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9,142,501 | 1. An interconnect structure comprising: a substrate having an electrical component present therein, said substrate selected from a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric substrate, a conductive substrate, and a stack or a combination thereof; a layer of a conductive material located on said substrate and over said electrical component, wherein said layer of conductive material has an opening that exposes a sub-surface of said layer of conductive material; an under-bump metallurgy (UBM) stack comprising a metallic adhesion layer having a bottommost surface that is in direct contact with said sub-surface of said layer of conductive material, a copper (Cu) seed layer that is in direct contact with the metallic adhesion layer, a first nickel (Ni) barrier layer that is present in direct contact with the copper (Cu) seed layer, a first copper (Cu) conductor layer present on the first nickel (Ni) barrier layer, and a second nickel (Ni) barrier layer present on the first copper (Cu) conductor layer; and a solder ball present on the second nickel (Ni) barrier layer. | 19,163 |
8,492,055 | 1. A method for fracturing or mask data preparation or proximity effect correction for charged particle beam lithography, the method comprising the steps of: setting a base dosage level for each of a plurality of exposures passes for a shaped beam charged particle beam writer; and determining a multiplicity of shots for the shaped beam charged particle beam writer, the shots comprising: | 11,685 |
8,620,488 | 1. A method performed by a data processor for automatically determining set-point values for a vehicle's control system, the method comprising the steps of: A) determining a horizon by means of position data and map data of an itinerary including route segments with at least one characteristic for each segment; B) calculating threshold values for said at least one characteristic of each segment according to one or more vehicle-specific values; C) comparing said at least one characteristic of each segment with the calculated threshold values and assigning each segment within the horizon to a respective category of a plurality of categories according to the results of the comparisons, wherein the threshold values serve as boundaries for the assigning of the segments to the plurality of categories; D) calculating set-point values for the vehicle's control system across the horizon according to rules pertaining to the categories to which segments within the horizon are assigned; E) regulating the vehicle according to the set-point values. | 31,552 |
9,042,285 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: determining when a user is in close proximity to a user equipment (UE) or the user is operating the UE; determining a remaining battery power of the UE when the user is not close to the UE or when the user is not operating the UE; and reducing power consumption of the UE when the remaining battery power is lower than a first threshold value. | 32,799 |
8,388,411 | 1. A method for polishing the edge of a semiconductor wafer, comprising: (a) providing a semiconductor wafer which has been polished on its side surfaces and which has a rounded edge; (b) polishing the edge of the semiconductor wafer by fixing the semiconductor wafer on a centrally rotating chuck, delivering the semiconductor wafer to a centrally rotating polishing drum which is inclined with respect to the chuck and to which a polishing pad containing fixedly bonded abrasives is applied, and pressing semiconductor wafer and polishing drum onto one another while a polishing agent solution containing no solids is continuously supplied. | 35,419 |
8,660,044 | 1. A method for providing a communication session with at least a first and second user of a communications system including at least a first and second terminal assigned to said first and second user, respectively, comprising: transmitting an initiation message from said first terminal to said second terminal, said initiation message including a first address assigned to said first terminal; receiving said initiation message at said second terminal; transmitting a first reply to said initiation message from said second terminal to said first terminal; receiving said first reply at said first terminal; displaying said first reply at a display of said first terminal, wherein said display is undivided for said displaying; dividing said display of said first terminal to simultaneously display text being entered to be transmitted from said first terminal and text received from said second terminal, said dividing based on if there is text being entered to be transmitted by said first terminal; and returning said display of said first terminal to being undivided when there is no text being entered to be transmitted by said first terminal during said communication session. | 46,038 |
9,617,630 | 1. A method of manufacturing a galvanized steel sheet having formability and crashworthiness, comprising: heating a steel sheet consisting of 0.03% to 0.13% C, 1.0% to 2.0% Si, 2.4% to 3.5% Mn, 0.001% to 0.05% P, 0.0001% to 0.01% S, 0.001% to 0.1% Al, 0.0005% to 0.01% N, and 0.0003% to 0.01% B on a mass basis; and optionally containing at least one selected from the following A-C: A: at least one selected from the group consisting of 0.0005% to 0.1% Ti and 0.0005% to 0.05% Nb on a mass basis; B: at least one selected from the group consisting of 0.01% to 1.0% Mo, 0.01% to 2.0% Ni, and 0.01% to 2.0% Cu on a mass basis; and C: 0.001% to 0.005% Ca on a mass basis; the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities to a temperature not lower than the Aci transformation temperature at an average heating rate of 5° C./s or more, followed by; | 25,060 |
9,553,527 | 1. An electrowetting display comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a plurality of pixel walls that intersect to define a plurality of pixel areas; a first electrode on the first substrate and a second electrode on the second substrate; a hydrophobic surface on the first electrode; an electrowetting oil within the pixel areas and on the hydrophobic surface between the first substrate and the second substrate; a fluid that includes an electrolyte, wherein the fluid is disposed on the electrowetting oil, wherein the first and second electrodes apply an electric field in the plurality of pixel areas, wherein the electric field causes the fluid to move onto the hydrophobic surface to displace a portion of the electrowetting oil on the hydrophobic surface; and a pyroelectric layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the pyroelectric layer is configured to absorb thermal energy from within the electrowetting display and output a voltage, and wherein the pyroelectric layer is coupled to a charge pump that receives the voltage from the pyroelectric layer. | 35,913 |
9,037,299 | 1. A method for predefining an operating point of a drive machine of a drive system having the drive machine and at least two loads which are driven by the drive machine, comprising: identifying in each case one instantaneous load power demand of the at least two loads; determining at least one partial request point of the drive machine for each identified load power demand in order to meet the respective load power demand, wherein the at least one partial request point for each identified load power demand each respectively include a partial torque and a rotational speed; determining at least one overall request point of the drive machine on the basis of the specific partial request points; determining a cost variable of the drive machine for the at least one overall request point; and selecting an operating point from a plurality of operating points that satisfy the at least one overall request point taking into account the cost variable and predefining the operating point as the selected operating point. | 10,162 |
9,289,756 | 1. A copper containing ZSM-34, OFF and/or ERI zeolitic material for selective reduction of NOx having a silica to alumina mole ratio ranging from about 4 to about 50 and a copper content, reported as CuO, ranging from about 1 to about 10 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the calcined zeolitic material, and having an alkali metal content, reported as the metal oxide, of less than or equal to 0.1 wt.-%. | 19,232 |
9,735,804 | 1. A system for encoding an input string of characters, comprising: a path definition defining a path through a data structure; a character reading and writing engine for writing a next character to an empty cell in the data structure with a predefined initial position; a next cell determination engine for determining a next empty cell by checking cells along the path in the data structure until an empty cell is located; a loop facilitator for looping back to the next character writing step and the determining next empty cell step for an additional data character; and an engine for serializing the data structure into a string of characters representing an encoded string of characters. | 39,430 |
9,071,439 | 1. A method of performing at least one operation in a cryptographic device in a system comprising an authentication server, the method comprising receiving in the cryptographic device a code generated by the authentication server; authenticating the code in the cryptographic device; and responsive to authentication of the code, performing said at least one operation in the cryptographic device; wherein the code is received in the cryptographic device in association with a request by the authentication server for the cryptographic device to perform said at least one operation; and wherein the operation to be performed by the cryptographic device comprises resetting a time value or event counter value on the cryptographic device. | 3,653 |
9,835,380 | 1. A heat exchanger comprising: an input cavity defined by inlet cavity walls; a heat exchanger portion in fluid communication with the input cavity and defined between a first side and a second side, wherein a plurality of baffles are positioned within the heat exchanger portion; and an outlet cavity in fluid communication with the heat exchanger portion and defined by outlet cavity walls, wherein the heat exchanger portion comprises: wherein each tube defines an inlet flow cross-section area at the first side and an outlet flow cross-section area at the second side, wherein at least one tube varies in its cross-section areas continuously from the first side to the second side of the heat exchanger portion. | 3,442 |
8,363,596 | 1. A method of increasing a power saving potential of a wireless client device that is associated with an access point in an association having a value for a listen interval parameter, the method comprising: determining, according to predefined considerations, a different value for said listen interval parameter; and declaring said different value for said listen interval parameter in a wireless transmission to said access point, wherein said listen interval parameter specifies a number of beacon intervals that can pass from a time said wireless client device listens for a beacon frame from said access point before said wireless client device listens for a next beacon frame from said access point, and wherein said predefined considerations comprise an expected usage model for said wireless client device. | 27,236 |
9,518,233 | 1. A hydrodewaxing method of a hydrocarbon raw material, wherein the hydrocarbon raw material is hydrodewaxed in the presence of a catalyst under the reaction conditions of a temperature of 250˜420° C., a hydrogen partial pressure of 1˜200 atm, a liquid hourly space velocity of 0.1˜10 h −1 and a hydrogen treatment rate of 250˜10,000 scf/B, wherein the catalyst comprises an EU-2 zeolite support having an acid site, the phase transition index (T) thereof, represented by Formula 1 below, being 60≦T<98, and the molar ratio of silica and alumina thereof being 20 to 200; and a metal composition for hydrogenation loaded in the EU-2 zeolite support, the metal composition including at least one metal selected from the group consisting of group VI metals and group VIII metals, wherein <Formula 1> T=(TGA weight reduction rate of the synthesized EU-2 sample)/(TGA weight reduction rate of pure EU-2 reference sample)×100 (here, the TGA weight reduction rate of the EU-2 sample is measured under the condition that the sample is heated from 120° C. to 550° C. at a heating rate of 2° C./min and then maintained at 550° C. for 2 hours). | 31,343 |
