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9,116,601	2015-08-25	1. A method for providing a user interface, the method comprising: displaying a first user interface and a plurality of second user interfaces; receiving a keyword through the first user interface; transmitting the keyword to at least one of a plurality of contents providers, wherein each of the plurality of contents providers corresponds to each of the plurality of second user interfaces; receiving information related to the keyword from the at least one contents provider; and displaying at least one indicator corresponding to the information in the first user interface and the plurality of second user interfaces, wherein transmitting the keyword comprises: transmitting, when the first user interface is selected, the keyword to the plurality of contents providers; and transmitting, when one of the plurality of second user interfaces is selected, the keyword to the contents provider corresponding to the selected second user interface, wherein each of the plurality of second user interfaces respectively displays an abstract of the information received from the corresponding at least one contents provider, wherein the abstract indicates a number of contents which are included in the information received from the corresponding at least one contents provider.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,142,487	2015-09-22	1. A semiconductor package comprising: a package substrate having top and bottom surfaces, wherein the bottom surface comprises a plurality of package contacts; a structural member having first and second major planar surfaces disposed directly on top of the top surface of the package substrate, wherein the whole structural member is formed by a single insulator layer and the structural member includes a die being disposed directly on top of the structural member and is attached to the first major planar surface of the structural member in the die attach region, wherein the structural member serves as an interposer between the die and the package 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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,808,549	2017-11-07	1. A system for monitoring a sterile field associated with a medical procedure, the system comprising: at least one sensor being adjacent an area where the medical procedure is to be performed; said at least one sensor configured to monitor at least the area, a patient for the medical procedure, and a medical technician for the medical procedure; a processor coupled to said at least one sensor and configured to an output device coupled to said processor and configured to generate an alert indicator when the sterile field event is detected, the alert indicator also including the associated location.	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,883,228	2014-11-11	1. A method of preparing a composition for the treatment of chronic stable angina pectoris comprising the following steps: (a) separately extracting Radix (b) separately filtering the extracts of Radix (c) separately concentrating the filtrates of Radix (d) separately refining the concentrates of Radix (e) mixing the refined water-soluble extracts of Radix wherein the composition comprises from 5 to 40% water-soluble phenolic acid of Radix	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
8,411,854	2013-04-02	1. A method of generating a private key for use in an, authentication protocol comprising, at a client: receiving a user specific identifier provided by the user; converting the identifier through a one-way function to a string of a pre-determined length; and mapping said string to a permutation .pi..sub.priv, of a pre-determined order, said permutation being operable with a first graph G.sub.1 to generate a second public graph G.sub.2=.pi..sub.priv (G.sub.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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,763,236	2017-09-12	1. A method for determining a transmission bandwidth of an uplink sounding reference signal, comprising: determining whether a sounding reference signal (SRS) is transmitted with an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) if the SRS is transmitted with a largest bandwidth level; and transmitting the SRS with a non-extensive SRS bandwidth if the SRS is determined to be transmitted with the UpPTS and a user equipment (UE) reaches a power limit, wherein the largest bandwidth level includes an indication of a largest SRS bandwidth level received from a network side before transmitting the SRS with the uplink pilot time slot each time, or a stored indication of the largest bandwidth level indicating the largest SRS bandwidth level received from the network side, and wherein the non-extensive SRS bandwidth is determined by any one of Table 1 to Table 4 comprising: wherein N	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,545,254	2013-10-01	1. A method of releasably securing a high definition multimedia interface plug into standard high definition multimedia interface receptacle, the method comprising: providing a releasably engaging high definition multimedia interface plug including: inserting the releasably engaging high definition multimedia interface plug into a standard high definition multimedia interface receptacle; and moving the lock button axially to move the actuator to move the locking tab into secure engagement with a typical sidewall opening of the corresponding standard high definition multimedia interface receptacle into which the locking plug has been inserted.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,720,039	2017-08-01	1. An integrated circuit die comprising: (a) a bottom surface including bottom parallel test input signal contact points, bottom parallel test output signal contact points, a test clock in signal contact point, a test mode select in signal contact point, a test reset in signal contact point, a bottom test data in signal contact point, and a bottom test data out signal contact point; (b) a top surface including top parallel test output signal contact points, top parallel test input signal contact points, a test clock out signal contact point, a test mode select out signal contact point, a test reset out signal contact point, a top test data out signal contact point, a top test data in signal contact point, and an UP signal contact point; (c) UP control circuitry having control inputs, an input coupled with the test reset in signal contact point, and an output coupled with the UP signal contact point; and (d) capture, shift, update circuitry having a clock input coupled with the test clock in signal contact point, a test mode select input coupled with the test mode select in signal contact point, a capture shift output, an update output, and a scan clock output.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,475,247	2013-07-02	1. A combine harvester threshing drum threshing bar, comprising: a threshing fixture includes a leading edge and an opposed trailing end, a first face and an opposed second face, a top threshing side, and an opposed bottom threshing drum emplacement side; the opposed first and second faces extend between the top threshing side and the opposed bottom threshing drum emplacement side of the threshing fixture from the leading edge of the threshing fixture to the trailing end of the threshing fixture; the top threshing side includes a trailing threshing face and a leading threshing face that meet at a first corner formed in the top threshing side, the first corner located between the leading edge and the trailing end of the threshing fixture and extends from the first face to the second face; the trailing threshing face extends between the opposed first and second faces of the threshing fixture from the trailing end to the first corner; the leading threshing face extends between the opposed first and second faces of the threshing fixture from the first corner to the leading edge, and inclines downwardly relative to the trailing threshing face from the first corner and meets, and cooperates with, the bottom threshing drum emplacement side and the opposed first and second faces of the threshing fixture at the leading edge to form a wedge in the threshing fixture; the first face includes a rearward surface and a forward surface that meet at a second corner formed in the first face, the second corner is formed between the leading edge and the trailing end of the threshing fixture and extends from the top threshing side of the threshing fixture to the bottom threshing drum emplacement side of the threshing fixture; the rearward surface of the first face extends between the top threshing side and the bottom threshing drum emplacement side of the threshing fixture from the trailing end to the second corner; and the forward surface of the first face extends between the top threshing side and the bottom threshing drum emplacement side of the threshing fixture from the second corner to the leading edge, and is in-turned from the rearward surface and toward the second face of the threshing fixture from the second corner to the leading edge of the threshing fixture forming an oblique crop material deflecting surface.	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
9,241,001	2016-01-19	1. A method for providing by a Personal Network (PN) gateway a service of an external network to an entity constituting a personal network through the personal network, the method comprising: receiving a PN connection request message from an entity connected through near-field communication; determining whether the PN connection request message includes subscriber information, wherein the subscriber information is generated by another PN gateway connected with the entity; if the subscriber information is included in the PN connection request message, sending a registration request message including the subscriber information to a server, the server on the external network provides a service to the entity via the personal network; if subscriber information is not included in the PN connection request message, sending a PN connection rejection message to the entity; receiving from the server a response message indicating that entity authentication/authorization based on the subscriber information has been completed; and including the entity in the personal network and providing a service received from the server to the entity, wherein the entity is not registered in the PN gateway before the entity transmits the PN connection request message to the PN gateway.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,714,353	2017-07-25	1. An ink composition comprising the following (A) to (D) and (F): (A) a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group; (B) a photopolymerization initiator other than a photopolymerization initiator having a biimidazole structure; (C) water; (D) a chain transfer agent precursor represented by the following Formula (1); and (F) a trialkylamine, Formula (1) wherein the (B) photopolymerization initiator is an aromatic ketone compound, and in Formula (1), each of R	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	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
8,631,784	2014-01-21	1. A flange device for an air induction device of an internal combustion engine, comprising: a housing of plastic having at least one inlet channel for each cylinder of the internal combustion engine, a fuel distribution rail of metal having a connection for each cylinder for connecting a fuel injector, wherein the housing has a flange that surrounds outlet openings of the inlet channels configured to fasten the housing on the internal combustion engine, wherein the housing has a plurality of bridge sections that overlap the fuel distribution rail on a side facing away from the flange, wherein each bridge section has a support sleeve arranged distally to the inlet channels configured to fasten the respective bridge section on the internal combustion engine.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,418,853	2016-08-16	1. A method for forming a stacked layer structure, comprising: providing a recess; forming an oxide layer in the recess, wherein the oxide layer has a thickness T forming a high-k layer on the oxide layer; forming a barrier layer on the high-k layer; forming a silicon layer on the barrier layer; performing an annealing process on the silicon layer, so as to form an oxygen-containing layer between the silicon layer and the barrier layer, wherein the oxide layer has a thickness T removing the silicon layer and the oxygen-containing 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	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
