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8,820,907 | 1. A ink-jet ink, having a pH greater than 7, comprising a first aqueous vehicle, a colorant, and an amphoteric polymeric dispersant, wherein the amphoteric polymeric dispersant is a block copolymer comprising an A block and a B block, wherein the A block is a segment consisting essentially of an amine containing vinylic monomer; and the B block is a segment comprising an acidic monomer and at least one hydrophobic monomer; wherein the dispersant is neutralized, and the B block is free of an amine monomer. | 25,756 |
8,715,710 | 1. A semi-solid pharmaceutical composition comprising a polyorthoester, 10-50 weight percent polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether having a molecular weight in a range of 200 to 4,000, and about 1-5 weight percent granisetron, the polyorthoester comprising subunits selected from: where x is an integer from 1-4, the total amount of p is an integer from 1-20, s is an integer from 1-4, the mole percentage of α-hydroxyacid containing subunits in the polyorthoester is from about 0.1 to about 25 mole percent, and the polyorthoester has a molecular weight in a range of 1000 to 10,000. | 41,563 |
8,396,597 | 1. A method for guiding a mobile robotic device, the method comprising: receiving commands to generate a guidance projection for a path plan; responsive to receiving the commands, generating the guidance projection for the path plan using a three-dimensional map; and projecting the guidance projection onto a contained area, wherein the step of generating the guidance projection using the three dimensional map further comprises: identifying a number of umbral areas; responsive to identifying the number of umbral areas, creating a number of umbral guides; and generating the guidance projection using the three-dimensional map and the number of umbral guides, wherein the guidance projection is a structured light projection that comprises a discernible path. | 21,688 |
9,196,885 | 1. A lamination type secondary battery in which a plurality of planar positive electrodes, each comprising a current collection tab, and a plurality of planar negative electrodes, each comprising a current collection tab, are alternately laminated, the lamination type secondary battery comprising: a plurality of pairs of separators, each pair of separators sandwiching and coating at least one electrode from among said positive electrodes and said negative electrodes; an intermittent joining section that is arranged at predetermined intervals along an outer periphery of each of said positive electrodes or each of said negative electrodes, said intermittent joining section being a section that joins each separator of said pair of separators to each other; and an outer periphery joining section that is made by joining a part of an edge of each of the separators of said pairs of separators to each other, said outer periphery joining section being formed on all sides of said separators, wherein the all sides of said separators on which said outer periphery joining section is formed includes at least one side from among all sides except for a side through which said current collection tab extends, wherein said outer periphery joining section is located outside said intermittent joining section with respect to the center of each of the separators of said pair of separators, and wherein a non-joining section in which the separators of said pairs of separators are not joined to each other is located between said intermittent joining section and said outer periphery joining section. | 15,140 |
8,763,578 | 1. A vehicle drive comprising an internal-combustion engine and a first starting system configured to start the internal-combustion engine, and wherein, for starting the internal-combustion engine, a second starting system is provided, wherein neither the first nor the second starting system is configured to generate vehicle propulsion and wherein only one of the first or second starting system is used to start the internal-combustion engine at any given time, wherein the vehicle drive further comprises an electronic control system which, in a situation in which the internal-combustion engine is to be started and where neither the first nor second starting system is defective, determines at least in part on engine temperature by which of the first and second starting systems the internal-combustion engine is to be started, and starts the internal-combustion engine by means of the corresponding starting system. | 18,035 |
9,057,879 | 1. A SPIM-microscope comprising: a light source sending an illumination light beam from a y-direction onto an object to be imaged; a camera detecting in a z-direction as a first detection direction light emanating from the object as at least one of fluorescent light and reflected light, wherein the z-direction extends substantially perpendicular to the y-direction; an x-scanner generating a sequential light sheet by scanning the illumination light beam in an x-direction, wherein the x-direction extends substantially perpendicular to the y-direction and to the z-direction and the light sheet is sequentially formed in a plane that is defined by the x-direction and the y-direction; a photodetector detecting fluorescent light as a detection light sent from the object in an opposite direction of the y-direction as a second detection direction; and a switch adapted to switch between the following operational modes: confocal detection of detection light opposite to the y-illumination direction; SPIM-detection of wide field detection light in the z-direction; and simultaneous detection of the aforementioned confocal detection and SPIM-detection. | 23,430 |
8,735,874 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a first substrate having flexibility; a base insulating film over the first substrate; first and second electrodes over the base insulating film; a first partition wall covering an end portion of the first electrode and an end portion of the second electrode; a second partition wall over the first electrode; an organic EL layer over the first electrode, the first partition wall, and the second partition wall; a third electrode covering the organic EL layer, the second electrode having a light-transmitting property in a visible light region; a second substrate having a vapor permeability coefficient lower than or equal to 1×10 a sealant, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded to each other with the sealant. | 39,717 |
9,780,507 | 1. A double-side and dual-purpose connector comprising: a terminal component; a shell; the terminal component comprising a first terminal and a second terminal which are isolated from one another and are adaptable to different data interface types; different types of data interfaces connections being achieved by the first terminal and the second terminal; the shell being tightly sleeved outside the terminal component to limit and fix the terminal component; an elastic buckle; the elastic buckle being inserted into the terminal component; a front portion of the elastic buckle extending from two sides of the terminal component and the shell; a backbase; and the elastic buckle and the backbase being limited and fixed by the terminal component to prevent moving of the elastic buckle. | 34,547 |
9,455,444 | 1. A process for producing the lithium composite compound particles comprising a lithium composite compound represented by the following compositional formula 1, which lithium composite compound particles have an ionic strength ratio A (LiO − /NiO 2 − ) of not more than 0.3 and an ionic strength ratio B (Li 3 CO 3 + /Ni + ) of not more than 20 as measured on a surface of the respective lithium composite compound particles using a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer: wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of B and Al; and x, y and z satisfy −0.02≦x≦0.02, 0<y≦0.20 and 0<z≦0.10, respectively, the process comprising the steps of (1) treating lithium composite compound particles with a water solvent to remove impurities therefrom; and (2) subjecting the lithium composite compound particles obtained in the step (1) to drying and then to heat treatment in a temperature range of 500 to 850° C. in an air or oxygen atmosphere having a carbon dioxide concentration of not more than 100 ppm, | 16,976 |
9,641,630 | 1. A method, comprising: sending, by a processor to at least one remote server, a location-reporting request that requests processing of data away from a geo-location-aware client device and that instructs any available server to respond with a reported geographic location; receiving an asserted geographic location from a remote server available to process the data; determining whether the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies location-based data processing restrictions that regulate remote processing of the data away from the geo-location-aware client device; verifying, responsive to determining that the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies the location-based data processing restrictions, the asserted geographic location using a geo-location assertion server, where verifying the asserted geographic location using the geo-location assertion server comprises: sending the asserted geographic location of the available remote server and a server identifier of the available remote server to the geo-location assertion server; and receiving a geo-location verification response from the geo-location assertion server that specifies whether the asserted geographic location is an accurate geographic location of the identified available remote server, where receiving the geo-location verification response from the geo-location assertion server comprises: receiving, in response to a successful verification of the asserted geographic location of the available remote server, a geo-location trust object within the geo-location verification response from the geo-location assertion server; and the method further comprising: sending, in response to the successful verification of the asserted geographic location of the available remote server, the data to the available remote server to process. | 48,320 |
8,858,363 | 1. A hollow golf club head including a face portion, a crown portion, a sole/side portion which includes a sole portion and a side portion, and a weight member, the head comprising: a recessed portion which is formed in the sole/side portion, and has an outer surface to which the weight member is attached; a first rib which is formed on an inner surface of the sole/side portion, and traverses said recessed portion across a peripheral edge defining said recessed portion; and a second rib which is formed on the inner surface of the sole/side portion, and intersects with said first rib at a position in said recessed portion, wherein said first and second ribs protrude from said recessed portion. | 30,253 |
8,881,103 | 1. A computer-implemented method for quantifying changes in an individual component among a plurality of components, wherein the components are incorporated in a build in a software development environment and wherein at least a portion of the software development environment and the components are resident on a software development computer, the method comprising using a processor of the software development computer for: calculating at least two baseline weights of the individual component, prior to a change, one for each of at least two of data selected from the group consisting of: effecting, on the software development computer, the change to the individual component; calculating at least two modified weights of the individual component, after the change, one for each of the at least two of the data selected from the group for the baseline weights; determining at least two thresholds that each represent a difference between the baseline weight and the modified weight of the individual component, one for each of the at least two of the data selected from the group for the baseline weights; calculating the differences between the baseline weight and the modified weight of the individual component for each of the at least two of the data selected from the group for the baseline weights; and providing on the software development computer a notification if any difference exceeds any of the thresholds for any of the at least two of the data selected from the group for the baseline weights. | 49,196 |
