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8,417,973	2013-04-09	1. A computer implemented method for managing power-consumption, for use in a storage system comprising first data stored on one or more storage devices, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, first user input identifying a selection of one or more virtual disks for which to migrate the first data; receiving, by the processor, second user input identifying a power management parameter and a first parameter, wherein the power management parameter and the first parameter are numerical values in a set of numerical values of 0 to 100 and wherein the sum of the power management parameter and the first parameter equal 100; generating, by the processor, a power-management policy using the power management parameter and the first parameter; generating, by the processor a rule based on the power management policy generated using the power management parameter and the first parameter; analysing, by the processor, in response to receiving the power-management policy, second data associated with the one or more virtual disks in accordance with the rule in order to identify the first data; identifying, by the processor, at least one of the one or more storage devices to migrate the first data to in accordance with the first rule; and determining, by the processor, in response to analysing the second data, third data in accordance with the second data, wherein the third data is associated with migration of the first data to the at least one of the one or more storage devices.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
8,901,742	2014-12-02	1. A monolithic power converter package comprising: a monolithic die over a substrate, said monolithic die integrating a driver integrated circuit (IC) with a control power transistor and a sync power transistor connected in a half-bridge; a high side power input and a power output of said half-bridge each being disposed on a top surface of said monolithic die; said high side power input being electrically coupled to said substrate through a high side power connection; said power output being electrically coupled to said substrate through a power output connection; a low side power input of said half-bridge comprising a plurality of through substrate vias that extend through said monolithic die to electrically connect a low side power pad to said monolithic die; said monolithic power converter package thereby achieving low resistive and inductive connections for said monolithic die, without using a bond wire for connection to said low side power input.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,662,823	2017-05-30	1. A process for applying a coating of a low-friction material to an elongate metal rod, said process comprising: preparing surfaces of the rod intended to receive the coating material by removing undesirable materials therefrom, using selected surface preparation means; treating the prepared rod surfaces with a selected adhesive, wherein the metal rod is a steel rod having an upset threaded end, and wherein the adhesive treatment is not carried out with respect to the upset threaded end; passing the adhesive-treated rod through an extrusion die of selected configuration without rotating the rod, while simultaneously flowing a melted low-friction material through the die, such that a coating of the low-friction material is deposited onto the adhesive-treated surfaces of the rod; and using selected cooling means to solidify the coating of low-friction material.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
9,522,145	2016-12-20	1. A method of modulating CFTR transporter activity comprising the step of contacting said ABC transporter with a compound of formula (I): wherein independently for each occurrence: R R R R n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,837,623	2017-12-05	1. A compound represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, X X X X X at least one of X R at least one of R X R X at least one of X M is Ir, Os, Pt, Pb, Re, Ru, or Pd, m and n are independently an integer of 1 or 2, and m+n is an integer of 3, wherein the substituted refers to a substitution where at least one hydrogen is replaced by deuterium, a halogen, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a C1 to C30 amine group, a nitro group, a C3 to C40 silyl group, a C1 to C30 alkyl group, C1 to C10 alkylsilyl group, C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group, a C6 to C30 aryl group, a C1 to C20 alkoxy group, or a cyano group.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,813,936	2014-08-26	1. An apparatus for transmitting force, comprising: a stationary mounting flange having a central opening for receiving a shaft; a rotor having a radial working surface and a centrally located opening fixedly mounted on the shaft and rotatable therewith, said rotor being held firmly in place to the shaft; a front and a rear annular pressure plate disposed on opposite sides of said rotor and moveably attached to said mounting flange, said front annular pressure plate being axially moveable relative to said mounting flange in a first direction for releasing a clamping load on said rotor and in a second direction for applying the clamping load on said rotor, said rear annular pressure plate being axially movable in an opposite direction to said first direction of said front annular pressure plate for releasing the clamping load on said rotor, said rear annular pressure plate being axially movable in an opposite direction to said second direction of said front annular pressure plate for applying the clamping load on an opposite side of said rotor; an annular piston moveably connected to said front annular pressure plate, said annular piston being axially moveable in said first direction; and an annular cylinder connected to said front annular pressure plate and axially moveable therewith, said annular cylinder having an annular channel constructed for engagement with a raised portion of said annular piston together forming a variable volume annular fluid chamber, said annular cylinder and said front annular pressure plate being axially moveable in the first direction under the influence of fluid pressure applied to said annular cylinder and annular piston from the variable volume annular fluid chamber to press said front annular pressure plate against an urging counterforce supplied by an array of helical coil springs disposed between said annular piston and said front annular pressure plate for releasing the clamping load of said front annular pressure plate against said rotor, a plurality of return springs causing axial movement of said rear annular pressure plate in an opposite direction to said front annular pressure plate for releasing the clamping load against said rotor, said front annular pressure plate being movable in the second direction by said urging counterforce of said array of helical coil springs for applying the clamping load on said rotor, said rear annular pressure plate applying the clamping load from the opposite direction, wherein said axially moveable front and rear annular pressure plates, said array of helical coil springs, said annular piston and said annular cylinder are axially moveable components making up a floating housing.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,392,970	2016-07-19	1. A device comprising; (a) two or more disposable pulse oximeter sensor modules, each comprising; (b) a banding mechanism, wherein said banding mechanism is configured to be worn around the wrist, and wherein the banding mechanism is capable of circumscribing the wrist, said banding mechanism having: (c) a strut enveloped lengthwise within said banding mechanism, wherein the strut is configured such that providing a bending pressure to the banding mechanism results in the coiling of the strut and ligature of the banding mechanism around the wrist; (d) a window area on the skin contacting surface of said banding mechanism, wherein said window area comprises a pliable plastic sheet, and wherein said window area is integrated into said integral pocket and disposed to allow light to enter and exit the inner area of said integral pocket; and (e) a signal processing unit, wherein said signal processing unit is capable of receiving one or more signal from said photodetector and wherein said signal processing unit determines the percent of hemoglobin molecules bound with oxygen molecules by determining the ratio of absorbance between said red light and said infrared light based on said one or more signal from said photodetector.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,473,376	2013-06-25	1. A method for accounting for data processing system service usage, comprising: metering, with a data processing system, network usage in network usage bits per unit time; integrating, with the data processing system, network usage over a billing period to determine a total number of network usage bits; metering, with the data processing system, storage usage in storage usage bits per unit time; integrating, with the data processing system, storage usage over the billing period to determine a total number of storage usage bits; metering, with the data processing system, processor usage in processor usage bits per unit time; integrating, with the data processing system, processor usage over the billing period to determine a total number of processor usage bits; converting, with the data processing system, the total number of network usage bits into a first number of information value units; converting, with the data processing system, the total number of storage usage bits into a second number of the information value units; converting, with the data processing system, the total number of processor usage bits into a third number of the information value units; summing, with the data processing system, the first number and the second number and the third number of the information value units to determine a total number of the information value units; multiplying, with the data processing system, the total number of the information value units by an amount of money per information value unit to provide a total customer bill, wherein the amount of money per information value unit is adjusted based on customer usage patterns of network usage, storage usage, and processor usage and the relative value of network usage, storage usage, and processor usage; and storing, with the data processing system, the total customer bill.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,533,147	2013-09-10	1. A method comprising: receiving, at a server, a plurality of expert identified deal attributes; presenting a conjoint analysis questionnaire for input by one or more respondents, wherein the conjoint analysis questionnaire includes questions based on the plurality of expert identified deal attributes; receiving, at the server, responses of the one or more respondents to the conjoint analysis questionnaire; defining an expert reasoning model based on the responses of the one or more respondents to the conjoint analysis questionnaire; accessing historical deal information of one or more deals, the historical deal information including one or more deals, each deal including a plurality of expert identified deal attributes and a part-worth associated with each of the deal attributes; and validating the expert reasoning model based on the historical deal information, wherein said conjoint analysis questionnaire, comprises:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,790,656	2017-10-17	1. A concrete pile cutting assembly, comprising: a collar portion configured for securely engaging a concrete pile; and	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,751,700	2017-09-05	1. An article metering system comprising: a. a conveyor section for receipt of a bulk flow of articles characterized by at least a single row of articles at a ingress portion thereof, and for conveyance of spaced apart metered article groups downstream of said ingress portion; and, b. an article metering station characterized by an article metering apparatus comprising a drive assembly and a driven member driven thereby, said driven member including an end effector for select positioning over and thereafter down and between adjacent articles of articles of the bulk flow of articles received by said conveyor section in furtherance of delimiting a downstream spaced apart metered article group characterized by a select number of columns, said drive assembly comprising cooperatively driven servo drives to effectuate travel of said end effector in either of a downstream article flow direction or an upstream article flow direction, and an up/down direction in relation to articles of the bulk flow of articles received by said conveyor section, at least one servo drives of said cooperatively driven servo drives supported at an elevation not greater than an elevation of a conveyor surface of said conveyor section.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,581,182	2013-11-12	1. An ion guiding device comprising: two or more parallel conjoined ion guides including a first ion guide having a first plurality of electrodes and a second ion guide having a second plurality of electrodes wherein a first ion guiding path is formed along or within said first ion guide and a second ion guiding path is formed along or within said second ion guide; and a device configured to transfer ions radially from said first ion guiding path into said second ion guiding path.