9,590,742	2017-03-07	1. An optical XOR circuit comprising: a first waveguide coupler configured to receive and split a first digital optical signal into first and second output signals; a second waveguide coupler configured to receive and split a second digital optical signal into third and fourth output signals; a thyristor; and a control circuit coupled to the first and second waveguide couplers and, the thyristor, the control circuit comprising:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,597,000	2013-12-03	1. A canned motor pump, comprising: a pump casing, an impeller and a canned motor; said pump casing is provided with an inlet, an outlet and a flow channel, which is used to hold the impeller; said impeller is installed inside the pump casing, has an impeller hub plate provided with plural holes for reducing axial thrust; the impeller hub has a collar structure which is extended axially and is conjunct with an axially extended part of a motor rotor, thereby constituting the impeller and the motor rotor as one integral unit; said canned motor comprises a motor stator, a motor casing, a motor rear casing, a containment shell, a motor rotor and a stationary shaft; wherein the motor stator is installed in the motor casing, the rear motor casing is fixed on the motor casing; wherein a flange at pump side of motor casing is used to tightly lock a back plate of the containment shell; wherein a front-end flange of the containment shell is combined with the back plate to form a rigid flange structure, and the pump casing is locked with the back plate; the motor stator with a stator winding is completely sealed by the containment shell; the lower side of the rear motor casing is provided with an exit port for an electric power cable of a controller, and the controller can be connected with the stator winding to drive the motor; the motor rotor comprises a set of permanent magnets, a rotor yoke, a bearing seat, and is enclosed by a corrosion-resistance resin to form a ring-shape resin encapsulated magnetic rotor without leakage seams; the motor rotor has light weight features by light weight of the rotor yoke and a bearing seat with light weight high intensity, the motor has more poles to reduce magnetic flux length and to keep a bigger annular space between shaft and inner diameter of the rotor yoke; the bearing seat is inserted in the inner diameter of the rotor yoke, has the length to cover the total length of the rotor yoke and the axially extended part, has the best rigidity for power transmission; the motor rotor has the axially extended part, which is combined with the impeller to transfer power; a hollow part of the rotor is provided with a bearing to couple with the stationary shaft, constituting a hydraulic bearing system to support rotation; the containment shell of the canned motor is a cup-shape structure with a front-end flange; a column part of the containment shell is sheathed into an inner circumference of the motor stator; there is an aperture with O-ring seal slots at central part of the bottom of the containment shell, that the metal shaft of the stationary shaft passing through; the stationary shaft of the canned motor is a cantilever shaft which comprises a ceramic shaft sleeve and a metal shaft; wherein the metal shaft has one end provided with a circular head, whereas, enclosed by a resin enclosure on which is provided with an O-ring to achieve functions of sealing and corrosion-resistance, the other end of the metal shaft is provided with a teeth part could locked by nut; wherein the ceramic shaft sleeve is cylindrical type with central hole, at the rear end with a disc-shape thrust ring structure; the assembly of the stationary shaft is passing the metal shaft through the central hole and the circular head is tightly abutted on the front end surface of the ceramic shaft sleeve when tightly lock the nut; the fixing of the stationary shaft is passing the teeth part of the metal shaft through an aperture of the containment shell and a shaft hole of the motor rear casing, the rear end surface of the ceramic shaft sleeve can be tightly abutted on the contact surface of the motor rear casing, also the rear end surface of the ceramic shaft sleeve abutted on O-rings at the bottom of the containment shell could be assured to have a correct compression to form a complete sealing system; the stiffness of the high-rigidity composited stationary shaft is owing to that the ceramic shaft sleeve and the motor rear casing are tightly locked and compressed together by the tension force of the metal shaft with nut, a circular surface of the ceramic shaft sleeve constitutes the hydraulic bearing with an inner diameter surface of the bearing of the rotor to provide the rotor with a supporting slid surface needed for rotation, other thrust surface is provided with the disc-shape thrust ring structure to couple with an axial end surface of the bearing of the motor rotor, thereby constituting a thrust bearing of the motor rotor.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,041,388	2015-05-26	1. A non-contact current sensor comprising: a wire through which a current flows; a spin valve structure to detect a magnetic field around the wire induced by the current, the spin valve structure being disposed adjacent the wire and including a free layer having a direction of magnetization, a pinned layer having a direction of magnetization, and a nonmagnetic layer arranged between the free layer and the pinned layer, the free layer having a coercive force that is larger than the current-induced magnetic field; an electrical unit that applies a current to the spin valve structure to cause the directions of magnetization of the pinned layer and the free layer to transition between a mutually parallel state and a mutually anti-parallel state; and a resistance reading unit that electrically reads out a resistance value of the spin valve structure when the current-induced magnetic field is detected, wherein the resistance reading unit is configured to detect a threshold value of the current corresponding to the transition between the parallel state and the anti-parallel state so as to determine a resistance value of the spin valve structure at the transition.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,022,817	2015-05-05	1. A connector terminal comprising: a first spring terminal; a second spring terminal, a male connector terminal of a male electric connector to be sandwiched between said first spring terminal and said second spring terminal; a connector part connecting said first spring terminal and said second spring terminal; and a limiter comprising a step extending along said first spring terminal, said second spring terminal, and said connector part for preventing said first spring terminal, said second spring terminal, and said connector part from being deformed; wherein said connector terminal is formed by bending a strip-shaped plate about lines intersecting with a longitudinal line of said plate such that a width of said plate is maintained.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,635,013	2014-01-21	1. An automotive cooperative geolocation system based on inter-vehicular communication, comprising: a first geolocation system configured to be arranged in a first vehicle equipped with a first inter-vehicular communication system; and a second geolocation system configured to be arranged in a second vehicle equipped with a second inter-vehicular communication system and with an on-board satellite navigation system; the first and second inter-vehicular communication systems being configured to automatically detect other inter-vehicular communication systems within a communication range and to initiate communications between the first and the second inter-vehicle communications systems and the other inter-vehicular communication systems only after detecting the other inter-vehicular communication systems; and the first and second geolocation systems being configured to cooperate with one another for geolocating an event detected by the first geolocation system; the first geolocation system comprising: the second geolocation system comprising:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,280,449	2016-03-08	1. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to: render visual objects in three dimensions on a screen space of a user interface; generate data for the visual objects in a two-dimensional clip space, wherein the data includes transformed two-dimensional coordinates indicating locations of the visual objects corresponding to the rendered visual objects; obtain cursor coordinates from a user interaction with the screen space indicating a location of a cursor; transform the cursor coordinates into the two-dimensional clip space; perform bounding box calculations in the clip space using the transformed cursor coordinates and the generated data, wherein the bounding box calculations comprise a calculation of a minimum bounding box that encloses a visual object from the visual objects projected in the two-dimensional clip space; determine whether there is a hit of the transformed cursor coordinates on at least one minimum bounding box of at least one of the visual objects in the two-dimensional clip space; perform hit testing when there is a hit on at least one minimum bounding box of at least one of the visual objects in the two-dimensional clip space, wherein the hit testing is performed in a three-dimensional space and comprises: present a result on a user interface based on the hit testing.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,368,577	2013-02-05	1. An A/D converter comprising: a capacitive DAC, including a positive-side capacitive DAC and a negative-side capacitive DAC operating in a complementary fashion, configured to perform conversion of high-order bits by receiving a differential signal; a resistive DAC configured to perform conversion of low-order bits; a resistive correction DAC configured to operate to correct the capacitive DAC; and a comparator, including a plurality of differential circuits, configured to compare output potentials of the positive-side capacitive DAC and the negative-side capacitive DAC, and wherein the positive-side capacitive DAC and the negative-side capacitive DAC include first capacitive elements each formed from interconnect layers excluding an uppermost interconnect layer, and the comparator includes second capacitive elements each provided between adjacent ones of the differential circuits and formed from interconnect layers including the uppermost interconnect 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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,547,610	2017-01-17	1. A method of installing a server system, the method comprising: providing, in a network the server system, the server system comprising:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
9,840,939	2017-12-12	1. A fuel gas moisturization system of a power plant, the system comprising: a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) configured to heat water using exhaust heat of a gas turbine system to create heated water, and output the heated water via a heater water conduit; a fuel moisturizer configured to receive dry fuel gas via a dry fuel gas conduit, receive the heated water from the HRSG via the heater water conduit, moisturize the dry fuel gas with the heated water to create a moisturized fuel gas, and output the moisturized fuel gas via a pre-superheated fuel gas conduit; a performance heater configured to receive the moisturized fuel gas from the fuel moisturizer via the pre-superheated fuel gas conduit, superheat the moisturized fuel gas to create a superheated fuel gas, and provide the superheated fuel gas to the gas turbine system via a superheated fuel gas conduit, and a controller configured to, in response to the gas turbine system operating at a part load, actuating the fuel moisturizer such that a moisture content of the moisturized fuel gas is varied in accordance with an output of a generator driven by the gas turbine system, the part load being less than a base load, and wherein the moisture content of the moisturized fuel gas is not constant throughout a range of the part load.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	0
8,440,966	2013-05-14	1. A Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT-ICR MS) using a cryo-detection system, which includes an ionization source for injecting a specimen, a mass filter for selecting and storing an ion injected into a vacuum chamber, a collision cell, and an ion transmission guide for transmitting the stored ion to an ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) trap that measures a signal, the mass spectrometer comprising: a detection system comprising a cryo-preamplifier mounted in the vacuum chamber at the rear of the ICR trap, a cryo-cooling system including a cryo-cooler, a cryogen circulating tube installed out of the vacuum chamber in order to cool the cryo-preamplifier, an input tube and an output tube, the cryogen circulating tube disposed at a temperature of 4K or below, a cryo-cooling flange provided at a rear end of the vacuum chamber and separating the vacuum chamber from a region out of the vacuum chamber and thermally isolating the vacuum chamber from the cryogen circulating tube, and a welding fixing unit provided between the cryo-cooling flange and the input tube and the output tube, the welding fixing unit having a contact surface so as to minimize heat transfer through the welding fixing unit, wherein the input tube and the output tube extend through the cryo-cooling flange and are in thermal contact with the cryo-preamplifier.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,658,664	2014-02-25	1. A method of treating a subject having metastatic cancer with a hyperactive hedgehog pathway comprising administering to the subject having metastatic cancer an effective amount of cyclopamine tartrate.	0	0	0	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
9,487,888	2016-11-08	1. A pneumatic tire using a cord for reinforcing rubber articles in a ply cord of a carcass, the cord for reinforcing rubber articles comprising: a thread of ply-twisted cellulose fiber twisted with a thread of ply-twisted nylon fiber, wherein a ply twist number of the nylon fiber is less than a ply twist number of the cellulose fiber, and a content of nylon fiber in the cord is in a range from 17% to 45%.	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	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	1
8,557,686	2013-10-15	1. A method of forming a graphene-based memory device, comprising: forming a first graphene layer on a first insulator layer; forming a second insulation layer on the first graphene layer; forming a second graphene layer on the second insulation layer; and forming an opening in the second insulation layer to expose a portion of the first graphene layer and a portion of the second graphene layer and to suspend the exposed portion of the second graphene layer in the opening, the opening in the second insulation layer having a depth and width such that the second graphene layer is configured to bend into the opening to contact the first graphene layer based on an electrostatic force being applied to the second graphene 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	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
