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9,618,548 | 1. An energy monitoring system for retrofitting a miniature circuit breaker load center, comprising: an energy monitoring module configured to attach onto an end of a plug-on miniature circuit breaker; the circuit breaker and energy monitoring module, when attached together, having a shape capable of fitting into a branch circuit space of the load center; the energy monitoring module including an attachment connector configured to electrically and mechanically connect to a load terminal of the circuit breaker accessible at the end of the circuit breaker; the energy monitoring module including its own load terminal electrically connected to the attachment connector and configured to connect to a branch circuit load wire; the circuit breaker including a plug-on line connector configured to plug-on to a position-alignment connector of a main power bus in the load center; the energy monitoring module including an energy sensing circuit configured to sense energy conducted from the load terminal of the circuit breaker through the attachment connector to the load terminal of the energy monitoring module, the energy sensing circuit being configured to transmit a data signal characterizing the energy sensed by the energy sensing circuit, the energy monitoring module including a data connector having a data signal connection to the energy sensing circuit; a data bus in the load center, the data bus including a data connection socket being configured to connect to the data connector of the energy monitoring module, the data connector and data connection socket being configured to pass the data signal transmitted from the energy sensing circuit to the data bus; and a main controller having a plug-on line connector configured to plug-on to another position-alignment connector of the main power bus in the load center, the main controller having a shape capable of fitting into a branch circuit space of the load center, the main controller including a data connector configured to connect to another data connection socket of the data bus in the load center, the main controller including electronics configured to obtain operating power from the plug-on line connector of the main controller, the electronics having a data signal connection to the data connector of the main controller, the electronics being configured to receive from the data bus, via the data connector of the main controller and the another data socket, the data signal from the energy sensing circuit of the energy monitoring module, the electronics being configured to monitor the data signal received from the energy monitoring module, the electronics being configured to wirelessly transmit information related to energy consumption, based on the data signal received from the energy sensing circuit of the energy monitoring module, the main controller being further configured to provide operating power via the data bus, to the energy monitoring module. | 2,669 |
8,978,196 | 1. An autonomous coverage robot comprising: a chassis; a drive system mounted on the chassis and configured to maneuver the robot across a floor surface according to a speed setting and a heading setting provided by a controller; a cleaning head carried by the chassis and driven by a cleaning head motor to rotate about an axis proximate a forward portion of the chassis, the cleaning head positioned to engage the floor surface while the robot is maneuvered by the drive system; a bump sensor responsive to a collision of the robot with an obstacle in a forward direction; and a proximity sensor responsive to a potential obstacle forward of the robot, wherein the controller is configured to continuously navigate the robot in a cleaning mode while negotiating obstacles by: | 46,034 |
9,624,807 | 1. A method of operating a liquid supply system of an SCR exhaust system comprising: providing a container, an electric pump and a supply line to supply liquid from the container to the electric pump via the supply line, the pump supplying the liquid back to the container and to the exhaust system via a dosing unit that includes a dosing valve; operating the pump at a predetermined power level; detecting presence of air supplied upstream of the pump with a pressure sensor, and determining presence of air supplied upstream of the pump with a control unit; and operating the pump at a reduced power by reducing an operating power of the pump to a level below the predetermined level in response to detecting presence of air supplied upstream of the pump; and maintaining the reduced operating power of the pump while supplying liquid to the exhaust system and back to the container via the dosing unit until no longer the detected presence of air is present. | 37,841 |
9,249,718 | 1. An intercooler for a vehicle cooling a mixture of EGR gas and exhaust gas, comprising: a cooler main body having an inlet portion and an outlet portion, a plurality of connection tubes connecting the inlet portion with the outlet portion and arranged from an upper side to a lower side of the cooler main body to cool the mixture; and a condensate storage unit connecting a lower end portion of the inlet portion with a lower end portion of the outlet portion and storing condensate formed in the plurality of connection tubes in cooling down the mixture of the EGR gas and the exhaust gas, wherein the condensate storage unit includes: second connection passages disposed in the reservoir tank along a length direction thereof and connecting the inlet portion with the outlet portion, wherein the second connection passages are formed by second barriers disposed adjacent each other in the length direction thereof inside the reservoir tank for preventing sway of the condensate stored in the condensate storage unit and both distal ends of each second barrier is directly connected to an inner surface of the reservoir tank, and ribs protruding on both surfaces of the second barriers along the length direction of the reservoir tank for preventing the sway of the condensate and noise caused by the sway in the condensate storage unit. | 8,535 |
8,354,342 | 1. A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a plurality of bodies that are each isolated from another by a trench and each include a diffusion barrier region with a sidewall exposed to the trench; forming a doped layer gap-filling the trench; forming a sidewall junction at the exposed sidewall of the diffusion barrier region by annealing the doped layer; and forming a conductive line coupled with the sidewall junction to fill the trench, wherein the diffusion barrier region comprises an interstitial impurity. | 24,242 |
8,510,158 | 1. A method for implementing an online reward redemption program, comprising: an exchange computer generating a reward redemption offer for purchase of an item from a merchant computer by a user based on information in a user profile stored in a user profile database, the reward redemption offer comprising the exchange computer sending the reward redemption offer to a user computer for display to the user; the exchange computer receiving a purchase request from the user computer to execute the reward redemption offer for purchase of the item from the merchant computer via the exchange computer, the purchase request comprising an election of the first option to accept the proposed reward redemption solution or an election of the second option to modify the proposed reward redemption solution; and the exchange computer causing a purchase transaction to be executed for purchase of the item from the merchant computer in accordance with the purchase request by: | 31,634 |
8,604,645 | 1. A supply arrangement comprising: a switching element having at least a first and a second switching state; an operating voltage having a first and a second potential, wherein the switching element is connected by a first terminal to the second potential of the operating voltage; an electrical load, wherein the load is connected by a first terminal to the first potential; and a supply unit comprising: a first input connected to the second potential, a second input connected to a second terminal of the switching element, an output connected to a second terminal of the load, and a supply output connected to an electronic unit, wherein the supply unit supplies the electronic unit with power independently of the respective switching state. | 20,298 |
8,677,234 | 1. A method of creating an independent web site for hosting visitor traffic using a globally accessible platform, comprising the steps of: receiving data entry including selection of an industry type; determining one or more characteristics for each of one or more web site features in response to the data entry; creating a framework of the web site based upon the one or more determined characteristics for each of the one or more web site features; retrieving web site data in accordance with the created framework of the web site; creating a plurality of pages of the web site based upon the framework of the web site and the retrieved web site data; generating one or more interfaces to one or more external components on the pages of the web site; remotely executing an application that may or may not retrieve web site data such that whether content is retrieved is a function of the remotely executed application; previewing the created pages in a sequence, any changes made on the pages during previewing being automatically propagated through the pages; registering the one or more interfaces of the one or more external components; creating website data based on the interfaces and remotely executed application; and presenting the created web site. | 32,265 |
9,612,852 | 1. A computer-implemented method for redirecting input/output comprising: configuring a first virtual machine with a recorder for library interposition; configuring a replica virtual machine with a player for library interposition; receiving a first recorded event from the first virtual machine; and transferring, via an input/output redirection module, the first recorded event to the replica virtual machine for replay, wherein the replica virtual machine further comprises an interpose player configured to send read requests to an executable program and receive socket input requests from the executable program, and wherein the replica virtual machine further comprises a replica system library, the replica system library comprising libc as a standard C library and configured to receive and process the socket input requests from the interpose player. | 5,409 |
9,447,245 | 1. A method for cross-linking of an organic transition metal complex into a multi-dimensional network, comprising: performing a first reaction which comprises: wherein the organic transition metal complex is cross-linked during the first reaction by formation of covalent bonds to form the multi-dimensional network; wherein the organic transition metal complex comprises at least two anchor groups of a first anchor group species for the covalent bonding of the organic transition metal complex into the multi-dimensional network and the second reactant comprises at least one anchor group of a second anchor group species; wherein the cross-linking of the organic transition metal complex proceeds by reaction of each of the at least two anchor groups of the organic transition metal complex with an anchor group of the second reactant; wherein the cross-linking is not a copolymerization, the copolymerization comprising a reaction in which a plurality of different monomers are cross-linked with each other; wherein the second reactant and the first reactant are different from each other; and wherein the second reactant is selected from the group consisting of an oligomer and a polymer wherein the first and the second anchor group species are selected from corresponding pairs of: R R*=organic group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a halogen or deuterium, as well as alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, alkenyl, alkynyl groups or substituted alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl and alkenyl groups; Wherein EWG is an electron withdrawing group. | 28,522 |
8,701,404 | 1. A method for generating electrical energy using a thermal cycle of a working gas, the method comprising: using the motions of a first permanent magnet attached to a first piston in a cylinder and a second permanent magnet attached to a second piston in the cylinder, the cylinder containing the working gas performing the thermal cycle, to electromagnetically induce current in a set of windings of an electrical circuit coupled to the cylinder, the electrical circuit comprising an electronic power converter; using compression and expansion of the working gas between the first piston and the second piston to perform the thermal cycle; using the electrical circuit to store the electrical energy, produced by the current induced in the electrical circuit, in an electrical storage device; and using the electrical energy stored in the electrical storage device to electromagnetically provide motive force to the first piston and the second piston; using the electronic power converter to perform closed-loop electronic control of the motions of the first piston and the second piston; the cyclically using the electrical circuit to store the electrical energy and using the stored energy to provide motive force to the first piston and the second piston effecting a net positive average power transfer into the electrical storage device over the course of the thermal cycle; the working gas receiving heat from an external heat source thermally coupled to the cylinder through at least one heat transfer zone of the cylinder; and at least part of a shaft of the first piston moving concentrically within a shaft of the second piston. | 5,488 |
