Spatial Digital Systems, Inc.

Cook Biotech, Inc.

Other

Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Wilson-cook Medical Incorporated

Stembios Technologies, Inc.

Phazrlo Inc.

Steve K Chen

Donald C D Chang

F Joseph Obermiller

Mou-Shiung Lin

Vihar C Surti

Jeffrey Chijieh Chang

Michael T H Lin

Ryan Dempsey

James Han Wang

Umesh H Patel

Richard W Ducharme

Juo-Yu Lee

Donald Cd Chang

Charles W Agnew

Bhavin Shah

Chad E Johnson

Yun Yen

John A Karpiel

Joseph F Obermiller

Jeffrey A Miller

Tzer-Hso Lin

James B Hunt

Chi-Kwan Jim Cheung

Jeremy Metz

Amy Overby

Hilbert D Brown

Caroline M Gayzik

Kathryn M Kornrumpf

An input switching circuit dynamically connects, based on an input mapping table, input streams to inputs of a wavefront pre-transform circuit. An output switching circuit dynamically connects, based on an output mapping table, output data at outputs of the wavefront pre-transform circuit to transport streams. A controller controls, based on a wiping command, at least one of the input and output switching circuits to alter at least one of the input and output mapping tables such that the at least one of the input and output switching circuits is disabled for connection. A first subset of the transport streams operates in a foreground mode available to a user and is transported for storage in remote storage sites at a network and a second subset of the transport streams operates in a background mode available to an administrator and is not transported for storage in the remote storage sites.

Remote wiping for data transport, storage and retrieval

A system for generating and injecting acoustic interference signals to mitigate undesired acoustic noise over a target zone. M pickup sensors pick up acoustic noise signals from one or more noise sources in real time and generate M noise signals, M>1. A beam forming network includes M acoustic beam forming modules to process the M noise signals respectively and generate N acoustic interference signals. N acoustic injectors condition, amplify and inject the N acoustic interference signals over the target zone, N>1. Each of the M acoustic beam forming modules includes a 1-to-N distribution network to transform a respective one of the M noise signals into N signals, and N finite-impulse-response filters to perform amplitude and phase weighting on the respective N signals and generate N intermediate signals which are combined respectively with corresponding intermediate signals generated by remaining M−1 acoustic beam forming modules to generate the N acoustic interference signals.

Generating acoustic quiet zone by noise injection techniques

An apparatus includes N audio receivers positioned in a pre-defined geometry with respect to P audio sources to receive P audio signals from the P audio sources; N data sets coupled to the N audio receivers to sample the received P audio signals into N data streams; a plurality of storage devices coupled to the N data sets to store the N data streams; and a post processor coupled to the plurality of storage devices to generate output signals corresponding to reconstituted P audio signals using a wavefront demultiplexing transformation, wherein N and P are positive integers and N&#x2265;P. The post processor has inputs receiving data retrieved from the plurality of storage devices and outputs providing the output signals.

Wavefront muxing and demuxing for cloud data storage and transport

A source terminal, for communications with a destination terminal via satellite links to two clusters of satellites, comprises a transmitter and a multibeam antenna system. The transmitter includes a preprocessor and a bank of modulators. The preprocessor performs a K-muxing transform, which has an inverse transform, on M concurrent input data streams to generate concurrently M output data streams, M&#x3e;1. Each output data stream is a linear combination of the M concurrent input data streams. The bank of modulators transforms N of the M output data streams into N signal streams, N&#x2264;M. The multibeam antenna system transforms the N signal streams into N shaped beams and radiating Nof the N shaped beams towards the first cluster of satellites and Nof the N shaped beams towards the second cluster of satellites, where Nand Nare positive integers and N+N=N.

Multibeam VSAT for cluster of slightly inclined GSO satellites

A communications system between a source and a destination includes a transmitter at the source and a communication connectivity. The transmitter comprises a preprocessor and a candidate envelope folder to provide M known a priori digital envelopes, M&#x2265;1. The preprocessor has N input ports and N output ports, N&#x3e;M, performs at least one wavefront multiplexing (WFM) transform on N inputs received at the N input ports to generate N outputs at the N output ports. The preprocessor performs the at least one WFM transform by calculating, for each of the N outputs, a linear combination of the N inputs using one of the M digital envelopes such that a digital format of one of the N outputs appears to human sensors as having features substantially identical to a digital format of the one of the M digital envelopes.

Enveloping for multilink communications

A MIMO basestation for a cellular communications system comprises a remote indoor processing facility coupled to an outdoor RF tower via optical fibers. The remote indoor processing facility includes a bank of RF modulators to modulate signal streams; a remote MIMO transmitting processor that includes a remote digital beam-forming network to transform the modulated signal streams into transmit beam signals; a pre-processor to perform a wavefront multiplexing transform on the transmit beam signals to generate wavefront multiplexed beam signals, each of the wavefront multiplexed beam signals being a linear combination of the transmit beam signals; and RF-to-optical drivers to perform optical modulating functions on the wavefront multiplexed beam signals to generate optical waveform streams.

Ground terminals via remote digital-beam-forming networks for satellites in non-geostationary orbit

A source terminal for communications with a destination terminal, both located near or on earth surface, via satellite links to a cluster of satellites in corresponding slightly inclined Geostationary Satellite Orbits (GSOs). The source terminal comprises a transmitter which includes a preprocessor to perform a K-muxing transform on M concurrent input data streams to generate concurrently M output data streams, M&#x3e;1, each of the M output data streams being a linear combination of the M concurrent input data streams, the K-muxing transform having an inverse transform; a bank of modulators to transform the M output data streams into N signal streams destined for the destination terminal, N&#x2264;M; and a multibeam antenna system to dynamically track and communicate with the cluster of satellites. The multibeam antenna system transforms the N signal streams into shaped beams and radiates the shaped beams towards the cluster of satellites.