9,611,855 | 1. A subsea boosting module for use with a direct current (DC) power system, said subsea boosting module comprising: a housing defining at least a first, a second, and a third chamber separated by a plurality of dividers, wherein said first chamber and said third chamber are configured to maintain a first pressure therein that is substantially the same as an ambient pressure outside of said housing, and wherein said second chamber is configured to maintain a substantially constant second pressure of one atmosphere therein regardless of the ambient pressure; a fluid pump disposed within said first chamber; an electric motor disposed within said first chamber, said electric motor drivingly coupled to said fluid pump; a plurality of power components disposed within said second chamber and comprising at least one power converter coupled to said electric motor, said plurality of power components configured to deliver power to said electric motor; and a bypass module disposed within said third chamber, said bypass module configured for selective electrical bypassing of said subsea boosting module. | 25,036 |
8,746,371 | 1. A downhole tool for use in forming a borehole in a subterranean formation, comprising: a tubular body; at least one movable body carried by the tubular body, the at least one movable body configured to move between an activated position and a deactivated position; a sleeve member disposed at least partially within the tubular body, the sleeve member comprising an elongated cylindrical wall having open ends allowing fluid to flow through the sleeve member, the elongated cylindrical wall having at least one fluid port extending therethrough; and at least one movable restriction member disposed within the sleeve member, the at least one movable restriction member being movable between a first position in which fluid flow through the sleeve member between the open ends thereof is generally unimpeded and fluid flow through the at least one fluid port extending through the elongated cylindrical wall of the sleeve member is generally impeded, and a second position in which fluid flow through the sleeve member between the open ends thereof is generally impeded and fluid flow through the at least one fluid port extending through the elongated cylindrical wall of the sleeve member is generally unimpeded, the at least one movable restriction member being biased toward the first position, the at least one movable restriction member configured to move substantially completely to the second position when a flow rate of fluid through the sleeve member between the open ends thereof meets or exceeds a threshold flow rate, wherein the at least one movable body is configured to move between the activated position and the deactivated position responsive to movement of the at least one movable restriction member between the first position and the second position. | 12,964 |
8,482,418 | 1. A system for monitoring snoring, REM, sleep apnea or dozing of a sleeping person comprising a universal sensor sensing the movement of subcutaneous muscles during periods of REM and an alert indicator wherein the universal sensor comprises the alert indicator comprises a receiver of the information transmitted by the universal sensor, and a signal emitter configured to emit an audible or vibratory signal when the information transmitted by the universal sensor indicates the sleeping person is experiencing a period of rapid eye movement. | 12,136 |
8,680,603 | 1. A transistor comprising: a substrate; source and drain regions in said substrate; a control gate above said substrate; a first zone adjacent said drain region and between said substrate and said control gate, and comprising at least one floating gate including a plurality of electrically conductive nanoparticles configured to accumulate electrical charge; and a second zone adjacent said source region and between said substrate and said control gate, and comprising a single insulating layer, the first zone having a thickness less than that of the second zone and configured to provide a vertical electric field that varies across the first and second zones during a transistor-programming operation. | 49,645 |
9,766,009 | 1. A method of refrigeration control through a refrigeration system of a refrigerated transport container, comprising: performing a defrost cycle on the refrigeration system by activating a heat source; and restarting the refrigeration system after the defrost cycle has completed, wherein restarting the refrigeration system includes performing a liquid slugging avoidance process including: initiating a compressor of the refrigeration system at a speed; opening a pressure equalization valve in parallel with the compressor in response to the initiating; opening a liquid valve in series between a condenser and an evaporator after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed from opening of the pressure equalization valve, the liquid valve and the pressure equalization valve both being open at the same time; and closing the pressure equalization valve after a period of time. | 38,624 |
8,571,430 | 1. A wet-type image forming apparatus, comprising: an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic latent image and a toner image on the circumferential surface thereof; a developer bearing member for bearing liquid developer containing toner and carrier liquid on the circumferential surface thereof and supplying the liquid developer to the image bearing member to develop the electrostatic latent image; a bias applying unit for applying a developing bias to the developer bearing member; a first charging unit for charging the toner in the liquid developer to a first polarity before a development process of supplying the liquid developer to the image bearing member; a second charging unit for reversely charging the toner in residual liquid developer remaining on the circumferential surface of the developer bearing member to a second polarity opposite to the first polarity after the development process; and a removing unit for removing the residual liquid developer from the circumferential surface of the developer bearing member after charging to the second polarity; wherein a surface potential V of the residual liquid developer after the reverse charging satisfies the following equation (1) when V | 18,872 |
9,471,121 | 1. An electronic device disposed on a single integrated circuit comprising: a plurality of power domains operable to be independently powered, said plurality of power domains including at least one microprocessor domain including a programmable main microprocessor; a power control manager connected to said plurality of power domains for selectively powering said plurality of power domains, said power control manager including | 18,417 |
9,317,100 | 1. A method, comprising: detecting at least one line of a cache of a compute unit that differs from a corresponding line in a memory; writing differing data from the at least one differing line of the cache to the memory; and flushing at least one remaining line of the cache that differs from a corresponding line in the memory; | 2,307 |
8,394,861 | 1. A method for producing a liquid product, comprising forming a dispersion comprising gas bubbles dispersed in a liquid phase in a high shear device, wherein the average gas bubble diameter is less than about 1.0 μm; contacting the dispersion with a multifunctional catalyst to form said liquid product; and recovering the liquid product. | 24,460 |
9,770,445 | 1. A compound of formula (I) wherein: R R R R R R R R R R or an enantiomer, diastereomer, salt, solvate or salt of a solvate thereof. | 6,915 |
9,592,820 | 1. A method of controlling motor torque during coasting of a vehicle, the method comprising: acquiring, by a controller including a memory and a processor, information about a speed of an input shaft of a transmission detected by a detector while the vehicle is running, information about an acceleration of the input shaft of the transmission obtained from the speed of the input shaft of the transmission, and information about a state of an engine clutch; determining, by the controller, whether the vehicle is coasting based on the acquired information; calculating, by the controller, a motor torque instruction based on engine friction torque corresponding to the speed of the input shaft of the transmission, a rotary inertia of an engine, and the acceleration of the input shaft of the transmission, when the vehicle is determined to be coasting with the engine clutch disengaged; and controlling, by the controller, torque of a driving motor for driving the vehicle in accordance with the calculated motor torque instruction, wherein the motor torque instruction derives from an equation, as follows: motor torque instruction=engine friction torque−(rotary inertia of engine×acceleration of input shaft of transmission). | 20,182 |
9,548,498 | 1. An electrocatalyst for fuel cells comprising an electrically conductive support and a catalytically active species, wherein the conductive support is an inorganic multicomponent support material of composition OX1-OX2 wherein and wherein the catalytically active species comprises a noble metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, iridium, palladium, platinum, silver and gold, or mixtures or alloys thereof. | 23,612 |
9,430,057 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a display comprising: a processor configured to: | 45,697 |
9,696,802 | 1. A finger-worn ring that harvests short range wireless energy, comprising: a small interaction area on an outer portion of the finger-worn ring facing towards the palm of a user's hand, the small interaction area comprising actuators arranged in a pattern comprising a center actuator and actuators surrounding the center actuator in a circular pattern on the interaction area to sense user input actions for controlling items displayed on a display; an inductor and circuitry that is used for scavenging of short range wireless energy from a device that is transmitting the wireless energy for a purpose other than charging; a battery that stores the scavenged energy; and a microprocessor that monitors battery level and decides when to activate energy scavenging to charge the battery; and a wireless link that communicates the user input actions to a computing device using the scavenged energy stored in the battery to control items displayed on a display of the computing device using the communicated user input actions. | 39,572 |
8,909,397 | 1. A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle including an internal combustion engine and an electrical motor each as a travel source for the hybrid vehicle and including a power storage device supplying electric power to said electrical motor, said control apparatus comprising: a detection unit configured to detect an abnormality, other than a temperature-related abnormality, of said power storage device; a vehicle control unit configured to control said hybrid vehicle such that said power storage device is electrically disconnected from an electrical load including said electrical motor and said hybrid vehicle travels using said internal combustion engine as said travel source instead of said electrical motor, when said detection unit detects the abnormality; and an inhibition unit configured to inhibit said hybrid vehicle from traveling using said internal combustion engine by shutting down said internal combustion engine, when a temperature-related abnormality of said power storage device is detected while said hybrid vehicle is traveling using said internal combustion engine instead of said electrical motor. | 49,118 |