8,378,679	2013-02-19	1. A system for processing an MR dataset to provide an MR signal generated by a group of protons having substantially the same proton spin precession angle, comprising: a computation processor for determining phase angles of RF pulses for use in acquiring MR signal data of a desired coherence pathway, in response to predetermined data, predetermined information and at least one phase equation, an RF signal generator for generating RF pulses for acquiring a plurality of MR datasets including said MR signal data of said desired coherence pathway using the determined phase angles; and an MR imaging device for performing a plurality of MR scans to acquire said plurality of MR datasets including said MR signal data using the generated RF pulses.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,382,623	2016-07-05	1. A method of applying a coating to a plurality of articles, each article having a first end and a second end opposed to the first end, a passage, an interior surface surrounding the passage, and an exterior surface, the method comprising: placing the plurality of articles inside a plurality of conductive conduits, each conductive conduit having two opposing ends, a passage, and an interior surface that surrounds the passage such that, at least one of the first end and the second end of the each article is within the two opposing ends of one of the plurality of conductive conduits, and a gap is formed between the interior surface of each conductive conduit and the exterior surface of each respective article; generating a plasma discharge from a process gas inside the passage of each article when the article is inside the passage of one of the plurality of conductive conduits; preventing a plasma discharge in each gap between the interior surface of each conductive conduit and the exterior surface of each article; and depositing the coating from the plasma discharge on the interior surface of each of the plurality of articles.	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	1	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
9,532,778	2017-01-03	1. A method of surgically repairing tissue, comprising: selecting an anchor capable of being fixated in bone and having a filament engagement feature; selecting a first filament having a noose on a first portion of at least a first limb and having a second portion connected to the filament engagement feature of the anchor; fixating the anchor in bone; selecting at least a first free filament limb and passing it through the tissue to be repaired; passing at least one end of the first free filament limb through the noose; and tensioning the tissue as desired after the anchor is fixated in bone, the noose strangulating the first free filament limb when tension is applied to at least one of the free filament limb and the noose, wherein the noose is formed from at least one half hitch having at least three openings, and at least the first free filament limb and a second free filament limb are passed through different openings in the half hitch.	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
8,588,865	2013-11-19	1. A method of removing a signal, the method comprising: filtering received signals; detecting a time band of the filtered received signals where an energy value exceeds a reference energy value; and applying, by an apparatus for removing a signal, a gain value to the received signals in the detected time band, wherein the detecting the time band 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	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
8,431,658	2013-04-30	1. A process for introducing a catalyst powder based on a titanium compound supported on magnesium halide into a gas-phase olefin polymerization reactor, the process comprising: (a) storing the catalyst powder under an atmosphere of a liquid alkane having 3 to 12 carbon atoms; (b) withdrawing from step (a) a measured amount of said catalyst powder by means of a rotary valve; (c) transferring said metered amount of catalyst powder to a catalyst activation section by a continuous pick-up flow of a liquid C (d) contacting in a sequence of two catalyst activation vessels, the catalyst powder with a liquid phase comprising an organo-aluminum compound and optionally an external donor compound; and (e) introducing the activated catalyst powder in at least one gas-phase olefin polymerization reactor, where a gaseous mixture comprising at least one alpha-olefin is subjected to polymerization.	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	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
8,565,411	2013-10-22	1. A computer-implemented method for converting interactions from a call channel to any of a chat channel, a self-service channel, and an assisted self-service channel, or for preventing interactions at said call channel by offering a chat channel, a self-service channel, and an assisted self-service channel, comprising the steps of: for a user call received from a call channel in a multi-channel system comprising each of a call channel, a chat channel, a self-service channel, and an assisted self-service channel, providing, by a call deflection processor, a call deflection strategy, said call deflection strategy automatically, and without involving an agent, causing said user on said call channel to be switched to any of said chat channel, self-service channel, and assisted self-service channel when said call deflection strategy is successful, wherein said call deflection strategy comprises: in coordination therewith for a user on a particular Web page in said multi-channel system, providing, by a Web containment processor, a Web containment strategy, said Web containment strategy automatically, with or without involving an agent, causing said user on said particular Web page to stay on said Web page and not switch to a call channel when said Web containment strategy is successful, said causing being effected by any of inviting the user to said chat channel, presenting the user with self-service opportunities on said self-service channel, and presenting the user with assisted self-service opportunities on said assisted self-service channel, wherein said Web containment strategy 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	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
9,613,477	2017-04-04	1. A method for collecting information in a resort including a plurality of users, wherein each of the plurality of users includes at least one contact-less device for accessing the resort, wherein the at least one contact-less device stores an identifier, and at least one of the plurality of users includes a wireless computing device, the method comprising: responsive to an interrogation request, broadcasting, by one or more computer processors, an interrogation signal by a selected wireless computing device from at least one of the plurality of users, wherein the interrogation signal includes an operating range; receiving, by the one or more computer processors, a response signal to the interrogation signal by the selected wireless computing device from each of one or more proximal contact-less devices of one or more contact-less devices within the operating range of the selected wireless computing device, wherein the response signal includes an identifier of each of the one or more proximal contact-less devices; generating, by the one or more computer processors, a collection message from the selected wireless computing device based, at least in part, on one or more response signals received from each of the one or more proximal contact-less devices; transmitting, by the one or more computer processors, the collection message from the selected wireless computing device to a central computing system; detecting, by the one or more computer processors, a collision condition from the selected wireless computing device, wherein the collision condition indicates a possible collision involving a user carrying the selected wireless computing device; and responsive to detecting the collision condition, generating, by the one or more computer processors, the collection message from the selected wireless computing device, wherein the collection message includes a collision message indicative of the collision condition and the identifier of each of the one or more proximal contact-less 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	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
9,364,475	2016-06-14	1. A pharmaceutical formulation comprising Polymorph E of N-(3-{[(2Z)-3-[(2-chloro-5-methoxyphenyl)amino]quinoxalin-2(1H)-ylidene]sulfamoyl}phenyl)-2-methylalaninamide, a hydrogel polymer and a diluent.	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
8,465,298	2013-06-18	1. A board-to-board connector comprising: a first connector, the first connector including first terminals, a first housing having a generally rectangular parallelepiped shape and provided with concave insertion portions, and first reinforcing brackets arranged in the concave insertion portions, each first reinforcing bracket being provided with a first protrusive locking portion, the first locking portion having an outer surface, one half of which is configured as a curved surface having a small radius of curvature, and the other half being configured as a curved surface having a larger radius of curvature or a sloped flat surface; and a second connector, the second connector including second terminals configured to make contact with the first terminals, a second housing having a generally rectangular parallelepiped shape and provided with convex insertion portions configured fit within the concave insertion portions, and second reinforcing brackets arranged in the convex insertion portions and configured to engage the first reinforcing brackets, each second reinforcing bracket being provided with a second protrusive locking portion configured to engage the first locking portion, the second locking portion having an outer surface, one half of which is configured as a curved surface having a small radius of curvature, and the other half being configured as a curved surface having a larger radius of curvature or a sloped flat surface, both halves being curved or sloped in the same direction; wherein one of the first reinforcing bracket and the second reinforcing bracket is formed of a large-width member, and the other is formed of a small-width member.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,029,912	2015-05-12	1. A semiconductor substructure comprising: a substrate, having an upper surface; a gate structure formed over said substrate; a spacer formed along a sidewall of said gate structure, wherein a width of the spacer tapers at an upper end of the spacer; a source/drain structure disposed adjacent said gate structure, said source/drain structure formed of a strain material and disposed in an recess that extends below said upper surface of said substrate, and an interface defined by an intersection of said spacer and said source-drain structure, wherein said interface under said spacer is above said upper surface of said 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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,753,451	2017-09-05	1. A method to determine tool life of a tool of a CNC machine, the method comprising: removably coupling a first tool to the CNC machine; monitoring a usage time of the first tool; and determining a percentage of use of the first tool, wherein the percentage of use is determined based on the monitored usage time of the first tool as a function of a usage time of at least one other tool different than the first tool, wherein the at least one other tool was uncoupled from the CNC machine prior to removably coupling the first tool to the CNC machine so that the first tool and the at least one other tool are configured to interchangeably couple to the CNC machine.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,302,349	2016-04-05	1. An article comprising: a. a first sheet, wherein the first sheet is a composite sheet including a polymeric core layer interposed between a first metal layer and a second metal layer, wherein the composite sheet includes one or more peripheral regions without a polymeric core layer between the first and second metal layers, and the first sheet including the polymeric core layer, the first metal layer, and the second metal layer has a first thickness; and b. a second sheet including at least one metal layer; wherein the article includes a common region where the composite sheet and the second sheet are welded together, the common region including one of the peripheral regions of the composite sheet, at least one metal layer of the second sheet is interposed between the first and second metal layers of the composite sheet in the common region, wherein the common region consists of portions of the metal layers of the first and second sheets, and the common region has a thickness that is less than the first thickness.	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,697,580	2014-04-15	1. A method of forming patterns for a semiconductor device, the method comprising: forming a first layer on a substrate; forming a blocking pattern covering a portion of the first layer; forming a sacrificial layer over the first layer and over the blocking pattern; patterning the sacrificial layer to form a sacrificial mask pattern on the first layer and on the blocking pattern, segments of the sacrificial mask pattern being integrally connected to each other; forming a plurality of spacers by using a single layer, the plurality of spacers covering sidewalls of the sacrificial mask pattern; removing the sacrificial mask pattern; and etching the first layer by using the plurality of spacers and the blocking pattern as etch masks.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,777,363	2017-10-03	1. A surface layer hardening method comprising: a pretreatment step by a shot blast treatment that causes elastic bodies to collide against a surface of a metal material; and a nitriding step of placing the metal material pretreated through the pretreatment step, within a treatment chamber, and forming a nitrogen diffusion layer in a surface layer of the pretreated metal material by nitrogen plasma generated by irradiating a nitrogen gas introduced into the treatment chamber with electron beams, and wherein in the nitriding step, nitrogen ions of the nitrogen plasma are blocked from entering the surface of the pretreated metal material while nitrogen atoms are allowed to enter the surface of the pretreated metal material, so that the nitrogen diffusion layer is formed in the 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	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	1