8,473,313 | 1. A computer-implemented method of transferring information between a user and a third party through a centralized computer having a prescription medications information database, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, at the centralized computer, product identification information identifying a product from a user; storing the product identification information in said product information database and establishing a link between said product and said user; receiving, at the centralized computer, the user's dynamically changing biological variables transmitted by the user from a remote location at different points in time, the biological variables being measured by health monitoring devices; receiving, at the centralized computer, product update information on said product from a third party; updating, by the centralized computer, said product information database with said product update information, wherein new information about the product is entered into the centralized computer; reviewing, by the centralized computer, the product information database to identify user-product links associated with said product; transmitting, on an automated basis, an electronic message containing said product update information of all users identified as having user-product links; storing, in response to a user purchase of said product, product identification information for said product under a username; receiving by the centralized computer, product update information on said product; analyzing, by the centralized computer, interaction of the product with the biological variables from the user for potential harm indicated by the measured values of the biological variables and interaction with the product; identifying, by said centralized computer, a point in time from the different points in time at which the dynamically changing biological variables cause a potentially harmful interaction with the product; reviewing, by said centralized computer, the database for product identification information correlating with said product update information; identifying the username as linked with the product; and transmitting a message to said username with said product update information and a contraindication of use of the product based upon the measured biological variables at the point in time from the different points in time. | 33,419 |
8,904,658 | 1. Method for aligning a first shaft relative to a second shaft which are connected or which can be connected via two universal joints and a third shaft, using an optoelectronic alignment device which in a first and a second measurement head contains at least one light source for emitting a straight-line or fanned out light beam and at least one detector which can be read out two-dimensionally for receiving the light beam, the first measurement head being mounted on the first shaft and the second measurement head being mounted on the second shaft with a respective clamping device, comprising the following steps: a) determining a plane in which the first, second and third shafts lie and a first measurement position in the plane of the three shafts, b) emitting a straight-line or fanned out light beam from said at least one light source and measuring a point or points of impact of the light beam or beams on said least one detector with the measurement heads of the optoelectronic alignment device in a first measurement position, c) turning the first, second and third shafts and the clamping devices around the first and the second shafts into a second measurement position which is 180° away from the first measurement position, and moving at least one of the first measurement head and second measurement head on the respective clamping device in a radial direction relative to the respective shaft so that at least one light beam strikes at least one detector, d) measuring a point or points of impact of the light beam or beams with the measurement heads of the laser alignment device in the second measurement position, and e) determining an angular offset between the first and the second shafts from the measured values of the points of impact. | 45,234 |
8,982,871 | 1. A system for providing location information to a public-safety answering point during an emergency 911 call from a softphone, said system comprising: a network access point configured to receive calls from softphones; a soft-switch in communication with said network access point, said network access point configured to communicate a call from a softphone to said soft-switch; a database configured to store network address information of selective routers on a network through which information is communicated to public safety answering points operating to service emergency 911 calls; and a gateway in communication with said network access point, soft-switch, and database, and, in response to receiving an emergency 911 call from the softphone via said soft-switch, request selective router information, from said database, of a selective router through which information is to be sent to a public safety answering point servicing an area including said network access point during the emergency 911 call, the softphone, in response to receiving an indication that an emergency 911 call is connected with a public safety answering point, being configured to communicate address location information of the softphone to the public safety answering point in a caller ID data packet including a field of the caller ID packet modified to include address location information by replacing a field of the caller ID data packet with the address location information while leaving another field of the caller ID data packet unmodified. | 29,867 |
8,751,084 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of electric vehicle movement components, where a first one of the components is configurable to operate in one of a plurality of power operational modes; and a connection connecting the plurality of electric vehicle components to each other, where the first component is configured to select one of the operational modes based, at least partially, upon: where the second electric vehicle movement component is not a battery. | 45,947 |
9,199,431 | 1. A method of manufacturing a fibre-reinforced composite moulding, the method comprising the steps of: (a) disposing a surfacing layer on a portion of a mold surface, the surfacing layer comprising a first resin material and being in a form of at least one solid sheet, the first resin material of the surfacing layer being supported on a carrier of a sheet material, wherein the surfacing layer comprises a plurality of surfacing layer segments assembled together to form a continuous surfacing layer; (b) disposing at least one layer of dry fibrous reinforcing material on the surfacing layer to provide, on the portion of the mould surface, an assembly of the surfacing layer and a structural layer comprising the at least one layer of dry fibrous reinforcing material; (c) applying a vacuum to the assembly; (d) in a vacuum assisted resin transfer moulding step, a resin feed infusion system feeds a liquid resinous compound from a source of such resinous compound into the assembly, the liquid resinous compound comprising a second resin material, wherein the second resin material is infused, under the vacuum, into the at least one layer of dry fibrous reinforcing material; and (e) curing the first and second resin materials to form the fibre-reinforced composite moulding which comprises a surface portion formed from the surfacing layer laminated to a structural portion formed from the at least one layer of dry fibrous reinforcing material and the second resin material, wherein the first resin material of the surfacing layer has an applied weight thickness of from 100 to 400 grams per square meter (gsm). | 5,290 |
9,464,033 | 1. A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, selected from: | 26,333 |
9,253,768 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: generating a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) based at least in part on a single scrambling identifier (ID) having a value of 2; generating a user equipment specific reference signal (UE-RS) based at least in part on a single scrambling ID having a value of 0 or 1, the value of the single scrambling ID for the DM-RS being different from the value of the single scrambling ID of the UE-RS such that the DM-RS is distinguishable from the UE-RS; transmitting the DM-RS for an enhanced control channel that uses resources selected from at least a data region of a subframe; and transmitting the UE-RS for a data channel that uses resources selected from the data region. | 25,095 |
8,543,855 | 1. A method for operating a multifunction document processing system, the method comprising: operating the document processing system in a low power mode; detecting a first user input to the system at a first time while the document processing system remains in the low power mode; in response to the first user input, prompting a user for further input while keeping the document processing system in the low power mode; where prompting the user for further input comprises prompting the user to select full or partial functionality while keeping the document processing system in the low power mode; if no further user input is received within a first predetermined time from the first time, keeping the document processing system in the low power mode; and if a second user input is received within the first predetermined time from the first time, initializing at least one power consuming document processing component of the system to perform at least one user-directed document processing task; further comprising: if a second user input is received within the first predetermined time from the first time indicating user selection of partial functionality, initializing one or more power consuming document processing components necessary to perform a user-directed document processing task indicated by the second user input while keeping at least one power consuming document processing component at low or zero power. | 7,703 |
9,416,800 | 1. A method for reducing thermodynamic irreversibilities in a combined heat and mass transfer device, the method comprising: directing a flow of a carrier-gas mixture through a fluid flow path in a combined heat and mass transfer device operating at a pressure at about ambient atmospheric pressure and at least as great as ambient atmospheric pressure; transferring heat and mass from or to the carrier-gas mixture by a direct or indirect interaction with a liquid composition that includes a vaporizable component in a liquid state to substantially change the content of the vaporizable component in the carrier-gas mixture via evaporation of the vaporizable component from the liquid composition or via condensation of the vaporizable component from the carrier-gas mixture, producing a flow of carrier-gas mixture having a concentration of the vaporizable component that differs from the concentration of the vaporizable component in the carrier-gas mixture before the heat and mass transfer process; varying the mass flow rate of at least one of (a) the carrier-gas mixture by extracting or injecting the carrier-gas mixture from at least one intermediate location in the fluid flow path in the combined heat and mass transfer device and (b) the liquid composition by extracting or injecting the liquid composition from at least one intermediate location in the fluid flow path in the heat and mass transfer device; and regulating the flow of the carrier-gas mixture or the liquid composition in the combined heat and mass transfer device to reduce the average local enthalpy pinch in the device. | 19,128 |
8,548,977 | 1. A method for use in a system comprising a server accessible to a target entity via a network, the method comprising: determining, by the target entity, that digital media content is available on the server; identifying, by the target entity, a portion of the digital media content for demarcating with a media hotspot; determining, by the target entity, a resulting action associated with the media hotspot; and sending, from the target entity to the server via the network, a demarcation request and an associating request, wherein the demarcation request comprises an indication of the media hotspot, and wherein the associating request comprises an indication of the resulting action; wherein the server is configured to create embedded digital media content comprising the digital media content having the media hotspot demarcated therein, and wherein the server is further configured to send, to a user computing device in response to a request for the digital media content, the embedded digital media content and instructions to perform the resulting action upon detection of a selection of the media hotspot within the embedded digital media content. | 16,998 |
8,788,726 | 1. A data transmission system comprising: a processor configured to be capable of read and write to a main memory device; a data storage apparatus configured to transmit stored data per block; and a protocol processing apparatus configured to perform a specific communication protocol process on behalf of the processor, wherein the processor further comprises: a data specifying part configured to specify data per block to be transmitted from the data storage apparatus; and a transfer indicating part configured to indicate data transfer from the data storage apparatus to the protocol processing apparatus, a file-system processing part configured to specify a group of data per block corresponding to a file and a location of valid data in the group of data, based on a file system in the data storage apparatus; and an valid-data-location notifying part configured to notify the protocol processing part of location information of the valid data, the protocol processing apparatus comprises a data receiving part configured to directly receive data transferred per block from the data storage apparatus, without relaying the main memory device; a network processing part configured to transmit the data received per block by the data receiving part over a network; a data extracting part configured to extract the valid data based on data per block received by the data receiving part and the location information of the valid data, wherein the network processing part transmits the valid data extracted by the data extracting part over the network. | 47,987 |