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,706,137	2014-04-22	1. A method for a mobile device, the method comprising: obtaining an estimate of a location of said mobile device, the estimated location of said mobile device being in a first area identifiable by a first location context identifier; determining an indication of a probability that the mobile device subsequently transitions from said first area to a second area at a subsequent moment, said second area identifiable by a second location context identifier via a portal linking the first area and the second area, wherein said determination is based at least in part on a likelihood heat man; applying a threshold to said indication of said probability; and conditionally performing a scan for signals transmitted by one or more transmitter devices corresponding to the second area responsive to said application of said threshold to the indication of the probability that the mobile device subsequently transitions to the second area via the portal.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,871,023	2014-10-28	1. A silicon single crystal pull-up apparatus comprising: a chamber into which an inert gas is introduced; a crucible that supports a silicon melt within the chamber; a heater that heats the silicon melt in the crucible; a lifting device for lifting and lowering the crucible; a thermal radiation shield disposed above the crucible; a purging tube that has substantially cylindrical shape and is provided inside the thermal radiation shield so as to straighten the inert gas; a camera that photographs a mirror image of the thermal radiation shield reflected on the liquid surface of the silicon melt through the purging tube; a liquid surface level calculator that calculates a liquid surface level of the silicon melt from the position of the mirror image photographed by the camera; and a conversion table creator that creates a conversion table representing a relationship between the liquid surface level of the silicon melt and the mirror image position obtained when the crucible is lifted and lowered before start of a single crystal pull-up process to arbitrarily change the liquid surface level of the silicon melt, wherein the liquid surface level calculator calculates the liquid surface level based on the position of the mirror image photographed by the camera and the conversion table.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
9,705,692	2017-07-11	1. A method by a terminal, the method comprising: obtaining multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) information including at least one MBMS service area identifier (SAD; configuring a cell reselection priority of a frequency corresponding to a SAI included in a system information of a serving cell to a highest priority if the SAI included in the system information indicates the at least one MBMS SAI included in the MBMS information; and configuring a cell reselection priority of a frequency included in the MBMS information to the highest priority if the system information including the SAI is not received from the serving cell.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,412,280	2016-08-09	1. A system for delivery of a payload by an autonomous delivery vehicle, said system comprising: a unique identifier having a unique identity, wherein said unique identifier is a target unique identifier placed at a location where delivery of said payload is desired by a user and said unique identifier is a machine readable code recognizable in any frequency that lies within a visible frequency range, an infrared frequency range or an ultra violet frequency range of an electromagnetic spectrum; a navigation system included in said autonomous delivery vehicle, said navigation system comprising a first prior art navigator and a second scanner navigator; and a third party system, said third party system providing a unique identifier information to said navigation system, said unique identifier information comprising said unique identity of said unique identifier and a geophysical location information of said location where delivery of said payload is desired by said user; wherein said first prior art navigator navigates said autonomous delivery vehicle to said location based on said geophysical location information and said second scanner navigator scans said location, locates said target unique identifier based on said unique identity and then navigates said autonomous delivery vehicle precisely to said unique identifier for delivery of said payload.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,275,605	2016-03-01	1. A method for distributing image data, the method comprising: determining a range of the image data; mapping the image data to a reduced bit-depth format to produce a lower bit-depth representation of the image data with a mapping such that a ratio of a range of the lower bit depth representation to a maximum range of the lower bit depth representation is greater than a ratio of the range of the image data to a maximum range of the image data; generating metadata characterizing the mapping; associating the metadata with the lower bit depth representation; and identifying a portion of the range of the image data containing greater tone detail and generating the mapping such that the identified portion maps to a portion of the lower bit depth representation that occupies a larger proportion of the maximum range of the lower bit depth representation than the proportion of the range of the image data occupied by the identified portion.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,813,139	2017-11-07	1. A device comprising: (a) a plurality of radio frequency (RF) switches, each of said RF switches operable with a plurality of frequency bands; (b) at least one RF coupling device; and (c) a processor programmed to selectively control operation of said plurality of RF switches based on an uplink signal from an electronic communication device electromagnetically coupled with said at least one RF coupling device, wherein said plurality of radio frequency (RF) switches comprise: (i) one or more low RF band (LRFB) switches operable in one or more low frequency bands under a particular frequency (F), and (ii) one or more high RF band (HRFB) switches operable in one or more high frequency bands at or over said particular frequency (F), and wherein said at least one RF coupling device comprises (iii) at least one LRFB coupling device corresponding to said one or more low frequency bands under said particular frequency (F), and (iv) at least one HRFB coupling device corresponding to said one or more high frequency bands at or over said particular frequency (F), and wherein the one or more LRFB switches comprise a first LRFB switch and a second LRFB switch, and wherein the one or more HRFB switches comprise a first HRFB switch and a second HRFB switch, the device further comprising: (a) a first low-noise amplifier (LNA) connected to said second LRFB switch, said first LNA for amplifying LRFB signals output by said second LRFB switch, and (b) a second LNA connected to said second HRFB switch, said second LNA for amplifying HRFB signals output by said second HRFB switch.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,474,315	2013-07-02	1. A liquid level sensor comprising: a detecting unit including an electronic circuit, wherein the electronic circuit repeats an operation of charging for a time being in proportion to a ratio of a length of a part of the second detecting electrode dipped in the liquid to be measured to a total length of the second detecting electrode and an operation of discharging the charged electric charge for a time being in proportion to a ratio of a length of a part of the second detecting electrode being out of the liquid to be measured to the total length of the second detecting electrode.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,777,678	2014-07-15	1. A method for engaging a conductor, the method comprising: receiving the conductor in a stationary portion of a conductor receiver; securing, using at least one first retractable conductive member in the stationary portion, a first portion of the conductor; securing, using a movable member of the conductor receiver, a top portion of the conductor when the movable member is in a closed position, wherein the at least one first retractable conductive member is in a retracted position when the conductor is positioned within the stationary portion, wherein the at least one first retractable conductive member is in a normal position when the conductor is positioned outside the stationary portion, and wherein the movable member is rotatably coupled to the stationary portion about a length of the stationary portion, wherein the movable member rotates about an approximate center of the stationary portion.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8,432,853	2013-04-30	1. A method for system selection comprising: commencing a search for a network service system; determining whether a real-time application is active; and selecting and establishing a radio link with one of at least three different network systems by:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,926,424	2015-01-06	1. A gaming system comprising: one or more controllers; and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more controllers, cause the gaming system to:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,163,990	2015-10-20	1. A calibrating method for a filter color measuring device comprising at least three color channels, the method comprising executing, on a processor of a computer, steps of: forming, by the processor, a calibration matrix for transforming output signals of the at least three color channels into tristimulus color values; and performing calibration spectrally, wherein spectral sensitivities of the at least three color channels of the filter color measuring device are measured using a spectral sensitivity gauge and stored by the processor, wherein the calibration matrix is calculated, by the processor, from the spectral sensitivities and spectral evaluation functions of a standard observer, wherein an emission spectrum of a target light source is measured using a reference spectral gauge and stored by the processor, wherein this emission spectrum is incorporated, by the processor, into the calculation of the calibrating matrix, wherein calibration matrix, CM, is calculated, by the processor, by solving the matrix equation for the elements of the calibration matrix, where P is a matrix in which the elements are the individual spectral values of the emission spectra of the target light source for different colors of the same, S is a matrix in which the elements are the individual spectral values of the spectral sensitivities of the color channels of the color measuring device, and CMF is a matrix in which the elements are the individual spectral values of the spectral evaluation functions of the standard observer.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,086,095	2015-07-21	1. A flanged bearing ring for a motor vehicle wheel, the ring comprising: a radially inner, generally annular insert formed of a first material with a first thermal expansion coefficient, the insert having a central axis, at least one raceway extending about the axis, a radially outer surface, and at least one recess extending generally radially inwardly from the outer surface; and a radially outer body formed of a second material with a second thermal expansion coefficient, the second coefficient being greater than the first coefficient, the outer body being disposed about the insert and having a radially outwardly extending flange and at least one radially inwardly extending projection disposed within the recess of the insert so as to interlock and prevent relative axial and radial displacement between the insert and the outer body, wherein the at least one recess of the insert increases in axial dimension as proceeding radially inward, such that the at least one recess has an undercut engageable with the at least one projection of the outer body.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,720,652	2014-05-13	1. A brake caliper adapted for selectively retracting a brake pad from a rotor, comprising: an open cylinder securable relative to the rotor; and a piston interiorly translatable within and relative to the cylinder, and including:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,581,862	2013-11-12	1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel with a backlight housed in a resin mold; a touch panel attached to the liquid crystal display panel; and a front window attached to the touch panel, wherein the touch panel and the front window are bonded together with an adhesive sheet, wherein a touch-panel flexible wiring substrate is connected to a specific side of the touch panel, wherein a logo having a plurality of layers is formed on a surface of the front window which inner surface faces the touch panel, wherein a portion of the plurality of layers of the logo is provided on a first portion of the inner surface of the front window which is outside of a second portion of the inner surface of the front window which is covered by the adhesive sheet, and wherein a plane distance between an end portion of at least one of the plurality of layers of the logo and an end portion of the touch panel is greater than zero so that said one of the plurality of layers does not overlap the touch panel in a plane view.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,755,993	2017-09-05	1. A method comprising: at a network device including a processing device and a non-transitory memory: obtaining a plurality of resource constraint values associated with a plurality of client devices sharing a network resource, wherein each respective resource constraint value characterizes a limiting rate at which media content data can be provided to a particular client device; determining a respective encoding rate level and a corresponding resource allocation for each of the plurality of client devices based on a combination of the one or more resource constraint values and the assessment of the respective perceptual quality level values, wherein a combination of resulting quality levels satisfies a joint quality criterion; and reallocating a portion of the network resource from a first one of the plurality of client devices to a second one of the plurality of client devices in order to satisfy the joint quality criterion.