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8,862,561 | 1. A method of managing read/write requests in a non-transitory data storage system, the method comprising: receiving a read request for data stored in the data storage system from a first client of the data storage system, wherein the data storage system is remote from the first client; and processing, at the client, the read request on at least one computing processor by: | 36,613 |
8,681,499 | 1. A fastener comprising: a connecting member, the connecting member comprising a head, and a connecting portion extending down away from the head; and a helical spring that can be compressed along an axis thereof, the spring comprising a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion extending from the first engaging portion, the first and second engaging portions being coaxial; wherein the connecting portion of the connecting member extends through the second engaging portion, the head of the connecting member is surrounded by the first engaging portion of the spring with a bottom surface of the head abutting a top end of the second engaging portion, a top end of the first engaging portion is above a top surface of the head and defines a receiving space above the head, and the receiving space is adapted for receiving a tool therein. | 13,094 |
8,400,024 | 1. A method of transferring electromagnetic energy comprising: providing a first electromagnetic resonator receiving energy from a power supply, said first electromagnetic resonator having a resonant frequency ω providing a second electromagnetic resonator being positioned at variable distances from said first electromagnetic resonator and not electrically wired to said first electromagnetic resonator, said second electromagnetic resonator having a resonant frequency ω wirelessly transferring electromagnetic energy from said first electromagnetic resonator to said second electromagnetic resonator over a variable distance D as the second electromagnetic resonator moves freely within the near-field region, and wherein R | 5,005 |
8,575,800 | 1. An electric motor, comprising: an upper housing; a lower housing having a flange to sealingly receive the upper housing and an extended portion; a motor shaft having an end configured to engage an implement adapter, the end configured as a double-D coupling interface, the motor shaft disposed at least partially within the upper and lower housings and supported by the extended portion of the lower housing; the implement adapter having an end configured to receive an implement, wherein the end of the implement adapter is configured as a second double-D coupling interface; a stator assembly disposed within the upper housing; and a rotor assembly engaged to the motor shaft to rotate therewith within the stator assembly. | 3,456 |
9,332,698 | 1. A method for producing an Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) resistant soybean plant, said method comprising: selecting a plant using marker assisted selection from a plurality of soybean plants by detecting a molecular marker in linkage group G, wherein said plurality of soybean plants is derived from an ASR resistant soybean plant comprising ASR resistance locus 14, and wherein said molecular marker is within 10 centimorgans or less from a SNP marker selected from the group consisting of NS0095012, NS0119675, and NS0102630; and generating from said selected plant an ASR-resistant progeny plant comprising said ASR resistance locus 14. | 38,790 |
9,718,373 | 1. A discharging apparatus for an electric vehicle, comprising: an AC charging interface; a charging connection device, having a first terminal connected with the AC charging interface and a second terminal connected with an exterior equipment, and configured to transmit an AC output from the AC charging interface to the exterior equipment; an instrument, configured to send a discharging preparation instruction after receiving a trigger signal; a controller, configured to communicate with the instrument and to detect whether the charging connection device is connected with the AC charging interface after receiving the discharging preparation instruction, and if yes, to switch to an external discharging mode; a battery manager, configured to communicate with the controller and to control an external discharging circuit in a high-voltage distribution box of the electric vehicle to be connected after the controller switches to the external discharging mode; a power battery, connected with the high-voltage distribution box and configured to provide a DC via the external discharging circuit in the high-voltage distribution box; wherein the controller is configured to convert the DC provided by the external discharging circuit into the AC and to output the AC to the AC charging interface so as to discharge to the exterior equipment; the controller is further configured to detect whether the electric vehicle is currently in P gear after it is determined that the charging connection device is connected with the AC charging interface, and if yes, the controller switches to the external discharging mode; and the high-voltage distribution box comprises a bidirectional DC-DC module and a leakage current reducing module, the leakage current reducing module is connected to the bidirectional DC-DC module in parallel. | 6,576 |
8,401,796 | 1. A system for taking acoustic measurements relating to subterranean formations, comprising: an acoustic tool comprising a plurality of acoustic sources mounted thereon, at least one of the acoustic sources comprising an actuator adapted to strike a surface to generate acoustic energy; a conveyance configured for movement of the acoustic tool in a borehole traversing the subterranean formations; at least one receiver configured to detect signals generated by the acoustic sources; a computer in communication with the plurality of acoustic sources and the at least one receiver; and a set of instructions executable by the computer that, when executed: wherein the at least one acoustic source comprises a hammer source; wherein the actuator comprises a solenoid and a solenoid plunger and the hammer source further comprises a sensor configured for sensing the position of the solenoid plunger; and the system further comprising a processor configured for monitoring a current profile of the solenoid based on the position of the solenoid plunger. | 41,865 |
8,552,249 | 1. An anti-rash diaper for preventing and treating diaper rash and skin irritations comprising: a. an absorbent layer, where the absorbent layer draws moisture; b. medicated ointment, where the ointment is applied over the absorbent layer; c. a protective sheet, where the protective sheet is releasably attached over the ointment; d. an elastic waistband, where the elastic waistband attaches the anti-rash diaper around a wearer; and e. a hook and loop fastener, where the hook and loop fastener attaches the protective sheet to a center portion of the diaper. | 43,095 |
9,429,004 | 1. A method of producing hydrocarbons in situ from a fixed-bed hydrocarbon formation, the hydrocarbon formation disposed below a ground surface and having a substantially horizontal, lower permeability zone adjacent to, substantially parallel to, and between a top higher permeability zone and a bottom higher permeability zone, the steps comprising: providing a plurality of injection wells in the bottom higher permeability zone of the formation, the injection wells having a vertical portion extending into the bottom higher permeability zone and a horizontal portion, with perforations therein, extending along a length of a portion of the bottom higher permeability zone; providing at least one production well in the top higher permeability zone of the formation, the production well having a vertical portion extending into the top higher permeability zone and a horizontal portion, with perforations therein, extending along a length of the top higher permeability zone and disposed above the horizontal portions of the injection wells, the injection wells and the production well providing fluid communication therebetween and through the lower permeability zone; injecting a heated thermal-energy carrier fluid (TECF) into the injection wells; circulating the thermal-energy carrier fluid (TECF) upwardly and through the lower permeability zone; creating a substantially horizontal in situ heating element (ISHE) in the lower permeability zone and between the injection wells and the production well; mobilizing hydrocarbons in the lower permeability zone; producing at least a portion of the mobilized hydrocarbons by flowing the carrier fluid with the mobilized hydrocarbons through the production well to the ground surface; and removing at least one selected hydrocarbon held in the carrier fluid. | 20,362 |
8,419,367 | 1. A turbine, comprising: a plate connected to a rotatable shaft, the plate rotating along with the shaft; a first blade comprising a concave side and an opposite convex side, wherein the thickness of the first blade is no greater than five percent of the length of the first blade and the camber of the first blade is no less than fifteen percent; a first hinge pivotally connecting the first blade to the plate; a second blade comprising a concave side and an opposite convex side, wherein the thickness of the second blade is no greater than five percent of the length of the second blade and the camber of the second blade is no less than fifteen percent; a second hinge pivotally connecting the second blade to the plate; a stop A connected to the plate; a stop B connected to the plate located clockwise on the plate to the stop A; a stop C attached to the plate located clockwise on the plate to the stop B, wherein the stop B is located between the stop a and the stop C; and a stop D attached to the plate located clockwise on the plate to stop C, wherein the stop C is located between the stop B and the stop D; wherein the first blade falls between the stop A and the stop B and has freedom of movement between the stop A and the stop B; and wherein the second blade falls between the stop C and the stop D and has freedom of movement between the stop C and the stop D. | 25,327 |
8,436,956 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a first substrate on which a plurality of pixels is arranged; and a second substrate coupled to the first substrate to face the first substrate, wherein each of the pixels comprises: wherein the first opening is overlapped with at least one of the gate line, the storage line, and both of the gate and data lines. | 42,916 |
8,986,128 | 1. A golf swing practice apparatus that provides ball trajectory information comprising: (a) a rotating drum comprising an optical sensor mounted inside the drum that is capable of swiveling in a direction perpendicular to the rotational direction of the drum and capable of detecting a change in swivel position or swivel angle; (b) an elongated cord comprising a proximal end secured to the drum and a distal end secured to a golf ball; (c) a base member having an impact area over which a user may swing a golf club; (d) a frame structure secured to the base member and to the rotating drum whereby the frame structure holds the rotating drum in an elevated position above the impact area and provides an axis for the rotational direction; (e) a means for measuring rotation speed of the rotating drum; and (f) a console comprising a display screen for displaying swing data and a processor operably connected to the optical sensor and the means for measuring rotation speed to receive swivel and rotation data and for communicating the swing data to the display screen. | 11,486 |
8,768,774 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an advertisement associated with an advertiser; receiving a first targeting criteria for the advertisement and a first bid associated with the first targeting criteria; receiving a second targeting criteria for the advertisement and a second bid associated with the second targeting criteria; identifying a plurality of viewing users whose profiles satisfy at least one of the first targeting criteria and the second targeting criteria; determining, by a computer processor, for each of the identified plurality of viewing users whose profiles satisfy both the first targeting criteria and the second targeting criteria an aggregated bid for the advertisement that is the sum of the first and second bids; and applying the determined aggregated bid for advertisement selection for each of the identified plurality of viewing users. | 27,611 |