8,428,380 | 1. A quantization apparatus providing improved Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) scalability, comprising: an R-D optimization unit performing Rate-Distortion (R-D) optimization based on a distribution of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients of each slice and calculating a first reference value and a second reference value respectively indicating a start point and an end point of DCT coefficients quantized to “0”, wherein the distribution of DCT coefficients are configured to generate an average distortion value and an average bit rate, and wherein the each slice is a slice of an image frame as specified by H.264 video compression standard; a quantization interval setting unit setting adaptive quantization intervals based on of a minimum value and a maximum value of the DCT coefficients, the first reference value, and the second reference value, and wherein the minimum value is less than the calculated first reference value, and wherein the maximum value is greater than the calculated second reference value; and a mapping unit mapping the DCT coefficients to the adaptive quantization intervals, and wherein the average distortion value and the average bit rate are configured to be generated based on to the minimum value and the first reference value. | 7,284 |
9,798,750 | 1. An industrial control system comprising a processor and memory for executing a recipe on a piece of equipment in a process plant by operating the piece of equipment in accordance with parameters of the recipe, the piece of equipment comprising input/output addresses for communication with the industrial control system, the industrial control system comprising: a recipe configuration subsystem configured to create a recipe model representing the recipe in response to user inputs, the recipe model comprising recipe parameters representing the parameters of the recipe and being stored in a configuration database, the recipe configuration subsystem being configured to map the recipe parameters to the input/output addresses of the piece of equipment; a recipe execution subsystem in communication with the recipe configuration subsystem and the piece of equipment and configured to download the recipe parameters to the input/output addresses of the piece of equipment; and a download verification subsystem configured to: | 44,087 |
9,772,206 | 1. A method for determining the flow rates of a fluid comprising a multi-component mixture and improving the accuracy of the determined flow rates comprising the following steps: a. determining the temperature and pressure of the multi-component mixture via a temperature measurement device and a pressure measurement device respectively; b. determining the fractions of the multi-component mixture via a fraction measurement device based on at least two measured physical properties of the multi-components mixture and knowledge of the same physical property of the individual components of the multi-component mixture; c. determining the velocity of the multi component mixture via a velocity measurement device; d. based on the result from step a-c, determining the flow rate of the individual component of the fluid; e. performing an electromagnetic measurement via a probe unit; f. calculating a statistical parameter related to the electromagnetic measurement via a computer; g. comparing said statistical parameter to an empirical derived threshold value corresponding to the value of the statistical parameter when only one of the component of the multi component mixture is present via the computer; h. determining a thickness of unwanted deposits on a pipe wall of a pipe via the computer using one of the following: a) measurement of phase or loss of an electromagnetic wave transmitted through a media within the pipe, b) measurement of the phase or loss of a reflected electromagnetic wave within the pipe, c) measurement of capacitance, measurement of resistance or d) measurement of speed of sound; and i. obtaining an improved flow rate determination of the individual components of said fluid from the result from steps a-d and step h. | 18,560 |
9,116,351 | 1. An optical scanning device comprising: a plurality of light sources; an optical deflector that deflects light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources to scan surfaces of image carriers and that includes reflection surfaces that deflect different light beams toward opposite sides of the optical deflector; and a light-shielding member provided in an area between incident light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources, wherein: the light-shielding member is positioned such that a portion of the light-shielding member is in a light-shield area surrounded by a circumscribed circle of the optical deflector, a line tangent to the circumscribed circle and orthogonal to a Y direction, and the incident light beam, the Y direction being a direction parallel to a main scanning direction and passing through a rotation center of the optical deflector, the main scanning direction being a direction in which the surfaces of the image carriers are scanned, the light-shielding member includes a plurality of light-shielding members each provided in a respective light-shield area that corresponds to different incident light beams, positions of the plurality of light-shielding members overlap in a direction parallel to a rotation axis of the optical deflector, of the plurality of light-shielding members is tilted with respect to the Y direction in a same direction that is a rotating direction of the optical deflector, and each of the plurality of light-shielding members is respectively tilted from its end that is closest to the optical deflector. | 31,021 |
8,424,221 | 1. An article of footwear, comprising: a sole comprising: wherein at least a portion of the intermediate sole extends downwardly and protrudes beyond a bottom-most surface of the midsole, wherein a bottom surface of the outsole defines a forefoot bulge and a heel bulge, wherein the forefoot bulge substantially covers a forefoot of the bottom surface and the heel bulge substantially covers a heel of the bottom surface, and wherein the forefoot and rearfoot bulges are each defined in both a heel-to-toe direction and a medial-to-lateral direction. | 35,797 |
9,281,728 | 1. An electric machine, comprising: a stator device having axial first cooling channels, and second and third cooling channels, said third cooling channels arranged in the first cooling channels and extending at least substantially along an entire axial length of the first cooling channels, said stator device being configured for inflow and outflow of a liquid cooling medium at least partially through the second cooling channels and for the liquid cooling medium to be conducted through the third cooling channels; a rotor shaft; a rotor arranged in a rotationally fixed manner on the rotor shaft; a bearing assembly supporting the rotor shaft so that the rotor shaft and the rotor are rotatable around a rotational axis; and limiting elements mounted on the stator device axially on both sides so that the stator device and the limiting elements bound an internal rotor space radially externally and axially on both sides in communication with axial ends of the first cooling channels of the stator device to thereby establish an internal air-cooling circuit from the internal rotor space through the first cooling channels and back into the internal rotor space. | 29,261 |
9,181,313 | 1. A vaccine composition comprising (i) an effective amount of an isolated, soluble Reticulocyte-binding protein Homologue 5 (PfRH5) antigen having at least 95% identity with amino acid residues 26 to 526 of SEQ ID NO: 1, said PfRH5 antigen lacking amino acid residues 1 to 25 of SEQ ID NO:1, and (ii) an effective amount of an adjuvant, wherein the vaccine provides protective immunity against Plasmodium falciparum infection. | 42,038 |
9,727,250 | 1. A nonvolatile memory system comprising: a nonvolatile memory device comprising a plurality of memory blocks each having a plurality of pages, wherein the nonvolatile memory device is configured to perform a read operation on the plurality of pages on the basis of a plurality of read voltages; and a memory controller configured to manage page serial numbers of some of the plurality of pages according to a program elapsed time of each of the plurality of pages, wherein the memory controller is configured to select at least one of the managed page serial numbers by using a plurality of elapsed time period stored in the memory controller, to compare the selected at least one of the page serial numbers with a page serial number of a page corresponding to the received logical address, and to control levels of the read voltages according to a result of the comparison when the memory controller receives a read request and a logical address from an external device. | 43,112 |
9,092,508 | 1. A method of overseeing data storage equipment power usage, the method comprising: acquiring, by data storage equipment, power consumption data while the data storage equipment performs host data storage input/output (IO) operations on behalf of a set of host computers during a power consumption time period; storing, by the data storage equipment, the power consumption data in a local database during the power consumption time period; and electronically providing, by the data storage equipment, the power consumption data from the local database to a remote power consumption analysis facility through a computerized communications medium to determine power consumption performance of the data storage equipment during the power consumption time period; wherein the data storage equipment is constructed and arranged to log storage drive error events while performing the host data storage IO operations on behalf of the set of host computers; and wherein electronically providing the power consumption data from the local database to the remote power consumption analysis facility includes: | 1,848 |
8,368,048 | 1. A nanostructure layer, comprising: a first population of semiconductor nanocrystals forming electron transport conduits, the first population of semiconductor nanocrystals having first valence and conduction bands; a second population of semiconductor nanocrystals forming hole transport conduits, the second population of semiconductor nanocrystals having second valence and conduction bands; and a third population of semiconductor nanocrystals, the third population of semiconductor nanocrystals having third valence and conduction bands; wherein the first, second, and third valence and conduction bands are each different and wherein the first, second, and third populations form an interpenetrated network. | 23,670 |
9,466,431 | 1. An ionic compound consisting of an organic cation or inorganic cation and an anion represented by a following formula (8-1) or (8-2); wherein X denotes O (oxygen) or S (sulfur), and p denotes an integer of 0 to 10. | 28,243 |
9,062,807 | 1. A method for identifying a blockage of one or more spray openings of a dosing valve ( 5 ) of an SCR catalytic converter system including a control unit, a hydraulic system ( 4 ), and the dosing valve ( 5 ), comprising: closing, by the control unit, the dosing valve ( determining, by the control unit, after the closing of the dosing valve, a first pressure profile in the hydraulic system ( determining, by the control unit, stiffness of a the hydraulic system ( opening, by the control unit, the dosing valve ( determining, by the control unit, after the opening of the dosing valve, a second pressure profile in the hydraulic system ( determining, by the control unit, a blockage of one or more spray openings of the dosing valve ( | 43,727 |
