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20090311908 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH GROUND CONTACT MODULES - A connector assembly includes a housing and a contact module assembly including first and second contact modules loaded into the housing. The first contact module has a plurality of ground leads extending between mating contacts and mounting contacts. The ground leads extend along separate paths within a first plane. The second contact module has a plurality of signal leads extending between mating contacts and mounting contacts. The signal leads extend along separate paths within a second plane. The ground leads are aligned with the signal leads in a direction transverse to the first plane, and the ground leads have a width and a thickness defining a cross-sectional area that is larger than a cross sectional area of the signal leads. | 12-17-2009 |
20100178783 | STRADDLE MOUNT CONNECTOR FOR PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER MODULE - A pluggable module for mating with a receptacle connector of a host device. The pluggable module includes a housing having a front and a rear, a circuit board held by the housing that includes a mating edge and a plurality of contact pads arranged at the mating edge, and a straddle mount connector coupled to the mating edge of the circuit board. The straddle mount connector includes a plurality of contacts engaging corresponding contact pads. The contacts extend between a termination end coupled to the contact pads and a mating end configured to engage corresponding contacts of the receptacle connector. The straddle mount connector also includes a dielectric connector body having a platform for supporting the contacts. The platform includes a plurality of dividers between each of the contacts, where the dividers define a plurality of channels that receive the contacts. The dividers extend from the platform beyond the contacts such that the contacts are recessed below an outer surface of the dividers. | 07-15-2010 |
20100178790 | RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR FOR A TRANSCEIVER ASSEMBLY - A receptacle connector includes a housing having a front, a rear, and a cavity configured to receive a mating connector through a slot at the front of the housing. A plurality of contacts are loaded into the cavity of the housing through the rear of the housing, and the contacts have channel portions aligned with one another. A retention plug is separately provided from the housing and securely coupled to the rear of the housing. The retention plug is received within the channel portions of the contacts and engages the contacts to hold the contacts within the cavity. | 07-15-2010 |
20110294313 | RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR - A receptacle connector is provided for mounting on a printed circuit having a contact mounting area and an incoming trace that extends into the contact mounting area. The receptacle connector includes a housing having a slot configured to receive a mating connector therein. The receptacle connector also includes an upper contact and a lower contact held by the housing. The upper and lower contacts include mating segments, mounting feet, and intermediate segments that extend between the mating segments and the mounting feet. The mounting foot of the lower contact is configured to be mounted on the incoming trace of the printed circuit such that the mounting foot creates a conductive path between the incoming trace and the intermediate segment of the lower contact. The conductive path forms part of a propagation path of electrical current through the electrical trace and the lower contact. | 12-01-2011 |
20120015533 | TRANSCEIVER ASSEMBLY - A receptacle connector includes a housing having a mating interface for mating with a mating connector. Ground contacts are held by the housing. The ground contacts include ground mating segments arranged along the mating interface of the housing for mating with ground terminals of the mating connector. The ground mating segments of the ground contacts include ground mating surfaces configured to engage the ground terminals. The ground mating surfaces of the ground mating segments extending within at least one ground plane. Signal contacts are held by the housing. The signal contacts include signal mating segments arranged along the mating interface of the housing for mating with signal terminals of the mating connector. The signal mating segments of the signal contacts include signal mating surfaces configured to engage the signal terminals. The signal mating surfaces of the signal contacts extend within at least one signal plane that extends parallel to and is spaced apart from the at least one ground plane. | 01-19-2012 |
20120015563 | TRANSCEIVER ASSEMBLY - A receptacle connector is provided for mating with a pluggable module having a plug and a printed circuit. The receptacle connector includes a housing having a mating receptacle and a slot. The mating receptacle is configured to receive the plug of the pluggable module therein. The slot is configured to receive the printed circuit of the pluggable module therein. A receptacle contact is held by the housing. The receptacle contact includes a receptacle mating segment that extends within the mating receptacle and is configured to engage a mating contact of the plug of the pluggable module. A slot contact is held by the housing. The slot contact includes a slot mating segment that extends within the slot and is configured to engage the printed circuit of the pluggable module. | 01-19-2012 |