9,755,906 | 1. A method comprising: broadcasting a first message requesting one or more nodes to respond; examining one or more responses to the first message to select from the response one or more nodes to act as first proxies; causing sending of second messages from the one or more first proxies requesting one or more non-proxy nodes to respond; examining one or more responses to the second messages to select from the responses one or more nodes to act as second proxies, wherein the response to the second message includes a measure of a first signal strength of the second messages received at the non-proxy nodes responding to the second message, and wherein the selecting takes into account the first signal strength and a second signal strength of the response form the second message; creating a table of meter nodes including which proxies, if any, are used to reach each meter node; and storing the table in memory. | 797 |
9,622,173 | 1. A method for reducing power consumption in a transceiver front-end circuit for a cellular radio, said method comprising: providing an antenna structure operable to transmit signals and receive signals; providing a multiplexer coupled to the antenna structure and including a plurality of signal paths, each signal path including a bandpass filter that passes a different frequency band than the other bandpass filters and a circulator that provides signal isolation between the transmit signals and the receive signals; providing a receiver module including a separate signal channel for each of the signal paths in the multiplexer, each signal channel in the receiver module including a receiver delta-sigma modulator that converts analog receive signals to a representative digital signal in an interleaving process, each receiver delta-sigma modulator including a combiner, a low noise amplifier (LNA), an LC filter and a quantizer circuit, said combiner receiving the receive signals from the circulator and a feedback signal from the quantizer circuit and providing an error signal to the LNA to provide an amplified error signal, said amplifier error signal being provided to the LC filter to provide a filtered error signal, and the filtered error signal being provided to the quantizer circuit, said LC filter being a multi-order filter; and selectively reducing the order of the LC filter in situations where a full dynamic range of the cellular radio is not required so as to reduce the power requirements of the cellular radio. | 13,632 |
9,727,124 | 1. A method for updating data in an application running on a portable electronic device, comprising: receiving a selection that places the application in a power savings mode, wherein the application is visible on a lock screen application that locks and unlocks a user interface of the portable electronic device, the application operates within a framework of the lock screen application, and the application shows the data from a source external to the portable electronic device; determining the portable electronic device is in a sleep state, wherein the application in the power savings mode is prevented from updating the data from the source external to the portable electronic device prior to the portable electronic device exiting the sleep state; receiving a command input to cause the portable electronic device to exit the sleep state based at least in part on whether the portable electronic device is in the sleep state; and scheduling an update to the data in the application at a time determined based at least in part on the received command input and a periodic update schedule for the application, wherein the determined time occurs after the portable electronic device has exited the sleep state. | 27,291 |
9,617,899 | 1. A method for a particulate matter sensor, comprising: generating an indication of particulate flow rate through a particulate filter based on particulate accumulation on a sensing element of the sensor, and diagnosing the particulate filter based on the flow rate; responsive to determining that the diagnosing of the particulate filter is completed, heating the sensing element of the sensor to a first temperature greater than an exhaust gas temperature but lower than a temperature at which soot burns to repel particulate from the sensing element, and maintaining the sensing element of the sensor at the first temperature. | 23,563 |
8,670,117 | 1. An inspection apparatus comprising: a work stage part moving a board to a measurement location and supporting the board; an optical module comprising: an optical module moving part disposed over the optical module and coupled to the optical module to move the optical module, wherein the projecting part is disposed substantially perpendicular to the board, and the optical module further comprises a second optical path changing part changing an optical path so that the grating pattern light from the projecting part is slantly incident onto the board, wherein the optical module comprises 2m projecting parts (‘m’ is a natural number), and the 2m projecting parts are spaced at a regular interval on a circumference that is substantially parallel with the board when viewed in a plan view, wherein the second optical path changing part comprises a third mirror disposed under each of the projecting parts and a fourth mirror disposed under the third mirror, and wherein the third mirror reflecting the grating pattern light that is downwardly incident onto the third mirror in a direction substantially perpendicular to the projecting part toward the fourth mirror disposed under and facing the projecting part, and the fourth mirror reflecting the grating pattern light provided from the third mirror toward the board. | 5,732 |
9,624,579 | 1. An apparatus for forming a thin film on a substrate in a reaction container by alternately supplying a raw material gas and a reaction gas, which reacts with the raw material gas to generate a reaction product, into the reaction container under a vacuum atmosphere, the apparatus comprising: a raw material gas supply unit installed in an end portion of a supply path of the raw material gas to supply the raw material gas into the reaction container; a pressure adjusting valve installed in an vacuum exhaust path configured to vacuum-exhaust an interior of the reaction container; a pressure regulating valve configured to regulate an internal pressure of the reaction container to a preset pressure and an opening and closing valve which are respectively installed in a bypass path detouring the pressure adjusting valve; a tank installed in the middle of the supply path of the raw material gas and configured to store the raw material gas in an increased pressure state; a flow rate adjusting valve installed in a downstream side of the tank in the supply path of the raw material gas; and a control unit configured to control the opening and closing valve to be opened when the raw material gas stored in the tank is supplied into the reaction container, wherein the control unit is configured to maintain a constant flow velocity from the tank to the interior of the reaction container by intermittently increasing an opening degree of the flow rate adjusting valve as a pressure within the tank decreases. | 30,847 |
9,756,510 | 1. A method, in a user equipment, of providing measurement reports, wherein said user equipment is interfered by a plurality of wireless networks, said method comprising: receiving, from a eNodeB, information about a plurality of subframe patterns respectively used by said plurality of wireless networks; obtaining, from the eNodeB, associations between the measurement reports and said plurality of subframe patterns; measuring channel information in at least one subframe patterns, and generating measurement reports for said at least one subframe patterns according to said association; sending said measurement reports to said eNodeB. | 28,354 |
9,174,907 | 1. A process comprising contacting a reaction fluid containing (a) a phosphorus acidic compound, (b) a metal-organophosphorus ligand complex catalyst that comprises a metal of Group 8, 9 or 10 complexed with an organophosphorous ligand, and, optionally, (c) free organophosphorus ligand, with an aqueous buffer solution to neutralize at least some amount of the phosphorus acidic compound of said reaction fluid to form a neutralized phosphorus acidic compound, wherein the buffer solution comprises a salt of an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid represented by the formula: wherein R | 19,093 |
9,251,685 | 1. A method of operation of a device having memory and a communications module comprising: receiving at least one location signal with the communications module; storing geospatial data obtained at least from the at least one location signal with a time stamp in memory; receiving a plurality of biomedical signals over time from at least one sensor with the communications module; storing biomedical data from the received biomedical signal with a time stamp in memory; repeating the receiving at least one location signal and storing geospatial data from the at least one location signal in different geographic locations; determining at least one location of the device based on the geospatial data; and identifying at least one illness having a level of occurrence in the at least one location of the device that is above a threshold level of occurrence. | 10,280 |
8,472,093 | 1. A machine-implemented method comprising: determining web press printing capabilities and costs of different printing organizations using a processor and an automated interactive communication system established between printing units, said printing capabilities comprising a number of printing units, a number of supply roll stands supplying continuous print media to said printing units, and a size of a drum of each of said printing units; receiving a printing request from a print customer through a graphic user interface operatively connected to said processor; evaluating said printing request using said processor to determine printing request requirements, said determining of said web press printing capabilities and costs comprising calculating a total color capacity per signature for each of said different printing organizations, each signature of said total color capacity per signature being based on a number of pages each said drum of said printing units can print, said number of pages each said drum can print being based on a page size of said printing request and said size of each said drum, and said total color capacity of said total color capacity per signature for said each of said printing organizations equaling said number of said printing units operated by said each of said printing organizations multiplied by said number of supply stands operated by said each of said printing organizations; comparing said printing request requirements with said printing capabilities and costs using a comparator operatively connected to said processor to identify capable printing organizations of said different printing organizations that have abilities to process said printing request, said comparing comprising comparing said total color capacity per signature for each of said different printing organizations with a color capacity per signature requirement of said printing request; calculating different print choices and costs based on said printing capabilities and costs of said capable printing organizations using said processor, said calculating different print choices and costs comprising calculating multiple costs for at least one of said printing organizations based on different combinations of said printing units and said supply stands operated by said at least one of said printing organizations; and outputting said different print choices and costs to said print customer through said graphic user interface. | 12,589 |
8,825,760 | 1. A computer system, including a user interface and a processor, and a program that operates on said processor, said processor operating according to said program to: create an event which plural different people will attend in person at a first time; obtain area information about a specific area in which the event is occurring, the area being the area where the event will occur at the first time and where the different people will attend in person at the first time; obtain people information from a social network database that allows people to enter information about themselves, said people information indicative of personal information about said plural different people associated with the event; provide information which shows a virtual version of the specific area at a second time earlier than the first time, along with different places in the specific area and said plural different people in the specific area; accept information from said plural different people over the network connection at the second time about specific clothing that the specific people will wear to the event at the first time; said information which shows comprises said plural different people, said virtual version of said specific area, and said people information. | 22,944 |