One embodiment provides a storage management system. During operation, the system identifies a data file of a user. The system obtains an encrypted client registry from a primary cloud provider in a plurality of cloud providers that provide cloud storage to the user and retrieves a key associated with a device of the user by decrypting the encrypted client registry using a hash of a password associated with the user. The system obtains credentials of the plurality of cloud providers by decrypting a locally stored cloud configuration using the key and generates a plurality of coded fragments from the data file based on a generator matrix of erasure encoding. The number of coded fragments is determined based on a number of the cloud providers associated with the user. The system selects a respective coded fragment for uploading to a corresponding cloud provider in the plurality of cloud providers.

Distributed cloud storage

An apparatus includes a memory storing a digital envelope and a wavefront demultiplexing (WFD) device which receives M input streams concurrently, M being an integer greater than 1, performs a WFD transformation on the M input streams, and generates M output streams concurrently. A first input stream includes wavefront multiplexed digital identifiers for digital right management. A second input stream is the digital envelope. The first input stream presented in a digital format appears to human perception as having identical features to the digital envelope presented in the digital format. Each output stream is a linear combination of the M input streams such that the digital identifiers are recovered from at least one of the M output streams. The digital envelope is a data file used by a sender to send the M input streams and is scaled with a magnification factor greater than 1 in the WFD transformation.

Digital enveloping for digital right management and re-broadcasting

An apparatus comprises a segmenter and a pre-processor. The segmenter segments a first stream of data into P-1 substreams, P being an integer greater than 1. The pre-processor, having N input ports, N being an integer greater than P-1, receives the P-1 substreams at P-1 ports of the N input ports and a second stream at a Pinput port. The pre-processor generates P output streams from the P-1 substreams and the second stream using a P-to-P K-muxing operation. The P output streams are uploaded to a cloud storage via a network. Redundancy of the P output streams recovered by a user from the cloud storage is based on whether the second stream is accessible to the user.

Mobile scanner via private data on cloud

A receiving terminal for communication via NGSO satellites comprises an outdoor unit coupled to an indoor unit via optical fibers. The outdoor unit comprises an array antenna for capturing signals from the satellites; low-noise amplifiers; analog-to-digital conversion blocks for converting the captured signals to digital signals; a pre-processor for performing a wavefront multiplexing transform on the digital signals and generating wavefront multiplexed signals; and RF-to-optical drivers for transforming the wavefront multiplexed signals to optical waveforms. The indoor unit comprises optical-to-RF converters for optical demodulating the optical waveforms to recover the wavefront multiplexed signals; a post-processor for performing a wavefront demultiplexing transform on the wavefront multiplexed signals to recover the digital signals, the wavefront demultiplexing transform being an inverse of the wavefront multiplexing transform; a remote digital beam-forming network for generating receive beam signals from the recovered digital signals; and RF demodulators for generating data streams from the receive beam signals.

Described are medical graft products, systems, and methods useful for treating fistulae, particularly enterocutaneous fistulae. Certain products of the invention are configured to have portions residing in and around a primary fistula opening in a wall of the alimentary canal. One such product includes a biocompatible graft body which is configured to block at least the primary opening. The graft body includes a capping member connected to an elongate plug member. The capping member is configured to contact portions of the alimentary canal wall adjacent to the primary opening, and the elongate plug member is configured to extend into at least a portion of the fistula. A graft product of this sort may be particularly adapted to allow a portion of the capping member to be positioned alongside an exterior, lateral surface of the plug member, e.g., when placed in a delivery device lumen. Such a capping member may be hingedly or non-hingedly coupled to the elongate plug member.

Fistula grafts and related methods and systems useful for treating gastrointestinal and other fistulae

Fistula grafts and related methods and systems useful for treating gastrointestinal fistulae

Enveloping techniques using incoherent wavefront multiplexing (WF muxing or K-muxing) will enhance privacy protection on data communications. The disclosure relates to methods and architectures of packing or enveloping data using WF muxing, or K-muxing, for information transport via multiple communication links such as concurrently via multiple satellites, airborne platforms, wireless terrestrial links, and/or other wireless links. The multi-link communications may include the use of cloud transport of multiple WF-muxed data packages. It is focused to appearance of a digital envelop and reliability of enclosed data. The K-muxing on information digital streams before modulation in a transmitter shall provide enhanced data privacy and better availability. The WF multiplexed (WF muxed or K-muxed) information data streams will be individually and concurrently sent to the multiple links accordingly for data transport. The corresponding WF demuxing or K-demuxing will be performed on received K-muxed information digital stream after demodulation in a receiver. The terms of information data or digital information streams are used to differentiate them from those of data signals or digital signal streams. In a transmission, information data usually will be modulated by modulators and converted into data signals before being transmitted. Similarly in a receiver, a received digital signal stream is demodulated by a demodulator and become a digital information stream. The incoherent K-muxing and K-demuxing will be used for processing information data or digital information streams for the benefits of enhanced privacy and better availability. On the other hand, the coherent K-muxing and K-demuxing for processing data signals or digital signal streams will be used for power combining and/or dynamic resource allocations for communications channels.

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Pacific Palisades, CA, United States of America

Steve K Chen