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,835,666	2017-12-05	1. A noise detection circuit for a power supply, the noise detection circuit comprising: an impedance element connected to a line for carrying a power supply current having a noise signal component, the noise signal comprising a common mode noise signal and a differential mode noise signal; a filter element coupled to the impedance element and configured to suppress the differential mode noise signal in the noise detection circuit; and an evaluation circuit coupled to the impedance element or the filter element and arranged to sense the common mode noise signal and provide an output representative of the common mode noise signal.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,404,409	2013-03-26	1. A photo mask structure for integrated circuit device, the photo mask structure comprising: a transparent substrate having a surface region; an opaque film overlying the surface region; a negative photoresist material overlying the opaque film; a stop layer overlying the negative photoresist material; and a positive photoresist material overlying the stop layer.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,851,436	2017-12-26	1. A radar antenna assembly suitable to mount atop a vehicle as part of a radar system for the vehicle, said assembly comprising: a horizontal array configured to detect objects in a forward area and a rearward area about the vehicle; and a vertical array configured to detect objects in a leftward area and a rightward area about the vehicle, wherein the horizontal array and the vertical array cooperate to detect an object in a panoramic area that surrounds the vehicle.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,365,312	2013-02-05	1. A vest for carrying armor plates and ballistic panels, comprising: a front panel having upper and lower portions, and including a 1 a back panel having upper and lower portions, and including a 2 shoulder straps connecting and adjustably relating upper left and right side portions of respective upper portions of said front and back panels one to the other; and, side elements including pocket panels therein, said pocket panels connected to forwardly and rearwardly oriented fastening elements for connecting and adjustably relating lower left and right portions of said front and back panels.	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,410,372	2013-04-02	1. A stacked battery device comprising: a plurality of opposing collector foil pairs through which a plurality of secondary cells are stacked and connected in series; a comb-shaped wiring board that has a plurality of teeth individually inserted between each of the opposing collector foil pairs and electrically connected with either one of the opposing collector foil pair, and a rod supporting the plurality of teeth and provided with an output end through which potential values at the plurality of teeth are output; and sealing members individually interposed between each of the opposing collector foil pairs to electrically insulate members of each of the collector foil pairs from each other, wherein the comb-shaped wiring board includes: wherein the wiring layer has a plurality of lead wires each individually extending from a distal end of each of the plurality of teeth to an end of the rod to deliver currents of voltages across the ones of the collector foil pairs, which are in contact with the distal ends of the plurality of teeth, and wherein the sealing members cause the distal ends of the plurality of teeth to be joined to the respective ones of the respective collector foil pairs while surrounding the distal ends of the plurality of teeth except for portions at each of which the respective one of the respective collector foil pair is provided, thereby bringing the plurality of teeth into contact with the respective ones of the respective collector foil pairs to establish electrical connections therebetween.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,554,998	2013-10-08	1. A method for configuring a rewriteable non-volatile memory for presentation of media by a selected media presentation device model, the method comprising: providing a rewriteable non-volatile memory configuration interface through which a user can select at least one media file and one of a plurality of media presentation device models which a rewriteable non-volatile memory is currently within or attached to or which the rewriteable non-volatile memory will be placed into or attached to if the rewriteable non-volatile memory is not currently located within or attached to the media presentation device; and providing, on a host having a processor, a rewriteable non-volatile memory configuration manager for, responsive to selection via the configuration interface of the at least one media file and the one media presentation device model, accessing a database including entries corresponding to the plurality of media presentation device models and configuring the rewriteable nonvolatile memory according to information retrieved from the database to allow presentation of the at least one media file when the rewriteable non-volatile memory is present in or attached to the selected media presentation device model at the time of the configuration, and to allow the presentation of the at least one media file when the rewriteable non-volatile memory is present in or attached to the selected media presentation device model subsequent to the configuration, wherein configuring the rewriteable non-volatile memory to allow the presentation of the at least one media file when the rewriteable non-volatile memory is present in or attached to the selected media presentation device model subsequent to the configuration comprises configuring the rewriteable non-volatile memory to use a format that is incompatible with the host.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,365,950	2016-06-14	1. A crystallizer comprising: a turning gear comprising, a spherical container; and a container supporting unit supporting the spherical container within the second rotator in a manner that a rotation center of the turning gear which is composed of the axial center of the first shafts and the axial center of the second shafts corresponds to a center of the spherical container.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8,790,294	2014-07-29	1. An insulin infusion pump system, comprising: a portable pump housing that defines an internal space to receive an insulin medicine for dispensation to a user; control circuitry configured to operate an occlusion detection system to detect a fluid condition in a flow path extending from the insulin medicine in the internal space to a user, the occlusion detection system having an adjustable sensitivity, wherein the control circuitry is configured to output an occlusion alarm to the user when an occlusion is detected in the flow path; and a monitoring device configured to communicate glucose information to the control circuitry, the glucose information being indicative of a blood glucose level of the user, wherein the sensitivity of the occlusion detection system is adjusted in response to the glucose information received by the control circuitry from the monitoring device.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,399,590	2013-03-19	1. A superhydrophilic amphiphilic copolymer comprising a starch-based polysaccharide derived from potato or tapioca modified with dodecenyl succinic anhydride wherein the superhydrophilic amphiphilic copolymer has a mole percent of amphiphilic units that is at least 5 but less than 10% and a weight average molecular weight that is less than about 200,000.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,877,388	2014-11-04	1. A method for fabricating a lanthanum lithium tantalate electrolyte layer on a metal substrate, comprising: depositing a precursor lanthanium lithium tantalate film on a metal substrate; and annealing the film at a crystallization temperature and oxygen partial pressure sufficiently high that the lanthanum, lithium, and tantalum are stable as oxides but low enough that the metal substrate remains metallic to provide a lanthanum lithium tantalate electrolyte layer on a metal substrate.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,588,321	2013-11-19	1. A wireless communication apparatus used in a wireless communication system for performing communication from a transmitting device to a plurality of receiving devices including the wireless communication apparatus using a plurality of antennas, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: a reception quality calculator for receiving, from the transmitting device, control information destined for another receiving device of the plurality of the receiving devices, and for calculating, based on a transmission parameter destined for the other receiving device included in the control information, a reception quality of a signal destined for the wireless communication apparatus when a signal destined for the other receiving device is cancelled; and a feedback information transmission section for transmitting, to the transmitting device, feedback information including the reception quality after the signal destined for the other receiving device is cancelled.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,117,818	2015-08-25	1. A nanocomposite dielectric film comprising: a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed within an organic medium, wherein the nanocomposite dielectric film has an average nanoparticle density, and wherein the nanocomposite dielectric film has a nanoparticle density distribution within the range of about 90% to about 110% of the average nanoparticle density along a thickness of the film.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,648,028	2014-02-11	1. A capsule comprising a core and a shell surrounding the core, wherein the shell comprises a polymeric material, and wherein the polymeric material is produced by reacting a component (A) with a component (B), wherein component (A) comprises one or more polysiloxanes bearing one or more amino groups and component (B) comprises one or more polyisocyanates; and the polymeric material comprises groups of structure G1: and optionally comprises groups of structure G2: wherein:	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,170,696	2015-10-27	1. A display device with a touch detecting function comprising: a substrate; a display area in which pixels each composed of a plurality of color areas are arranged in a matrix on a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate; a touch detection electrode including a first conductive thin wire extending in a first direction on a plane parallel to the surface of the substrate; a dummy electrode provided to an area in which the first conductive thin wire is not arranged in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate and including a plurality of second conductive thin wires; a drive electrode having capacitance for the touch detection electrode; and a display functional layer having a function to display an image on the display area, wherein each of the second conductive thin wires includes a plurality of thin wire pieces extending in a direction different from the first direction and is divided by a slit between the thin wire pieces, and a color area in the display area with which the slit overlaps has a different color from a color area in the display area with which a slit closest to the slit in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction overlaps, and the color of the color area in the display area with which the slit overlaps has a different color from a color area in the display area with which a slit closest to the slit in the first direction overlaps.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,534,752	2013-09-17	1. A furniture assembly, the furniture assembly comprising: a hood structure and a lounge structure; the hood structure including a frame structure and a fabric sock cover member; the frame structure including at least first and second rigid elongated frame members and first and second rigid elongated brace members, each of the brace members forming at least a first coupler for mounting the hood structure to a supporting structure, each of the first and second frame members having first and second ends, the first brace member linked between the first ends of the first and second frame members and the second brace member linked between the second ends of the frame members, the first and second brace members defining a hood width; the fabric sock cover member forming a passageway, the cover member including at least a first opening for inserting the frame structure into the passageway, the cover member secured adjacent the first and second brace members and forming an aligned opening for each first coupler that is aligned with the first coupler when the cover member is secured adjacent the first and second brace members; the lounge structure including first and second arm members that have first and second top surfaces, the first and second arm members defining a lounge width that is substantially similar to the hood width, the hood structure mounted to the lounge with the first and second brace members substantially horizontal and adjacent the first and second top surfaces, respectively; wherein portions of the fabric sock cover member are located on either side of the frame member.	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