9,258,948 | 1. A system for plant cultivation in containers located in a vertical or sloping arrangement on different levels, the system, comprising: a module including | 14,061 |
9,677,398 | 1. A method for utilizing ventilation air methane (VAM) exhausted during mining of a non-combustible ore from an underground formation which comprises an ore bed and at least one methane-bearing layer overlying the bed, underlying the bed, and/or imbedded in the bed, said method comprising: mining at least a portion of the ore bed to extract non-combustible ore and form a mined-out cavity, said mining being carried out in a manner effective to cause exposure and/or fracture of at least one methane-bearing layer which releases mine methane into the mined-out cavity, wherein said non-combustible ore comprises sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate, or combinations thereof, applying an air flow to the mined-out cavity for ventilation in a manner sufficient to dilute the methane content in the mined-out cavity to provide a ventilation air stream containing at most 2% methane; directing at least a portion of said methane-containing ventilation air stream exhausted to the surface to at least one surface appliance of a refinery where the mined non-combustible ore is processed, said at least at least one surface appliance comprising a co-generation plant, to use at least a part of the methane present in said portion of the ventilation air stream in said co-generation plant as a supplemental energy source and to use at least a portion of the air in said portion of the ventilation air stream as combustion air to generate heat, steam, and/or electricity, and directing an additional fuel source to such co-generation plant, said additional fuel source being a methane-containing gas with a methane content of at least 25%, wherein at least a portion of the ventilation air methane and at least a part of the additional fuel source are combusted in the co-generation plant; and wherein directing at least said portion of said methane-containing ventilation air stream and directing said additional fuel source result in a combined flow having an O | 11,943 |
9,528,835 | 1. A vehicle that communicates with an external terminal, the vehicle comprising: a location obtainer configured to receive satellite signals from a plurality of satellites and obtain current location information indicating a current location of the vehicle based on the received satellite signals; a detector configured to detect driving information of the vehicle; a controller configured to count a time delay for information transmission and reception with the terminal, correct the current location information based on the counted time delay and the detected driving information, control transmission of the corrected current location information, and control an output of navigation information received from the terminal; a communicator configured to transmit the corrected current location information to the terminal and receive the navigation information transmitted from the terminal; and an outputter configured to output the received navigation information, wherein the navigation information includes map information to which the corrected current location information is mapped, the counted time delay includes a first time for correcting the current location information, a second time for generating the navigation information, and a third time for performing a signal processing of the navigation information, and the controller is further configured to count the first time from when the current location information is obtained until the current location information is corrected, count the second time from when the corrected current location information is transmitted to the terminal until the navigation information is received, and count the third time from when the navigation information is received until the signal processing of the navigation information is completed. | 5,466 |
9,719,112 | 1. A polynucleotide encoding a mutant beta-glucosidase polypeptide, wherein the mutant beta-glucosidase polypeptide has beta-glucosidase activity and comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10, except for: (a) a substitution of threonine (T) with alanine (A) at the amino acid corresponding to position 74 of SEQ ID NO: 10; and/or (b) a substitution of valine (V) with alanine (A) at the amino acid corresponding to position 275 of SEQ ID NO: 10. | 15,327 |
8,678,375 | 1. A sheet feeder, comprising: a sheet placing portion on which a sheet is to be placed; a feeding member that picks up a sheet from the sheet placing portion; a supporting body that supports the feeding member and capable of changing a posture between a sheet feeding posture for bringing the feeding member into contact with the upper surface of a sheet placed on the sheet placing portion and a retracting posture for retracting the feeding member upward relative to the sheet feeding posture; a driver that outputs a drive force for changing the posture of the supporting body to the retracting posture against a gravitational force; an electromagnetic clutch capable of changing a state between an engaged state in which a drive force output from the driver is transmitted to the supporting body and a disengaged state in which the drive force is not transmitted to the supporting body; and a retraction controller that performs a retraction holding process for switching the supporting body to the retracting posture; wherein the retraction holding process is a process for stopping the output of a drive force by the driver after the electromagnetic clutch is set in the engaged state and the supporting body is set to the retracting posture by the drive force from the driver and setting the electromagnetic clutch in the disengaged state when an engagement keeping time set in advance elapses after the output of the drive force is stopped. | 41,568 |
9,209,836 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing processor-executable video encoding instructions for: obtaining a non-key frame; receiving a dynamic multiple syndrome bit chunks request; generating syndrome bit chunks by distributed video encoding of the non-key frame; and providing the syndrome bit chunks after receiving the dynamic multiple syndrome bit chunks request. | 5,127 |
9,132,397 | 1. An apparatus for stirring a viscous flowable medium, said apparatus comprising: a receptacle for receiving said viscous flowable medium therein; a vertically arranged rotatable stirring axle; and a stirring assembly comprising at least one stirring element within said receptacle; wherein: said at least one stirring element is connected to said stirring axle by a support rod that projects radially and substantially perpendicularly from the stirring axle; said at least one stirring element comprises a lower wall, an outer lateral wall, and an inner lateral wall; said lower wall and inner and outer lateral walls form a channel that is open in an upward direction from the bottom of said receptacle; said lower wall of said at least one stirring element is inclined with a rotational slant angle in a direction of rotation such that rotation of said stirring axle causes said viscous flowable medium moving through said stirring element to be directed upward; and said at least one stirring element is arranged at an end of said rod at a distance from said stirring axle. | 43,218 |
9,122,980 | 1. An information processing device comprising: an identifying unit configured to identify a first object expressed by pixel data and a second object expressed by vector data from target image data including drawing information for each object; a generation unit configured to perform rasterization based on first drawing information indicating the drawing information of the first object and second drawing information indicating the drawing information of the second object to generate combined image data, into which the first object and the second object are combined; and a contour extraction unit configured to extract a contour from the combined image data. | 20,699 |
9,522,573 | 1. A pneumatic tire comprising: a tread portion with a center main groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction provided on each side of the tire equator so that there is defined between the center main grooves a center land portion having a top surface that has a certain area and a maximum axial width in a range of from 15% to 19% of a tread width, wherein the center land portion is provided with a plurality of sipes having a width of not more than 1.5 mm, extending axially of the tire and arranged circumferentially of the tire at intervals, the center land portion is further provided with a plurality of recesses arranged circumferentially of the tire at intervals, extending from the center main grooves toward the tire equator and terminating within the central land portion, each of the recesses having a depth in a range of from 60% to 80% of the depth of the center main groove, the total area of the recesses is in a range of from 5% to 9% of said certain area of the top surface of the center land portion, the center land portion is provided with said sipes and said recesses only, and formed as a rib substantially continuous in the tire circumferential direction, each of the center main grooves is a zigzag groove made up of alternate long segments and short segments shorter than the long segments, the long segments inclined to one axial direction and the short segments inclined to the other axial direction with respect to the tire circumferential direction, each of the recesses is formed at one end of one of the long segments so as to have a sidewall surface smoothly continuous to a groove-sidewall surface of the short segment adjacent to the long segment concerned, the tread portion is further provided on each side of the tire equator with a shoulder main groove and a plurality of middle axial grooves, the shoulder main groove is a straight groove disposed on the axially outside of said center main groove, and extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction, each of the middle axial grooves is a straight groove and extends between the center main groove and the shoulder main groove so as to define a row of circumferentially arranged middle blocks therebetween, each of the middle blocks has each of the middle blocks is provided in a midportion of the axially outer edge with a notch extending from the shoulder main groove and terminating within the middle block. | 21,568 |
8,688,360 | 1. A method for operating a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, the method comprising: evaluating, by an engine control unit, a pressure difference to detect a blockage of a tailpipe of an exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine during operation of the motor vehicle, wherein the blockage occurs by immersion or submersion in water, sludge, or similar liquid media, and wherein the internal combustion engine is prevented from shutting off when the immersion or submersion of the tailpipe in the water, sludge, or similar liquid media is detected. | 2,760 |
8,482,153 | 1. A method of solar energy power inversion comprising the steps of: establishing a plurality of solar panels; creating a highly varying DC photovoltaic output from each of said plurality of solar panels; individually establishing each said highly varying DC photovoltaic output as an individual DC photovoltaic input to an individual inverter operating condition modality coordinated photovoltaic DC-DC converter; thereby establishing a plurality of DC-DC converters; individually, by said DC-DC converters, inverter operating condition coordinating conversion of each said individual DC photovoltaic input into a converted DC photovoltaic output for a high voltage, high power photovoltaic DC-AC inverter; serially connecting a plurality of said converted DC photovoltaic outputs to create a combined higher voltage converted DC photovoltaic output; establishing said combined higher voltage converted DC photovoltaic output as a converted DC photovoltaic input to said high voltage, high power photovoltaic DC-AC inverter; and inputting said converted DC photovoltaic input at a coordinated inverter operating condition of said high voltage, high power photovoltaic DC-AC inverter. | 32,981 |
