Patents Examined by S. Wong
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Patent number: 11936557Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) over a selected reverse path are provided. A process, according to one implementation, include sending an echo request in a forward direction from an initiator node to a reflector node. For example, the initiator node and reflector node may be configured to operate in a network having no or different centralized controller that manages both the initiator node and reflector node. The echo request may be sent to the reflector node to discover a reverse path in a reverse direction from the reflector node to the initiator node. Also, the reverse path is discovered for the purpose of initiating a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) or Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Ping procedure.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Aditya Mittal, Pankaj Verma, Sudipta Das
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Patent number: 11935361Abstract: A gaming device comprises a display, a processor, and a memory storing (a) reel strip data defining a set of reel strips, each reel of the set of reel strips comprising prize value symbols and non-prize value symbols, wherein at least one reel strip of the set of reel strips comprises a designated symbol and (b) instructions.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY LimitedInventors: Matthew Chan, Blake Davis, Igor Suslik, Xin Liu, James Loader, Rahul Ahuja, Luke Ireland
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Patent number: 11936465Abstract: A system is provided where one of a first device or a second device is supplied with power by the other one of the first device or the second device. Supplying may be done via a universal serial bus cable like a universal serial bus Type-C cable.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.Inventor: Stephan Pruecklmayer
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Patent number: 11931656Abstract: Some embodiments include a fantasy sports game. In some embodiments, an expected performance value may be determined that may affect the outcomes of a fantasy game. In some embodiments, player location may affect available opponents for a game. Groups may play against one another in a fantasy competition. Various examples of fantasy gaming options are given.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CFPH, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, Matthew Holt, Quinton Singleton, Ian Epstein
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Patent number: 11934116Abstract: A transfer unit includes first and second rollers, a roller switching mechanism, and upstream-side and downstream-side guides. The second roller is arranged downstream of the first roller in the conveyance direction of the recording medium. The roller switching mechanism selectively arranges the first or second roller at a reference position to form a transfer nip. The upstream-side and downstream-side guides are respectively arranged upstream and downstream of the transfer nip in the conveyance direction of the recording member. When the first roller moves to the reference position by the roller switching mechanism, the second roller moves to a first retracted position behind the downstream-side guide, and when the second roller moves to the reference position by the roller switching mechanism, the first roller moves to a second retracted position behind the upstream-side guide.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Katsuhiko Hanamoto
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Patent number: 11934138Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes an endless belt configured to bear a toner image, a rotary member configured to be wound around by the belt, and configured to rotate integrally with the belt, a bearing configured to rotatably support the rotary member, a cleaning unit configured to come into contact with a surface of the belt and collect an adhering matter adhered onto the surface, an urging member configured to urge the cleaning unit toward the surface of the belt, and a support member configured from a single member and including a first supporting portion, a second supporting portion, and a third supporting portion. The first supporting portion rotatably supports the belt via the bearing and the rotary member. The second supporting portion pivotably supports the cleaning unit. The third supporting portion supports the urging member.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsushi Kawarago
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Patent number: 11934128Abstract: A fixing belt includes a base member containing a metal, a sliding layer containing a filler and formed on a base member inner side, and a separation layer formed on a base member outer side. Assume that (i) a sliding layer cross section is obtained by cutting the sliding layer along a sliding layer thickness direction and is divided into sections each having a length that is the same as a sliding layer thickness in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction, and (ii) a ratio of a filler area to a sliding layer area in each cross section sections is an area ratio. A period coefficient is calculated using the formula (Ave %?Min %)/Ave %, where an average of area ratios of filler areas in all the sections is Ave % and a minimum of the area ratios is Min %, and the calculated period coefficient is 0.6 or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroto Sugimoto, Naoki Akiyama, Yasuhiro Miyahara, Noriaki Kobayashi, Hiroki Muramatsu, Akeshi Asaka
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Patent number: 11931648Abstract: The present invention allows stress of a user that may occur until matching is completed when carrying out matching of a plurality of users with each other to be reduced. The users are arranged by taking into consideration a waiting time of a user who has never cleared content. When the user carries out a play request for content, the user is arranged in the content. The content in which the user is arranged is extracted by using an extraction condition regarding the waiting time of a non-cleared user. The plurality of users arranged in the content are thus matched.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD., SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Takemura, Yoshinori Aoyagi, Mitsutoshi Gondai, Tsuyoshi Yokozawa
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Patent number: 11929908Abstract: A method including receiving, by a first device from a second device via a meshnet connection in the mesh network, connection information associated with a LAN to which the second device is connected; calculating, by the first device based on utilizing the connection information, a range of subnet IP addresses associated with the LAN; determining, by the first device, that a LAN device is connected to the LAN based on determining that a sample subnet IP address associated with the LAN device falls within the range of subnet IP addresses associated with the LAN; and transmitting, by the first device to the second device via the meshnet connection in the mesh network, an initiation meshnet packet including information to be transmitted by the second device to the LAN device via a LAN connection between the second meshnet device and the LAN device is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: UAB 360 ITInventor: Rytis Karpuska
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Patent number: 11928934Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that randomly modify a value of an accumulated symbol upon each occurrence of a modification event.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: IGTInventors: Michael DeBrabander, Jennifer Warner, Kelsy Foster, Boris Hallerbach
