| 09th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
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| 20100052981 | Systems and methods for determining a rotational position of an object - Apparatus and methods determine the rotational position of a spinning object. A satellite positioning system can be used to determine the spatial position of an object, which in turn can be used to guide the object. However, when the object is spinning, such as an artillery shell, then the rotational orientation should be known in order to properly actuate the control surfaces, such as fins, which will also be spinning. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052995 | MICROPATTERNING OF CONDUCTIVE GRAPHITE PARTICLES USING MICROCONTACT PRINTING - Methods involve a combination of polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) coating or silane self assembly on a substrate; microcontact printing; and conductive graphite particles, especially size controlled highly conductive exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets. The conductive graphite particles are coated with a charged polymer such as sulfonated polystyrene. The graphite particles are patterned using microcontact printing and intact pattern transfer on a substrate that has an oppositely-charged surface. The method allows for conductive organic patterning on both flat and curved surfaces and can be used in microelectronic device fabrication. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053090 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING USER'S TOUCH ON A TOUCH PANEL - A method for detecting a user's touch on a touch panel includes: deriving a plurality of geometric differences of a first direction of the touch panel, wherein each of the geometric differences of the first direction represents a difference between respective coupling amounts at two locations of a plurality of locations of the first direction on the touch panel; and analyzing the geometric differences of the first direction to obtain at least one analysis result, wherein the analysis result comprises information representing whether the user touches the touch panel in one or more places. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053180 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURING A GRAPHICS SYSTEM - A system and method for cryptographically securing a graphics system connectable via an external bus to a computing system, the graphics system including a graphics processor, a video memory and a memory controller for controlling the flow of data to and from the video memory. The graphics system further includes a copy engine for copying data between a system memory of the computing system and the video memory, where this copy engine acts independently of the graphics processor of the graphics system. The present invention enables the copy engine of the graphics system to decrypt encrypted data in the course of copying data from the system memory to the video memory and to encrypt unencrypted data in the course of copying data from the video memory to the system memory. Thus, cryptographic protection of secure content may be assured by the graphics system without the excessive usage of its primary resources for this non-graphical purpose. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053350 | Image Device and Method of Same - An imaging device able to simplify an optical system while maintaining a high frame rate, but without needing expensive blurring restoration processing hardware, able to reduce costs, and in addition capable of obtaining a restored image little influenced by noise, and a method of same, which bypasses blurring restoration processing of an image processing device | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053367 | PARTIAL FACE TRACKER FOR RED-EYE FILTER METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image acquisition device includes a flash and optical system for capturing digital images. A partial face tracker identifies partial face regions within a series of one or more relatively low resolution reference images, and predicts partial face regions within a main digital image. A red-eye filter for modifies an area within the main digital image indicative of a red-eye phenomenon based on an analysis of the partial face regions identified and predicted by the partial face tracker. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053371 | LOCATION NAME REGISTRATION APPARATUS AND LOCATION NAME REGISTRATION METHOD - A location name registration apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from a picture-taking apparatus, picture data of a picture of an object taken by the picture-taking apparatus, picture-taking location information corresponding to the latitude and longitude of a picture-taking location acquired when the picture was taken, and object location information corresponding to the latitude and longitude of an object location of a target of picture-taking; a location name acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a location name storage unit, a picture-taking location name of the picture-taking location and to acquire, from the location name storage unit, an object location name of the object location; and a location name registration unit configured to register the picture-taking location name, the object location name, and the picture data in association with each other in a predetermined storage unit. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053406 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state image sensor includes: photoelectric conversion section; a floating gate provided above a semiconductor substrate; a first transistor for accumulating charge generated in said photoelectric conversion section into said floating gate; and a second transistor for reading a signal corresponding to the charge accumulated in said floating gate. A distance between a gate electrode of said first transistor and said floating gate is shorter than a distance between a gate electrode of said second transistor and said floating gate. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053432 | DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME WITH TELEVISION TUNING FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - A method of a digital photo frame (DPF) with television (TV) tuning function is provided. The method includes: creating one or more preview windows on the DPF under the DPF mode; receiving broadcasts of particular channels; displaying the broadcast contents of the particular channels in each of the preview windows; switching the DPF to a TV mode if a mode switching signal is received within the display of the broadcast contents of the particular channels; determining which of favorite channels currently previewed in the preview windows is selected; and receiving and playing broadcasts of the selected particular channel. A related DPF is also provided. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053554 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL EXAMINATION DEVICE - The invention relates to an opthalmological measuring instrument, e.g. for determining the corneal curvature, anterior chamber depth, axial length, or the like, comprising measuring systems for determining said variables. The measuring systems are connected to an evaluation unit which verifies whether quality parameters regarding the measurements are satisfied and generates a corresponding signal that indicates to the user that a proper measurement can be taken. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053682 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium containing image processing program - An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a blank document determination section determining whether or not input image data is image data of a blank document, regardless of a process mode set for setting a process with respect to the input image data; a storage device storing the input image data in association with a determination result made by the blank document determination section; and a control section (i) reading out the input image data from the storage device and (ii) excluding the input image data determined as image data of a blank document by the blank document determination section, from images to be displayed by the image display device, when the image display device carries out a preview display of the input image data. This configuration makes it possible to carry out a preview display in which a blank document (blank page document) is skipped, without reading the document again. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053767 | Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus - A zoom lens includes, in order from its object side, a first lens unit having a negative refracting power, a second lens unit having a positive refracting power, a third lens unit having a negative refracting power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refracting power. The zoom lens further includes an aperture stop disposed between the first lens unit and the third lens unit. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, distances between the lens units change, the first lens unit moves first toward the image side and thereafter toward the object side, the second lens unit moves in such a way as to be located closer to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is larger at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the aperture stop moves in such a way as to be located closer to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The second lens unit and the third lens unit satisfy certain conditions. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053806 | DISC DRIVE APPARATUS - A disc drive apparatus comprises: a spindle motor | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053811 | MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC STORAGE MEDIUM - A magnetic storage apparatus includes a magnetic storage medium including a recording layer, and a backing layer including a portion having a Curie temperature lower than that of the recording layer, a recording head that generates a magnetic field for recording from a side of the recording layer opposite to another side on which the backing layer is provided, and a heater unit heating at least a part of an area in proximity to a target area for recording by the recording head. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100051046 | Hair retention system - An improved hair retention system for more securely retaining hair while reducing breakage. A barrette is adhesively secured along one surface to a soft flexible material. The material is also secured to the opposite side of the head and the exterior bodies of the barrette. The interior body of the barrette is not secured on either side to the resilient material. In operation, when the interior body is biased against the exterior bodies of the barrette, instead of metal contacting metal, the metal of the interior body contacts the resilient material, thereby reducing the potential for hair breakage. By providing the material with a nap, the hair system secures the hair more tightly as well. Other accessories, such as bows, gems, monograms, logos and the like may be secured to the back of the improved hair retention system. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100051090 | FOUR TERMINAL MULTI-JUNCTION THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE AND METHOD - A multi-junction photovoltaic cell device. The device includes a lower cell and an upper cell, which is operably coupled to the lower cell. In a specific embodiment, the lower cell includes a lower glass substrate material, e.g., transparent glass. The lower cell also includes a lower electrode layer made of a reflective material overlying the glass material. The lower cell includes a lower absorber layer overlying the lower electrode layer. In a specific embodiment, the absorber layer is made of a semiconductor material having a band gap energy in a range of Eg=0.7 to 1 eV, but can be others. In a specific embodiment, the lower cell includes a lower window layer overlying the lower absorber layer and a lower transparent conductive oxide layer overlying the lower window layer. The upper cell includes a p+ type transparent conductor layer overlying the lower transparent conductive oxide layer. In a preferred embodiment, the p+ type transparent conductor layer is characterized by traversing electromagnetic radiation in at least a wavelength range from about 700 to about 630 nanometers and filtering electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range from about 490 to about 450 nanometers. In a specific embodiment, the upper cell has an upper p type absorber layer overlying the p+ type transparent conductor layer. In a preferred embodiment, the p type conductor layer made of a semiconductor material has a band gap energy in a range of Eg=1.6 to 1.9 eV, but can be others. The upper cell also has an upper n type window layer overlying the upper p type absorber layer, an upper transparent conductive oxide layer overlying the upper n type window layer, and an upper glass material overlying the upper transparent conductive oxide layer. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100051163 | MODULAR PLY TIRE WITH OVERLAPPING PLIES - A tire carcass is disclosed herein which includes a first radial ply with a shoulder portion and a lateral edge portion, the lateral edge portion being wrapped around a bead core, a carcass crown portion, the carcass crown portion having a first edge and a second edge, and a second radial ply with a second shoulder portion and a second lateral edge, the second lateral edge portion being wrapped around a second bead core, the first radial ply extending beyond the first edge of the carcass crown portion and the second radial ply extending beyond the second edge of the carcass crown portion. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100051807 | PHASE PLATE, IN PARTICULAR FOR AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE - The invention concerns a phase plate, in particular for an electron microscope, which is disposed in an electron beam path ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052042 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The semiconductor memory device of the present invention includes a plurality of memory strings having a plurality of electrically reprogrammable memory cells connected in series, the memory strings having a column shaped semiconductor, a first insulation film formed around the column shaped semiconductor, a charge accumulation layer formed around the first insulation film, a second insulation film formed around the charge accumulation film and a plurality of electrodes formed around the second insulation film, a bit line connected to one end of the memory strings via a plurality of selection transistors, and a conducting layer extending in two dimensions and in which the plurality of electrodes of the memory strings and the plurality of electrodes of different memory strings are shared respectively, wherein each end part of the conducting layer is formed in step shapes in a direction parallel with the bit line. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052194 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELEASING A LENS MOLDED IN A CAVITY BETWEEN POSTERIOR AND ANTERIOR MOLD SECTIONS - An apparatus and method for releasing a lens moulded in a cavity between posterior ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052347 | Server tongs with side cross-over arms - A pair of tongs having two elongated forearms that adjoin their respective crossovers that transform the upper forearm into the lower handle means and the lower forearm into the upper handle means. The upper and lower handle means adjoin via a bias close spring that supports the two forearms in a bias open position via the crossovers. This pair of tongs can be easily used to handle food and other materials through hand-squeezing action applied to its forearms. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052518 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY - A pixel of an OLED display includes: a thin film transistor (TFT) including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a planarization layer on the TFT and including a contact hole at least partially exposing the drain electrode; a pixel electrode on the planarization layer and coupled to the drain electrode of the TFT through the contact hole; and an organic emission layer on the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes a corner-cube pattern facing the organic emission layer. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052628 | Circuit and Method for Reducing Output Voltage Transients in a Voltage Mode Buck Converter - A voltage control mode buck converter circuit includes a feedback amplifier providing a comparison signal and a storage circuit in communication with the comparison signal to store a storage comparison signal value. The storage circuit stores the operating conditions for the circuit during normal continuous conduction mode operation in response to sensing a load drop for the circuit. A switching circuit locks the feedback amplifier into the stored operating parameters while the converter circuit operates in non-continuous conduction mode. When the circuit transitions back into the continuous conduction operation mode, the feedback amplifier is already operating at conditions that are compatible with a continuous conduction operation mode. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052829 | CIRCUIT BREAKER CLOSING ACTUATOR AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A circuit breaker closing actuator and a method of operation is provided. The closing actuator is disposed to communicate and receive signals from a trip unit. The trip unit includes a communications to transmit and receive data and signals from a remote location. The trip unit transmits a signal to the closing actuator in response to receiving a closing signal from the remote location. The closing actuator validates the signal and activates a driving circuit if the signal is validated. The driving circuit enables power to a solenoid that closes the circuit breaker. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052926 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection display device has a power supply unit which supplies electric power from an external power supply, a charging circuit which charges a rechargeable battery with the power supply unit, an alarm part for outputting an alarm sound, and a switching circuit which supplies either the electric power from the power supply unit or an electric power from the rechargeable battery to the alarm part. When a voltage from the rechargeable battery becomes less than a threshold value, the electric power supply from the rechargeable battery to the alarm part is cut off, and power consumption of the rechargeable battery is suppressed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053035 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE-SHIELDING FILM HAVING NEAR INFRARED SHIELDING FUNCTION AND TRANSPARENCY FUNCTION, OPTICAL FILTER AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL COMPRISING THE SAME - The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave-shielding film which includes a transparent substrate, an electromagnetic wave-shielding layer which includes a conductive pattern formed in at least a portion of the transparent substrate, and an adhesive transparency layer which is formed on the electromagnetic wave-shielding layer to fill a groove of the conductive pattern and contains a near infrared-absorbing dye, and an optical filter and a plasma display panel including the electromagnetic wave-shielding film. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053043 | COLOR DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A color display using an organic electroluminescence element, includes, on a substrate, plural pixels each being area-divided into plural sub-pixels including at least two sub-pixels that each emit colored light of different wavelengths and a white sub-pixel, in which the white sub-pixel is further area-divided into at least two sub-sub-pixels that each emit colored light of different wavelengths, wherein the at least two sub-pixels and the at least two sub-sub-pixels each have an organic electroluminescence layer that emits a white light and a color filter. A color display which allows a high definition color display and is easily produced, and a method for producing the color display are provided. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053233 | METHOD OF DRIVING PIXEL CIRCUIT, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a method of driving a pixel circuit that includes a light emitting element; a driving transistor that is connected to the light emitting element in series; a storage capacitor that is interposed between a path, which is formed between the light emitting element and the driving transistor, and a gate of the driving transistor; a selection switch that is interposed between the gate of the driving transistor and a signal line; and a first control switch that is interposed between the gate of the driving transistor and the signal line and is connected to the selection switch in series. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053234 | DRIVING OF ELECTROWETTING DISPLAYS - The invention relates to a method of driving an electrowetting display which includes a plurality of electrowetting elements, the display comprising at least one first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with each other, each of the electrowetting elements comprising at least one surface area. In a first, relatively low voltage, driving state of an electrowetting element the second fluid tends to cover the at least one surface area, and in a second, relatively high voltage, driving state of an electrowetting element the first fluid tends to cover the at least one surface area. The method comprises: providing a voltage booster circuit to generate a voltage signal to be applied across one or more selected ones of the plurality of electrowetting elements; and during driving of the one or more selected elements in the second driving state, selectively switching the voltage booster circuit on and off such that the voltage booster circuit is operative only some of the time and the voltage signal includes a voltage ripple variation. The invention further relates to electrowetting display apparatus adapted to perform the method of the invention. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053251 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing method using a first motor that applies a driving force for rotating a roll body around which a printing medium is wound, a second motor that applies a driving force for intermittently driving a transport driving roller that transports the printing medium, and a print head that intermittently ejects ink onto the printing medium alternately with the driving of the second motor. The printing method includes driving the first motor such that tension applied to the printing medium is constant during at least a part of a period in which the second motor is driven and stopping the driving of the first motor during at least a part of a period in which the driving of the second motor is stopped. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053340 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACCURATELY AND EASILY MEASURING A TIME DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VIDEO AND AUDIO - To solve the problems in the prior art, the present invention provides a method for measuring a time difference between digital video signals and digital audio signals, wherein said method comprises the steps of extracting respective time series data from respective frequency domains of said digital video signals and said digital audio signals; statistically identifying the cross-correlation of said time series data in said frequency domains, thereby measuring the time difference between said digital video signals and said digital audio signals. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053583 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS WITH AN ILLUMINATION SYSTEM GENERATING MULTIPLE ILLUMINATION BEAMS - An exposure apparatus ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053734 | LENS UNIT - A lens unit includes at least three lenses that are laminated and received in a lens barrel. The lenses include a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens that are laminated from the side of an object in this order. The first lens includes a first contact face that is formed at an outer peripheral portion thereof and comes in contact with the second lens, and a first opposite surface that is formed at an inner peripheral portion of the first contact face, is spaced from the second lens, and faces the second lens. The second lens includes a second contact face that is formed at a position closer to the center of the second lens than the first contact face and comes in contact with the third lens, and a second opposite surface that is formed at an outer peripheral portion of the second contact face, is spaced from the third lens, and faces the third lens. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053962 | METHOD FOR MOUNTING AN LED MODULE ON A SUPPORT - A method for mounting an LED module on a support comprises providing an LED module comprising a printed circuit board and multiple LEDs mounted on the printed circuit board, a support and a plurality of fasteners, each fastener comprising a head, a pole extending downwardly from a bottom of the head, and a plurality of teeth protruding downwardly from the bottom of the head and surrounding the pole, extending the fasteners through the printed circuit board of the LED module into the support, rotating each fastener such that the teeth thereof scrape insulating layers off a metal substrate of the printed circuit board, whereby a top face of the substrate is exposed and in direct contact with the teeth of the fasteners. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053967 | Lighting device to be installed in a panel - The invention relates to a lighting device to be installed in and/or behind a panel ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054001 | AC/DC Converter with Power Factor Correction - A power converter is configured for usage in a power factor correction system. The power converter comprises a transformer with a primary winding and a secondary winding which isolates a primary side from a secondary side. A primary side switch is coupled to the primary winding. An isolator coupled to the primary side switch isolates the primary side from the secondary side and comprises a signal pathway passing a digital signal from the primary side to the secondary side. Power factor correction circuitry is coupled to the primary side switch and adjusts electric load characteristics to improve power factor toward unity. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054002 | PARALLEL-CONNECTED UNINTERRUPTED POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - The configurations of a parallel-connected UPS circuit are provided in the present invention. The proposed circuit includes a neutral, a battery having a positive and a negative terminals, and a plurality of PFC boost converters, each of which includes a PFC circuit including an inductor having a first terminal coupled to the positive terminal and a second terminal, a rectifying bridge coupled to the second terminal of the inductor, and having a first terminal and a second terminal coupled to the negative terminal, a switch bridge having a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the rectifying bridge and a second terminal coupled to the second terminal of the rectifying bridge, and a control switch having a first terminal and a second terminal coupled to the neutral. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHASE CURRENT BALANCE IN ACTIVE CONVERTER WITH UNBALANCED AC LINE VOLTAGE SOURCE - Active power converters and methods are presented for converting input electrical power to output electrical power with converter switching control in which the individual phase voltage command values are compensated according to phase line voltage imbalances to compensate the converter control to provide balanced phase currents in the presence of unbalanced phase supply line voltages. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054007 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS WITH LOW POWER IN STANDBY MODE - Provided is a power supply apparatus with low power in a standby mode. The apparatus includes a voltage multiplier configured to multiply an input voltage and including a first terminal through which the multiplied voltage is output and a second terminal through which a voltage lower than a voltage of the first terminal is output; a main switch-mode power supply (SMPS) configured to receive the voltage of the first terminal of the voltage multiplier; and a standby SMPS configured to receive a voltage of the second terminal of the voltage multiplier. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054028 | STT-MRAM Bit Cell Having a Rectangular Bottom Electrode Plate And Improved Bottom Electrode Plate Width And Interconnect Metal Widths - A Spin Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) bit cell is provided. The STT-MRAM includes a rectangular bottom electrode (BE) plate, and a storage element on the rectangular bottom electrode (BE) plate. A difference between a width of the rectangular bottom electrode (BE) plate and a width of the storage element is equal to or greater than a predetermined minimum spacing requirement. A width of the bottom electrode (BE) plate is substantially equal to a width of an active layer or a width of a plurality of metal layers. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054030 | Programmable resistance memory - A memory includes a programmable resistance array and unipolar MOS peripheral circuitry. The peripheral circuitry includes address decoding circuitry. Because unipolar MOS circuitry is employed, the number of mask steps and, concomitantly, the cost of the programmable resistance memory may be minimized. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054031 | COLUMN DECODER FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES, IN PARTICULAR OF THE PHASE-CHANGE TYPE - A column decoder is for a phase-change memory device provided with an array of memory cells, a reading stage for reading data contained in the memory cells, and a programming stage for programming the data. The column decoder selects and enables biasing of a bitline of the array and generates a current path between the bitline and the reading stage or, alternatively, the programming stage, respectively during a reading or a programming operation of the contents of the memory cells. In the column decoder, a first decoder circuit generates a first current path between the bitline and the reading stage, and a second decoder circuit, distinct and separate from the first decoder circuit, generates a second current path, distinct from the first current path, between the bitline and the programming stage. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054037 | FLASH MEMORY DEVICE WITH MULTI LEVEL CELL AND BURST ACCESS METHOD THEREIN - A flash memory device including memory cells, each memory cell configured to store bits, a sensing circuit configured to sequentially sense, for each memory cell, sets of the bits of the memory cell, a data rearrangement unit configured to receive words of data and to rearrange bits of the words to be stored in the memory cells, and an output circuit configured to output a group of the words using the sets of bits from one sensing, at least as early as during a subsequent sensing of sets of bits. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054038 | PROGRAMMING OF A CHARGE RETENTION CIRCUIT FOR A TIME MEASUREMENT - A method of controlling an electronic charge retention circuit for time measurement, including at least a first capacitive element, the dielectric of which has a leakage, and at least a second capacitive element, the dielectric of which has a higher capacitance than the first, the two elements having a common electrode defining a floating node that can be connected to an element for measuring its residual charge, in which a charge retention period is programmed or initialized by injecting or extracting charges via the first element. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054040 | METHOD OF PROGRAMMING AND SENSING MEMORY CELLS USING TRANSVERSE CHANNELS AND DEVICES EMPLOYING SAME - A first channel in the substrate underlying a trap gate is biased to cause trapping of holes or electrons in the trap gate and thereby program the memory device to a programmed state. A second channel in the substrate underlying the trap gate and transverse to the first channel is biased to sense the programmed state. For example, biasing a first channel in the substrate underlying the trap gate to cause trapping of holes or electrons in the trap gate and thereby program the memory device to a programmed state may include applying voltages to a first source/drain region and first gate on a first side of the trap gate and to a second source/drain region and a second gate on a second side of the trap gate, and biasing a second channel in the substrate underlying the trap gate and transverse to the first channel to sense the programmed state may include applying voltages to a third source/drain region on a third side of the trap gate and to a fourth source/drain region on a fourth side of the trap gate. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054041 | ADJUSTING PROGRAMMING OR ERASE VOLTAGE PULSES IN RESPONSE TO A RATE OF PROGRAMMING OR ERASING - Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices are provided. In one such embodiment, a programming voltage pulse or an erase voltage pulse is applied to memory cells of a memory device. A rate at which programming or erasing is proceeding is determined. The programming voltage pulse or the erase voltage pulse is adjusted at least partially in response to the determined rate. The adjusted programming voltage pulse or the adjusted erase voltage pulse is applied to the memory cells that failed to program or erase. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054042 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF INSPECTING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device comprises a sense amplifier circuit having a first and a second input terminal, the sense amplifier configured to compare current flowing in the first input terminal with current flowing in the second input terminal, and the sense amplifier configured to provide the result to external; a first gate circuit connected to the first input terminal, the first gate circuit configured to pass a cell current flowing in a memory cell to the first input terminal; a reference current source, the reference current source configured to feed a reference current to the second input terminal, the reference current serving as the reference for level sensing the cell current; a second gate circuit connected to the second input terminal, the second gate circuit including a replica circuit of the first gate circuit; a first current source configured to feed a first current to the first input terminal, the first current corresponding to the offset at the time of read from a first-state cell; and a second current source configured to feed a second current to the second input terminal, the second current corresponding to the offset at the time of read from a second-state cell. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054044 | METHOD OF OPERATING NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device includes setting an initial cell current level, performing program and erase operations for each word line of a memory block, storing the cycling number of the program and erase operations, comparing the cycling number with a critical cycling number of the program and erase operations, lowering the initial cell current level when the cycling number are larger than the critical cycling number, and changing a program operation option based on the lowered initial cell current level | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054047 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS - A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a clock generator configured to generate an internal clock signal, an asynchronous data input buffer configured to buffer a data input signal through a data pad to output a buffered data signal, and a synchronous data input buffer configured to buffer the buffered data signal synchronously with the internal clock signal, wherein a length of a line, through which the internal clock signal is transmitted to the synchronous data input buffer, is configured to be substantially the same with a length of a line, through which the buffered data is transmitted to the synchronous data input buffer. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054059 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A circuit which can reduce time taken by a clock alignment training operation in a semiconductor memory device is provided. The semiconductor memory device, which includes: a clock inputting unit configured to receive a system clock and a data clock; a clock dividing unit configured to divide a frequency of the data clock to generate a data division clock, wherein the clock dividing unit determines a phase of the data division clock in response to an inversion division control signal; a phase dividing unit configured to generate a plurality of multiple phase data division clocks having respective predetermined phase differences in response to the data division clock; a data serializing unit configured to serialize predetermined parallel pattern data in correspondence with the multiple phase data division clocks; and a signal transmitting unit configured to transmit an output signal of the data serializing unit to the outside. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054061 | Semiconductor memory device having bit test circuit with ignore function - A semiconductor memory device including a bit test circuit with an ignore function is provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and a bit test circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. The bit test circuit is configured to perform a parallel bit test to determine defective memory cells based on bits received from the plurality of memory cells, a tester signal for each of the plurality of memory cells, and a mode register set signal for each of the plurality of memory cells. The bit test circuit is also configured to output a non-defective pass signal for at least one of the plurality of memory cells based on at least one of the at least one bit received from the at least one memory cell, the tester signal for the at least one memory cell and the mode register set signal for the at least one memory cell. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054062 | Static random access memory (SRAM) and test method of the SRAM having precharge circuit to precharge bit line - An SRAM includes a memory cell and a precharge circuit. The precharge circuit precharges a bit line pair with a power supply voltage before writing a data in the memory cell or before reading a data therefrom at a time of a normal mode, and which feeds a power supply voltage to at least a low level data-holding node of a node pair of the memory cell at a time of a read test mode, between time for writing a data in the memory cell and time for reading a data therefrom. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054063 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, TEST METHOD THEREOF AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array having memory cells including a plurality of memory cells, and also comprises a first bit line, a first sense amplifier circuit and a control circuit. A signal is read out from a selected memory cell of the memory cell array through the first bit line. The first sense amplifier circuit has a single-ended configuration and includes an amplifying element amplifying a signal voltage of the first bit line so as to convert the signal voltage into an output current. The control circuit controls a test operation to measure a current flowing in the first sense amplifier circuit independently of currents flowing in other circuit portions. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054067 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING FULLY-BUFFERED DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULES - Methods and apparatuses are presented for controlling a fully buffered dual inline memory module. In one embodiment, the memory module may include at least two memory chips, a buffer coupled to the at least two memory chips (the buffer serially receiving data to be stored in the at least two memory chips), and a heat sink thermally coupled to the at least two memory chips and thermally coupled to the buffer such that heat generated by the buffer is coupled to a first memory chip within the at least two memory chips. The may be configured such that it operates at a higher temperature than the first memory chip and the refresh rate of the first memory chip may be adjusted when the temperature of the first memory chip is outside of a predetermined range. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054089 | TIMEPIECE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - The invention relates to a timepiece component, such as a balance ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054090 | MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR FOR TIMEPIECE - Mechanical oscillator for a timepiece comprising a balance ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054094 | Optical Disc Drive - To obtain optimum conditions for writing data on the disc. Provided is an optical disc drive for writing/reading data on/from a loaded optical disc medium comprising: a pickup for writing/reading data on/from the optical disc medium using laser light; and a controller for controlling an operation of the optical disc drive. The controller judges whether the loaded optical disc medium is unrecorded; records a first piece of data on a test area of the optical disc medium in a case where the loaded optical disc medium is judged to be unrecorded; determines optimum output power for recording the data by reproducing the first piece of data; records a second piece of data on the test write area using the determined optimum output power; and adjusts focus balance by reproducing the second piece of data. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054095 | POWER SAVING METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISK DRIVE OF RUGGED ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A power saving method for an optical disk drive of a rugged electronic device is described. In the method, whether a watertight lid outside the optical disk drive is in open/closed state is detected by a sensor. When the watertight lid is in the closed state, whether an optical disk exists in the optical disk drive is detected by a read/write head of the optical disk drive. When no optical disk exists, a controller in the rugged electronic device begins to time. When a predetermined time is reached and no optical disk drive start command is received, the controller turns off an electrical connection between a power supply and the optical disk drive. When an optical disk drive start command is received, the controller enables the electrical connection between the power supply and the optical disk drive. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054098 | CHARACTERIZING FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF A MULTIRATE SYSTEM - Frequency response is characterized for mechanical components of a multirate system operating in a closed-loop environment. A disturbance is injected at the frequency of interest and at each of the alias frequencies thereof as an input into the multirate system, and a matrix equation composed of resulting measurements of the response of the multirate system is solved to compute the frequency response at the frequency of interest and at each of the alias frequencies. The resulting frequency response can be used to synthesize the transfer function of the entire system, which allows simulation and evaluation of the relative performance of multiple controller designs without the need for further frequency response measurements. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054100 | PATTERN AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for forming a pattern, containing: stacking a master having at least a two-dimensional pattern or a three-dimensional pattern formed thereon and a pattern-transferring material containing at least a recording layer which changes a state thereof as light is transmitted thereto; and transmitting light to the recording layer so as to transfer the pattern of the master onto the recording layer. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054101 | Lens driving apparatus - A lens driving apparatus installed into an optical unit, includes a lead screw rotated by a rotation of a motor, a lens holder moved reciprocally along a rotation axis line of the lead screw by a rotation of the lead screw, a guide shaft extended in parallel with the rotation axis line, and passing through the lens holder to guide, and a lens held at a free end of the lens holder in a cantilever state. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054103 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a spatial light modulator that converts an irradiation beam emitted from a light source to a single information beam that carries information; an optical system that causes the single information beam to be collected on an optical-information recording medium including an information recording layer capable of recording the information as hologram by using interference fringes produced due to interference between the single information beam and a plurality of reference beams, and causes each of the reference beams to be irradiated to the optical-information recording medium from mutually different directions so as to intersect with the single information beam in the information recording layer; and a controller that controls to cause the light source to emit the irradiation beam and performs angular multiplexing recording of the information in the information recording layer while controlling to drive either one of the optical-information recording medium and the optical system. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054106 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method which contains: delivering laser light to a thermoreversible recording medium to heat the medium and record an image thereon, the medium reversibly changing a transparency or tone thereof depending on a temperature thereof; and heating the medium to erase the image recorded thereon, wherein the delivering is carried out using an image processing device containing: a laser light emitting unit; a light scanning unit disposed on a plane onto which laser light emitted from the laser light emitting unit is delivered; a light intensity distribution adjusting unit to change a light intensity distribution of the laser light; and a fθ lens to condense the laser light, and wherein energy of the laser light passing through a peripheric portion of the fθ lens and traveling onto the medium is lower than energy of the laser light passing through a center portion of the fθ lens and traveling onto the medium. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054118 | SELF-OPTIMIZATION AND SELF-HEALING OF VOICE QUALITY PROBLEMS UTILIZING SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for automatically resolving a voice transmission problem in real time in a communication system. Service oriented architecture (SOA)-based reporter services report voice transmission characteristic measurements. An enterprise service bus aggregates the measurements into a combination of measurements. An analyzer that is a SOA service provider determines that the combination of measurements indicates a voice transmission problem. The voice transmission problem determination includes identifying a match between the combination of measurements and a pattern of predefined conditions stored in a database. The database associates the pattern with one or more corrective actions. Using the database, the analyzer identifies the one or more corrective actions that are associated with the pattern of predefined conditions. SOA-based fixer services execute the corrective action(s) to resolve the voice transmission problem. As new voice transmission problems become known, the system expands to add reporting services and fixer services. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054119 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, USER EQUIPMENT, AND COMMUNICATION ENDING PERIOD SHORTENING METHOD TO BE UTILIZED IN THE SYSTEM AND EQUIPMENT - The present invention provides a user equipment that can shorten the time required for a communication ending. The user equipment is put into an error monitoring state in the procedure a | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054123 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HIGN UTILIZATION AND EFFICIENT FLOW CONTROL OVER NETWORKS WITH LONG TRANSMISSION LATENCY - The present invention is to provide a method and device which can determine current available bandwidth for each Transport Control Protocol (TCP) connection and adjust window size dynamically according to the available bandwidth to achieve high network utilization and efficient flow control in the same time without the need to buffer any received TCP packets, which can work with and without support of large window option. The device classifies incoming traffic into several groups (public and private), monitors and allocates the available bandwidth for each group. To enable flow control, the device also records the initial window size value for each connection and compares it with the original window size value for a newly received TCP packet. If the original window size value received from TCP receivers changes, the device varies the modified window size accordingly to enable efficient flow control in the same device as well. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054124 | MESSAGE TRANSFER APPARATUS, OUTPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A packet processor transfers a message received by a first (second) port to a second (first) port. When first specific information is included in the received message, a QoS terminal detector detects a communication terminal, which is a sender of the message received by the first port or a destination of the message received by the second port, as a QoS terminal requesting application of QoS. When the QoS terminal does not satisfy a preset connection condition associated with the QoS terminal connectable to the first port via a first network, an output unit outputs information indicating that the connection condition is not satisfied. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054126 | METER-BASED HIERARCHICAL BANDWIDTH SHARING - Example methods and apparatus for hierarchical bandwidth management are disclosed. An example method includes, receiving a data packet included in a first data traffic flow and determining if a first rate of traffic of the first data traffic flow is less than or equal to a first threshold. In the event the first rate of traffic is less than or equal to the first threshold, the example method includes marking the data packet with a first marker type. In the event the first rate of traffic is greater than the first threshold, the example method includes marking the data packet with a second marker type. The method further includes receiving a second data traffic flow having a second rate of traffic and combining the first data traffic flow and the second data traffic flow to produce a third data traffic flow. In the event the data packet is marked with the first marker type, the data packet is forwarded in the third data flow. The example method also includes determining whether a third rate of traffic of the third data traffic flow is less than or equal to a second threshold. In the event the data packet is marked with the second marker type and the third rate of traffic is less than or equal to the second threshold, the example method includes changing the second marker type to the first marker type and forwarding the data packet in the third data flow. The example method still further includes, in the event the data packet is marked with the second marker type and the third rate of traffic is greater than the second threshold, discarding the data packet. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054149 | Network Performance Management - The performance of a network can be managed by receiving a set of key quality parameters, wherein a key quality parameter represents a characteristic associated with at least one network component; identifying a service quality mapping module based on one or more network components associated with providing an end customer service, wherein the service quality mapping module corresponds to at least one service instance and defines a correlation between the set of key quality parameters and a set of customer quality parameters; applying the service quality mapping module to the set of key quality parameters to generate the set of customer quality parameters; and outputting a signal representing at least one customer quality parameter included in the set of customer quality parameters. Further, the service quality mapping module can define a linear dependency between a customer quality parameter and at least one key quality parameter. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054150 | Adaptive Communication Systems and Methods - Methods and communication systems are presented, in which impulse noise is monitored on a communication channel, and impulse noise protection parameters are adjusted according to the monitored impulse noise without interrupting communication service. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054152 | ERSPAN dynamic session negotiation - A method and network device to generate a remote traffic monitoring session using an automated technique to configure the source and destination devices of the monitoring system is disclosed. The method includes discovering a Layer 3 (L3) source device and an L3 destination device and automatically configuring the devices. The L3 source device passes target traffic that will be monitored via the L3 destination device in a remote traffic monitoring session. The method verifies configurations of the L3 source device and the L3 destination device, and determines remote monitoring capabilities common to the L3 source device and the L3 destination device. The method negotiates relevant parameters for the remote traffic monitoring session and establishes the remote traffic monitoring session between the L3 source device and the L3 destination device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054154 | IP ASSIGNMENT SCHEME FOR DYNAMIC PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - An approach for assigning IP network addresses and for performing name resolution and service discovery in infrastructure mode and/or ad-hoc mode peer-to-peer networks. The size of an ad-hoc network and/or the size of infrastructure network basic service sets may be limited to a selected number of peer stations. A first portion of an IP network address assigned to stations joining a network may be predetermined by the network to be joined and a second portion of the IP network address may be selected dynamically, as each new station joins the network. Stations may generate layer 2 messages that include an information element containing information that supports peer-to-peer service discovery, name resolution and IP network address assignment across multiple ad-hoc and infrastructure networks. A peer-to-peer station may dynamically connect to available ad-hoc or infrastructure networks to access required services, as needed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054157 | Method And Apparatus For Network Tree Management - There is disclosed a manner of managing the active topology, that is the scheme for forwarding data, in a computer network such as an Ethernet local area network. A root bridge is selected from a plurality of bridges in the network; the root bridge calculating at least one spanning tree from a topology database that has been populated by bridge neighbor information gleaned from link state advertising messages. The root bridge may also calculate an alternate topology for implementation in the event a failure condition that affects the primary spanning tree is detected. The root bridge then advertises the spanning tree and remotely configures the port states of the bridges in the spanning tree through tree advertising messages that the bridges are arranged to process and set their ports accordingly. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054159 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING CALL FORWARDING SERVICE FOR USERS - A method and a device for providing a call forwarding service for users are provided. The method for providing a call forwarding service for users includes the following steps. An IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network entity receives a call towards a user who accesses from a circuit switched (CS) domain; the IMS network entity acquires a current session connection state of the user or the user's desire of answering the call; and the call forwarding service is provided according to the obtained session connection state of the user or the user's desire. Thus, a call forwarding service in an IMS domain for a called user who accesses from a CS domain is realized. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054160 | AUXILIARY ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM BASE STATIONS - Auxiliary antenna systems can be used to increase a link margin of a wireless communications system that includes a base station. The auxiliary antenna system is positioned within a service region of the base station and spaced apart from the base station. Related systems, methods and components are described. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054161 | SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES IN A WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT - Support for multiple wireless access technologies at a common terrestrial radio access network is described herein. By way of example, wireless resources can be reserved in a manner that facilitates transmission of control and reference signals to advanced or emerging-technology user terminals (e.g., LTE-A), while mitigating adverse affects on legacy user terminals (e.g., LTE Release 8). As such, information designated for LTE-A terminals can be embedded in predetermined reserved locations, which exploit known standardized behavior of legacy terminals in expecting information at specific locations. Such reserving of resources can occur typically without the legacy terminals being affected, mitigating or avoiding performance degradation for legacy terminals. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054162 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FRAME GENERATION FOR A FULL DUPLEX RELAY - An apparatus and method for generating a frame in a communicating system supporting a full duplex relay. A controller configures a legacy zone and a new zone in a downlink section of the frame according to a TDM scheme, configures the new zone of the downlink section to include an access zone and a relay zone according to a TDM scheme, configures a legacy zone and a new zone in an uplink section of the frame according to the TDM scheme, and configures the new zone of the uplink section to include an access zone and a relay zone according to an FDM scheme. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054164 | Random Linear Network Coding for Time Division Duplexing - A new random linear network coding scheme for reliable communications for time division duplexing channels is proposed. The setup assumes a packet erasure channel and that nodes cannot transmit and receive information simultaneously. The sender transmits coded data packets back-to-back before stopping to wait for the receiver to acknowledge (ACK) the number of degrees of freedom, if any, that are required to decode correctly the information. Provided herein is an analysis of this problem to show that there is an optimal number of coded data packets, in terms of mean completion time, to be sent before stopping to listen. This number depends on the latency, probabilities of packet erasure and ACK erasure, and the number of degrees of freedom that the receiver requires to decode the data. This scheme is optimal in terms of the mean time to complete the transmission of a fixed number of data packets. It is shown that its performance is very close to that of a full-duplex system, while transmitting a different number of coded packets can cause large degradation in performance, especially if latency is high. Also described herein is the throughput performance of the novel system and technique along with a comparison to existing half-duplex Go-back-N and Selective Repeat ARQ schemes. Numerical results, obtained for different latencies, show that the novel system and technique described herein has similar performance to the Selective Repeat in most cases and considerable performance gain when latency and packet error probability is high. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054166 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IDLE MODE OF MOBILE STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting a paging message in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for operation transition of a communication module operating in an idle mode includes, when a listening interval arrives, determining if a paging message is received, when the paging message is not received during the listening interval, determining if paging information on the communication module is received from a different communication module, and, when the paging information is received from the different communication module, transiting to an active mode. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054171 | System and Method for Selecting an Access Link in a Multi-Hop Relay Network - A method for selecting an access link in a multi-hop relay network includes determining a first effective spectrum efficiency value of a first connection between an endpoint and a base station. The first effective spectrum efficiency value is indicative of the spectrum efficiency from the endpoint to the base station when the first connection is used. The method also includes determining a second effective spectrum efficiency value of a second connection between the endpoint and the base station via a relay station. The second effective spectrum efficiency value is indicative of the spectrum efficiency from the endpoint to the base station when the second connection is used. The method also includes comparing the first and second effective spectrum efficiency values. The method further includes establishing a connection using one of the first or second connections based on the comparison of the first and second effective spectrum efficiency values. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054172 | FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION USING BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSIT AND RECEIVE ZONES - Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to synchronization of frames using bidirectional transmit and receive zones. An example method includes delaying, at a wireless relay station, a start time of a frame. In the example method, the start time of the frame is delayed, such that the relay station receives one or more data symbols from a superordinate wireless station and one or more data symbols from a subordinate wireless station at substantially the same time during the frame. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054174 | DATA COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING DATA COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - A user location monitoring unit of a data communication control apparatus monitors a message sent from a wireless device via a repeater. Upon detection of a change in the location of the wireless device, the user location monitoring unit updates the location information in the database and notifies via the Internet a management server of the location change. Upon receipt of the message via the Internet, a destination address confirming and correcting unit of the data communication control apparatus uses the user ID of a destination wireless device as a search keyword to search the database. In turn, the destination address confirming and correcting unit corrects the destination address of the message to the latest address of the pertinent user ID and outputs the corrected message to a received message forwarding unit. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054176 | SATELLITE ROUTING SYSTEM TO EXPEDITE COMPUTING PROCESSES - A communications routing system for transferring data from satellites to a computing resource. Embodiments include a group of satellites adapted to transfer data to a central satellite which transfers the data to a central computing device via a downlink. An exemplary system includes a central computing device running middleware which is operative to interface with a cloud computing resource and a client computing device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054177 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING IP MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM FOR CALL SETUP IN MOBILE SATELLITE SYSTEMS - A system and method of using IP Multimedia System (IMS) for call setup in Mobile Satellite Systems. The method begins by a unit equipment (UE) originating a call to a second party. Next, secondary Packet Data Protocol (PDP) Context is initiated after originating the call. At least a portion of progress and acknowledgement message exchanges are handled by a Satellite Session Initiation Protocol Gateway (SSGW) in a Mobile Satellite System (MSS) on behalf of the UE without communicating with the UE. The call is then connected between the UE and the second party. A simplified Session Description Protocol (SDP) may be implemented for use between the UE and the SSGW to reduce the payload of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messaging. With a simplified SDP, one codec of the second party may be pre-provisioned in the SSGW. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054200 | Method and apparatus for beamforming in OFDM wireless system - Systems and methods are disclosed for use in a wireless network that promotes simultaneous beamforming. These systems and methods include determining the Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) and Best Beam Index (BBI) for communications between a plurality of mobile stations and a base station, ranking the plurality of mobile stations in a list according to the determined CQI and BBI, and selecting a subset of the plurality of mobile stations for simultaneous beamformed communications. These systems and methods may also include verifying the selected subset of the plurality of mobile stations do not have a conflict and initiating beamformed communications. BBI is determined based on a predetermined codebook, which is function of antenna configuration as shown in equation 2 and 5. Any other codebook use equations 2 and 5 as their subset can also be applied. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054201 | Method In A Network Node For Separating Circuit Switched And Packet Switched Traffic - The present invention relates to a method, devices, infrastructure network, and computer program for doing policy based routing in a tunnel terminating device ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SERVING GATEWAY HAVING MOBILE PACKET PROTOCOL APPLICATION-AWARE PACKET MANAGEMENT - Mobile protocol packets, with a header field and a payload field, are communicated from a user mobile equipment to an application-aware serving gateway. The application-aware mobile protocol serving gateway detects header information in the header field and application information in the payload field to manage the mobile protocol packets based on a policy. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054206 | HANDOFF MANAGEMENT BASED ON NON-TRAFFIC STATE UPLINK SIGNALS - A detecting base station receives a non-traffic state uplink signal transmitted from a wireless communication device to an originating base station. The originating base station transmits a search message instructing the wireless communication device to search for an alternate base station. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054248 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING MULTICAST GROUPS - A method for managing multicast traffic in a data network, and devices using said method. The hosts store for each multicast group an included source record and an excluded source record, and the network interfaces of the hosts send to the router a message containing information about the included source record and information about the excluded source record. The router also stores for each multicast group an included source record and an excluded source record, and updates them when it receives through its network interface a message from the hosts containing information about an included source list and/or information about an excluded source list. The devices are a router, host equipment and network equipment compatible with the method. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054251 | METHOD OF PROCESSING PACKET FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF ETHERNET SWITCH - Provided is a method of processing a packet for improving performance of an Ethernet switch. According to the present invention, a routine of searching a virtual local area network (VLAN) table by a decapsulation microblock and a bridge microblock may be performed by a core component when a core component generates tables and thus the number of memory accesses may be reduced. Also, VLAN port state information of an input port and VLAN port tagging information of an output port may be stored in metadata and may be transmitted to a next microblock. Accordingly, a duplicate memory access routine of the bridge microblock and an encapsulation microblock may be removed and thus an access time delay may be reduced, thereby improving performance of an Ethernet switch. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054253 | ARP PACKET PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE - An Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packet processing method, a communication system and a device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an ARP packet, and judging the type of the ARP packet; when the ARP packet is an ARP request, responding to the ARP request if an entry corresponding to the ARP request is found in a local ARP table; and when the ARP packet is an ARP response, reporting the ARP response if an entry corresponding to the ARP response is found in the local ARP table and a reporting parameter in the entry indicates permission of reporting; or discarding the ARP response if no entry corresponding to the ARP response is found in the ARP table. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054254 | Asynchronous data transmission - A method of, and system for, asynchronous data transmission are disclosed which have application in the transmission of stock exchange data or replicated memory data. Later transmitted data ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054256 | SYSTEMS FOR SUPPORTING PACKET PROCESSING OPERATIONS - Several systems for supporting packet processing are described. A first system supports virtual routing of a packet. A second system supports de-multiplexing of a packet. A third system supports advanced MPLS label processing of a packet. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERWORKING OSIG AND H.323 SIGNALING IN A SIP-BASED NETWORK - A SIP-based network architecture is defined allowing a variety of access methods for interfacing QSIG-based signaling devices. The QSIG-based signaling devices are typically enterprise-based PBXs that either interface directly via QSIG, or adapt QSIG signaling to related signaling protocols via gateways, which can be customer premise or network based. The gateways can either interwork QSIG signaling or tunnel QSIG signaling over H.323, SIP, or other protocols. Upon reaching the SIP-based network, Session Border Controllers process the signaling. The Session Border Controllers terminate the tunnel (if used) and extracts the QSIG signaling for interworking to SIP, thereby facilitating a homogeneous SIP-based core network. In addition to interworking QSIG signaling, the Session Border Controllers perform other signaling related functions for the SIP-based network that are performed at a point as near as possible to the network's edge. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054261 | SELECTIVE SESSION INTERCEPTION METHOD - A method for intercepting data of a network session passing between a first node and a second node on a data network, comprising the steps of: (i) providing an interceptor on a third node of the network; (ii) monitoring data passing between the first node and the second node; (iii) synchronizing the network data between the interceptor and the first and second nodes; (iv) creating a first socket on the interceptor for communicating with the first node and a second socket on the interceptor for communicating with the second node, and (v) intercepting the data so that data flowing between first and second nodes passes through the interceptor. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054264 | MPLS TUNNEL IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND DEVICE - According to an aspect of the invention, an MPLS tunnel identification method includes: establishing MPLS tunnels with an opposing node by distributing an MPLS tunnel label; and determining an MPLS tunnel to be associated with a pseudo wire corresponding to a pseudo wire label among the MPLS tunnels when the pseudo wire label is assigned from the opposing node thereby to notify identification information of the MPLS tunnel together with identification information of the pseudo wire to the opposing node. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054265 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF MPLS NETWORK TRAFFIC SWITCHING - A method of MPLS network traffic switching is provided herein. The method includes these steps: receiving a message indicative of creating a new LSP successfully, and generating a new uplink forwarding entry and a new downlink forwarding entry according to the message; storing the new uplink forwarding entry, and configuring the new downlink forwarding entry; configuring the new uplink forwarding entry upon completion of configuring the new downlink forwarding entry; and forwarding the traffic according to the new uplink forwarding entry and the new downlink forwarding entry. By ensuring the sequence of processing the events in the traffic switching process, the method reduces the probability of traffic interruption in the traffic switching process. A network node device for implementing MPLS network traffic switching is also provided herein. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054266 | Method, device and module for optimising the remote management of home network devices - A method is disclosed for managing a home network which is connected by means of a home network gateway device to an external network, the home network comprising at least a first TR-069 compatible device and the external network having at least one auto configuration server (ACS) adapted and arranged for allowing automatic configuration of the TR-069 compatible device, characterised in that it comprises monitoring TR-069 sessions between the at least one TR-069 compatible device and the at least one ACS, in the home network gateway device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054267 | Creating and Maintaining Traffic Engineered Database for Path Computation Element - An apparatus comprising a node configured to communicate with a path computation element (PCE) and a neighbor node, wherein the node is configured to send a local traffic engineering (TE) information directly to the PCE without sending the local TE information to the neighbor node. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising establishing a PCE protocol (PCEP) session with a PCE, and sending a TE information directly to the PCE without flooding the TE information. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving a TE information, updating a first TE database (TED) using the TE information, and synchronizing the first TED with a second TED. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100054270 | Relay Apparatus and Output Control Method - A buffer temporarily stores data received from a network by a receiving unit. An output mode switching unit switches the mode in which the data received by the receiving unit is output to the buffer, between FIFO and FILO, in accordance with the storage amount of data temporarily stored in the buffer. For example, if the data temporarily stored in the buffer falls below a given threshold value of the buffer, data is stored in the buffer in FIFO. If the data temporarily stored in the buffer exceeds a given threshold value of the buffer, data is stored in the buffer in FILO. A sending unit outputs data taken from the buffer in FIFO or FILO, to a network. | 2010-03-04 |