9,672,882	2017-06-06	1. A method comprising: performing, in a memory subsystem including a memory controller and a memory, a first data strobe delay calibration and a first reference voltage calibration to determine first calibrated values for a data strobe delay and a reference voltage, respectively; determining a reference score based on the first calibrated values of the data strobe delay and the reference voltage; and performing a second calibration, comprising:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,244,857	2016-01-26	1. A circuit configured to evaluate at least one hash function, comprising: an input configured to receive a key value; two or more hash function sub-circuits coupled to the input; a selection sub-circuit; and at least one memory; wherein each of the hash function sub-circuits is configured to: wherein the at least one memory is configured to: wherein the selection sub-circuit is configured to: wherein the received data values that are not the selected one of the received data values are not associated with the key 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	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
9,550,752	2017-01-24	1. Triazole derivative of formula (I) wherein R R R X represents a substituted or non-substituted unsaturated 5- or 6-membered heterocycle containing 1 or 2 nitrogen atom(s) as heteroatom(s) or a benzannulated derivative thereof; and/or a salt and/or N-oxide thereof.	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	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
9,007,354	2015-04-14	1. A display device, comprising: a panel; a driving circuit board connected to the panel; a driving unit mounted on the driving circuit board and driving the panel; a printed circuit board connected to the driving circuit board; and a memory unit mounted on the printed circuit board that is separate from the driving circuit board, wherein the memory unit stores calibration data for calibrating a data signal supplied to the panel; a flexible printed circuit board having a first end connected to the printed circuit board; a main board connected to a second end of the flexible circuit board; and a timing driving unit mounted on the main board and controlling the driving unit, wherein the timing driving unit receives the calibration data through data communication with the memory unit and calibrates the data signal, which is to be supplied to the driving unit, based on the calibration data, and wherein the calibration data is generated using a panel testing device according to a state of the panel.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1
8,903,123	2014-12-02	1. An image processing device comprising: a processing unit; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the processing unit storing instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the device 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	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
9,699,144	2017-07-04	1. A method comprising: establishing, by a mobile hotspot located outside of range of access points (APs) of a wireless network of an enterprise, a wide area network (WAN) connection through a telecommunication data network via a wireless WAN module of the mobile hotspot; when the mobile hotspot is in a first mode: when the mobile hotspot is in a second mode: wherein a switch on the mobile hotspot is used to place the mobile hotspot into the first mode or the second mode.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,015,406	2015-04-21	1. A method for operating a flash memory controller of a flash array, the flash array (i) configured as a cache for a disk-based storage device and (ii) containing a plurality of segments, each segment containing a plurality of data blocks, the method comprising: for each of the segments, determining ones of the data blocks that are obsolete and ones of the data blocks that are cold, wherein obsolete data blocks are ones of the data blocks that are no longer needed and cold data blocks are ones of the data blocks that are not likely to be accessed; determining an aggregate number of obsolete blocks and cold blocks contained in each of the segments; selecting one or more of the segments based on the aggregate number of obsolete blocks and cold blocks contained in each of the segments; and erasing at least one of the one or more selected segments to produce one or more reclaimed segments of the flash array.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,630,831	2014-01-14	1. A method of simulating compressible multi-phase fluid flow to characterize a subterranean structure containing a fracture corridor, comprising: representing the subterranean structure using a model, performing, by a processor, a streamline simulation using the model wherein a multiscale pressure solver solves for pressure and fluxes using multipoint flux approximations for cell interface fluxes of a flux field for tracing streamlines that characterize the subterranean structure and the fracture corridor and wherein the multiscale pressure solver accounts for mobility and compressibility of the compressible multi-phase fluid.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,853,030	2017-12-26	1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate having an NMOS region and a PMOS region; a first fin on the PMOS region of the semiconductor substrate and a second fin on the NMOS region of the semiconductor substrate; a first dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, a surface of the first dielectric layer being lower than a top surface of both of the first fin and the second fin; a gate structure on the first dielectric layer and covering across the first fin and the second fin, the first fin being substantially entirely covered by the gate structure; a first semiconductor layer on the PMOS region of the semiconductor substrate at each side of the gate structure and in contact with the first fin, wherein the first fin is underneath the gate structure, the first dielectric layer being located at both sides of each of the first semiconductor layer and the second fin; a second semiconductor layer on a top surface of a portion of the second fin exposed at the each side of the gate structure; a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and substantially filling space between the first semiconductor layer, the first dielectric layer, and the second fin, the second dielectric layer covering the first semiconductor layer; and the second semicondutor layer at least on a surface of the second fin and above the second dielectric 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	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
8,705,123	2014-04-22	1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an attribute-value-information holding unit that holds an attribute-value table showing correspondence between a type of gradation processing and a fixing-temperature control attribute value; an image-formation-attribute processing unit that determines a type of gradation processing and a corresponding fixing-temperature control attribute value on the basis of contents of a print instruction and the attribute-value table; a gradation processing unit that performs gradation processing in accordance with the type of gradation processing determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit; and a fixing-temperature control unit that controls fixing temperature in formation of a print image according to the fixing-temperature control attribute value determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit, wherein a target fixing-temperature is controlled on the basis of the type of gradation processing to be used.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,966,249	2015-02-24	1. A system to ensure the security and integrity of data stored, processed, and transmitted across devices comprising: at least one device; an application software installed on the device and coupled to the a hardware and a software stack of the device; a data encryption software and a remote attestation software installed on the device and coupled to the hardware and software stack of the device; the device coupled to a communication network; an attestation server to communicate with the device via the communication network; and wherein the application software provides a set of instructions to remotely command the device to: perform an inventory scan and a content scan of the hardware and the software stack of the device, consolidate and secure a collection of results of the inventory scan and the content scan of the hardware and the software stack of the device, store the collection of results in a storage database, use the collection of results to determine a statistically known-good configuration for a type of device, compare the collection of results with the statistically known-good configuration for the type of device, note any differences in a most recent message digest compared to the statistically known-good configuration, and send an alert to the device.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,817,862	2017-11-14	1. A method in a computing system for performing a pipelined search, comprising: (a) receiving a search query specifying a first processing command and a second processing command, the search query indicating that the first processing command precedes the second processing command; (b) accessing a plurality of timestamped events derived from machine data; (c) applying the first processing command to data from the accessed plurality of timestamped events to obtain a first result set; (d) associating, with the first result set, metadata reflecting the type of data that resulted from applying the first processing command to data from the accessed plurality of timestamped events; (e) applying the second processing command to data from the first result set to obtain a second result set; (f) associating with the second result set, metadata reflecting the type of data that resulted from applying the second processing command to data from the first result set; and (g) causing display of both the first and second result sets based on their associated metadata.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,943,040	2015-01-27	1. A method executed by a computer system, comprising: receiving a query to perform an ordered analytic function, wherein the query contains a clause specifying creation of dynamic partitions, and wherein the clause contains a partitioning condition to specify the dynamic partitions, where the clause is of a type different from a PARTITION BY clause; and during processing of the query, identifying, by the computer system, the dynamic partitions based on evaluating the partitioning condition, wherein identifying the dynamic partitions 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	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
9,348,406	2016-05-24	1. A method for a pipeline-based processor, wherein the pipeline-based processor includes at least one pipeline, the at least one pipeline including a particular pipeline, the method comprising: partitioning the particular pipeline into a plurality of pipeline stages based on one or more functions, the plurality of pipeline stages including one or more base pipeline stages and a plurality of enhanced pipeline stages; partitioning a particular pipeline stage of the plurality of pipeline stages into at least one base module and a plurality of enhanced modules, each base module of the at least one base module being a partitioned portion of the particular pipeline stage of the particular pipeline of the pipeline-based processor, each enhanced module of the plurality of enhanced modules being a partitioned portion of the particular pipeline stage of the particular pipeline of the pipeline-based processor, each enhanced module of the particular pipeline stage having a particular priority level of at least two different priority levels, at least one of the plurality of enhanced modules of the particular pipeline stage having a different priority level than at least one other of the plurality of enhanced modules, the at least two different priority levels including at least a highest priority level, the highest priority level having a relative priority higher than any other priority level of the at least two different priority levels, each of the at least one base module of the particular pipeline stage configured to be activated while the particular pipeline stage is activated; configuring each of the plurality of enhanced modules to be activated or shut down based on the particular priority level of a corresponding particular enhanced module and requirements for performance of a workload, wherein at least one of the plurality of enhanced modules of the particular pipeline stage is configured to be activated while at least another of the plurality of enhanced modules of the particular pipeline stage is shut down; determining each enhanced module of the particular pipeline stage to have one particular priority level of the at least two different priority levels according to a performance-to-power consumption ratio of a particular enhanced module, wherein a relatively high performance-to-power consumption ratio corresponds to a relatively high priority level; and configuring two or more of the plurality of enhanced modules of the particular pipeline stage to be activated in a high-to-tow order of the at least two different priority levels when the workload increases.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	0	0
