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9,618,967 | 1. A system for securing health data, comprising: a blood glucose meter including: a processing device configured to establish data communications with the blood glucose meter via the data communications interface; and wherein, in response to establishment of the data communications between the blood glucose meter and the processing device, the processing device (i) reads the data-management application from the first memory device and the health data from the second memory device, (ii) processes the health data by executing the data-management application, and (iii) displays the processed health data on a display of the processing device, the displayed processed health data being different than the glucose concentration measurements displayed on the user interface of the blood glucose meter, wherein the processing device is configured to execute one or more other applications, and wherein the blood glucose meter is configured to prevent the one or more other applications executing on the processing device from accessing the health data, wherein the processing device does not store any component of the data-management application before data communications are established between the blood glucose meter and the processing device, wherein the processing device processes the health data from the second memory without permanently storing the health data on the processing device, and wherein the data-management application includes a termination component configured to delete any of the health data transferred to the processing device. | 36,817 |
9,510,158 | 1. A method of carrying out communications with a remote communication device, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a transmission identifier at a data center over a data channel communication path from a remote communication device (RCD), wherein the transmission identifier includes a remote device identifier, a user identifier, or a situational identifier, or any combination thereof; (b) associating a call center phone number with the transmission identifier; (c) sending the call center phone number to the RCD via a data channel communication path; (d) receiving a call at a call center placed from the RCD using the call center phone number; and (e) accessing information associated with the RCD or a user of the RCD. | 14,271 |
9,416,918 | 1. A pressure vessel, comprising: a non-conductive polymeric pressure vessel liner; and a one-piece composite boss comprising an electrically conductive fibrous or filamentous material; wherein: | 41,047 |
8,480,239 | 1. An optical device comprising: multiple reflective spatial light modulation devices each of which applies, with respect to multiple rays of incident light having different wavelength bands, an image signal corresponding to each of the rays of incident light and rotates a polarization direction of each of the rays of incident light for a modulated output; multiple polarization elements each of which causes each polarization component of each of the rays of incident light in a specific direction to be transmitted and incident upon each of the spatial light modulation devices and reflects the polarization component in a direction rotated by each of the spatial light modulation devices; a light synthesis device which synthesizes multiple rays of reflected light reflected by each of the polarization elements to be output as one ray of image light; and a securing member which simultaneously secures each of the polarization elements in a position such that each of the spatial light modulation devices and each of the polarization elements correspond with each other; wherein the securing member is secured to the light synthesis device, and wherein the securing member includes an upper flat-shaped plate and a lower flat-shaped plate in which each of the polarization elements are secured to both the upper flat-shaped plate and the lower flat-shaped plate. | 33,892 |
9,567,511 | 1. A method comprising: introducing a treatment fluid comprising a solvent-base fluid and a consolidation composition into a wellbore in a subterranean formation, the consolidation comprising a multi-functional epoxy resin, a crosslinking diverting agent, and a hardening agent, coating a face of the subterranean formation with the consolidation composition; and at least partially curing the consolidation composition in the wellbore, to reduce production of unconsolidated particulates from the subterranean formation into the wellbore. | 36,926 |
8,868,838 | 1. A method for evicting data from an intermediary cache coupled to one or more clients and to an external memory, the method comprising: receiving a command from a client that includes an associated memory address, wherein the client determines that data associated with the command belongs to a first eviction class; identifying, based on the memory address, one or more cache lines within the intermediary cache to store the data associated with the command; determining that there is a cache miss relative to the one or more cache lines; and causing at least part of the data residing in the one or more cache lines to be evicted, or stalling the command, based on the first eviction class and a plurality of eviction classes associated with the data residing in the one or more cache lines, wherein each eviction class reflects a different likelihood that data associated with the eviction class will be reused by the client or a different client, and wherein data residing in the one or more cache lines and associated with an evict-first eviction class is evicted from the one or more cache lines with a higher priority than data residing in the one or more cache lines and associated with an evict-normal eviction class, and data residing in the one or more cache lines and associated with the evict-normal eviction class is evicted from the one or more cache lines with a higher priority than data residing in the one or more cache lines and associated with an evict-last eviction class. | 44,857 |
8,797,133 | 1. A coil and electric shielding arrangement for a dry-type transformer, the electric shielding arrangement comprising: a winding wound around a longitudinal axis of the transformer forming the coil; an electric shielding device arranged at a distance from the winding at an axial end of the winding perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and parallel to a to surface of the coil such that the electric shielding device covers a cross-sectional area of the winding perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the electric shielding device having first rounded edges not facing the winding, and second rounded edges facing the winding, wherein a radius of the first rounded edges and a radius of the second rounded edges are adapted such that an electric shielding of the winding is provided by the electric shielding device; and an insulation material attached to the winding and to the electric shielding device, the insulation material establishing a first distance between the winding and the electric shielding device along the longitudinal axis such that the winding is shielded against another electric field, wherein the winding and the electric shielding device are casted in a block which insulates the electric shielding device from the electric field of the winding by providing a second distance between the winding and the electric shielding device, wherein the casted block includes third rounded edges near the electric shielding device with radii corresponding to the radii of the first rounded edges of the electric shielding device, and wherein the electric field generated by the windings is smoothed by a combination of the electric shielding device with the first rounded edges and the third rounded edges of the cast block near the first rounded edges. | 41,378 |
9,468,104 | 1. A module board, comprising: a first board including a first surface and a second surface on each of which an electronic component is mounted; a second board in which a first surface thereof faces the second surface of the first board; an external electrode formed on an exterior of the second board; a joining member that joins the external electrode and a first terminal provided on the second surface of the first board; and an additional joining member that joins the external electrode and a second terminal provided on a connection board to which the first board is to be connected, wherein the external electrode includes the joining member includes a joining surface that joins to the external electrode, and the joining surface covers the first surface part and at least a portion of the connecting part that is closer to the first surface part than to the second surface part. | 8,101 |
8,343,013 | 1. An exercise device configured for personal exercise and quantification thereof, the device comprising: a housing body configured to receive compressive force during personal exercise; a force sensor carried by the housing body, the forces sensor configured to generate an output signal responsive to compressive force being exerted on the housing body, the output signal conveying information associated with the compressive force; a geo-location sensor carried by the housing body and configured to generate a second output signal conveying information associated with a geo-location of the exercise device; and one or more processors carried by the housing body, the one or more processors being configured to execute one or more computer program modules, the one or more computer program modules comprising: | 14,518 |
9,202,169 | 1. A system, comprising one or more processors; a non-transitory tangible computer-readable memory, the memory comprising: | 33,864 |
9,417,681 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a semiconductor chip having a processor and on-die non-volatile storage, said on-die non-volatile storage to store different, performance related information for different configurations and expected usage cases of said processor for a same performance state of said processor, and circuitry to detect at least one of a configuration change and an expected usage change to the processor and provide an operating performance level to the processor from the different, performance related information. | 10,493 |
9,513,040 | 1. An electronic expansion valve comprising: a valve body whose forward end is provided with a valve portion; a valve seat that forms a variable throttle portion between the valve portion and the valve seat by allowing the valve body to move in an axial direction; and a stepping motor that moves the valve body in accordance with a pulse number, wherein when an area of a cross section of a gap formed between the valve portion and the valve seat and that is perpendicular to the axial direction is defined as an opening area and when an area ratio between the opening area in which the pulse number has not yet been increased and decreased and the opening area in which the pulse number has already been increased and decreased is defined as an opening degree ratio, at least one part of a side surface of the valve portion is shaped so that the opening degree ratio becomes constant. | 13,038 |
9,624,811 | 1. A control device of an internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust purification catalyst which is arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and which can store oxygen, which control device of an internal combustion engine comprises a downstream side air-fuel ratio detection device which is arranged at a downstream side of said exhaust purification catalyst in the exhaust flow direction and which detects an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing out from said exhaust purification catalyst, feed control means for controlling the feed of fuel which is fed to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, and an excess/deficiency estimating means for estimating an oxygen excess/deficiency in said exhaust gas flowing into exhaust purification catalyst, wherein said feed control means performs feedback control on the feed of fuel fed to the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine so that said air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas which flows into exhaust purification catalyst becomes a target air-fuel ratio, and when an air-fuel ratio detected by said downstream side air-fuel ratio detection device reaches a judgment air-fuel ratio which is offset to one side of either a rich side or lean side from the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, said target air-fuel ratio is switched to an air-fuel ratio which is offset to the other side at an opposite side to that one side from the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and when an amount of change of said stored amount of oxygen of the exhaust purification catalyst after said target air-fuel ratio is switched becomes a predetermined switching reference amount or more, said target air-fuel ratio is switched to an air-fuel ratio which is offset to the one side from the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and wherein an absolute value of cumulative oxygen excess/deficiency at a first time period from which said target air-fuel ratio is switched to an air-fuel ratio which is offset to the other side from the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to when the amount of change of said stored amount of oxygen becomes said switching reference amount or more, constituting a first cumulative value of amount of oxygen, and an absolute value of cumulative oxygen excess/deficiency at a second time period from which said target air-fuel ratio is switched to an air-fuel ratio which is offset to the one side from the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to when the air-fuel ratio detected by said downstream side air-fuel ratio detection device becomes said judgment air-fuel ratio or less, constituting a second cumulative value of amount of oxygen, are used as the basis to correct a parameter relating to the air-fuel ratio so that a difference between these first cumulative value of amount of oxygen and second cumulative value of amount of oxygen becomes smaller. | 30,635 |