8,817,799 | 1. A network processor for performing residential gateway processing tasks, comprising: a first cluster of packet processors and a second cluster of packet processors, wherein the first cluster and the second cluster include a main packet processor and a secondary packet processor, wherein the main packet processor is configured to perform routing of an incoming packet and the secondary packet processor is configured to perform a task off-loaded from the main packet processor; a plurality of Ethernet media access control (MAC) adapters configured to interface with a plurality of subscriber devices connected to a residential gateway; an external-network MAC adapter configured to interface with a wide area network (WAN) connected to the network processor; and an ingress handler configured to enable processing of the incoming packet by one of the first and the second clusters having a smaller processing load between the first and the second clusters to load balance the processing of the incoming packet between the first cluster and the second cluster. | 14,094 |
9,030,576 | 1. An album creating apparatus comprising: an image acquiring section for acquiring a plurality of images in association with image capturing time and dates; a reference time acquiring section for acquiring a reference time indicative of the time and date of a main event in an album; an image capturing timing specifying section for specifying an image capturing timing indicative of a period for the reference time acquired by the reference time acquiring section, which includes the image capturing time and dates of the plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring section; a title determining section for determining a title to be inserted into the album based on the image capturing timing specified by the image capturing timing specifying section; an album creating section for creating the album by laying out the title determined by the title determining section and the plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring section; and a specified subject information acquiring section for acquiring specified subject information including a main character in the album, wherein the album creating section determines the title to be inserted into the album dependent on age range of the main character for a period over which the images are captured. | 16,806 |
9,470,382 | 1. A portable light, comprising: a housing having a battery compartment; a light head connected with the housing, wherein the light head comprises: a plurality of light elements spaced apart from one another; a reflector comprising a plurality of reflective surfaces, wherein each light element is disposed within one of the reflective surfaces so that the reflective surfaces focus the light from the light element disposed within the respective reflective surface; a displaceable diffuser for selectively diffusing the light from the light elements, wherein the diffuser comprises a plurality of first areas having a first dispersal pattern and a plurality of second areas having a second dispersal pattern different from the first pattern; wherein the first and second areas are spaced about the diffuser so that in a first position the first areas of the diffuser overlie the reflective surfaces so that the light from the light elements projects through the first areas, and wherein when the diffuser is in a second position, the second areas of the diffuser overlie the reflective surfaces so that the light from the light elements projects through the second areas; a controller operable to control the light elements so that when the diffuser is in the first position the light elements provide a full light level and when the diffuser is in the second position the light elements provide a dim light level that is less than the light provided by the full light level; an actuator operable to displace the diffuser from the first position to the second position, wherein the actuator comprises a first switch actuable by the actuator, wherein the controller controls the light between the full light level and the dim light level in response to actuation of the first switch. | 28,875 |
8,574,420 | 1. A method for controlling the release of one or more anions (as a function of time) from a film which comprises the steps of: (i) forming a polyelectrolyte assembly wherein the polyelectrolyte assembly comprises at least two anion/cationic polymer bilayers comprising one or more different anion/cationic polymer bilayers where at least a first bilayer is formed from a first cationic polymer and at least a second bilayer is formed from a second cationic polymer wherein the cationic polymers are selected from where: n+m+l+k+i=N, the total number of repeat units in the polymer; n, m, l, k and i are all integers; or m and l are integers, n is zero or an integer and i and k are zero; or m and l are integers, and n, i or k is zero or an integer; A Z R R or where n+m=N is the number of repeating units in the polymer; each y, independently, is 1, 2 or 3; each x, independently, is an integer ranging from 1-10; each R wherein the first cationic polymer is selected from cationic polymers of formula I and the second cationic polymer is selected from cationic polymers of formula II, or wherein the first and second polymers are selected from cationic polymers of formula II and differ from each other in the value of (n)/N; and (ii) subjecting the polyelectrolyte assembly formed to conditions in which ester functions in the polymer of formula I or in the polymer of formula II are hydrolyzed to release the one or more anions. | 48,566 |
8,377,788 | 1. A method of forming a bipolar transistor comprising: forming a mesa that has a collector region, a base region that lies above and touches the collector region, a cap region that lies above and touches the base region, and a hard mask that lies above and touches the cap region, the collector region having a first conductivity type, the base region having a second conductivity type and a notch, the cap region having a first conductivity type and a top surface; forming a first protective layer that touches the collector region, the base region, and the cap region; forming a second protective layer that touches the first protective layer; and removing the second protective layer so that the second protective layer is only left in the notch to form a protective plug that lies within the notch. | 47,277 |
9,107,917 | 1. A method of attenuating sepsis in a mammal, the method comprising administering to the mammal an amount of an α 2A -specific-adrenergic antagonist compound that is BRL-44408, or a salt thereof, which attenuates sepsis. | 45,584 |
9,765,713 | 1. A hydrogen fuel assist device for an internal combustion engine system, the internal combustion engine system including an internal combustion engine, which has a combustion chamber, and a fuel throttle valve and an air throttle valve which are connected to the combustion chamber, said hydrogen fuel assist device comprising: a hydrogen gas generator for generating hydrogen gas with a gas outlet; a fluid pump connected between said gas outlet and the air throttle valve, said fluid pump directly pumping the generated hydrogen gas from said hydrogen gas generator directly into the combustion chamber through the air throttle valve at varying flow rates; and a pump controller electrically connected to said fluid pump, said pump controller being operable to control a rotational speed of said fluid pump based solely on opening degree of the fuel throttle valve so as to adjust the flow rate of the generated hydrogen gas to be supplied into the combustion chamber during operation of the internal combustion engine. | 48,987 |
8,891,497 | 1. A method of communicating using a personal area network (PAN) over a wireless medium that is shared with a wireless local area network (WLAN), between a PAN coordinator device and one or more PAN devices while conserving PAN device power, the method comprising: sending one or more frames from the PAN coordinator device to a PAN device over the wireless medium, wherein the one or more frames are addressed to the PAN device according to a PAN protocol, the PAN protocol having overlap and being only partially compliant with frame formatting layer protocols used for frames of the WLAN; and wherein the PAN protocol that is partially compliant with frame formatting layer protocols used for frames of the WLAN comprises a protocol having WLAN frame formats, or modifications thereof, such that WLAN devices can, upon hearing a PAN protocol frame, understand at least enough of the PAN protocol frame to defer use of a common wireless networking medium; at the PAN device, powering up a receiver to listen for frames; when the start of a current frame is detected at the PAN device, determining whether the current frame will contain data readable by the PAN device; if the PAN device determines that the data might be readable, attempting to receive more of the current frame; if the PAN device determines that the current frame will contain data not readable by the PAN device, determining a duration of the current frame from one or more PHY frame parameters of the current frame; if the PAN device determines that the current frame will contain data not readable by the PAN device, powering down the receiver for a sleep time that depends on the determined duration of the current frame; wherein determining whether the current frame will contain data readable by the PAN device comprises: a) determining a data rate of the current frame from one or more Physical Layer (PHY) frame parameters of the current frame; b) determining whether the data rate is one supported by the PAN device; and c) if the data rate is not one supported by the P AN device, deeming the current frame as one containing data not readable by the PAN device; wherein the sleep time depends on the determined duration of the current frame in that the sleep time is equal to the duration of the current frame less awake time spent since the start of the current frame determining whether to power down. | 3,122 |
8,661,778 | 1. A solar power plant, comprising: a solar tower; an array of heliostat mounted mirrors, a solar receiver and a high pressure section of a Brayton cycle power plant mounted near a top of the solar tower, and a low pressure section of the said Brayton cycle power plant and an electric generator mounted at ground level, wherein the low pressure section of said Brayton cycle power plant mounted at ground level includes at least one of a low pressure compressor (LPC) and a low pressure turbine (LPT). | 7,447 |
9,682,498 | 1. A semi-preg material that is composed of a semi-preg having a first outer side and a second outer side where the tack of said first outer side varies from 20 to 38 N and where the tack of said first outer side is controlled by a property enhancing film that has a more consistent and reduced tack of from 10 to 15 N, said semi-preg material comprising: A) a semi-preg comprising: a) a first resin layer comprising an uncured thermosetting resin and a curing agent for said uncured thermosetting resin; b) a first layer of fibrous reinforcement located on one side of said first resin layer, said first layer of fibrous reinforcement, comprising an inner side adjacent to said first resin layer and an outer side that forms said first outer side of the semipreg, wherein a portion of said uncured thermosetting resin from said first resin layer has travelled through portions of said first layer of fibrous reinforcement from said inner side to said first outer side of the semipreg such that said first outer side of the semipreg has a tack that varies from 20 to 38 N; c) a second layer of fibrous reinforcement that is located on the other side of said first resin layer, said second layer of fibrous reinforcement having an inner side adjacent to said first resin layer and an outer side that forms said second outer side of the semipreg; and B) a property enhancing film comprising a mixture of uncured thermosetting resin and a rubber toughening component, said property enhancing film being in the form of a solid film that has an outer surface and an inside surface, said inside surface contacting and covering said first outer side of the semipreg, wherein said solid film weighs from 10 to 60 gsm and wherein the outer surface of said solid film has a tack level of 10 to 15 N to thereby control the tack level of the first outer side of said semi-preg to be more consistent and reduced. | 22,440 |