9,092,569	2015-07-28	1. A method for abstraction-guided synthesis, comprising: enumerating abstract traces of a program P; determining, using a processor, a trace in the abstract traces violating a specification S that describes the program P; computing one or more constraints that avoid the trace T that violates the specification S, and adding the constraint to constraint C; repeating the steps of enumerating, determining and computing; and in response to determining that there is no trace that violates the specification S, generating program P′ that modifies the program P by including one or more constraints specified in the constraint C, wherein the abstract traces comprise program traces generated as a result of abstract interpretation of the program P under an abstraction A, the abstraction A defining a method for over-approximating behaviors of the program P using a bounded representation, wherein the program P′ is generated responsive to determining that the abstraction A is not to be refined at least in one of the iterations of the enumerating, determining and computing.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,804,089	2014-08-12	1. A method of manufacturing a display device having a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon, a second substrate disposed in facing relation to said first substrate, and a material layer held between said first substrate and said second substrate and sealed by a seal member, the method comprising: a first step of mounting a semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control said drivers, as a COG component on said first substrate parallel to a region in which said seal member and said second substrate are stacked; a second step of filling a space around said semiconductor chip with a protective fixing member thereby to secure said first substrate and said semiconductor chip to each other; and a third step of simultaneously polishing said second substrate and said semiconductor chip to the same thickness as each other.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,430,441	2016-08-30	1. A caching system functionally associated with a network, said system comprising: a content characterization module comprising processing circuitry adapted to computationally derive, from one or more data segments of a first content item received from an external content source, a derived identifier of the first content item, as the first content item enters said network through a gateway node of the network; two or more network caching units, each: physically connected by wire or cable to a different base station of the network, adapted to provide caching service to the respective base station of the network and comprising: and a cache management comprising control circuitry configured to actively select a given network caching unit, of said two or more network caching units, to cache a given content item entering the gateway, based on a load balancing algorithm.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,654,170	2014-02-18	1. An optical device comprising: a drive unit configured to drive a light source that outputs a laser beam; a detecting unit configured to detect the laser beam output from the light source; a converting unit configured to convert an output of the detecting unit into a value within a predetermined range; and a control unit configured to control the drive unit to switch a light quantity of the laser beam output from the light source from a first light quantity within an imaging light quantity range for forming an image to a second light quantity outside the imaging light quantity range, or vice versa, wherein when the control unit has switched the light quantity of the laser beam to the first light quantity, the converting unit converts an upper limit light quantity in the imaging light quantity range which is an output of the detecting unit into a maximum value in the predetermined range, and converts a lower limit light quantity in the imaging light quantity range which is an output of the detecting unit into a minimum value in the predetermined range.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,490,718	2013-07-23	1. A portable pipe storage device for use in a drilling rig, wherein the pipe storage device is arranged to hold two or more pipes, the pipes which are stored in the pipe storage device having their longitudinal axes in a standing direction when the pipe storage device is in its position of use in the drilling rig, the pipe storage device comprising: a frame structure with long sides and first and second end portions; an opening in one of said long sides, the opening being arranged to constitute a displacement opening for the removal and insertion of pipes from/into the pipe storage device; the first end portion forms a lower portion when the pipe storage device is in its position of use in the drilling rig; the second end portion folios an upper portion when the pipe storage device is in its position of use; and non-yieldable bulbs provided at said second end portion, wherein the bulbs project in between the pipes and are arranged to prevent the pipes from unintentionally tilting sideways in the direction of insertion and removal.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,695,600	2014-04-15	1. A method of providing oxygen rich gas, the method comprising: separating oxygen from ambient air with an oxygen separator in discrete pulses, one pulse at a time, wherein separating oxygen from ambient air comprises: 1) evacuating a separation column to a first pressure through a feed end of a column; 2) metering a flow of gas from a last in/first out (LIFO) buffer column into a product end of the separation column while continuing to evacuate the separation column to a second pressure; 3) stopping evacuation of the separation column while continuing the flow of gas from the LIFO buffer column at a second flow rate until a third pressure is reached in the separation column; 4) pressurizing the separation column with ambient air through the feed end to a pressure of about 1 atm; and 5) feeding air into the feed end of the column while drawing an oxygen rich gas from the product end of the separation column; and 6) repeating steps 1 through 5; wherein the start of the pulse is synchronized with the beginning of an inhalation of a person; and wherein the oxygen rich gas in each pulse is separated from the ambient air in real time during a nitrogen adsorption step concurrent with each inhalation.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,109,887	2015-08-18	1. A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising: a correction object determining section which determines whether or not, on an imaging plane in image data obtained by imaging an object irradiated with diffusion light from a light source by a camera, a region which can be regarded to be in a state where a rod-like object has been irradiated with the diffusion light exists; a measurement point calculating section which, when the region which can be regarded to be in a state where the rod-like object has been irradiated with the diffusion light exists on the imaging plane in the image data, estimates a light source center position of the diffusion light based on information of a luminance distribution of the diffusion light in the image data to set the light source center position as a first measurement point; and a distance calculating section which calculates a distance between the object at the first measurement point and the camera or the light source according to triangulation based on a horizontal distance between a center of the imaging plane in the image data and the first measurement point, positions of the camera and the light source, and an imaging direction angle of the camera.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,110,105	2015-08-18	1. A PD sensor for a PD signal-analyzing system having a known coupling, said sensor comprising: a capacitor component having a predetermined capacitance for capacitive coupling to an electrical power apparatus in which a PD is suspected at a location distant from the sensor; and an impedance transformance device including a buffer amplifier having an input side connected directly to the capacitor component and an output side configured for connection to a PD signal-analyzing system having a known coupling impedance, the impedance transformance device being constructed and arranged to convey a PD signal from the input side to the output side, the impedance transformance device having a first effective impedance at the input side and a second effective impedance at the output side, the first effective impedance being much larger than the second effective impedance; whereby the capacitance of the capacitor component in combination with the first effective impedance inherently effects a low frequency filter cutoff much lower than the low frequency cutoff that would be caused by the capacitance of the capacitor component in combination with the known coupling impedance, and said low frequency cutoff includes a bandwidth of low frequencies for indicating the occurrence of a PD at a distance from the sensor.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,204,614	2015-12-08	1. A seed of soybean cultivar 129423450112, wherein a sample of seed of soybean cultivar 129423450112 is deposited under NCIMB No. 42363.	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,761,665	2017-09-12	1. An integrated circuit, comprising: a first FET and a second FET, wherein at least one of source, drain, gate of the first FET is electrically connected to the corresponding one of source, drain, gate of the second FET, at least one further of source, drain, gate of the first FET and the corresponding one further of source, drain, gate of the second FET are connected to a circuit element, respectively; a dopant concentration of a body along a channel of each of the first and second FETs has a peak at a peak location within the channel; and the dopant concentration of the body of each of the first and second FETs has multiple peaks along the channel.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,498,884	2016-11-22	1. A crosswalk walking assistance system comprising: guide rails along boundary lines of a crosswalk, the boundary lines at both sides of a width of the crosswalk, the boundary lines crossing a road on which vehicles run; robots configured to move along the guide rails; and a controller electrically connected to the robots through the guide rails, the controller configured to transmit information indicating that a traffic signal is changed from a stop signal to a walk signal to the robots so that,	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,095,961	2015-08-04	1. A wrenching tool extension for attaching to a wrenching handle, said wrenching tool extension comprising: a shaft having a drive end adapted for attachment to a wrenching handle and a head receiving end defining an axial bore and further adapted to receive interchangeable socket heads; a magnetic arm including a rod and a magnet affixed to one end of said rod, said magnetic arm axially received in said axial bore and oriented such that said magnet is positioned at said head receiving end of said shaft, said magnetic arm being axially translatable in said bore, said magnet being axially translatable relative to said shaft between a retracted position in which said magnet bears against said shaft head receiving end, and extended positions in which the magnet is adjustably extended away from said shaft head receiving end; a side adjustment feature positioned on an external intermediate surface of said shaft and mechanically interfaced with said magnetic arm to axially translate said magnetic arm with respect to said shaft; wherein said head receiving end comprises a retention ball extending radially from a surface of said head receiving end, and said rod defines a notch therein, said notch selectively positionable to be in registration with said retention ball; wherein said notch in registration with said retention ball provides a socket releasing configuration, and further wherein said notch in other than registration with said retention ball provides a socket locking configuration; and wherein said notch is in registration with said retention ball when said magnet is arranged in said retracted position relative to said shaft, and said notch is in other than registration with said retention ball when said magnet is arranged in any of said extended positions in which the magnet is adjustably extended away from said shaft head receiving end.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,281,324	2016-03-08	1. An array substrate, comprising: gate lines, data lines, and pixel units defined by the gate lines and the data lines crossing with each other, and each pixel unit comprises a first thin film transistor, a gate of which is electrically connected to a gate line of the gate lines, wherein each pixel unit further comprises: an auxiliary turn-on structure for forming a turn-on voltage at a channel of the first thin film transistor when the first thin film transistor is switched into conduction, wherein the auxiliary turn-on structure is a second thin film transistor, a gate of the second thin film transistor and the gate of the first thin film transistor are electrically connected with each other, and a drain of the second thin film transistor is used to form the turn-on voltage at the channel of the first thin film transistor, wherein an insulating spacer layer is provided between a source-drain electrode layer of the second thin film transistor and a source-drain electrode layer of the first thin film transistor; a source of the second thin film transistor is connected to an active layer of the second thin film transistor and the gate line; and the drain of the second thin film transistor is connected to the active layer of the second film transistor and is at least partially located in a region corresponding to the channel of the first thin film transistor.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,973,539	2015-03-10	1. A method for operating a two-stroke, uniflow, full expansion internal combustion (IC) engine, the method comprising repeating a cylinder cycle, the cycle comprising the steps of: a) passing pressurized inlet air through an uncovered swirl inlet port and into a cylinder with a piston proximate the bottom of its reciprocal stroke (BDC) within the cylinder, and swirling the inlet air in tangential turbulent unidirectional flow within the cylinder, b) maintaining an exhaust port in an open position while the swirl inlet port is uncovered to provide scavenging of the cylinder by the inlet air, c) advancing the piston upward to cover the swirl inlet port at a fixed closing cycle timing, d) further maintaining the exhaust port in an open position after covering the swirl inlet port for a substantial portion of the remaining stroke movement of the piston toward top dead center (TDC); e) closing the exhaust port at a fixed closing cycle timing, f) compressing the inlet air between the piston and the cylinder head as the piston advances toward top dead center at a constant pressure ratio of about 10:1 to about 25:1, g) dispersing a fuel near the end of the compression stroke at a lean burning fuel to air ratio of about 0.04:1 to about 1:1, relative to a stoicheometric fuel:air ratio of 1:1, h) spark igniting and combusting the air-fuel mixture to initiate the power stroke, i) opening the exhaust port near the end of the power stroke at a fixed opening cycle timing to exhaust pressurized combustion gases, and j) uncovering the inlet swirl port as the piston approaches the bottom of its power stroke at a fixed opening cycle timing.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