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Patent number: 11928937Abstract: A gaming system including a gaming machine, a host computer, and a computing device of a user connected through a network is provided. The gaming machine may include a storage device that may store user media data corresponding to a player of the gaming machine, the user media data being received from a host computer. The gaming machine may also include a controller that may modify at least one parameter of a wager game being wagered on by the player based on the user media data by inserting at least one of an image, a video, and an audio of the user media data into the at least one parameter. The gaming machine may further include a display that may output the wager game having the at least one parameter modified with the user media data.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Angelo Palmisano
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Patent number: 11922769Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a processor configured to control a display device to display a matrix of symbol positions and a bonus meter, where the bonus meter displays a bonus prize. In response to a bonus game trigger condition being satisfied, the processor is configured to control the display device to display a plurality of volatility options, each being player selectable and associated with a number of free spins and a multiple or another percentage of the bonus prize. A player selection of one volatility option is received, and a plurality of free spins are initiated.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.Inventor: John Ludwick
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Patent number: 11921454Abstract: A digital printing system (10) includes a flexible substrate (44), an optical assembly (200, 301) and a processor (20). The flexible substrate (44) has a periodic pattern, and is configured to be moved and to receive ink droplets in a printing process that forms an image thereon. The optical assembly (200, 301) is configured to illuminate the flexible substrate (44) with light (215, 315), to detect the light (215, 315) from the flexible substrate (44), and to derive from the detected light (215, 315) a signal indicative of the periodic pattern. The processor (20) is configured to receive the signal and to monitor or control the digital printing system (10) based on the periodic pattern as indicated by the signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LANDA CORPORATION LTD.Inventor: Vitaly Burkatovsky
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Patent number: 11915558Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that modify one or more symbols based on an accumulation of such symbols at one or more symbol display positions over a plurality of plays of a game.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: IGTInventor: David Ceniceroz
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Patent number: 11917484Abstract: A method for congestion control at an eNodeB is described, comprising detecting congestion at an eNodeB and entering a congestion control mode, receiving, at the eNodeB, a new user equipment (UE) connection request that contains a radio resource control (RRC) establishment cause, and using the RRC establishment cause for identifying a congestion management strategy, the congestion management strategy comprising one of initiating a handover for an existing LTE bearer, or redirecting the new UE connection request to a 3G nodeB.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.Inventor: Yang Cao
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Patent number: 11909469Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmission opportunity limits, backoff procedures, uplink random access related to uplink multi-user transmission in a High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) are described. An embodiment is a method for performing a frame exchange sequence including an uplink multi-user (UL MU) transmission by an access point (AP) in a wireless local area, the method including acquiring a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for initiating the frame exchange sequence; determining if a time required for the frame exchange sequence not including a control response frame exceeds a TXOP limit; and transmitting a trigger frame to one or more stations (STAs) when the time required for the frame exchange sequence not including the control response frame does not exceed the TXOP limit.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLCInventor: Yongho Seok
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Patent number: 11906913Abstract: An electrophotographic belt having a layered structure with excellent scratch resistance and excellent adhesion of layers to each other. The electrophotographic belt includes a first layer and a second layer directly covering any one of the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface of the first layer, the first layer containing a first polyester resin, and the second layer containing a second polyester resin and an acrylic resin that contains a carboxy group in its molecule.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiichi Hamana, Kouichi Uchida
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Patent number: 11906909Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a developing roller which is not prone to scumming in a nonprinting area. The solution is to provide a developing roller which has an elastic layer, a coat layer formed on the elastic layer, and end portion coat layers formed on outermost surfaces on two axial end portions, wherein the end portion coat layer contains a conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Taku Yamoto, Kimiya Goto, Hideki Norisada
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Patent number: 11899391Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of forming images in mono-color and a plurality of colors includes first and second image forming units and a control unit. The image forming unit includes a rotatable image bearing member, a rotatable developing member that contacts the image bearing member to supply a developer to the surface thereof, and a developer supply member that supplies the developer to the developing member. The control unit switches between an image forming operation of forming an image on the image bearing member surface and a cleaning operation of removing an attached matter on the image bearing member surface with the developing member by controlling a voltage applied to the developing member and a voltage applied to the developer supply member.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takao Kume
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Patent number: 11902157Abstract: A node may be an active node associated with a high-availability service and may route session traffic communicated via a first route path between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The node may determine a first measurement of a traffic metric of the first route path and may receive, from another node associated with the high-availability service, a second measurement of the traffic metric of a second route path. The node may compare the first measurement and the second measurement and determine that the traffic metric is enhanced on the second route path relative to the first route path. The node may cause, via a high-availability link between the node and the other node, the other node to become the active node for routing the session traffic between the first endpoint and the second endpoint.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Sai Sundar Ramamurthy, Sunil Vallamkonda