9,654,607 | 1. A terminal apparatus, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive prompt information of a first application from a server automatically; an icon generating unit configured to generate a first icon corresponding to the first application in an application icon interface according to the prompt information received by the receiving unit; a first control unit configured to associate the first icon generated by the icon generating unit with a first function according to the prompt information, and control the first icon to be displayed in a first display effect; a first display unit configured to display the first icon generated by the icon generating unit in the first display effect a detecting unit for detecting an operation when at least part of a first picture of a third application is displayed in a display region of the terminal apparatus, wherein the first picture includes a second icon, the second icon is for running a second application installed in the display device; a second deciding unit for deciding whether the operation is an operation intended to move the first picture out of the display region; and a display processing unit for displaying a second picture in response to the operation when the second deciding unit decides that the operation is the operation intended to move the first picture out of the display region, wherein the second picture includes at least one of the first icon, the at least one of the first icon is for indicating that the first application corresponding to the first icon is capable of being installed into the terminal apparatus. | 46,933 |
8,395,992 | 1. A method for communication, the method comprising: in an Ethernet network comprising multi-rate link partners coupled via an Ethernet link, performing by one of said coupled multi-rate link partners: | 29,333 |
8,513,487 | 1. A seed of canola line ND-662c, representative sample of seed of which was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11594. | 22,634 |
9,374,706 | 1. A central node device that encodes and decodes data in a wireless sensor network system, the central node device comprising: a key generation circuit receiving a first cover-coded message, a password and a user identification, producing a plurality of pad keys by using a Padgen function operation, and outputting the pad keys, wherein the first cover-coded message is comprising a first least-bit cover-coded message and a first most-bit cover-coded message; a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code checking circuit receiving the first most-bit cover-coded message and the first least-bit cover-coded message, wherein the first most-bit cover-coded message and the first least-bit cover-coded message are concatenated with cyclic redundancy check codes respectively, verifying if the first most-bit cover-coded message and first least-bit cover-coded message are correct by using corresponding CRC code, and outputting an enable signal to the key generation circuit; a password decoder circuit decoding a cover-coded password to generate the password by using part of the pad keys; and a XOR operation circuit performing a XOR operation for decoding the first most-bit cover-coded message and the first least-bit cover-coded message to obtain a first most-bit message and a first least-bit message, encoding the first most-bit message and the first least-bit message, and outputting a second most-bit cover-coded message and a second least-bit cover-coded message. | 22,138 |
9,203,779 | 1. A media converter device, comprising: a first Ethernet physical layer device comprising a low profile Ethernet port, the first Ethernet physical layer device designed to communicate with a first device over a first Ethernet link that terminates on a corresponding low profile Ethernet port on the first device, the first Ethernet link having a first link rate and being limited to a short reach link distance; a second Ethernet physical layer device comprising an RJ-45 Ethernet port, the second Ethernet physical layer device designed to communicate with a second device over a second Ethernet link that terminates on a corresponding RJ-45 Ethernet port of the second device, the second Ethernet link having a second link rate, wherein the low profile Ethernet port is smaller in height as compared to the RJ-45 Ethernet port; and a bridge device that transfers traffic between the first Ethernet physical layer device and the second Ethernet physical layer device. | 6,304 |
8,423,211 | 1. A method for protective limiting of charging and discharging current of a battery in a hybrid powered vehicle, comprising: receiving a power request and determining an initial torque value in response to the power request, by a processor; determining, by the processor, a charging or discharging state of the battery, and calculating, by the processor, a limit torque value from a measured current value; and comparing the initial torque value and the limit torque value and selecting the smaller one of them as a torque request value to be finally output to a motor control unit, by the processor, wherein calculating the limit torque value comprises when the battery is in a discharging state, | 36,927 |
9,572,193 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a base station with uplink signaling in mobile communication from a user terminal of at least two user terminals, information related to traffic status of a direct communication link between the at least two user terminals being terminating points of the communication, wherein the mobile communication comprises a device-to-device communication between the at least two user terminals, wherein the uplink signaling is applied on a medium access control layer of the mobile communication, and wherein the information comprises a transmitter buffer status of the direct communication link between the at least two user terminals; and controlling, by the base station, quality of service of the device-to-device communication between the at least two user terminals by at least redistributing, by the base station, radio resources of the mobile communication over both a conventional link via the base station and the direct communication link based on the received information, comprising scheduling, by the base station, data transmissions of the at least two user terminals to cause switching back and forth between a first mode of alternately using radio bearers of each of the conventional link via the base station and the direct communication link for the device-to-device communication and a second mode of simultaneously using the radio bearers of both the conventional link via the base station and the direct communication link for the device-to-device communication. | 49,354 |
8,947,086 | 1. A method to generate spatially resolved, quasi-T2-weighted magnetic resonance signals from an examination region of a subject, comprising: operating a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit with a first gradient-balanced SSFP sequence in which an initial magnetization in the subject is flipped in a first direction; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to detect spatially coded first magnetic resonance signals from the first gradient-balanced SSFP sequence during a transient portion of said first gradient-balanced SSFP sequence; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit with a second gradient-balanced SSFP sequence with which said initial magnetization is flipped in a direction opposite said first direction, said second gradient-balanced SSFP sequence being of a same sequence type as said first gradient-balanced SSFP sequence; operating said magnetic resonance data acquisition unit to detect spatially coded second magnetic resonance signals from said gradient-balanced SSFP sequence during a transient portion of said second gradient-balanced SSFP sequence; in a computerized processor, constructively superimposing said first and second magnetic resonance signals to form overlay signals; and in said processor, processing said overlay signals into image data with a predominant T2 weighting or for spatially resolved estimation of a T2 relaxation time constant, and making said image data or said estimation of said T2 relaxation time constant available at an output of said processor. | 34,775 |
9,038,580 | 1. A method of operating an engine, comprising: providing a desired engine dilution by combining a plurality of engine diluents, the diluents and their ratio selected based on respective combustion stability limits, the providing including increasing a first amount of a first diluent while decreasing a second amount of a second diluent, the first and the second amounts based on a determination of knock. | 22,788 |
8,963,368 | 1. A method of tracking a maximum power point of a photovoltaic system including a circuit including a controller controlling a DC voltage-DC voltage converter for converting an output current of the photovoltaic system, the controller including a memory, the method comprising: measuring a first value of a photovoltaic system operating voltage at an initial maximum power point; storing said first value in the memory; periodically sampling a power output level of the photovoltaic system, and upon detecting a change in the power output level exceeding a first threshold, | 32,463 |
8,781,184 | 1. A system, comprising: a detection circuit configured to acquire one or more micrographs of a biological sample at one or more fields of view; a resolution modification circuit configured to modify a pixel count of at least one micrograph and to generate at least a first modified micrograph; a filter-kernel generation circuit configured to generate a kernel for filtering a plurality of pixels forming the first modified micrograph based on a filtering characteristic, and to generate at least a first significance image representative of the at least one modified micrograph; and an object identification circuit configured to identify groups of pixels in the first significance image indicative of one or more objects imaged in the at least one micrograph, and to generate one or more connected components of a graph representative of groups of pixels indicative of the one or more objects imaged in the at least one micrograph, wherein the object identification circuit is configured to determine a probability that the biological sample is infected with malaria, and to determine a confidence level associated with the determined probability that the biological sample is infected with malaria. | 18,753 |
9,514,229 | 1. A network element (NE) in a telecommunications operator network, the NE comprising: a plurality of ports configured to communicate data between an end user terminal and a plurality of media content service providers, each positioned outside of the telecommunications operator network; and a processor coupled to the plurality of ports and configured to: receive, via the plurality of ports, a plurality of search responses from the plurality of media content service providers, wherein each search response identifies media available to a responding media content service provider and relevant to the single terminal search request; filter the plurality of search responses from the plurality of media content service providers to remove search responses that are incompatible with a quality of experience (QoE) of an end user; rank the filtered of the plurality of search responses based on enhancing the QoE of the end user and the requested media monetization method; assign a QoE ranking value to each QoE factor; calculate a total QoE value for each filtered search response, wherein the total QoE value is based upon the QoE ranking value associated with the each filtered search response; and derive a ranked search response list, wherein the ranked search response list comprises the filtered of the plurality of search responses arranged in a descending order from a highest of the total QoE values to a lowest of the total QoE values. | 31,059 |