8,713,925 | 1. An exhaust gas treatment facility for an exhaust gas system of a combustion engine, comprising: a housing having at least one inlet and at least one outlet; at least one pipe mounted with a sliding seat on the housing serving as a structural part or mounted on a component part of the housing serving as a structural part, wherein: a pipe assembly is provided comprising at least two pipes communicating with each other; a first pipe is fastened on the housing in an entry section of the first pipe, wherein the first pipe contains at least one particle filter element; the first pipe is fixed with a sliding seat on the housing in an exit section of the first pipe; a second pipe, the entry of which is connected with an exit of the first pipe, is fixed on the housing with a sliding seat in an entry section of the second pipe; the second pipe is fastened on the housing in an exit section of the second pipe without a sliding seat such that the exit section of the second pipe is fixedly attached to the housing; and wherein at least one of the sliding seats comprises a retaining pipe fixedly arranged or formed on the structural part, which retaining pipe coaxially encloses the first or the second pipe, and a bearing material coaxially arranged between the first or the second pipe and the retaining pipe, which the bearing material completely encloses the first or the second pipe in circumferential direction and which is supported radially on the first or the second pipe and radially and axially on the retaining pipe, whereby the housing or a component part of the housing forms the structural part; and wherein a connecting chamber is provided, into which openly lead the exit of the first pipe and the entry of second pipe such that the first and second pipe each extend through a common wall of the housing and into the connecting chamber. | 9,541 |
8,598,683 | 1. A semiconductor structure comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a first region of a first polarity and a second region of a second polarity laterally adjacent to the first region; and a first terminal including: | 43,532 |
9,252,568 | 1. A spark plug, comprising: a center electrode extending in an axial direction of the spark plug; a ground electrode formed of a metal material containing 95 mass % or more of nickel; and a substantially cylindrical metal shell having a front end face to which one end of the ground electrode is welded, wherein an embedment amount BD, an original width EW where the embedment amount BD is a depth from the front end face of the metal shell to a portion of the ground electrode embedded most deeply in the metal shell by the welding of the ground electrode and the metal shell; the original width EW wherein the spark plug has a removed surface region defined by removing, in the axial direction, at least a portion of a protruded part that has been formed in a thickness direction of the ground electrode by the welding of the ground electrode and the metal shell; and wherein a removed surface area CS and a ground electrode cross-sectional area ES satisfy the condition: CS/ES≧1.2, where the removed surface area CS is an area of the removed surface region; and the ground electrode cross-sectional area ES is an area of a cross section taken perpendicular to the axial direction through the portion of the ground electrode located closest to the portion of the ground electrode deformed by the welding. | 12,510 |
9,379,564 | 1. A charging control apparatus that controls a charge operation, using a charging cable that is connected to a charging inlet of a vehicle and supplies power to a storage unit of the vehicle from an external power supply provided outside the vehicle, the charging control apparatus comprising: a connection state detection section that detects connection of the charging cable to the charging inlet; a disconnection detection section that detects a command signal of a disconnection command unit of the charging cable; and a control unit that, when detecting the command signal of the disconnection command unit which indicates the disconnection in a state where the charging cable is connected to the charging inlet, pauses the charge operation to the storage unit while maintaining a closed state of at least a relay switch of a charging cable side power supply line for only a predetermined time, wherein the control unit maintains closed states of all relay switches provided on a power supply line when detecting the command signal of the disconnection command unit. | 49,685 |
9,208,625 | 1. A method of updating vehicle identification, comprising: periodically transmitting, by a mobile terminal in a vehicle, said identification information which is included in the first vehicle information, the first vehicle information comprising determining, by the mobile terminal, whether or not there is a possibility of collision or rear-end collision with another vehicle from second vehicle information received from said another vehicle and the first status information; determining, by the mobile terminal, whether or not there is a possibility that the vehicle is tracked by said another vehicle; determining, by the mobile terminal, in a case where there is a possibility of being tracked, whether or not it is effective to perform an update of the first identification information of the first vehicle information; determining, by the mobile terminal, in a case of performing the update of the first identification information, whether an adverse influence on a safe driving support service being provided is large or small, depending on whether or not there is a possibility of collision or rear-end collision of the vehicle with another vehicle; and performing, by the mobile terminal, the update of the first identification information in a case where there is a possibility of being tracked, and in which the mobile terminal determines that performing the update of the first identification information will be effective, and in which the mobile terminal determines that the adverse influence on the service is small. | 27,860 |
9,324,956 | 1. A phthalocyanine nano-sized substance, comprising: unsubstituted phthalocyanine; and phthalocyanine having a substituent, wherein a shape of the substance has a major axis and a minor axis and the minor axis is 500 nm or less, wherein the unsubstituted phthalocyanine is represented by general formula (1) or (2): (provided that, in the formulae, X is any one selected from the group composed of a copper atom, a zinc atom, a cobalt atom, a nickel atom, a tin atom, a lead atom, a magnesium atom, an iron atom, a palladium atom, a calcium atom, GeO, TiO, VO and AlCl), and wherein the phthalocyanine having a substituent is represented by general formula (3) or (4): (provided that, in the formulae, X is any one selected from the group composed of a copper atom, a zinc atom, a cobalt atom, a nickel atom, a tin atom, a lead atom, a magnesium atom, an iron atom, a palladium atom, a calcium atom, GeO, TiO, VO and AlCl, each hydrogen atom in a benzene ring of a phthalocyanine skeleton may be substituted with fluorine, chlorine, and bromine, Z (wherein, q is an integer of 4 to 100, Q is each independently a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and Q′ is an acyclic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms), (wherein, m is an integer of 1 to 20, R and R′ are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms). | 21,384 |
9,238,900 | 1. A front loader comprising: a boom actuator configured to pivotally drive a boom along a vertical direction relative to a traveling vehicle body about a first pivot axis which is oriented along a right/left direction; a bucket actuator configured to pivotally drive a bucket along the vertical direction relative to the boom about a second pivot axis which is oriented along the right/left direction; a manual controlling section for controlling operations of the boom actuator and the bucket actuator based on a manual operation of an operational tool; a boom angle detector for detecting a vertical pivot angle of the boom; a bucket angle detector for detecting a vertical pivot angle of the bucket relative to the boom; a calculating section for calculating a ground pivot angle of the bucket based on an output from the boom angle detector and an output from the bucket angle detector; a storage section storing relation data representing relation between a vertical pivot angle of the boom and a limit scoop angle of the bucket; a setting section for setting the limit scoop angle corresponding to a vertical pivot angle of the boom, based on the output from the boom angle detector and the relation data; and a scoop angle limit controlling section configured to control an operation of the bucket actuator in such a manner that the ground pivot angle of the bucket will not exceed the set limit scoop angle when arrival of the ground pivot angle of the bucket at the set limit scoop angle is detected based on an output from the setting section and an output from the calculating section. | 21,872 |
9,068,483 | 1. A controller for controlling a variable valve actuating apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, wherein the engine includes at least a first cylinder and a second cylinder, the controller comprising: a section programmed to perform a control process in response to a precondition that the first cylinder undergoes an initial combustion event at a startup of the engine earlier than any other cylinder of the engine, the control process including: a first operation of setting an exhaust valve opening timing of the first cylinder to a most retarded position toward bottom dead center, wherein the exhaust valve opening timing is an initial one immediately after the initial combustion event of the first cylinder; and a second operation of setting a second valve overlap period greater than a first valve overlap period, wherein the first valve overlap period is a period from an initial intake valve opening timing of the first cylinder to an initial exhaust valve closing timing of the first cylinder immediately after the initial combustion event of the first cylinder, and wherein the second valve overlap period is a period from an initial intake valve opening timing of the second cylinder to an initial exhaust valve closing timing of the second cylinder immediately after an initial combustion event of the second cylinder after the initial combustion event of the first cylinder. | 1,438 |
9,819,765 | 1. A method, comprising: scanning, by a computer, a set of messages of a user sent to or received from a plurality of persons, the messages comprising a first message from a first person; generating a plurality of profiles for the persons, each profile comprising a name of a respective person from one of the messages, and at least one of a social network profile name or a link to a social network profile for the respective person, the plurality of profiles including a first profile for the first person; extracting information from the messages to form search queries, the extracted information comprising a domain obtained from an address of the first message, the domain corresponding to a first website, the search queries including a first query, and the first query comprising search criteria including the domain; communicating, over a network, with a plurality of servers in an automated way to extract data from the servers, the extracting data comprising querying the servers using the search queries, the extracted data comprising first data obtained from the first website; storing a respective portion of the data extracted from the servers in each profile of the plurality of profiles, the storing comprising storing the first data in the first profile; in response to an incomplete input in an input field for a new address of a new message being composed by the user, identifying a set of persons in the plurality of profiles that match the incomplete input, the set of persons including the first person; determining, using the plurality of profiles, a relevancy score for each person of the set of persons based on a type of communication of the new message, wherein an address for a same type of communication as the new address is given more weight than an address for another type of communication, and the relevancy score further based on types of fields in which addresses of senders and recipients of the messages appear, wherein a weight given for an address in a From field is greater than a weight given for an address in a CC or BCC field; and presenting to the user a plurality of suggestions to complete the incomplete input based on the set of persons, wherein the suggestions are presented in an order based on the respective relevancy score for each person of the set of persons. | 22,647 |
9,610,427 | 1. A process for making a folded composition-eluting balloon catheter having a proximal end and a distal end, comprising an elongated catheter tube with an inflation lumen extending therewithin and at least one inflatable balloon having a central longitudinal balloon axis towards the distal end in fluid communication with the inflation lumen, wherein the balloon in an uninflated condition is configured as one or more foldable wings, wherein the balloon in a folded condition comprises a relief structure comprising at least one groove on the outside of the one or more foldable wings, configured to substantially reduce in depth in an inflated condition of the balloon, wherein the at least one groove crosses an outer edge of at least one of the one or more foldable wings, the process comprising the steps of: a) coating one or both surfaces of the one or more foldable wings with a hydrophilic coating such that one or both surfaces of the one or more foldable wings are provided with a coated surface; b) applying a composition as a coating on the coated surface from step a), such that the composition is provided essentially exclusively within a fold of the one or more foldable wings; and c) after step b), folding the one or more foldable wings around the central longitudinal balloon axis, thereby providing a folded composition-eluting balloon, wherein the relief structure seals the composition between the fold of the one or more foldable wings to prevent and/or reduce a release of the composition until after an inflation of the balloon of the composition-eluting balloon catheter. | 46,037 |
