with end portions of the insulated conductors protruding from one side of the end termination. Exposed cores of the end portions of the insulated conductors protrude from the end termination. A cylinder is coupled to the side of the end termination from which the end portions of the insulated conductors protrude. An electrical bus is coupled to the exposed portion of the cores. Electrically insulating material fills the cylinder such that the cores are substantially enclosed in the electrically insulating material. An end cap is coupled to the cylinder to seal off the interior of the cylinder.
US09755402B2	Edge emitter semiconductor laser type of device with end segments for mirrors protection Semiconductor laser device with mirror protection includes transversally a structure with a double waveguide, consisting of an active waveguide and a separated or adjacent trapping waveguide, and longitudinally a main segment and end segments, the thickness of the upper cladding of the end segments being gradually decreased toward the mirrors. In the main segment, the field distribution is asymmetric, preponderantly located in the lower cladding. In the end segments, the field distribution gradually further shifts toward the lower cladding. Along the end segments, the fundamental mode confinement factor Γ is gradually and substantially reduced. The reduction of the confinement factor Γ protects against degradation the projection of the active region on the exit mirrors, the laser element most sensitive to degradation.
US09755400B2	Circuit for producing a laser diode control signal A circuit is provided for generating a modulated laser diode control signal from a laser diode control signal, the circuit having an RF modulator for modulating the laser diode control signal with a modulation signal; the circuit having adjustment means for adjusting the RF modulator; the adjustment means being configured or configurable as a function of at least one laser diode operating information item. Furthermore, a laser diode receptacle is described as having such a circuit, a projector, particularly an image projector having such a laser diode receptacle, an image projector having such a laser diode receptacle and a laser diode, as well as a method for adjusting an RF modulator of such a circuit and a method for producing such a laser diode receptacle.
US09755396B1	EUV LPP source with improved dose control by combining pulse modulation and pulse control mode A method and apparatus for control of a dose of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation generated by a laser produced plasma (LPP) EUV light source that combines pulse control mode and pulse modulation. The EUV energy created by each pulse is measured and total EUV energy created by the fired pulses determined, a desired energy for the next pulse is determined based upon whether the total EUV energy is greater or less than a desired average EUV energy times the number of pulses. If the desired pulse energy for the next droplet is within the range of one or more pulse modulation actuators, the pulse is modulated; otherwise, the pulse is fired to miss the droplet. This provides greater control of the accumulated dose as well as uniformity of the EUV energy over time, greater ability to compensate for pulses that generate EUV energy that is higher or lower than nominal expected values, and ability to provide an average EUV energy per pulse that is less than the nominal minimum EUV energy per pulse of the system.
US09755384B2	Bridging module having a housing with a latching device for latching to a mounting rail The present invention relates to a bridging module (300) for electrically connecting a functional component of a component assembly system, said bridging module comprising a module housing (337) which has an interlocking device (301) for detachably and interlockingly holding the bridging module (300) on a profiled mounting rail.
US09755377B2	Connector A connector includes an outer connection element and an inner connection element. One of the outer connection element and inner connection element includes a plurality of fingers extending at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the connector.
US09755368B2	Flippable electrical connector A plug connector includes a connector body defining a front mating cavity with a first inner side and a second inner side opposite to the first inner side, and a rear cable supporting platform with a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first inner side and a plurality of terminals. The terminals include two rows of contacting sections arranged along the first and second inner sides of the mating cavity and soldering legs extending to the platform to be welded to a cable. The soldering legs are arranged in one row and exposing to the first surface of the platform while the second surface of the platform has no soldering legs to be welded to the cable.
US09755365B2	Modular socket An electrical connector including a holding device, that has a recess and at least one conductive pad disposed therein, and a socket that has at least one conductive pin configured to engage at least one of the conductive pads when the socket is inserted into the holding device and a port configured to receive an interface of an external device. The shape of the socket is complementary to the shape of the recess. A first retaining element included in the holding device and a second retaining element included in the socket are together releasably maintain interconnection between the holding device and the socket.
US09755363B2	Connector assembly A male housing of a connector assembly has moving plate (30) with a pair of resilient locking pieces (34) that can be curved resiliently and deformed to incline a projecting direction of the resilient locking pieces (34). A female housing (50) causes the moving plate (30) to interfere with initial position holding projections (18) and pulls the moving plate (30) back to an initial position by locking with locking portions (55) to the resilient locking pieces (34). The initial position holding projections (18) are paired and spaced apart in the same direction as a separating direction of the resilient locking pieces (34) and are arranged at positions different from the resilient locking pieces (34) in the separating direction of the resilient locking pieces (34).
US09755360B1	Connector guide assembly with a protruding member Examples herein disclose a connector guide assembly. The connector guide assembly includes a connector frame and multiple protruding members. The connector frame includes multiple side walls. The multiple protruding members are coupled to the side walls of the connector frame such that the multiple protruding members extend substantially perpendicular to the connector frame and are located on opposing side walls of the connectors frame.
US09755355B2	Connection module for a portable electronic device A connection module for a portable electronic device is disclosed. The connection module includes a mating structure that is configured to attach to a mating structure interface of the portable electronic device. The mating structure includes a fixed alignment projection disposed on a first end of the mating structure, a retractable alignment projection disposed on a second end of the mating structure, and a retractable electrical connector disposed between the fixed alignment projection and the retractable alignment projection. The retractable electrical connector and the retractable alignment projection are fixed relative to each other and movable relative to the fixed alignment projection.
US09755351B1	Connector assembly comprising electrical feedthrough with stress decoupling A feedthrough for a connector system includes an insulator comprising a passage therethrough, a conductor pin located in the passage, and a pressure sleeve located between the insulator and the conductor pin. The pressure sleeve is coupled to the insulator and to the conductor pin, and the conductor pin is movable relative to the insulator under thermal or pressure expansion or contraction.
US09755349B1	Connector assembly with blocking member A connector assembly and system assembling an electric connector assembly are provided. The connector assembly includes a connector housing having a plurality of terminal cavities greater than the predetermined number of electric connections so as to define an empty terminal cavity and a filled terminal cavity. The connector housing further includes a blocking member. The blocking member is the blocking member disposed within each of the empty terminal cavities. Accordingly, the blocking member closes off each of the empty terminal cavities so as to prevent fluid transfer between the terminal positioning assurance member and the connector positioning assurance member so as to prevent fluid and debris transfer between the terminal positioning assurance member and the connector positioning assurance member, or stated in another way, prevents fluid and debris transfer between the first open end and the second open end.
US09755343B2	Plated member and plated terminal for connector It is aimed to provide a plated member and a plated terminal for connector, to which a large current can be applied and which have both a low friction coefficient and high heat resistance, at low cost and provide a method for producing such a plated member and a method for producing such a plated terminal for connector. A silver-tin alloy layer for coating a surface of a base material made of copper or copper alloy and a silver coating layer for coating the silver-tin alloy layer and to be exposed on an outermost surface are simultaneously formed by heating to obtain a plated member after tin and silver plating layers are alternately laminated on the surface of the base material with the outermost surface formed by the silver plating layer.
US09755336B2	Electrical connector and method of manufacturing the same An electrical connector comprising a first terminal assembly and a second terminal assembly which are formed on a same metal material. The first and the second terminal assemblies respectively comprise a plurality of first and second conductive terminals. The plurality of first and second conductive terminals respectively connect with each other by a first contact carrier and a second contact carrier which are connected by a third contact carrier formed on the metal material. Bending the third contact carrier at 180 degrees such that the first and the second terminal assemblies are arranged in parallel and up-and-down to each other. Providing an insulating material injecting molding on the first and the second terminal assemblies to form an insulating housing. Cutting and dislodging the first, the second and the third contact carriers to forming the electrical connector. The electrical connector is simple in manufacture and low in production cost.
US09755335B2	Low profile electrical interconnect with fusion bonded contact retention and solder wick reduction An electrical interconnect and a method of making the same. A plurality of contact members are located in through holes in a substrate so distal portions of the contact members extend above a first surface of the substrate in a cantilevered configuration and proximal portions of the contact members are accessible along a second surface of the substrate. A flowable polymeric material located on the second surface of the substrate is fusion bonded to the proximal portions of the contact members so the flowable polymeric material substantially seals the through holes in the substrate. An insulator housing is bonded to the first surface of the substrate with the distal portions of the contact members located in through holes in an insulator housing, so the distal portions are accessible from a second surface of the insulator housing.
US09755332B1	Terminal blocks An example terminal block may include a frame that is to attach to a power supply casing. The frame may be formed from an electrical insulator, and may include a base, exterior walls connected to the base, and a number of interior walls that separate an interior region of the frame into multiple compartments. The example terminal block may include a cover that may be formed from an electrical insulator and may be connected to the frame such that the cover may transition between an open position and a closed position. Each of the compartments may electrically isolate bus bars from one another, where the bus bars extend from within the power supply casing into the frame. The base may include a nut holder in each of the compartments, each of the nut holders having a cavity formed therein that is shaped so as to hold a nut captive.
US09755323B2	Antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus includes N (2=
US09755305B2	Active antenna adapted for impedance matching and band switching using a shared component An active antenna and associated circuit topology is adapted to provide active impedance matching and band switching of the antenna using a shared tunable component. Using a shared tunable component, such as a tunable capacitor or other tunable component, the antenna provides a low cost and effective active antenna solution. In certain embodiments, one or more passive components can be further utilized to design band switching of the antenna from a first frequency to a second desired frequency.
US09755301B2	Circularly polarized compact helical antenna The present invention relates to a circularly polarized directional helical antenna that is capable of being used in RFID devices and more particularly in RFID readers. The antenna is intended to transmit or receive signals in a predetermined frequency band, λ being the wavelength associated with the minimum frequency of the predetermined frequency band. It includes a helicoidal radiating element made of conductive material extending along a longitudinal axis (A) and the axial length (H) of which is less than the wavelength λ, and a cavity made of conductive material having an open end and a closed end and having an axis of symmetry that coincides with the longitudinal axis of the radiating element, at least one lower portion of the radiating element being arranged inside the cavity so that its lower end is in contact with the closed end of the cavity.
US09755298B2	Antenna module and mobile terminal having the same Disclosed are an antenna module and a mobile terminal having the same. The antenna module including a ground plate; a metal plate spaced apart from the ground plate by a distance such that a surface of the ground plate faces a surface of the metal plate; and at least one feeding part and at least one ground part that couple the ground plate to the metal plate, wherein the at least one ground part may include a first ground part and a second ground part that are formed at two different positions along an edge of the ground plate, and wherein the first ground part and the second ground part may be spaced apart from the at least one feeding part.
US09755286B2	System and method for variable microwave phase shifter A phase shifter and a method of making a phase shifter are disclosed herein. The phase shifter may include a housing, a dielectric, an electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The housing includes first, second, third, and fourth conductive walls, each conductive wall being opposite one of the other walls. The dielectric is situated within the housing and defines a compartment within the housing. The electrode is aligned with the compartment. The liquid crystal layer fills the space of the compartment. A bias line is coupled to the electrode. The phase shifter may be integrated with as substrate integrated waveguide.
US09755277B2	Electrolyte, electrochemical device, secondary cell, and module Provided is an electrolyte solution for secondary batteries that are less likely to generate gas and excellent in high-temperature storage characteristics; an electrochemical device using the electrolyte solution; and a module using the electrochemical device. The electrolyte solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt, the solvent containing a fluorine-containing acyclic carbonate represented by the formula (1) and a fluorine-containing succinic anhydride represented by the formula (2). The electrolyte solution contains not less than 0.001 mass % but less than 90 vol % of the fluorine-containing acyclic carbonate, and the electrolyte solution contains 0.001 to 20 mass % of the fluorine-containing succinic anhydride.
US09755275B2	Rechargeable lithium battery A rechargeable lithium battery includes a negative electrode including a negative active material including a Si-based material, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte including a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and an additive including lithium triflate and fluoroethylene carbonate. Embodiments of the rechargeable lithium battery have excellent irreversible characteristics and cycle-life characteristics.
US09755271B2	Cell and preparation method thereof The present disclosure provides a cell and a preparation method thereof. The cell comprises a positive electrode plate (1); a negative electrode plate (2) and a composite solid electrolyte membrane (3) positioned between the positive electrode plate (1) and the negative electrode plate (2). The composite solid electrolyte membrane (3) comprises inorganic solid electrolyte layers (31) and structure supporting layers (32) which are alternately laminated along a laminating direction (D), and has abutted surfaces (S1) respectively abutting against the positive electrode plate (1) and the negative electrode plate (2), an angle between the laminating direction (D) and the abutted surface (S1) is defined as α, and 0°≦α<90°. The composite solid electrolyte membrane not only plays an advantage of a high lithium ionic conductivity of the inorganic solid electrolyte, but also has an excellent mechanical processing property, thereby significantly improving electrochemical performance and safety performance of the cell.
US09755249B2	Solid oxide fuel cell stack A solid oxide fuel cell stack includes a support, a plurality of power generation elements connected in series, each including a fuel electrode, a solid electrolyte, and an air electrode stacked in that order on the support, and an interconnector electrically connecting an air electrode in one of the two adjacent power generation elements to a fuel electrode in the other power generation element. A solid electrolyte for one of the power generation elements is provided on the downside of the interconnector provided on the downside of the air electrode in the one power generation element so that the solid electrolyte is joined to the interconnector, and a solid electrolyte for the other power generation element is provided on the upper side of the interconnector provided on the upper side of the fuel electrode for the other power generation element so that the solid electrolyte is joined to the interconnector.