9,079,816	2015-07-14	1. A process for producing alkylated aromatic compounds, comprising: pyrolyzing a coal feed to produce a coke stream and a coal tar stream; hydrotreating the coal tar stream; cracking the hydrotreated coal tar stream; separating a portion of the cracked coal tar stream to obtain a fraction having an initial boiling point in the range of about 60° C. to about 180° C.; extracting an aromatics-rich hydrocarbon stream by contacting the fraction with one or more solvents; contacting the aromatics-rich hydrocarbon stream with an alkylating agent in the presence of an alkylation catalyst in an alkylation zone to produce an alkylated aromatic stream, or contacting the aromatics-rich hydrocarbon stream with an aliphatic compound or methanol in the presence of a methylation catalyst in a methylation zone to produce a methylated aromatic stream; and separating the alkylated aromatic stream, the methylated aromatic stream, or both into at least a benzene stream, a toluene stream, and a xylenes stream.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,334,893	2016-05-10	1. A blind rivet assembly, the blind rivet assembly comprising a hollow rivet body including an elongated shank that extends coaxially to a longitudinal center axis of the blind rivet and has a bore, a flange extending radially at one end of the shank, and, at the opposite end of the shank, a foot end and located in the bore of the rivet body, a mandrel that has a mandrel shank, a drawing end projecting out of the flange of the rivet body that can be separated from the mandrel shank, and a mandrel head that stands in operative connection with a foot end of the rivet body in order to transmit a force to the rivet body during setting of the blind rivet, the shank of the rivet body has a first section adjoining the flange and, adjacent thereto and extending to the foot end, a second section, wherein the first section defines an original cylindrical shape, but with a plurality of spaced apart, longitudinally extending flat deformations of the original cylindrical shape separated by undeformed longitudinal portions substantially retaining corresponding portions of the original cylindrical shape, and wherein the strength of the first section of the shank is increased with respect to the strength of the second section by the spaced apart flat deformations as a result of plastic deformation via cold forming the flat deformations so that the outside diameter of the first section does not increase or increases only slightly during rivet setting, and wherein the flat deformations of the hardened section are depressions, wherein the second section of the shank has a barrel-like shape that curves outward, a mandrel head includes an annular and angled recessed contact surface engaging a blind end of the rivet body when set, and the mandrel head remaining secured to the rivet body after being set.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,444,483	2013-05-21	1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory device configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to,	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,747,232	2014-06-10	1. A computer-implemented method comprising: running an instance of a game application at a first electronic device and a second electronic device, wherein the game application is a multiplayer game application, wherein the first electronic device is registered to a first user, wherein the second electronic device is registered to a second user, wherein the first user plays against the second user; automatically determining a sync event that occurs in the first electronic device or the second electronic device, wherein the sync event is an event from events including the instance of the game application being closed, the instance of the game application being paused, the instance of the game application has been continuously running for a preconfigured period of time, the instance of the game application being switched by another application; transmitting state data of the game application to a storage server, in response to the sync event, wherein the electronic device is capable of transmitting the state data of the game application to the storage server via a network, wherein the storage server belongs to a cloud storage service cluster; detecting a third device connected with the storage system, wherein the third device is registered to either the first user or the second user; verifying existence of the game application at the third device; sending the state data of the game application to the third device; and running an instance of the game application at the third device by resuming game application state recorded in synchronized state data of the game application.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,079,032	2015-07-14	1. An ambulatory medical device comprising: a therapy circuit configured to provide a specified neural stimulation current value at an output of the therapy circuit; an impedance measurement circuit configured to measure a value of impedance at the output of the therapy circuit; a supply voltage generating circuit configured to provide an adjustable supply voltage value to the therapy circuit including a first supply voltage value when in a first mode; a control circuit communicatively coupled to the therapy circuit, the impedance measuring circuit, and the supply voltage generating circuit, wherein the control circuit, upon receiving an indication to exit the first mode, is configured to:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,924,651	2014-12-30	1. An apparatus comprising: a processor core; and prefetch throttling logic associated with the processor core, the prefetch throttling logic to:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
9,182,890	2015-11-10	1. A method for operating an image display apparatus, the method comprising: displaying a home screen including at least one card object including a content list; displaying a card object generation screen in response to card object generation input; in response to selection of at least one content item displayed on the card object generation screen, adding the selected content item to a card object to be generated, displaying a settings screen related to the image display apparatus in response to manipulation of a menu key of a remote controller or selection of a settings object for setting the image display apparatus on the home screen, wherein the settings screen related to the image display apparatus includes a first item for editing a dashboard area in which the card object is displayed on the home screen, a second item for editing a launcher bar area in which an application list is displayed on the home screen, a third item for performing settings related to start of the home screen and a fourth item including network settings, video settings, channel settings and three-dimensional (3D) image setting.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,364,945	2013-01-29	1. A method of targeting a computer system to provide selected software to the computer system, the method comprising: determining that a computer system is unknown to a configuration management system; determining whether to configure the computer system based on a criteria; selectively provisioning the computer system based on the criteria, the criteria including at least one of an architecture, a site code, and an internet protocol (IP) subnet; and when the computer system is selected for provisioning, distributing selected software to the computer system, wherein the software distributed to the computer system is selected by the configuration management system based on a system class of the computer system, wherein the system class is determined by the configuration management system based on the criteria, wherein the configuration management system receives a global identifier that indicates that the computer system is an unknown system, wherein the configuration management system deploys policy information and the selected software to the computer system, and wherein the configuration management system reserves null variables that are to be populated with system specific information associated with the computer system, the null variables assigned prior to the computer system becoming known to the configuration management system.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,626,663	2014-01-07	1. A method comprising: receiving from a merchant an authorization request message for a payment from a first payment account, the authorization request message specifying at least a portion of a billing address and a portion of a shipping address; identifying a mismatch between the billing address and the shipping address; ascertaining that the first payment account is associated with a second payment account, the second payment account experiencing an elevated risk, wherein the association between the first and second payment accounts arise from a common billing address; determining, using a processor operatively coupled to a memory, a fraud risk score based on weighting the mismatch and the elevated risk of the second payment account using a weighting specified by the merchant; inserting the fraud risk score in an authorization approval message; and sending the authorization approval message with the fraud risk score to the merchant in response to the authorization request message.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,799,694	2017-10-24	1. A device comprising: a first substrate having a plurality of first metallization layers disposed thereon; a second substrate bonded to the first substrate, the second substrate having a plurality of second metallization layers; a plurality of conductive plugs extending from a surface of the first substrate, the plurality of conductive plugs comprising a first conductive plug and a second conductive plug, the first conductive plug having a first width and a first depth, the second conductive plug having a second width and a second depth, the second width being greater than the first width, the second depth being greater than the first depth; and a third conductive plug extending from the surface of the first substrate, the third conductive plug coupled to a first interconnect of the plurality of first metallization layers and to a second interconnect of the plurality of second metallization layers, wherein the first interconnect is over the second interconnect, the third conductive plug is disposed over an upper surface of the first interconnect, the third conductive plug is interposed between and is in contact with laterally disposed sidewalls of the first interconnect, the third conductive plug comprises a bottom-most surface contacting the second interconnect, and the third conductive plug comprises continuously tapering sidewalls over the upper surface of the first interconnect.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,033,370	2015-05-19	1. A method of producing a multilayer information page for a security document comprising: selecting for use in the information page at least an information part allowing at least some identification information to be entered thereto by utilizing laser engraving and having a lower surface and an opposing upper surface, the identification information provided on the information page configured to be read from the upper surface, the lower surface having a first part and a second part distinct from the first part; selecting for use in the information page at least a connecting part which defines a plane and is configured to connecting the information page to the security document; arranging a fastening end of the connecting part to overlap with and directly contact the first part of the lower surface of the information part, the fastening end of the connecting part extending in the plane defined by the connecting part; forming a transparent surface layer to cover at least the fastening end of the connecting part and to cover and directly contact at least the second part of the lower surface of the information part, such that the fastening end resides between the first part of the lower surface of the information part and the transparent surface layer; and fastening the connecting part, the information part and the transparent surface layer to one another in an overlapping position where the fastening end of the connecting part overlaps with the first part of the lower surface of the information part and the transparent surface layer covers at least the fastening end of the connecting part and covers and directly contacts at least the second part of the lower surface of the information part, such that the fastening end resides between the first part of the lower surface of the information part and the transparent surface layer.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