8,576,030 | 1. A switch module for activating a hibernation mode of an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a casing and a hibernation switch installed inside the casing, at least one sliding slot with an orientation parallel to a first direction being formed on the casing, the switch module comprising: a sliding member disposed on an inner side of the casing in a slidable manner, an engaging slot being formed on the sliding member; a push button slidably disposed on an outer side of the casing and connected to the sliding member, the push button being for driving the sliding member to slide relative to the casing, the push button comprising: an activating member disposed on the sliding member for activating the hibernation switch when the push button drives the sliding member to slide to an activating position, so as to activate the hibernation mode of the electronic device; and a fixing structure disposed on the sliding member for fixing the activating member on the sliding member, the fixing structure comprising: | 39,840 |
9,043,798 | 1. A method comprising: forecasting, by a processor, a future usage allocation of a hardware resource to each workload of a plurality of workloads over time, using a demand model, the future usage allocation of the hardware resource specifying a future projected usage allocation of the hardware resource, based on at least a current and past actual usage of the hardware resource as monitored, by one of: forecasting, by the processor, a future capacity allocation of the hardware resource, using a capacity model, the future capacity allocation of the hardware resource specifying a future projected capacity of the hardware resource, the future capacity allocation specifying a total amount of the hardware resource that is allocatable to the workloads at a given future time, the capacity model specifying at least when computing devices that contribute to the hardware resource are online and are offline at future times, such that the future capacity allocation is forecast based on when the computing devices that contribute to the hardware resource are online and are offline at the future times; determining, by the processor, whether a future gap is predicted to occur between the future usage allocation of the hardware resource and the future capacity allocation of the hardware resource in that the future usage allocation of the hardware resource is greater than the future capacity allocation of the hardware resource at the future times, using a mapping model; and in response to determining that the future gap is predicted to occur, presenting a user with one or more options determined by the processor using the mapping model and selectable by the user to implement a remediation strategy to prevent the future gap from actually occurring, including when the future capacity allocation is less than the future usage allocation, one of the options including permitting the user to manually cause more of the computing devices to be online at the future times when the future gap is predicted so that the future gap does not actually occur, wherein the future capacity allocation of the hardware resource denotes how much of the hardware resource is available to the workloads, regardless of whether the workloads need or request to use the hardware resource. | 30,518 |
9,057,274 | 1. A housing system for an axial turbomachine having a defined direction of flow, the housing system comprising: a housing including at least one vane that is fastened on the housing by at least one fastening element, the fastening element including a sealing element having a radially outer end disposed between the downstream-facing first wall of the fastening element and the upstream-facing second wall portion of the housing; whereby the housing, vane and sealing element define a first air chamber disposed upstream from the fastening element with a relatively high pressure therein during the operation of the turbomachine and a second air chamber disposed downstream from the fastening element with a relatively low pressure therein during the operation of the turbomachine; whereby the pressure edge portion of the fastening element is in contact with the sealing element and loads the sealing element with an axial force at least during the operation of the turbomachine so that the radially outer end of the sealing element is pressed against the upstream-facing second wall portion of the housing wall of the housing; and whereby the sealing element reduces leakage flow between the fastening element and the housing; and wherein the sealing element further comprises at least one metering bore formed therethrough, by means of which a flow of cooling air can be adjusted between the first air chamber of the housing system that is disposed upstream from the fastening element and the second air chamber of the housing element that is disposed downstream from the fastening element. | 30,148 |
9,234,734 | 1. A length measuring instrument, comprising: a hollow profile section extending in a longitudinal direction; an end piece fixed on said hollow profile section for closure of said hollow profile section on an end of said hollow profile section; a scale disposed inside said hollow profile section, wherein said scale comprises a measurement graduation which for position measurement can be scanned by a scanning unit that is movable in said longitudinal direction relative to said hollow profile section; and a sealing element on said end piece for sealing off said hollow profile section on said end of said hollow profile section, wherein said sealing element has a cross-section that is at least extensively equivalent to an inside diameter of said hollow profile section and said sealing element rests sealingly so that a circumferential surface of said sealing element is on an inner face of said hollow profile section, wherein said sealing element is attached to said end piece in such a way that said sealing element is displaceable relative to said end piece transversely to said longitudinal direction. | 18,421 |
9,011,002 | 1. A radiation generation unit for a therapy system, the radiation generation unit comprising: a radiation source; support components for the radiation source, the support components comprising a power source; a stand comprising a horizontal guide, a vertical guide, a horizontal slide, a vertical slide, and a support element, the horizontal slide being positioned on the horizontal guide and supporting the vertical guide, the vertical slide being positioned on the vertical guide, the support element attached to the vertical guide and configured to travel along the vertical guide; and a mechanical interface, with which the power source is attachable to the stand at the support element, wherein the radiation source, the support components for the radiation source, and the mechanical interface form a linear, elongated structure, wherein the radiation generation unit comprises five degrees of freedom of movement, the five degrees of freedom of movement comprising: | 11,037 |
8,804,389 | 1. A system for converting an AC input voltage into a DC output voltage, comprising: first and second transistors arranged in a first transistor pair, third and fourth transistors arranged in a second transistor pair, and a controller responsive to the input voltage and the output voltage to control switching of the first, second, third and fourth transistors, the controller including an AC polarity detect circuit for determining polarity of the AC input voltage to produce a first enabling signal that enables the first transistor to turn on. | 5,105 |
8,752,298 | 1. A folding knife, comprising: a lock blade; and a handle connected to the lock blade; wherein the handle includes: such that when the lock blade is in a closed position, the transfer bar assembly biases the lock blade into the closed position, and such that when the lock blade is opened past a certain point, the blade opener spring assists in moving the lock blade into an open position; and wherein the handle further comprises a spline, a lock side liner, and a mark side liner; wherein the spline includes a spline portion of a transfer bar assembly recess, the lock side liner includes a lock side liner portion of the transfer bar assembly recess, and the mark side liner includes a mark side liner portion of the transfer bar assembly recess; and wherein the transfer bar assembly and the compression spring are both contained in the transfer bar assembly recess. | 16,242 |
9,511,646 | 1. A sensor module for integration within a seat assembly comprising a seat bottom and a backrest, at least one of the seat bottom and the backrest comprising a support layer and an air-permeable cover having an outside surface, which forms an occupant contact area of the seat assembly, and an inside surface, the sensor module comprising: a combined temperature and humidity sensor; and a separate sensor support for mechanically supporting the combined temperature and humidity sensor, the sensor support being configured to be arranged on or in the support layer below the air-permeable cover, wherein the combined temperature and humidity sensor comprises a semiconductor-based humidity sensor, the semiconductor-based humidity sensor comprising a semiconductor substrate and a polymer layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and wherein the polymer layer forms an active sensor surface. | 16,005 |
8,664,910 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a light source; a photoelectric conversion element for receiving light and converting the light into electric energy; a key sheet for having a plurality of operation keys and guiding the light from the light source and external light into the photoelectric conversion element and guiding the light from the light source onto the operation key; and a secondary cell for storing electric energy from the photoelectric conversion element, wherein: the electronic device includes a casing including a plurality of first through-holes for exposing the plurality of operation keys to a surface side thereof; the photoelectric conversion element includes a plurality of second through-holes corresponding to the first through-holes and is disposed on a rear face of the casing; the key sheet is made of a material with light conductivity and is disposed on the rear face of the photoelectric conversion element and the plurality of operation keys protrude to the outside of the casing through the first and second through-holes; the light source is disposed on a rear face of the key sheet; and the key sheet guides the light from the light source and the external light from the outside of the casing into the photoelectric conversion element. | 18,803 |
8,828,778 | 1. A method of forming a longitudinally continuous photovoltaic module, comprising: arranging a plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material to be spaced apart from and substantially parallel to each other; laminating a bottom layer to a first surface of the plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material, the bottom layer including a plurality of bottom layer conductive strips, an electrically conductive backsheet, and a substantially electrically insulating material disposed between the electrically conductive backsheet and the plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material; laminating a top layer to a second surface of the plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material, the second surface opposite the first surface, the top layer including a plurality of top layer conductive strips; electrically connecting the electrically conductive backsheet to a first outer strip of the plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material and a second outer strip of the plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material to form a current return path for the plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material; and electrically connecting an electronic circuit layer between the first outer strip of the plurality of strips of thin-film photovoltaic material and the electrically conductive backsheet; wherein: | 7,563 |
8,354,903 | 1. A meter disconnect relay comprised of: a base; an actuator situated within the base, wherein the base maintains a portion of the actuator stationary and allows a plunger of the actuator to move within the base; | 48,868 |
8,620,330 | 1. A method of patching a push-to-talk (PTT) call from a first mobile radio to a plurality of mobile radio, the method comprising: receiving by a server, a non-trunked digital audio stream from the first mobile radio; providing to the multiple mobile radios, by the server, the digital audio stream through an audio patch without providing an identity or alias of the first mobile radio to the multiple mobile radios; extracting, by the server, at least one of the identity or alias of the first mobile radio; providing to the multiple mobile radios, by the server after the step of extracting, the audio stream through an audio patch along with the identity or alias of the first mobile radio; providing control plane information of the call to non-listeners without providing the non-listeners with the audio stream, the control plane information having periodically-scheduled updates to maintain the call, initial control plane information provided to the non-listeners lacking both the identity and alias of the transmitter; updating the control plane information to contain the extracted at least one of the identity or alias of the first mobile radio; and providing the updated control plane information to the non-listeners prior to the next periodically-scheduled update. | 6,514 |