US09755247B2	Highly sinter-stable metal nanoparticles supported on mesoporous graphitic particles and their use The present invention refers to highly sinter-stable metal nanoparticles supported on mesoporous graphitic spheres, the so obtained metal-loaded mesoporous graphitic particles, processes for their preparation and the use thereof as catalysts, in particular for high temperature reactions in reducing atmosphere and cathode side oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in PEM fuel cells.
US09755245B2	Catalyst material for fuel cell A method of forming a catalyst material includes coating agglomerates of catalyst support particles with an ionomer material. After coating the agglomerates of catalyst support particles, a catalyst metal precursor is deposited by chemical infiltration onto peripheral surfaces of the agglomerates of catalyst support particles. The catalyst metal precursor is then chemically reduced to form catalyst metal on the peripheral surfaces of the agglomerates of catalyst support particles.
US09755240B2	Electrode for sodium molten-salt battery and sodium molten-salt battery Provided is an electrode for a sodium molten-salt battery in which degradation of the electrode can be suppressed even when charging and discharging are repeated, and which has excellent cycle characteristics. The electrode for a sodium molten-salt battery includes a current collector and an electrode mixture adhering to a surface of the current collector, in which the electrode mixture includes an electrode active material and a binder containing a polymer, and the polymer does not contain a fluorine atom. The polymer can include, for example, at least one selected from the group consisting of polyamide resins and polyimide resins or at least one selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins, rubber-like polymers, and cellulose derivatives.
US09755234B2	Method for preparing lithium iron phosphate nanopowder The present invention relates to a method for preparing a lithium iron phosphate nanopowder, including the steps of (a) preparing a mixture solution by adding a lithium precursor, an iron precursor and a phosphorus precursor in a triethanolamine solvent, and (b) putting the mixture solution into a reactor and heating to prepare the lithium iron phosphate nanopowder under pressure conditions of 10 bar to 100 bar, and a lithium iron phosphate nanopowder prepared by the method. When compared to a common hydrothermal synthesis method and a supercritical hydrothermal synthesis method, a reaction may be performed under a relatively lower pressure. When compared to a common glycothermal synthesis method, a lithium iron phosphate nanopowder having effectively controlled particle size and particle size distribution may be easily prepared.
US09755228B2	Lithium metal electrode A lithium metal electrode is disclosed in this invention. The lithium metal electrode includes a lithium metal layer, a plurality of gate layers and a current collector layer having a plurality of holes. The gate layers are disposed corresponding to the holes. The lithium metal layer and the gate layers are disposed correspondingly. The lithium metal layer is insulated via the gate layers and/or the current collector layer before formation. While the gate layers are alloyed with the lithium ions from the media such as the electrolyte, the alloyed gate layers may provide the ionic access for the lithium metal layer so that the lithium metal layer may feedback the lithium ions back to the chemical system of the electricity supply system. Also, at the same time, the potentials of all the gate layers may be kept equally to the potential of the lithium metal layer.
US09755227B2	Method for forming a reduced graphene oxide/metal sulfide composite and its use as an anode for batteries The invention relates to anode materials suitable for use in batteries, such as lithium ion batteries and sodium ion batteries. In particular, the anode material is a reduced graphene oxide/metal sulfide composite. Methods for forming the reduced graphene oxide/metal sulfide composite are also disclosed.
US09755226B2	Nickel-hydrogen storage battery and battery pack There is provided a nickel-metal hydride storage battery with suppression of rise in internal pressure, allowing suppression of alkaline electrolyte leakage even when two or more of the batteries are used. The battery includes: positive and negative electrodes; a separator interposed therebetween; and an alkaline electrolyte. The negative electrode includes: a material mixture layer including hydrogen storage alloy powder capable of electrochemically absorbing and releasing hydrogen; and a water-repellent layer including a first polymer including tetrafluoroethylene as monomer units, formed on the material mixture layer. The separator includes: a primary layer having a non-woven fabric structure of fibers; and a composite layer formed on the primary layer and being in contact with the water-repellent layer. The composite layer includes: fibers in continuity with the non-woven fabric structure; and a second polymer including tetrafluoroethylene as monomer units. The composite layer has a water contact angle of 10 to 80°.
US09755225B2	Process for silicon nanowire-graphene hybrid mat Disclosed is a process for producing graphene-silicon nanowire hybrid material, comprising: (A) preparing a catalyst metal-coated mixture mass, which includes mixing graphene sheets with micron or sub-micron scaled silicon particles to form a mixture and depositing a nano-scaled catalytic metal onto surfaces of the graphene sheets and/or silicon particles; and (B) exposing the catalyst metal-coated mixture mass to a high temperature environment (preferably from 300° C. to 2,000° C., more preferably from 400° C. to 1,500° C., and most preferably from 500° C. to 1,200° C.) for a period of time sufficient to enable a catalytic metal-catalyzed growth of multiple silicon nanowires using the silicon particles as a feed material to form the graphene-silicon nanowire hybrid material composition. An optional etching or separating procedure may be conducted to remove catalytic metal or graphene from the Si nanowires.
US09755224B2	Cathodic electrode of a lithium-based accumulator A cathodic electrode of a lithium-based accumulator includes a basic structure, which is formed from fibers, flakes or grains. For this purpose, the fibers, flakes or grains are interspersed with channels, cavities or open pores.
US09755222B2	Alkali metal oxyanion electrode material having a carbon deposited by pyrolysis and process for making same An alkali metal oxyanion cathode material comprising particles, where the particles carry, on at least a portion of the particle surface, carbon deposit by pyrolysis is described. The particles have the general formula A:M:M′:XO4 where the average valency of M is +2 or greater; A is at least one alkali metal selected from Li, Na and K; M is at least Fe and/or Mn; and M′ is a metal of valency of 2+ or more.
US09755220B2	Method for manufacturing cable-type secondary battery The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cable-type secondary battery comprising an electrode that extends longitudinally in a parallel arrangement and that includes a current collector having a horizontal cross section of a predetermined shape and an active material layer formed on the current collector, and the electrode is formed by putting an electrode slurry including an active material, a polymer binder, and a solvent into an extruder, by extrusion-coating the electrode slurry on the current collector while continuously providing the current collector to the extruder, and by drying the current collector coated with the electrode slurry to form an active material layer.
US09755216B2	Secondary battery and secondary battery module including the same A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a battery case, and a cap assembly. The electrode assembly may include a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator. The battery case may accommodate the electrode assembly, which may be inserted into the battery case through an opening provided on one side of the battery case. The cap assembly may include a cap plate coupled to the side of the battery case including the opening and sealing up the battery case, and first and second terminals spaced on the cap plate. The first and second terminals may each include first and second terminal plates including protrusions that protrude away from the electrode assembly, and first and second terminal connection members on the first and second terminal plates and including grooves that can be combined with the corresponding protrusions.
US09755213B2	Cathode including insulation layer on cathode tab and secondary battery including the cathode Provided is a cathode including a cathode current collector, a cathode tab protruding from the cathode current collector, and an insulation layer coated with an insulating material on the cathode tab, and a secondary battery including the cathode. Since the cathode of the present invention includes an insulation layer on a cathode tab, the present invention may prevent an internal short circuit which may occur due to cell deformation or sharp edges of electrodes, which are formed during cutting of the electrodes in a preparation process of the battery, when the electrodes are stacked, or may prevent a physical short circuit between the cathode and the anode due to shrinkage of a separator in a high-temperature atmosphere. In a case where the cathode is used in a lithium secondary battery, safety and reliability in battery performance may be significantly improved.
US09755208B2	Non-aqueous-secondary-battery separator and non-aqueous secondary battery Provided is a non-aqueous-secondary-battery separator including: a microporous membrane; and an adhesive porous layer which is provided on one or both surfaces of the microporous membrane and includes a fibrillar polyvinylidene fluoride resin, in which an average hole diameter acquired from the specific surface area of the microporous membrane is greater than 90 nm and equal to or smaller than 250 nm, peeling strength between the microporous membrane and the adhesive porous layer is equal to or greater than 0.10 N/cm, and a fibrillar diameter acquired from the specific surface area of the adhesive porous layer is from 50 nm to 70 nm.
US09755206B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having separators with base material and heat-resistant layer on coiling outer peripheral side Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 which, in cases where separators 70 each having a heat-resistant layer 74 on only one face thereof are used, has an excellent thermal stability and thus a higher safety and reliability when the battery 10 reaches a high temperature. Such a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 includes a positive electrode 30 in which a positive electrode active material layer 34 is provided on both faces of a positive electrode current collector 32, a negative electrode 50 in which a negative electrode active material layer 54 is provided on both faces of a negative electrode current collector 52, at least two separators 70 each having a heat-resistant layer 74 on one face of a base material 72, and an electrolyte. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery has an electrode assembly 20 in which the positive electrode 30 and the negative electrode 50 are stacked on top of one another with the separators 70 interposed therebetween. The at least two separators 70 are disposed in such a way that, for each separator, the heat-resistant layer 74 is positioned on the same side with respect to the base material 72 in the stacking direction.
US09755185B2	OLED device and manufacture thereof The invention describes a method of manufacturing an OLED device (1). This method comprises the steps of providing an electrically conductive carrier substrate (3) with a first carrier surface (3a) and a second carrier surface (3b), assembling at least the first carrier surface (3a) a patterned layer of insulating material (5) over an integral area, the layer of insulating material (5) being patterned by a plurality of holes (7) such that an electric access to the first carrier surface (3a) is possible from an upper surface (10) of the layer of insulating material (5) facing away from the first carrier surface (3a), assembling a patterned conductive coating (8, 9) on the insulating material (5) at its upper surface (10) such that the conductive coating (8, 9) enters the holes (7) and covers the insulating material (5) over an integral area, whereby the conductive coating (9) is patterned such that a number of discrete first electrode areas (11) are formed in the conductive coating (9), applying an organic light-emitting layer (13) above at least one first electrode area (11), applying a second electrode layer (15) above the organic light emitting layer (13). The invention also describes a semi-finished product (21) in such process and an OLED device (1) manufactured in such process.
US09755180B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device (10) includes a substrate (100), an organic EL element (102), a buffer film (210), and a sealing film (220). The organic EL element (102) is formed over the substrate (100). The sealing film (220) is located over the substrate (100) and over the organic EL element (102), and seals the organic EL element (102). In addition, the buffer film (210) is located between the organic EL element (102) and the sealing film (220), and comes into close contact with the sealing film (220). The sealing film (220) includes at least one layer formed of, for example, an oxide.
US09755179B2	Conductor and method of manufacturing the same A conductor includes a plurality of metal nanostructures having a circular cross-sectional shape, where each of the metal nanostructure is surrounded by an organic material having a thickness of less than or equal to about 0.5 nm. A method of manufacturing a conductor includes preparing a metal nanostructure having a polygonal cross-sectional shape, and providing a metal nanostructure having a circular cross-sectional shape by supplying light to the metal nanostructure having a polygonal cross-sectional shape.
US09755176B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the first electrode, a first organic light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a second organic light-emitting layer disposed between the first organic light-emitting layer and the second electrode, a first charge generation layer (CGL) disposed between the first organic light-emitting layer and the second organic light-emitting layer, a second CGL disposed between the first CGL and the second organic light-emitting layer, and a first buffer layer disposed between the first CGL and the second CGL and including fullerene.
US09755175B2	OLED display panel, method for manufacturing the same and display apparatus Disclosed is an OLED display panel, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display apparatus. The OLED display panel comprises a substrate and a light emitting structure including a plurality of sets of light emitting units sequentially arranged on the substrate side by side, each set of light emitting units including a first light emitting unit, a second light emitting unit and a third light emitting unit. In each set of light emitting units, at least two of the first, second and third light emitting units are located in different layers. The OLED display panel and the display apparatus can reduce signal attenuation and crosstalk between different signals.
US09755173B2	Optoelectronic component, method for producing an optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component is provided. The optoelectronic component includes an electromagnetic radiation source including an optically active region designed for emitting a first electromagnetic radiation, and a converter structure, which includes at least one converter material and is arranged in the beam path of the first electromagnetic radiation. The at least one converter material is designed to convert at least one portion of the first electromagnetic radiation into at least one second electromagnetic radiation. The at least one second electromagnetic radiation has at least one different wavelength than the at least one portion of the first electromagnetic radiation. The converter structure is formed in a structured fashion in such a way that the converter structure has a predefined region, such that the at least one second electromagnetic radiation is emittable only from the predefined region. The predefined region has a smaller area than the optically active region.
US09755163B2	Synthesis of four coordinated palladium complexes and their applications in light emitting devices thereof Synthesis of four coordinated palladium complexes and their applications in light emitting devices thereof.
US09755161B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device is disclosed. The organic light emitting display device comprises an anode, an organic layer over the anode, and a cathode over the organic layer. The organic layer may include a heterocyclic compound. Alternatively, the organic layer may include a spirobisfluorene compound with hole transfer properties and a material with electron transfer properties.