9,519,490	2016-12-13	1. A method implemented by a computing device having a display screen and a processor executing instructions to provide an operating system, comprising: determining an operational state of the computing device using the operating system, the operational state representing an amount of synchronization resources available at the computing device based on a combination of one or more of a power state describing a source of power provided to the computing device, a screen state describing a brightness level of the display screen, a network state describing connectivity type of the computing device to a data network, or a processing state describing usage of a processing power of the computing device; mapping first and second portions of the amount of synchronization resources into a first synchronization allotment and a second synchronization allotment that is different than the first synchronization allotment; and assigning the first and second synchronization allotments to first and second application modules based on first and second priority levels associated with the first and second application modules, respectively, the assigned first and second synchronization allotments alerting the first and second application modules as to the first and second portions of the amount of synchronization resources available for use by the first and second application modules, respectively.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
8,728,706	2014-05-20	1. A radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising: a first polymer including an acid-labile group; an acid generator to generate an acid upon exposure to radiation; and a second polymer including a fluorine atom and a repeating unit shown by a general formula (c1), the second polymer having a fluorine atom content higher than a fluorine atom content of the first polymer, wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3, R A represents an oxygen atom or —CO—O— R X R E represents an oxygen atom, —CO—O— R represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or a trifluoromethyl group, and in a case where A represents —CO—O— wherein R 10 represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an acyloxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, whrein each R 10 is either a same as or different from each other when a plurality of R 10 are present, m m each of R wherein the second polymer further includes a repeating unit shown by a general formula (c3) or a repeating unit shown by a general formula (c4), wherein R is a same as defined for the general formula (c1), G represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, —CO—O—, —SO R wherein m is an integer from 1 to 3, R is a same as defined for the general formula (c1), wherein each R is either a same as or different from each other when m is 2 or 3, A is a same as defined for the general formula (c1), wherein each A is either a same as or different from each other when m is 2 or 3, R R R X	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,851,724	2014-10-07	1. A headlight for a motor vehicle, in order to provide a cut-off light beam, comprising: a collector mirror with an axis; a source of light (S) placed in the vicinity of the inner focal point of the collector mirror; a substantially flat bender, the reflective surface of which is oriented towards the interior of the collector mirror, and has an edge which is constituted by a flat curve; and a lens, situated to the front of the collector mirror and the bender, in order to provide an image of the edge of the bender which defines the cut-off of the beam; wherein the lens is determined such that, for each section of the lens, along a plane which is at right angles to the edge of the bender, on a point of this edge, the focal point (Fh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,807,125	2017-10-31	1. A method for creating a rule for tracking user access in a network system, comprising the steps of: recording, by a tracking server, identification of an entry point to the network system; activating an application with a user identification known to the tracking server; tracking, by the tracking server, network transactions associated with the known user identification on the network system; recording, by the tracking server, identification of a connection, associated with the network transactions, between servers; and associating the identification of the connection with the identification of the entry point and an identification of the application.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,660,930	2017-05-23	1. A system comprising: one or more computer-readable storage devices storing a data repository, the data repository comprising a plurality of different data collections; one or more computing devices comprising at least one or more memories and one or more processors; data server nodes, implemented at least partially by the one or more processors, configured to perform data operations on data collections, each particular data server node assigned to one or more data collections among the plurality of different data collections and configured to process messages by performing particular data operations on the one or more data collections to which the particular data server node is assigned; wherein each data collection among the plurality of different data collections is associated with a particular configuration data that describes various aspects of the data collection and impacts how a data server node processes the data collection and includes at least: an identification of the data collection, and data processing instructions to be used for parsing one or more fields in the data collection; a message distribution component, implemented at least partially by the one or more processors, configured to receive particular messages, determine particular data collections of the plurality of different data collections that each particular message is associated with, and distribute the particular messages to particular data server nodes that are assigned to the associated particular data collections; a node creation component, implemented at least partially by the one or more processors, configured to, when a message of the particular messages is associated with one or more particular data collections to which none of the existing data server nodes are assigned, retrieve a configuration data associated with the one or more particular data collections and dynamically create a new data server node based on the retrieved configuration data associated with the one or more particular data collections, assign the new data server node to the one or more particular data collections, and send the message to the new data server node; a node monitoring component configured to cause certain data server nodes to terminate, wherein the node monitoring component is configured to determine whether a particular data server node should be terminated based on one or more expected usage patterns for one or more data collections associated with the particular data server node, the one or more expected usage patterns are dynamically determined based on monitoring a frequency of usage for each of the one or more data collections associated with the particular data server node.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,769,582	2017-09-19	1. An apparatus for testing a plurality of microphones, comprising: a soundproof enclosure; a speaker located within the enclosure; a first microphone, a second microphone, and a third microphone all located in a common plane within the enclosure and spaced apart from each other and the speaker; and a processor coupled to the speaker and the first, the second, and the third microphones, wherein the processor in conjunction with the speaker and the first, the second, and the third microphones is configured to:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,961,669	2015-02-24	1. A method comprising: (a) providing a substrate having a plurality of through-holes; (b) applying a composition comprising 0.5 to 100 ppm of a zero-valent metal, a stabilizer compound and water; wherein the zero-valent metal is selected from the group consisting of palladium, silver, cobalt, nickel, gold, copper and ruthenium; wherein the stabilizer compound is a compound of formula (I) or formula (II) wherein R 1 and R 5 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, (C 1 -C 6 )alkyl, (CR 6 R 6 ) a Z and (CH═CH)Z; R 2 and R 4 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, (CR 6 R 6 ) a Z, HO(C 1 -C 6 )alkyl, R 7 R 7 N(C 1 -C 6 )alkyl and (CH═CH)Z; R 3 ═H, (C 1 -C 6 )alkyl or NR 7 R 7 ; each R 6 is independently H or NR 7 R 7 ; each R 7 is independently H or (C 1 -C 6 )alkyl; each R 8 is selected from the group consisting of H, (C 1 -C 6 )alkyl and NHR 7 ; each R 9 is H or CO 2 R 6 ; Z═CO 2 R 7 , C(O)NR 7 R 7 or NHR 7 ; a=0-6; wherein (i) at least one of R 1 and R 5 is (CR 6 R 6 ) a Z or (ii) R 3 is NR 7 R 7 ; and wherein at least one R 8 is NHR 7 to the surface of the through-holes; and then (c) electrolessly depositing a metal on the surface of the through-holes; wherein the composition has a pH of from >7 to 14; and wherein the composition is free of precipitate for 3 months upon storage at 20° C.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,839,894	2014-09-23	1. An electric drive system for a vehicle, comprising: an electric drive unit that electrically drives the vehicle; and a cooling unit that cools the electric drive unit, wherein the electric drive unit and the cooling unit are mounted at a body frame of the vehicle via an elastic support member, the electric drive unit and the cooling unit being configured as an integrated unit; wherein the cooling unit includes: wherein the electric drive unit, the refrigerant circulation path, the heat exchange unit, the refrigerant circulation unit and the air blower unit are disposed at a sub-frame rather than at the body frame, and the sub-frame is mounted at the body frame via the elastic support member; and wherein a cooling medium outlet port through which the cooling medium is let out from the heat exchange unit is positioned closer to a cooling medium intake port of the electric drive unit, compared to a cooling medium intake port of the heat exchange unit.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
8,368,462	2013-02-05	1. An apparatus for amplifying an RF modulated signal for transmission on a network having micro-burst transmission slots and having a minimum noise floor, including: a gain signal module for receiving an RF signal amplification gain signal and generating a first pre-amplifier gain signal and a first amplifier gain signal; a pre-amplifier module for receiving a first pre-amplifier gain signal and amplifying an RF modulated signal during a specific transmission slot based on the first pre-amplifier gain signal with a first noise floor outside the specific transmission slot; an amplifier module for receiving a first amplifier gain signal and further amplifying the RF modulated signal during the specific transmission slot based on the first amplifier gain signal with a second noise floor outside the specific transmission slot; wherein the second noise floor is greater than the first noise floor and the first noise floor is less than the minimum noise floor.