9,819,207 | 1. An all solid state battery system, comprising: an all solid state battery including a cathode active material layer, an anode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer that is formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer; and a discharging control unit that controls discharging of the all solid state battery, wherein the cathode active material layer contains a cathode active material particle, and a sulfide solid electrolyte particle, and a ratio (T/t) of an actual thickness “T” of the cathode active material layer to an effective thickness “t” of the cathode active material layer which is calculated by the following Expression satisfies a relationship of 0.01≦T/t≦0.15; (in which, V represents an operation voltage width (V), i represents a current density (mA/cm | 29,246 |
8,489,763 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of racks, wherein each rack of the plurality of racks includes a plurality of chassis, wherein each chassis of the plurality of chassis includes a plurality of server computers; a distributed virtual bridge coupled to the plurality of server computers, wherein the distributed virtual bridge is coupled to a plurality of adapters and the plurality of adapters is located within, coupled, or any combination thereof to the plurality of server computers, and wherein the distributed virtual bridge comprises: a plurality of bridge elements coupled to the plurality of server computers, wherein each bridge element of the plurality of bridge elements is configured to forward data frames between the plurality of server computers of different racks of the Plurality of racks, different chassis of the plurality of chassis, or any combination thereof, and wherein each bridge element of the plurality of bridge elements includes a forwarding cache to store address data used to forward the data frames received by the bridge element; and a plurality of controlling bridges coupled to one another and coupled to the plurality of bridge elements, wherein each controlling bridge of the controlling bridges is configured to generate and send management frames to the plurality of bridge elements, wherein the management frames include instructions used to program the plurality of bridge elements, and wherein each controlling bridge of the plurality of controlling bridges includes a global forwarding table to store address data received from the plurality of bridge elements, provide address data to the plurality of bridge elements, or any combination thereof accordingly. | 43,654 |
9,832,578 | 1. A method of concurrent use of a radio transceiver for both control data and audio streaming, comprising: controlling a physical layer of a radio transceiver in a battery-powered mobile device using a Bluetooth low energy link layer, wherein the link layer: | 9,807 |
9,039,491 | 1. A machine for blasting abrasives comprising: a chamber for processing; a nozzle for shooting the abrasives onto a work, the nozzle being located within the chamber; and a jig for holding the work in a position facing the nozzle; wherein a gateway for the work being formed in the chamber is opened and closed by a door; characterized in that the gateway is formed in the ceiling of the chamber; and in that the door is provided within the chamber so as to be able to linearly move up and down to contact, and separate from, the gateway from inside the chamber, and, in that, while the door is separating from the gateway, the door horizontally moves to create a vacant plane on the gateway for passing the work. | 18,043 |
8,395,544 | 1. A method for communication, the method comprising: in a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) enabled communication device: | 35,273 |
8,800,643 | 1. A surface cooler comprising: a base plate; and at least one fin element extending from the base plate, the at least one fin element having an outer surface portion that is configured and disposed to be in direct contact with a first fluid and an inner surface portion that is configured and disposed to be in direct contact with a second fluid, the at least one fin element defining a primary heat exchange member that is configured and disposed to facilitate an exchange of heat between the first and second fluids, wherein the at least one fin element is operatively connected to the base plate through one or more heat transfer pins formed of a plurality of heat transfer elements stacked one on another. | 25,452 |
8,467,126 | 1. A stage driver for a movable stage comprising: a shaft adjacent to an outer edge of a movable stage; a yoke slideable on said shaft, the yoke having a portion affixed to the outer edge of the movable stage, the yoke having at least one holdable pivot member, joined to the yoke at a pivot, with a first end that can contact the shaft in a first pivoted position that locks the yoke relative to the shaft and that pivots away from the shaft in a second pivot position that frees the yoke for sliding on the shaft, the pivot member having a second end that controls pivoting in relation to the yoke, the second end moving toward the yoke when the first end moves away from the yoke, whereby freeing the yoke from the shaft by pivoting the pivot member away from the shaft allows the yoke to slide along the shaft, thereby moving the movable stage concurrently wherein the shaft is supported in apertures in fixed blocks with screw threads on one block and on the shaft turned by a knob at an end of the shaft, whereby turning of the knob changes the linear position of the shaft relative to the blocks. | 48,020 |
8,656,874 | 1. A control device of an actuator used in a condition where reaction force acting on an output shaft of the actuator increases as the output shaft is displaced in a direction in which a center axis of the output shaft extends, said actuator being adapted to convert rotary motion of a motor into linear motion of the output shaft and output the linear motion, wherein the control device detects a position of the output shaft by counting a position count value based on a pulse signal that is generated from a position sensor of the actuator in accordance with rotation of the motor of the actuator, the control device comprising: a rotational phase determining portion that determines that the motor is in a predetermined rotational phase; a number-of-revolutions determining portion that, when the determination is made by the rotational phase determining portion, determines the number of revolutions that have been made by the motor by the time when the determination is made by the rotational phase determining portion, based on a magnitude of current applied to the motor; a storage portion that stores a reference count value as a reference value of the position count value, the reference count value corresponding to the predetermined rotational phase; and an updating portion that, when the determination is made by the rotational phase determining portion, updates the position count value based on the reference count value, for each of the numbers of the revolutions that are determined by the number-of-revolutions determining portion. | 1,993 |
9,483,592 | 1. A computer-implemented method for maintaining stress in an integrated circuit having fin-type field-effect transistor devices, the method comprising: selecting, by a processor of a computer system, a representation of an initial layout design for the integrated circuit, the layout design having design shapes comprising existing fin shapes; adding, by the processor of the computer system, a fin shape to one or more of the existing fin shapes to merge the one or more existing fin shapes with another existing fin shape to form an extended fin shape; adding, by the processor of the computer system, gate contacts to gates which intersect the added fin shape to generate a modified layout design, saving the modified layout design to a memory communicatively coupled to the processor of the computer system, wherein device operation of the initial layout design for the integrated circuit is maintained in the modified layout design for the integrated circuit, and forming the modified layout design in an integrated circuit. | 4,055 |
9,152,536 | 1. A computer program product for validating correctness of expression evaluation within a debugger program, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to determine a statement of interest within one or more source program files of a debuggable program, wherein the statement of interest comprises an expression recognized by a debugger program; program instructions to generate a debug command file for the statement of interest; program instructions to insert a set of debug commands for the statement of interest into the debug command file, wherein the set of debug commands comprises a first path for a baseline run and a second path for a test run; program instructions to cause the execution of the baseline run and the test run; program instructions to compare results from the baseline run and results from the test run to determine if said results from the baseline run are equivalent to said results from the test run; program instructions to store results from the baseline run as a first true path string or a first false path string; program instructions to store results from the test run as a second true path string or a second false path string; and program instructions to compare the first true path string or the first false path string of the results from the baseline run to the second true path string or the second false path string of the results from the test run, to determine if the first true path string or the first false path string is equivalent to the second true path string or the second false path string. | 6,448 |
9,298,478 | 1. A method comprising: generating a system landscape overview for presentation on a display including a context sensitive menu and an information window, the system landscape overview being representative of a system landscape comprising a plurality of systems identified by a unique identifier, the context sensitive menu enables a modification to an import to at least one of the plurality of systems, the information window and context sensitive menu being generated in response to the modification of the import with the context sensitive menu comprising a start time for the modification, the information window providing metadata for the at least one of the plurality of systems, the metadata including a rule for adapting the modification to at least one of the plurality of systems, the rule including at least one instruction and a time for adapting the modification to the at least one of the plurality of systems; receiving, at a processor and from the context sensitive menu, the modification comprising information representative of a schedule for the import to the at least one of the plurality of systems; determining, by a calculation engine, a workflow to install the import to at least one of the plurality of systems; highlighting, based on the received modification, a first system of the plurality of systems in the system landscape overview, the highlighting of the first system indicating a location of an error associated with the modification within the system landscape; receiving, from the context sensitive menu and based on the highlighting, an updated start time for adapting the import to the at least one of the plurality of systems; and providing the updated start time to a job scheduler to enable scheduling of the import to the at least one of the plurality of systems. | 22,029 |
9,063,873 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by an interfacing device, a device configuration that includes a rule for the interfacing device, wherein the rule includes an action description for performing an action that produces one or more output data values, and includes a condition that indicates criteria for performing the action; storing the rule in a rule repository; receiving a data-subscription request for an output data value from the rule; determining, from the data-subscription request, a remote interfacing device which is to receive the output data value; and storing the data-subscription request, for the rule's output data value, in association with the remote interfacing device. | 7,745 |
8,378,262 | 1. A defogging device for reducing fog on a surface of a substrate, comprising: a heating element attached to the surface of the substrate, the heating element comprising at least one carbon nanotube film, the at least one carbon nanotube film comprising multiple carbon nanotubes arranged substantially parallel to each other; a first power unit; a second power unit; a switch connected to the heating element and to the first and second power units; the switch automatically switching connection to the second power unit to provide electricity to the heating element when a voltage or a current of the first power unit falls below a predetermined value. | 15,818 |