9,446,834 | 1. A fuselage section for an aircraft, including a fuselage skin formed from at least one structure including a composite material skin, called an outer skin, and composite material stringers adhering to one face of said outer skin, wherein each of said stringers includes at least: a first base plate positioned on a side opposite said outer skin, a second base plate adhering to said outer skin, and two webs respectively connecting, in pairs, lateral ends of said base plates, wherein said stringers are distributed into at least one assembly of stringers in which every pair of consecutive stringers is such that one of said webs of each of the stringers of said pair of stringers is applied against one of said webs of the other stringer of said pair of stringers, wherein said first respective base plates of said stringers jointly form a wall, called an inner wall of said fuselage skin, the fuselage section further including circumferential frames positioned inside a space delimited by said fuselage skin and attached to said inner wall of said at least one fuselage structure forming said fuselage skin, wherein said inner wall of said at least one fuselage structure comprises at least one cut-out located between longitudinal ends of at least one of said stringers between said two webs of the at least one of said stringers and between two of said circumferential frames arranged consecutively, wherein the cut-out forms an access to an internal space of the at least one stringer. | 3,790 |
9,658,934 | 1. A method for error handling testing of a target component in a distributed system with multiple components, the method comprising: enabling a proxy mode of a proxy gateway in the target component; when the proxy mode is enabled, intercepting at least one communication between the target component and remote components of the distributed system at the proxy gateway in the target component, modifying the intercepted communication to introduce an error, and transmitting the modified, intercepted communication to the distributed system; disabling the proxy mode of the proxy gateway in the target component; and when the proxy mode is disabled, transmitting communications between the target component and the remote components of the distributed system via the proxy gateway without modification. | 40,862 |
8,720,226 | 1. A method of making a glass article comprising: (I) melting batch materials to produce molten glass; and (II) forming a glass article from the molten glass; wherein: (A) the batch materials comprise a plurality of components that (i) affect the ion-exchange properties of the glass and (ii) become at least part of the glass of the glass article; and (B) the method is characterized by: and wherein: | 11,825 |
9,118,241 | 1. A switched-mode power supply, comprising: a first switch and a third switch coupled to an input voltage; a second switch coupled to the first switch via a first node; a fourth switch coupled to the third switch via a second node; a first inductor connected between the first node and an output voltage; a second inductor connected between the second node and the output voltage; at least one third inductor, comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, connected between the first node and the second node, wherein the first terminal of the at least one third inductor is directly connected to the first node and the second terminal of the at least one third inductor is directly connected to the second node; and a capacitor connected to the output voltage; wherein the first switch and the second switch are configured to control the first node to divide a current flowing into the first node and through the first switch into a first current flowing out of the first node and through the first inductor and a second current flowing out of the first node and through the at least one third inductor, wherein the first current is different in magnitude than the second current. | 5,718 |
8,614,188 | 1. A method comprising: a) providing; b) administering said inhibitor to said patient under conditions such that said platelet aggregation is reduced. | 14,718 |
9,356,185 | 1. A method of fabricating, in parallel, a plurality of light sensing or light emitting modules, the method comprising: providing a spacer structure having through-holes each of which is defined by a surface that is at least partially sloped or curved with respect to a plane of the spacer structure, wherein the spacer structure is formed by vacuum injection; applying a reflective coating to the at least partially sloped or curved surfaces; and attaching the spacer structure to a substrate wafer on which are mounted a plurality of light sensing or light emitting elements, wherein each light sensing or light emitting element is aligned with a respective one of the through-holes. | 39,484 |
8,838,842 | 1. A method for optimizing control circuit for Fiber Channel hard disk drives (FC HDDs) in a system, comprising: determining the number of subsystems supported in a Fiber Channel (FC) loop and the number of HDDs to be supported in each of the subsystems according to an arbitrated loop physical addressing (ALPA) table in a system specification of a system; analyzing binary values of address selection signals of all the HDDs for each of the subsystems according to the ALPA table in the system specification of the system; enumerating logical variations of the address selection signals according to the analyzed binary values to obtain logic combinations for the address selection signals; analyzing logic relations between these logic combinations and a system address signal; determining logic components required according to the analyzed logic relations; and calculating the total number of required logic components and the number of address selections signals that can share an output pin of each of the required logic components based on properties of output pins of the logic components and maximum input current of the address selection signals. | 30,992 |
9,703,463 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions that when executed by a system including at least one computing device cause the system to perform operations comprising: accessing, over a network from remote video data store, a first video file, the same first video file comprising at least a first plurality of segments; receiving, over the network, a first plurality of images, wherein a given image in the first plurality of images is associated with a respective segment in the first plurality of segments of the same first video file and comprises an image of a product that corresponds to a product displayed in the respective segment of the same first video file, the first plurality of images comprising a first image that is not an image from the first video file; causing the first plurality of images to be displayed at the same time in association with a playback of the first video file, for at least a portion of the time the first video file is being played back in a playback area, and causing the first plurality of images associated with respective segments in the same first video file to be displayed in a scrubber area displayed in association with the playback of the first video file, the scrubber area comprising a scrubber that includes a draggable scrubber control that indicates video playback progress via a scrubber timeline during a time period in which the first video file is being played, and which is manipulable to control playback of the first video file by dragging the scrubber control to a desired position; at least partly in response to detecting that a user has selected the first image in the first plurality of images associated with respective segments in the same first video file and displayed at the same time in the scrubber area, the first image displayed on or adjacent to the scrubber that includes the draggable scrubber control that indicates video playback progress via a scrubber timeline, wherein the first image is not from the first video file, causing the playback of the first video file to jump to a segment of the first video file corresponding to the first image, the segment of the first video file corresponding to the first image and displaying the first product. | 10,788 |
9,359,655 | 1. Pelletizing feed comprising: chromite ore, at least one nickel salt, and silicon carbide as the only carbonaceous material and the only reducing agent. | 32,372 |
9,370,990 | 1. A method for mounting or removing a container of energy that powers an engine or motor that propels a motor vehicle, fixed to the motor vehicle using a lock, the lock including a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, and a shaft connecting the first end and the second end, and a piston that is movable along the shaft and biased against the first end of the lock by an elastic element, the method comprising: (a) acting on the piston to cause the piston to compress the elastic element positioned within the container of energy, the acting on the piston moves the piston away from a first end of the lock to disengage the lock from the piston; and (b) after the acting on the piston, turning the lock to lock or unlock the lock that fixes the container of energy to the motor vehicle, wherein the piston is positioned between the first end of the lock and the elastic element, and wherein the piston is coaxial with and surrounds the shaft. | 19,429 |
9,169,659 | 1. A hybrid underlayment, comprising: (a) a thermoplastic sheet making up between 92.0% by volume to 95.5% by volume of the hybrid underlayment, the thermoplastic sheet having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface; (b) a plurality of expanded microspheres dispersed through the thermoplastic sheet, the microspheres expanded to a cross-sectional area in a range of between 180 square micrometers and 1450 square micrometers, the microspheres making up between 1.0% by volume to 7.5% by volume of the hybrid underlayment prior to expansion of the microspheres; and (c) a metalized thermoplastic film laminated to the top surface of the thermoplastic sheet. | 22,547 |
8,489,859 | 1. An apparatus for performing a deterministic reduction operation in a parallel computer, the parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes, each compute node comprising a plurality of computer processors and a Collectives Acceleration Unit (CAU), the CAU coupling computer processors of compute nodes to one another for data communications in a cluster data communications network, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory including computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, carry out the steps of: organizing a first plurality of processors of the parallel computer and a first CAU into a branched tree topology, wherein the first CAU comprises a root of the branched tree topology and the first plurality of processors comprise children of the root CAU; receiving, by the root CAU from each of the processors in the branched tree topology, in any order, dummy contribution data, wherein each processor in the branched tree topology is restricted from sending any other data to the root CAU prior to receiving an acknowledgement of receipt from the root CAU; sending, by the root CAU to the processors in the branched tree topology, in a predefined order, acknowledgements of receipt of the dummy contribution data; providing, by each processor in the branched tree topology, the processor's contribution data to the root CAU only after receiving an acknowledgement; receiving, by the root CAU from the processors in the branched tree topology in the predefined order, the first plurality of processors' contribution data to the reduction operation; and reducing, by the root CAU, the contribution data of the processors in the branched tree topology. | 36,246 |