8,904,159	2014-12-02	1. A method comprising: specifying a first portion and a second portion of computing resources as being critical and not critical, respectively, for enabling service to a user system in a cloud computing environment; specifying that a first type of the second portion of computing resources is preferred over a second type of the second portion of computing resources; determining whether the first portion of computing resources is available for use by the user system; in response to determining that the first portion of computing resources is unavailable for use, implementing an error condition; and in response to determining that the first portion of computing resources is available for use:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,368,090	2013-02-05	1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device comprising: a base substrate; OLEDs disposed on the base substrate; an encapsulation substrate covering the OLEDs; and a bonding member connecting the base and encapsulation substrates wherein one of the base substrate and the encapsulation substrate includes bonding grooves in which the bonding member is disposed, and wherein depths of the bonding grooves are different from 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	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
9,141,569	2015-09-22	1. A method for tracking a relative arrival order of a plurality of events stored in at least two queues, the method comprising: storing, by an order controller, each of a plurality of received events in a separate entry from among a plurality of entries in one of at least two queues with a separate counter value set from an arrival order counter at the time of storage, wherein the arrival order counter is incremented after storage of each of the plurality of received events and on overflow the arrival order counter wraps back to zero; calculating, by the order controller, an absolute value of the difference between a first counter value stored with an active first next entry from among the plurality of entries in a first queue from among the at least two queues and a second counter value stored with an active second next entry from among the plurality of entries in a second queue from among the at least two queues; and comparing, by the order controller, the absolute value with a counter midpoint value to determine whether the first counter value was stored before the second counter 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	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
9,128,391	2015-09-08	1. An optical device, comprising: a mirror configured: an optical system disposed so that the first and second laser beams are incident on the mirror such that a beam path of the first transmitted beam and a beam path of the second reflected beam are made to be parallel to each other or to substantially coincide with each other, or such that a beam path of the first reflected beam and a beam path of the second transmitted beam are made to be parallel to each other or to substantially coincide with each other; a first measuring unit configured to measure a beam parameter of at least one of the first transmitted beam and the first reflected beam; a second measuring unit configured to measure a beam parameter of at least one of the second reflected beam and the second transmitted beam; a first adjusting unit configured to adjust the first laser beam based on a measurement result by the first measuring unit; and a second adjusting unit configured to adjust the second laser beam based on a measurement result by the second measuring unit, wherein: the first adjusting unit includes a first wavefront correction part for correcting a wavefront of the first laser beam, and a first beam direction correction part for correcting a direction in which the first laser beam travels, the second adjusting unit includes a second wavefront correction part for correcting a wavefront of the second laser beam, and a second beam direction correction part for correcting a direction in which the second laser beam travels, and the correction is performed so that a difference between a measured value and a target value falls within a predetermined acceptable 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	1	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
9,056,638	2015-06-16	1. A tracked platform, comprising: a main frame having an essentially concave bottom side and an essentially concave top side, wherein said main frame comprises a power train; a plurality of rear driving wheels and a plurality of front driving wheels mounted on said main frame, where at least one of said plurality of rear driving wheels and said plurality of front driving wheels receives torque form said power train; a plurality of continuous tracks each mounted on one of said plurality of front driving wheels and one of said plurality of rear driving wheels; a plurality of robotic arms mounted on said main frame concentrically with an axle of said plurality of front driving wheels, wherein the length of each of said plurality of robotic arms is essentially the same as the length of said tracked platform; wherein a first distance between a bottom middle region of each one of said plurality of continuous tracks and said bottom side and a second distance between a top middle region each one of said plurality of continuous tracks and said top side is between 20% and 45% of a driving wheel diameter of any of said plurality of front driving wheels; wherein said bottom middle region and said top middle region are essentially equally distant from outer limits of one of said plurality of rear driving wheels and one of said plurality of front driving wheels; wherein said plurality of robotic arms are sized and shaped to preserve said first distance and said second distance.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	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	1
8,503,073	2013-08-06	1. An optical device generating light by luminescence comprising a substrate having a front side and a backside, a waveguide, a pump light source and a photoluminescent layer, wherein said waveguide is evanescently coupled with said photoluminescent layer; wherein said pump light source is provided opposite to said photoluminescent layer at said backside of said substrate; wherein said waveguide is positioned between said substrate and said photoluminescent layer; wherein said pump light source is adapted to pump said photoluminescent layer to emit light such that at least some of said emitted light is evanescently coupled into said waveguide.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
8,485,032	2013-07-16	1. A vibrating-beam accelerometer comprising: a proof mass; a base; a flexure configured to flexibly attach the proof mass to the base; at least one double-ended tuning fork (DETF) attached at one end to the proof mass and at another end to the base; a housing structure configured to enclose the proof mass within a cavity; a layer of graphene located on at least a portion of nonconductive surfaces located within the housing structure.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1
8,637,584	2014-01-28	1. An isocyanate reactive composition comprising at least one polyester polyol, at least one Mannich polyol, water and a urethane catalyst composition comprising dimethyloleyl amine.	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,525,281	2016-12-20	1. A multilayered heat-recoverable article comprising a base material layer and an adhesive layer disposed on an inner side of the base material layer, wherein the adhesive layer does not flow at a temperature of 135° C. and includes [A] a thermoplastic resin and [B] a viscosity characteristics modifier composed of an organically treated layered silicate, and a deterioration inhibitor; and in the case where the multilayered heat-recoverable article is used to cover an insulated electrical wire which includes a conductor and a polyvinyl chloride layer provided on the outer periphery thereof, cracks do not occur in the polyvinyl chloride layer under heating conditions at 135° C. for 200 hours, wherein the deterioration inhibitor is at least one selected from the group consisting of activated clay and hydrotalcite.	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	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	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8,581,920	2013-11-12	1. A method for interfacing to a memory, comprising: receiving a data signal and a masked data signal; receiving a mask control signal identifying one or more data bits of the data signal to be masked during an access to the memory; generating a modified data signal, each bit of the modified data signal selected, between a corresponding bit of the data signal and a value of the masked data signal; and providing the modified data signal and the mask control signal to the memory during the access to the memory.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,449,263	2016-09-20	1. A stamp for forming an imprint on a recording medium, comprising: an image area containing an image corresponding to the imprint formed by the stamp; a frame surrounding said image area, said frame having a plurality of sections, said frame having code information constituting a complete code; wherein each of at least two of said plurality of sections has identical code information of said code constituting said complete code.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,833,353	2014-09-16	1. An air gun firing operating system providing an air gun using compressed air to eject a bullet, thereby achieving a firing operating system to effect single firing and high-speed continuous firing by purely mechanical working operation, said system comprising: a pressure regulating system fixed by a main body of the gun, a channeling portion is fitted to the pressure regulating system, and the channeling portion is connected to the pressure regulating system to provide passage toward an interior of the main body of the pressure regulating system; the pressure regulating device is connected to a flow control device through an interpassage flow path, an output end of the flow control device affords passage to a pressure buffer chamber through a valve opening; a cylinder, a cylinder body is axially fitted in an interior of the cylinder, an exterior of the cylinder and the cylinder body are coaxially conjoined with a cylindrical outer circumferential surface; one end of the cylinder body is provided with a first opening end, a mouth edge of the first opening end is joined to a side surface of the pressure buffer chamber, and another end is provided with a second opening end of the cylinder body; a sliding shuttle tube that coaxially forms a bushing with the cylinder, an outer circumference of one end of the sliding shuttle tube is expanded and equipped with a retaining shoulder, the other end of the sliding shuttle tube is provided with a pressure feed opening; a conjoined cylindrical sliding inner circumferential surface is formed on an interior of the sliding shuttle tube, and the sliding inner circumferential surface is provided with a connecting portion facing an internal radial position of the pressure feed opening; a center of the connecting portion is joined to a conjoined sliding column facing toward one direction of the retaining shoulder, and the sliding column is provided with an end surface facing the direction of the retaining shoulder; a radial position of the end surface is within a range of a length of the sliding inner circumferential surface; a tubular cylindrical chamber is separated out between an outer circumferential surface of the sliding column and the sliding inner circumferential surface, and a bottom portion of a cylindrical chamber affords passage to a channeling pressure feed opening through air holes provided in the connecting portion; a cylinder-shaped gun chamber coaxial with the cylinder and fixed to the main body of the gun, one end of the gun chamber is coaxially joined to one end of a gun barrel, a bullet loading opening laterally connects to the gun chamber, and an outer circumference of an end opening of the gun chamber is expanded and equipped with a pressing ring on one direction of the sliding shuttle tube assembly; an arch returning spring, two ends of the arch returning spring respectively act on the retaining shoulder of the sliding shuttle tube and a corresponding end of the pressing ring of the gun chamber; the air gun firing operating system enables a shuttling outer circumferential surface of the sliding shuttle tube to similarly operate as a working shaft disposed to slide on an inner circumference of the gun chamber, and the sliding inner circumferential surface of the sliding shuttle tube enables mounting to slide on the cylindrical outer circumferential surface of the cylinder; the surface of the sliding column fitted in the interior of the sliding shuttle tube is slidably plugged the cylinder body of the cylinder, thereby enabling back-and-forth movement of the sliding shuttle tube on an axis between the cylinder and the gun chamber, and the second opening end of the cylinder body is joined to the side surface of the pressure buffer chamber using an intersecting method, thereby enabling the air pressure in the pressure buffer chamber to be rapidly obtained, and sustainably direct a flow of air pressure between the pressure buffer chamber and the channeling portion to achieve an automatic continuous firing operation; a trigger, wherein an upper end of the trigger to the gun body by means of a pin; a sliding retainer, wherein a body of the sliding retainer is fastened to the gun body by means of a pin, one end of the sliding retainer is repelled by a trigger repulsion, and the other end of the sliding retainer clamps a retaining shoulder of the sliding shuttle tube;	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,217,357	2015-12-22	1. A method of providing external insulation for an exhaust gas aftertreatment or acoustic device having a maximum operating temperature T MAX , the method comprising: providing a blanket of silica fiber insulation material having a weight percentage of SiO calcining the blanket by heating all of the silica fiber insulation material to a temperature T greater than T securing the blanket around an outermost surface of the exhaust gas aftertreatment or acoustic device after the calcining step; and encapsulating said blanket in a covering after the calcining step and prior to the securing step whereby said blanket is batting in said covering, wherein said covering between said blanket and said exhaust gas aftertreatment or acoustic device is a selected one of wire mesh or high temperature textile.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1