8,525,793 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a frame; a vehicle body connected to the frame; an engine supported at least in part by the frame for powering the vehicle; at least one seat supported by the frame for receiving a rider thereon; a handlebar disposed at least in part forwardly of the seat for steering the vehicle, the handlebar having two handles; a display device disposed forwardly of the seat for displaying information to the rider, the display device having a plurality of selectable display modes; a control unit electronically connected to the display device; at least one audio signal transmitting device electronically connected to the control unit, each of the at least one audio signal transmitting device having at least one display mode associated therewith; at least one sound output device electronically connected to the control unit, the at least one sound output device being operative to receive an output of the at least one audio signal transmitting device and output audible sound to a rider; and first and second pluralities of buttons disposed on a generally rear-facing side of the handlebar next to one of the two handles, each of the first and second pluralities of buttons being electrically connected to the control unit, each of the first and second pluralities of buttons being positioned in proximity of the one of the two handles, the first plurality of buttons including four first buttons arranged in a generally circular pattern; and the second plurality of buttons including two second buttons arranged side by side in proximity to the generally circular pattern, the two second buttons being positioned at approximately the same distance from the generally circular pattern; wherein: | 37,837 |
9,043,106 | 1. A method for ensuring a vehicle reaches its intended destination, comprising the steps of: a) receiving information to determine a starting position for the vehicle; b) receiving information relating to an intended destination for the vehicle; c) computing at least one route between the starting position and the intended destination considering at least one of: d) iteratively estimating energy available to the vehicle during a trip, wherein the step of iteratively estimating the energy available to the vehicle includes: e) determining whether the energy available to the vehicle is sufficient to propel the vehicle from the starting position to the intended destination based on the at least one computed route; and f) generating a signal based on the results obtained in step (e). | 12,538 |
8,731,017 | 1. An optical device comprising: a germanium region, the germanium region in contact with a plurality of stressor regions, the plurality of stressor regions inducing tensile strain within the germanium region, the tensile strain in at least a portion of the germanium region sufficient to cause the portion of the germanium region to have a direct band gap; a junction positioned in or adjacent the portion of the germanium region, the junction having a first side with a first majority carrier type and a second side with a second majority carrier type; and first and second contacts respectively coupled to the first side of the junction and the second side of the junction. | 27,007 |
8,973,130 | 1. A mobile device comprising: a system-on-chip (SOC) comprising an anti-malware system and a firewall (FW) application executed by the SOC, wherein the SOC filters packet data and the FW application receives the data filtered by the SOC; a storage unit which stores a library which is a collection of operations provided for use in the SOC providing the anti-malware system; and a scanning data sender which runs on an operating system that is external to the SOC and is executed by the mobile device, forms SOC transmission data with scanning data to be scanned for viruses by calling at least one of the operations, and transmits the SOC transmission data to the SOC from a location external to the SOC; and a sender, wherein the SOC stores a pattern rule DB and the sender transmits, to the SOC, data for updating the pattern rule DB stored in the SOC, wherein the operations relate to at least one of virus scanning, packet data filtering, virus pattern database (DB) updating, rule pattern DB updating, encrypting and decrypting, and hash value calculating, which are performed in the SOC, wherein the scanning data sender forms the SOC transmission data to comprise an item indicating a type of the anti-malware system, the scanning data, and a command to scan, and wherein the SOC comprises a malware manager which determines what type of the anti-malware system is related to the SOC transmission data. | 30,961 |
9,237,518 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a wireless station in a wireless network that comprises a wireless access point and the wireless station, a notification, from the wireless access point, that the wireless station will become a delegate for transmitting beacons normally transmitted by the wireless access point; and transmitting, by the wireless station, beacons normally transmitted by the wireless access point and also information reflecting remained duration of absence of the wireless access point. | 35,606 |
9,321,269 | 1. A method for application of an anti-wetting coating to a substrate of a semiconductor material, comprising the steps of: applying to a support a solution of a hydrocarbon comprising at least one unsaturated bond and, optionally, at least one hetero-atom, for obtaining a layer of hydrocarbons on the support; treating at least one surface of the substrate of the semiconductor material with an acid; transferring said layer of hydrocarbons from said support to said at least one surface of said substrate of the semiconductor material; and chemically coupling said layer of hydrocarbons to said at least one surface of said substrate of the semiconductor material to form the anti-wetting coating. | 37,364 |
9,404,192 | 1. A method of treating a disease selected from the group consisting of (i) physical injuries and lesions selected from the group consisting of abrasions, ulcers, burns, sunburns and bedsores, (ii) bacterial infections selected from the group consisting of cellulitis, folliculitis, boils, carbuncles, erysipelas, erythrasma, impetigo, paronychia, and staphylococcal infections, (iii) parasitic infections selected from the group consisting of lice, creeping eruption and scabies, (iv) viral infections selected from the group consisting of imoluscum contagiosum, chicken pox, measles, shingles and warts, (v) fungal infections selected from the group consisting of candidiasis, athlete's foot (tinea pedis), jock itch (tinea cruris), ringworm (tinea corporis), face fungus (tinea faciei), tinea versicolor, fungal nail infections, and fungal hair infections, (vi) allergic, inflammatory and immunological reactions selected from the group consisting of irritations and erythemas affecting the epidermis and/or dermis, nettle rashes, dermatitides, eczemas, psoriases and dandruff, and (vii) seborrhea, whiteheads, blackheads, and acne, comprising topically administering to said skin or mucosa a therapeutically effective amount of acid water having a NMR half-line width using 17 O of from about 45 to less than 50 Hz, a pH of 3 or less, and an oxide reduction potential (ORP) of from +600 to +1300 mV, wherein said water is further characterized by the following characteristics: a) less than 500 mg/l chloride by the mercurimetric method, b) from 40 to 70 mg/l of free chlorine measured spectrophotometrically; c) from 40 to 70 mg/l of total chlorine measured spectrophotometrically; d) from 40 to 70 mg/l of total chlorine measured iodometrically; and e) less than 10 mg/l chlorates; wherein said water maintains characteristics (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) for greater than 180 days when protected from light, air and heat. | 36,221 |
9,584,044 | 1. An inverter for converting an input direct current (DC) waveform from a DC source to an output alternating current (AC) waveform for delivery to an AC grid, the inverter comprising: an input converter electrically coupled to a DC power bus, wherein the input converter is configured to convert the input DC waveform to a bus waveform supplied to the DC power bus and comprises: | 11,497 |
9,138,429 | 1. A method of making a stable, detersive surfactant-containing antimicrobial personal care composition, said method comprising: (a) emulsifying from about 4% to about 30% of a stabilizing agent in the presence of about 2% to about 30% of an anionic surfactant at a temperature of about 70° C. to about 75° C. to form an emulsion, wherein: (b) cooling the emulsion of step (a) at a rate of about 10 to about 1000° C./minute to a temperature of about 25° C. to about 35° C. to form a stabilizing premix, wherein the stabilizing premix comprises crystals formed from the emulsion droplets, said crystals having a mean length of about 0.1 to about 3 μm and an aspect ratio of about 2 to about 1000; and (c) adding the stabilizing premix of step (b) to a detersive surfactant-containing antimicrobial personal care composition. | 25,782 |
9,657,809 | 1. A crankshaft comprising: a cheek; a torsion-absorbing pendulum pivotally coupled to the cheek with a fulcrum pin; and a rotational speed actuated brake including a valve configured to release, when open, a lubricant jet to oppose motion of the pendulum relative to the cheek and further configured to cut off the lubricant jet when closed, the brake configured to provide greater opposition to the motion at lower rotational speeds than at higher rotational speeds via the valve. | 46,100 |
9,475,715 | 1. A method for automatically controlling solids retention time (SRT) in a water source, the method comprising: measuring total suspended solids, ammonium, nitrate, temperature, or a combination thereof in a water source; determining an amount of biomass wasted; calculating a nitrifier growth rate for the water source; calculating a target SRT for the water source using the nitrifier growth rate; and calculating a target amount of biomass to be wasted wherein the target amount of biomass to be wasted is automatically controlled by a control unit based on modifying a duration of wasting, a flow rate of wasting or a combination thereof. | 10,475 |
8,692,665 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving sensor data from an alarm sensor of a security system; generating an alarm message based on the sensor data; sending the alarm message from an alarm controller of the security system over a wireless network connection into a wireless network; querying for video data associated with the alarm sensor; and executing a rule in response to the video data, the rule instructing the alarm controller to dedicate the video data over a wireline broadband connection into a data network. | 802 |
8,460,434 | 1. A process for recovering methane from landfill feed gas and other anaerobic digesters, the process comprising the following steps: firstly treating the feed gas to remove H subsequently, but before removing VOCs and water, compressing the gas; chilling the compressed gas to between 0.1° C. and 10° C. to remove water and VOCs, then further treating the gas to remove further impurities, including the steps of filtering it to remove particulate matter, passing the so filtered gas through a PSA dryer, a GAC absorber unit for final VOC processing, a post GAC guard filter to prevent carbon dust being transferred downstream, a membrane for removing carbon dioxide and a further PSA for removing nitrogen to produce natural gas: and then liquefying the natural gas into liquid natural gas. | 40,532 |
8,846,002 | 1. A method of treating a B-cell malignancy comprising a. administering to an individual with a B-cell malignancy an immunoconjugate comprising at least one anti-CD74 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof attached to a liposome, wherein the liposome comprises dexamethasone; and b. killing malignant B cells. | 12,252 |
8,673,117 | 1. A process for forming a tissue product, comprising: applying a temporary wet strength agent to a pulp slurry, wherein the temporary wet strength agent is capable of forming hemi-acetal bonds with fibers of the pulp slurry in an amount effective to prevent immediate degradation of the tissue product upon contact with water; applying a degrading agent composition comprising a degrading agent, a degradation inhibiting carrier comprising a lotion or a cream, and a non-ionic surfactant in an amount effective to provide a viscosity of the degrading agent composition less than 3,000 cPs at 25° C. after 24 hours of storage, wherein the non-ionic surfactant is selected from the group consisting of: fatty acid polyoxyethylene sorbitan esters, fatty acid polyoxyethylene sorbitol esters, polyoxyethylene castor oils, alkylpolyoxyethylene amines, and amides, fatty acid sorbitan esters, fatty acid polyglycerin esters, fatty acid sucrose esters, polyethers-modified silicone-base surfactants, alkylaralkylpolyether-modified silicone-base surfactants, epoxypolyether-modified silicone-base surfactants, alcohol-modified silicone-base surfactants, fluorine-modified silicone-base surfactants, amino-modified silicone-base surfactants, mercapto-modified silicone-base surfactants, epoxy-modified silicone-base surfactants, allyl-modified silicone-base surfactants, perfluoroalkylethylene oxide adduct, and a combination thereof; and forming a tissue product, wherein the temporary wet strength agent and the degrading agent are in an amount effective to make the tissue product exhibit (i) an immediate wet tensile strength of at least 90% of the wet strength as compared to a tissue product that does not contain a degrading agent and (ii) a wet soak decay that is at least a ten point improvement as compared to a tissue product that does not contain a degrading agent, wherein wet soak decay is determined as the difference between the initial wet tensile strength and a thirty minute wet soak tensile strength as a percentage of the initial wet tensile strength. | 32,243 |
8,505,524 | 1. A bow apparatus for playing archery golf, comprising: a) a golf ball; b) a bow having first and second tips; c) a string attached to said bow between said first and second tips; d) a shaft having a first shaft end and a second shaft end, wherein said first shaft end is secured proximate the midpoint of said string by a string securing element, wherein said second shaft end has a golf ball holder; e) a shaft stabilizer having an elongated stabilizer opening, wherein said shaft passes through said shaft stabilizer within said elongated stabilizer opening, wherein said shaft stabilizer is mounted proximate the midpoint of said bow; and f) wherein said shaft is unrestricted from said string securing element to said shaft stabilizer. | 21,747 |