8,385,988 | 1. A method performed by a mobile device, the method comprising: obtaining from a cellular radio subsystem incorporated in the mobile device cellular signal strength measurements during a period of time, and comparing the cellular signal strength measurements to one another to determine whether, over the period of time, the cellular signal strength measurements have become stronger; obtaining from a wireless local area network (WLAN) radio subsystem incorporated in the mobile device WLAN signal strength measurements during the period of time, and comparing the WLAN signal strength measurements to one another to determine whether, over the period of time, the WLAN signal strength measurements have become weaker; and in the event that the cellular signal strength measurements have become stronger and the WLAN signal strength measurements have become weaker, identifying that an indoor-to-outdoor transition of the mobile device has occurred, wherein the WLAN radio subsystem is in a disconnected state during the period of time, and wherein obtaining the WLAN signal strength measurements comprises: the WLAN radio subsystem performing background scanning; selecting a strongest WLAN signal strength measurement from results of the background scanning; and after waiting, the WLAN radio subsystem performing a subsequent passive scanning, and receiving a WLAN signal strength measurement from a WLAN from which a signal having the strongest WLAN signal strength measurement was received. | 19,739 |
9,356,104 | 1. A semiconductor device structure, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate; a contact etch stop layer over the semiconductor substrate and sidewalls of the gate stack; a dielectric layer over the contact etch stop layer; and an interfacial layer between the contact etch stop layer and the dielectric layer, wherein a top surface of the gate stack is substantially coplanar with a top surface of at least one of the dielectric layer, the interfacial layer, and the contact etch stop layer. | 24,230 |
9,109,831 | 1. A process for separating carbon dioxide from a mixture comprising carbon dioxide, NO2, oxygen, argon and nitrogen, the process comprising the steps of: i) compressing the mixture in a compressor to form a compressed fluid; ii) drying at least part of the compressed fluid to form a compressed and dried fluid; iii) cooling and partially condensing the compressed and dried fluid in one or more steps to form a partially condensed fluid; iv) introducing the partially condensed fluid to a separation system and then recovering one or more liquid phase streams that are enriched in CO2 as compared to the mixture; v) introducing the one or more liquid phase streams into a distillation column under conditions effective to separate incondensable components from CO2 to form a bottoms liquid and a top gas, the bottom liquid comprised substantially of CO2 and trace amounts of NO2, the top gas comprised substantially of oxygen, nitrogen, and argon; vi) withdrawing the top gas from the distillation column, compressing the top gas, and then recycling the top gas to a point upstream step iii) vi) withdrawing the bottoms liquid from the distillation column and dividing the bottoms liquid into a first product stream and a second product stream; vii) pressurizing the first product stream and sending the first product stream to an end user; viii) warming the second product stream and then introducing the second product stream into a NO2 removal device under conditions effective for removing NO2 from the second product stream to form a CO2 enriched product stream and a NO2 enriched stream; ix) withdrawing a slip stream from the one or more liquid phase streams that are enriched in CO2 from step iv); x) splitting the slip stream into a first intermediate stream and a second intermediate stream, such that the first intermediate stream and the second intermediate stream have the same composition; xi) expanding the first intermediate stream to a first pressure, vaporizing the first intermediate stream and then introducing the vaporized stream to the distillation column or mixing with the top gas from step vi); and xii) expanding the second intermediate stream to a second pressure, warming the second intermediate stream, compressing the second intermediate stream and then recycling the compressed second intermediate stream with the mixture upstream step iii), wherein the latent heat of the first and second intermediate streams is used to cool the compressed and dried fluid in step iii). | 19,970 |
8,407,721 | 1. A system for selecting one of a plurality of communication interfaces on a multi-homed mobile computing device, said mobile computing device having a plurality of application programs executing thereon, said system comprising: a memory area for storing a list of communication interfaces on a multi-homed mobile computing device, said memory area further storing one or more preferences of the application programs for the communication interfaces; and a processor associated with the mobile computing device, said processor programmed to: | 17,298 |
9,559,802 | 1. An optical network node comprising: a first node input configured to receive a first multiplexed optical signal being time division multiplexed at a first time or wavelength division multiplexed at a second time different than the first time; a second node input configured to receive a second multiplexed optical signal; node outputs, each configured to output a separate replicated or demultiplexed optical signal, the node outputs comprising first and second groups of node outputs; an optical filter optically coupled to the first node input; a first optical power splitter having a first splitter input and first splitter outputs, the first splitter input connected to the optical filter, the optical filter configured to filter time division multiplexed signals to the first optical power splitter, the first splitter outputs directly coupled to the first group of node outputs, the first optical power splitter replicating the first multiplexed optical signal, when the first multiplexed optical signal is time division multiplexed; a second optical power splitter having a second splitter input connected to the second node input and second splitter outputs directly coupled to the second group of node outputs, the second optical power splitter replicating the second multiplexed optical signal, when the second multiplexed optical signal is time division multiplexed; and an arrayed waveguide grating having a grating input and grating outputs, the grating input connected to the optical filter, the optical filter configured to filter wavelength division multiplexed signals to the arrayed waveguide grating, the grating outputs directly coupled to the first and second groups of node outputs, the arrayed waveguide grating demultiplexing the first multiplexed optical signal, when the first multiplexed optical signal is wavelength division multiplexed. | 17,834 |
9,526,015 | 1. A method of transmitting a traffic indication map (TIM) to a station (STA) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting the TIM to the STA via a beacon frame, wherein a partial virtual field of the TIM comprises: a block offset field indicating a position of a first block among consecutive N blocks, wherein N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2, a block bitmap field identifying one or more sub-blocks in each of the consecutive N blocks, the block bitmap field having a size of N bytes corresponding to the consecutive N blocks, for each of the one or more sub-blocks identified in the block bitmap field, a corresponding sub-block bitmap field identifying at least one STA for which there is buffered downlink data, and a block bitmap size field indicating a size of the block bitmap field. | 43,955 |
8,787,345 | 1. Voice communication method between a plurality of users equipped with radio terminals as user nodes, which access a common transmission resource and are controlled by a control node, the access to said resource being organised in time frames, the method comprising: in a first period of each time frame, performing a polling period, during which the user nodes having a voice packet to transmit send the control node an access request; in a second period of each time frame, performing an allocation period, during which the control node allocates transmission frames to all or part of the user nodes having transmitted an access request in the first period, each transmission frame allocated to a user being fragmented into a plurality of transmission intervals; and in a third period of each time frame, performing a transmission period, during which each user node allocated a transmission frame in the second period, transmits said voice packet in the allocated transmission frame thereof, transmission frames allocated to different users being interleaved within said transmission period so as to ensure simultaneous half-duplex communications of the different users. | 44,732 |
9,470,723 | 1. A PLC analog output module for controlling a load by an analog current signal, comprising: a current output circuit that outputs the analog current signal; a current sensing resistor provided at a current output terminal of the current output circuit and on a side of a higher potential than the load, the load being provided between the current sensing resistor and ground, the current sensing resistor directly detecting an analog current output to the load; a differential circuit that outputs a differential voltage of voltages at both ends of the current sensing resistor; an abnormality detection circuit that receives the differential voltage output from the differential circuit and discriminates whether there is an occurrence of a disconnection and an occurrence of and overcurrent based on a determination result as to whether the differential voltage is equal to or lower than a determination value; the abnormality detection circuit using the differential voltage output commonly to discriminate the occurrence of the disconnection and the occurrence of the overcurrent; and a control module that changes and sets the determination value to be compared with the differential voltage in the abnormality detection circuit. | 5,375 |
8,540,536 | 1. A method of cooling an outboard marine engine having an exhaust conduit that receives hot exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine via an exhaust manifold and discharges the exhaust gas to a lower portion of a driveshaft housing, the method comprising pumping raw cooling water through an elongated cooling water jacket that is located adjacent to a majority of the exhaust conduit so that the raw cooling water cools the majority of the exhaust conduit and thereafter cools the exhaust manifold and the engine, wherein the exhaust conduit and the cooling water jacket extend into the lower portion of the driveshaft housing; comprising conveying the cooling water along the majority of the exhaust conduit; and comprising discharging a portion of the raw cooling water into the exhaust conduit at a location distal from the engine and in the lower portion of the driveshaft housing to thereby wet the exhaust gas in the exhaust conduit, prior to conveying the cooling water along the majority of the exhaust conduit. | 34,899 |
9,652,199 | 1. A method of performing operations in a communications protocol, the method comprising: submitting, from a target in communication with a host via the communications protocol, a command request for an entry in a queue, wherein the entry in the queue represents a command inserted into the queue by the host, wherein submitting the command request for the entry comprises submitting the command request without receiving, from the host, a command availability signal prior to submitting the command request; receiving, by the target responsive to the command request, the entry in the queue, wherein the received entry in the queue comprises the command inserted into the queue by the host, and wherein the command comprises a request for data; and executing, by the target, the command to provide the requested data, responsive to the received entry in the queue. | 14,814 |
9,790,053 | 1. An elevator device comprising: a first reader which is provided in a hall of an elevator and reads identification information which an information recording medium has; a second reader which is provided in a car of the elevator and reads the identification information which the information recording medium has; a request output section which outputs a registration request for a call to a control section of the elevator on the basis of the identification information read by the first reader; and a first determination section which, in the case where the identification information has been read by the first reader, determines whether or not the identification information has been read by the second reader before the reading of the identification information by the first reader, wherein the request output section does not output a registration request for a call corresponding to the identification information to the control section in the case where the first determination section determines that the identification information has been read by the second reader. | 48,766 |