9,576,615 | 1. A method of operation of a memory module with power management system comprising: providing a base power plane and a managed power plane; electrically connecting the base power plane and the managed power plane through a power management circuit; electrically connecting a memory array to the managed power plane; monitoring power usage of the memory array by monitoring power usage of ranks within the memory array with at least the power management circuit and another power management circuit, the power management circuit and the another power management circuit monitoring different ranks within the memory array; and modifying input voltage to the managed power plane based on the power usage of the memory array. | 18,695 |
9,049,660 | 1. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising: monitoring network traffic received by a network interface device of the computing device; recognizing a traffic pattern in the monitored network traffic; identifying an application of the computing device that corresponds to the recognized traffic pattern; and responsive to the identifying, waking at least a portion of the identified application. | 200 |
8,419,402 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a skin ply; a composite stringer placed on the skin ply, wherein the composite stringer comprises a hat shape cross-section comprising a first leg placed on a surface of the skin ply, a second leg placed on the surface of the skin ply, and a concave surface between the first leg and the second leg and wherein the composite stringer defines an elongated first channel between the concave surface of the composite stringer and a portion of the surface of the skin ply between the first leg and the second leg and extending from a first end to a second end of the composite stringer; foam located in the first channel; and a set of second channels in the foam such that the foam with the set of second channels in the foam is positioned between the concave surface of the composite stringer and the skin ply. | 6,630 |
9,119,120 | 1. A macro base station (MBS) to operate as an enhanced/evolved Node B (eNB) in an LTE network, comprising: an air interface to communicate with users within a macrocell and connect associated users to a core network; an interface to communicate with a plurality of pico base stations (PBSs) via a backhaul link; processing circuitry configured to: identify a number M of the weakest users associated with the MBS according to a defined strength metric where M is a specified integer; request a list of preferred PBSs for offloading from a candidate user selected from the M weakest users where L is a specified integer; receive a differential pico system utility from a candidate PBS selected from the candidate user's preferred PBSs which reflects the difference in overall throughput for the candidate PBS if the candidate user were to be offloaded to the candidate PBS; receive a user utility from the candidate PBS which reflects the throughput for the candidate user if the candidate user were to be offloaded to the candidate PBS; and, offload the candidate user from the MBS to the candidate PBS if such offloading would meet criteria that include an increase in the user utility by a specified extent and a decrease in the pico system utility for the candidate PBS by no more than a specified extent. | 1,930 |
8,595,264 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, are configured to cause a processor to at least: store a relationship definition including one or more selectors identifying events participating in the relationship and one or more constraints between the events, at least one of the constraints expressed in terms of one or more relationship parameters; receive one or more events; evaluate the received events against the one or more selectors; create a candidate relationship when the relationship parameters have been defined based on receiving one or more events that match a minimal deterministic set of the selectors; convert the candidate relationship to a relationship instance when a minimum number of events matching each of the selectors are-received; add an event to an existing relationship instance if the event matches the constraints of the existing relationship instance; and otherwise, add the event to an existing candidate relationship if the event matches the constraints of the candidate relationship. | 559 |
8,433,131 | 1. A method for recognizing three-dimensional control points, comprising: receiving a depth information item corresponding to an image captured by an image capturing apparatus; generating a plurality of three-dimensional block information items corresponding to a plurality of three-dimensional blocks according to the depth information; generating at least one reference plane according to the depth information; generating at least one connection group according to the three-dimensional block information and the reference plane; and selecting a three-dimensional block nearest to the image capturing apparatus as a control point from the connection group; wherein the step of generating a plurality of three-dimensional block information items comprises: detecting a plurality of protrusions according to the depth information; expanding the protrusions into the three-dimensional blocks according to the depth differences between the protrusions and the pixels surrounding the protrusions; and generating the three-dimensional block information items corresponding to the three-dimensional blocks. | 45,256 |
8,705,123 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an attribute-value-information holding unit that holds an attribute-value table showing correspondence between a type of gradation processing and a fixing-temperature control attribute value; an image-formation-attribute processing unit that determines a type of gradation processing and a corresponding fixing-temperature control attribute value on the basis of contents of a print instruction and the attribute-value table; a gradation processing unit that performs gradation processing in accordance with the type of gradation processing determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit; and a fixing-temperature control unit that controls fixing temperature in formation of a print image according to the fixing-temperature control attribute value determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit, wherein a target fixing-temperature is controlled on the basis of the type of gradation processing to be used. | 35,948 |
8,522,000 | 1. A method for handling a disruption event occurring during execution of a first thread group within a multiprocessor of a parallel processing subsystem residing within a computer system, the method comprising: receiving notification of the disruption event; identifying a second thread group that is waiting for at least one other thread group at a synchronization barrier instruction; unwinding execution of the synchronization barrier instruction by the second thread group, such that the second thread group is no longer waiting for the at least one other thread group at the synchronization barrier instruction, to facilitate entrance into the trap handler code segment for the second thread group; halting execution of all thread groups executing within the multiprocessor; setting an error status register to indicate a type of the disruption event; and setting, for each thread group, a program counter to point to a memory address of a trap handler code segment that comprises a software routine that configures the multiprocessor to handle the disruption event. | 9,836 |
8,444,897 | 1. A method for reclaiming waste by-products, comprising: receiving waste from a municipal waste stream, the received waste including at least cellulose materials and plastic materials; blending said cellulose materials and said plastic materials of said received waste to produce a blended mixture of reclaimed materials; after blending said cellulose materials, forming said blended mixture of reclaimed materials into a structural member, wherein forming said blended mixture includes: customizing reinforcement of said structural member by affixing at least one reinforcement member in any one of said plurality of grooves or holes to obtain one or more desired mechanical properties in said structural member. | 1,937 |
8,785,023 | 1. A redox flow battery energy storage system, comprising: a first redox flow battery cell block; and a second redox flow battery cell block, the first redox flow battery cell block having an outlet fluidically coupled to an inlet of the second redox flow battery cell block, wherein the first cell block has a first structural configuration based on a first state-of-charge range and the second cell block has a second structural configuration different from the first structural configuration, the second structural configuration based on a second state-of-charge range that is different from the first state of charge range. | 44,182 |
9,019,792 | 1. A memory device, comprising: a volatile memory device; a non-volatile memory device; a memory control circuit coupled to the volatile memory device and non-volatile memory device; a backup power source arranged to temporarily power the volatile memory device, non-volatile memory device, and the memory control circuit upon a loss of power from the external power source; a switch to selectively couple: wherein upon reestablishment of power by an external power source from a power loss event, the memory control circuit is configured to restore data from the non-volatile memory device to the volatile memory device prior to a host system, to which the memory device couples, completing boot-up. | 29,555 |
9,778,666 | 1. A dynamic current limiter comprising: an input node configured to be coupled with a test and measurement instrument; an output node configured to be coupled with a device under test; a current control valve coupled between the input and output nodes, the current control valve being configured to limit current flow received from the test and measurement instrument based on a control input; and | 32,271 |
9,356,884 | 1. A method comprising: creating a copy of an original packet of a traffic flow at an ingress leaf node of a cloud switch; forwarding, by the ingress leaf node, the original packet along a less-specific path through the cloud switch, the less-specific path based on a domain index of an egress domain for the original packet; modifying the copy of the original packet to create a more specific path learn request packet; forwarding, by the ingress leaf node, the more specific path learn request packet along the less-specific path through the cloud switch; receiving, at the ingress leaf node, a more specific path learn request reply packet that includes an indication of a fabric system port of a fabric interconnect; and programming a forwarding table based on the indication of the fabric system port, to have subsequent packets of the traffic flow forwarded along a more-specific path defined by the fabric system port, wherein the programming the forwarding table further comprises: allocating on demand a local index from a pool of indexes; programming a local forwarding table entry of the ingress leaf node with the local index; and programming the local index in the fabric interconnect, wherein the local index is locally significant at the ingress leaf node and the fabric interconnect, and capable of being reused by other leaf nodes of the cloud switch. | 1,048 |
8,704,028 | 1. A process for producing olefins, the process comprising: contacting a hydrocarbon feedstock with a catalyst comprising a solid support and a tungsten hydride bonded to alumina present in the support, wherein the hydrocarbon feedstock consists essentially of an acyclic symmetrical olefin, without any ethylene, to produce first and second olefin products, respectively, having a lower carbon number and a higher carbon number relative to the acyclic symmetrical olefin, wherein-the acyclic symmetrical olefin is converted to the first olefin having a lower carbon number relative to the acyclic symmetrical olefin with a selectivity of at least 45% by weight. | 8,547 |
9,845,019 | 1. A wireless power supply system comprising a power transmission device provided on a ground side and having a power transmission coil, and a power receiving device provided in a vehicle and having a power receiving coil, the power transmission coil transmitting electric power to the power receiving coil via a wireless connection, so as to supply the electric power to an electrical load installed in the power receiving device, the power receiving device including: a first efficiency calculator configured to calculate a first efficiency based on a transmission power command value and the electric power supplied to the electrical load; and a switching controller configured to stop supplying the electric power received by the power receiving coil to the electrical load when the first efficiency falls to a predetermined first threshold efficiency or less, the power transmission device including: | 20,624 |