9,377,282 | 1. A method for validating a workpiece measurement in a dimensional metrology hand tool, the dimensional metrology hand tool comprising a first workpiece contact surface included on a first member and a second workpiece contact surface included on a second member that moves relative to the first member, a dimensional measurement sensor for measuring a separation between the first and second contact surfaces, and a signal processor, the method comprising: vibrating a portion of the metrology hand tool using a vibration excitation element of the metrology hand tool; sensing a vibration signature using a vibration sensor configuration of the metrology hand tool; identifying a valid contact state between the metrology hand tool and the workpiece based on a vibration signature criterion applied to the vibration signature; identifying a valid seating state of the workpiece as seated against the first and second contact surfaces based on a measurement stability criterion applied to a set of dimensional measurements of the metrology hand tool; and indicating that a dimensional measurement is valid for a dimensional measurement that is obtained when the valid contact state and the valid seating state occur simultaneously. | 25,803 |
9,470,307 | 1. A method of operating a vehicle drive-train ( 1 ) that comprises a drive engine ( 2 ), a transmission device ( 3 ) and a drive output ( 4 ), wherein at least one shifting element (K 1 , K 2 , KV, KR) is provided, in an area of the transmission device ( 3 ), whose transmission capacity for obtaining an operating condition of the transmission device ( 3 ) is at least in part continuously varied and, during overdrive operation of the vehicle drive-train ( 1 ), torque that is present at the drive output ( 4 ) and directed toward the drive engine ( 2 ) can be supported at least partially in the transmission device ( 3 ), the method comprising: during the overdrive operation of the vehicle drive-train ( | 11,691 |
8,916,896 | 1. A light emitter component comprising: a submount comprising ceramic; and at least one light emitting diode (LED) chip disposed within a portion of the submount; wherein the submount contacts at least two different light emitting sides of the at least one LED chip such that light emitted by the at least two different light emitting sides is emitted into the submount and reflected back out thereon. | 37,555 |
8,982,233 | 1. An imaging apparatus which images an object subject to illuminating light on which information is overlaid, the imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device unit configured to convert light which comes from the object, into an image signal, the light including the illuminating light reflected on the object; a light pattern detecting unit configured to detect a light-dark pattern by converting an RGB data item into a luminance signal, so as to detect the information overlaid on the illuminating light, the RGB data item being outputted from the imaging device unit; a comparing unit configured to compare detection information with predetermined determination information, the detection information being the information detected by the light pattern detecting unit; and a display unit configured to display a specific image, depending on a result of the comparison by the comparing unit. | 32,550 |
8,527,123 | 1. A method comprising: receiving input indicating that an electric machine cannot generate additional machine torque sufficient to meet a request for an increase in wheel torque at one or more drive wheels; increasing an amount of power generated by an engine and decreasing an efficiency of the electric machine in response to the input; dissipating at least a portion of the engine power as heat in the electric machine; receiving a request for an increase in wheel torque; and increasing the efficiency of the electric machine and transferring the engine power to be dissipated as heat in the electric machine to the drive wheels in response to the request. | 30,179 |
9,684,727 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving information about a geographic feature; identifying a plurality of contexts related to the geographic feature, and generating, for each context, using the respective ranking function for the context and based on a relationship between the geographic feature and at least another geographic feature, a rank score for the geographic feature. | 43,714 |
9,838,266 | 1. A method comprising: identifying, by a first device in a plurality of devices, the plurality of devices to be part of a local network for sharing one or more predetermined information items; receiving a selection of the one or more predetermined information items; determining a requirement specific to being able to provide the one or more predetermined information items, wherein the requirement includes providing a location; determining a set of hardware and networking capabilities for each of the plurality of devices; identifying, by the first device, a subset of the plurality of devices that are potential hosts based on whether the set of hardware and networking capabilities for each of the plurality of devices meets the requirement specific to being able to provide the one or more predetermined information items, the subset of the plurality of devices including the first device; determining a sharing pattern for the local network, the sharing pattern designating a particular device from the subset of the plurality of devices to obtain and share the one or more predetermined information items with other devices in the plurality of devices for a first period of time, the sharing pattern further designating another device from the subset of devices to obtain and share the one or more predetermined information items when one or more criteria is satisfied; receiving, at the first device, an indication to obtain the one or more predetermined information items for the plurality of devices for the first period of time, the indication being based on the sharing pattern; obtaining, by the first device, the one or more predetermined information items for the plurality of devices for the first period of time; distributing, by the first device, the one or more predetermined information items to the other devices in the plurality of devices; determining, based on a periodic polling of the subset of devices, that a second device satisfies the one or more criteria, wherein the subset of devices includes the second device; and notifying the second device to obtain the one or more predetermined information items for the plurality of devices. | 17,750 |
9,165,517 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a first pixel column and a second pixel column adjacent each other; scanning signal lines extending in a row direction; and data signal lines extending in a column direction, wherein: each of the data signal lines is configured to receive data signals whose polarities are reversed per one vertical scanning period, per plurality of vertical scanning periods, or per plurality of horizontal scanning periods, in one horizontal scanning period, one of two data signal lines is configured to receive a data signal having a polarity and the other of the two data signal lines is configured to receive another data signal having another polarity, the two data signal lines being arranged adjacent to each other, the scanning signal lines are made sequentially active in sets of N lines, when each of gate signals supplied to a set of N lines of the scanning signal lines shows a change of falling, each of gate signals supplied to another set of N lines of the scanning signal lines shows a change of rising, the N is 2 and two of the scanning signal lines are selected simultaneously, a first data signal line of the data signal lines, a second data signal line of the data signal lines, a third data signal line of the data signal lines and a fourth data signal line of the data signal lines are such that the second data signal line is arranged after the first data signal line, the third data signal line is arranged after the second data signal line and the fourth data signal line is arranged after the third data signal line, the first data signal line and the second data signal line correspond to the first pixel column, the first data signal line being arranged on left side of the first pixel column and the second data signal line being arranged on right side of the first pixel column, the third data signal line and the fourth data signal line correspond to the second pixel column, the third data signal line being arranged on left side of the second pixel column and the fourth data signal line being arranged on right side of the second pixel column, the first pixel column includes at least one pixel connected to the first data signal line via a first transistor and at least one additional pixel connected to the second data signal line via a second transistor, the second pixel column includes at least one pixel connected to the third data signal line via a third transistor and at least one additional pixel connected to the fourth data signal line via a fourth transistor, the at least one pixel connected to the first transistor and the at least one additional pixel connected to the fourth transistor are adjacent in the row direction, the first transistor and the fourth transistor are directly connected to one of the two of the scanning signal lines selected simultaneously, the at least one additional pixel connected to the second transistor and the at least one pixel connected to the third transistor are adjacent in the row direction, and the second transistor and the third transistor are directly connected to the other of the two of the scanning signal lines selected simultaneously. | 23,742 |
9,359,798 | 1. An enclosure in which a high pressure condition may occur, the enclosure comprising: a housing having an interior portion; a cover coupled to said housing, having a surface comprising a latching portion and a cover aperture defined therethrough, said cover operable between a first closed position and a second open position; a latch rotatably mounted to said housing and disposed to protrude through said cover aperture when said cover is in said first closed position; said latch comprising an axis of rotation having a center line oriented orthogonally through said axis of rotation and generally orthogonal to the surface of said cover, said latch being rotatable in a first latching direction with respect to said center line to a first latched position, and rotatable in a second de-latching direction with respect to said center line generally opposite to the first latching direction, to a second de-latched position; said latch further comprising a latching surface and configured to engage said latching portion of said cover to prevent movement of said cover from said first closed position to said second open position; wherein said cover, when in said first closed position, is configured and disposed to convey a net first rotational force, in response to the high pressure condition, to said latch, the rotational force being in the first latching direction; said latching portion of said cover disposed with respect to the centerline of the axis of rotation in said second de-latching direction and to bias said latching portion toward said first latched position in response to the net first rotational force daring the high pressure condition. | 39,121 |
8,413,426 | 1. A method of exhaust cleaning for an internal combustion engine which combusts a fuel which is periodically fed under a rich condition and a lean condition, the method comprising: a step for producing a reformed gas containing carbon monoxide by reforming the fuel of the internal combustion engine by a fuel reformer which is independently disposed from an exhaust flow path of the internal combustion engine; a step for adsorbing and reducing nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas by supplying the reformed gas to the exhaust gas introduced into an exhaust converter which is disposed in the exhaust flow path and in which a catalyst for absorbing and reducing the nitrogen oxides is disposed; a step for setting an oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas in the exhaust flow part to be not more than 0.5% in a combustion under a rich condition and during a time of introducing the reformed gas; and a step for setting a temperature of the reformed gas introduced into the exhaust flow path to be higher than a temperature of the exhaust gas in the exhaust flow path into which the reformed gas is introduced, wherein the reformed gas is introduced into the exhaust flow path while an inlet temperature of the exhaust converter is not less than 200° C. | 17,376 |
9,186,618 | 1. A cyclic process for separating CO 2 from a gas stream, which process comprises: a) contacting the gas stream with a non-aqueous absorbent comprising a solution of an amine sorbent in an ionic liquid having a counterion derived from an organic acid with a pKa of at least 0 (25° C. aqueous equivalent scale) to sorb CO b) treating the rich solution under conditions sufficient to cause desorption of at least a portion of the CO | 4,729 |