9,758,778 | 1. A composition comprising a combination of yeast cells and a porous microtube array membrane (MTAM), wherein the yeast cells are immobilized in the MTAM and wherein the yeast encapsulation efficiency is more than 60%. | 46,542 |
8,941,357 | 1. A battery heating circuit, comprising: a switch unit, a switching control module, a damping component, an energy storage circuit, and a freewheeling circuit, wherein: the energy storage circuit is connected with the battery in a first loop, and comprises a current storage component and a charge storage component; the damping component, the switch unit, the current storage component, and the charge storage component are connected in series; the switching control module is connected with the switch unit, and is configured to control switching on and off of the switch unit so that current can flow back-and-forth between the battery and the energy storage circuit when the switch unit switches on, and amplitude of the current flowing from the energy storage circuit to the battery can be controlled; the freewheeling circuit is connected with the battery in a second loop, and is configured to sustain the current flowing to the battery when there is current flowing from the energy storage circuit to the battery and after the switch unit switches off. | 39,872 |
8,827,028 | 1. An all-terrain vehicle including: a frame, comprising a front frame portion, a mid frame portion and a rear frame portion; an engine supported by the rear frame portion; a transmission coupled to the engine; a pair of front wheels operably coupled to the front frame portion, and drivingly coupled to the transmission; a pair of rear wheels operably coupled to the rear frame portion, and drivingly coupled to the transmission; a pair of laterally spaced-apart seating surfaces supported by the mid frame portion; the engine is positioned longitudinally behind the pair of laterally spaced-apart seating surfaces; the rear frame portion comprising a lower rear frame portion and an upper rear frame portion, the rear frame portion being comprised of at least one vertical member extending between the lower rear frame portion and the upper rear frame portion, the upper rear frame portion is comprised of at least one frame member which extends in at least a partial lengthwise direction of the vehicle and at least one cross member, the upper rear frame portion at least partially extending over at least one of the engine and transmission rearward of the pair of laterally spaced-apart seating surfaces, and the upper rear frame portion further comprises a rear brace positioned over the engine and rearward of the pair of laterally spaced-apart seating surfaces, the rear brace being readily removable from the frame; wherein the lower rear frame portion at least partially supports the engine or transmission and the lower rear frame portion is comprised of cross members; and a passenger compartment intermediate the front and rear wheels, the passenger compartment comprising a front panel rearward of the front wheels, a floorboard rearward of the front panel, a base portion extending under the seating surfaces and a protective panel positioned rearwardly of the seating surfaces and forwardly of the engine. | 42,758 |
9,383,568 | 1. A system for imaging comprising: an illumination source configured to generate and communicate a light beam to an optic assembly configured to focus the light beam into a thin light blade and to an illumination plane; an objective having a lens and an optic axis and configured to focus at a focal plane and to move along the optic axis; a processor in operative association with said illumination source and the objective through first and second actuators, respectively, by control signals generated by the processor, the processor being operative to independently move both the illumination source and the objective to ensure the movement is synchronized to maintain a fixed relationship between the illumination plane of the illumination source and the focal plane of the objective as the objective moves along the optic axis such that the illumination plane illuminates only the focal plane and excites only the in-focus portion of a sample; and a detector configured to detect at least one projected image from the illuminated focal plane through the objective. | 13,830 |
9,203,940 | 1. A method for operating a mobile computing device including a display, a power button, a radio, and one or more processors, the method performed by the one or more processors of the mobile computing device and comprising: when a telephone call is being received by the mobile computing device, when the telephone call is not being received by the mobile computing device, enabling the user to activate a backlight of the display by pressing the power button. | 26,390 |
9,370,740 | 1. In a dust collection system in which dust in an air stream is passed through a final filter back into the ambient air, the improvement in which the final filter is formed of a stack of filter components of similar cross section, said stack including first and second cylindrical filter modules, each of the same diameter and each with an end cap at each end thereof defining an opening into a core of the filter and an outer rim, and with at least one gasket supported on at least one such end cap, such that the first and second filter modules have one of the end caps of one filter facing one of the end caps of the other filter, with said at least one gasket compressed therebetween; and further including a plurality of clamp assemblies each being removably fitted onto the facing end caps of the first and second filter modules, and each of said clamp assemblies including a hook member at each end thereof to fit onto an associated rim of one of said facing end caps, and hardware connecting the two hook members adapted to draw the facing end caps towards one another with said gasket compressed therebetween. | 19,953 |
9,772,003 | 1. A vibration damping device comprising: a tubular first attachment member coupled to any one of a vibration generating part and a vibration receiving part, and a second attachment member coupled to the other thereof; an elastic body coupling both of the attachment members; and a partitioning member that partitions a liquid chamber within the first attachment member having a liquid enclosed therein into a first liquid chamber and a second liquid chamber, wherein at least one of the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber has the elastic body on a portion of a wall surface thereof, wherein the partitioning member is provided with a vortex chamber unit that communicates with the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber, wherein the vortex chamber unit includes a vortex chamber communicating with one liquid chamber through a laminar flow path and communicating with the other liquid chamber through a communication hole, of both the liquid chambers, wherein the laminar flow path is opened into the vortex chamber from inner peripheral surfaces that face in radial directions of the vortex chamber being aimed in circumferential directions of the vortex chamber among wall surfaces defining the vortex chamber, wherein the communication hole is opened into the vortex chamber from an end surface that faces in a direction of center axis of the vortex chamber being aimed in the direction of the center axis among the wall surfaces defining the vortex chamber, wherein blocking members extending in the direction of the center axis so as to surround the communication hole from an outside in the radial direction are provided within the vortex chamber, wherein the blocking members are provided with flow openings penetrating the blocking members, and wherein the vortex chamber form circulating flows of a liquid according to a flow speed of the liquid flowing in from the laminar flow path and allows the liquid to flow out from the communication hole through the flow openings. | 40,115 |
9,143,283 | 1. A method, in a base station, of enhancing transmission of a downlink ACK/NACK signal, the method comprising: configuring an enhanced physical Hybrid-ARQ indicator channel in a physical downlink shared channel; and transmitting an ACK/NACK signal in the enhanced physical Hybrid-ARQ indicator channel; wherein an association between the enhanced physical Hybrid-ARQ indicator channel and the physical downlink shared channel satisfies the equation of: wherein I | 11,960 |
8,983,291 | 1. A communication device configured to transmit modulated optical signals, the device comprising: a communication interface for receiving incoming data; a clock data recovery circuit configured to process the incoming data; an encoder configured to encode the incoming data into coded data; a PAM driver configured to generate electrical signal pairs using the coded data, the electrical signal pairs including a first electrical signal and a second electrical signal, the electrical signal pairs representing information using non-equispaced power levels; a pair of limiting amplifiers with adjustable output amplitudes configured to amplify the electrical signal pairs; a source for providing a laser; and a modulator configured to generating an optical signal by modulating the laser based at least on the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal. | 43,319 |
9,577,625 | 1. A semiconductor device having delay lines formed of a plurality of series-coupled unit delay blocks, comprising: the unit delay blocks each comprising: a first delay circuit configured to delay an input signal inputted through either a common input node or a first input node, and output a delayed signal to a first output node or a signal transfer node in response to a first delay control code; and a second delay circuit configured to delay an input signal inputted through the first input node in response to a second delay control code, or through either the common input node or a second input node in response to an inverted signal of the second delay control code, and output a delayed signal to a second output node, wherein, when one bit among multi-bit delay control codes included in the delay control code including the first delay control code or the second delay control code is selectively enabled as a highest enabled bit, lower bits of the delay control code are all enabled while higher bits of the delay control code are all disabled. | 2,589 |
9,695,085 | 1. A coated article, for use in a window, comprising: a coating supported by a glass substrate, wherein: the coating comprises the following thin-film layers moving away from the glass substrate: wherein the coating is disposed on an exterior surface of the glass substrate such that the coating is to be exposed to an external environment, and wherein the coating has a hemispherical emissivity of less than 0.23 and a sheet resistance of less than 30 ohms/square. | 32,478 |
9,297,153 | 1. A water saving aerator adapted to be attached to a water tap for generating bubble foam water and flowing the bubble foam water, comprising; a water flow forming portion for forming a water flow through the water saving aerator; a water flow accelerator for accelerating the water flow supplied from the water flow forming portion and jetting an accelerated water flow jet downwardly; a water flow cylinder through which the accelerated water flow flows; an air cavity disposed in the water flow cylinder within a space for the water flow, the width of the air cavity being larger than that of the accelerated water flow jet, the air cavity containing air while the water flushes into it; a water deflection part on an inner side surface of the water flow cylinder, the water deflection part being hit by the accelerated water jet obliquely and downwardly and deflecting the accelerated water jet obliquely and downwardly, and diffusing the accelerated water jet to fill the water flow cylinder; and a ventilation pass for supplying outer air to the air cavity via air intake holes to the air cavity; wherein the accelerated water flow jet accelerated by the water flow accelerator is jetted into the air contained in the air cavity disposed in the water flow cylinder, and the bubble foam water flow is generated by injecting the air into the water flow. | 34,814 |
