Endoscopic surgical clip applier

An apparatus for application of surgical clips to body tissue includes a jaw assembly mounted adjacent a distal end portion of a body, the jaw assembly including first and second jaw portions movable between a spaced-apart and an approximated position; a yoke slidably supported at least partially in a handle portion and being connected to at least one trigger; a drive link slidably supported at least partially in the handle portion and the body, the drive link having a proximal end connected to the yoke; a spindle supported in the body and rotatably connected to the drive link; and a jaw closure member connected to a distal end of the spindle and being positioned adjacent the first and second jaw portions to move the jaw portions to the approximated position upon a squeezing of the at least one trigger which results in distal advancement of the jaw closure member.

Harvesting energy from a surgical generator

Various embodiments are directed surgical devices and systems and methods for use with a surgical device to harvest energy from a surgical generator. The surgical device may comprise an energy storage device. The energy storage device may be in electrical communication with a surgical generator connection to provide energy from a surgical generator to charge the energy storage device and in electrical communication with at least one load component to be powered by the energy storage device. The surgical device may also comprise an end effector at least one energy element for treating tissue. The at least one energy element may be in electrical communication with the surgical generator connection to provide a therapeutic drive signal to the energy element.

Indicia-reader having unitary-construction

A hand-held indicia-reading device includes a housing and a cable having a unitary-construction. The indicia-reader has a head portion with an indicia-reading system including a printed circuit board. The entire handle portion of the reader is typically over-molded onto a host-connector cable. The host-connector cable includes a circuit board connector on one end and a connector for connecting to a host at an opposite end extending from a base portion of the handle.

Systems and methods for updatable applets

Embodiments of the invention relate to a device comprising an updatable applet and a static applet. For some embodiments, a device is disclosed comprising a processor, one or more memories storing an updatable applet, and a static applet in communication with the updatable applet, wherein the device is configured to receive updates to the updatable applet. The updatable applet and static applet may be executed through an access control software element that may prevent unrestricted access between the applets.

Global in-line extent-based deduplication

In one embodiment, a layered file system of a storage input/output (I/O) stack executes on one or more nodes of a cluster. The layered file system includes a flash-optimized, log-structured layer configured to provide sequential storage of data and metadata (i.e., a log-structured layout) on solid state drives (SSDs) of storage arrays in the cluster to reduce write amplification, while leveraging a data de-duplication feature of the storage I/O stack. An extent store layer of the file system performs and maintains mappings of the extent keys to SSD storage locations, while a volume layer of the file system performs and maintains mappings of the LUN offset ranges to the extent keys. Separation of the mapping functions between the volume and extent store layers enables different volumes with different offset ranges to reference a same extent key (and thus a same extent).

Far-field speech recognition systems and methods

A method for far-field speech recognition can include determining a location for a plurality of sound recognition devices, communicatively coupling each of the plurality of sound recognition devices, adjusting a sound reception for the plurality of sound recognition devices to receive a voice command from a particular direction, and sending instructions to a device based on the voice command.

DECODABLE INDICIA READING TERMINAL WITH COMBINED ILLUMINATION

A decodable indicia reading terminal can comprise a laser-based scanner, an imager-based scanner, a central processing unit (CPU), and an illumination assembly. The illumination assembly can include an indicator light bar and an illumination light bar. The ON/OFF state and color of the indicator light bar can reflect the state of the decodable indicia reading terminal. The illumination light bar can be configured to generate a high intensity illumination for illuminating the substrate bearing the decodable indicia. The wavelength of the light generated by the indicator light bar can be substantially equal to the wavelength of the light generated by the illumination light bar, and the light generated by the illumination light bar can have a very low perceived intensity.

User Interface for Quickly Checking Agenda and Creating New Events

A method, system, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries or calendar events are disclosed. In some embodiments, a client computer receives a web document, such as email message, with an embedded event creation link, from a remote computer. The web document includes one or more event creation links, each corresponding to a distinct text portion of the web document associated with one or more parameters for an event. The client displays the web document. The client then changes a visual appearance of the distinct text portion of the web document in response to a user hover over the distinct text portion. Furthermore, in response to activation of the embedded event creation link associated with the distinct text portion, the client computer displays an editable electronic calendar entry form with multiple fields. The multiple fields contain event information from the embedded event creation link.

Methods and systems for provisioning multiple devices

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for provisioning account information to a mobile device. In one embodiment, following the provisioning of account information to a first mobile device of a user, a second mobile device of the user may be provisioned without requiring the user to provide account information for the provisioned accounts. In another embodiment, provisioned account information may be stored to a remote database, and subsequently restored to a previously provisioned mobile device or provisioned to a new mobile device.

Real-time conversational analytics facility

Methods and systems are provided for receiving a communication, analyzing the communication in real-time or near real-time using a computer-based communications analytics facility for at least one of a language characteristic and an acoustic characteristic, wherein for analyzing the language characteristic of voice communications, the communication is converted to text using computer-based speech recognition, determining at least one of the category, the score, the sentiment, or the alert associated with the communication using the at least one language and/or acoustic characteristic, and providing a dynamic graphical representation of the at least one category, score, sentiment, or alert through a graphical user interface.