9,274,569 | 1. A detachable assembly for installing and detaching a memory module having a printed circuit board in a memory slot, the printed circuit board defining a terminal portion and a free portion arranged opposite the terminal portion, comprising: a plurality of metal parts disposed on the free portion of the printed circuit board, wherein the terminal portion of the printed circuit board includes a plurality of ground terminals; wherein metal traces are disposed on a first surface and a second surface of the printed circuit board, and an end of one of the metal traces is directly connected to the metal parts and the other end is directly connected to the ground terminal, wherein each of the plurality of metal parts is an L-shaped metal sleeve, the L-shaped metal sleeve has an L-shaped accommodating space therein, and the L-shaped accommodating space receives a corner of the free portion of the printed circuit board; wherein the printed circuit board has a first surface and an oppositely arranged second surface, the first surface and the second surface each has a first corner and a second corner arranged proximate to the terminal portion and have a third corner and a fourth corner arranged away from the terminal portion, the metal parts are respectively disposed on the third corner of the first surface, the fourth corner of the first surface, the third corner of the second surface, and the fourth corner of the second surface; wherein the metal parts are a plurality of metal sleeves, the metal sleeves envelop the free portion of the printed circuit board and respectively envelop the third corners of the first and second surfaces and the fourth corners of the first and second surfaces. | 33,231 |
9,073,500 | 1. Thermal insulation construction comprising a support and a thermal insulation layer thereon, wherein the thermal insulation layer comprises an extract from a plant material obtainable from Aloe Vera . | 19,241 |
9,555,592 | 1. A method of fabricating a turbine engine blade root out of composite material comprising fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the method comprising: making a central fiber strip and two outer fiber strips from three sets of yarn layers, the yarn layers in each individual set of yarn layers being interlinked by three-dimensional weaving, the fiber strips extending in a common direction corresponding to a longitudinal direction of the blade root to be fabricated and the yarns of the three yarn layer sets not being interlinked between the central and two outer fiber strips; passing the two outer fiber strips through the central fiber strip with the two outer fiber strips crossing each other inside the central fiber strip; eliminating portions of the two outer fiber strips lying outside the central fiber strip by cutting them off in order to form a blade root fiber blank; shaping the blade root fiber blank in order to obtain a fiber preform having a main portion forming a blade-root preform integral with two secondary portions forming bearing-plate preforms; and densifying the fiber preform with a matrix in order to obtain a blade-root made of composite material having fiber reinforcement constituted by the preform and densified by the matrix. | 33,109 |
8,994,327 | 1. An energy storage and management system (ESMS) comprising: one or more energy storage devices positioned on-board a vehicle and coupled to a power device and configured to store electrical energy; a power electronic conversion system having a plurality of energy ports, the power electronic conversion system comprising a plurality of DC electrical converters, each DC electrical converter configured to step up and to step down a DC voltage, wherein: a controller configured to: determine a first condition of a first energy storage device and a second condition of a second energy storage device, wherein the first and second energy storage devices are each connected to respective energy ports of the power conversion system; | 37,521 |
8,647,934 | 1. A thin film transistor comprising: a gate; a gate insulator covering the gate; an oxide semiconductor channel layer configured on the gate insulator and located above the gate, the oxide semiconductor channel layer comprising a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer located on the first sub-layer, an oxygen content of the first sub-layer being lower than an oxygen content of the second sub-layer, wherein the first sub-layer has a first tapered sidewall, the second sub-layer has a second tapered sidewall, and the second tapered sidewall is steeper than the first tapered sidewall; and a source and a drain configured on a portion of the second sub-layer. | 13,337 |
9,593,663 | 1. A photo-ignition torch, comprising: an light source configured to generate at least one of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light; a photo-ignitable sub-micron particle mix; and a transparent capsule proximate the light source and containing the photo-ignitable sub-micron particle mix, wherein the exposure of the photo-ignitable sub-micron particle mix to the at least one of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light initiates a photo-ignition process causing a pressure increase in the transparent capsule and a release of burning byproducts of the photo-ignition process. | 12,755 |
8,870,118 | 1. A method of assembling a fuselage, said method comprising: providing a first barrel section including a body that extends from a first end to a second end, wherein a thickness of the first barrel section second end is greater than a thickness of the first barrel section body, and the first barrel section has an inner surface that at least partially defines a cavity and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; providing a second barrel section including a body that extends from a first end to a second end, wherein a thickness of the second barrel section second end is greater than a thickness of the second barrel section body, and the second barrel section has an inner surface that at least partially defines the cavity and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; coupling the first barrel section second end to the second barrel section second end at a joint; positioning a compression member adjacent to the joint within the cavity, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the compression member includes a surface configured to substantially conform to the first barrel section second end and the second barrel section second end; and securing the compression member circumferentially against the inner surface of at least one of the first barrel section and the second barrel section to induce a compressive force from the compression member to the at least one of the first barrel section and the second barrel section to maintain the coupling therebetween. | 38,761 |
8,689,282 | 1. A method comprising: identifying at least one security policy associated with a given tenant of a cloud service provider; analyzing the security policy against configuration information characterizing cloud infrastructure of the cloud service provider, the cloud infrastructure comprising physical infrastructure and associated virtualization infrastructure running on the physical infrastructure; and controlling execution of one or more applications of the given tenant within the cloud infrastructure of the cloud service provider in accordance with the security policy based at least in part on one or more results of the analyzing step; wherein the identifying, analyzing and controlling steps are implemented in a security policy enforcement framework of a processing platform of the cloud infrastructure; and wherein the security policy associated with the given tenant comprises one or more tenant-specified rules related to isolation of the given tenant with respect to one or more other tenants of the cloud service provider. | 32,753 |
8,963,994 | 1. A method for transmitting bit stream of image data, the method comprising: granting a priority to each of a plurality of frames constituting one image group based on inter-time reference relationships or both the inter-time reference relationships and inter-view reference relationships between frames in the bit stream comprising at least one image group; determining a number of transmittable frames based on a variable channel environment; and selecting frames from among the plurality of frames that constitute the one image group based on the determined number of transmittable frames and the granted priorities according to whether a receiver plays only a stereoscopic image or both the stereoscopic image and a monoscopic image and according to whether a type of codec for encoding is one single-view codec, a multi-view codec, or two single-view codecs. | 49,955 |
9,574,490 | 1. An internal combustion engine system, comprising: an internal combustion engine including at least one intake system for delivering a charge flow to at least a portion of a plurality of cylinders of the internal combustion engine and at least one exhaust system for receiving exhaust gas from at least a portion of the plurality of cylinders; at least one high-pressure turbocharger with a first high pressure turbine in the exhaust system and at least one low pressure turbocharger with a first low pressure turbine in the exhaust system downstream of the first high pressure turbine; the low pressure turbocharger further including a first low pressure compressor operably connected to the low pressure turbine with the low pressure compressor in the intake system to receive and compress intake air, and the high pressure turbocharger further including a first high pressure compressor operably connected with the first high pressure turbine with the first high pressure compressor in the intake system downstream of the low pressure compressor; an intercooler in the intake system passage between the low pressure compressor and the high pressure compressor for cooling the intake air compressed by the low pressure compressor; and a fuel injector connected to the intake system between the low pressure compressor and the high pressure compressor downstream of the intercooler, the fuel injector being operably connected to a pressurized fuel source to provide a pressurized gaseous fuel to the compressed intake air between the low pressure compressor and the high pressure compressor and form the charge flow for compression by the high pressure compressor, wherein the pressurized gaseous fuel is 30-40 pounds per square inch. | 10,333 |
8,661,348 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a set top box, from a remote controller controlling operations of the set top box over a wireless interface, a first request to present a frame to enclose a first image displayed on part of a display device coupled to the set top box, the set top box connected to a television distribution network; wherein the first image is derived from media content received at the set top box; wherein the media content is a video program received at the set top box via a television channel of the television distribution network; and wherein the media content includes digital rights management rules to restrict use of images derived from the media content, the digital rights management rules embodied as a digital rights management license distributed with the media content by a content provider; adjusting, by the set top box, the frame responsive to a second request received from the remote controller to generate an adjusted frame that identifies a selected image from the first image displayed on part of the display device; receiving a third request from the remote controller to capture the selected image identified by the adjusted frame; capturing, by the set top box, the selected image in the adjusted frame to form a first captured image responsive to the third request from the remote controller; determining, by the set top box, that the first captured image is associated with distribution rules of the digital rights management rules; processing the first captured image according to the distribution rules to limit subsequent processing of the first captured image; receiving, by the set top box, a fourth request from the remote controller to store the first captured image; receiving, by the set top box, a fifth request from the remote controller to select a storage location in which to store the first captured image; receiving a file name entered by a user for the first captured image; in response to receiving the file name entered by the user for the first captured image, storing the first captured image in the selected storage location with the file name entered by the user; in response to storing the first captured image, prompting the user to indicate whether future requests for capturing images should be defaulted; receiving, by the set top box, a sixth request from the remote controller to indicate that future requests for capturing images should be defaulted; in response to receiving the sixth request from the remote controller to indicate that future requests for capturing images should be defaulted, establishing a default process for storing future captured images to the storage location identified by the fifth request; receiving, by the set top box, a seventh request from the remote controller to associate the stored first captured image with a file stored in the set top box, wherein content stored in the file differs from the media content from which the first captured image is derived; associating, by the set top box, the stored first captured image with the file; generating, by the set top box, a graphical user interface for presenting the stored first captured image in association with the file; presenting, by the set top box, the graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a display of the stored first captured image with an identifier of the file, to facilitate identification of the file; receiving, by the set top box, a plurality of subsequent requests from the remote controller for capturing a second image; capturing, by the set top box, the second image, responsive to the plurality of subsequent requests, to form a second captured image; and utilizing the established default process for storing future captured images to automatically store, by the set top box, the second captured image at the storage location that is identified by the fifth request without receiving instructions from the remote controller; wherein a file name of the second captured image is automatically set as the file name entered by the user for the first captured image appended with a number. | 26,234 |