9,519,283 | 1. A method for transmitting data in an automated control system having a plurality of spatially distributed stations which are connected from station to station to form a series of stations, wherein the series has a first station, at least one second station and a last station, wherein the first station and every second station each have a successor in the series, and wherein every second station and the last station each have a predecessor in the series, the method comprising the following steps: the first station generates a number of separate data telegrams, which number is equal to the number of second stations plus the last station, wherein each data telegram is addressed to one of the second and the last stations, the first station sends the data telegrams one by one at defined time intervals to its successor, wherein the data telegrams are addressed in reverse order of the series of stations, such that, in sequence, a first data telegram sent by said first station to its successor at a first defined time interval defining the beginning of a communication cycle is addressed to the last station, a second data telegram sent by said first station to its successor at a second defined time interval is addressed to the predecessor of the last station, etc., and a last data telegram sent by said first station to its successor at a last defined time interval in said communication cycle is addressed to its successor, every second station receives a data telegram from its respective predecessor and sends the received data telegram to its respective successor in a manner of a bucket brigade at said defined time intervals, until it receives a data telegram which is addressed to itself, and the second stations and the last station each generate an individual reply telegram related to an operating condition of the station which is directed to the first station in response to the receipt of a data telegram addressed to itself, and they send the individual reply telegrams to their respective predecessor in a manner of a bucket brigade, wherein the stations send the data telegrams substantially simultaneously to their respective successors such that every station receives a data telegram addressed to itself after a number of time intervals which is equal to the number of second stations plus the last station, wherein the second stations and the last station process the received data telegrams substantially simultaneously and generate their respective individual reply telegrams at substantially the same instance in time, wherein the first station receives the individual reply telegrams from all of the second stations and the last station one after another within a single communication cycle that ends when the first station receives the reply telegram from the last station, such that the first station transmits a separate data telegram to, and receives a reply telegram from, each of the second stations and the last station in one communication cycle, and wherein the first station generates and sends an individual data telegram for every second station and for the last station, wherein the individual data telegrams for at least two different stations are structurally different in structure, length and/or position of an address data. | 32,816 |
8,558,015 | 1. A process for preparing hydrogenated catmint oil comprising: (a) distilling a beginning amount of crude catmint oil to produce (i) a distillate fraction comprising volatile components driven off from the beginning amount of crude catmint oil, and (ii) a pot fraction; and (b) contacting the pot fraction of step (a) with hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to produce hydrogenated catmint oil; wherein one or both of steps (a) and (b) are conducted in the presence of a solvent; wherein the distillation of step (a) comprises a steam distillation followed by a solvent distillation; and wherein the beginning amount of crude catmint oil has at least about 150 ppm of sulfur-containing compounds, and the distillate fraction comprises at least about 8 wt % of the amount of sulfur-containing compounds in the beginning amount of crude catmint oil. | 3,630 |
8,903,458 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by one or more processors of a mobile device, a battery state and a network access state of the mobile device, wherein the battery state comprises one or both of a power state and a charge state of a battery of the mobile device, and wherein the network access state comprises a type of network accessed by the mobile device; determining, by the one or more processors, a usage frequency of at least one application executable by the mobile device, wherein the usage frequency comprises a frequency with which the at least one application is used on the mobile device by a user; and setting, by the one or more processors, a data refresh frequency for the at least one application based on the battery state, the network access state of the mobile device, and the usage frequency of the at least one application, wherein the data refresh frequency comprises a frequency with which updated data for the at least one application is periodically received from an external computing device that is external to the mobile device, wherein setting the data refresh frequency for the at least one application comprises setting the data refresh frequency in direct proportion to the usage frequency of the at least one application, such that the data refresh frequency increases as the usage frequency increases, and wherein the at least one application comprises a graphical user interface configured to receive and respond to user input and present information at the mobile device. | 29,025 |
9,133,057 | 1. A composition, comprising: a solid comprising a cementitious binder, a cement clinker, or a combination thereof, and an amino alcohol A and/or a salt of the amino alcohol A, as an additive in the grinding of the solid, wherein the amino alcohol A is N-methyldiisopropanolamine. | 31,071 |
8,748,469 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, diluent, or carrier, and a compound according to the formula, a tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R and R wherein R R R R wherein each Q is independently —C(R R each R or R each R is independently hydrogen or R wherein C | 14,932 |
9,611,761 | 1. A system comprising a charging circuit for converting electric energy into thermal energy, the charging circuit comprising: a compression stage, which is connected via a motor shaft to an electric motor, a Heat exchanger and an expansion stage, which is connected via a charging circuit generator shaft to a charging circuit generator, wherein the compression stage is connected to the expansion stage via a hot gas line, and the heat exchanger is connected on the primary side into the hot gas line, and wherein the expansion stage is connected to the compression stage via a return line so that a closed circuit for a working gas is formed, and a recuperator which is connected on the primary side into the hot gas line between the heat exchanger and the expansion stage and connected on the secondary side into the return line so that heat of the working gas in the hot gas line can be transferred to the working gas in the return line, the system further comprising a discharging circuit that is discrete from the charging circuit and which comprises: a thermal store that receives heat from the charging circuit; a medium that receives heat from the thermal store; and a discrete energy extractor that extracts the received heat from the medium, wherein the thermal store receives the heat from the working gas in the charging circuit, and wherein the heat exchanger is configured such that a pressure of the working gas is reduced when delivering the heat to the thermal store. | 41,618 |
9,281,939 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing time-relevant content into electronic communications over a network comprising: receiving, by a first computer system linked to the network, over the network, encrypted address data corresponding to a recipient for an electronic communication, the encrypted address data from a second computer system linked to the network; creating, by the first computer system, an electronic communication including the encrypted address data and a request for obtaining content, the request for obtaining content configured to be automatically transmitted from a terminal of the recipient of the electronic communication, over the network, when the electronic communication is opened, the terminal linked to the network; sending, by the first computer system, the electronic communication including the encrypted address data, for decryption to a decrypting computer device linked to the network and associated with the second computer system, over the network; receiving, by the first computer system, the request for obtaining content, that was automatically transmitted over the network, from the terminal of the recipient, when the electronic communication was opened; and responding, by the first computer system, to the received request for obtaining content that was automatically transmitted from the terminal of the recipient when the electronic communication was opened, including, assembling the content corresponding to the received request for obtaining content, to be provided to the opened electronic communication. | 3,898 |
9,491,125 | 1. A method comprising: receiving at a server from a first client application a first message that triggers a life cycle event for a data object managed by the server; obtaining contextual information associated with the first message; applying a configurable message filter to the first message to create a context-specific transformed message that includes a portion of the contextual information; delivering the transformed message in real-time to a recipient using a second client application; receiving at the server from a third client application a second message; obtaining additional contextual information associated with the second message; applying a configurable message filter to the second message to determine a portion of the additional contextual information to be included in the transformed message; and including in the transformed message the portion of the additional contextual information associated with the second message. | 47,269 |
8,768,091 | 1. A method of generating a sketch image of an input image, the method comprising: calculating a representative value corresponding to brightness of a pixel block, the pixel block including a specific pixel of an image and at least one of the pixels of the image which surround the specific pixel; determining whether an input gray scale value of the specific pixel is higher than the representative value corresponding to the brightness of the pixel block; and outputting an output gray scale of the specific pixel, which is adjusted, based on a result of the determining, wherein the outputting comprises outputting the output gray scale of the specific pixel having a maximum gray scale if the input gray scale value of the specific pixel is higher than the representative value, and wherein the outputting comprises outputting the output gray scale of the specific pixel having a value lower than the input gray scale value in response to determining that the input gray scale value of the specific pixel is below the representative value. | 44,986 |
8,639,987 | 1. A data processing apparatus comprising: functional circuitry for performing data processing, the functional circuitry including error correction circuitry configured to detect errors in operation of the functional circuitry and to repair those errors in operation; an operating parameter controller configured to control one or more performance controlling operating parameters of said data processing apparatus; tuneable monitoring circuitry for monitoring a characteristic indicative of changes in signal propagation delay within the functional circuitry, and for producing a control signal dependent on said monitored characteristic; the tuneable monitoring circuitry, in a continuous tuning mode of operation, being configured to modify the dependency between the monitored characteristic and the control signal in dependence upon one or more characteristics of errors detected by said error correction circuitry; and the operating parameter controller being configured, in said continuous tuning mode of operation, to control said one or more performance controlling operating parameters in dependence upon said control signal. | 29,850 |
9,455,367 | 1. A method of disassembling a photovoltaic module including a plurality of photovoltaic cells and a conductive ribbon connecting the photovoltaic cells to each other, the conductive ribbon having a base material and a metal coating layer that covers the base material, the method comprising: applying heat to the photovoltaic module in a furnace; removing an insulating protective layer wrapping the photovoltaic cell of the photovoltaic module; providing an oxidizing atmosphere in the furnace so that metallic oxide is formed on the metal coating layer of the conductive ribbon in a process of applying heat to the photovoltaic module; and obtaining the conductive ribbon separated from the photovoltaic cell by the metallic oxide and the photovoltaic cell of the photovoltaic module. | 16,721 |
9,028,811 | 1. A method for promoting hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal in a human subject in need thereof, comprising contacting a population of human HSCs ex vivo with an effective amount of 16,16-dimethyl-PGE2 to promote HSC self-renewal in the subject; and intravenously administering the contacted HSCs to the subject, wherein the population of human HSCs is autologous or allogeneic to the subject. | 40,694 |