US09755152B2	Compound having substituted anthracene ring structure and pyridoindole ring structure, and organic electroluminescent device There is provided an organic compound having excellent characteristics, including excellent electron-injecting/transporting performance, hole blocking ability, and high stability in the thin-film state, for use as material of an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high durability. There is also provided a high-efficient and high-durable organic electroluminescent device using the compound. The compound is represented by general formula (1) having a substituted anthracene ring structure and a pyridoindole ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and the compound is used as a constituent material of at least one organic layer.
US09755146B2	Asymmetric correlated electron switch operation Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to correlated electron switches that are capable of asymmetric set or reset operations.
US09755145B2	Memory arrays having confined phase change material structures laterally surrounded with silicon nitride Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. Heater structures are formed over an array of electrical nodes, and phase change material is formed across the heater structures. The phase change material is patterned into a plurality of confined structures, with the confined structures being in one-to-one correspondence with the heater structures and being spaced from one another by one or more insulative materials that entirely laterally surround each of the confined structures. Some embodiments include memory arrays having heater structures over an array of electrical nodes. Confined phase change material structures are over the heater structures and in one-to-one correspondence with the heater structures. The confined phase change material structures are spaced from one another by one or more insulative materials that entirely laterally surround each of the confined phase change material structures.
US09755139B2	Piezoeletric wet etch process with reduced resist lifting and controlled undercut A microelectronic device containing a piezoelectric thin film element is formed by oxidizing a top surface of a piezoelectric layer with an oxygen plasma, and subsequently forming an etch mask containing photoresist on the oxidized top surface. The etch mask is conditioned with an oven bake followed by a UV bake. The piezoelectric layer is etched using a three step process: a first step includes a wet etch of an aqueous solution of about 5% NH4F, about 1.2% HF, and about 18% HCl, maintaining a ratio of the HCl to the HF of about 15.0, which removes a majority of the piezoelectric layer. A second step includes an agitated rinse. A third step includes a short etch in the aqueous solution of NH4F, HF, and HCl.
US09755134B2	Piezoelectric device In a piezoelectric device, an identification pattern provided on a main face of a piezoelectric body is covered with an electrode, so as to inhibit the identification pattern from generating particles, while the identification pattern makes the polarity of the piezoelectric device discernible by the appearance thereof.
US09755132B2	Thermoelectric generation unit and thermoelectric generation system A thermoelectric generation unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of thermoelectric generation tubes. Each tube has a flow path defined by its inner peripheral surface, and generates an electromotive force in an axial direction based on a temperature difference between its inner peripheral surface and outer peripheral surface. The thermoelectric generation unit includes a container housing the tubes inside, and a plurality of electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection for the tubes. The container includes a shell surrounding the tubes and a pair of plates being fixed to the shell and having a plurality of openings, with channels being formed so as to house the electrically conductive members and interconnect at least two of the openings. The respective ends of the tubes are inserted in the openings of the plates. The tubes are connected electrically in series by the electrically conductive members housed in the channels.
US09755128B2	Method of producing thermoelectric material A process for manufacturing a nanocomposite thermoelectric material having a plurality of nanoparticle inclusions. The process includes determining a material composition to be investigated for the nanocomposite thermoelectric material, the material composition including a conductive bulk material and a nanoparticle material. In addition, a range of surface roughness values for the insulating nanoparticle material that can be obtained using current state of the art manufacturing techniques is determined. Thereafter, a plurality of Seebeck coefficients, electrical resistivity values, thermal conductivity values and figure of merit values as a function of the range of nanoparticle material surface roughness values is calculated. Based on these calculated values, a nanocomposite thermoelectric material composition or ranges of compositions is/are selected and manufactured.
US09755127B2	Semiconductor light emitting device and method for manufacturing same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor layer including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, a first surface, and a second surface; a p-side electrode; an n-side electrode; a first p-side pillar; a first n-side pillar; a first insulating layer; a fluorescer layer; a second insulating layer; a p-side interconnect; and an n-side interconnect. The second insulating layer is provided as one body in at least a portion of an outer side of a side surface of the first insulating layer and at least a portion of an outer side of a side surface of the fluorescer layer.
US09755120B2	LED device having a dome lens A light emitting device comprises an LED die, a dome lens encapsulating the LED die, the dome lens having a first outer curved surface, and a photopolymerizable composition disposed on the dome lens. The photopolymerizable composition forms a meniscus lens defined by a second outer curved surface and an inner curved surface, the inner curved surface being in contact with only a portion of the first outer curved surface. The dome lens and the meniscus lens in combination form an elongated dome lens.
US09755117B2	Phosphor-enhanced lighting device, retrofit light bulb and light tube with reduced color appearance A phosphor-enhanced lighting device 100, a retrofit light bulb, a light tube and a luminaire are provided. The phosphor-enhanced lighting 100 device comprises a light source 116, a light exit window 102, a first light conversion element 112 and a second light conversion element 110. The light source 116 emits through its light emitting surface 118 source light 114 of a pre-defined color spectrum. The light exit window 102 emits light into an ambient of the phosphor-enhanced lighting device 100. The first light conversion element 112 comprises an inorganic luminescent material which absorbs a part of the source light 114 and converts a part of the absorbed light to light of a first color 104. The second light conversion element 110 comprises a first organic luminescent material which absorbs a part of the source light 114 and/or absorbs apart of the light 104 of the first color. The first organic luminescent material converts a part of the absorbed light to light of the second color 108. The second light conversion element 110 is optically arranged in between the light exit window 102 and the light emitting surface 118 of the light source 116. The first light conversion element 112 is optically arranged in between the second light conversion element 110 and the light emitting surface 118 of the light source 116. A gap 111 is present between the first light conversion element 112 and the second light conversion element 110.
US09755115B2	Light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same By using a light emitting device including an insulating substrate and a light emitting unit formed on the insulating substrate, the light emitting unit including: a plurality of linear wiring patterns disposed on the insulating substrate in parallel with one another, a plurality of light emitting elements that are mounted between the wiring patterns while being electrically connected to the wiring patterns, and a sealing member for sealing the light emitting elements, as well as a method for manufacturing thereof, it becomes possible to provide a light emitting device that achieves sufficient electrical insulation and has simple manufacturing processes so that it can be manufactured at a low cost, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US09755114B2	Method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic components and optoelectronic component The invention relates to a method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic components, comprising the following steps: —providing an auxiliary support wafer (1) having contact structures (4), wherein the auxiliary support wafer comprises glass, sapphire, or a semiconductor material, —applying a plurality of radiation-emitting semiconductor bodies (5) to the contact structures (4), —encapsulating an least the contact structures (4) with a potting mass (10), and —removing the auxiliary support wafer (1). The invention further relates to an optoelectronic component.
US09755108B2	Light emitting device and method for manufacturing light emitting device A light emitting device includes: a semiconductor light emitting element having a sapphire substrate and a semiconductor layer; a mounting board; and a light transmission member, wherein: the sapphire substrate is bonded to the light transmission member by an adhesive material; the semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on the mounting board in the form of a flip-chip; and a roughened peripheral edge part is formed in the sapphire substrate in the mounting board side.
US09755100B2	Reducing dark current in germanium photodiodes by electrical over-stress Methods and systems for reducing dark current in a photodiode include heating a photodiode above room temperature. A reverse bias voltage is applied to the heated photodiode to reduce a dark current generated by the photodiode.
US09755092B2	Optical device including two-dimensional material and method of manufacturing the same An optical device including a two-dimensional material and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The optical device may include a barrier stack formed on a bottom channel layer, a top channel layer formed on the barrier stack, a drain electrode connected to the bottom channel layer, a source electrode formed on a substrate. The barrier stack may include two or more barrier layers, and one or more channel units at least partially interposing between the barrier layers. Channel units connected to the drain electrode and channel units connected to the source electrode may be formed, in an alternating sequence, between barrier layers included in the barrier stack. The barrier layers may each have a thickness which is less than a distance which may be traveled by electrons and holes generated by photo absorption prior to recombination. As a result, the optical device may provide improved photo separation efficiency.
US09755087B2	Silicon photonics integration method and structure Approaches for silicon photonics integration are provided. A method includes: forming at least one encapsulating layer over and around a photodetector; thermally crystallizing the photodetector material after the forming the at least one encapsulating layer; and after the thermally crystallizing the photodetector material, forming a conformal sealing layer on the at least one encapsulating layer and over at least one device. The conformal sealing layer is configured to seal a crack in the at least one encapsulating layer. The photodetector and the at least one device are on a same substrate. The at least one device includes a complementary metal oxide semiconductor device or a passive photonics device.
US09755086B2	Semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof In a semiconductor device including a split gate type MONOS memory, and a trench capacitor element having an upper electrode partially embedded in trenches formed in the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, merged therein, the flatness of the top surface of the upper electrode embedded in the trench is improved. The polysilicon film formed over the semiconductor substrate to form a control gate electrode forming a memory cell of the MONOS memory is embedded in the trenches formed in the main surface of the semiconductor substrate in a capacitor element formation region, thereby to form the upper electrode including the polysilicon film in the trenches.
US09755083B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same Electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device including the oxide semiconductor are improved. Furthermore, a highly reliable transistor with small variation in electrical characteristics is manufactured. An oxynitride insulating film functioning as a base insulating film and a transistor in contact with the oxynitride insulating film are provided. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film in contact with the oxynitride insulating film functioning as a base insulating film. The total amount of gas having a mass-to-charge ratio of 30 released from the oxynitride insulating film by heat treatment and double of the amount of a gas having a mass-to-charge ratio of 32 released from the oxynitride insulating film by heat treatment is greater than or equal to 5×1015/cm2 and less than or equal to 5×1016/cm2, or greater than or equal to 5×1015/cm2 and less than or equal to 3×1016/cm2.
US09755082B2	Semiconductor device including oxide semiconductor with an insulating film including galliium and oxygen One object is to provide a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor with improved electrical characteristics. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating film including an element of Group 13 and oxygen; an oxide semiconductor film partly in contact with the first insulating film; a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film; a gate electrode overlapping with the oxide semiconductor film; and a second insulating film partly in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, between the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode. Further, the first insulating film including an element of Group 13 and oxygen includes a region where an amount of oxygen is greater than that in a stoichiometric composition ratio.
US09755081B2	Semiconductor device A structure is employed in which a first protective insulating layer; an oxide semiconductor layer over the first protective insulating layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode that are electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer that is over the source electrode and the drain electrode and overlaps with the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate electrode that overlaps with the oxide semiconductor layer with the gate insulating layer provided therebetween; and a second protective insulating layer that covers the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode are included. Furthermore, the first protective insulating layer and the second protective insulating layer each include an aluminum oxide film that includes an oxygen-excess region, and are in contact with each other in a region where the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode are not provided.
US09755078B2	Structure and method for multi-threshold voltage adjusted silicon germanium alloy devices with same silicon germanium content A semiconductor structure includes a first fin structure having a first strain located on a surface of a first insulator layer portion. The first fin structure includes a first doped silicon germanium alloy fin portion having a first germanium content and a silicon germanium alloy fin portion having a third germanium content. A second fin structure having a second strain is located on a surface of a second insulator layer portion. The second fin structure includes a second doped silicon germanium alloy fin portion having a second germanium content and a silicon germanium alloy fin portion having the third germanium content, wherein the first germanium content differs from the second germanium content and the third germanium content is greater than the first and second germanium contents, and wherein the first strain differs from the second strain.
US09755069B2	Semiconductor device There is provided a semiconductor device having LDMOS transistors embedded in a semiconductor substrate to boost source-drain breakdown voltage, with arrangements to prevent fluctuations of element characteristics caused by electric field concentration so that the reliability of the semiconductor device is improved. A trench is formed over the upper surface of a separation insulating film of each LDMOS transistor, the trench having a gate electrode partially embedded therein. This structure prevents electric field concentration in the semiconductor substrate near the source-side edge of the separation insulating film.
US09755063B1	RF SOI switches including low dielectric constant features between metal line structures An RF SOI switch includes patterned or self-aligned low-k features (i.e., low-k polymer structures or voids) in the PMD and/or subsequently formed inter-metal dielectric layers to reduce capacitive coupling. All portions of the dielectric layers through which metal contact/via structures pass are pre-designated as reserved regions, and formation of the low-k features is restricted to interstitial regions located between adjacent reserved regions. After the low-k features are formed, dielectric material is deposited into all reserved regions, and then the metal contact/via structures are formed according to standard practices through the dielectric material disposed in the reserved regions. The low-k features are formed by polymer material sandwiched between two passivation layers. Optional openings are formed through the upper passivation layer, and then the polymer material is asked out to generate void-type features. Optionally, polymer is spin-coated over the metal line structures, then etched back to form self-aligned low-k features.
US09755057B1	Method of fabricating a semiconductor device A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate is provided. A dummy gate stack is formed on the substrate. The dummy gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and an amorphous silicon dummy gate on the gate dielectric layer. The amorphous silicon dummy gate is transformed into a nano-crystalline silicon dummy gate. A spacer is formed on a sidewall of the nano-crystalline silicon dummy gate. A source/drain region is formed in the substrate on either side of the dummy gate stack.