8,727,706 | 1. A system comprising: a sight tube configured to optically communicate with an interior of a rotary machine via insertion within an inspection port; a first interchangeable nozzle tip removably secured to the sight tube, wherein the first interchangeable nozzle tip comprises a window and a plurality of openings configured to direct purge air across the window; a curtain tube disposed about the sight tube and configured to direct the purge air from a first air source to the plurality of openings via a first passage formed between an inner surface of the curtain tube and an outer surface of the sight tube; and a second interchangeable nozzle tip removably secured to the curtain tube, wherein the second interchangeable nozzle tip comprises a plurality of outlets configured to direct curtain air around the window; wherein the curtain tube is configured to direct the curtain air from a second air source to the plurality of outlets via a second passage formed between an outer surface of the curtain tube and an inner surface of the inspection port. | 16,024 |
9,486,753 | 1. An apparatus for aerating an aqueous solution, comprising: a) a vortex assembly operatively connected to a pump; b) a vortex member defining a vortex chamber, wherein said vortex member is mounted in vertical alignment above a housing for an aerated aqueous solution; c) a concave wall separating said vortex chamber from said housing, said wall including a centrally located opening providing fluid communication between said vortex chamber and said housing; d) a discharge conduit concentrically disposed within said housing, wherein said discharge conduit depends from said wall and includes an upper end circumscribing said opening; e) a concentrically disposed air intake tube having an upper portion extending through said vortex chamber and a lower portion extending into said discharge conduit, wherein a lower end of said air intake tube is spaced above a lower end of said discharge conduit; f) a mixing tube concentrically disposed within said housing having an upper end extending through the upper end of said housing; and g) a port proximate an upper end of said housing, said port providing fluid access to said housing. | 36,421 |
9,633,468 | 1. A system for processing rays in 3-D rendering, comprising: a plurality of ray processing units, each ray processing unit comprising logic for testing a ray for intersection with one or more shapes comprising one or more elements of an acceleration structure, or one or more elements of geometry, and a memory configured to store definition data for rays that can be tested for intersection by that ray processing unit; and a memory hierarchy configured to store data defining elements of the acceleration structure and elements of the geometry, and wherein the memory hierarchy is configured to store definition data for rays scheduled for ray testing, the definition data for rays containing both ray origin and ray direction data, wherein each of the ray processing units is configured to receive data from an interconnect and to process the received data to identify, within the respective memory of that ray processing unit, one or more rays to be tested for intersection with a shape, and to output an indication of a result of the testing for intersection of that shape with the one or more identified rays. | 8,454 |
9,043,242 | 1. An information providing system comprising: processing circuitry of a manager server; a memory of the manager server which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processing circuitry of the manager server, cause the processing circuitry of the manager server to perform the steps of: processing circuitry of the content distribution server; a memory of the content distribution server which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processing circuitry of the content distribution server, cause the processing circuitry of the content distribution server to perform the steps of: said processing circuitry of said manager server further performs the step of controlling reception of said purchased content and said usage conditions of said purchased content from said content distribution server; processing circuitry of the mobile communication device; a memory of the mobile communication device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processing circuitry of the mobile communication device, cause the processing circuitry of the mobile communication device to perform the step of: said processing circuitry of said manager server further performs the step of controlling transmission, to said mobile communication device, of the list of the available content including: said processing circuitry of said mobile communication device further performs the step of transmitting a request for one of the available content to the manager server based on the received list of the available content from the first processing circuitry of the manager server; and said processing circuitry of said manager server further performs the step of controlling the transmission of said requested content to said mobile communication device. | 35,960 |
8,851,840 | 1. A wind turbine blade comprising: a blade body, at least one device for modifying the aerodynamic surface or shape of the blade, said device being movably connected to the blade body, at least one pneumatic actuator for controlling the position and/or movement of said device, a pressure chamber positioned within the blade body for powering said pneumatic actuator and connected to said actuator via a valve system for controlling said powering of said actuator, and at least one signal communication pathway for conveying control signals and for connecting the valve system to a control unit operating the valve system by said signals. | 47,999 |
8,588,026 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a seismic streamer having at least one sensor disposed therein, the streamer being filled with a first gel; a sensor holder disposed in the streamer, the sensor being disposed in the sensor holder; a housing disposed in the sensor holder and surrounding the sensor; and a second gel disposed between the housing and the sensor, wherein the second gel is denser than the first gel. | 16,820 |
8,652,326 | 1. A device for the electrodeionisation of an aqueous electrolyte solution, comprising an electrodeionisation module ( 1 ), a plurality of ultrafiltration modules ( 21 , 22 , 1201 , 1202 , 1203 ) connected in parallel and a connection piece ( 3 , 10 ) which mounts the ultrafiltration modules to the electrodeionisation module ( 1 ), said connection piece including a collection space communicating with each of the ultrafiltration modules ( 21 , 22 , 1201 , 1202 , 1203 ) such as to be able to guide a diluate produced from said electrolyte solution during operation of said device in said electrodeionisation module ( 1 ) from said electrodeionisation module ( 1 ) to said ultrafiltration modules ( 21 , 22 , 1201 , 1202 , 1203 ); said connection piece ( 3 , 10 ) being devoid of an adjustable pressure-maintaining valve, the ultrafiltration modules ( 21 , 22 , 1201 , 1202 , 1203 ) comprising a semipermeable membrane with an exclusion limit in the range of 5000 to 400000 daltons such that the ultrafiltration modules are configured to produce an internal pressure drop and such that a counter pressure in the range of 0.3 to 3 bars is built up behind the electrodeionization module ( 1 ) which is sufficient to ensure a packing density of the ion exchanger in the electrodeionisation module ( 1 ). | 28,652 |
8,603,328 | 1. A corn oil extraction system, comprising: a) a at least one extractor vessel; b) an amount of corn germ having a substantially fixed location inside said at least one extractor vessel; c) an amount of supercritical carbon dioxide fluidly engaged to said amount of corn germ inside said at least one extractor vessel; d) a heat source which maintains said amount of supercritical carbon dioxide at a temperature in a range of about 85° C. and about 120° C.; e) a pressure generator which maintains said amount of supercritical carbon dioxide at a pressure in a range of about 8500 psi and about 12,000 psi; f) an effluent monitor which monitors an amount of corn oil solubilized in said amount of supercritical carbon dioxide; g) a temperature adjustment element coupled to said heat source; and h) a pressure adjustment element coupled to said pressure generator, said temperature adjustment element and said pressure adjustment element responsive to said effluent monitor, said temperature adjustment element and said pressure adjustment element adjusting said temperature and said pressure based on monitoring said amount of corn oil solubilized in said amount of supercritical carbon dioxide to achieve a preselected corn germ extraction efficiency profile. | 31,892 |
8,627,007 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a controller of a data read/write system, first data to write to an address of a single port memory; receiving, at the controller, a request to read second data from the single port memory; determining, by the controller, a quantity of entries stored in a cache memory that is separate from the single port memory, transmitting, by the controller and when a determined quantity of entries including a dirty bit field indicating that the data stored in the data field has not been written back from the cache memory to the single port memory is greater than a threshold, a blocking notification, writing, by the controller and when the determined quantity is greater than the threshold, an entry, of the quantity of entries, to the single port memory based on a first priority, changing, by the controller and based on writing the entry, a value associated with the dirty bit field of the entry; storing, by the controller and when the determined quantity is less than the threshold, the first data in the cache memory based on a second priority, retrieving the second data from either the cache memory or the single port memory during a first system clock cycle; and copying the first data from the cache memory and storing the first data at the address in the single port memory during a second system clock cycle that is different than the first system clock cycle. | 21,435 |
9,315,096 | 1. A transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle comprising: a first shaft connected to an engine and provided with a first externally-meshing gear fixedly disposed on the first shaft; a first hollow shaft disposed without rotational interference with the first shaft, selectively connectable to the first shaft through a clutch, and provided with a first output gear fixedly disposed on the first hollow shaft; a second hollow shaft disposed without rotational interference with the first hollow shaft and provided with a second output gear fixedly disposed on the second hollow shaft, wherein the first shaft is positioned through the first hollow shaft to form a combination, and the combination of the first shaft and the first hollow shaft are positioned through the second hollow shaft; a second shaft disposed in parallel with the first shaft and provided with a second externally-meshing gear fixedly disposed on the second shaft and engaged with the first externally-meshing gear; a first motor/generator directly and operably connected to the second hollow shaft; a second motor/generator directly and operably connected to the second shaft; and a reduction gear unit transmitting torque of the first hollow shaft or the second hollow shaft to a differential apparatus. | 28,622 |
9,710,150 | 1. A touch-sensitive display system for an electronic device, comprising: a touch-sensitive display comprising a touch-sensitive surface; and a control module configured to: | 48,605 |
9,730,439 | 1. A preformed concentrate, capable of forming emulsion/microemulsion upon dilution with water, for providing peripheral desiccating effect on leaves/crops consisting of: (i) a water insoluble film forming polymer; (ii) a long chain substituted amide; and (iii) an oil soluble surfactant, wherein the long chain substituted amide is dialkyl acid amide having the formula: wherein, R | 26,907 |
9,743,354 | 1. An apparatus for converting a radio frequency (RF) signal with multiple local oscillator phases, the apparatus comprising: a receiver mixer comprising: wherein each set of switches comprises: | 14,487 |