8,530,772 | 1. A machine to sort documents, comprising: an elongated stacker section having: a magazine positioned at the first end of the elongated stacker; a first transport operably associated with the magazine, the first transport being configured to carry a first portion of the documents to the plurality of pockets through the first end of the stacker; a second transport operably associated with the magazine, the second transport being configured to carry a second portion of the documents to the plurality of pockets through the second opposing end of the stacker; and a feeder operably associated with the magazine; wherein the feeder receives the documents from the magazine so as to feed the documents to the first transport and the second transport. | 25,762 |
8,453,463 | 1. A compressor rotor assembly mounted for rotation about a central axis of a gas turbine engine, comprising an anti-vortex device having a body mounted between adjacent rotor discs, the rotor discs having a peripheral rim surface defining an inner boundary of a primary gas path of the engine, the anti-vortex device defining circumferentially spaced-apart radial passageways extending from respective axially extending central passages to an outer peripheral rim surface of the device, the axially extending central passages being defined in a central solid area of the body of the device, the axially extending central passages being independent from each other and communicating with an associated one of said radial passageways, each said radial passageway receiving bleed air from the primary gas path and directing it to an associated one of said axially extending passages, wherein the axially extending central passages extend axially forwardly and rearwardly from the radial passageways. | 29,393 |
9,751,011 | 1. A system comprising: first game state information; a first user interface module on a first user device, the first user interface module configured to generate first user game input options associated with gameplay of a multiplayer game based on the first game state information, the first user interface module further configured to present the first user game input options to a first player associated with the first user device, the first user interface module further configured to receive a first user selection associated with one or more of the first user game input options; a second user interface module on a second user device, the second user interface module configured to generate second user game input options associated with gameplay of the multiplayer game based on the first game state information, the second user interface module further configured to present the second user game input options to a second player associated with the second user device, the second user game input options being different than the first user game input options, the second user interface module further configured to receive a second user selection associated with one or more of the second user game input options; and a processing server including: wherein the first user device and the processing server are configured to split processing resources whereby the first user interface module generates the first user game input options, and the processing server performs the multiple first renderings subsequent to receiving the first user selection from the first user device and the second user selection from the second user device, wherein the second user device and the processing server are configured to split processing resources whereby the second user interface module generates the second user game input options, and the processing server performs the multiple second renderings subsequent to receiving the first user selection from the first user device and the second user selection from the second user device, wherein a perspective among multiple perspectives of the multiple first renderings is identified for rendering based on rendering resources associated with the first user device, or a perspective among multiple perspectives of the multiple second renderings is identified for rendering based on rendering resources associated with the second user device, and wherein each of the multiple first renderings and each of the multiple second renderings are videos. | 49,458 |
9,813,284 | 1. A method for peer-assisted content delivery over a content delivery network (CDN) having a domain name system-based mapper, and sets of edge servers, the CDN operated by a content delivery network (CDN) service provider to provide a delivery infrastructure available for use by third party content providers that source large file download content for consumption by end users, wherein in lieu of the third party content providers serving their large file download content directly to the end users, end user client requests for the large file download content are directed by the mapper to the sets of edge servers so that delivery of the large file download content to requesting end users is handled instead by the content delivery network, comprising: sending, to an end user client machine, a CDN large file download manager, the CDN large file download manager configured to execute in association with an end user client rendering device; receiving, at the domain name system-based mapper, a request associated with large file download content, the request issued by the CDN large file download manager; coordinating, by the CDN large file download manager and the CDN, delivery of the large file download content by providing to the CDN large file download manager a metafile determined by the domain name system-based mapper, wherein the metafile comprises a list of domains, wherein a domain in the list of domains is resolvable to an address either of an edge server selected from the sets of edge servers or an end user peer machine in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, wherein the peer machines in the P2P network are distinct from the CDN and not operated by the CDN service provider, wherein an end user peer machine is distinct from the end user client machine making the request, wherein the CDN large file download manager does not include a P2P serving capability and is inaccessible by the CDN and P2P network for delivery of the large file download content; and wherein, as a result of the CDN large file download manager coordination in accordance with the metafile, the large file download content is received and stored at the end user client machine. | 33,851 |
9,844,275 | 1. An air mattress system comprising: an inflatable air mattress; a pump; and a central controller comprising: | 2,306 |
9,513,686 | 1. A method, comprising: displaying, on a display device, display data; implementing, using a processor, a first power setting for the display device; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the display data during use of the first power setting; mapping, using a processor, the context data to a predetermined display context, the predetermined display context being associated with a display setting; and switching, using the processor, the first power setting to the display setting of the display context, wherein the switching comprises modifying the power setting of the display device for the display data. | 22,482 |
8,818,593 | 1. A method for automatically guiding an off-highway truck having a pantograph over a route having at least one trolley-powered section, the method comprising: causing the off-highway truck to be operated over the route, including raising the pantograph to contact one or more trolley lines associated with the trolley-powered section and lowering the pantograph when the off-highway truck is still within the trolley-powered section; while the off-highway truck is operated over the route, electronically and periodically recording a current position of the off-highway truck and a state of the pantograph at each position to produce a recorded sequence; and retrieving the recorded sequence and automatically controlling the off-highway truck to sequentially match each position and each pantograph state at the associated position. | 21,156 |
9,643,897 | 1. A process for the conversion of oxygenates to olefins comprising: passing an oxygenate feedstream to an oxygenate conversion reactor operated at oxygenate conversion reaction conditions, wherein the reactor includes a catalyst having a layered pentasil structure and wherein the surface of the catalyst has been modified with silica or fluorine, to generate a process stream comprising olefins, wherein the catalyst is a zeolite having a microporous crystalline structure comprising a framework of AlO where M is at least one exchangeable cation selected from the group consisting of alkali and alkaline earth metals, “m” is the mole ratio of M to Al and varies from 0 to 3, R is at least one organoammonium cation selected from the group consisting of quaternary ammonium cations, diquaternary ammonium cations, quaternary phosphonium cations, methonium cations, and mixtures thereof, “r” is the mole ratio of R to Al and has a value of about 0.1 to about 30, “n” is the weight average valence of M and has a value of about 1 to about 2, “p” is the weighted average valence of R and has a value of about 1 to about 2, “y” is the mole ratio of Si to Al and varies from greater than 32 to about 200 and “z” is the mole ratio of O to Al and has a value determined by the equation: wherein the zeolite is further characterized in that it has the x-ray diffraction pattern having at least the d spacing and intensities set forth in the following Table A: | 5,825 |
9,599,630 | 1. An automatic staining apparatus comprising: at least one removable reagent container positioned within at least one reagent section; at least one slide positioned within a slide section; a robotic element configured to move above the slide section during a staining process, wherein the at least one reagent section is situated to enable the at least one removable reagent container to be added to or removed from the apparatus without interrupting the movement of the robotic element during dispensing of at least one reagent during the staining process; and an optical sensor associated with the robotic element; and a control element, the control element configured to | 18,458 |
8,626,989 | 1. A read/write apparatus for use in accessing at least one nonvolatile memory device in read/write operations with the memory device being made up of a plurality of memory cells which memory cells are organized as a set of pages that are physically and sequentially addressable with each page having a page length such that a page boundary is defined between successive ones of the pages in the set, said read/write apparatus comprising: a control apparatus configured for | 2,977 |
9,847,977 | 1. A method of verifying that an electronic communication has been received by an intended recipient, the method comprising: (a) creating a message envelope including at least an encrypted message and a confidential mail token, the encrypted message configured to be decrypted only by server infrastructure of the intended recipient, wherein the decrypted message is forwarded to the intended recipient by the server infrastructure, and wherein the confidential mail token includes a privacy policy bit requiring receipt of a certificate that includes an email address from a recipient of the message envelope; (b) transmitting the message envelope from a sender to the intended recipient for processing, wherein at least a portion of data within the message envelope is processed to generate a verification return receipt including the certificate that includes the email address of the recipient of the message envelope pursuant to the privacy policy bit forwarded with the confidential mail token; (c) receiving, by the sender, the verification return receipt including the certificate that includes the email address from the recipient of the message envelope; and (d) processing the verification return receipt by the sender comparing the email address that was included in the certificate in the verification return receipt received from the recipient of the message envelope to an email address of the intended recipient stored in the confidential mail token to verify that the recipient of the message envelope is the intended recipient, that the message envelope reached the intended recipient and that the message envelope that reached the intended recipient is authentic, wherein in response to verification by the sender that the recipient of the message envelope is the intended recipient as a result of the stored email address of the intended recipient matching the email address received from the recipient, the sender establishing a connection with the recipient's server infrastructure and the sender transmitting a session content encryption key to the intended recipient for decrypting the encrypted message within the message envelope previously sent to the server infrastructure. | 29,306 |