8,367,456 | 1. A method for the production of a tile comprising a photovoltaic cell, characterized in that it comprises in succession the steps of: producing a ceramic base body ( an operation of pressing, in which an atomized ceramic powder with a humidity of between 3 wt % and 6 wt % is subjected to an operation of pressing at a pressure of between 35 and 60 MPa, an operation of drying, and an operation of baking at a maximum temperature of between 1100 and 1250° C.; and directly depositing on a surface ( an electro-conductive layer ( a plurality of active layers ( a layer of electro-conductive material with grid-like structure ( said plurality of active layers ( 7 ) comprising in succession an n-type layer ( 11 ), a photo-active layer ( 12 ) and a p-type layer ( 13 ); housing in said hole ( applying an electrical and/or electronic device ( | 21,658 |
8,775,663 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a first transport layer of a first storage system, data from a first application layer of the first storage system for transmission to a second storage system, wherein the first transport layer is in communication with a first compression module, and wherein utilization of the first compression module is transparent to the first application layer; establishing, by the first compression module via the first transport layer, a data communication and handshaking session with a second compression module of the second storage system; exchanging, by the first compression module with the second compression module, information relating to the first and second storage systems during the handshaking session; negotiating, by the first compression module with the second compression module, compatible data compression parameters including compression ratios based on available system resources including processor utilization of the first storage system and the second storage system; compressing, by the first compression module, the data received from the first application layer via the first transport layer for data replication and storage in the second storage system by utilizing the negotiated compatible data compression parameters; and transmitting, by the first transport layer, the compressed data in packets to the second storage system. | 16,957 |
9,310,065 | 1. A lamp comprising: an enclosure being at least partially optically transmissive; a board supporting a power supply for the lamp located in the enclosure; at least one LED disposed in the optically transmissive enclosure and mounted to the board and operable to emit light when energized through an electrical connection; a gas contained in the enclosure to provide thermal coupling to the at least one LED; and the at least one LED mounted on a submount formed to have a three dimensional shape, wherein the submount comprises a flex circuit comprised of a thermally conductive material on a flexible dielectric material, the board being electrically coupled to the at least one LED and the submount being thermally coupled to the gas for dissipating heat from the at least one LED wherein portions of the flex circuit form heat conducting elements that provide suitable surface area and allow gas circulation such that heat generated by the at least one LED is transferred to the gas. | 49,965 |
9,071,043 | 1. A cabinet, comprising: a compartment that includes an interior, an exterior, and a surface having a cable slot, a cabinet-electrical-connector housed in the interior of the compartment, a main door coupled to the compartment, the main door being movable between a main-door-closed position and a main-door-open position, wherein the cabinet-electrical-connector is accessible when the main door is in the main-door-open position; a cable-slot door coupled to the compartment, wherein the cable-slot door covers the compartment's cable slot, the cable-slot door being movable between a cable-slot-door-closed position and a cable-slot-door-open position; wherein when the cable-slot door is in the cable-slot-door-open position, an electrical cable is extendible from the exterior of the compartment through the compartment's cable slot into the interior of the compartment; wherein when the cable-slot-door is in the cable-slot-door closed position, the electrical cable is prevented from extending from the exterior of the compartment through the compartment's cable slot into the interior of the compartment; and wherein the cable-slot-door is only movable between the cable-slot-door-closed position and the cable-slot-door open position when the main door is in the main-door-open position. | 48,723 |
9,753,129 | 1. A system, comprising: a first mobile device configured to: | 37,239 |
9,445,878 | 1. A method of whitening teeth, the method comprising: placing an anode of a first set of electrodes proximate an application site within a user's mouth; generating oxygen at the anode; and applying an electrical potential across a second set of electrodes proximate the anode of the first set of electrodes while in the presence of the generated oxygen to generate ozone from the oxygen, the second set of electrodes arranged such that the anode of the first set of electrodes is located between the second set of electrodes. | 14,414 |
8,736,191 | 1. A method for controlling dimming of LED illumination (brightness) of one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) where LED illumination is controlled by an LED driver that outputs an LED illumination signal with a duty cycle controlled according to a selectable level of LED illumination (dimming level), the LED dimming control method operable with a dimmer circuit that is operable to output a dimmer selection signal corresponding to the selectable level of LED illumination over a predetermined dimming range of LED illumination, the LED dimming control method comprising: sampling the dimmer selection signal during successive sampling periods and outputting a corresponding LED illumination signal with a duty cycle corresponding to the selectable level of LED illumination; and adjustably filtering the LED illumination signal to control the rate of duty cycle change between consecutive sampling periods according to at least two levels of filtering: | 37,937 |
9,325,896 | 1. An image pickup apparatus on which a lens unit is to be removably mounted, the image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup element including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a plurality of photodiodes, the plurality of photodiodes corresponding to a micro lens; a first focus detection unit configured to perform a focus detection by a contrast detection method based on a signal output from the image pickup element; a second focus detection unit configured to perform a focus detection by a phase difference detection method based on a pair of image signals output from the image pickup element; and a control unit configured to perform a focus control based on an in-focus position detected by one of the first focus detection unit and the second focus detection unit, wherein the control unit is configured to receive, from the mounted lens unit, first information related to a displacement of the in-focus position by the phase difference detection method caused by an aberration of an image pickup optical system of the lens unit and determine whether to use the second focus detection unit for the focus control according to the first information. | 1,822 |
8,543,449 | 1. A method for estimating appropriate advertisement inventory, the method comprising: obtaining one or more advertisement target market segment criteria from an advertiser for delivering at least one advertisement; utilizing a first computing process, generating a target market segment array corresponding to each of the one or more advertisement target market segment criteria wherein each target market segment array includes a plurality of array elements, each array element corresponding to a period of time; obtaining an advertisement request from one of a user and a content provider, the advertisement request including one or more target market data elements, and the advertisement request being associated with a time increment; upon determining that at least one of the one or more target market data elements corresponds to a particular one of the one or more advertisement target market segment criteria obtained from the advertiser, incrementing a numerical identifier in one or more of the plurality of array elements corresponding to the time increment and included in the target market segment array that corresponds to the particular one of the one or more advertisement target market segment criteria, utilizing a second computing process; processing, utilizing a third computing process, a plurality of numerical identifiers stored in array elements corresponding to the increment of time incremented in association with the one or more target market segment arrays to determine appropriate advertisement inventory at a particular time; providing the plurality of numerical identifiers and the one or more target market segment arrays to an advertisement processing component; and determining, using a fourth computing process, an inventory of advertisements at the processing component based on the plurality of numerical identifiers and the one or more target market segment arrays, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth computing processes are performed by one or more computing devices. | 9,735 |
8,597,857 | 1. A metallic porous body for a fuel cell formed by stacking a plurality of unit cells, the metallic porous body comprising: a porous portion which is in contact with a reactive area of a membrane electrode assembly and corresponds to a reactive area of each unit cell; a flat portion having a flat surface structure formed along outer edges of the metallic porous body other than the porous portion corresponding to the reactive area, wherein the metallic porous body is a gas diffusion layer; and wherein the flat portion includes through apertures of the flat portion formed at positions where a gasket is molded such that the metallic porous body acting as the gas diffusion layer is firmly integrated with a separator of the fuel cell by the gasket molded on one side of the separator and one side of the flat portion by a resin to act as the gasket inserted into the through apertures. | 852 |
8,379,532 | 1. A method of processing wireless networking performance data, comprising: retrieving a set of geographically based wireless networking performance data from a first computing device, the set of geographically based wireless networking performance data derived from at least one mobile device provisioned for typical operation on a wireless communication network; parsing the set of geographically based wireless networking performance data according to a set of key performance indicators; and calculating a geographically based composite score representative of wireless networking performance quality from at least some of the key performance indicators, the composite score formulated by mathematically combining a plurality of factors including a signal quality factor, a data quality factor, and a network reliability factor, the signal quality factor including a signal quality weighting factor, the data quality factor including a data type weighting factor and a data speed weighting factor, and the network reliability factor including a no-data connect weighting factor and a zero-signal weighting factor, each of said plurality of factors associated with a same geographic area; and formatting the composite score for display on an output device. | 23,728 |
9,507,216 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel configured to perform image display on a display surface by a plurality of pixels, each of said plurality of pixels being configured to include a liquid crystal layer whose state is changed by voltages applied to first and second pixel electrodes, and said plurality of pixels having at least first type pixels and second type pixels which have respective separated roles; and a parallax barrier part arranged on a side close to said display surface with respect to said liquid crystal layer, and configured to display a first display image by said first type pixels and a second display image by said second type pixels in first and second viewing angle ranges which are different from each other, wherein said first and second pixel electrodes have a combination structure in which a corresponding pixel area is classified into a pixel end area and a pixel main area other than said pixel end area, said structure configured to make the transmittance of said pixel end area relatively higher than the transmittance of said pixel main area. | 48,845 |
8,522,823 | 1. A one-way check valve for use in a railway car control valve, said one-way check valve comprising: a. a body having b. an insert formed of a first material, said insert having c. a sleeve formed of a second material, said second material being different than said first material and said sleeve being operatively received on said insert intermediate said first end and said second end; wherein | 9,784 |