9,276,408 | 1. A power system comprising: a first power source provided by a utility, wherein the utility generates a first message and a second message in response to a determination by the utility that load shedding in the power system is needed; a second power source; a number of loads; a smart utility meter coupled to the first power source, wherein the first message is configured for receipt by the smart utility meter, and wherein the smart utility meter has a processor and is structured to receive the first message and generate and transmit a third message based on and in response to the first message; and an automatic transfer switch comprising: | 41,051 |
9,045,200 | 1. A floating craft stabilization platform for attaching to a frame of a floating craft comprising; a pivotable platform; at least one front mounting bracket assembly; an upper axle assembly made of an upper axle rotationally housed within an upper axle tube; a lower axle assembly made of a lower axle rotationally housed within a lower axle tube; at least one adjustable strap; at least one pivotable, extendable leg having a distal and proximate end; and at least one handle; wherein said at least one front mounting bracket assembly and said upper axle assembly are mechanically affixed to said frame of a floating craft, and said at least one adjustable strap is adjustably connected between said frame of said floating craft and said platform, and said at least one pivotable, extendable leg proximate end is pivotally connected to said upper axle assembly and said at least one pivotable, extendable leg distal end is pivotally connected to said lower axle assembly which is connected to platform, and said at least one handle is attached to said at least one pivotable, extendable leg. | 15,489 |
8,601,788 | 1. A bypass turbojet engine for an aircraft, provided with a longitudinal axis, said bypass turbojet engine comprising: a nacelle delimiting, at a front portion of the turbojet engine, an air intake and axially containing a cold flow fan for generating a cold flow and a hot flow generator for generating a hot flow, with a turbine casing ending at a rear portion of the turbojet engine, and with a bulbous boss being connected to said turbine casing along a first connecting surface; an engine cowl containing said hot flow generator, wherein said engine cowl comprises: a hot flow nozzle extending from said internal engine cowl wall in a rearward direction, with the hot flow nozzle being connected to the internal engine cowl wall along a second connecting surface and positioned relative to said bulbous boss to delimit a nominal nozzle throat section and a nominal outlet section for the hot flow to flow from said hot flow generator, and at least one ventilation opening positioned between said external wall of said engine cowl and said hot flow nozzle, with said at least one ventilation opening being outside said cold flow nozzle, and configured to discharge to the outside of the turbojet engine a ventilation air flow, bled from said cold flow generated from said cold flow fan and into said engine cowl, to temperature regulate said hot flow generator, wherein: said hot flow nozzle extending from said internal engine cowl wall is formed as a single skin having an external wall over which the ventilation air bled from the cold flow flows and an internal wall over which the hot flow flows, wherein said single skin is bulbous in shape, widening in diameter continuously along the longitudinal axis from said second connecting surface in a direction toward said external wall of said engine cowl, and said single skin is configured to include a concave shaped portion facing toward the bulbous boss in which there is no separation of the hot flow through the hot flow duct; said ventilation opening is at a largest-diameter part along the single skin; and said bulbous boss connected to said turbine casing is configured relative to said single skin to form said nominal nozzle throat section and said nominal outlet section of said hot flow nozzle. | 49,827 |
9,685,734 | 1. A power line disconnect apparatus comprising: a housing; an electrical connector that projects from a surface of a connector plate coupled to the housing, the electrical connector configured to receive a plug of a power cable; an ejector pin configured to project through a first aperture in the connector plate and eject the plug from the electrical connector; a microswitch configured to activate and deactivate a power circuit associated with the power cable; a sensor pin configured to project through a second aperture in the connector plate, the sensor pin having a sensor pin extension, the sensor pin extension configured to control the microswitch; and a sensor pin guide configured to constrain movement of the sensor pin, the sensor pin guide having a side opening, the sensor pin extension projecting laterally from the sensor pin through the side opening to contact a microswitch arm of the microswitch. | 48,026 |
9,012,344 | 1. A method of making an electrocatalyst comprising: preparing a porous polymer by mixing a bipyridine monomer selected from: and a stereo-contorted spirobifluorene monomer selected from: adding a precursor consisting essentially of one or more transition metals to the porous polymer; and activating one or more transition metals disposed in the porous polymer by thermal treatment. | 27,898 |
8,370,948 | 1. A computerized system for determining an intent of a sender in transmitting electronic information in order to prevent unauthorized dissemination of the electronic information and to facilitate cost-effective handling of dissemination events, the system comprising: computer hardware configured by instructions to determine whether a distribution list of the electronic information includes both a plurality of authorized addresses and one or more unauthorized addresses, and configured by instructions to determine whether the distribution list of the electronic information includes an unauthorized address whose edit distance from another authorized address is below a threshold, and configured by instructions to determine whether the sender replies to an original message using a reply to all feature to transmit the electronic information, and an original sender of the original message is authorized, and configured to execute an intention assessment unit to determine if the intent in sending the electronic information is malicious or a mistake, wherein the sender's intent is determined to be a mistake if: | 35,846 |
8,945,367 | 1. A process of controlling an electrolytic apparatus used for making nitrogen trifluoride comprising a body, an electrolyte, at least one anode chamber that produces an anode product gas, at least one cathode chamber, and one or more fluorine adjustment means to maintain a target excess concentration of fluorine in said anode product gas by adjusting the concentration of fluorine in said anode product gas to react with hydrogen to maintain a concentration of hydrogen below deflagration levels in said anode product gas, wherein said one or more fluorine adjustment means are selected from the group consisting of current, temperature, composition of the electrolyte, and flow of fluorine from an external fluorine gas supply, said process comprising the steps of: (a) analyzing anode product gas; (b) determining if hydrogen or fluorine are present within a targeted amount in said anode product gas; and if so going to step (d) below; (c) adjusting one or more of said fluorine adjustment means to adjust the level of fluorine in said anode product gas; and (d) repeating steps (a) to (c). | 16,332 |
9,336,201 | 1. A computing system comprising; a processor; a lexical data store having a plurality of lexical entries, each lexical entry having a segment field and a metadata field, the segment field identifying a textual string and the metadata field identifying one or more segment identifiers that are different than the textual string and are mapped to the textual string by the lexical entry; a rules data store having a plurality of rule entries, each rule entry representing a rule that indirectly identifies valid compound words by identifying, in the rule entry, at least one segment identifier and an operation to be performed on textual strings that are mapped to the at least one segment identifier in the lexical data store to form the valid compound words; and memory storing executable instructions, which, when executed by the processor, configure the computing system to: | 34,467 |
9,607,775 | 1. An energy storage device comprising: a positive electrode comprising a first activated carbon material and a negative electrode comprising a second activated carbon material, wherein the first activated carbon material comprises pores having a size of ≦1 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of >0.3 cm pores having a size from >1 nm to ≦2 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of ≧0.05 cm <0.15 cm the second activated carbon material comprises pores having a size of ≦1 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of less than 0.3 cm pores having a size from >1 nm to ≦2 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of ≧0.05 cm <0.15 cm the first activated carbon material has a total oxygen content of at most 1.5 wt. %. | 46,007 |
9,742,999 | 1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a recording source capable of outputting a first stream including image data compression-encoded by a first compression encoding format and a second stream including image data compression-encoded by a second compression encoding format different from the first compression encoding format; a recording file operative of recording the first and second streams which the recording source outputs; a recording job which correlates the recording source and the recording file, and manages a recording state; a transmission unit configured to notify an external device connected via a network that the recording source is capable of outputting a stream including the image data compression-encoded by the first compression encoding format and a stream including the image data compression-encoded by the second compression encoding format different from the first compression encoding format; instructing means which change a parameter relating to the recording source, according to a command transmitted from the external device connected via a network; and control means which perform control so as to switch whether or not a command by the instructing means as to the recording source correlated with the recording job can be accepted, in accordance with the recording state of the recording job. | 19,123 |
8,553,543 | 1. A packet relay device for performing transmission/reception of packets, comprising: a distribution processing unit for classifying traffics into users and classes based on header information of said packets received; a calculation unit for calculating available frame rate for each user and a high-priority class of each user from information on frame rate set in said user and said high-priority class of said each user on the basis of said classified traffics; a first scheduling control unit for updating a transmission schedule point-in-time calculated based on said calculated available frame rate for said each user and said high-priority class of said each user, and judging that packets of said high-priority class should be transmitted in accordance with said transmission schedule point-in-time updated, a second scheduling control unit for updating said transmission schedule point-in-time calculated based on said calculated available frame rate for said high-priority class of said each user, and judging that packets of a non-high-priority class should be transmitted in accordance with said transmission schedule point-in-time updated and a shaping unit for updating said transmission schedule point-in-time for each packet to be transmitted which is the first scheduling control unit and the second scheduling based on said calculated available frame rate for said each user and said high-priority class of said each user, and performing a shaping of said packets at said calculated available frame rate on each user basis and on each user's class basis in accordance with said transmission schedule point-in-time updated; and wherein packets of the high-priority class are to be first processed in case that the packets of the high-priority class is available for transmission. | 20,489 |