8,358,217 | 1. A stationary induction apparatus comprising: a winding to which a commercially available AC current with a frequency is supplied; an insulating fluid which insulates the winding; an electrostatic shield which includes an electrostatic shield member having a hollow in at least one part and an electrically conductive film wound around the electrostatic shield member and having electrical resistance, and which is configured to suppress the electric field of the winding; a housing which contains the winding, the electrostatic shield and the insulating fluid and which seals the insulating fluid; an IC tag which has a sensor arranged in the hollow of the electrostatic shield member and configured to detect position of the electrostatic shield member, as a physical quantity, and a transmitter unit configured to transmit, by radio, information acquired by the sensor as a high-frequency signal having a frequency higher than the frequency of the commercially available AC current; and a receiver unit which is arranged in the housing, receives the high-frequency signal transmitted by radio from the IC tag through the electric shield and transmits, by wire, the signal outside the housing, wherein the electrostatic shield is maintained as a whole at a uniform potential with respect to the frequency of the commercially available AC current, while the electrostatic shield is not a uniform potential with respect to the frequency of the high-frequency signal transmitted from the transmitter unit. | 18,666 |
9,362,009 | 1. An isotope production target rod for a light water nuclear power reactor, said isotope production target rod comprising: at least one rod central body including an outer shell that defines an internal cavity, the at least one rod central body configured to be inserted into the light water nuclear power reactor; a plurality of irradiation targets within the internal cavity, the irradiation targets not being nuclear fuel; and a low nuclear cross-section separating medium separating each of the irradiation targets from each other and positioning each of the irradiation targets in a spatial arrangement, the low nuclear cross-section separating medium having a neutron absorption cross-section less than about 1 barn for neutrons produced through nuclear fission in the light water nuclear power reactor and incident on the separating medium; and wherein the irradiation targets and the low nuclear cross-section separating medium are not disposed in a container within the rod central body; and the separating medium comprises at least one irradiation target receptacle within the internal cavity of each respective rod central body, each irradiation target receptacle including a plurality of target reservoirs in a pattern within at least a portion of an outer surface of each irradiation target receptacle. | 46,675 |
9,592,282 | 1. An immunogenic hybrid fusion protein comprising: a. at least one repeat unit from the repeating region of a type I circumsporozoite (CS) protein of b. at least one repeat unit from the repeating region of a type II circumsporozoite (CS) protein of c. surface antigen S from Hepatitis B virus. | 39,704 |
8,568,859 | 1. A double-cell structure for a window shade comprising: a plurality of double-cell units bonded with one another, each double-cell unit comprising: first strip of web material having a first pleat formed at the rear of the window shade and a second pleat formed at the front of the window shade, the first and second pleats defining a base and two side portions; and a second strip of web material having a first and second distal end, the first distal end bonded with the base of the first strip of web material, the second distal end and end portions of the two side portions of the first strip of web material bonded with an outer side of an adjacent first strip of web material at an adjacent double-cell unit. | 37,346 |
9,745,204 | 1. A method of producing barium titanate, the method comprising: making a slurry by dispersing a barium titanate powder in a solvent; substituting a supercritical fluid for said solvent in said slurry; separating said barium titanate powder from said supercritical fluid by gasifying said supercritical fluid to produce a separated barium titanate powder; and performing a heat treatment on said separated barium titanate powder. | 9,370 |
8,635,256 | 1. A computerized method of processing resource acquisition requests comprising: scheduling execution of the resource acquisition requests in accordance with user configurable metering; sorting the resource acquisition requests into at least two separate queues for different request types; configuring metering of the resource acquisition requests in response to input from an administrator of the system: and establishing a maximum number of threads for executing resource acquisition requests in response to the input from the administrator, initiating execution of the resource acquisition requests by the threads, wherein said configuring includes specifying a first number of the resource acquisition requests from a first queue to be performed for a second number of the resource acquisition requests from a second queue, as long as the resource acquisition requests are queued in both the first and second queues, and wherein the maximum number of threads for executing resource acquisition requests is at least as large as a sum of the first and second numbers. | 19,708 |
9,099,858 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, at an intelligent electronic device, a communication from at least one of a plurality of other intelligent electronic devices in a utility network, wherein each intelligent electronic device comprises a recloser; determining a signal quality of the communication; detecting a threat to the utility network based on the signal quality of the communication; and outputting threat information to one or more of the intelligent electronic devices on the utility network. | 43,854 |
8,894,878 | 1. A nanopolymetallic reducing agent filler, comprising components that include 20%-40% iron powder, 10%-30% tourmaline power, 2%-15% copper powder, 3%-10% bamboo charcoal powder, 2%-15% kaoline, 2%-15% magnesite powder, 2%-15% pyrolusite powder, and 10%-30% zeolite powder, all percentages described above are by weight. | 25,365 |
9,821,805 | 1. A vehicle control device adapted for controlling a vehicle including: an engine; a starting device capable of starting the engine; a clutch which connects or blocks a power transmission path between the engine and a drive wheel by being engaged or disengaged; a transmission capable of outputting driving force input from the engine after changing a speed; a crank angle measuring unit which detects a crank angle on a crankshaft of the engine when the engine stops; and a braking unit which puts a brake on the vehicle, wherein the vehicle is configured to continuously travel in a state in which the clutch is disengaged and the engine is stopped, the vehicle control device comprising: a controller to which the crank angle detected by the crank angle measuring unit is input when an instruction to restart the engine is input during travel with the clutch disengaged and the engine stopped, the controller being configured to perform: | 4,977 |
9,619,964 | 1. A gaming system comprising: a plurality of casino gaming machines directly playable by one or more players each having a player presentation device, the casino gaming machines each comprising a housing, at least one display, at least one player input device and at least one processor, said at least one processor configured to implement at least one first random number generator and to generate primary game information based upon an output of said at least one first random number generator, to cause said primary game information to be displayed by said at least one display and to receive player input at one or more times via said at least one player input device, whereby said casino gaming machines are capable of presenting one or more primary games to players thereof; a plurality of game boards, each game board comprising at least one processor configured to generate secondary wagering game information, the plurality of game boards being communicatively coupled to the plurality of casino gaming machines; wherein said plurality of casino gaming machines are further configured to present one or more secondary wagering games based upon said secondary wagering game information generated by said plurality of game boards to said one or more players via their player presentation device. | 18,477 |
8,643,222 | 1. A power adapter, comprising: a capacitor coupled to an input of said power adapter; a bleeder switch coupled in parallel with said capacitor; a detection circuit configured to sense an ac mains voltage at said input of said power adapter and turn on said bleeder switch upon detection of a loss of said ac mains voltage; a power converter including a power switch; and a disconnect switch configured to disconnect said ac mains voltage from said power converter when a signal from a load is a high value. | 27,267 |
9,018,548 | 1. A method for using user devices to capture touch data for multiple users touching a capacitive touch sensor, where the capacitive touch sensor includes a two-dimensional matrix of conductors configured as a first array of conductors arranged in rows and a second array of conductors arranged in columns, and where each of the multiple users is associated with a different user device that includes an electrode and active components, the method comprising: energizing a first column of the matrix; receiving a first signal in each row of the matrix as a result of the energizing of the first column; measuring a signal strength of each first signal received in each row of the matrix; using the measured first signal strengths to identify locations of touch points on the first column; updating touch point location data to indicate the locations of touch points on the first column; and at each of the multiple user devices: | 3,202 |
8,546,625 | 1. A method, comprising: fermenting biomass or converting syngas to form an organic intermediate, at least about 25% of the organic intermediate comprising at least 3 carbon atoms; and decarboxylating or dehydrating the organic intermediate to form a hydrocarbon compound at a temperature of at least about 475 K or a pressure of at least about 1 MPa or both. | 3,413 |
9,651,233 | 1. A cylindrical flashlight or other oblong body comprising: a first rigid section including a light emitter and a second rigid section opposite the first rigid section, wherein a resiliently flexible section extends therebetween, wherein said resiliently flexible section actuates a switched ON position or a switched OFF position when said resiliently flexible section is bent in an arbitrary direction by an application of outside force, wherein the switched ON position or the switched OFF position persists when said resiliently flexible section straightens. | 48,835 |
9,151,931 | 1. An image capturing optical lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element having refractive power; a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave or planar in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point thereon; and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axial region thereon; wherein the image capturing optical lens assembly has a total of five lens elements with refractive power, there is an air gap in a paraxial region between any two of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element that are adjacent to each other, a focal length of the image capturing optical lens assembly is f, a focal length of the fourth lens element is f4, a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is R8, a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is R9, a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is R10, an axial distance between the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element is T45, a central thickness of the fifth lens element is CT5, and the following conditions are satisfied: | 3,143 |
9,488,110 | 1. A turbine, comprising: a first turbine component being of a first material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion; a second turbine component being of a second material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion, said second turbine component adjacent said first turbine component; a space between said first and second turbine components; a seal assembly sealing said space, wherein at least a portion of said seal assembly has a coefficient of thermal expansion substantially similar to at least one of said first or second turbine components to thereby maintain a seal in said space during thermal expansion or contraction of said first and second turbine components; wherein said first turbine component is a liner of a combustor; and said second turbine component is a first stage nozzle; wherein said seal assembly further comprises a seal member and a seal carrier enveloping at least a portion of said seal member such that said seal member is isolated from contact with at least one of said liner or said nozzle; and wherein said seal carrier further comprises a first member between said liner and a first end of said seal member and a second member between said nozzle and a second end of said seal member. | 33,756 |