9,642,288	2017-05-02	1. A control device for a motor vehicle, comprising: a first circuit mount including electrical components that are electrically conductively connected to one another; and a second circuit mount including electrical components that are electrically conductively connected to one another, wherein the first circuit mount and the second circuit mount are electrically conductively connected to one another, wherein the second circuit mount is thermally conductively and fixedly connected to a fluid-tight thermally conductive mount element, wherein the first circuit mount has a recess with a through hole extending completely through the first circuit mount, the second circuit mount being arranged in the recess, and wherein the mount element (i) is arranged in the recess, (ii) has a better thermal conductivity than the first circuit mount, (iii) is configured to be thermally conductively connected to a heat sink, and (iv) is laminated into an inner edge region of the first circuit mount in a fluid-tight manner.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
9,760,397	2017-09-12	1. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on said one or more computer readable storage media, said program instructions comprising instructions to, in a transactional memory environment including a plurality of processors comprising a first processor and one or more additional processors: receive one or more memory locations; broadcast, by said first processor to said one or more additional processors, a cross-interrogate, said cross-interrogate including said one or more memory locations; receive, by said one or more additional processors, said cross-interrogate; not abort, by said one or more additional processors, any current transaction based on said cross-interrogate; generate, by each of said one or more additional processors, an indication, said indication comprising whether said one or more memory locations is in use for said current transaction by that processor; send said indication from each of said one or more additional processors to said first processor; combine, by said first processor, each said indication from said one or more additional processors to yield a status code; and return, by said first processor, said status code.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,514,746	2016-12-06	1. A speech recognition and control system for controlling a medical device in an operating room, comprising: a medical device; a microphone receiving an audio input including one or more speech commands; an event detector analyzing the audio input and identifying at least one event of the audio input; a database including a plurality of rules, a first one of the plurality of rules immediately stopping a system or device activity as soon as it detects that the one or more speech commands is begun within a predetermined period of time after the activity was commenced, and a second one of the plurality of rules alerting if a disconnection with the microphone is detected; and a controller adapted to determine a system status including actions currently being performed by devices; the controller further adapted to determine whether or not hazard mitigation is necessary based on a comparison of the at least one event, at least one rule and the system status; if having determined that hazard mitigation is necessary, the controller sending a control command to the medical device instructing it to perform an action.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,631,186	2017-04-25	1. A polynucleotide encoding an artificial nuclease, the artificial nuclease comprising (i) first and second cleavage domains from an endonuclease, wherein the first cleavage domain is catalytically inactive and the second cleavage domain is catalytically active; and (ii) a DNA-binding molecule that is heterologous to the first and second cleavage domains, and further wherein the DNA-binding molecule of the nuclease binds to a target sequence in a double-stranded genome and the nuclease induces a site-specific single-stranded break at or near the target sequence in the double-stranded genome such that the double-stranded genome is modified.	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	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9,803,321	2017-10-31	1. A method for producing a coated cellulose and/or synthetic fibre-based support which comprises a cellulose and/or synthetic fiber-based support sheet and a coating layer on at least one surface of the support sheet, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (a) forming a cellulose and/or synthetic fibre-based support sheet with or without a parchementizing process; (b) functionalizing at least one water-soluble polymer comprising hydroxyl or primary-secondary amino functional groups by grafting at least one organic molecule comprising at least one epoxy group and at least one R (c) coating the cellulose and/or synthetic fibre-based support sheet obtained according to step (a) with a layer comprising the at least one functionalized water-soluble polymer obtained according to step (b) to obtain the coated cellulose and/or synthetic fibre-based support; and (d) optionally calendering or supercalendering the coated cellulose and/or synthetic fibre-based support.	0	0	0	0	0	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	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
9,410,922	2016-08-09	1. A method for adjusting a gas sensor configured to determine a concentration of a gas component in a measuring gas chamber, the gas sensor having at least one hollow chamber which is connected to the measuring gas chamber via a diffusion barrier, and the gas sensor having at least one electrochemical pump cell for electrochemically pumping the gas component into and out of the hollow chamber, the method comprising: providing at least two pumping-in phases in which the gas component is pumped into the hollow chamber by the electrochemical pump cell, wherein a characteristic parameter regarding the pumping-in is predefined differently in the at least two pumping-in phases; providing at least two pumping-out phases in which the gas component is pumped out of the hollow chamber by the electrochemical pump cell; and generating, on the basis of at least one feature of the pump current during the at least two pumping-out phases, an adjustment value of (i) a limiting current of the electrochemical pumping-out from the hollow chamber for a defined measuring gas composition or (ii) a diffusion resistance of the diffusion barrier for a defined measuring gas composition.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,952,344	2015-02-10	1. A method of treating a substrate, comprising: directing first ions over a first range of angles to one or more photoresist features disposed on the substrate, the first ions effective to generate an altered layer in a surface region of the one or more photoresist features, the altered layer encapsulating an inner portion of the one or more photoresist features; and directing second ions different from the first ions over a second range of angles to the one or more photoresist features, the second ions effective to generate gaseous species in the inner regions of the one or more photoresist features.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,840,500	2017-12-12	1. A compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically or veterinary acceptable salt thereof, or any stereoisomer or mixtures thereof, either of the compound of formula (I) or of any of its pharmaceutically or veterinary acceptable salts wherein: R R wherein R wherein Cy R R each R wherein Cy wherein Cy each R each R each R Y is O, S, or NR Z Cy Cy wherein in the carbocyclic rings all ring members are carbon atoms; and in the heterocyclic and heteroaromatic rings one or more ring members are selected from N, O, and S; and wherein in all saturated or partially unsaturated rings one or two members of the rings are optionally C(O) and/or C(NH) and/or C[N(C	0	0	0	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
9,269,371	2016-02-23	1. A signal processing device, comprising: at least one processing unit; and a memory storing an adaptive system executable in the at least one processing unit, the adaptive system comprising modules that when executed by the at least one processing unit cause the signal processing device to adaptively filter a desired signal using a correntropy cost function, wherein the correntropy cost function includes a scaling factor that is an exponential function of an error 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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	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
9,050,508	2015-06-09	1. A golf club comprising: a shaft; a head attached to a leading end of the shaft; and a shaft case having an approximately cylindrical shape, and including a shaft insertion hole which the leading end of the shaft is inserted into and bonded to, an axis center of an outer periphery of the shaft case and an axis center of the shaft being in a non-coaxial state, the shaft case being inserted into an inner hole of a hosel column of the head, the shaft case being fixed to the hosel column with a bolt, wherein: the shaft case includes a convex axis member provided at a bottom end of the shaft case, the convex axis member including a female screw hole and a first engaging member that is provided on an outer periphery of the convex axis member; the inner hole of the hosel column has a diameter that is larger on a lower side of a step face that is provided at some midpoint in an axis center direction of the inner hole than at the step face; the hosel column includes a plurality of concave threads that are provided on the lower side of the step face on an inner periphery of the hosel column, and extend to a lower end of the hosel column, upper ends of some of the plurality of concave threads being disposed lower than the step face; a bolt holder having a cylindrical shape is provided at a lower portion of the inner hole of the hosel column, the bolt holder being arranged to connect with either one of the step face and the upper ends of the concave threads; the bolt is disposed within the bolt holder; a reduced-diameter face is provided at some midpoint in an up and down direction inside of the bolt holder, and the inside of the bolt holder has a diameter that is larger on a lower side of the reduced-diameter face than on an upper side of the reduced-diameter face; a head portion of the bolt is in contact with the reduced-diameter face from the lower side, and a threaded shaft portion of the bolt extends upper than the step face to screw into the female screw hole; a second engaging member is provided on the upper side of the reduced-diameter face on an inner periphery of the bolt holder, the second engaging member being arranged to be engaged with the first engaging member to prevent the shaft case from rotating; a flange member is provided at a top end of the shaft case, and a spacer is provided insertable and removable between the flange member and an upper end of the hosel column; the bolt holder is arranged to connect with the step face when the spacer is inserted between the flange member of the shaft case and the hosel column; and the bolt holder is arranged to connect with the upper ends of the concave threads when the spacer is removed.	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
8,509,611	2013-08-13	1. A lens controlling device, comprising: a servo calculation section which calculates a motor current setting value such that a lens position detection signal which is inputted from a photo reflector agrees with a predetermined target lens position setting signal; a motor driver which generates a motor current in accordance with the motor current setting value and supplies the motor current to a lens drive motor; and a temperature correction calculation section which monitors the motor current setting value to generate a temperature correction signal, and corrects either one of the target lens position setting signal and the lens position detection 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	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