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,772,527	2014-07-08	1. A process for batchwise or continuous isomerization of cis-2-pentenenitrile to 3-pentenenitriles, which comprises isomerizing cis-2-pentenenitrile with 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,755,902	2017-09-05	1. A server comprising a program of instructions running on at least one computer and configured to communicate with a plurality of remote systems, each of which is configured to receive at least one of a plurality of selectable types of updates from the server, the selectable types including a diagnostically-derived best-performing configuration settings type and an experimental configuration settings type, the server: receiving diagnostic information from the plurality of remote systems, wherein each remote system includes functional units that are dynamically configurable during operation of the remote system, wherein the diagnostic information from each remote system of the plurality of remote systems includes a configuration setting for the remote system and performance data collected while executing a program when the functional units are configured according to the configuration setting respective to the remote system; analyzing the received diagnostic information to determine the diagnostically-derived best-performing configuration setting of the configuration settings included in the diagnostic information received from the plurality of remote systems; generating one or more experimental configuration settings that are modifications of the determined best-performing configuration, wherein the modified configuration settings are distinct from the configuration settings received by the server from the plurality of remote systems; sending the determined best-performing configuration setting to update a first subset of the plurality of remote systems that have selected to be updated with diagnostically-derived best-performing configuration settings; sending one or more experimental configuration settings to update a second subset of the plurality of remote systems that have selected to receive such experimental configuration settings; iterating on receiving the information from the plurality of systems, analyzing the received information, determining a new best-performing configuration setting, generating a new experimental configuration setting based on the new best-performing configuration setting, and providing the new best-performing configuration setting and new experimental configuration setting to the plurality of remote systems; and enabling users of the plurality of remote systems to select whether to receive updates with diagnostically-derived best-performing configuration settings or participate in testing of experimental configuration settings, while providing users who do not select to participate in testing of experimental configuration settings to receive updated configuration settings that are derived from other users' testing of experimental configuration settings.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,919,221	2014-12-30	1. A cable gland and gasket ring assembly comprising a cable gland and a gasket ring for securing a cable or a flexible conduit to a junction box, wherein said gasket ring is an annular member defining along the axis thereof a first end face and a second end face opposing said first end face, said first end face having a plurality of concentrically arranged annular ribs, said second end face having an annular convex portion, wherein said cable gland comprises a connection ring connected to the junction box, said connection ring comprising a stop flange segment, a first connection ring segment axially extended from one side of said stop flange segment and a first outer thread extending around the periphery of said first connection ring segment for mounting, said stop flange segment having a stop face abutted against said first connection ring segment; said gasket ring is mounted on the first connection ring segment of said connection ring for enabling the annular ribs at said first end face to be stopped against the stop face of said stop flange segment of said connection ring, and wherein said packing ring further has at least one outer annular groove extending around the periphery of a second packing ring segment thereof.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8,855,555	2014-10-07	1. A mobile wireless communications device comprising: a portable housing having a front exterior surface and a rear exterior surface; wireless transceiver circuitry carried by said portable housing; a first active display carried by said front exterior surface of the portable housing; a processor carried by said portable housing and coupled to said wireless transceiver circuitry and said first display; a second passive display carried by either the front or rear surface of the portable housing and comprising an array of pixels, each pixel retaining a given state between refreshes and without electrical power supplied thereto; and a near-field communications (NFC) device connected to and powering said second passive display to display an image thereon based upon NFC communications.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,789,302	2014-07-29	1. An apparatus comprising: a. a magazine guide housing, attachable to a receiver of a bolt-action rifle, for guiding and latching differently shaped magazines designed for AR-10 and M-14 semi-automatic rifles; b. the magazine guide housing has different first and second latches, wherein:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,764,338	2014-07-01	1. A retainer, comprising: a center body component comprising a plurality of wedge-shaped center body troughs, a single, raised nodule located on the center body component, wherein the nodule has a channel running through it in a horizontal direction relative to the center body component, two independent compatible components, wherein each independent component comprises a plurality of compatible permanently connected troughs, wherein the troughs of the two independent compatible components couple with at least part of the plurality of center body troughs, and wherein each independent component comprises a channel running through it in a horizontal direction; and a support screw that is inserted into the channel of one independent compatible component, through the channel of the single, raised nodule and into the channel of the second independent compatible component, wherein the support screw locks the center body component together with the two independent compatible components in a complementary fashion.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
9,000,279	2015-04-07	1. A hybrid maize variety X18D814 seed, wherein representative seed is produced by crossing a first plant of variety PHV5W with a second plant of variety PH1KYM, and wherein representative seed of said varieties PHV5W and PH1KYM have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12287 and PTA-120328, respectively.	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,063,932	2015-06-23	1. A method of managing electronic documents shared across networked satellite nodes remotely located from one another, the method comprising: storing a first plurality of electronic documents in a common electronic document repository, wherein the first plurality of electronic documents includes electronic documents owned by at least two different owners remotely located from one another; storing ownership information at a master node for the first plurality of electronic documents stored in the common electronic document repository, wherein the ownership information indicates that at least one of the electronic documents of the first plurality of electronic documents is owned by a first owner of the at least two different owners and at least one of the electronic documents of the first plurality of electronic documents is owned by a second owner of the at least two different owners, the second owner different from and remotely located with respect to the first owner; and storing ownership information at the master node for a second plurality of electronic documents which are locally stored by at least one satellite node at a respective location remote from the common electronic document repository, wherein the second plurality of electronic documents are not stored in the common electronic document repository, and wherein the ownership information stored at the master node for the first and the second plurality of electronic documents indicates for each electronic document a logical entity that has authority to authorize changes to the respective electronic document.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,393,976	2016-07-19	1. A train guidance-display system comprising: train-information managing apparatuses that are mounted on cars of a train, respectively, that are communicatively connected to each other via a trunk transmission line disposed among the cars, that share and manage train information concerning the train, that include first door opening-side information, which is information indicating an opening side of doors of the cars for all stops of the train set before an operation of the train and includes undecided information indicating that an opening side has been undecided for part of the stops, and that receive, from an operational management server on a ground, second door opening-side information, which is latest information indicating an opening side of doors of the cars for all the stops and does not include the undecided information, after the train starts an operation; wherein the undecided information is based on absence of information regarding which platform the train enters depending on the stop; display control apparatuses that are mounted on the cars of the train, respectively, that are connected to the train-information managing apparatuses of the cars, and that create video data using guidance data, which is data for display guidance and is output from the train-information managing apparatuses; and displays that are mounted on the cars of the train, respectively, that are connected to the display control apparatuses of the cars, and that perform display using the video data output from the display control apparatuses, wherein after the second door opening-side information and latest scheduled timetable information on the train are received from the operational management server after the train starts an operation, the train-information managing apparatuses determine whether a delay of the train occurs on a basis of the scheduled timetable information, and, as a result of determination, when a delay does not occur or, even if a delay occurs, when a delay time of the delay is shorter than a predetermined time, the train-information managing apparatuses output the second door opening-side information to the display control apparatuses as the guidance data, and, when a delay occurs and a delay time of the delay is equal to or longer than the predetermined time, the train-information managing apparatuses output the first door opening-side information to the display control apparatuses as the guidance data, when the second door opening-side information is output from the train-information managing apparatuses, the display control apparatuses create video data indicating an opening side of doors for all stops at least between a next stop and a terminal station of the train using the second door opening-side information, when the first door opening-side information is output from the train-information managing apparatuses, the display control apparatuses create video data indicating an opening side of doors or indicating that an opening side has been undecided for all stops at least between the next stop and the terminal station of the train using the first door opening-side information, and the displays perform display using the video data.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,356,732	2013-01-22	1. A dispensing device for dispensing a foam, comprising: a container for holding a liquid and having an opening, and a dispensing assembly mountable on or in said opening, said dispensing assembly comprising: wherein the dispensing device comprises a separate foam-forming device mounted on or in the pump inlet of the pump, defining at least a part of the liquid supply channel, said foam-forming device further comprising a one-way valve and defining at least partially an air inlet opening to the liquid supply channel, said air inlet opening being provided between said pump inlet and said one-way valve.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8,827,338	2014-09-09	1. A clamp and hoisting device comprising: an upper connector block, a first lower connector block, a first clamping arm formed by a plurality of links pivotably connected to each other, one of said links being pivoted connected to the upper connector block and a second one of said links being pivotably connected to the lower connector block, a second clamping arm formed by a second plurality of links pivotably connected to each other, one of said second plurality of links being pivotably connected to the upper connector block and a second one of said second plurality of links being pivotably connected to a second lower connector block, said links having a curved inner surface having a constant radius of curvature so that the surface conforms to an outer cylindrical surface of an object to be clamped.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,425,640	2016-08-23	1. An inductive localization and charging system for detecting and charging a device, the system comprising: a plurality of primary inductive coils arranged within a dielectric material; an input connector coupled to the plurality of primary inductive coils and configured to receive input power; a controller coupled to the plurality of primary inductive coils and to the input connector, the controller configured to:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,529,919	2013-09-10	1. A method of forming in a container a random diffuse pattern mixture of at least two components of a solid body of a topical personal care composition, the at least two components having differing visual characteristics, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a container on a container support capable of moving the container; (b) feeding a first component of the at least two components into the container, the first component being molten and at a first temperature above a melting temperature of the first component; (c) at least after commencement of step (b), feeding a second component of the at least two components into the molten mass of the first component in the container, the second component being molten and at a second temperature above a melting temperature of the second component, the second temperature being higher than the first temperature and the melting temperature of the first component is at least 23° C. lower than the melting temperature of the second component; (d) concurrently moving the container on the container support during at least a part of feeding step (c) or after the termination of both feeding step (b) and feeding step (c) to form a random diffuse pattern mixture of the first and second components; and (e) cooling the first and second components to form a solid body having the random diffuse pattern mixture, the second component commencing solidification thereof during the cooling step prior to solidification of the first component.	