9,260,355 | 1. A process for the production of propylene in which in a first step isobutanol is subjected to a simultaneous dehydration and skeletal isomerisation to make corresponding olefins, having the same number of carbons and comprising a mixture of n-butenes and iso-butene and in a second step n-butenes are subjected to methathesis, said process comprising: a) introducing in a dehydration and isomerization reactor a stream (A) comprising isobutanol, wherein the isobutanol is present in the stream (A) in an amount ranging from 30 to 100 weight percent based on a total weight of the stream (A), b) contacting said stream (A) with a dehydration and isomerization catalyst in said dehydration and isomerization reactor at conditions effective to dehydrate at least a portion of the isobutanol and skeletal isomerase an iso-butyl moiety of at least a portion of the isobutanol to make a mixture of n-butenes and iso-butene, wherein the dehydration and isomerization catalyst is a crystalline silicate; a dealuminated crystalline silicate; a phosphorus modified crystalline silicate; a silicoaluminaphosphate molecular sieve; or a silicated, zirconated, titanated, or fluorinated alumina, c) recovering from said dehydration and isomerization reactor a stream (B) comprising the mixture of n-butenes and iso-butene, d) fractionating said mixture of n-butenes and iso-butene to produce an n-butenes stream (N) and to remove at least part of the isobutene, e) sending the n-butenes stream (N) to a methathesis reactor and contacting the n-butenes stream (N) with a metathesis catalyst in said methathesis reactor, at conditions effective to produce propylene, f) recovering from said methathesis reactor a stream (P) comprising propylene, unreacted n-butenes, and heavies, g) fractionating the stream (P) to recover propylene. | 35,377 |
9,757,908 | 1. A combination of a mold and a fixing device for fixating a segment of a wind turbine blade to the mold in which the blade segment is manufactured, wherein the blade segment has a leading edge and a trailing edge that defines a chordwise direction and a fixating portion, the fixing device comprising: a first portion for removably fixating the blade segment at its fixating portion to the mold; and a second portion for fixating the fixing device to the mold, wherein the fixing device is configured to exert a pressing force on the fixating portion of the blade segment in the chordwise direction while the fixing device fixates the segment of the wind turbine blade to the mold. | 14,985 |
8,469,091 | 1. A method for production of purified distillate from produced water used in heavy oil production, comprising: (a) providing produced water stream extracted from a heavy oil production well; (b) deoiling said produced water stream to provide a deoiled water stream; (c) increasing the pH of said deoiled water stream to provide a softened water stream by precipitating calcium and magnesium from the deoiled water stream; (d) preheating said softened water stream in a heat exchanger; (e) deaerating said softened water stream; (f) preconcentrating said softened water stream in a first evaporation stage in an evaporator vessel including a recirculating brine by generating a water vapor stream and a concentrated brine stream; (g) demisting said water vapor stream in a mist eliminator external to the evaporator vessel to reduce solids content prior to condensation thereby creating the high purity distillate stream, wherein the demisting step comprises the stages of treating a brine-containing water vapor in at least one coarse removal chevron, treating said brine-containing water vapor with at least one mesh agglomerator pad, and treating said brine-containing water vapor in at least one polishing chevron; (h) sending the high purity distillate to a high pressure boiler or steam generator for the production of steam and subsequent injection to a reservoir via an injection well. | 34,350 |
8,493,868 | 1. A method of controlling a size of a contention window in a node in a network, comprising: under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions: maintaining a list of sizes of contention windows of parent nodes of the node; setting a contention window for the node to be not shorter than a contention window of a parent node of the node and longer than contention windows used by upstream 1-hop upstream neighbors of the node, as indicated by the list; and sending data to the parent node of the node, the sending beginning after a wait indicated by the contention window of the node. | 17,840 |
8,788,959 | 1. A method comprising: receiving information indicative of a change in a first design element value, wherein the first design element value is associated with a first component of an operating target device, wherein the operation of the target device includes executing instructions; determining, in response to receiving the information indicative of a change in the first design element value, whether a second design element value has changed, wherein the second design element value is associated with a second component of the target device; and updating express interface information in accordance with results of the determining. | 4,165 |
9,136,552 | 1. A gas decomposition component used for decomposing a gas, comprising: a cylindrical-body membrane electrode assembly (MEA) including a first electrode on an inner-surface side, a second electrode on an outer-surface side, and a solid electrolyte sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode; a porous metal body that is inserted on the inner-surface side of the cylindrical-body MEA and is electrically connected to the first electrode; and a central conductive rod inserted so as to serve as an electrically conductive shaft of the porous metal body, wherein the solid electrolyte extends beyond both ends of the cylindrical-body MEA, a tubular joint is engaged with each of ends of the cylindrical solid electrolyte, the tubular joint is connected to a transfer passage for a gaseous fluid containing the gas supplied to the first electrode, and a conductive member is electrically connected to the central conductive rod and penetrates the tubular joint. | 35,066 |
8,473,535 | 1. A pulse shaping filter comprising: a delay system comprising a digital delay chain; a multiplier system comprising at least one multiplier adapted to multiply a signal from an input signal or the delay system by a predetermined non-zero coefficient, the multiplier system comprising a current reference branch and at least one current branch system coupled to the current reference; and an adding system for summing each output of each multiplier of the multiplier system, wherein the current reference branch is adapted to receive a biasing current and the current reference branch comprises: | 862 |
8,759,667 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device of a tandem type wherein an amorphous photoelectric conversion unit including an amorphous i-type layer and a microcrystalline photoelectric conversion unit including a microcrystalline i-type layer are connected on a substrate, the photoelectric conversion device comprising: an intermediate layer disposed between the amorphous photoelectric conversion unit and the microcrystalline photoelectric conversion unit, and having a refractive index lower than that of layers in contact with front and back surfaces of the intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer includes portions with different thicknesses, and the intermediate layer is formed to have a smaller film thickness in a portion where a crystalline fraction of the microcrystalline i-type layer overlapping in the same region in the plane of the substrate is lower. | 44,663 |
9,089,688 | 1. An electrical lead comprising: a cylindrical lead body including an outer surface, a proximal end, a distal end and a longitudinal axis extending therethrough; a plurality of directional electrodes disposed toward the distal end of the outer surface of the cylindrical lead body; and at least one anchoring prong attached to or otherwise integral with each of the plurality of directional electrodes to anchor the respective directional electrode to the cylindrical lead body; wherein: | 19,707 |
9,385,401 | 1. A rechargeable battery pack for a hand held power tool, comprising: a multiplicity of elongated battery cells each having opposite anode and cathode ends, and which stores a source of electricity, and wherein the respective elongated battery cells are further oriented in a parallel, spaced relationship, one relative to the other battery cells; a pair of non-conductive, spaced, battery carriers, and wherein the respective battery carriers each have a peripheral edge, and wherein the respective battery carriers further define a multiplicity of openings in a given pattern, and which allows access to the opposite anode and cathode ends of the respective elongated battery cells, and wherein the spaced battery carriers individually supportingly engage and maintain the multiplicity of battery cells in predetermined, spaced parallel relationship one relative to the others; a sheet metal conductor having a proximal end which extends through at least one of the openings which is defined by the respective battery cell carriers, and is further electrically coupled with the anode and cathode ends of at least some of the elongated battery cells, and wherein the sheet metal conductor has an opposite distal end; a printed circuit board juxtaposed relative to, and cooperating with, at least one of the non-conductive battery carriers, and wherein the distal end of the sheet metal conductor is electrically coupled to the printed circuit board, and wherein the source of electrical power which is stored in the respective elongated battery cells is delivered to the printed circuit board; and a releasable electrical connector which is electrically coupled with the printed circuit board, and which further includes a plurality of electrical terminals, and wherein the plurality of electrical terminals which are made integral with the releasable electrical connector releasably, matingly and electrically couples with a hand held power tool so as to supply the stored electricity provided by the respective elongated battery cells to the hand held power tool. | 16,507 |
9,554,125 | 1. A projection system operable to provide stereoscopic images, comprising: a projection lens arrangement disposed in a light path to receive image light, the projection lens arrangement comprising: an optical component disposed between the first power group and the second power group; wherein the optical component comprises a polarization switch; and wherein the polarization switch is configured to receive the image light and output switching polarized image light from the projection lens arrangement towards an output image path. | 44,983 |
9,802,643 | 1. An apparatus for controlling a motor driven power steering (MDFS) system of a vehicle, comprising: a vehicle speed sensor configured to measure a speed of the vehicle; a set of predetermined speed values, each corresponding to one of transmission gear stages of a transmission of the vehicle; a global positioning system (GPS) vehicle speed calculation unit configured to calculate a GPS-based speed of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to generate MDPS control signals for controlling the MDPS system using the speed of the vehicle from the vehicle speed sensor, wherein, when the vehicle speed sensor is in error, the control unit generates the MDFS control signals using, instead of the speed of the vehicle from the vehicle speed sensor, at least one of the GPS-based speed and, a first one of the predetermined speed values corresponding to a current transmission gear stage. | 8,067 |
8,795,447 | 1. A process for providing a stainless steel region metallurgically bonded to a carbon steel substrate, the process comprising: providing a carbon steel substrate; depositing chromium onto the carbon steel substrate to provide a chromium layer; and then heating the chromium layer and the carbon steel substrate to an annealing temperature in a range of about 800° C. to about 1200° C. for an annealing time that is sufficiently long to form a homogeneous stainless steel region and a bonding region, the bonding region positioned between the stainless steel region and the carbon steel substrate; wherein the homogeneous stainless steel region has a thickness of about 5 μm to about 250 μm, and has a stainless steel composition, the stainless steel composition comprising an admixture of iron and chromium, and the stainless steel composition comprising a chromium concentration of about 10 wt. % to about 30 wt. % that varies by less than 5 wt. %. | 37,115 |
8,868,314 | 1. A control device for a vehicle, comprising: a heat source control section for controlling the operating state of a heat source mounted in the vehicle; a necessary heat calculating section for calculating an indication value of a prospective quantity of heat that will be needed by a heat consuming device that uses heat produced by the heat source; a heat supply estimating section for estimating an indication value of a prospective quantity of heat that will be suppliable by the heat source to the heat consuming device; and a heat generation increase requesting section for requesting the heat source control section to increase a heat generation quantity of the heat source when the quantity of heat indicated by the indication value estimated by the heat supply estimating section is less than the quantity of heat indicated by the indication value calculated by the necessary heat calculating section. | 22,179 |
9,539,342 | 1. A compound of formula (I): wherein R is selected from the group consisting of: R R each R | 44,683 |
9,681,519 | 1. A fear-reducing device comprising, a light for providing illumination in a dark room occupied by a person, the light having variable lumen output levels in response to light control signals for helping overcome night-fear of the person, a controller for controlling the light output levels wherein, | 11,149 |