US09755053B2	Semiconductor device having fin-shaped semiconductor layer An SGT production method includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate and forming a first insulating film; a second step of forming a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first dummy gate, and a first hard mask formed from a third insulating film; a third step of forming a second hard mask on a side wall of the first hard mask, and forming a second dummy gate; a fourth step of forming a sidewall and forming a second diffusion layer; a fifth step of depositing an interlayer insulating film, exposing upper portions of the second dummy gate and the first dummy gate, removing the second dummy gate and the first dummy gate, forming a first gate insulating film, and forming a gate electrode and a gate line; and a sixth step of forming a first contact and a second contact.
US09755049B2	Semiconductor devices including active patterns having different pitches and methods of fabricating the same Methods for fabricating semiconductor devices are provided including sequentially stacking hardmask layers, a first sacrificial layer, and a second sacrificial layer on a substrate, forming first mandrels on the first sacrificial layer by etching the second sacrificial layer, forming first spacers on side walls of the first mandrels, forming a photoresist pattern disposed outside a region from which the first mandrels have been removed, forming second and third mandrels by etching the first sacrificial layer using the first spacers and the photoresist pattern as respective etching masks, forming second and third spacers on side walls of the second and third mandrels, forming first and second active patterns respectively having first and second pitches by etching the hardmask layer and at least a portion of the substrate, and forming a device isolation layer so that upper portions of the first and second active patterns protrude therefrom.
US09755048B2	Patterned structure of a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof A patterned structure of a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first feature and a second feature. The first feature and the second feature are disposed on the substrate, and either of which includes a vertical segment and a horizontal segment. There is a distance between the vertical segment of the first feature and the vertical segment of the second feature, and the distance is less than the minimum exposure limits of an exposure apparatus.
US09755034B2	Semiconductor device having nanowire A semiconductor device is provided as follows. A first nanowire is disposed on a substrate. The first nanowire is extended in a first direction and spaced apart from the substrate. A gate electrode surrounds a periphery of the first nanowire. The gate electrode is extended in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A gate spacer is formed on a sidewall of the gate electrode. The gate spacer includes an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall facing each other. The inner sidewall of the gate spacer faces the sidewall of the gate electrode. An end portion of the first nanowire is protruded from the outer sidewall of the gate spacer. A source/drain epitaxial layer is disposed on at least one side of the gate electrode. The source/drain is connected to the protruded end portion of the first nanowire.
US09755028B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes operations below. First, an epitaxial layer is formed on a substrate. Then, a trench is formed in the epitaxial layer. Then, a first dielectric layer and a shield layer are formed in the trench, in which the shield layer is embedded within the first dielectric layer. Then, a spacer layer is formed in the trench and on the first dielectric layer. Finally, a second dielectric layer and a gate are formed in the trench and on the spacer layer, and a source is formed in the epitaxial layer surrounding the trench, in which the gate is embedded within the second dielectric layer, and the source surrounds the gate.
US09755026B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a sacrificial gate pattern on an active pattern, forming spacers on opposite sidewalls of the sacrificial gate pattern, forming an interlayer insulating layer on the active pattern and the spacers, removing the sacrificial gate pattern to form a gate trench that exposes a region of the active pattern, forming a gate dielectric layer on the region of the active pattern exposed by the gate trench, performing a first heat treatment at a pressure of less than 1 atm to remove impurities in the interlayer insulating layer, performing a second heat treatment on the gate dielectric layer at a temperature greater than a temperature of the first heat treatment, and forming a gate electrode in the gate trench.
US09755024B2	Functionalized ZnO or ZnO alloy films exhibiting high electron mobility Functionalized films are provided comprising a film of ZnO or ZnO alloy disposed over a supporting substrate and a layer of organic molecules comprising terminal carboxylic acid linkage groups, wherein the organic molecules are bound to a surface of the film of ZnO or ZnO alloy via the terminal carboxylic acid linkage groups. Thin film transistors comprising the functionalized films are also provided. The functionalized films may be formed using polycrystalline ZnO and saturated fatty acids, such as stearic acid.
US09755023B2	Photoelectrochemical cell including Ga(Sbx)N1-x semiconductor electrode The composition of matter comprising Ga(Sbx)N1−x where x=0.01 to 0.06 is characterized by a band gap between 2.4 and 1.7 eV. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of that composition. A photoelectric cell includes that semiconductor device.
US09755012B2	Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same In connection with a semiconductor device including a capacitor element there is provided a technique capable of improving the reliability of the capacitor element. A capacitor element is formed in an element isolation region formed over a semiconductor substrate. The capacitor element includes a lower electrode and an upper electrode formed over the lower electrode through a capacitor insulating film. Basically, the lower electrode and the upper electrode are formed from polysilicon films and a cobalt silicide film formed over the surfaces of the polysilicon films. End portions of the cobalt silicide film formed over the upper electrode are spaced apart a distance from end portions of the upper electrode. Besides, end portions of the cobalt silicide film formed over the lower electrode are spaced apart a distance from boundaries between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
US09754999B1	Vertical thin film transistors with surround gates A method is provided that includes forming a transistor by forming a gate disposed in a first direction above a substrate, the gate including a first bridge portion and a second bridge portion, forming the first bridge portion extending in the first direction and disposed near a top of the gate, and forming the second bridge portion extending in the first direction and disposed near a bottom of the gate.
US09754998B2	Semiconductor device and operation method for same A semiconductor device, includes first, second, and third switching elements. The third switching element comprises first and second terminals. Each of the first and second switching elements comprise a unified ion conductor, a first electrode disposed to contact the ion conductor and supply metal ions thereto, and a second electrode disposed to contact the ion conductor and is less susceptible to ionization than the first electrode. The first electrodes of the first switching element and the second switching element are electrically connected. The first terminal of the third switching element is electrically connected to only the first electrodes which are electrically connected, or the second electrode of the first switching element and the second electrode of the second switching element are electrically connected. The first terminal of the third switching element is electrically connected to only the second electrodes which are electrically connected.
US09754996B2	Write current reduction in spin transfer torque memory devices The present disclosure relates to the fabrication of spin transfer torque memory elements for non-volatile microelectronic memory devices. The spin transfer torque memory element may include a magnetic tunneling junction connected with specifically sized and/or shaped fixed magnetic layer that can be positioned in a specific location adjacent a free magnetic layer. The shaped fixed magnetic layer may concentrate current in the free magnetic layer, which may result in a reduction in the critical current needed to switch a bit cell in the spin transfer torque memory element.
US09754993B2	Deep trench isolations and methods of forming the same A method includes performing an anisotropic etching on a semiconductor substrate to form a trench. The trench has vertical sidewalls and a rounded bottom connected to the vertical sidewalls. A damage removal step is performed to remove a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate, with the surface layer exposed to the trench. The rounded bottom of the trench is etched to form a slant straight bottom surface. The trench is filled to form a trench isolation region in the trench.
US09754990B2	Semiconductor device, manufacturing method thereof, solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes bonding a first semiconductor wafer including a first substrate and a first insulating layer formed to contact one surface of the first substrate, and a second semiconductor wafer including a second substrate and a second insulating layer, forming a third insulating layer, performing etching so that the second insulating layer remains on a second wiring layer, forming a first connection hole, forming an insulating film on the first connection hole, performing etching of the second insulating layer and the insulating film, forming a second connection hole, and forming a first via formed in inner portions of the connection holes and connected to the second wiring layer, wherein a diameter of the first connection hole formed on the other surface of the first substrate is greater than a diameter of the first connection hole formed on the third insulating layer.
US09754987B2	Image sensors and methods of forming the same An image sensor includes a substrate including a light-receiving region and a light-shielding region, a device isolation pattern in the substrate of the light-receiving region to define active pixels, and a device isolation region in the substrate of the light-shielding region to define reference pixels. An isolation technique of the device isolation pattern is different from that of the device isolation region.
US09754984B2	Image-sensor structures An image-sensor structure is provided. The image-sensor structure includes a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion units formed in the substrate, a plurality of separated color filters formed above the substrate and the photoelectric conversion units, a first light shielding layer surrounding the separated color filters, and a first conductive polymer element blended with a low-refractive-index component filled between the individual separated color filters and between the all separated color filters and the first light shielding layer, wherein the first conductive polymer element is electrically connected to a grounding pad.
US09754979B2	Display device, thin film transistor, array substrate and manufacturing method thereof The embodiments of the invention provide a display device, a thin film transistor, an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method comprises: step A, forming patterns of a source electrode, a drain electrode, a data line and a pixel electrode; step B, forming an active layer and agate insulating layer in order, and forming a via hole in the gate insulating layer for connecting the data line and an external circuit; and step C, forming patterns of a gate electrode, a gate line and a common electrode line, or forming a pattern of a gate electrode, a gate line and a common electrode.
US09754969B2	Dual-material mandrel for epitaxial crystal growth on silicon In one example, a method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes etching a layer of silicon to form a plurality of fins and growing layers of a semiconductor material directly on sidewalls of the plurality of fins, wherein the semiconductor material and surfaces of the sidewalls have different crystalline properties.
US09754962B2	Three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes interlayer dielectrics stacked and spaced apart from each other, a channel layer passing through the interlayer dielectrics, line pattern regions each surrounding a sidewall of the channel layer to be disposed between the interlayer dielectrics, a barrier pattern formed along a surface of each of the line pattern regions and the sidewall of the channel layer, a reaction preventing pattern formed on the barrier pattern along a surface of a first region of each of the line pattern regions, the first region being adjacent to the channel layer, a protection pattern filled in the first region on the reaction preventing pattern, and a first metal layer filled in a second region of each of the line pattern regions.
US09754958B2	Three-dimensional memory devices having a shaped epitaxial channel portion and method of making thereof An alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. A dielectric collar structure can be formed prior to formation of an epitaxial channel portion, and can be employed to protect the epitaxial channel portion during replacement of the sacrificial material layers with electrically conductive layers. Exposure of the epitaxial channel portion to an etchant during removal of the sacrificial material layers is avoided through use of the dielectric collar structure. Additionally or alternatively, facets on the top surface of the epitaxial channel portion can be reduced or eliminated by forming the epitaxial channel portion to a height that exceeds a target height, and by recessing a top portion of the epitaxial channel portion. The recess etch can remove protruding portions of the epitaxial channel portion at a greater removal rate than a non-protruding portion.
US09754954B2	Non-volatile memory device According to one embodiment, a non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of electrodes, at least one semiconductor layer, conductive layers, and first and second insulating films. The electrodes are arranged side by side in a first direction. The semiconductor layer extends into the electrodes in the first direction. The conductive layers are provided between each electrode and the semiconductor layer and separated from each other in the first direction. The first insulating film contacts the conductive layers, and extends in the first direction along the semiconductor layer between the conductive layers and the semiconductor layer. The second insulating film is provided between the first insulating film and the semiconductor layer. The first insulating film includes a first portion located between the conductive layers and the second insulating film, and a second portion located between the interlayer insulating film and the second insulating film.
US09754952B2	Floating gate memory cells in vertical memory Floating gate memory cells in vertical memory. A control gate is formed between a first tier of dielectric material and a second tier of dielectric material. A floating gate is formed between the first tier of dielectric material and the second tier of dielectric material, wherein the floating gate includes a protrusion extending towards the control gate. A charge blocking structure is formed between the floating gate and the control gate, wherein at least a portion of the charge blocking structure wraps around the protrusion.
US09754944B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes forming isolated contact filling portions and an etch control portion, the isolated contact filling portions filling contact holes defined in a support layer and are spaced apart from each other in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and the etch control layer surrounding the isolated contact filling portions, forming an interconnection layer on the isolated contact filling portions and the etch control portion, and forming interconnection patterns by photo-etching the interconnection layer, the isolated contact patterns, and the etch control portion, the interconnection patterns being relatively narrow in the first direction and relatively wide in the second direction.
US09754934B2	Method of operating an integrated switchable capacitive device A variable capacitor includes a fixed main capacitor electrode disposed in a first metal layer overlying a substrate, a second main capacitor electrode spaced from the fixed main capacitor electrode, and a movable capacitor electrode disposed in the first metal layer adjacent the fixed main capacitor electrode. The movable capacitor electrode can be caused to be in a first position ohmically electrically connected to the fixed main capacitor electrode such that the variable capacitor has a first capacitance value or in a second position spaced from the fixed main capacitor electrode such that the variable capacitor has a second capacitance value.
US09754933B2	Large area diode co-integrated with vertical field-effect-transistors An integrated circuit is provided having a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure including a vertical field-effect transistor; and a diode wherein the vertical field-effect transistor and the diode are co-integrated in the semiconductor structure.
US09754927B2	Method for fabricating multi-chip stack structure A multi-chip stack structure and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method for fabricating a multi-chip stack structure includes disposing a first chip group comprising a plurality of first chips on a chip carrier by using a step-like manner, disposing a second chip on the first chip on top of the first chip group, electrically connecting the first chip group and the second chip to the chip carrier through bonding wires, using film over wire (FOW) to stack a third chip on the first and the second chips with an insulative film provided therebetween, wherein the insulative film covers part of the ends of the bonding wires of the first chip on the top of the first group and at least part of the second chip, and electrically connecting the third chip to the chip carrier through bonding wires, thereby preventing directly disposing on a first chip a second chip having a planar size far smaller than that of the first chip as in the prior art that increases height of the entire structure and increases the wiring bonding difficultly.