9,825,754 | 1. A universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) module comprising: a receiver unit being clocked by a programmable receiver clock configured to sample an incoming data signal and comprising a counter clocked by said receiver clock, wherein the counter is reset to start counting with every falling edge of the data signal and to trigger a break (BRK) detection signal if the counter reaches a programmable threshold value; wherein the counter stops counting for triggering the BRK detection signal upon a rising edge of the data signal. | 43,051 |
8,512,032 | 1. A multi-axis injection molding apparatus comprising: a fixed platen; a movable platen; a plurality of injection devices; and an intermediate platen disposed between a fixed mold and the fixed platen and formed with a runner adapted to supply a molten resin from a single in-line injection apparatus to the plurality of injection devices, wherein each of the injection devices includes a cylinder that stores the molten resin therein, and a plunger slidable within the cylinder so as to inject the molten resin, and wherein the cylinder of each of the injection devices includes an entrance and a separate exit. | 20,801 |
9,526,033 | 1. A method for reducing handover signaling, the method comprising: determining, by a network side device, a handover frequency of an inactive user equipment in a first preset time; and when the handover frequency is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, sending, by the network side device, a message comprising a second preset time to the inactive user equipment, so that the inactive user equipment enters a radio resource control (RRC) idle state after the second preset time, wherein the message is an RRC connection release message. | 26,861 |
9,404,444 | 1. An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a housing that includes a flow passage through which exhaust gas from the engine flows; a valve that includes: an actuator that includes: the valve and the actuator are incorporated in the housing; and the output member includes: a first accommodating chamber that accommodates at least the valve stem and the follower; and a second accommodating chamber that accommodates at least the motor and the output gear, wherein: the housing further includes a housing wall that divides the first accommodating chamber from the second accommodating chamber; and the housing wall includes: | 47,835 |
8,908,699 | 1. A system comprising: a wireless communication interface to communicate with wireless devices including an access device in a coverage area; a modem to communicate data with a broadband network; and a gateway in data communication with the wireless communication interface and the modem, the gateway being operable to receive information identifying multimedia formats that the access device is able to process and further being operable to receive quality of service criteria specified for use by the access device to maintain a specified level of quality of consumption of multimedia information by the access device, the gateway further being operable to receive from the access device a request for delivery of data defining an audio or a video clip to the access device, the gateway further operable to compare the information identifying multimedia formats that the access device is able to process with information about format of the requested data defining an audio or video clip and to automatically convert the data defining the audio or a video clip to a multimedia format that the access device is able to process in satisfaction of the received quality of service criteria specified for the access device. | 2,467 |
8,739,471 | 1. An assembly for securing a component to a roof, the assembly comprising: a base, comprising: a flashing positioned over the base, comprising: | 18,244 |
9,042,364 | 1. A method of retransmitting data unit, performed by an Acknowledged Mode Radio Link Control (AM RLC) entity of a transmitter, in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, at the Acknowledged Mode Radio Link Control (AM RLC) entity of the transmitter, a discard indication for a Radio Link Control Service Data Unit (RLC SDU) from a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity of the transmitter; discarding the RLC SDU in response to no segment of the RLC SDU being mapped to an Acknowledged Mode Data (AMD) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) or a portion of the AMD PDU; setting a state variable that counts a number of retransmission associated with the RLC SDU and delivering an indication to an upper layer of the AM RLC entity in response to the state variable reaching a maximum retransmission value, wherein the AM RLC entity sets the state variable only when: | 26,135 |
9,029,619 | 1. A process to make alpha olefins comprising: a) providing a dehydration zone containing a dehydration catalyst, b) introducing a feedstock comprising ethanol, water, and an inert component into said dehydration zone and into contact with said dehydration catalyst, c) operating said dehydration zone at conditions effective to dehydrate at least a portion of the ethanol to an effluent consisting essentially of ethylene, water, unconverted ethanol if any, and the inert component, d) introducing said effluent into a first fractionation zone to recover an ethylene stream, e) introducing said ethylene stream into an oligomerization zone containing an oligomerization catalyst and into contact with said oligomerization catalyst, f) operating said oligomerization zone at conditions effective to produce an effluent consisting essentially of 1-butene, 1-hexene, heavier alpha olefins having 8 carbons or more, and unconverted ethylene if any, g) introducing the effluent from step h) into a second fractionation zone to recover a stream consisting essentially of 1-butene, a stream consisting essentially of 1-hexene, a stream consisting essentially of heavier alpha olefins having 8 carbons or more and a stream consisting essentially of ethylene, h) combining the 1-hexene and at least one heavier alpha olefin having 8 carbons or more recovered at step g) and isomerizing the combined stream to produce an internal olefin and i) converting the effluent recovered at step h) by metathesis with the ethylene into different alpha-olefins with an even or odd number of carbons. | 243 |
8,906,158 | 1. A method for producing a compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate having a pn junction by selective growth characterized by using a base substrate having an average residual strain of not more than 1.0×10 −5 , wherein said base substrate is a GaAs substrate, a p-type electrode is formed on the p layer of said pn junction, and a n-type electrode is formed on the n layer of said pn junction, wherein said method comprises: (1) epitaxially growing at least one compound semiconductor layer on or above said base substrate; (2) forming a masking layer on or above at least one compound semiconductor layer formed in (1) and patterning using said masking layer; (3) epitaxially growing another compound semiconductor layer; (4) forming said p type electrode on the p layer of said pn junction and forming said n-type electrode on the n-type layer of said pn junction, wherein said pn junction is formed during the performance of steps (1)-(3). | 22,260 |
8,780,991 | 1. A method for encoding a video sequence in a scalable video encoder, the method comprising: selecting a first search window configuration for coding a current picture of the video sequence in an enhancement layer encoder of the scalable video encoder based on motion vectors generated by a reference layer encoder when encoding the current picture, wherein selecting a first search window configuration comprises determining motion vector coverage for the first search window configuration based on the motion vectors, comprising: coding the current picture in the enhancement layer encoder using the first search window configuration. | 30,845 |
8,488,350 | 1. A DC-AC inverter for converting a DC power input to an AC power output, the inverter comprising: an input for connection to a DC power source; an output including a first output terminal and a second output terminal; a first buck converter coupled between the input and the output; a second buck converter coupled between the input and the output; and a controller for alternately operating the first buck converter and the second buck converter to produce AC power at the output. | 16,594 |
9,319,797 | 1. An electromagnetic vibration device, comprising, a vibration plate device having a base, a vibration plate, a upper suspension, a lower suspension, wherein said base has an inner side surface surrounding around said base to form a vibration plate chamber, wherein said vibration plate is arranged within said vibration plate chamber, wherein inner edges of said upper and said lower suspension are fixedly adhered with a upper and a lower surface of said vibration plate respectively, wherein outer edges of said upper and said lower suspension are fixedly adhered with an upper and a lower surface of said base respectively, a voice coil fixed arranged on a center position of a bottom surface of said vibration plate having two cables; a magnetic loop system comprising a pole piece, a T-yoke, and a magnet, wherein at least one first fixing holes are spacedly located around said pole piece, and said magnet and said pole piece are fixedly arranged on said T-yoke, and a peripheral basin frame are connected with said vibration plate device and said magnetic loop system respectively for forming said electromagnetic vibration device, wherein said peripheral basin frame has at least one connection frames, at least one connection blocks and a connection base, wherein one end of said connection frame is connected to said vibration plate device, and the other end of said connection frame is fixed connected to the connection base, and each two adjacent said connection frames are connected together by a connection block, and said connection base is fixedly connected to one end of said connection frame, so as to form said integral peripheral basin frame. | 48,647 |
8,351,533 | 1. A method comprising: generating a plurality of bitmaps for signaling resource allocations to a group of broadband wireless mobile stations, the plurality of bitmaps including at least a user bitmap and a plurality of operational parameter bitmaps including a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) modes bitmap and a bitmap for indicating resource sharing, wherein each mobile station in the group is assigned a position within the user bitmap to identify whether the mobile station is allocated frame resources and wherein the MIMO modes bitmap signals to mobile stations identified as being allocated resources according to the user bitmap whether the MIMO mode for a mobile station is a single user MIMO (SU-MIMO) or a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO); and transmitting the plurality of bitmaps to the group of mobile stations in a group resource allocation (GRA) information element (IE) of a broadband wireless media access protocol (MAP) frame portion. | 22,360 |
9,377,541 | 1. A scintillator panel comprising: a support body; and a scintillator layer formed on the support body, the scintillator layer including a phosphor comprising columnar crystals and the columnar crystals being formed from a columnar crystal growth starting surface of the scintillator layer to a columnar crystal growth ending surface thereof over an entire thickness direction of the scintillator layer, wherein in the scintillator layer, an X-ray rocking curve of a specific plane index measured by applying an X-ray to the columnar crystal growth ending surface after cutting to have a thickness of 5 μm from the columnar crystal growth starting surface has a half-width (a) of equal to or less than 15 degrees; an X-ray rocking curve of the specific plane index measured by applying an X-ray to the columnar crystal growth ending surface without cutting has a half-width (b) of equal to or less than 15 degrees; and a ratio (a/b) of the half-width (a) to the half-width (b) is from 0.5 to 2.0. | 12,262 |
9,436,315 | 1. A touch sensitive display comprising: a touch panel configured to sense an object proximate to the panel; a display device configured to display data; and touch circuitry including a noise rejection circuit to reject noise introduced by the display device into the touch panel, the touch circuitry configured for rejecting the noise by combining touch panel stimulation signals to generate a noise signal, and combining the noise signal with a sense signal from the touch panel. | 12,216 |