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,930,661	2015-01-06	1. A method of detecting a memory leak of an operation processing device having a processor and a memory using the processor, the method comprising: producing an object which occupies a first area of the memory; running a garbage collection process to check an existence of a pointer which points at the object repeatedly, the garbage collection process includes deleting the object when the pointer does not exist and increasing a counter value when the pointer exists; allowing access to a second area of the memory by setting an access protection for reading and writing operations and moving the object from the first area to the second area when a counter value which indicates a number of running times of the garbage collection process exceeds a first threshold; detecting an illegal access to the second area based on the access protection and determining the object occupying the second area as impossibly causing the memory leak when the object occupying the second area is to be accessed; allowing access to the second area based on the access protection, storing an address of the object to the memory, moving the object as impossibly causing the memory leak from the second area to the first area and clearing the counter value of the object when the object occupying the second area is to be accessed; and determining the object occupying the second area as possibly causing the memory leak and outputting the object possibly causing the memory leak when the counter value exceeds a second threshold, the second threshold being a sum of the first threshold and a fixed value.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,703,359	2017-07-11	1. An apparatus for reducing replays in an out-of-order processor, the apparatus comprising: a first reservation station, configured to dispatch a first load micro instruction, and configured to detect and indicate on a hold bus if said first load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory; and a second reservation station, coupled to said hold bus, configured to dispatch one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on said first load micro instruction for execution after a first number of clock cycles following dispatch of said first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on said hold bus that said first load micro instruction is said specified load micro instruction, said second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of said one or more younger micro instructions until said first load micro instruction has retrieved said operand, and is configured to preclude assertion of any indications that would otherwise result in a replay event.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,578,217	2013-11-05	1. A system comprising: a virtual machine manager; a blade server management module; at least one blade server; and a virtual machine manager comprising an abnormal event receiving module for receiving information about a hardware problem of a blade server directly from said blade server management module and a virtual machine management module for sending a processing command to a virtual machine hypervisor on said blade server having said hardware problem, wherein said processing command is determined in accordance with said information about said hardware problem and strategies for handling predefined hardware problems, and wherein said virtual machine management module comprises a strategy checker for determining any issue with respect to said strategies for handling said predefined hardware problems.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,502,734	2013-08-06	1. Printed antenna for mobile communication cellular networks comprising a ground plane (P), a substrate (S) stacked to the ground plane, a metal deposit made on the substrate in order to form therein a resonating patch ( 3 , 6 , 7 , 10 , P), and a coaxial probe configured to excite the resonating patch, wherein the patch is a square patch having sides with dimensions substantially equal to kλ S where k is a strictly positive integer and λ s is the guided wavelength in the substrate, thereby being able to radiate in both upper electromagnetic modes TM 02 and TM 20 , and wherein the coaxial probe is configured to excite the patch on an excitation point ( 4 , 8 , 9 , 1 1 - 15 , E) arranged on one side of the patch at substantially ¾kλ s from one of the vertices of the square patch so that the patch resonates dominantly in a single one of said upper electromagnetic modes, by inducing in this way a dual-beam radiation pattern with, in a same plane orthogonal to the patch, two main misaligned lobes that are symmetric in relation to the normal to the patch, said antenna further comprising means of capacitive compensation ( 5 ) in order to reduce an inductance of an input impedance of said antenna supplied by the coaxial probe, said means of capacitive compensation ( 5 ) taking the form of an extension of the patch around the excitation point, said extension having a surface substantially equal to that of a half-disk of radius Re=4h where h designates the thickness of the substrate.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,948,419	2015-02-03	1. A MEMS microphone comprising: a backplate having a backplate interior surface; a diaphragm having a plurality of through-holes, the diaphragm spaced from the backplate and facing the backplate interior surface, the diaphragm being movably coupled with the backplate to form a variable capacitor, the backplate having a plurality of through-holes, substantially all of the through-holes each having an inner dimensional shape on the backplate interior surface, each inner dimensional shape having a plurality of convex portions and a plurality of concave portions, each inner dimensional shape also having at least a curved portion, wherein the inner dimensional shape has a hub and a plurality of lobes extending from the hub; and a plurality of springs suspending the diaphragm above the backplate, the plurality of springs forming a pattern of openings along the periphery of the diaphragm, wherein the plurality of diaphragm through-holes have long meandering perimeters, further wherein the inner dimensional shape is generally cross-shaped to generally form a clover shape.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,135,338	2015-09-15	1. A method for efficient spatial feature data analysis, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a user input for selecting a feature contained in a geographical area of interest visually represented within a first image via a user-software interaction directly with the first image displayed in a display area of an application window; in response to the user-software interaction, simultaneously and dynamically generating, by the computing device, (1) a plurality of chip images using image data defining said first image and (2) a plurality of video chips using video data defining at least a first video stream, where generating, by said computing device, at least one array comprising (1) a plurality of grid cells in which at least a portion of said plurality of chip images is presented, (2) a portion of said plurality of video chips is presented, or (3) portions of both of said plurality of chip images and said plurality of video chips are presented; and displaying, by said computing device, said array in a Graphical User Interface (“GUI”) window thereof; wherein each of said plurality of chip images comprises at least one of a panned-only view, a zoomed-only view, and a panned-and-zoomed view of said first image including a first visual representation of at least one first object of a particular type; and wherein each of said plurality of video chips comprises a segment of said first video stream which comprises a second visual representation of at least one second object of said particular type.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,804,766	2014-08-12	1. A method of sending compressed data, the method comprising: (i) receiving sequential uncompressed data; (ii) providing a plurality of M compressing devices CD.sub.x, each compressing device CD.sub.x configured to apply a lossless compression algorithm and generate a corresponding compressed block B.sub.x; (iii) providing N compressing devices CD.sub.i for i=1 to N, where N.Itoreq..rarw.M, from the plurality of M compressing devices; (iv) for i=1 to N: continually applying the received sequential uncompressed data to a compressing device CD.sub.i until the corresponding compressed block B.sub.i has a corresponding transmission time duration BlockDuration.sub.i that is greater than or equal to a predetermined duration threshold value; and forwarding the obtained block B.sub.i along a communication link; and (v) repeating step (iv), wherein a sum of characteristic transmission times BlockDuration.sub.i for i=1 to N, is greater than a predetermined Response Time (RT), and wherein the Response Time (RT) is an amount of time taken to receive a message in response to the forwarding of a block B.sub.i along the communication link.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,499,146	2016-11-22	1. A hydraulic braking device having a base body that includes therein a fluid passage for brake fluid, comprising: a solenoid valve disposed on one surface of the base body; and a driving coil attached around an axis of the solenoid valve, wherein the one surface of the base body is provided with a wall surface facing an outer circumferential surface of the driving coil, and the wall surface is formed by a circumferential wall, and wherein an in-between wall is disposed inside a circumferential wall portion to partition a space inside the circumferential wall into a front side and a rear side.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,472,350	2016-10-18	1. A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising: an anode body; a dielectric that overlies the anode body; an adhesion coating that overlies the dielectric, wherein the adhesion coating contains a discontinuous precoat layer and a resinous layer, wherein the discontinuous precoat layer contains a plurality of discrete nanoprojections of a manganese oxide; and a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric and the adhesion coating, wherein the solid electrolyte includes a conductive polymer layer, and wherein one or more discrete manganese oxide nanoprojections are embedded in the solid electrolyte.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,371,663	2013-02-12	1. A cabinet for an electronic device, comprising: a first cabinet member having a first wall section with an engagement hole; and a second cabinet member fixedly coupled to the first cabinet member, the second cabinet member having a second wall section, an engagement protrusion that is formed on the second wall section with the engagement protrusion having an engagement face that is engaged with an inner face of the engagement hole of the first wall section, and a recess that is formed on the second wall section along a base portion of the engagement protrusion with the recess having a rounded portion extending from the engagement face of the engagement protrusion between the base portion of the engagement protrusion and a bottom portion of the recess within the recess, the recess continuously extending along an entire length of the engagement protrusion, the second cabinet member further has a guide component on the second wall section along an opposite face of the engagement face of the engagement protrusion, the guide component has an inclined guide face that extends between an end face portion of the second wall section and a distal end portion of the engagement protrusion.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,473,013	2016-10-18	1. A method for controlling a modular converter with a plurality of converter modules, each converter module having two power connectors, power semiconductors and an energy storage and/or an energy source, wherein the power connectors are short-circuited in a first switching state of the power semiconductors and are connected to the energy storage and/or energy source in a second switching state of the power semiconductors, the method comprising: selecting possible future switching sequences of the modular converter based on an actual converter switching state, wherein a switching sequence is a series of converter switching states with at least one converter switching state, and the converter switching state includes switching states of the plurality of converter modules; predicting a future current trajectory for each switching sequence based on actual internal currents and on actual internal voltages; determining candidate sequences from the switching sequences, wherein a candidate sequence is a switching sequence with a current trajectory within predefined bounds with respect to a reference current or, when the current traiectory is outside the predefined bounds, moves the current trajectory closer to the predefined bound; predicting future module voltages for each candidate sequence based on actual module voltages and the current trajectory of a respective candidate sequence; evaluating a cost function for each candidate sequence, wherein the cost function is based on converter switching states of at least one of the switching sequence, the future module voltages and future currents; and selecting a next converter switching state as a first converter switching state of a candidate sequence with a minimal cost among evaluated cost functions.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0