9,644,343 | 1. A construction machine comprising: a primary drive configured to generate waste heat; a cooling device for the primary drive; one or a plurality of machine components arranged in an area of the primary drive; and a housing that accommodates at least one of the machine components, the housing including a flow passage through which ambient air can be sucked using underpressure or which can have ambient air supplied thereto using overpressure so that an air current can be created, wherein the housing comprises a wall element configured as a double-walled element that includes an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall and the outer wall defining the flow passage, and wherein the inner wall defines an internal space that accommodates the at least one of the machine components; wherein the cooling device is configured to at least partly generate the overpressure or the underpressure to create the air current, the air current being variably and automatically adjustable; wherein the construction machine is a road finisher or a feeder; and wherein the housing comprises multiple wall elements, and only the wall elements facing the primary drive are configured as double-walled elements, or all the wall elements of the housing are configured as double-walled elements. | 12,345 |
8,678,886 | 1. A food-product loader for accepting a load of elongate pieces of food product in a heaping mass and thereafter loading such pieces onto a moving conveyor in a pattern such that most of the individual pieces are spaced apart from one another; said loader comprising: a hard-walled cabinet formed with a bulk hopper that has an introduction inlet end and transitions into a plurality of chutes, each of which chutes terminates in a lower portion that tapers inwardly to form a rigid-walled funnel portion; each rigid-walled funnel portion defining an outlet port; a plurality of soft-sided sleeves or funnels for mating with each outlet port of each of the plurality of chutes; each soft-sided sleeve or funnel terminating in an ultimate dispensing port at an elevation above the food-carrying run of the moving conveyor; and flanking massaging elements to massage spaced sides of the soft-sided sleeves or funnels for massaging or teasing out one piece of food product at a time. | 25,086 |
9,166,515 | 1. An electrically powered vehicle comprising: a motor for generating vehicle driving force; a first power storage device; a second power storage device; a first power line for transmitting power inputted to and outputted from said motor; a second power line connected to said first power storage device; a converter for carrying out bidirectional DC voltage conversion between said first power line and said first power storage device through said second power line; a first pair of switches connected to said first power line; a second pair of switches connected to said second power line; a switch of said first pair of switches connected between said second power storage device and said first power line; and a control unit for controlling said switch to be turned on or off in accordance with an operating state of said motor. | 13,991 |
9,376,837 | 1. A system comprising: a multisided key including: a lock comprising: | 40,810 |
8,958,597 | 1. An electromagnetic voice coil actuator comprising: a pot core magnet structure having a magnetic flux conductive core; a field coil within the pot core magnet structure for generating magnetic flux lines through the magnetic flux conductive core and across an air gap; and a voice coil disposed within the air gap; wherein the voice coil and the field coil are each separately driven by an amplified signal derived from an audio input signal to create an actuation force which is an amplified representation of the audio input signal; wherein the amplified signal derived from the audio input signal driving the field coil and the amplified audio signal derived from the audio input signal driving the voice coil mask an original work of the audio input signal up to a point of acoustic output. | 6,601 |
9,534,552 | 1. An exhaust purification system of a spark ignition type internal combustion engine, comprising: a three-way catalyst having an oxygen storage function arranged in an engine exhaust passage, wherein an air-fuel ratio in a combustion chamber is feedback controlled to a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio so that an oxygen storage amount of said three-way catalyst becomes a value between zero and a maximum oxygen storage amount to simultaneously remove HC, CO, and NO an electronic control unit, wherein when an engine operating state is one where if the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber were feedback controlled to the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, an amount of poisoning of a precious metal catalyst carried on the three-way catalyst gradually increases, the electronic control unit is configured to cause an increase in a degree of leanness of the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber compared with when said air-fuel ratio is feedback controlled to the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio so that an oxygen storage amount of the three-way catalyst increases to a maximum oxygen storage amount and, wherein even after the oxygen storage amount of the three-way catalyst reaches the maximum oxygen storage amount, the electronic control unit is configured to cause the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber to be maintained lean and then to be returned to rich, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to make longer a time during which the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber is maintained lean when there is a greater amount of poisoning of the precious metal catalyst which occurs when the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber is rich, wherein even after the oxygen storage amount of the three-way catalyst reaches zero, the electronic control unit is configured to cause the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber to be maintained rich, and then to be returned to lean, and wherein the longer the time during which the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber is maintained lean, the longer the time during which the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber is made rich. | 25,537 |
8,464,021 | 1. A system that facilitates physical block address (PBA) and logical block address (LBA) translation in at least one memory component, comprising: the at least one memory component configured to execute at least one memory operation and includes a plurality of memory locations, a memory controller component configured to store LBA to PBA translations respectively associated with a subset of LBAs based in part on a predefined optimization criteria, wherein the optimization criteria comprises at least a number of times an LBA is presented to the memory controller component in association with the at least one memory operation; a defrag component configured to defragment a chunk of data having portions of data that are stored in nonconsecutive pages associated with the at least one memory component and store the portions of data in consecutive pages associated with the at least one memory component during time periods that overlap with execution of the at least one memory operation; and a block address cache component (BA cache component) configured to store LBA to PBA translation information associated with at least one LBA used to access the at least one memory component, wherein the defrag component reduces a size of the BA cache component that is associated with storage of the LBA to PBA translation information by aligning the portions of data in consecutive page locations and storing, in the BA cache component, a starting PBA page number associated with an LBA or a number of pages value. | 29,658 |
8,468,824 | 1. A method of operating a vehicle equipped with a pneumatic booster system, said pneumatic booster system being configured to inject compressed air into an intake of an engine of the vehicle during a pneumatic boost event and configured to adjust at least two of compressed air injection rate, duration and timing of at least two air injection pulses within said pneumatic boost event, the method comprising the acts of: initiating the pneumatic boost event to inject compressed air into the engine using an initial pneumatic boost injection pattern; monitoring at least one operating parameter of the vehicle; determining, based on the monitored at least one operating parameter, at least one characteristic of a component of the vehicle, where the at least one characteristic is at least one of determining, based on the determined at least one vehicle component characteristic, whether adjustment of the initial pneumatic boost injection pattern is required to adapt the pneumatic boost injection pattern to the vehicle component; and adjusting at least one of the compressed air injection rate, injection duration and injection timing to adapt the pneumatic boost injection pattern to the vehicle component. | 49,512 |
8,811,584 | 1. A communication apparatus comprising: a direct-current direction detection unit configured to detect a change of direction of a direct-current on a telephone line through which the communication apparatus and an exchanger are coupled to each other; a voltage change detection unit configured to detect a change of voltage on the telephone line; a display unit configured to display a telephone number of a caller apparatus that is coupled to the telephone line; a first control unit configured to perform control such that a reception completion signal is transmitted to the exchanger when the telephone number is received from the exchanger; a first determination unit configured to determine that a polarity reversal of the telephone line occurs in a first period when the change of direction of the direct-current on the telephone line is detected in the first period, the first period being a period from the time when the telephone number is received to the time when the reception completion signal is transmitted; a second determination unit configured to determine that a polarity reversal of the telephone line occurs in a second period when the change of voltage on the telephone line is detected in the second period, the second period being a period from the time when the reception completion signal is transmitted to the time when a calling signal for calling the communication apparatus is received; and a second control unit configured to perform control such that the received telephone number is not displayed on the display unit, when it is determined that the polarity reversal of the telephone line occurs in at least one of the first period and the second period. | 3,194 |
9,059,611 | 1. A stator core of an electric motor, comprising at least one bendable strip-shaped core, the at least one bendable strip-shaped core forming a circumferential configuration after being bent, each strip-shaped core being formed by stacking a plurality of bendable strip-shaped laminations, each lamination comprising at least two yoke portions and at least two tooth portions extending from the yoke portions, every two adjacent yoke portions being connected to each other by a bendable portion and having two opposite end surfaces, one of the end surfaces having a groove and the other having a projecting rib, wherein before the bendable portion is bent the two end surfaces are spaced from each other, and after the bendable portion is bent the two end surfaces are joined together by the projecting rib being engaged in the groove to form an interlock structure such that the relative circumferential movement between the adjacent yoke portions is limited, wherein the interlock structure is inwardly inclined relative to a radial plane passing through the center of the tooth portion adjacent the joined end surfaces. | 21,939 |