8,384,082 | 1. A transistor, comprising: a substrate; a gate electrode formed on the substrate; a gate insulation layer including a polymethacrylic acid thin film formed on the gate electrode and the substrate; a channel layer formed on the gate insulation layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the channel layer so as to expose at least a part of the channel layer; and an organic passivation layer including a polymethacrylic acid thin film, formed on the source electrode, the drain electrode and the partially exposed channel layer, wherein the polymethacrylic acid thin films included in the gate insulation layer and the organic passivation layer are hydrogel type polymethacrylic acid thin films having high hydrophilicity with a contact angle of 45° or less, having a high density, and having no pores of a size greater than 20 nm. | 12,834 |
8,788,455 | 1. A file system disaster recovery method, comprising: receiving an indication that at least one of one or more primary targets in a logical namespace has failed; selecting, in accordance with a specified priority scheme, one of at least two secondary targets associated with the failed primary target, the at least two secondary targets being designated as alternate targets to the failed primary target; and swapping the selected secondary target for the failed primary target. | 41,595 |
9,309,887 | 1. An electronic control system of a variable capacity compressor ( 60 ), comprising an inverter ( 3 ) that receives external control signals, and generates signals to drive the compressor, wherein the inverter comprises: a power circuit ( at least one internal processing circuit, and an auxiliary power supply ( the inverter also comprises a circuit breaker ( when the external signal to activate the auxiliary supply ( when the external signal to activate the auxiliary supply ( | 34,865 |
9,540,943 | 1. A power plant selected from the group consisting of thermal and solar thermodynamic power plants based on a thermodynamic cycle, for generating an energy derived from a liquid under pressure, said power plant comprising: at least one unit for pressurizing a liquid into a liquid under pressure, said unit (UP) being adapted for generating an energy derived from the liquid under pressure; at least one Pelton turbine (P) comprising each a rotating shaft; at least one duct system ( at least one converting system selected from the group consisting of generators and alternators adapted for converting at least partly said mechanical energy into an electrical energy, said at least one converting system having a shaft connected to at least one rotating shaft of said at least one Pelton turbine; a connecting system selected from the group consisting of connecting system adapted for direct driving the shaft of the at least one converting system by said at least one rotating shaft of said at least one Pelton turbine and connecting system adapted for driving the shaft of the at least one converting system by said at least one rotating shaft of said at least one Pelton turbine with interposition of a gear system; wherein said at least one unit for pressurising the liquid (UP) into the liquid under pressure comprises: at least one reservoir (R a heating means selected among the group consisting of a heating element burning combustible material (CF), a heating element of the concentrating solar type, a heating element of the thermodynamic solar type (CS) and a combination thereof, for producing superheated steam under pressure, wherein each reservoir of the at least one reservoir (R wherein each reservoir of the at least one reservoir (R | 4,148 |
9,728,994 | 1. A charging device for charging an accumulator having at least one rechargeable battery cell, comprising: a charging current supply unit that is operable in a plurality of charging modes, the plurality of charging modes selectable by a user; a discharging device provided for at least one of the charging modes; and a determining device for determining a charge state of the accumulator, having a storage charging mode, wherein when the storage charging mode is activated, the accumulator is only charged to a predetermined partial charge state that is optimized with regard to a foreseeable storage of the accumulator, and wherein if the charge state determined by the determining device at a beginning of the storage charging mode is higher than the predetermined partial charge state, the discharging device discharges the accumulator to the predetermined partial charge state. | 29,699 |
8,569,530 | 1. A method of converting saponifiable lipids into fatty esters, comprising: reacting the lipids with a base in presence of a first alcohol to form alkali soaps; and reacting the alkali soaps with an acid in the presence of a second alcohol to form fatty esters; and wherein at least a portion of the lipids is derived from algal oils. | 36,731 |
9,811,251 | 1. A method of providing a facility graphical user interface system for data control and display comprising: providing a data-driven engineering drawing, comprising: launching a graphical user interface within the data-driven engineering drawing, wherein the graphical user interface corresponds to the graphical representation and further comprises retrieved data for a set of selectable objects; presenting the set of selectable objects within the graphical user interface; accessing, in the graphical user interface, process stream data elements correlating to at least one pipe, wherein the process stream data elements comprise a plurality of material handling properties associated with a plurality of chemical constituents of a process stream; retrieving object-specific data from at least one data management system upon receiving a user-generated selection of a selected object in the data-driven engineering drawing; correlating a set of object data in the relational database with the object-specific data retrieved from the at least one data management system using the unique identifier; displaying the object-specific data in the graphical user interface; and initiating, upon receiving a user command in the graphical user interface, a data change for the selected object to at least one of: the set of object data in the relational database or object-specific data in the at least one data management system. | 20,453 |
8,761,252 | 1. A method for decoding a video signal, comprising: decoding a base layer image in a base layer; determining whether offset information is transmitted through one of sequence parameter set and a slice header in an enhanced layer; obtaining the offset information from one of the sequence parameter set and the slice header, the offset information indicating a position difference between at least one boundary pixel of an up-sampled image and at least one boundary pixel of the current image in the enhanced layer for an inter-layer prediction between the base layer and the enhanced layer, wherein the enhanced layer differs from the base layer in an aspect ratio or a spatial resolution, the up-sampled image representing an up-sampled base layer image; performing motion prediction to decode an inter-coded block of a current image in the enhanced layer using a motion vector of the base layer; and performing texture prediction to decode the intra-coded block of the current image in the enhanced layer based on the base layer image, the performing texture prediction comprising: | 14,628 |
9,604,825 | 1. A portable lifting device adapted to be inserted into a vehicle receiver hitch, the device comprising: a crosspiece, an insertion portion and first and second folding members; the first and second folding members each comprising proximal and distal ends; the first folding member comprising first and second pivoting members; the second folding member comprising third and fourth pivoting members; the crosspiece comprising an elongated length of material comprising first and second ends; the insertion portion extending outward from the crosspiece such that the insertion portion is adapted for insertion into the vehicle receiver hitch; the first folding member proximal end being pivotally coupled to the crosspiece proximate to the crosspiece first end; the second folding member proximal end being pivotally coupled to the crosspiece proximate to the crosspiece second end; the first pivoting member adapted to permit the first folding member to be pivoted vertically and the second pivoting member adapted to permit the first folding member to be pivoted horizontally; the third pivoting member adapted to permit the second folding member to be pivoted vertically and the fourth pivoting member adapted to permit the second folding member to be pivoted horizontally; the folding members being adapted to be pivoted towards each other; each folding member further comprising a telescopic arrangement such that each folding member is adapted to be lengthened and shortened; when in a lengthened position, the folding members' distal ends being adapted to be removably coupled to a coupling member; the coupling member comprising a plate portion and first and second coupling extension portions; the first coupling extension portion being elongated and comprising first coupling extension portion first and second ends; the second coupling extension portion being elongated and comprising second coupling extension portion first and second ends; the first and second coupling extension portion first ends being pivotally coupled to the plate portion; the second end of the first coupling extension portion being adapted for removable coupling to the first folding member distal end; the second end of the second coupling extension portion being adapted for removable coupling to the second folding member distal end; the first and second coupling extension portions being adapted to pivot towards and away from each other when the coupling member is not coupled to the folding members; and when in a folded position, the folding members being retracted and turned inward such that each folding member aligns substantially parallel to the crosspiece. | 33,749 |
9,310,448 | 1. A detection circuit that is connectable to a magnetic sensor in which a first sensor unit and a second sensor unit are arranged at a predetermined angle with respect to each other, each sensor unit having a bridge circuit of magnetoresistance elements, the detection circuit comprising: a first comparison circuit including: a second comparison circuit including: a rotation angle calculation circuit that calculates a rotation angle of a magnetic field based on one of the comparison results of the first comparison circuit and a comparison result of the second comparison circuit, the rotation angle calculation circuit including a logic circuit that generates a third detection signal based on a comparison result of the third comparator and a comparison result of the fourth comparator. | 31,169 |
9,525,312 | 1. A method for optically powering a transducer, comprising: directing optical energy at a transducer through an optical fiber; providing a monitoring system having a multi-functional light source connected to the optical fiber to direct optical energy to the transducer and to support an optical data link between the transducer and the monitoring system; and using the multi-functional light source to provide light for a non-communication function, | 40,325 |
9,723,704 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a pyroelectric crystal; a deuterated or tritiated target; an ion source; and a common support coupled to the pyroelectric crystal, the deuterated or tritiated target, and the ion source. | 41,875 |
8,990,311 | 1. A method for initiating instant messaging (IM) between plural clients when disconnected from a IM server, each of said clients having a buddy list, said method comprising: for each client, permanently storing connection state information (CSI) of each buddy in its respective buddy list; searching a first client's buddy list to determine whether a target client is in the first client's buddy list; responsive to determining that the target client is not in the first client's buddy list, the first client connecting in a direct connection mode to a second client in the first client's buddy list and determining whether the target client is in the second client's buddy list; responsive to determining that the target client is not in the second client's buddy list, the first client connecting in a direct connection mode to a third client in the second client's buddy list and determining whether the target client is in the third client's buddy list; responsive to determining that the target client is in the second client's buddy list, copying CSI for the target client from the second client's buddy list and storing the copied CSI for the target client in the first client's buddy list; responsive to determining that the target client is in the third client's buddy list, copying CSI for the target client from the third client's buddy list and storing the copied CSI for the target client in the first client's buddy list; and the first client using copied CSI for the target client stored in the first client's buddy list to connect in a direct connection mode to the target client for an IM session. | 31,436 |