9,489,227 | 1. An apparatus for virtual desktop service, comprising: a connection broker configured to perform an assignment of a virtual machine to a user terminal using the virtual desktop service, to perform a coordination of a delivery protocol used between the user terminal and servers that provide the virtual desktop service, and to manage a user load between the servers, the connection broker providing the user terminal with environmental files, the environmental files including an image of an operating system (OS) which corresponds to a requirement configured by the user terminal; a resource pool configured to provide software resources including an operating system, applications, and user profiles to the virtual desktop service; and a virtual machine infrastructure configured to support hardware resources and to dynamically assign the hardware resources to the virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine infrastructure supports high availability with predefined configuration parameters, wherein a plurality of virtual machines in the servers is generated over a single hypervisor, wherein the delivery protocol is used to encapsulate and deliver access to an entire information system environment or access to the user terminal over a network, and wherein the environmental files are prepared in advance when the virtual desktop service is provided. | 20,982 |
9,365,148 | 1. A gate-free mining truck body having a front wall and two laterally spaced side walls and a floor that form a payload carrying volume, the body comprising at least one pivot point at which the body is pivotally mountable to a truck chassis, the body configured to connect to at least one lift cylinder mounted to the chassis and to the body, the lift cylinder being configured to pivot the body about the at least one pivot point and thereby dispense a payload, the floor comprising: at least one forward section coupled at a forward end to the front wall and between the side walls, the at least one forward section forming a first predetermined angle to the horizontal as measured with respect to the horizontal when the body is in a payload transporting attitude; and a rearward tail panel between the side walls, the tail panel coupled to the at least one forward section, the tail panel forming a second predetermined angle to the horizontal as measured with respect to the horizontal when the body is in a payload transporting attitude, the second predetermined angle being less than the first predetermined angle, the tail panel thereby forming a spillway, the forward section terminating forward of the at least one pivot point and the first predetermined angle and second predetermined angle being configured so that during dumping of the payload, the center of gravity of the payload remains forward of the pivot point until a sufficient quantity of the payload has been dispensed that the mass of the undispensed payload will not cause a potentially unsafe distribution of weight to the truck chassis or the lift cylinder. | 23,678 |
9,656,240 | 1. A water-trapping composition disposed inside a hermetically sealed container and suitable for directly filling an organic EL device, the water-trapping composition comprising: an organometallic compound of Formula 1 as a drying component: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a cyclohexyl group, a heterocyclic group and an acyl group; M is a trivalent metal atom; and n is an integer of 1 or above; an organic solvent for dissolving the organometallic compound therein; and a viscous replacement material that replaces a part of the organic solvent, wherein the viscous replacement material is a long-chain hydrocarbon polymer having an average molecular weight of 700 to 3,700 and a viscosity of 600 Pa·S or below when heated to 60° C. present in a concentration of from 5 to 75% of the total weight of the water-trapping composition, wherein the long-chain hydrocarbon polymer is represented by Formula 24 below: | 18,949 |
8,419,555 | 1. A spline telescopic shaft, comprising: an inner shaft having an outer tooth surface formed on its outer periphery; a cylindrical outer shaft having an inner tooth surface arranged to engage with the outer tooth surface and arranged to fit to the inner shaft slidably in an axial direction of the inner shaft; a first resin coating that is provided on either one of the outer tooth surface and the inner tooth surface; and a second resin coating that is made with the same resin material of the first resin coating provided on the other of the outer tooth surface and the inner tooth surface, wherein a thickness of the first resin coating is larger than a thickness of the second resin coating, and wherein the second resin coating is provided by processing for fitting and repeatedly sliding an unfinished inner shaft and an unfinished outer shaft in the axial direction with sliding force for generating frictional heat, without other heat power, to transfer a portion of a resin material that is melted only by the frictional heat provided on the outer tooth surface or the inner tooth surface of the unfinished inner shaft or the unfinished outer shaft to the inner tooth surface or the outer tooth surface of the unfinished outer shaft or the unfinished inner shaft by the frictional heat only. | 12,729 |
9,525,186 | 1. A hydrogen generator comprising: a housing; a flexible feed member comprising a flexible carrier and a hydrogen-containing reactant disposed on the carrier, wherein the hydrogen-containing reactant will react to release hydrogen gas when heated; a heating system comprising a heater; a pinch roller system for feeding the flexible feed member to position the flexible feed member in proximity to the heater such that the heater is capable of heating the hydrogen-containing reactant to release hydrogen gas; wherein the flexible feed member is formed into a fiber having the carrier formed around the reactant, and wherein the fiber is pulled by the pinch roller system from a storage area; and, wherein the pinch roller system comprises first and second pinch rollers, wherein movement of the flexible feed member is controlled by at least one of the first and second pinch rollers. | 9,674 |
8,359,555 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising multiple instructions upon executing these instructions stored in a computer readable device, upon executing these instructions, a computer performing the following steps: (a) providing a first semiconductor layout and a second semiconductor layout predetermined to be fabricated on different material layers of a semiconductor device, the second semiconductor layout comprising a circuit pattern; (b) setting a forbidden area with respect to the circuit pattern of the second semiconductor layout on the first semiconductor layout according to a restriction condition; (c) defining at least a virtual pattern arrangement area on a portion of the first semiconductor layout which does not correspond to the forbidden area; and (d) selecting a positioning point at a boundary of the virtual pattern arrangement area and providing a virtual pattern array in the virtual pattern arrangement area by taking the positioning point as an origin of a coordinate system of the virtual pattern array. | 13,695 |
9,430,029 | 1. A mobile computing device comprising: a host processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored on the mobile computing device, the host processor having a first state, wherein the first state is based at least in part on a power consumption of the host processor, and wherein the first state is one of an active state or an inactive state; a location communications module configured to receive location information associated with the mobile computing device from one or more location information sources; and a location processor configured to manage a transition of the host processor from the first state to a second state, the location processor comprising: | 29,872 |
9,578,080 | 1. A non-transitory computer-accessible storage medium that stores instructions, wherein the instructions are executable by one or more processors to implement: a server receiving a resource request message via a messaging protocol from a particular one of a plurality of clients, wherein the resource request message includes a timestamp corresponding to the particular client and an indication of the particular client's demand for a server resource; the server determining an amount of the server resource to grant to the particular client; and the server conveying a grant message to the particular client via the messaging protocol, wherein the grant message includes: a logical timestamp that uniquely identifies the resource request message relative to other resource request messages, an indication of the amount of the server resource granted to the particular client, a copy of the timestamp included in the resource request message, and a grant expiration time; wherein the messaging protocol is asynchronous, does not guarantee delivery of messages, permits messages to be delivered in a different order than an order in which the messages were transmitted, and permits messages to be duplicated. | 19,418 |
9,717,117 | 1. A removable light assembly comprising: a housing; a solid state lighting unit contained within the housing and electronically communicating therewith; an adjustable deflector fixed about at least a portion of the solid state lighting unit for focusing light emanating from the solid state lighting unit; a first longitudinal groove and a second longitudinal groove formed within said housing; a first attachment member and a second attachment member forming said deflector; a first longitudinal lip formed within said first attachment member; and a second longitudinal lip formed within said second attachment member, wherein said first longitudinal lip is removably fixed within said first longitudinal groove, and said second longitudinal lip is removably fixed within said second longitudinal groove whereby the attachment members and the angular displacement of the first and second attachment members may be adjusted by selectively providing interchangeable attachment members with alternative angular displacement depending on the intensity of light desired. | 48,171 |
9,610,738 | 1. A method of making an aerodyne, the method comprising: providing at least one magazine carrying individual frames; and causing at least one mandrel to pass through each of the individual frames carried by the at least one magazine, the at least one magazine having an opening that receives the individual frames, and the individual frames being transferred from the at least one magazine onto the at least one mandrel as the at least one mandrel passes through the individual frames, wherein a fuselage of the aerodyne comprises the individual frames, and wherein transfer is performed such that the individual frames present a mutual spacing on the at least one mandrel that is greater than a mutual spacing in the at least one magazine. | 46,380 |
9,660,297 | 1. A method of making a separator/anode assembly for use in an electric current producing cell comprising the steps of: (a) providing a porous separator layer; (b) coating a first anode layer directly on said porous separator layer; and (c) coating one or more anode current collector layers directly on said first anode layer to make said separator/anode assembly. | 39,842 |
8,670,805 | 1. A mobile station comprising: an incoming notification monitoring unit configured to carry out reception of a notification signal of an incoming call to the mobile station in idle mode by intermittently receiving an incoming notification message broadcast by a wireless base station at each paging cycle, the paging cycle being defined by a number of frames; a frame length measurement unit configured to detect in the incoming notification message a code for specifying a change in frame length of a reception frame, and to measure frame length as the interval between frame preambles in case the code is absent; a paging cycle changing unit configured to change the paging cycle for monitoring the notification of an incoming call by increasing the number of frames that defines the paging cycle upon having detected the code indicating that the frame length is changed as shortened, and by decreasing the number of frames that defines the paging cycle in a case of having detected the code indicating that the frame length is changed as lengthened. | 13,107 |
9,845,889 | 1. A seal device for sealing a gap between two members which are assembled so as to be able to rotate relative to each other in concentric fashion, the seal device comprising a magnetic fluid seal part having: a magnetic source for generating magnetic force, the magnetic source being disposed on a radially outside member of said two members; a pair of magnetic pole members disposed on two sides of said magnetic source; and a magnetic fluid for sealing said gap, the magnetic fluid being magnetically retained between said two members by the magnetic force of said magnetic source; wherein a flanged sleeve which is fixed to a radially inside member of said two members, and which rotates together with the inside member is provided facing radially internal ends of said pair of magnetic pole members, and a packing is disposed in an annular space formed by the radial inside of said magnetic source and the pair of magnetic pole members, the packing being slidable on said flanged sleeve, and wherein said flanged sleeve comprises: (a) a cylindrical sleeve main body integrally formed and having an external peripheral surface which faces the radially internal ends of said magnetic pole members and slidably contacts said packing, (b) a first outward-facing flange part provided on an outboard side of said sleeve main body which projects outwardly from the external peripheral surface of said sleeve main body, (c) an inward-facing flange part provided on an inboard side of said sleeve main body, which projects inwardly from an internal peripheral surface of said sleeve main body, wherein when the sleeve main body is assembled onto the radially inside member of the two members, a continuous gap is formed between an inner diameter surface of the sleeve main body and an outer diameter surface of the inside member, and (d) a second outward-facing flange part provided on the inboard side, which projects outwardly from the external peripheral surface of said sleeve main body, and wherein said first outward-facing flange part and said sleeve main body are welded onto or integrally formed with each other, said second outward-facing flange part and said sleeve main body being welded onto each other, said first and second outward-facing flange parts having outer diameters larger than inner diameters of said magnetic pole members, said inward-facing flange part being fixed to the radially inside member of said two members. | 22,617 |