8,995,141	2015-03-31	1. An electronic device comprising: a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a first conductive element and having a first side opposite a second side; a wall disposed on the first side of the PCB and having a channel through the wall to receive a second conductive element of an external component; and a connector at least partially connected to the printed circuit board, the connector configured to provide electrical connectivity between the first conductive element and the second conductive element in an event of the external component being connected to the electronic device, the connector comprising:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,555,065	2017-01-31	1. A method of treating an intestinal motility disorder in a subject in need thereof comprising: administering a bacterial strain to said subject in an amount effective to treat said intestinal motility disorder, the bacterial strain selected by a method of a) a step of spatiotemporal (ST) mapping carried out on a gastrointestinal segment to analyse the effect of said bacterial strain on gastrointestinal motility; and b) a step of ex vivo nerve bundle recording carried out on a gastrointestinal segment to analyse the effect of said bacterial strain on mesenteric afferent nerve firing, wherein the bacterial strain is a probiotic bacterial strain.	0	0	1	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	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	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
8,719,258	2014-05-06	1. A method for sharing information in an online community which has at least two users, the method comprising: receiving a first search request to search a website from a first user; obtaining a list of search results matching the first search request; causing the list of search results to be displayed on a screen of the first user; searching for a plurality of associated users who search the website with search requests, each of which has a scope that at least partly overlaps with a scope of the first search request; providing, to the first user, a plurality of options with respect to each of the associated users, wherein a plurality of options with respect to an associated user include an option that allows the first user to request to follow the associated user and the associated user is displayed to the first user to facilitate the first user to select the option to follow; and when the first user selects the option to follow the associated user and is accepted by the associated user as a follower, causing information about real time browsing activities of the associated user to be displayed on the screen of the first user.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	0
9,463,968	2016-10-11	1. A faucet assembly for dispensing liquid from a beverage source, the faucet assembly comprising: a housing including a body and a cover coupled to the body, the body having an inlet end with a connector portion configured to mount to a structure associated with the beverage source and an outlet end opposite the inlet end, the cover being movable relative to the body while the body is connected to the structure to provide access to an interior of the housing; an insert positioned within the housing in fluid communication with the beverage source to direct the liquid through the housing, the insert including a first end positioned at the inlet end of the housing and a second end adjacent the outlet end of the housing so that the insert is entirely supported by and removable from the housing, the insert being accessible through the housing when the cover is moved to provide access to the interior of the housing; an actuator supported by the housing, the actuator movable relative to the housing to selectively inhibit fluid flow through the insert; and a coupling member extending from the cover and engaging the body to releasably secure the cover to the body, the coupling member being spaced apart from the actuator; wherein the cover is movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein in the closed position the coupling member engages the body, and wherein in the open position the coupling member is disengaged from the body; wherein the actuator is supported on an upper portion of the body above the insert, and wherein the cover is coupled to a lower end of the body beneath the insert.	0	0	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	1
8,791,995	2014-07-29	1. A stereo video microscope system, comprising: a stereo video microscope having two output channels for providing stereo image data and including an internal lighting; a display unit having two input channels for receiving and displaying stereo image data; and a control unit operably connected to the stereo video microscope and the display unit such that the control unit can control the operation of the stereo video microscope and the display unit and the flow of stereo image data between the two output channels of the stereo video microscope and the two input channels of the display unit, wherein the control unit comprises means for performing an image rotation and means for exchanging the two output channels of the stereo video microscope for certain positions of the stereo video microscope such that the stereo image displayed by the display unit is always upright and not laterally reversed, wherein the control unit comprises means for performing an image rotation and/or means for exchanging the two output channels of the stereo video microscope for certain positions of the stereo video microscope such that the stereo image displayed by the display unit is always upright and not laterally reversed, wherein the means for performing an image rotation and the means for exchanging the two output channels of the stereo video microscope are provided by a software algorithm implemented within the control 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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,819,680	2014-08-26	1. A computer system that causes a plurality of virtual processing units to execute a plurality of virtual machines, the plurality of virtual processing units including a first virtual processing unit and a second virtual processing unit, the plurality of virtual machines including a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine, the computer system including: a first processing device comprising a physical processor that performs computer processing for the first processing device, the first processing device being allocated to (i) the first virtual processing unit when the first virtual processing unit performs first processing of the first virtual machine, and (ii) the second virtual processing unit when the second virtual processing unit performs first processing of the second virtual machine; a second processing device comprising a tick processor with a smaller scale computer architecture than the first physical processor and that performs computer processing for the second processing device, the second processing device being dedicated to second processing of the first virtual machine and to second processing of the second virtual machine, the second processing device being allocated to (i) the first virtual processing unit upon receiving a first interrupt request for causing the first virtual processing unit to perform the second processing of the first virtual machine, and (ii) the second virtual processing unit upon receiving a second interrupt request for causing the second virtual processing unit to perform the second processing of the second virtual machine; and an interrupt controller configured to issue one of the first interrupt request and the second interrupt request to the second processing device.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,449,924	2013-05-28	1. A method of treating wounds in a diabetic patient in need thereof comprising administering to said patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a Plectranthus amboinicus extract obtained by: a) contacting dried b) concentrating the c) diluting the concentrated d) adding the diluted crude extract to resin pre-treated with methanol, stirring and dipping in double distilled water to provide a first extract and resin; and further treating the spent resin to provide additional extracts by: e) obtaining the	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
9,219,132	2015-12-22	1. A method of forming a semiconductor construction, comprising: forming a vertically-extending NAND string over a substantially horizontal primary surface of a base; the NAND string having a vertically-extending NAND string channel region; forming an electrically insulative material over the NAND string channel region; forming a first semiconductor material over the electrically insulative material; forming metal-containing material over the first semiconductor material; forming a first opening to extend through the metal-containing material and the first semiconductor material to the electrically insulative material; forming a gate dielectric along sidewalls and a bottom of the first opening; forming a second opening through the gate dielectric at the bottom of the first opening and through the electrically insulative material; and forming second semiconductor material within the first and second openings; a portion of the second semiconductor material within the first opening being spaced from the first semiconductor material and the metal-containing material by at least the gate dielectric, and being a transistor channel region.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,494,200	2016-11-15	1. A power tool comprising: a housing; a motor disposed in the housing; an output spindle received at least partially in the housing; a transmission disposed in the housing and configured to selectively transmit torque from the motor to the output spindle; a clutch assembly disposed between the transmission and the output spindle, the clutch assembly including	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	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	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
8,783,203	2014-07-22	1. A modular boat assembly, comprising: a forward half hull portion, comprising a fore starboard wall, a fore port wall, a fore front wall, a fore floor wall, and a rear bulkhead; an aft half hull portion, comprising an aft starboard wall, an aft port wall, an aft rear wall, an aft floor wall, and a fore bulkhead, said aft half hull portion comprising a width slightly larger than said forward half hull portion; a boat joining means for conjoining and securing said forward half hull portion to said aft half hull portion, comprising: a removable seat assembly attachable to said forward half hull portion and said aft half hull portion and covering said boat joining means; wherein said forward half hull portion further comprises a downwardly-tapering unitary structure; wherein said assembly is convertible between a constructed version and a deconstructed version; wherein said rear bulkhead of said forward half hull portion and said fore bulkhead of said aft half hull portion conjoin when said pair of posts and said bottom post are inserted into said pair of channels and said bottom channel, respectively, to achieve said constructed version; wherein said fasteners are inserted within aligned apertures of said pair of posts and said pair of channels to secure said assembly in said constructed version; wherein said boat joining means is a waterproof construction; and, wherein said forward half hull portion and said removable seat assembly is adaptable to be stored within said aft half hull portion when said assembly is in said deconstructed version.	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
9,409,683	2016-08-09	1. A container having tamper evident and tamper resistant features comprising: a tray comprising a bottom wall and a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall and terminating in an outwardly extending tray flange and a rib projecting upwardly from at least a portion of the tray flange to at least partially define an open top, the rib comprising a tray seal structure; a cover comprising a top wall and terminating in an outwardly extending cover flange with a skirt projecting upwardly from the cover flange and terminating in a peripheral cover lip, the skirt comprising a cover seal structure, and a blocking wall extending from the top wall to define a gap between the blocking wall and the skirt; and a peripheral seal formed by the tray seal structure and the cover seal structure when the cover closes the open top of the tray; wherein when the cover is mounted to the tray to close the open top of the tray, a portion of the skirt lies on top of and terminates on the rib leaving the peripheral cover lip accessible, and wherein a length of the portion of the skirt that lies on top of the rib is less than 0.125 inches and the gap has a width less than 0.350 inches, wherein an amount of the skirt that is pinchable is insufficient to apply the force required to overcome the peripheral seal to separate the cover from the tray.	0	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