US09754926B2	Light emitting diode (LED) arrays including direct die attach and related assemblies An electronic device may include a packaging substrate having a packaging substrate face with a plurality of electrically conductive pads on the packaging substrate face. A first light emitting diode die may bridge first and second ones of the electrically conductive pads. More particularly, the first light emitting diode die may include first anode and cathode contacts respectively coupled to the first and second electrically conductive pads using metallic bonds. Moreover, widths of the metallic bonds between the first anode contact and the first pad and between the first cathode contact and the second pad may be at least 60 percent of a width of the first light emitting diode die. A second light emitting diode die may bridge third and fourth ones of the electrically conductive pads. The second light emitting diode die may include second anode and cathode contacts respectively coupled to the third and fourth electrically conductive pads using metallic bonds. Widths of the metallic bonds between the second anode contact and the second pad and between the second cathode contact and the third pad may be at least 60 percent of a width of the first light emitting diode die.
US09754923B1	Power gate placement techniques in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs) (3DICs) Power gate placement techniques in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs) (3DICs) are disclosed. Exemplary aspects of the present disclosure contemplate consolidating power gating circuits or cells into a single tier within a 3DIC. Still further, the power gating circuits are consolidated in a tier closest to a voltage source. This closest tier may include a backside metal layer that allows a distance between the voltage source and the power gating circuits to be minimized. By minimizing the distance between the voltage source and the power gating circuits, power loss from routing elements therebetween is minimized. Further, by consolidating the power gating circuits in a single tier, routing distances between the power gating circuits and downstream elements may be minimized and power loss from those routing elements are minimized. Other advantages are likewise realized by placement of the power gating circuits according to exemplary aspects of the present disclosure.
US09754922B2	3D integration using Al—Ge eutectic bond interconnect Provided herein is an apparatus including a first CMOS wafer and a second CMOS wafer. A number of eutectic bonds connect the first CMOS wafer to the second CMOS wafer. The eutectic bond includes combinations where the eutectic bonding temperature is lower than the maximum temperature a CMOS circuit can withstand without being damaged during processing.
US09754921B2	Stacked semiconductor apparatus, system and method of fabrication A stacked semiconductor apparatus and method of fabricating same are disclosed. The apparatus includes upper and lower semiconductor devices having a similar pattern of connection elements. When stacked connected the resulting plurality of semiconductor devices includes a serial connection path traversing the stack, and may also include parallel connection paths, back-side mounted large components, and vertical thermal conduits.
US09754917B2	Method of forming wafer-level molded structure for package assembly A method of forming an integrated circuit structure is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes bonding top dies onto a bottom wafer and then molding a first molding material onto and in between the top dies and the bottom wafer. The bottom wafer, the top dies, and the first molding material are sawed to form molding units. Each of the molding units includes one of the top dies and a bottom die sawed from the bottom wafer. The molding units are bonded onto a package substrate and a second molding material is molding onto the one of the molding units and the package substrate. Thereafter, the package substrate and the second molding material are sawed to form package-molded units.
US09754914B1	Method to provide die attach stress relief using gold stud bumps An integrated circuit is attached to a substrate with a controlled stand-off height, by mounting a plurality of stud bumps of the controlled stand-off height to the substrate at predetermined locations, placing adhesive dots over the stud bumps, placing the integrated circuit on the substrate over the adhesive dots, and applying downward pressure on the integrated circuit until the integrated circuit is in mechanical contact with the stud bumps.
US09754911B2	IC structure with angled interconnect elements Aspects of the present disclosure include integrated circuit (IC) structures with angled interconnect elements. An IC structure according to the present disclosure can include: an IC chip interconnect surface including a radially inner region positioned within a radially outer region; and a plurality of conductive pillars extending outward from the radially inner region of the IC chip interconnect surface, relative to a radial centerline axis of the radially inner region of the IC chip interconnect surface, wherein the radially inner region of the IC chip interconnect surface is free of conductive pillars thereon.
US09754907B2	Tooling for coupling multiple electronic chips A method for use with multiple chips, each respectively having a bonding surface including electrical contacts and a surface on a side opposite the bonding surface involves bringing a hardenable material located on a body into contact with the multiple chips, hardening the hardenable material so as to constrain at least a portion of each of the multiple chips, moving the multiple chips from a first location to a second location, applying a force to the body such that the hardened, hardenable material will uniformly transfer a vertical force, applied to the body, to the chips so as to bring, under pressure, a bonding surface of each individual chip into contact with a bonding surface of an element to which the individual chips will be bonded, at the second location, without causing damage to the individual chips, element, or bonding surface.
US09754899B2	Semiconductor structure and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor structure and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor structure comprises: a layer element, one or more supporting elements disposed on a first surface of the layer element, and one or more anchoring elements disposed within the layer element and connected to the one or more supporting elements to couple the one or more supporting elements to the layer element to strengthen the layer element.
US09754895B1	Methods of forming semiconductor devices including determining misregistration between semiconductor levels and related apparatuses A method of determining a lateral misregistration between levels of a semiconductor structure comprises imaging at least one first alignment mark in a first level of the structure and at least one second alignment mark in a second level of the structure. A digital image of the first and second alignment marks is formed, each of which are defined by a set of points having an x-value and a y-value. The x-values and y-values of points defining the first alignment mark and points defining the second alignment mark are averaged to determine a center of the first alignment mark and a center of the second alignment mark. An x-coordinate and a y-coordinate of the center of the first alignment mark is subtracted from the respective x-coordinate and y-coordinate of the center of the second alignment mark to determine a lateral misregistration between the first level and the second level. Related methods of forming a semiconductor wafer, semiconductor assembles and metrology tools for use in implementing the methods are disclosed.
US09754891B2	Low-temperature diffusion doping of copper interconnects independent of seed layer composition Low-temperature techniques for doping of Cu interconnects based on interfacially-assisted thermal diffusion are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming doped copper interconnects includes the steps of: patterning at least one trench in a dielectric material; forming a barrier layer lining the trench; forming a metal liner on the barrier layer; depositing a seed layer on the metal liner; plating a Cu fill into the trench to form Cu interconnects; removing a portion of a Cu overburden to access an interface between the metal liner and the Cu fill; depositing a dopant layer; and diffusing a dopant(s) from the dopant layer along the interface to form a Cu interconnect doping layer between the metal liner and the Cu fill. Alternatively, the overburden and the barrier layer/metal liner can be completely removed, and the dopant layer deposited selectively on the Cu fill. An interconnect structure is also provided.
US09754890B2	Embedded multi-device bridge with through-bridge conductive via signal connection A microelectronic structure includes a substrate having a first surface and a cavity extending into the substrate from the substrate first surface, a first microelectronic device and a second microelectronic device attached to the substrate first surface, and a bridge disposed within the substrate cavity and attached to the first microelectronic device and to the second microelectronic device. The bridge includes a plurality conductive vias extending from a first surface to an opposing second surface of the bridge, wherein the conductive vias are electrically coupled to deliver electrical signals from the substrate to the first microelectronic device and the second microelectronic device. The bridge further creates at least one electrical signal connection between the first microelectronic device and the second microelectronic device.
US09754888B2	Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment includes a plurality of lower electrode films stacked separated from each other, an upper electrode film provided above the plurality of lower electrode films, a semiconductor pillar extending in an arrangement direction of the plurality of lower electrode films and the upper electrode film, a memory film provided between the semiconductor pillar and one of the plurality of lower electrode films and between the semiconductor pillar and the upper electrode film, and a metal-containing layer provided at least one of on a lower surface and an upper surface of the one of the plurality of lower electrode films and between the one of the plurality of lower electrode films and the memory film, the metal-containing layer having a composition different from a composition of the plurality of lower electrode films. The upper electrode film is in contact with the memory film.
US09754886B2	Semiconductor interconnect structures Techniques are disclosed that enable improved shorting margin between unlanded conductive interconnect features and neighboring conductive features. In some embodiments, an etch may be applied to an insulator layer having one or more conductive features therein, such that the insulator layer is recessed below the top of the conductive features and the edges of the conductive features are rounded or otherwise softened. A conformal etchstop layer may then be deposited over the conductive features and the insulator material. A second insulator layer may be deposited above the conformal etchstop layer, and an interconnect feature may pass through the second insulator layer and the conformal etchstop layer to connect with the rounded portion of one of the conductive features. In some embodiments, the interconnect feature is an unlanded via and the unlanded portion of the via may or may not penetrate through the conformal barrier layer.
US09754885B1	Hybrid metal interconnects with a bamboo grain microstructure A method of forming an interconnect with a bamboo grain microstructure. The method includes forming a conductive filler layer in a trench of an insulating layer to a predetermined depth such that an aspect ratio of a top portion of the trench is reduced to a threshold level, depositing a metal layer over the conductive filler layer in the top potion of the trench, the metal layer having a plurality of small grains, and annealing the metal layer to provide a bamboo grain microstructure having larger grains than grain boundaries of the plurality of small grains.
US09754883B1	Hybrid metal interconnects with a bamboo grain microstructure A method of forming an interconnect with a bamboo grain microstructure. The method includes forming a conductive filler layer in a trench of an insulating layer to a predetermined depth such that an aspect ratio of a top portion of the trench is reduced to a threshold level, depositing a metal layer over the conductive filler layer in the top portion of the trench, the metal layer having a plurality of small grains, and annealing the metal layer to provide a bamboo grain microstructure having larger grains than grain boundaries of the plurality of small grains.
US09754880B2	Semiconductor devices including a contact structure and methods of manufacturing the same The semiconductor device may include an insulating interlayer on the substrate, the substrate including a contact region at an upper portion thereof, a main contact plug penetrating through the insulating interlayer and contacting the contact region, the main contact plug having a pillar shape and including a first barrier pattern and a first metal pattern, and an extension pattern surrounding on an upper sidewall of the main contact plug, the extension pattern including a barrier material. In the semiconductor device, an alignment margin between the contact structure and an upper wiring thereon may increase. Also, a short failure between the contact structure and the gate electrode may be reduced.
US09754879B2	Integrated circuitry A method of fabricating integrated circuitry includes forming a first conductive line. First elemental tungsten is deposited directly against an elevationally outer surface of the first conductive line selectively relative to any exposed non-conductive material. Dielectric material is formed elevationally over the first conductive line and a via is formed there-through to conductive material of the first conductive line at a location where the first tungsten was deposited. Second elemental tungsten is non-selectively deposited to within the via and electrically couples to the first conductive line. A second conductive line is formed elevationally outward of and electrically coupled to the second tungsten that is within the via.
US09754877B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a main surface; a first insulating film formed in a convex shape and provided on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first diffusion layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and provided to surround the first insulating film formed in a convex shape, the first diffusion layer being different in conductivity type from the semiconductor substrate; a first conductive layer formed so as to extend across the first insulating film formed in a convex shape, the first conductive layer forming a fuse element; and a second insulating film provided on the first conductive layer.
US09754876B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device including: a fuse element; and a fuse window that is formed above a region including the fuse element, that includes a pair of first sidewalls extending in a first direction running along a direction that current flows in the fuse element and a pair of second sidewalls extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and that is formed with a projection projecting out from a sidewall side toward the inside at an inner wall of at least one out of the first sidewalls or the second sidewalls, the projection having a sidewall side width that is narrower than a projecting side width.
US09754863B2	Semiconductor device The semiconductor device improves heat dissipation by loading a diode and a MOSFET or IGBT in a single package. A drain electrode disposed on a rear surface of a MOSFET chip is soldered to an upper surface of a first lead frame, and a cathode electrode disposed on a rear surface of a diode chip is soldered to an upper surface of a second lead frame. Rear surfaces of the first lead frame and second lead frame to which neither the diode chip nor the MOSFET chip is connected are disposed so as to be exposed from a sealing resin.
US09754857B2	Folded fin heat transfer device A system for cooling a heat producing device is provided. The system can include an air mover (110) wherein at least a portion of the discharge airflow (115) is directed radially outward. The system can also include a thermal conduit (120) and a thermal member (130). The thermal member can have a first surface (135), a second surface (140) and at least one integrally formed heat exchange surface (150). At least a portion of the heat exchange surface (150) can be at least partially disposed in the air mover discharge airflow (115). At least a portion of the first surface (135) can be disposed proximate the thermal conduit (120). At least a portion of the second surface (140) can be disposed proximate the air mover (110).
US09754852B2	Packaging for fingerprint sensors and methods of manufacture A fingerprint sensor package, including a sensing side for sensing fingerprint information and a separate connection side for electrically connecting the fingerprint sensor package to a host device, is disclosed. The fingerprint sensor package can also include a sensor integrated circuit facing the sensing side and substantially surrounded by a fill material. The fill material includes vias at peripheral locations around the sensor integrated circuit. The fingerprint sensor package can further include a redistribution layer on the sensing side which redistributes connections of the sensor integrated circuit to the vias. The connections can further be directed through the vias to a ball grid array on the connection side. Some aspects also include electrostatic discharge traces positioned at least partially around a perimeter of the connection side. Methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US09754849B2	Organic-inorganic hybrid structure for integrated circuit packages An organic-inorganic hybrid structure is described for integrated circuit packages. In one example, an integrated circuit package includes a ceramic frame having a top side and a bottom side, the top side having a pocket with a bottom floor and a plurality of conductive through holes in the bottom floor, an integrated circuit die attached to the bottom floor over the conductive through holes, and a redistribution layer on the bottom side connected to the conductive through holes.