9,296,447 | 1. A wake shaping device for attachment to the stern of a boat having a centerline and a waterline, in order to modify the wake pattern of the boat, the wake shaping device comprising a frame comprising a vacuum cup stern attachment means. | 8,622 |
8,458,124 | 1. A method of enforcing a database relationship, comprising: specifying using a markup language within a database schema a host structure and a reference type for the host structure that indicates an association between the host structure and a parent structure to which the host structure refers and specifies the relationship between the host structure and the parent structure, wherein the reference type is specified using the markup language and selected from at least a first reference type, a second reference type, and a third reference type; automatically generating code that enforces the relationship between the host structure and the parent structure based on the reference type specified in the database schema; enforcing the relationship using the automatically generated code, including determining whether the reference type for the host structure is of the first reference type, the second reference type, or the third reference type; in the event that the reference type for the host structure is of the first reference type and a request to delete a host in a database for which the database schema has been defined is received, in the event that the reference type for the host structure is of the second reference type and a request to delete a host in a database for which the database schema has been defined is received, deleting an instance referring to the host; and in the event that the reference type for the host structure is of the third reference type and a request to delete a host in a database for which the database schema has been defined is received, nullifying a reference of an instance referring to the host. | 21,890 |
9,189,971 | 1. A method for selecting a jury, comprising: a. laying open a jury selection system, the jury selection system comprising: b. placing one primary tag in each of the demarcated spaces; c. recording a seat number of each prospective juror on the respective primary tag in accordance with a seating arrangement of each prospective juror relative to each other; d. leaving a seat number of each alternate juror blank; e. recording prospective juror information on the primary tag of a corresponding prospective juror; and f. if more space is needed, recording additional information on the supplemental tag and placing the supplemental tag on top of the primary tag i such a way as to expose the primary tag indicator. | 18,529 |
9,057,359 | 1. A blade for a rotor of a wind turbine having a substantially horizontal rotor shaft, the rotor comprising a hub, from which the blade extends substantially in a radial direction when mounted to the hub, the blade comprising: a profiled contour comprising a pressure side and a suction side as well as a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, the profiled contour generating a lift when being impacted by an incident airflow, the profiled contour in the radial direction being divided into a root region with a substantially circular or elliptical profile closest to the hub, an airfoil region with a lift generating profile furthest away from the hub, and a transition region between the root region and the airfoil region, the transition region having a profile gradually changing in the radial direction from the circular or elliptical profile of the root region to the lift generating profile of the airfoil region, wherein the airfoil region comprises at least a first longitudinal segment extending along at least 20% of a longitudinal extent of the airfoil region, the first longitudinal segment comprising a first base part having a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, wherein the first base part has a cross-sectional profile, which when being impacted by an incident airflow at an angle of attack of 0 degrees has a lift coefficient, which is less than 0, a positive lift being defined as a lift coefficient having a lift component directed from the pressure side towards the suction side of the blade, and a negative lift coefficient being defined as a lift coefficient having a lift component directed from the suction side towards the pressure side of the blade. | 19,092 |
8,664,074 | 1. A method of manufacturing a MOS transistor, comprising: forming a gate electrode over a silicon substrate in a device region defined by a device isolation region in the silicon substrate; ion-implanting first conductivity-type impurities in the silicon substrate in the device region to form a first conductivity-type source extension region and a first conductivity-type drain extension region on a first side and a second side of a channel region provided directly below the gate electrode, respectively, the first conductivity-type corresponding to n-type or p-type; forming a first offset sidewall spacer and a second offset sidewall spacer on a first sidewall and a second sidewall of the gate electrode, respectively, the first sidewall of the gate electrode being located on a first side of the channel region and the second sidewall of the gate electrode being located on a second side of the channel region; ion-implanting first conductivity-type impurities in the silicon substrate using the gate electrode and the first and second offset sidewall spacers as a mask to form a first conductivity-type source region and a first conductivity-type drain region on the first side and the second side of the channel region, respectively, such that the first conductivity-type source region is apart from the channel region and overlaps a part of the source extension region and that the first-conductivity-type drain region is apart from the channel region and overlaps a part of the drain extension region; forming a stress layer over the silicon substrate, covering the first offset sidewall spacer, the gate electrode, and the second offset sidewall spacer, the stress layer accumulating a first stress corresponding to one of a tensile stress and a compressive stress; forming a protection layer over the silicon substrate covering the stress layer; performing chemical mechanical polishing on the protection layer to expose a part of the stress layer covering the first and second offset sidewall spacers and the gate electrode; patterning by etching the exposed part of the stress layer to separate the stress layer into a first stress layer located on the first side of the channel region and extending along the first offset sidewall spacer and a second stress layer located on the second side of the channel region and extending along the second offset sidewall spacer, the first stress layer and the second stress layer accumulating the first stress, and to expose top faces of the first and second offset sidewall spacers; and removing by etching the first and second offset sidewall spacers from the top faces thereof to produce a first gap between the first sidewall of the gate electrode and a first extending part of the first stress layer arising upward from the silicon substrate along the first sidewall of the gate electrode, and a second gap between the second sidewall of the gate electrode and a second extending part of the second stress layer arising upward from the silicon substrate along the second sidewall of the gate electrode, said first stress being the tensile stress if the first conductivity type is the n-type, and said first stress being the compressive stress if the first conductivity type is the p-type. | 43,511 |
8,876,630 | 1. A golf club head, which is of an iron type, comprising: a face plate part for hitting a ball, which has a cavity part on the back side thereof; a sole part; a hosel part for connecting the head to a shaft; a viscoelastic body made to adhere to the back face of the face plate part, the viscoelastic body comprising a board-shaped part located on the back face of a central portion of the face plate part and extending parts extending from the board-shaped part to the toe side and the heel side of the head; and a cover plate lapping over the viscoelastic body, the cover plate comprising a concavity for accommodating the board-shaped part of the viscoelastic body and concave lines for accommodating the extending parts of the viscoelastic body. | 8,369 |
8,495,624 | 1. In a client-server architecture including at least one client machine in communication with a plurality of servers over a network, a method for provisioning a suitable operating system environment to a client machine in the network based on hardware elements of the client machine, the method comprising: receiving, from at least one installation server, a first software module at the client machine, wherein the first software module is compatible with a processor type of the client machine; in response to the client machine receiving the first software module, a processor of the client machine executing the first software module, which performs the functions of: the client machine receiving, from the installation server, a suitable Operating System Environment (OSE) for the client machine, wherein the suitable OSE includes an operating system and device drivers for each hardware element in the list of hardware elements on the client machine, wherein the operating system and device drivers for each hardware element are packaged into the OSE at the at least one installation server; and deploying the suitable OSE on the client machine. | 29,098 |
8,810,874 | 1. A duplex scanning apparatus, comprising: a sheet entrance and a sheet exit; a sheet feeding channel connected to said sheet entrance; a sheet pick-up module disposed in said sheet entrance for feeding a document into said sheet feeding channel; a sheet transfer channel arranged between said sheet feeding channel and said sheet exit; an inverting channel, wherein a first end of said inverting channel is connected to a junction between said sheet feeding channel and said sheet transfer channel, and a second end of said inverting channel is connected to said sheet transfer channel; an image reading module disposed in said sheet transfer channel for reading an image of a document; a transfer roller assembly for transferring said document which is located within said sheet feeding channel, said sheet transfer channel or said inverting channel; a sheet sensing module for sensing a transmitting status of said document in said inverting channel, thereby issuing a sensing signal, wherein said sheet sensing module comprises: a controller electrically connected to said sheet pick-up module and said sheet sensing module, wherein in response to said sensing signal, said controller drives said sheet pick-up module to feed a next document into said sheet feeding channel, wherein a distance between said sheet sensing module and said first end of said inverting channel is greater than a distance between said sheet sensing module and said second end of said inverting channel. | 15,892 |
9,521,003 | 1. A multicarrier transceiver operable to: transmit or receive a message to enter a low power mode; and enter the low power mode, wherein a transmitter portion of the transceiver is operable to not transmit data during the low power mode and a receiver portion of the transceiver is operable to receive data during the low power mode, wherein the transceiver is a device that is operable to transmit or receive internet and video data. | 24,418 |
8,993,478 | 1. A method for producing an activated carbon for an electric double layer capacitor electrode comprising: adjusting a green coke produced by delayed coking as it is or after having been calcined to produce a carbon powder having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 15 μm; oxidizing the carbon powder to contain 3 percent by mass or more and 15 percent by mass or less of oxygen; and activating the oxidized product with an alkali activator. | 7,258 |
9,144,360 | 1. An autonomous mobile robot system for bounded areas, the system comprising: a navigation beacon with a gateway beacon emitter arranged to emit a gateway beam across a gateway between a first bounded area and an adjacent second bounded area with the beacon placed in the gateway on a floor surface, wherein the navigation beacon is configured to emit a marker indicating a proximity zone about the beacon that extends into the bounded areas, and wherein the navigation beacon further comprises a beacon emitter arranged to transmit an emission into the first bounded area indicating the direction of the beacon, with the beacon disposed within the gateway; an autonomous coverage robot comprising: a base station located in one of the bounded areas, the base station comprising: | 16,720 |