8,808,094 | 1. A top box wheel assembly including: a video display mounted on a rectangular shaped top box housing in a front opening of the top box housing; a bezel structure connected to the top box housing in an operating position so as to cover the front opening of the top box housing and the video display; an inner frame included in the bezel structure, the inner frame defining an inner frame opening; an outer frame included in the bezel structure; and a diffuser plate included in the bezel structure, the diffuser plate being formed from a planar sheet of material and including a wheel-shaped opening, the inner frame being mounted on the diffuser plate with the inner frame opening in registry with the wheel-shaped opening such that the inner frame defines an area through the bezel structure through which a wheel-shaped display area of the video display is visible, and the outer frame being mounted on the diffuser plate such that the outer frame defines a periphery of the bezel structure with an annular area defined between a portion of the circumference of the inner frame and a circular portion of the outer frame, the inner frame and the outer frame being mounted on the diffuser plate such that the diffuser plate maintains the position of the inner frame relative to the outer frame. | 6,650 |
9,458,247 | 1. A method comprising: providing cellulosic biomass solids in a digestion medium comprising about 50% or more of an organic solvent by volume, the cellulosic biomass solids comprising water in an amount up to about 50% by mass; heating the cellulosic biomass solids and the digestion medium in a digestion unit in the presence of molecular hydrogen and a slurry catalyst capable of activating molecular hydrogen, thereby forming an alcoholic component derived from the cellulosic biomass solids and liberating lignin from the cellulosic biomass solids into the digestion medium; wherein the water from the cellulosic biomass solids forms a biphasic mixture with the digestion medium as the cellulosic biomass solids are heated, the biphasic mixture comprising an organic phase and an aqueous phase; removing at least a portion of the biphasic mixture from the digestion unit, the biphasic mixture containing the alcoholic component, the lignin and the slurry catalyst; converting at least a portion of the lignin into a phenolic solvent; and returning at least a portion of the phenolic solvent to the digestion unit while heating the cellulosic biomass solids and the digestion medium. | 40,104 |
9,739,428 | 1. A method, comprising: replacing a fluorescent light tube with an LED light tube in a socket for the fluorescent light tube, the LED light tube comprising: delivering power to the LED light tube in the socket via a ballast for the fluorescent light tube to provide area lighting using the LED light tube, wherein one or more components of the power supply circuit are packaged in one of the end caps. | 17,315 |
8,888,113 | 1. A shock absorbing device comprising: at least one base supported by a frame; a rocker arm having a front end and a rear end, wherein the rocker arm is pivotally connected to the base by a shaft in between the front end and the rear end of the rocker arm; a spindle attached to the rocker arm near the rear end, wherein the spindle is rotatably connectable to a wheel; and an air bladder supported by the at least one base, wherein the front end of the rocker arm is adjacent to a top of the air bladder, thereby the rocker arm is pivotally connected to the base in between the spindle and the air bladder. | 14,473 |
9,147,829 | 1. A piezoelectric element, comprising: electrodes, and a piezoelectric layer disposed between the electrodes, wherein the piezoelectric layer is a ABO | 33,495 |
8,957,383 | 1. A radiation detection apparatus comprising: a first substrate member; a second substrate member; and a sealing portion configured to bond an edge portion of the first substrate member to an edge portion of the substrate member, one of the first substrate member and the second substrate member being a sensor panel including photoelectric conversion elements and the other being a scintillator panel including a scintillator layer, and the sealing portion including a first sealing resin having a first elastic modulus, a second sealing resin having a second elastic modulus lower than the first elastic modulus, a stress reduction portion configured to reduce a stress that acts on the first sealing resin and the second sealing resin and having a third elastic modulus lower than the second elastic modulus, wherein the first sealing resin bonds the edge portion of the first substrate member to a first surface of the stress reduction portion on a side of the first substrate member, the stress reduction portion is bonded to the edge portion of the second substrate member via a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface, and the second sealing resin bonds the edge portion of the second substrate member to the first sealing resin to cover a side surface between the first surface and the second surface of the stress reduction portion. | 25,848 |
9,720,918 | 1. A method for processing web server logs a session at a time, comprising: receiving a stream of raw log file data comprising a plurality of substantially chronologically ordered web server requests from different user sessions; storing a data subset of the raw log file data as a first plurality of web server requests from different user sessions in a sliding memory window having a size that may be programmably controlled and adjusted for processing in a memory-efficient manner; identifying and grouping any complete user sessions within the first plurality of web server requests stored in the sliding memory by processing the first plurality of web server requests with the sliding memory window so that at any one time a fraction of the first plurality of web server requests is loaded into the sliding memory window without requiring indexing of the entire stream of raw log file data; identifying any incomplete user sessions within the first plurality of web server requests stored in the sliding memory; outputting log file entries from the data subset for each complete user session identified in the first plurality of web server requests; and processing log file entries from any incomplete user sessions identified within the first plurality of web server requests for combination with log file entries from any incomplete user sessions identified in the raw log file data. | 19,423 |
9,769,759 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a communication unit configured to: a processor configured to: | 22,132 |
8,985,533 | 1. A clamp block assembly for securing hydraulic pipes, the clamp block assembly comprising a plurality of unitary clamp blocks of deformable material each having a plurality of sides, opposing end faces, and a through hole extending between said opposing end faces of a respective clamp block for receiving a respective pipe, and a clamp adapted to apply a predetermined load around the plurality of clamp blocks, wherein the clamp includes a first clamp part and a second clamp part adapted to be fastened to the first clamp part, and wherein the through hole in each clamp block is offset with respect to a centreline of the respective clamp block so that the through hole is nearer a first side of the plurality of sides of the clamp block than to a second side opposite the first side, wherein each of the plurality of clamp blocks is adapted to sit with respect to the clamp in a plurality of different orientations of rotation about the respective clamp block centreline, and wherein the clamp blocks each include flanges projecting from the end faces and extending beyond the sides of the respective clamp block. | 22,441 |
8,984,222 | 1. A method operable in a Redundant Array of Independent Drives (RAID) clustered storage system comprising an initiator storage controller and a target storage controller, wherein the initiator storage controller comprises an initiator RAID management processing component communicatively coupled with an initiator protocol processing component, wherein the target storage controller comprises a target RAID management processing component communicatively coupled with a target protocol processing component, and wherein the initiator protocol processing component is communicatively coupled with the target protocol processing component, the method comprising: receiving an I/O request in the initiator storage controller from an attached host system; shipping the I/O request from the initiator storage controller to the target storage controller for processing; determining, within the initiator controller, that the shipped I/O request is to be aborted; transmitting a task management message from the initiator protocol processing component of the initiator storage controller to the target protocol processing component of the target storage controller, the task management message indicating that the shipped I/O request is to be aborted; completing processing of the shipped I/O request within the target storage controller responsive to receipt of the task management message; returning a completion status from the target storage controller to the initiator storage controller; and returning the completion status from the initiator storage controller to the host system. | 10,005 |
8,849,699 | 1. A method comprising: transmitting, by a computer-based system configured for targeting an ad impression, a list of customer records to a service provider system, wherein the service provider system identifies a matched customer by comparing a first set of personally identifying information (“PII”) to a second set of PII and wherein the service provider system installs a cookie on a web client associated with the matched customer; receiving, by the computer-based system, a campaign request from a merchant; permitting, by the computer-based system and via the web client, the matched customer to select a type of ad impression in which the matched customer is interested; transmitting, by the computer-based system, the campaign request to the service provider system, wherein the service provider system adds a flag to the cookie based on the campaign request and instructs a media buyer system to bid on an ad impression for the matched customer based on the flag; removing, by the computer-based system, the flag from the cookie in response to a selection by the matched customer of a type of ad impression in which the matched customer is not interested; modifying, by the computer-based system, the cookie to at least one of: associate or disassociate the matched customer with at least one of: a category or type of ad impression; receiving, by the computer-based system, a first expenditure associated with the matched customer who received the ad impression; comparing, by the computer-based system, the first expenditure to a second expenditure associated with a customer who did not receive the ad impression based on the campaign request but fits parameters associated with the campaign request; reporting, by the computer-based system, a result of the comparing. | 16,084 |
9,135,125 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, using one or more computing devices, an indication that a power outage occurred; identifying, using the one or more computing devices, which of a plurality of electronic devices is a sacrificial device, wherein processing in the sacrificial device may be suspended; deactivating, using the one or more computing devices, the processing of the sacrificial device; supplying, using the one or more computing devices, alternating current (AC) power from the sacrificial device to one or more non-sacrificial devices; and identifying, using the one or more computing devices, the sacrificial device as a new non-sacrificial device when one or more processes associated with the one or more non-sacrificial devices are awaiting a result of a suspended process of the sacrificial device; activating, using the one or more computing devices, the new non-sacrificial device. | 13,398 |
8,620,270 | 1. A method for providing a multimode mobile terminal with access to a wireless local area network, the mobile terminal being capable of switching among, at least, cellular and wireless modes and corresponding to a subscriber of a cellular network, the wireless local area network and cellular network each being managed by a separate entity, the method comprising: identifying the mobile terminal and the wireless local area network from a request by the mobile terminal for access to the wireless local area network, the request comprising information which identifies the wireless local area network; based on the identifying, authorizing a controller of the wireless local area network to provide the mobile terminal with access to the wireless local area network as a subscriber of the cellular network, the controller of the wireless local area network being responsible for at least accounting for the wireless local area network to record an expense for providing the mobile terminal with access to the wireless local area network; providing the mobile terminal with access to the wireless local area network as authorized, and the identifying, authorizing, and providing being carried out by electronic processing in at least one electronic component or module. | 44,273 |
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