US09754844B2	Double sided NMOS/PMOS structure and methods of forming the same A chip includes a dielectric layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, a first semiconductor layer overlying and bonded to the top surface of the dielectric layer, and a first Metal Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) transistor of a first conductivity type. The first MOS transistor includes a first gate dielectric overlying and contacting the first semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode overlying the first gate dielectric. A second semiconductor layer is underlying and bonded to the bottom surface of the dielectric layer. A second MOS transistor of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type includes a second gate dielectric underlying and contacting the second semiconductor layer, and a second gate electrode underlying the second gate dielectric.
US09754838B2	Semiconductor arrangement and formation thereof A semiconductor arrangement and method of forming the same are described. A semiconductor arrangement includes a third metal connect in contact with a first metal connect in a first active region and a second metal connect in a second active region, and over a shallow trench isolation region located between the first active region and a second active region. A method of forming the semiconductor arrangement includes forming a first opening over the first metal connect, the STI region, and the second metal connect, and forming the third metal connect in the first opening. Forming the third metal connect over the first metal connect and the second metal connect mitigates RC coupling.
US09754834B2	Method of electrically isolating leads of a lead frame strip by laser beam cutting 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. A semiconductor die is attached to each of the die paddles, the unit lead frames are covered with a molding compound after the semiconductor dies are attached to the die paddles, and a laser beam is directed at regions of the periphery of each unit lead frame where the leads are located thereby forming spaced apart cuts in the periphery of each unit lead frame. The spaced apart cuts sever the leads from the periphery of each unit lead frame and extend at least partially into the molding compound in the regions of the periphery where the leads are located so that the molding compound remains intact between the spaced apart cuts.
US09754832B2	Semiconductor wafer and method of producing the same A semiconductor wafer (100) having a regular pattern of predetermined separation lanes (102) is provided, wherein the predetermined separation lanes (102) are configured in such a way that the semiconductor wafer is singularizable along the regular pattern.
US09754831B2	Dummy structure for chip-on-wafer-on-substrate Apparatus, and methods of manufacture thereof, in which metal is deposited into openings, thus forming a plurality of metal pads, a plurality of through-silicon-vias (TSVs), a plurality of metal lines, a plurality of first dummy structures, and a plurality of second dummy structures. Ones of the plurality of first dummy structures each have a first width that is at least about three times greater than a second width of each of the plurality of metal lines, and ones of the plurality of second dummy structures each have a third width that is at least about five times greater than the second width of each of the plurality of metal lines.
US09754830B2	Wiring substrate, method for manufacturing wiring substrate, electronic device and method for manufacturing electronic device A wiring substrate includes: a substrate; an insulator formed in the substrate and having a through hole; an electrode formed in the substrate and provided within the through hole; and a conductor bonded to the electrode and provided within the through hole, wherein the through hole has a shape that is widened toward a direction away from the substrate, and the conductor is configured to cover the entire top surface of the electrode and has a shape that is widened toward the direction away from the substrate.
US09754826B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a metal pattern filling a trench formed through at least a portion of an insulating interlayer on a substrate and including copper, and a wetting improvement layer pattern in the metal pattern including at least one of tantalum, tantalum nitride, titanium, titanium nitride, ruthenium, cobalt and manganese.
US09754813B2	Bond chuck, methods of bonding, and tool including bond chuck A bonding chuck is discussed with methods of using the bonding chuck and tools including the bonding chuck. A method includes loading a first wafer on first surface of a first bonding chuck, loading a second wafer on a second bonding chuck, and bonding the first wafer to the second wafer. The first surface is defined at least in part by a first portion of a first spherical surface and a second portion of a second spherical surface. The first spherical surface has a first radius, and the second spherical surface has a second radius. The first radius is less than the second radius.
US09754805B1	Packaging method and structure A system and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. In an embodiment a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device are encapsulated with an encapsulant. A dielectric layer is formed over the encapsulant, the first semiconductor device, and the second semiconductor device. The dielectric layer is planarized in order to reset the planarity of the dielectric layer.
US09754804B2	Method of mounting electronic device and under-fill film used thereto A method of mounting an electronic device includes: preparing a printed circuit board including a base substrate, connection pads disposed on the base substrate and spaced apart from each other, and a solder resist including contact holes exposing a portion of the connection pads; disposing preliminary bumps on the exposed portion of the connection pads via the contact holes; disposing under-fill patterns in areas between the preliminary bumps on the solder resist; disposing an electronic device on the preliminary bumps and the under-fill patterns; and mounting the electronic device onto the printed circuit board by reflowing the preliminary bumps and the under-fill patterns. The disposing of the under-fill patterns may include: providing an under-fill film including a base film having openings spaced apart from each other, and the under-fill patterns disposed within the openings; applying pressure to the under-fill film; and removing the base film from the under-fill film.
US09754799B2	Fabrication method of interconnect structure A method for forming an interconnect structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate with a surface; and forming a metal layer covering the surface of the substrate and with a desired grain size to reduce grain boundary scattering of the interconnect structure subsequently formed with the metal layer. The method also includes etching the metal layer to form a plurality of metal lines on the surface of the substrate and a plurality of metal pillars on each of the plurality of the metal lines of the interconnect structure; and forming a dielectric layer covering the surface of the substrate, surfaces of the metal lines, and side surfaces of the metal pillars.
US09754784B2	Method for manufacturing oxide semiconductor device An object is to provide a semiconductor device with stable electric characteristics in which an oxide semiconductor is used. The impurity concentration in the oxide semiconductor layer is reduced in the following manner: a silicon oxide layer including many defects typified by dangling bonds is formed in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, and an impurity such as hydrogen or moisture (a hydrogen atom or a compound including a hydrogen atom such as H2O) included in the oxide semiconductor layer is diffused into the silicon oxide layer. Further, a mixed region is provided between the oxide semiconductor layer and the silicon oxide layer. The mixed region includes oxygen, silicon, and at least one kind of metal element that is included in the oxide semiconductor.
US09754781B2	Semiconductor manufacturing method A semiconductor manufacturing method in accordance with an embodiment includes feeding a first gas, which contains a component of a first film, to a reaction chamber, and forming a first film over a semiconductor substrate, which is accommodated in the reaction chamber, through plasma CVD. The semiconductor manufacturing method includes feeding a second gas to the reaction chamber after forming the first film, allowing the first gas in the reaction chamber to react on the second gas, and forming a second film, which has a composition different from that of the first film, over the surface of the first film. The semiconductor manufacturing method includes selectively removing the second film.
US09754775B2	Adjustment mechanism A magnetic adjustment mechanism 100 comprising a chamber 10, an element 12 pivotally mounted within the chamber 10 and comprising a magnetic portion 14, and a magnetic actuator 18 arranged outside the chamber 10 to allow magnetic coupling with the magnetic portion 14 of the element 12 such that movement of the magnetic actuator 18 causes an adjustment of the position of the element 12. The adjustment mechanism 100 may be used within a vacuum chamber of a mass spectrometer to control the position of a moveable element from outside the chamber.
US09754774B2	Systems and methods for automated analysis of output in single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and similar data sets The present disclosure provides methods and systems for automated analysis of spectrometry data corresponding to particles of a sample, such as large data sets obtained during single particle mode analysis of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (SP-ICP-MS). Techniques are presented herein that provide appropriate smoothing for rapid data processing without an accompanying reduction (or with an acceptably negligible reduction) in accuracy and/or precision.
US09754772B2	Charged particle image measuring device and imaging mass spectrometry apparatus A charged particle image measuring device includes a sample stage, a charged particle lens opposite the sample stage, a two-dimensional detector, a first diaphragm disposed between the sample stage and a position of a crossover that is formed by the charged particle lens and that is closest to a sample, and a second diaphragm disposed between the first diaphragm and the two-dimensional detector.
US09754764B2	Method for coincident alignment of a laser beam and a charged particle beam A method and apparatus for aligning a laser beam coincident with a charged particle beam. The invention described provides a method for aligning the laser beam through the center of an objective lens and ultimately targeting the eucentric point of a multi-beam system. The apparatus takes advantage of components of the laser beam alignment system being positioned within and outside of the vacuum chamber of the charged particle system.
US09754761B2	High-speed hotspot or defect imaging with a charged particle beam system An inspection tool includes a controller that is configured to generate a scan pattern for an electron beam to image areas of interest on the wafer. The scan pattern minimizes dwell time of the electron beam on the surface of the wafer between the areas of interest. At least one stage speed and at least one raster pattern can be selected based on the areas of interest. The controller sends instructions to electron beam optics to direct the electron beam at the areas of interest on the surface of the wafer using the scan pattern.
US09754756B2	Vacuum integrated electronic device and manufacturing process thereof A vacuum integrated electronic device has an anode region of conductive material; an insulating region on top of the anode region; a cavity extending through the insulating region and having a sidewall; and a cathode region. The cathode region has a tip portion extending peripherally within the cavity, adjacent to the sidewall of the cavity. The cathode region is formed by tilted deposition, carried out at an angle of 30-60° with respect to a perpendicular to the surface of device.
US09754754B2	Multipolar fusible link The invention in this application aims to provide a multipolar fusible link in which its lateral width can decrease while its entire height does not increase. A multipolar fusible link (100) includes: an input terminal (110); a bus bar (120) through which an electric current input from the input terminal (110) flows; and a plurality of terminals (140) connected to the bus bar (120) via fusible sections (130). By changing a shape of a lower edge (122) of the bus bar (120) to which the fusible sections (130) are connected, a width between the lower edge (122) and an upper edge (121) positioned opposite the lower edge (122) is changed in accordance with the fusible sections (130) connected to the lower edge (122). In addition, shapes of the fusible sections (130) connected to the lower edge (122) are changed so that their lateral widths decrease.
US09754747B1	Relay device A relay device comprises a base, a pin, and an outer cap. A gap is arranged at a peripheral of the base. The pin has a convex plate and assembled to the gap of the base and one end thereof is protruded from the gap. The convex plate is covered/shielded the gap. The outer cap includes a receiving groove. A notch of the receiving groove is covered the base and the pin. A paste is applied among the peripheral of the base, the convex plate of the pin, and the notch of the receiving groove for fastening. The gap arranged at the peripheral of the base is providing the pin for assembling without directional limitation and advantageous to once assembly of the base and the pin in an automatic machine so as to simplify the manufacturing process of the relay device.
US09754734B2	Poly-vinylidene difluoride anode binder in a lithium ion capacitor A lithium ion capacitor, including: an anode including: a conductive support; a first mixture coated on the conductive support including: an interclating carbon; a conductive carbon black; and a PVDF binder in amounts as defined herein, and where the PVDF binder has a weight average molecular weight of from 300,000 to 400,000; and a second mixture coated on the first mixture, the second mixture comprising micron-sized lithium metal particles having an encapsulating shell comprised of LiPF6, mineral oil, and a thermoplastic binder. Also disclosed is a method of making and using the lithium ion capacitor.
US09754717B2	Method of and apparatus for generating an adjustable reactance A method for adjusting reactance includes an adjustable reactance generator including a comparator receiving an input sinusoidal waveform and outputting a square wave that retains the frequency and phase of the applied sinusoidal waveform. The reactance adjustment is generated using a power switching circuit that receives the square wave from the comparator as a control signal and outputs a square wave that retains the frequency and phase of the applied sinusoidal voltage waveform, an adjustable power supply that adjusts the amplitude of the square wave output by the power switching circuit, and an amplitude detector that controls the output level of the adjustable power supply. The power switching circuit output, when converted to a sinusoid, provides the effect of an adjustable reactance.
US09754706B2	Metal nitride material for thermistor, method for producing same, and film type thermistor sensor Provided are a metal nitride material for a thermistor, which has a high heat resistance and a high reliability and can be directly deposited on a film or the like without firing, a method for producing the same, and a film type thermistor sensor. The metal nitride material for a thermistor consists of a metal nitride represented by the general formula: (M1−vVv)xAly(N1−wOw)z (where 0.0
US09754701B2	Electrical insulation material Provided is an article containing non-cellulosic nonwoven fabric layer between two non-cellulosic nonwoven paper layers wherein one or both of the nonwoven paper and nonwoven fabric are electrically insulating. At least some embodiments are flame retardant.
US09754699B2	Capacitor oil having excellent properties in wide temperature range The present invention provides a capacitor oil that can maintain breakdown voltage at a high level in a wide temperature range of −50° C. to 30° C., extremely unlikely precipitates as crystals in particular at −50° C. and thus has excellent properties both at normal temperature and a lower temperature. The capacitor oil of the present invention comprises 1,1-diphenylethane and benzyltoluene, wherein the mass ratio of 1,1-diphenylethane to benzyltoluene is 0.8 to 2.0, the total amount of the ortho-isomer and para-isomer in the benzyltoluene is 90 percent by mass or less, and the composition has a 40° C. kinematic viscosity of 3.00 mm2/s or lower.
US09754688B2	Suspended upper internals for compact nuclear reactor including a lower hanger plate A pressure vessel comprises an upper vessel section and a lower vessel section. A nuclear reactor core comprises fissile material contained in a containing structure and disposed in the lower vessel section. Upper internals are disposed in the lower vessel section above the nuclear reactor core. The upper internals include at least guide frames and internal control rod drive mechanisms (CRDMs) with CRDM motors mounted on a suspended support assembly including a plurality of hanger plates connected by tie rods. The plurality of hanger plates includes a lowermost hanger plate having alignment features configured to align the upper internals with the containing structure that contains the nuclear reactor core.