9,765,655	2017-09-19	1. A camshaft adjusting device comprising: a vane adjuster including a stator connectable to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine and a rotor rotatably supported in the stator connectable to a camshaft; multiple webs on the stator and dividing an annular space between the stator and the rotor into a plurality of pressure chambers; the rotor including a rotor hub and a plurality of vanes extending radially outwardly from the rotor hub and dividing the pressure chambers into two groups of working chambers of a different operating direction, inflowing or outflowing pressure medium may be applied to the two groups of working chambers in a pressure medium circuit; and a central locking device for locking the rotor in a central locking position with respect to the stator; at least two pressure medium lines provided together in at least one of the vanes, each of the pressure medium lines fluidically connecting two working chambers of different operating directions to each other, check valves of different operating directions provided in each pressure medium line, each check valve facilitating overflow of the pressure medium between working chambers in one direction of the two group of working chambers and preventing overflow in the other direction as a function of the rotational direction of the rotor with respect to the stator; and a first switchable valve device provided in other vanes with no check valve, the first switchable device facilitating overflow of the pressure medium between the two groups of working chambers of different operating directions in one switching position.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,300,158	2016-03-29	1. A method for setting operating parameters in a battery powered device, comprising: detecting connection to a battery prior to fully powering up the battery powered device, determining, by the battery powered device, that the battery contains a memory having operating parameters stored therein, the operating parameters including at least two voltage thresholds, wherein the at least two voltage thresholds comprise a power up threshold and an undervoltage threshold; the battery powered device acquiring from the memory in the battery the power up threshold and the undervoltage threshold; and the battery powered device programming itself with the power up threshold and the undervoltage threshold, and wherein a voltage of the battery is compared to the power up threshold and the undervoltage threshold by the battery powered device; the battery powered device being substantially disabled between the undervoltage threshold and the power up threshold; the battery powered device fully powering when the battery voltage of the battery is above the power up threshold; the battery powered device operating at full functionality, when the battery is discharging between the power up threshold and the undervoltage threshold, resulting in the battery voltage decreasing as the battery powered device uses the battery charge for operation; and the battery powered device shutting off at least a portion of the battery powered device when the battery voltage of the battery falls below the undervoltage threshold.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
8,522,564	2013-09-03	1. A temperature control system comprising: a compressor configured to compress a heat transfer fluid; a first heat exchanger in fluid communication with the compressor and configured to receive the heat transfer fluid from the compressor and to cool and condense the heat transfer fluid; a second heat exchanger in fluid communication with the first heat exchanger and the compressor and configured to exchange heat with a temperature-controlled space; a receiver in fluid communication with each of the first and second heat exchangers, the receiver positioned between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and configured to receive condensed heat transfer fluid from the first heat exchanger and to direct heat transfer fluid to the second heat exchanger; a valve positioned between the receiver and the second heat exchanger; an accumulator in fluid communication with the second heat exchanger and the compressor and configured to receive a mixture of liquid and vapor heat transfer fluid from the second heat exchanger and direct a vapor portion of the heat transfer fluid to the compressor; an evacuation line having a first end in fluid communication with and positioned between the valve and the receiver, and a second end in fluid communication with the accumulator, the evacuation line providing for flow of the heat transfer fluid from both of the first heat exchanger and the receiver to the accumulator during an evacuation mode of operation of the temperature control system; a valve arrangement in fluid communication with the first heat exchanger, the compressor, and the second heat exchanger, the valve arrangement operable in a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein the first configuration is operable to direct the heat transfer fluid from the compressor to the first heat exchanger and the second configuration is operable to direct the heat transfer fluid from the compressor to the second heat exchanger without passing through the first heat exchanger; and a controller in electrical communication with the valve arrangement, the controller operable to move the valve arrangement between the first configuration and the second configuration, wherein the valve substantially prevents the flow of heat transfer fluid from the second heat exchanger into the receiver.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
8,397,449	2013-03-19	1. A double layered window, comprising: a plurality of vertical frames and a horizontal window frame containing a gasket and an opening formed on one side of the horizontal window frame corresponding to the outside of the horizontal window frame; and a plurality of outdoor and indoor windows, each pair of the outdoor and indoor windows installed to a plurality of regions defined by the horizontal window frame and the vertical window frames, with each of said regions being adjacent to one another and with each pair of the outdoor and indoor windows being spaced apart from each other to define a space therebetween, and ventilation means formed in the gasket of the horizontal window frame such that external air is introduced into the space between the indoor and outdoor windows through the ventilation means and gasket, wherein the ventilation means comprises a through-hole formed in one side of the horizontal window frame corresponding to the space between the outdoor and indoor windows, and with the gasket having a flow passage interconnecting the opening in the horizontal window frame with the through-hole of the ventilation means.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	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
9,075,703	2015-07-07	1. A vehicle state amount estimating device comprising: an actual state amount acquiring unit configured to acquire an actual state amount that is an actual measurement value of a traveling state of a vehicle at a time of traveling of the vehicle; an estimated state amount estimation unit configured to estimate, based on a driving operation of the vehicle, an estimated state amount that is an estimated value of a traveling state of the vehicle; a target state amount obtaining unit configured to obtain a target state amount used in a behavior control of the vehicle by multiplying the actual state amount and the estimated state amount by weighting gains; and a weighting gain setting unit configured to set the weighting gains based on a drift value indicating a magnitude of a slide slipping of the vehicle, wherein the weighting gain setting unit is configured to maintain, regardless of the drift value, a first state in which the weighting gain multiplying the actual state amount is larger than the weighting gain multiplying the estimated state amount, to release the first state when a state in which a difference between the actual state amount and the estimated state amount is smaller than or equal to a second value is continued for a predetermined time, and to tolerate an increase in the weighting gain multiplying the actual state amount according to the drift value when maintaining the first state, wherein at least one of a stabilizer or a brake hydraulic pressure control device of a vehicle is controlled based on the obtained target state amount.	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	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
9,053,411	2015-06-09	1. A method of transferring an electronic document from a sending device to a mobile device the method comprising: receiving an indication to print an electronic document on the sending device; sending from the sending device to a location server a request generated from a mobile device printer driver executed by the sending device, the request comprising a target identifier for receiving the electronic document; receiving at the sending device from the location server a network identifier of the mobile device associated with the target identifier, the network identifier provided to the location server by the mobile device after the mobile device has registered to a network; formatting at the sending device the electronic document based on one or more parameters associated with the mobile device; and transferring the formatted electronic document from the sending device using the network identifier in response to the indication to print the electronic document; wherein transferring the formatted electronic document further comprises determining an access method through a network address translation (NAT) device between a first network coupled to the location server and the network on which the mobile device is registered when the sender device cannot access the mobile device after attempting a direct connection using the received network identifier.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,794,554	2014-08-05	1. A combination comprising: unbonded loosefill insulation material compressed in a package, the unbonded loosefill insulation material having insulative characteristics resulting from a predetermined open structure arrangement of tufts and voids formed from loosefill insulation material having cooperating tuft density, irregularly-shaped projections, extended hairs and gaps; and a blowing insulation machine configured to receive the compressed unbonded loosefill insulation material from the package, the blowing insulation machine having a plurality of shredders and a discharge mechanism, the shredders configured to condition the unbonded loosefill insulation material to a desired density, the discharge mechanism having a housing, the housing encircling a portion of the discharge mechanism and the remaining portion of the discharge mechanism forming a side inlet into the discharge mechanism, the side inlet configured to open in a substantially horizontal direction toward an agitator and receive the unbonded loosefill insulation material, the blowing insulation machine further configured to distribute the conditioned unbonded loosefill insulation material into an airstream, the blowing insulation machine having operating parameters tuned to the unbonded loosefill insulation material, the operating parameters include a flow rate of the unbonded loosefill insulation material through the blowing insulation machine and a flow rate of an airstream through the blowing insulation machine, the flow rate of the unbonded loosefill insulation material and the flow rate of the airstream being nonadjustable; wherein the blowing insulation machine, having the tuned nonadjustable operating parameters, combines with the insulative characteristics of the unbonded loosefill insulation materials to provide blown loosefill insulation material having the insulation manufacturer's prescribed insulative values at specific layer thicknesses.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	1	0
9,621,115	2017-04-11	1. An amplifier comprising: a device package including an output lead and at least one input lead, the device package encasing:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8,698,000	2014-04-15	1. A display device, comprising: a substrate that includes: an external connection component having a plurality of connecting portions; a plurality of conductive members electrically connecting the substrate with the external connection component, wherein a sealing material for sealing a display element, wherein the plurality of connection holes are positioned further toward an inner side of the substrate than the sealing material, in a plan view 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	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
8,975,704	2015-03-10	1. A device comprising: first and second high-k dielectric metal gate (HKMG) stacks, each comprising a high-k dielectric, a work function metal, and polysilicon (poly-Si); a nitride liner, oxide spacers, a conformal liner, and nitride spacers successively formed on each side of each of the first and second HKMG gate stacks; extension regions at opposite sides of the first HKMG gate stack formed prior to the nitride liner; embedded silicon germanium (eSiGe) at opposite sides of the first HKMG gate stack, formed prior to the conformal liner using a hardmask over the second gate stack; and deep source/drain regions at opposite sides of the second gate HKMG gate stack formed using the nitride spacers as a soft mask.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
9,679,336	2017-06-13	1. A method for implementing a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) protocol, the method comprising: sending, from a first mobile device, one or more first MANET neighbor discovery messages to one or more second mobile devices, each of the first messages including a first user identifier corresponding to a first user of the first mobile device, wherein the first user identifier corresponds to a user account of the first user in a social networking system; receiving, at the first mobile device, one or more second MANET neighbor discovery messages from the second mobile devices, decrypting one of the encrypted second user identifiers to identify a valid path between the first mobile device and a second mobile device of the one or more second mobile devices that is associated with the decrypted second user identifier, the valid path being one of a plurality of valid paths comprising encrypted connections for messages sent using the MANET protocol between users identified in a social graph within the same social networking system; and sending one or more messages along the valid path to the one of the one or more second mobile devices of the second user, wherein when it is determined that the first mobile device has no access to an external communication network and the one or more second mobile devices have access to the external communication network, the first mobile device sends the one or more messages along the valid path to the one or more second mobile 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	1	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