9,462,949 | 1. A method used for a biomedical system, the biomedical system comprising an RFID apparatus and a reader apparatus configured to communicate with the RFID apparatus, the RFID apparatus comprising electrodes configured to be placed adjacent to an acupuncture point and a motion monitor device, the motion monitor comprising a three-axes accelerometer, a three-axes gyrocompass, or a pressure sensor, the method comprising: sending command information to the RFID apparatus from the reader apparatus; determining, based on the command information, which operation between a first operation and a second operation is requested to be performed, wherein the first operation includes obtaining, by the RFID apparatus, acupuncture impedance or bio-potential data through the electrodes; and wherein the second operation includes using, by the RFID apparatus, the accelerometer, the gyrocompass, or the pressure sensor to obtain measurement data; performing at least one of the first operation and the second operation according to the determination result; submitting the acupuncture impedance or the bio-potential data to the reader apparatus either when the first operation is performed, or when the first operation and the second operation are performed; and submitting the measurement data to the reader apparatus either when the second operation is performed, or when the first operation and the second operation are performed. | 32,183 |
8,395,277 | 1. A control device for a vehicle including a power storage device, a converter for variably stepping up a voltage provided from said power storage device, an inverter for converting power output from said converter, and a motor that operates using the power output from said inverter, the control device comprising: a first control unit for controlling an output voltage of said converter based on a voltage command value; a second control unit for controlling said inverter to supply said motor with a rectangular wave voltage that is based on a torque command value, which designates an output torque of said motor, and said voltage command value; and a third control unit for controlling said voltage command value and said torque command value such that a difference between said torque command value and an actual output torque of said motor is smaller than a predetermined value when increasing said voltage command value, said third control unit increasing said voltage command value and said torque command value, stepwisely and alternately. | 2,045 |
8,598,800 | 1. A control circuit configured to control a switching element of a switching power supply, the control circuit comprising: a soft-start circuit configured to generate a soft-start voltage having a voltage level that rises over time; a pulse modulator configured to generate a pulse modulation signal having a duty ratio adjusted such that a feedback voltage that corresponds to an output voltage of the switching power supply matches the soft-start voltage; and a driver circuit configured to control the switching element according to the pulse modulation signal, wherein the soft-start circuit comprises: and wherein the soft-start circuit is configured to output, as the soft-start voltage, the voltage that occurs at the capacitor. | 45,198 |
8,815,184 | 1. A method for recovering metals from a spent catalyst, the method comprising: leaching a Group VIB metal, a Group VIII metal, and a Group VB metal, from the spent catalyst with an ammonia containing leach solution at a temperature and a pressure sufficient to form a pressure leach slurry; separating and removing a solid residue from the pressure leach slurry to form a pressure leach solution comprising a Group VIB soluble metal complex and a Group VIII soluble metal complex; treating the pressure leach solution by chemical precipitation to precipitate at least a portion of the Group VIB metal and at least a portion of the Group VIII metal as precipitated metal complexes; recovering the precipitated metal complexes by at least a separation means selected from settling, filtration, decantation, centrifugation and combinations thereof, forming a first effluent stream containing less than 600 ppm of the Group VIB metal and less than 400 ppm of the group VIII metal and a solid residue containing at least 97% of incoming VIB metal and over 80% of incoming Group VIII metal; sulfiding the first effluent stream with a sulfiding agent to form a sulfided slurry comprising a Group VB metal sulfide and/or oxide, a Group VIB metal sulfide and a Group VIII metal sulfide; separating and removing the Group VB metal sulfide and/or oxide, the Group VIB metal sulfide and the Group VIII metal sulfide from the sulfided slurry, forming a second effluent stream comprising a Group VB and a Group VIB soluble metal compound; contacting the second effluent stream with an effective amount of ferric ion at a pre-selected pH for the ferric ion to form a complex with the Group VB and Group VIB metal; performing a liquid-solid separation to remove the Group VB and Group VIB metal complex as solids, forming a third effluent containing less than 5 ppm of the Group VB metal and less than 5 ppm of the Group VIB metal. | 14,409 |
8,682,619 | 1. A system comprising: at least one computing device; at least one implantable treatment device including at least one bone cage permeable to only material less than or equal to 1 micrometer, the at least one bone cage substantially enclosing at least one auxotrophic prokaryote or eukaryote, the at least one auxotrophic prokaryote or eukaryote including at least one nucleic acid construct encoding at least one therapeutic agent, the at least one bone cage defining an interior region and exterior region; wherein the device includes at least one metabolite required by the at least one auxotrophic prokaryote or eukaryote; the implantable treatment device further comprising at least one pump for dispensing the at least one therapeutic agent, the pump including electronic circuitry configured to send or receive signals from the computing device; and one or more instructions on a recordable medium that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to regulate dispensing of the at least one therapeutic agent from the at least one implantable treatment device. | 33,707 |
8,858,685 | 1. A method of supplying fluid for use in a semiconductor manufacturing process, said method comprising desorbing the fluid from a monolithic carbon adsorbent on which the fluid has previously been adsorbed, and flowing the desorbed fluid to the semiconductor manufacturing process for use therein, wherein the monolithic carbon adsorbent has a bulk density of from 0.9 to 2.0 g/cm 3 , a fill density measured for arsine gas at 25° C. and pressure of 650 torr that is greater than 400 g arsine per liter of adsorbent, and porosity at least 20% of which comprises pores of diameter below 2 nm. | 47,243 |
8,551,589 | 1. A bottle comprising: a neck portion; and a body portion comprising a first innermost layer, a second layer, and a third layer, the first innermost layer comprising a first material selected from a group consisting of phenoxy type thermoplastic, phenoxy-polyolefin thermoplastic blends, phenoxy-functionalized polyolefin thermoplastic blends, and combinations thereof, the second layer comprising a second material selected from the group consisting of polypropylene, functionalized polypropylene, and combinations thereof, the second layer positioned exterior to the first innermost layer, and the third layer comprising regrind scrap material, the regrind scrap material being formed by regrinding discard material from an extrusion blow molding process, the discard material comprising the first material and the second material, the third layer positioned exterior to the first innermost layer and interior to the second layer. | 27,913 |
9,065,290 | 1. A three phase inverter driver and power conversion system, comprising: a three-phase power converter having three-phase AC inputs; and three inverters, each of the inverters being configured to produce a modified-sine single-phase AC output, the single-phase AC outputs being connected to the three-phase AC inputs of the power converter such that each of the inverters contributes one phase of a three-phase AC waveform to the power converter, wherein at least one of the phases of the three-phase AC waveform produced for the power converter is offset from at least one of the other phases, wherein the three-phase AC waveform provides a constant voltage due to the phases of the three-phase AC waveform being offset; an energy storage device connected in parallel with an output of the power converter and configured to provide power when all three phases of the three-phase AC waveform simultaneously cross polarity. | 30,911 |
8,732,906 | 1. A locking hinge having a plurality of fully locked configurations and a plurality of unlocked configurations, comprising: first and second barrel members, each having a cylindrical female recess and a multi-sided center bore; a medial barrel member disposed between said first and second barrel members and including a center bore, a first cylindrical male portion rotatably inserted into said cylindrical female recess of said first barrel member, and a second cylindrical male portion rotatably inserted into said cylindrical female recess of said second barrel member, each of said first and second cylindrical male portions having a multi-sided center bore, wherein said multi-sided center bores of said first and second barrel members, said multi-sided center bores of said first and second cylindrical male portions, and said center bore of said medial barrel member are in axial alignment; first and second hinge pins, each having a cylindrical outboard portion and a multi-sided inboard portion, wherein the cross-sectional shape of said multi-sided inboard portion matches the shape of said multi-sided center bores, such that said multi-sided inboard portions slidably insert through said multi-sided center bores with tight clearances; and a compression spring disposed in said center bore of said medial barrel member and between said inboard portions of said first and second hinge pins so as to urge said first and second hinge pins apart; wherein when said locking hinge is in a fully locked configuration, said multi-sided portion of said first hinge pin engages both said multi-sided center bore of said first male portion and said multi-sided center bore of said first barrel member and said multi-sided portion of said second hinge pin engages both said multi-sided center bore of said second male portion and said multi-sided center bore of said second barrel member for preventing relative rotation; and wherein when said locking hinge is in an unlocked configuration, at least one of said first and second hinge pins is depressed such that at least one of the multi-sided portions of the first and second hinge pins is disengaged from at least one of the multi-sided center bore of the corresponding first and second barrel member through which it is slidably inserted. | 17,254 |
8,651,212 | 1. Battery holder which is configured to be inserted into a tube opening in a seat tube of a frame of an electric bicycle and to be pulled out, wherein the battery holder has a saddle pillar and a saddle pillar space for accommodating the saddle pillar to connect a bicycle saddle to the battery holder via the saddle pillar, wherein the saddle pillar space for accommodating the saddle pillar is to be inserted into and to be pulled out from the seat tube together with the battery holder. | 42,606 |
9,730,078 | 1. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having a set of instructions stored thereon, wherein the set of instructions, when executed on a processor, implement a communication modeling system, the system comprising: an output module that provides network configuration data as an output, the network configuration data including a communication schedule for a plurality of devices coupled to a wireless communication network; an interface module (i) to receive input data provided by a user that describes the plurality of devices coupled to the wireless communication network without describing a timing of communications between the plurality of devices, and (ii) to store the input data on a computer-readable medium, an engine module communicatively coupled to the interface module to generate the network configuration data using the input data and a set of rules associated with a wireless communication scheme, wherein the network configuration data is used to configure the wireless communication network; wherein the generated network configuration data includes the communication schedule, wherein the communication schedule is generated according to the input data provided by the user and defines the timing of communications between the plurality of devices. | 29,103 |
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