US09754687B2	ALD coating of nuclear fuel actinides materials The invention provides a method of forming a nuclear fuel pellet of a uranium containing fuel alternative to UO2, with the steps of obtaining a fuel form in a powdered state; coating the fuel form in a powdered state with at least one layer of a material; and sintering the powdered fuel form into a fuel pellet. Also provided is a sintered nuclear fuel pellet of a uranium containing fuel alternative to UO2, wherein the pellet is made from particles of fuel, wherein the particles of fuel are particles of a uranium containing moiety, and wherein the fuel particles are coated with at least one layer between about 1 nm to about 4 nm thick of a material using atomic layer deposition, and wherein the at least one layer of the material substantially surrounds each interfacial grain barrier after the powdered fuel form has been sintered.
US09754667B2	Three-dimensional NAND non-volatile memory and DRAM memory devices on a single substrate A three-dimensional NAND stacked non-volatile memory array and a DRAM memory array are provided. The three-dimensional NAND stacked non-volatile memory array and the DRAM memory array are integrated on a single substrate.
US09754660B2	Semiconductor device Provided are a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes an SRAM cell including a first pull-up transistor, a first pull-down transistor and a first pass transistor formed on a substrate, a first read buffer transistor connected to gate terminals of the first pull-up transistor and the first pull-down transistor, and a second read buffer transistor which shares a drain terminal with the first read buffer transistor, wherein the first read buffer transistor includes a first channel pattern extending in a first direction vertical to an upper surface of the substrate, a first gate electrode which covers a part of the first channel pattern, and a first drain pattern which does not contact the first gate electrode, and which extends in the first direction, and which is electrically connected to the first channel pattern.
US09754658B2	Memory module, memory system including the same, and data storage system including the memory module A memory module includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) which includes a first surface, a second surface, first taps formed on the first surface, and second taps formed on the second surface, a first buffer attached to the first PCB, and first memory devices attached to the first PCB, in which the first buffer is configured to transmit signals input through the first taps and the second taps to the first memory devices, and signals re-driven by the first buffer among the signals are transmitted to a second module through the second taps.
US09754648B2	Apparatuses and methods for memory operations having variable latencies Apparatuses and methods for performing memory operations are described. In an example apparatus, a memory is configured to receive a memory instruction and perform a memory operation responsive to the memory instruction. The memory is further configured to provide an acknowledgement indicative of an end of the variable latency period wherein the acknowledgement includes information related to an acceptance of a memory instruction. Data associated with the memory instruction is exchanged with the memory following the acknowledgement. In an example method a read instruction and an address from which read data is to be read is received. A write operation is suspended responsive to the read instruction and an acknowledgement indicative of an end of the variable latency period is provided. Read data for the read instruction is provided and the write operation is continued to be suspended for a hold-off period following completion of the read operation.
US09754645B2	Bit line charging for a device An apparatus includes a first bit line coupled to a first storage element and a second bit line coupled to a second storage element. A first bit line charging circuit is coupled to the first bit line and is configured to charge the first bit line to a first bias voltage of multiple bias voltages based on a first programming state. A second bit line charging circuit is coupled to the second bit line and is configured to charge the second bit line to a second bias voltage of the multiple bias voltages based on a second programming state. The second programming state is different than the first programming state.
US09754643B2	Asynchronous/synchronous interface The present disclosure includes methods, and circuits, for operating a memory device. One method embodiment for operating a memory device includes controlling data transfer through a memory interface in an asynchronous mode by writing data to the memory device at least partially in response to a write enable signal on a first interface contact, and reading data from the memory device at least partially in response to a read enable signal on a second interface contact. The method further includes controlling data transfer in a synchronous mode by transferring data at least partially in response to a clock signal on the first interface contact, and providing a bidirectional data strobe signal on an interface contact not utilized in the asynchronous mode.
US09754642B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, a data bus connected to a first column of the memory cells, by which data is transferred to and from the memory cells of the first column, a data latch storing data indicating whether the first column is defective or not, and a transistor having a first terminal connected to the data bus, a second terminal connected to a voltage source, and a gate connected to an output of the data latch.
US09754637B2	Erasing method and memory device using the same An erasing method and a memory device are provided. The memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks. Each of the memory blocks has n sub-blocks. The erasing method includes the following steps. A first erase region is selected from a first memory block of the memory blocks, and the first erase region includes at least one sub-block. A sub-block erase operation is performed on the first erase region of the first memory block.
US09754635B2	Mobile data storage device A mobile data storage device is configured in the manner of a data storage card, or a data storage stick. The mobile data storage device can include at least one electrical coil (7), and energy storage (6), a data storage (1), at least one interface unit (3), and at least one permanent magnet (8). The at least one interface unit (3) is configured for the output or the receiving of data that is stored, or that can be stored, in the data storage (1). The energy storage (6) can be inductively charged by a magnetic alternating field, which can be generated by displacing the at least one permanent magnet (8) in a region of the electrical coil (7). At least one of the at least one interface unit (3) is electrically coupled to the energy storage for the energy supply thereof.
US09754631B2	Disc drive apparatus with hermetically sealed cavity Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards a disc drive apparatus. A base deck and a cover are joined to one another by a friction-stir weld along a lip of the cover that extends along a periphery of the cover and over a surface of the base deck. The base deck and cover enclose a cavity, which is hermetically sealed by the weld.
US09754630B2	System to distinguish between visually identical objects A method to include an identifier as metadata associated with a captured image is provided. The method may include receiving, by a device, an image and a unique identifier associated with the image, wherein the received image is a frame associated with a video stream. The method may also include storing the unique identifier as metadata associated with the received image, whereby the metadata is linked to a specific frame in the video stream according to a plurality of parameters, and whereby the unique identifier is received from a unique ID reader which reads a tag attached to an object included in the image.
US09754627B2	Dynamically adjusting stream quality level Dynamically adjusting stream quality level is disclosed. In some embodiments, playing media content includes playing a first stream having a first quality level of the media content, determining that a different available quality level of the media content would result in improved playback performance, and switching to playing a second stream having a second quality level of the media content.
US09754621B2	Appending information to an audio recording An audio recording apparatus comprises: a recording process for recording audio; a receiving process for receiving an indicated go-back time; and a processor that executes an information appending process that appends information associated with a time going back by the go-back time from a base time, linked to audio in the recording, in accordance with a user's instructions.
US09754612B2	Areal density improvement of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head by tuning magnetic flux loops A PMR writer is disclosed wherein magnetic flux return from a magnetic medium to a main pole is substantially greater through a trailing shield structure than through a leading shield and return path layer (RTP). Magnetic impedance is increased between the RTP and main pole in the leading return loop by modifying the size and shape of the back gap connection (BGC), by decreasing Bs in the RTP or reducing its thickness, or by removing one or more layers in the BGC and replacing with dielectric material or non-magnetic metal to form a dielectric gap between the RTP and main pole. As a result, area density control and bit error rate are improved over a conventional dual write shield (DWS) structure comprising two flux return pathways. Moreover, adjacent track erasure is maintained at a level similar to a DWS design.
US09754608B2	Noise estimation apparatus, noise estimation method, noise estimation program, and recording medium A noise estimation apparatus which estimates a non-stationary noise component on the basis of the likelihood maximization criterion is provided. The noise estimation apparatus obtains the variance of a noise signal that causes a large value to be obtained by weighted addition of the sums each of which is obtained by adding the product of the log likelihood of a model of an observed signal expressed by a Gaussian distribution in a speech segment and a speech posterior probability in each frame, and the product of the log likelihood of a model of an observed signal expressed by a Gaussian distribution in a non-speech segment and a non-speech posterior probability in each frame, by using complex spectra of a plurality of observed signals up to the current frame.
US09754605B1	Step-size control for multi-channel acoustic echo canceller A multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) system that includes a step-size controller that dynamically determines a step-size value for each channel and each tone index on a frame-by-frame basis. The system determines the step-size value based on a normalized squared cross-correlation (NSCC) between an estimated echo signal and an error signal, allowing the AEC system to converge quickly when an acoustic room response changes while providing stable steady-state error by avoiding misadjustments due to noise sensitivity and/or near-end speech. The step-size value can be determined using fractional weighting that takes into account a signal strength of each channel.
US09754603B2	Speech feature extraction apparatus and speech feature extraction method According to one embodiment, a speech feature extraction apparatus includes an extraction unit and a calculation unit. The extraction unit extracts speech segments over a predetermined period at intervals of a unit time from either an input speech signal or a plurality of subband input speech signals obtained by extracting signal components of a plurality of frequency bands from the input speech signal, to generate either a unit speech signal or a plurality of subband unit speech signals. The calculation unit calculates either each average time of the unit speech signal in each of the plurality of frequency bands or each average time of each of the plurality of subband unit speech signals to obtain a speech feature.
US09754602B2	Obfuscated speech synthesis The present invention relates to a method for synthesizing a speech signal; comprising obtaining a speech sequence input signal comprising semantic content corresponding to a speaker's utterance; analyzing the input speech sequence signal to obtain a first sequence of feature vectors for the input speech sequence signal; synthesizing a second sequence of feature vectors different from and based on the first sequence of feature vectors; generating an excitation signal and filtering the excitation signal based on the second sequence of feature vectors to obtain a synthesized speech signal wherein the semantic content is obfuscated.
US09754596B2	Methods for controlling the inter-channel coherence of upmixed audio signals Audio characteristics of audio data corresponding to a plurality of audio channels may be determined. The audio characteristics may include spatial parameter data. Decorrelation filtering processes for the audio data may be based, at least in part, on the audio characteristics. The decorrelation filtering processes may cause a specific inter-decorrelation signal coherence (“IDC”) between channel-specific decorrelation signals for at least one pair of channels. The channel-specific decorrelation signals may be received and/or determined. Inter-channel coherence (“ICC”) between a plurality of audio channel pairs may be controlled. Controlling ICC may involve at receiving an ICC value and/or determining an ICC value based, at least partially, on the spatial parameter data. A set of IDC values may be based, at least partially, on the set of ICC values. A set of channel-specific decorrelation signals, corresponding with the set of IDC values, may be synthesized by performing operations on the filtered audio data.
US09754587B2	System and method of using neural transforms of robust audio features for speech processing A system and method for processing speech includes receiving a first information stream associated with speech, the first information stream comprising micro-modulation features and receiving a second information stream associated with the speech, the second information stream comprising features. The method includes combining, via a non-linear multilayer perceptron, the first information stream and the second information stream to yield a third information stream. The system performs automatic speech recognition on the third information stream. The third information stream can also be used for training HMMs.
US09754580B2	System and method for extracting and using prosody features A system for carrying out voice pattern recognition and a method for achieving same. The system includes an arrangement for acquiring an input voice, a signal processing library for extracting acoustic and prosodic features of the acquired voice, a database for storing a recognition dictionary, at least one instance of a prosody detector for carrying out a prosody detection process on extracted respective prosodic features, communicating with an end user application for applying control thereto.
US09754571B2	Continuous pitch-corrected vocal capture device cooperative with content server for backing track mix Techniques have been developed to facilitate (1) the capture and pitch correction of vocal performances on handheld or other portable computing devices and (2) the mixing of such pitch-corrected vocal performances with backing tracks for audible rendering on targets that include such portable computing devices and as well as desktops, workstations, gaming stations, even telephony targets. Implementations of the described techniques employ signal processing techniques and allocations of system functionality that are suitable given the generally limited capabilities of such handheld or portable computing devices and that facilitate efficient encoding and communication of the pitch-corrected vocal performances (or precursors or derivatives thereof) via wireless and/or wired bandwidth-limited networks for rendering on portable computing devices or other targets.
US09754569B2	Audio matching with semantic audio recognition and report generation System, apparatus and method for determining semantic information from audio, where incoming audio is sampled and processed to extract audio features, including temporal, spectral, harmonic and rhythmic features. The extracted audio features are compared to stored audio templates that include ranges and/or values for certain features and are tagged for specific ranges and/or values. The semantic information may be associated with audio signature dataExtracted audio features that are most similar to one or more templates from the comparison are identified according to the tagged information. The tags are used to determine the semantic audio data that includes genre, instrumentation, style, acoustical dynamics, and emotive descriptor for the audio signal.
US09754568B2	Instrument carrier with articulating back brace A shoulder supported carrier structure supports percussion instruments on shoulder shoulders of a user is disclosed. A connecting member that spans between the shoulder supporting member behind the user or performer. The connecting member is joined to an arm that is connected to at a back member that allows the back member to pivot and translate relative to the two shoulder supporting members to allow the back member to align with a back of a user. The connecting member may be joined to the one arm with a frictional connection. The arm may be connected to the back member with a frictional connection. The back member at least partially contours to the shape of the back and may further include an inflatable cushioning bladder and is positioned between and under shoulder blades of the user to increase arm mobility.