9,647,842 | 1. A method of negotiating a session key between two secure parties, the method comprising: running a first negotiation operation in a hardware security module (HSM) to request a secret session key logon operation, and running a second negotiation operation in a host application module so as to authenticate the credentials of a user from a smart card to secure the secret session key logon operation; and establishing a secure session with a first endpoint in the host application module and a second endpoint in the HSM such that the first and second negotiation operations are performed in a respective secured device while data communicated between the secured devices is encrypted, wherein the secure session is secured after completing the first and the second negotiation operations to derive the secret session key, the secret session key establishing a secure communication between the host application module and the HSM such that the smart card and the HSM each derive a respective secret session key, while the host application module receives an encrypted copy of the secret session key, and wherein the host application module decrypts the received encrypted copy of the session key such that each of the smart card, the HSM and the host application module ultimately share a copy of the secret session key, and the secret session key is not communicated on unsecure communication paths in a non-encrypted state. | 33,027 |
9,112,230 | 1. An ultrapure synthetic carbon material comprising a BET specific surface area of at least 500 m 2 /g and a total impurity content of less than 500 ppm of elements having atomic numbers ranging from 11 to 92 as measured by proton induced x-ray emission. | 19,892 |
9,454,695 | 1. A method for matching a pattern to a multi-view sequence comprising: receiving a multi-view sequence comprising a plurality of sequences, each sequence comprising symbols drawn from a respective alphabet; receiving a pattern to be matched on the multi-view sequence, the pattern comprising a sequence of symbols drawn from a plurality of the alphabets; assigning offsets to symbols in the pattern as a function of a latest position of the symbol in the pattern; traversing the multi-view sequence with the pattern to generate alignments between the pattern and the plurality of sequences at a plurality of index positions of the plurality of sequences, including shifting the pattern relative to the multi-view sequence at least once, from a first alignment at a first of the index positions to a second alignment at a second of the index positions, by a shift which is based on a minimum of the offsets for those of the symbols of the plurality of sequences that are aligned with a last of the symbols in the pattern in the first of the alignments; and identifying index positions from the plurality of index positions at which the pattern matches the multi-view sequence by comparing the symbols of the pattern to the symbols of the plurality of sequences in the respective alignment, wherein at least one of the computing of the offsets, the traversing of the multi-view sequence, and the identifying of the index positions is performed with a processor. | 42,864 |
8,873,756 | 1. A system for transmitting a data signal, comprising: a plurality of network devices, including a first network device and a second network device; a network connecting the plurality of network devices based on at least a first communication carrier, the first communication carrier being a wired communication carrier; a network key generator configured to generate a network key; and a mobile transmitting device, different from the plurality of network devices, configured to transmit the network key to the first network device and the second network device of the plurality of network devices on a second communication carrier, the second communication carrier being a near-field communication carrier, and the near-field transmission of the network key to the first and second network devices being at the same time, wherein the first and second network devices are configured to communicate with each other via the wired communication carrier based on a link encryption key based on the network key. | 45,231 |
9,750,634 | 1. An intra uterine device comprising an elongate conformable member with at least a portion including a contraceptive agent having shape memory adapted to conform into a predetermined three dimensional configuration formed by at least two loop-like structures approximately perpendicular with respect to each other when released from a hollow sleeve positioned within a uterine cavity, wherein a first plane defined within a first loop-like structure crosses through a second and approximately perpendicular plane defined within a second loop-like structure, and wherein said three dimensional configuration is capable of elastically contracting and expanding in response to contraction and expansion of said uterine cavity thereby enabling said three dimensional configuration to maintain its position within said uterine cavity, wherein the elongate conformable member has a proximal end and a caudal end and is configured to be linearized in the hollow sleeve into a single straight elongate conformable member having the proximal end at one end of the sleeve and the caudal end at the other end of the sleeve and is configured to be introduced from the sleeve into the uterine cavity to assume the predetermined three dimensional configuration. | 33,187 |
9,362,591 | 1. A positive electrode mixture, comprising: a solid-solution positive electrode active material represented by the following formula (2); and a solid electrolyte that comprises Li and S: wherein a, b and c satisfy a+b+c=1, 0<a<1, 0<b<1 and 0<c<1. | 27,414 |
9,417,720 | 1. A keyboard-mouse-video (KVM) system, comprising: a KVM switch having a first controller; a ROC unit having a second controller; and a cable which connects the ROC unit to the KVM switch, the cable a first pair of wires and a second pair of wires, and wherein | 30,384 |
9,458,294 | 1. A method for removing impurities from silicon, comprising: A) providing metallic silicon having impurities, B) mixing the metallic silicon with at least one halogenated polysilane of Formula SiX C) i) heating the metallic silicon of A) prior to the mixing of B), or ii) heating a mixture of the metallic silicon and the at least one halogenated polysilane of B) so that there is at least partly a reaction of the impurities with the at least one halogenated polysilane or with a decomposition product of the at least one halogenated polysilane, wherein in B) the at least one halogenated polysilane is added in encapsulated form and the encapsulation consists of or comprises silica glass. | 32,169 |
8,541,292 | 1. A group III nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate comprising: a sapphire substrate for growing an epitaxial film; and an ELO layer having a composition of Al wherein the ELO layer is a layer formed by using a mask pattern so as to prevent formation of polycrystalline growth on the mask pattern, which mask pattern is composed of carbon and is formed directly on top of the substrate, and the mask pattern reacts under a high temperature ranging from 1250° C. to 1400° C. with H | 19,076 |
8,774,072 | 1. A method of transmitting network communications, the method comprising: wirelessly transmitting a first repeating isochronous signal; receiving a signal, wherein the received signal is a second repeating isochronous signal and the transmitted and received isochronous signals are each a data message signal; identifying a transmission characteristic of the second repeating isochronous signal; variably adjusting the isochronous phase of the first repeating isochronous signal based on a transmission characteristic of the received signal; defining an activation window based on the identified transmission characteristic; receiving the second repeating isochronous signal during the activation window; and adjusting the activation window by detecting changes in the identified transmission characteristic of the second repeating isochronous signal. | 47,047 |
9,617,863 | 1. A gas turbine stage comprising: a rotor blade array having a plurality of rotor blades; and an adjacent stator vane array having a plurality of stator vanes having leading edges facing the rotor blade array, wherein in a first radial position of a rear face of the rotor blade array, a minimum axial gap between the rotor blade array and the stator vane array is formed between said rear face and an opposite first contact region of at least one of the stator vane leading edges, and in a second radial position of the rear face different from the first position, the minimum axial gap is formed between the rear face and an opposite second contact region of the stator vane leading edge, and wherein between the first and second contact regions, the stator vane leading edge has an axial offset of no more than 0.6% of a radial height of the stator vane leading edge. | 30,084 |
9,650,584 | 1. A process for extracting materials from municipal solid waste, the process comprising steps of: providing a municipal solid waste comprising a first set of waste materials, a second set of waste materials and a third set of waste materials, wherein the first set of waste materials comprises one or more of ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, glass, and dirt, the second set of waste materials comprises one or more of fibers and rigid plastics, and the third set of waste materials comprises one or more of foam plastics and film plastics; shredding the municipal solid waste; removing all or substantially all of the first set of waste materials from the municipal solid waste; separating the second set of waste materials from the third set of waste materials in the municipal solid waste; combining a metered amount of the second set of waste materials and a metered amount of the third set of waste materials in a predetermined ratio to form a first mixed waste stream; mixing a fourth stream with at least a portion of the first mixed waste stream to form a second mixed waste stream, wherein the fourth stream comprises fibers and soft plastics; and densifying the second mixed waste stream. | 28,449 |
8,380,545 | 1. An exposure analyzing system, comprising: one or more processors; and a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory for storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to define a first set of a plurality of parameters, wherein the first set of the plurality of parameters define a region of interest, divide the region of interest into a grid having a plurality of grid cells, wherein at least one of the plurality of grid cells includes at least one exposure location, define a second set of a plurality of parameters, wherein the second set of the plurality of parameters define an area of analysis, iteratively position the area of analysis throughout the region of interest, wherein each iterative position of the area of analysis in the region of interest includes a respective plurality of grid cells, determine a concentration of financial exposure for each iterative position of the area of analysis, and use a financial analysis associated with each exposure location to determine the concentration of financial exposure, wherein the financial analysis includes one or more of a total exposure of an area assuming 100 percent loss for the entire area, total loss of an area with different levels of loss for different sections of the area, or exposure for one or more buildings. | 9,079 |
8,957,823 | 1. A radiator used in an antenna comprising: a first dipole member; a second dipole member adjacent to the first dipole member; a third dipole member facing to the first dipole member; and a fourth dipole member facing to the second dipole member, wherein the first dipole member includes a 1-1 sub-dipole member for (+) current and a 1-2 sub-dipole member for (−) current, and the third dipole member has a 3-1 sub-dipole member for (+) current and a 3-2 sub-dipole member for (−) current, and wherein a first dielectric member is combined with end part of the 1-1 sub-dipole member, and a second dielectric member is combined with end part of the 3-2 sub-dipole member, to improve a beam pointing error. | 9,221 |
9,100,786 | 1. A method comprising: determining a plurality of access points in a communications system; determining a location of a wireless device in the communications system based at least in part on information from the plurality of access points, the information including received signal strength indicators; and acquiring a satellite positioning system signal at the wireless device based at least in part on the location. | 4,093 |
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