9,464,300 | 1. A composition comprising a block copolymer associated with a polynucleotide, the block copolymer consisting of a first, a second and a third compositionally distinct blocks, wherein the first block is a hydrophilic polymer block consisting of repeat units derived from polymerization of a monomer of Formula IV wherein wherein the second block is located between the first and third blocks and is associated with the polynucleotide, wherein the second block consists of a plurality of monomeric residues of amino(C wherein wherein the third block is a hydrophobic polymer block consisting of repeat units having Formulae 1A, 1E, and 1C | 12,297 |
8,475,112 | 1. A multiple stage compressor comprising: a plurality of stages of airfoils; the last stage of airfoils having heat pipe to provide cooling for the airfoil; a heat pipe extending into the last stage airfoil to draw heat away from the last stage airfoil; a heat exchanger associated with the heat pipe to draw heat away from the heat pipe; a cooling air supply passage to supply cooling air to the heat exchanger; the cooling air supply passage connected to a stage of the compressor having a lower pressure than the last stage airfoil; a cooling air discharge passage to discharge spent cooling air from the heat exchanger of the last stage airfoil; and, the cooling air discharge passage connected to a different stage of the compressor having a lower pressure than the stage supplying the compressor cooling air to the last stage airfoil. | 440 |
9,605,621 | 1. A nozzle comprising: a nozzle surface area, a nozzle rim, the nozzle rim including a plurality of first and second guiding devices alternatingly provided in a circumferential direction, the first guiding devices each including a converging nozzle shape, the second guiding devices each including a diverging diffuser shape, the first guiding devices each including a first azimuthal guide wall, and a first wall element and a second wall element positioned respectively on opposite sides of the first azimuthal guide wall, with the first azimuthal guide wall forming a first trailing edge and two first lateral edges, one each to the first and second wall elements, the second guiding devices each including a second azimuthal guide wall and sharing 1) the first wall element with one of the first guiding devices positioned on one side of the second azimuthal guide wall and 2) the second wall element with one of the first guiding devices positioned on an opposite side of the second azimuthal guide wall, with the second azimuthal guide wall forming a second trailing edge and two second lateral edges, one each to the shared first and second wall elements, wherein each of the first and second wall elements includes one of the first lateral edges, one of the second lateral edges diverging from the one of the first lateral edges in an axial direction of the nozzle, and a front-side trailing edge, and the wall elements each including a curved course in the axial direction; wherein, in an axial course of each wall element between a starting point adjoining the nozzle surface area and the front-side trailing edge, the curved course includes an inflection point; wherein a product from an amount of the maximum curvature of the wall elements with a diameter of the nozzle rim is in a range between 0.002 and 0.05. | 44,101 |
9,259,163 | 1. A system for monitoring tissue perfusion in a patient, comprising: an implantable medical device comprising: a tissue perfusion monitor comprising: | 10,746 |
9,848,086 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a generic-recipient message by a network hub; determining predefined attributes of the message, wherein the predefined attributes comprise one or more of a sender of the message, a subject of the message, or content of the message; determining a type of communication medium of the message; determining one or more potential recipients for the message based, at least in part, on the determined type and the predefined attributes by comparing the predefined attributes of the message with stored information related to potential recipients, wherein the stored information includes information identifying one or more receiving devices associated with the potential recipients, and wherein the one or more potential recipients are individuals; displaying the message on a display viewable by the one or more potential recipients; and dispatching the message to the one or more receiving devices of one or more determined recipients. | 17,930 |
9,281,957 | 1. An apparatus for processing a data packet, comprising: a plurality of Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) media access control (MAC) slices, each of the plurality of DOCSIS MAC slices being assigned to a service flow from among the plurality of service flows; and a physical layer (PHY) slice configured to: | 28,814 |
8,800,570 | 1. A method of constructing a cigar, comprising the steps of: a) providing a plurality of layers of smokable material that include inner, middle and outer layers, said inner and middle layers being inner and outer concentric tubes, each tube having tube ends; b) filling the inner tube with tobacco fill material; c) wrapping the outer layer about the concentric tubes; d) covering at least one end of the assembly of tubes and outer layer with an end cover that prevents discharge of the tobacco fill material from a tube end, wherein the end cover is in the form of twisted material that is part of the outer layer which end cover is manually rupturable; and e) wherein the cigar constructed in steps “a” through “d” is packaged for sale in packaging. | 49,026 |
9,715,362 | 1. A print controlling apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus, comprising: a user interface to input a printing command of a document displaying a plurality of overlaid objects; an image processor to detect a transparency region where a transparency is set, in the overlaid objects, to generate a transparency image by calculating a pixel value of the transparency region, based on a pixel value of each object and the transparency, and to generate printing data including the transparency image; and a communication interface to send the printing data to the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus being configured to print the printing data, wherein when an XOR rendering command, an AND rendering command, and an XOR rendering command are sequentially input for the same region, the image processor detects the region as the transparency region, the image processor calculates the transparency of the detected transparency region by calculating a ratio of a background value to a whole size of a transparency pattern, and the image processor renders each object in the document according to a rendering command, detects an input region of the rendering commands of the preset combination, as the transparency region when rendering commands of a preset combination are input for the same region, and generates the transparency image by calculating a pixel value of the detected transparency region, and generates the printing data comprising the generated transparency image. | 28,702 |
8,587,732 | 1. A projection display apparatus, comprising: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, based on a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; means for enabling a user to select an image inverting process to be performed in any one of (i) a horizontal only direction, (ii) a vertical only direction, and (iii) the horizontal direction and the vertical direction; signal processing means for performing the image inverting process selected by the user on the video signals so that an image projected on the screen is inverted in the selected one of the horizontal only direction, the vertical only direction, or the horizontal direction and the vertical direction on the screen; and correcting means for correcting, based on a correction value entered by an operation on the screen, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. | 36,225 |
9,069,114 | 1. A single-mode optical fibre for transmitting optical signals comprising: a central core region for guiding the optical signals; and a cladding region surrounding the core region and comprising a void-containing annular region containing randomly distributed voids, the cladding having an average diameter along a length of the optical fibre, wherein the void-containing region is doped with fluorine at a concentration of less than 1 wt % and has a radial thickness equal to or smaller than 3 μm, such that a standard deviation of the average cladding diameter is equal to or smaller than ±0.45 μm. | 42,088 |
9,210,074 | 1. A method for processing data packets by a first-hop switch in a data network, comprising: receiving a first data packet associated with a flow; determining whether the flow associated with the first data packet is found in a flow table in the first-hop switch; modifying the first data packet by replacing a destination media access control (DMAC) field with flow definition information, wherein the flow definition information comprises both a network identifier and an address identifier; and transmitting the modified first data packet based upon the flow definition information, wherein the network identifier identifies a flow and the address identifier identifies different DMACs within one flow. | 9,273 |
9,757,716 | 1. A process for producing a molecular sieve having the structure of ZSM-5, the process comprising: (i) preparing a synthesis mixture capable of forming said molecular sieve, said synthesis mixture comprising a source of an alkali or alkaline earth metal (M), a source of an oxide of a tetravalent element Y, optionally a source of a trivalent element X, water, and a directing agent (Q) comprising one or more of 1,4-bis(N-pentylpyrrolidinium)butane dications, 1,5-bis(N-pentylpyrrolidinium)pentane dications, and 1,6-bis(N-pentylpyrrolidinium)hexane dications, and said synthesis mixture having a composition, in terms of mole ratios, within the following ranges: (ii) heating said synthesis mixture under crystallization conditions, including a temperature of from 80° C. to 200° C., and a time from 1 day to 21 days, until crystals of said molecular sieve are formed; and (iii) recovering said molecular sieve from step (ii), wherein (a) 1,4-bis(N-pentylpyrrolidinium)butane dications which can be represented by the following formula: (b) 1,5-bis(N-pentylpyrrolidinium)pentane dications can be represented by the following formula: and (c) 1,6-bis(N-pentylpyrrolidinium)hexane dications can be represented by the following formula: wherein said tetravalent element Y comprises silicon, and said trivalent element X comprises aluminum. | 43,815 |
8,501,821 | 1. A method to elicit tomato resistance to disease by fungal infection in harvested tomato, wherein the method comprises exposing the harvested tomato to an essential oil vapor, wherein the essential oil vapor concentration is 500 ppm, wherein the essential oil contains cineole. | 35,744 |
8,536,407 | 1. A polynucleotide encoding a mutant plant AGPase small subunit protein, or a functional fragment of said protein, said protein comprising an amino acid mutation wherein the amino acid corresponding to the threonine amino acid at position 462 of wild type maize endosperm AGPase small subunit protein is replaced by an amino acid that confers increased heat stability when said mutant AGPase small subunit is expressed to form an AGPase enzyme, wherein said fragment comprises said amino acid mutation at position 462 and wherein said fragment provides for said increased heat stability when said fragment is expressed to form an AGPase enzyme, wherein said replacement amino acid that confers increased heat stability is an isoleucine. | 34,122 |