US09754563B1	Force adjustable spring-clamp capo The present utility model discloses a force adjustable spring-clamp capo, comprises a string-engaging arm and a damping arm, the string-engaging arm and the clamping arm are hinged together by a composite pressing rivet, wherein a pressure adjustment mechanism is further arranged in a middle of the clamping arm, including: a pressure spring, a regulation screw and a regulation nut, by the pressure adjustment mechanism, a collapsing length of the pressure spring is adjusted, making the force of the spring change (Hooke's law), which makes the clamping force of the capo adjustable, it can also be operated by a single hand of a player as the spring-damp capo, thus owns a simple and easy operation, making a player be able to adjust to a best clamping force according to a requirement of the instrument thereof, to achieve a role of a tune transfer assistance perfectly. By a planar thrust bearing embedded in the regulation nut, the present utility model further reduces the resistance generated by the friction between the regulation nut and the clamping arm greatly, thus simplifies the operation of a force adjustment, and achieves the purpose of effort saving.
US09754562B2	Semiconductor device and data processing system selectively operating as one of a big endian or little endian system The present invention is to provide a semiconductor device that can correctly switch endians on the outside even if the endian of a parallel interface is not recognized on the outside. The semiconductor device includes a switching circuit and a first register. The switching circuit switches between whether a parallel interface with the outside is to be used as a big endian or a little endian. A first register holds control data of the switching circuit. The switching circuit regards the parallel interface as the little endian when first predetermined control information, that is unchanged in the values of specific bit positions even if its high-order and low-order bit positions are transposed, is supplied to the first register, and regards the parallel interface as the big endian when second predetermined control information, that is unchanged in the values of specific bit positions even if its high-order and low-order bit positions are transposed, is supplied to the first register. Whatever the endian setting status, the control information can be correctly inputted without being influenced by the endian setting status.
US09754559B2	Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus having a display device displaying a background image and a stroke image superimposed on the background image, the stroke image reproducing a stroke which is drawn by an input operation of a user, includes a recording unit recording image data of the background image and stroke data, which are related to the stroke input by the input operation, into an electronic document; a read unit reading the electronic document; a display unit displaying the background image on the display device by using the image data of the background data, reproducing the stroke image by using the stroke data, and displaying the stroke image superimposed on the background image on the display device; and an edit unit editing the stroke data in accordance with the input operation.
US09754558B2	Heads-up scrolling Methods, program products, and systems for heads-up scrolling are described. In heads-up scrolling, a scrolling control can be used to scroll through multiple data records in a database. When a slider of the scrolling control receives an input dragging the slider, a semitransparent window can be overlaid on content being displayed. The semitransparent window can have a user-specified layout for formatting one or more data fields of a data record. When the slider is dragged, the content being overlaid upon can remain static. Content in the semitransparent window can be updated to reflect content in a data record corresponding to a position of the slider. The content in the semitransparent window can be formatted according to the user-specified layout, which may be different from a format of the content under the semitransparent window.
US09754555B2	Method for adjusting display of electronic device and electronic device capable of adjusting display The present disclosure provides a method and an electronic device capable of performing a display adjustment. The method comprises: obtaining a first brightness value corresponding to light flux to enter user eyes at a first time; obtaining a second brightness value corresponding to light flux to enter user eyes at a second time later than the first time; determining whether a brightness difference between the first brightness value and the second brightness value is greater than a threshold value; and in events where the brightness difference between the first brightness value and the second brightness value is greater than the threshold value, enabling an adjustment mode of the electronic device, wherein the adjustment mode comprises increasing a transition time period of a transition from the first brightness value to the second brightness value and adjusting either of both of brightness of a backlight and brightness of a screen content according to the transition from the first brightness value to the second brightness value with the increased transition time.
US09754541B2	Display device and display device drive method A display device includes an image display panel section which displays an image on the basis of an image signal, a light source section which emits light to the image display panel section by dimming control according to a control signal based on the image signal, and a control section which determines on the basis of the image signal from a mode of change in light emission luminance of the light source section whether the image displayed by the image display panel section is a dynamic image or a static image and which performs switching according to a determination result between a static image control speed and a dynamic image control speed of the dimming control. The display device suppresses image quality degradation caused at the time of displaying a dynamic image or a static image.
US09754537B2	Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof An organic light emitting display device includes a scan driver progressively supplying a scan signal to scan lines, a data driver supplying data signals to output lines of the data driver during a period in which the scan signal is supplied, and demultiplexers respectively coupled to the output lines of the data driver, and supplying the data signals to data lines, each demultiplexer including first switches, each first switch being coupled between an output line of the data driver and a data line among a first set of data lines, and a second switch coupled between a first initialization power source and a data line among a second set of data lines, wherein the first set of data lines includes the second set of data lines and at least one other data line.
US09754535B2	Display device and method for driving display device In a display device that has self light-emitting type display elements and that adopts time-division driving, power consumption is reduced over the conventional one. Each of emission lines is connected to the gate terminals of light-emission control transistors provided for organic EL elements of different light-emitting colors in three pixel circuits arranged side by side in an extension direction of scanning signal lines. When there is no change in image content throughout a period longer than or equal to a predetermined period during a time-division driving mode, an operating mode is switched to a pause driving mode. During the pause driving mode, emission drivers bring only first emission lines into a selected state, by which a still image with a ⅓ resolution of an image displayed during the time-division driving mode is displayed on a display unit. During a pause period, peripheral drivers go into a pause state.
US09754532B2	Pixel repair circuit and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having the same A pixel repair circuit and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the pixel repair circuit includes an emission controller configured to control the emission current and a repair line initialization unit configured to initialize the repair line. The pixel repair circuit further includes a current mirror unit configured to provide a mirror current of the emission current to the repair line initialization unit, wherein the current mirror unit is connected between a power supply voltage and the emission controller. The pixel repair circuit also includes a first emission switch configured to control an electrical connection between the emission controller and the current mirror unit based on an emission control signal and a second emission switch configured to control an electrical connection between the emission controller and the repair line based on the emission control signal.
US09754526B2	Mobile device with display overlaid with at least a light sensor Some embodiments include a mobile device with a light sensor overlaid under a display (e.g., a touchscreen). The mobile device can identify a command to capture an image. The mobile device can adjust at least a target portion of an opaqueness adjustable region of the display directly over the light sensor. The opaqueness adjustable region is capable of transforming from substantially opaque to substantially transparent. The mobile device can capture the image utilizing at least the light sensor while the target portion of the opaqueness adjustable region is substantially transparent.
US09754521B2	Display drive circuit and standby power reduction method thereof A display driving circuit in accordance with the inventive concepts may include a source amplifier. The source amplifier may include an output transistor configured to amplify an input signal to generate an output signal, and charge a source line of a display panel using the output signal. The source amplifier may include an output transistor switch configured to control the output transistor, and a switch control block configured to receive configuration bits including on/off time information of the output transistor switch to generate a switch control signal. The on/off time information includes information for turning on the output transistor switch in synchronization with a horizontal synchronous signal associated with the display panel, and information for turning off the output transistor switch at a time when the source line of the display panel is charged to a desired charge level.
US09754512B2	Real-time feedback of task performance A method of providing real-time feedback of task performance includes receiving sensor data from sensors coupled to an object. The sensor data is received in response to tasks performed on the object and references positional data with respect to a location on the object at which tasks are performed. The method also includes applying the sensor data to a model of performance measurements, which reflect a standard of performance. The method further includes identifying any deviations of the sensor data from data in the model, and outputting feedback in real-time. The feedback includes indicators signaling tasks performed are correctly implemented and indicators signaling tasks performed are incorrectly implemented. Corrective indicators include measures for modifying task performance to achieve an outcome that approaches or meets the standard of performance. The indicators correspond to one or more locations on the object as determined by the positional data.
US09754510B1	Vision-assist devices for providing information to a user through thermal feedback and methods Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to vision-assist devices and methods. In one embodiment, a vision-assist device includes one or more processors, one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, and one or more sensing devices communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and operable to sense an environment. Machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules cause the one or more processors to: receive environmental information from the one or more sensing devices; and generate a thermal feedback signal regarding a subset of the environmental information acquired by the one or more sensing devices. One or more heating elements are communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and produce thermal feedback in response to receipt of the thermal feedback signal. The thermal feedback is indicative of the subset of environmental information.
US09754506B2	Interactive computer program with virtualized participant An infrastructure for an interactive computer program comprising a computer generated environment. The infrastructure comprises an instrument module, a first display and a second display. At least one tangible instrument allows the user to interact within the computer generated environment, at least one virtualized instrument is not accessible to the user. The first display displays images from the computer generated environment. The second display is positioned on one side of the instrument module for displaying at least images of the virtualized instrument(s) and of a virtualized participant that has access to the virtualized participant of the interactive computer program. A method comprising providing the tangible instrument and the first display screen The method also comprises displaying images of the virtualized instrument and the virtualized participant on the second display screen.
US09754504B2	Generating multiple choice questions and answers based on document text An approach is provided that improves a question answering (QA) computer system by ingesting a set of documents into a corpus of a first QA system. A multiple choice test is generated from the set of documents. The multiple choice test includes any number of questions, with each of the questions having a correct answer and one or more candidate, or wrong answers. The questions and answers are retrieved from the set of documents. The approach identifies concepts that correspond to each of the questions. The candidate answers corresponding to each of the questions are generated based on the identified concepts that pertaining to the respective questions. In this manner, the candidate answers are designed to be misleading in light of the respective questions. A subject, such as a second QA system, is tested using the generated multiple choice test.
US09754494B2	Air traffic control An air traffic control system in which several tactical sectors each control of a respective tactical controller can be amalgamated into a single super-sector under control of a single planning controller. The tactical controllers can collaboratively manage flights in neighboring tactical sectors within the same planning sector and have awareness of selected flights and interactions outside their own tactical sector; the invention assesses and selects which flights to display for each controller (based upon separation responsibility).
US09754487B1	Parking information aggregation platform This document describes systems and techniques that may be used to aggregate information about open parking spots from various different parking providers or organizations.
US09754473B1	Automotive on-board diagnostic computer system with audiovisual guiding function An automotive on-board diagnostic (OBD) computer system with an audiovisual guiding function includes an OBD main unit and a transmission connector. The OBD main unit includes a transmission port, a control unit, a receiving unit, a guide light, a sound unit, and a first sensing unit. The transmission connector includes a control module, an illumination unit, a transmitting unit, and a second sensing unit. Once activated, the control module not only turns on the illumination unit to provide illumination light, but also drives the transmitting unit to send a control signal to the receiving unit of the transmission port, in order for the control unit to turn on the guide light and the sound unit according to the control signal. The guiding light and instruction sound provided respectively by the guide light and the sound unit can help the user locate the transmission port.
US09754472B2	System for providing real time locating and gas exposure monitoring A system and method for gas exposure monitoring of a work area are described. The system may include components that receive an alarm data item from a sensor device. The alarm data item may be generated in response to a first user being exposed to a gas concentration measured by the sensor device. A processor may receive a location of the sensor device in the work area based on a location identifier of the sensor device. A second user located within a predetermined vicinity of the sensor device may be identified. The second user may be identified by the processor. The system may transmit an indication of the alarm data item received from the first user and the location of the sensor device in the work area to the second user. The transmission may be automatic on detection of the second user's location.
US09754469B2	System for tamper identification A system for tamper identification. A fastener has a tamper identification surface with a unique grain structure that is altered if the fastener is removed or otherwise exposed to sufficient torque. After a period of time such as e.g., shipment and/or storage of the sealed container, a determination of whether tampering has occurred can be undertaken by examining the grain structure to determine if it has changed since the fastener was used to seal the container or secure the device.
US09754467B1	Interactive notification system for remote control of a gun safe or the like An interactive notification system allows the owner of a safe (or any type of vault for protecting personal property) to be contacted when an alarm condition is triggered. The system is configured to respond to a return message signal from the owner to either allow or deny any continued action with the safe. Thus, the owner remains in control of all actions involving the safe, regardless of his physical location. The notification is typically sent electronically to one or more of the owner's communication devices (phone, tablet, computer, etc.), where the owner responds via the same method.
US09754459B1	Slot machine with synchronized spinning reels A slot machine that can spin two or more of the reels in unison. Thus, the machine can spin and stop the reels in a standard fashion. If a special trigger occurs, then two or more reels can further spin with an identical offset. The further spin can generate additional rewards for the player.
US09754455B2	Games and gaming machines having bonus features Blackjack and baccarat games have a multi-hand feature in which one or more cards, such as an Ace or a 10 count card in blackjack or a zero, 8 or 9 count card in baccarat, may be duplicated or re-used from a first hand in additional hands. The card(s) may be duplicated or re-used based upon input or selection by the player or automatically. Games of the invention may also include a bonus event where if one or more bonus elements are achieved, a bonus period is initiated and a bonus award is awarded if the player receives remaining required bonus elements as a result of the play of additional games during the bonus period. The games may be presented in video form, such as at a gaming machine, or using physical cards, such as at a gaming table.
US09754447B2	Dynamic player notices for operational changes in gaming machines A gaming terminal data repository (GTDR) for storing game software components and transaction information for gaming machine and gaming terminals is disclosed. A system database is partitioned according to different gaming entities allowing game software component configurations of particular gaming terminals to be easily analyzed and modified. Game software components for gaming terminals connected to the GTDR may be automatically updated using various triggers. System gaming machines may utilize a combination of game software components residing on the gaming machine and those received from the GTDR. A player compliance module (PCM) can be adapted to detect significant changes to gaming machine or gaming terminal playing conditions or parameters, and provide appropriate notices to players of such changes dynamically. The PCM can also facilitate the creation of a log or audit trail to confirm that such player notices have been provided.

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