9,091,480 | 1. Rotary furnace ( 1 ) for the heat treatment of solids comprising: at least one rotary tube in which the solids are introduced and which is adapted to be heated by a heater outside of the rotary tube for conducting a portion of the heat treatment in the absence of oxygen, a second heater element for heating the feedstock to improve the heat treatment, the second heater element formed by a heating element ( at least one deflector panel that surrounds the second heating element ( wherein the second heating element ( | 9,602 |
8,750,924 | 1. A switchable configuration system residing in a handset for switchably configuring the handset to remove or enable a private wireless network operation, the switchable configuration system comprising: a cellular transceiver; a private wireless network transceiver; a cellular control portion controlling both the cellular transceiver and the private wireless network transceiver in the cellular mode, wherein the private wireless network transceiver associates with the cellular control portion to start or restart the cellular control portion of the handset; a private wireless network control portion controlling the private wireless network transceiver when in the private wireless network mode; and a configuration module selecting one of the private wireless network mode and the cellular mode of the handset, the configuration module comprising means for simultaneously operating on a cellular network and on a private wireless network, wherein the configuration module determines an availability of a private wireless network signal, selects the cellular mode if a private wireless network signal is not available, and selects the private wireless network mode if the private wireless network signal is available. | 35,748 |
8,749,465 | 1. A method for driving an active matrix display having a plurality of pixels, wherein the pixels are arranged in a plurality of lines for forming a display image and the lines are driven repetitively for forming the display image in a plurality of frame times, the plurality of frame times comprising a first group of frame times and a following second group of frame times, said method comprising: providing image data to the pixels for producing luminance in the pixels based on the provided data in a first period of a frame time in the first group and in the first period of the frame time in the second group such that the luminance increases with time in the first period in each of the frame times in the first group and in the second group, and removing at least part of the provided data from the pixels after the first period in each of the frame times at least in the second group so as to reduce the luminance in said pixels in a second period following the first period such that the luminance decreases with time in the second period in each of the frame times in the second group, wherein the sum of the first period and the second period is less than or substantially equal to one frame time, wherein the first group has a first stable state defined by a first maximum value and a first minimum value such that when the first group reaches the first stable state, variation in luminance value in the frame times in the first group is limited between the first maximum value and the first minimum value, and the second group has a second stable state defined by a second maximum value and a non-zero second minimum value such that when the second group reaches the second stable state, maximum luminance value in the frame times in the second group increases to the second maximum value and minimum luminance value in the frame times in the second group increases to the second minimum value, and wherein the first maximum value is lower than the second maximum value and the second minimum value is higher than the first minimum value but lower than the first maximum value, wherein the second group of frame times comprises two or more front frame times followed by two or more subsequent frame times, wherein a sum of the luminance in the first period and the luminance in the second period yields a total luminance, and the total luminance in said pixels in the front frame times is lower than the total luminance in said pixels in the subsequent frame times, said method further comprising: increasing the image data provided to said pixels in the front frame times such that the maximum luminance value in the front frame times increases to the second maximum value and the minimum luminance value in the front frame times increases to the second minimum value so as to increase the total luminance in each of said two or more front frame times in said pixels. | 49,268 |
9,811,287 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: issuing, to a dynamic random access memory with extensive internal parallelism (DRAM with EIP), a first group of two or more load requests to load data from a hash table comprising one or more hash buckets, wherein the hash table is constructed from hashed join-key values of a dimension table for a hash-join procedure, and wherein each load request in the first group corresponds to an entry in a fact table of the hash-join procedure and seeks a hash bucket matching a hashed join-key value for the corresponding entry in the fact table; issuing, to the DRAM with EIP, a second group of two or more load requests to load data from the hash table; receiving, from the DRAM with EIP, first response data that is responsive to the first group of load requests, wherein the first response data comprises one or more hash buckets from the hash table; and processing, by a computer processor, the first response data while awaiting second response data that is responsive to the second group of load requests, wherein processing the first response data comprises: identifying matches between the join-key values corresponding to entries in the two or more load requests of the first group and the one or more hash buckets in the first response data; wherein the size of the second group of two or more load requests is selected such that a time for processing the first response data is based on the latency in receiving the second response data. | 25,569 |
9,130,923 | 1. At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that when the instructions are executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to: receive a wrapped credential provider containing information from a plurality of original credential providers, wherein each original credential provider has a specified number of credentials, an ordered list of fields wherein each field has an original credential provider specific identifier and each field has a descriptor; process the wrapped credential provider utilizing a map list from the ordered lists of fields from each original credential provider, wherein the order of fields from a single original credential provider is preserved in the map list and each subsequent instance of a one-use-only field in the map list contains a same unique identifier as was assigned to a first instance of the one-use-only field in the map list; identify a unique provider index to each of the plurality of original credential providers; and route requests from a logon interface process to a corresponding one of the plurality of original credential providers by translating a wrapping credential provider field identifier to an appropriate wrapped credential provider identifier. | 1,120 |
9,831,580 | 1. A pump for mounting in a vehicle and providing a pumping action for fluid carried on the vehicle, the pump comprising: a motor having a stator and a rotor, the stator provided on a stator circuit board; a controller circuit board forming part of a vehicle's electrical control system; and an apparatus for electrically connecting the stator on the stator circuit board to control circuitry on the controller circuit board, the apparatus comprising: | 47,206 |
9,240,854 | 1. A user-side communication device that communicates with a station-side communication device based on a control signal transmitted from the station-side communication device, the user-side communication device comprising: a receiver that receives a control signal related to a power saving operation from the station-side communication device, and can shift to a power saving state where power consumption is reduced by halting a part or all of a receiving function; a transmitter that transmits a transmission signal to the station-side communication device and can shift to a power saving state where power consumption is reduced by halting a part or all of a transmitting function; and a controller that controls the transmitter in a first power saving mode in which the transmitter shifts to the power saving state in a first power saving period based on the control signal and controls the receiver and the transmitter in a second power saving mode in which the receiver and the transmitter shift to the power saving state in a second power saving period based on the control signal, wherein the first power saving period is different from the second power saving period, and the controller intermittently stops power supplied to the transmitter in the first power saving period based on the control signal received by the receiver, and intermittently stops power supplied to the transmitter and the receiver in the second power saving period based on the control signal received by the receiver. | 10,170 |
8,372,361 | 1. A method comprising: producing a high grade pregnant leach solution and a low grade pregnant leach solution, wherein said low grade pregnant leach solution has a lower concentration of a metal value than said high grade pregnant leach solution; subjecting said low grade pregnant leach solution to a first extractor to produce a partially loaded organic solution; and subjecting said high grade pregnant leach solution to a second extractor to produce a metal-loaded solution by contacting said high grade pregnant leach solution with said partially loaded organic solution. | 18,531 |
9,641,519 | 1. A method for improving the security of data in a tokenization environment, comprising: receiving data to be tokenized; selecting a first token table from a first set of token tables using a first portion of the received data; selecting a second token table from a second set of token tables different than the first set of token tables using a second portion of the received data different than the first portion of the received data, each of the first set of token tables and the second set of token tables mapping each of a plurality of input values to a different token value; and after selecting the first token table and the second token table, transforming the received data to produce tokenized data by: | 8,146 |
8,814,520 | 1. A ram air turbine assembly comprising: a turbine comprising a rotatable turbine hub and turbine blades extending from the turbine hub; a pivot; a support structure supporting the turbine, wherein the support structure is movable about the pivot between a stowed position and a deployed position; and a mass including a flange and an insert, wherein the insert includes a greater density than the flange, the flange of the mass attached to the rotatable turbine hub for adjusting a resonance frequency of the ram air turbine assembly, wherein the mass is spaced apart from the pivot and extends outward from the turbine hub. | 27,163 |
8,623,700 | 1. A method of making a packaging system for microchips comprising the follow steps: forming a semiconductor wafer including a first microchip and a second microchip each of which is separated from a neighboring microchip by a spacer region; forming at least one void in the spacer regions alongside an edge of each of the first and second microchips; passivating the exposed surfaces of the formed void; depositing a conductive material into the formed void to form a first electrically conductive interconnect nodule disposed on an edge of the first microchip and to form a second electrically conductive interconnect nodule disposed on an edge of the second microchip; forming an electrical connection between the first electrically conductive interconnect nodule and the first microchip; forming an electrical connection between the second electrically conductive interconnect nodule and the second microchip; exposing the first and second interconnect nodules to form first and second protruding interconnect nodules; and electrically connecting said first microchip to said second microchip by making one or more conductive electrical connections between said first protruding interconnect nodule and said second protruding interconnect nodule by contacting the first protruding interconnect nodule directly to the second protruding interconnect nodule. | 11,533 |
9,587,527 | 1. A camshaft phaser for use with an internal combustion engine for controllably varying the phase relationship between a crankshaft and a camshaft in said internal combustion engine, said camshaft phaser comprising: an input member connectable to said crankshaft of said internal combustion engine to provide a fixed ratio of rotation between said input member and said crankshaft; an output member connectable to said camshaft of said internal combustion engine and defining an advance chamber and a retard chamber with said input member; and a valve spool moveable between an advance position and a retard position, said valve spool having a valve spool bore with a phasing volume and a venting volume defined within said valve spool bore such that said phasing volume is fluidly segregated from said venting volume, and said valve spool also having a spool phasing passage providing fluid communication between said phasing volume and the exterior of said valve spool; wherein oil is supplied to said advance chamber from said phasing volume through said spool phasing passage in order to retard the timing of said camshaft relative to said crankshaft; and wherein oil is supplied to said retard chamber from said phasing volume through said spool phasing passage in order to advance the timing of said camshaft relative to said crankshaft. | 1,406 |
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