9,088,839 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a computing device to generate signals for driving directly or indirectly multiple tactile stimuli emitters to be complementary to signals driving directly or indirectly corresponding auditory stimuli, the multiple emitters to be in physical contact with an individual's skin to improve auditory perception by the individual, wherein the signals to be generated are to be in different frequency ranges, the frequency ranges to correspond to frequency ranges for auditory stimuli, and wherein the one or more of the frequency ranges of the signals to be generated to be changed based at least in part on individual response to tactile stimuli provided in combination with auditory stimuli. | 45,852 |
8,761,833 | 1. A method, operable in a controller, for predictive polling for a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card in an electronic device, the method comprising: determining, by a controller, whether a network state of a portable terminal is changed; responsive to the network state being changed, determining, by the controller, whether the electronic device is in at least one of: a restricted service state of operation and a no-service state of operation; after the electronic device is placed in at least one of: the restricted service state of operation and the no-service state of operation, disabling, by the controller, only SIM card polling performed by a SIM manager; and when the portable terminal is not in at least one of: the restricted service state of operation and the no-service state of operation, enabling, by the controller, the SIM card polling by the SIM manager. | 27,956 |
8,630,735 | 1. A method for estimating a pose of a mobile robot using a particle filter, the method comprising: sampling current particle on basis of initial position of the mobile robot; detecting a change in pose of the mobile robot and calculating pose of the current particle by applying the detected change in pose to a previous particle; predicting the probability of the pose of the current particle and obtaining a weight of the current particle on the basis of range data obtained by a sensor and map information; resampling the current particle on the basis of the weight; and adjusting the weight in consideration of an error of the sensor, wherein the detecting of the change in pose of the mobile robot and the calculating of the pose of the current particle by applying the detected change in pose to the previous particle comprises updating the pose of the current particle in a direction where the position probability increases by using a hill climbing method, and wherein the probability is a variable which is calculated using an error ratio based on accuracy of the sensor. | 25,139 |
9,204,330 | 1. In a method of an access point for generating a traffic indicator map in a wireless communication system, the method for generating the traffic indicator map comprises: dividing a virtual bitmap into one or more groups, wherein the virtual bitmap comprises flags of Association IDs (AIDs) of stations associated with the access point; storing a first portion in a bitmap control field as an offset value, the first portion including a first flag without including a first AID used to receive data from the access point, in the virtual bitmap of each of the one or more groups; configuring a second portion as a partial virtual bitmap field, the second portion excluding the first portion, in the virtual bitmap of each of the one or more groups; and generating a traffic indicator map including the bitmap control field and the partial virtual bitmap field respective to each of the one or more groups, wherein the first portion stored as the offset value includes a number of flags corresponding to a multiple of two octets. | 45,972 |
8,859,686 | 1. A polymer composition comprising at least one phosphorus acid group and methacrylic anhydride group containing telomeric copolymer of methacrylic acid and/or its salts having an average of more than 70 wt. % to 99 wt. % of methacrylic anhydride groups, based on the total weight of methacrylic acid polymerized units in the copolymer, all anhydride percentages as determined by titration, and having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of from 1,000 to 100,000. | 6,812 |
9,370,475 | 1. An oral care composition comprising: isobutyl magnolol; n-butyl magnolol; and an orally acceptable carrier; wherein the n-butyl magnolol is present in an amount effective to solubilize the isobutyl magnolol in the orally acceptable carrier; wherein the ratio by weight of isobutyl magnolol to n-butyl magnolol is from about 3:1 to about 1:3. | 40,379 |
8,708,262 | 1. A portable food blender comprising a food container, a blade set with cutting blades that is set in the said container and can spin, and a container cover set that is on top of the said container and cannot rotate relative to the container, said container cover set comprising an upper surface and a lower surface, further comprising a pivot and a driving unit, said pivot intrudes out from said container cover set's upper side, wherein when the pivot rotates against the container cover set, it drives the driving unit to make the said blade set spin, wherein the pivot is inside on a side of said container cover set and is mounted to the upper surface, wherein said driving unit is mounted on said container cover set's lower surface, wherein there are threads in the round inner surface of said pivot, said driving unit consists of a driving gear, a spinning gear, and a spinning shaft, said driving gear is mounted on the lower surface of said container cover set, fitting into both said threads and the spinning gear, the spinning gear is mounted on the said spinning shaft, said spinning shaft extends outside the lower surface of the said container cover set through the center hole of the said lower surface of the said container cover set, and wherein said spinning shaft is mounted to the said blade set. | 42,691 |
9,377,649 | 1. A display device comprising: a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas and a non-pixel area disposed between the pixel areas, wherein each of the pixel areas comprises a transmissive area and a reflective area; a tunnel-shaped cavity disposed on the substrate in each of the pixel areas; an image display layer disposed in the tunnel-shaped cavity; a roof layer disposed on the tunnel-shaped cavity and having an upper planarized surface; a black matrix disposed on the substrate in the non-pixel area; and a reflective electrode disposed under the tunnel-shaped cavity in the reflective area of each of the pixel areas to reflect an external light, wherein the tunnel-shaped cavity has a closed end and an open end facing each other, and the closed end is formed in the reflective area and the open end is formed in the transmissive area. | 42,404 |
8,458,575 | 1. A communication system, comprising: a decoder system comprising: a plurality of N-parallel syndrome generators, each of the N-parallel syndrome generators coupled to a parallel input data stream and being adapted to perform a calculation each cycle with N symbols from the input parallel data stream; a plurality of key equation determination devices, each key equation determination device coupled to at least one of the N-parallel syndrome generators and being adapted to determine at least one error polynomial; a plurality of N-parallel error determination and correcting devices, one for each of the N-parallel syndrome generators, each N-parallel error correction and determination device coupled to one of the key equation determination devices and being adapted to use the at least one error polynomial produced by the one key equation determination device to correct errors in the parallel input data stream; and an encoder system coupled to the decoder system and comprising: a plurality of N-parallel encoders, each of the N-parallel encoders adapted to accept N symbol inputs, in parallel, during a cycle and produce, in parallel, N symbol outputs during a cycle, and wherein each N-parallel encoder is adapted to produce a plurality of redundancy symbols after a predetermined number of input symbols have been input to the encoder, wherein said N symbol inputs comprise a plurality of input bits, wherein said plurality of redundancy symbols comprise a plurality of output bits, wherein each N-parallel encoder comprises an input delay unit and an output delay unit, wherein each input delay unit delays only a subset of said plurality of input bits, and wherein each output delay unit delays only a subset of said plurality of output bits; and a device coupled to the N-parallel encoders and adapted to create an M-parallel frame, the M-parallel frame adapted to hold a plurality of codewords, each codeword comprising a plurality of symbols. | 16,265 |
9,440,890 | 1. An agricultural composition comprising: A) a material selected from the group consisting of urea, DCD, urea-formaldehyde polymer (UFP), ammonia, and combinations thereof; and B) at least one adduct according to the structure of Formula 4 wherein: X is O or R and wherein, if X═O, at least one of R | 30,583 |
9,013,492 | 1. A communication device comprising: circuitry configured to associate information indicating providing sources with a plurality of display areas of a display screen; obtain data from the providing sources; generate a plurality of images using the data obtained from the providing sources; and control display of the plurality of images in the plurality of the display areas so that each image is displayed in an associated display area of the plurality of display areas, wherein the data from the providing sources is obtained via the Internet based on results of automatic checking of the providing sources by periodically accessing the providing sources to determine if new data is available at the providing sources, in which the automatic checking determines data of a latest time indicated by the data obtained from the providing sources at a time of the periodically accessing, and the images are updated based on the data obtained from the providing sources. | 44,564 |
8,732,564 | 1. A method for reducing error floor in a communication system employing an iterative decoding of data encoded with a linear code, the method comprising, at each decoding iteration and for a predetermined number of iterations: a) computing a current estimate of a transmitted data block, said computing being calculated at least from a previous iteration estimate or, if at first iteration, from a received data block to be decoded; b) determining from said current estimate of the transmitted data block a syndrome weight and a received data reliability information value, wherein said current estimate of the transmitted data block is a block of bits and said received data reliability information value is a log likelihood ratio for each bit of said block of bits; c) comparing said syndrome weight with the minimum syndrome weight determined in all previous iterations and, if said syndrome weight is lower than said minimum syndrome weight, setting said syndrome weight as temporary minimum syndrome weight; d) comparing the log likelihood ratio for each bit with a reliability region for checking whether said bit is reliable and, if said checking fails, increasing an unreliable bit count; e) setting said temporary minimum syndrome weight determined in step c) as the minimum syndrome weight if the unreliable bit count is not higher than a predetermined cumulative reliability threshold; f) determining a decoded codeword based on a decision on said current estimate of the transmitted data block and from said received data reliability information value; and g) storing said decoded codeword obtained in step f) as the best estimate of the transmitted data block if in step e) said minimum syndrome weight is set; wherein said best estimate of the transmitted data block is output at the last decoding iteration, if convergence has not been reached by the iterative decoding, otherwise the decoded codeword determined at the decoding iteration where convergence has been reached is output. | 14,460 |
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