20120021654 | TRANSCEIVER ASSEMBLY HAVING AN IMPROVED RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR - A receptacle connector includes contacts having posts and contact tails extending from the posts. The contact tails are configured to be mounted to a circuit board. The contacts have mating sections extending from the posts. The mating sections are configured for mating with a mating connector. The contacts define signal contacts and ground contacts with the signal contacts arranged in pairs and the pairs of signal contacts being separated by at least one ground contact. The receptacle connector also includes a housing holding the signal and ground contacts in parallel at a predetermined pitch. The housing has a front and a rear with a cavity at the front being configured to receive the mating connector. The housing has walls defining channels that receive the signal and ground contacts. The channels holding the signal contacts have air pockets between the signal contacts such that the amount of air between adjacent signal contacts is greater than the amount of air between signal contacts and adjacent ground contacts. | 01-26-2012 |
20120225588 | CARD EDGE CONNECTOR - A card edge connector is provided for mating with a printed circuit board (PCB) having a card edge. The connector includes a housing having a card slot. The card slot is configured to receive the card edge of the PCB therein. The card slot includes opposing first and second sides. Signal contacts are held by the housing. The signal contacts include signal mating segments arranged in opposing first and second rows that extend along the opposing first and second sides, respectively, of the card slot. The signal mating segments are arranged in differential signal pairs, wherein the signal mating segments within a differential pair are arranged within the same row of the first and second rows. A ground contact is held by the housing. The ground contact includes a base and first and second ground mating segments that extend outwardly from the base. The first and second ground mating segments are arranged along the first and second sides, respectively, of the card slot such that the first and second ground mating segments are configured to engage the card edge therebetween. The first and second ground mating segments include springs that resiliently deflect when engaged by the card edge. | 09-06-2012 |
20130034977 | RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR FOR A PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER MODULE - A receptacle connector includes a dielectric connector body having a receptacle configured to receive a mating connector therein. Signal and ground contacts are held by the connector body. The signal and ground contacts include mating segments that are arranged within the receptacle of the connector body in a row that extends a length along a row axis. The mating segments of the signal and ground contacts include mating interfaces that extend within the receptacle for mating with corresponding mating contacts of the mating connector. A ground shield extends within the receptacle. The ground shield overlaps the mating segments of the signal and ground contacts within the receptacle along the length of the row of the mating segments. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034998 | STRADDLE MOUNT CONNECTOR FOR A PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER MODULE - A straddle mount connector is provided for edge mounting to a circuit board of a pluggable module. The straddle mount connector includes a dielectric connector body having a base and a plug extending from the base. The base is configured to be coupled to an edge of the circuit board. The plug has opposite first and second sides and a plate cavity that extends within the plug between the first and second sides. The plug is configured to be received within a receptacle of a receptacle connector. Electrical contacts are held by the connector body. The electrical contacts include mating segments. The mating segments of a first group of the electrical contacts are arranged in a first row that extends a length along the first side of the plug. The mating segments of a second group of the electrical contacts are arranged in a second row that extends a length along the second side of the plug. A ground plate is held within the plate cavity of the plug of the connector body. The ground plate extends between the first and second rows of electrical contacts along the lengths of the first and second rows. | 02-07-2013 |
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20100088133 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES FRAMEWORK - Disclosed are embodiments a software architecture for benefits management. The software architecture provides a fixed software layer (e.g., program code) which defines a workflow to support benefits management at a generic level. The workflow defines a fixed, predetermined process through which an enterprise management system receives new requests for benefits, determines whether the request meets eligibility criteria and awards or rejects the benefits request. The software architecture includes a customization layer which includes a number of customization objects, each customization object adapting performance of the generic software layer to be appropriate for a specific benefits program. This software architecture minimizes cost to benefits providers because the generic software layer is common to all public benefits programs being managed by a software user. The software architecture finds ready application for a number of different benefits administration organizations, who need only provide a customization layer to define operation sufficient for their own needs. | 04-08-2010 |
20100088284 | ARCHIVING SYSTEM FOR MASSIVE DATABASES USING PRE-COMPUTED DATA LIFECYCLES - An enterprise management system includes transaction/analytic applications and an archiving system in which data object lifecycles are pre-computed when the data object is created by the transaction application or analytic application. Having pre-computed the data lifecycle via the transaction/analytic applications, an archiving system need not re-determine whether the criteria for archiving are met. When the archiving system is initiated, the archiving system may identify the data objects having lifecycle dates that match the current date and archive them directly. | 04-08-2010 |
20120011037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A SOCIAL SERVICE DEDUCTION PLAN - A method and system of generating deduction plan document for issuing benefits to a recipient. The method and system may include receiving a request from a user to generate a deduction plan document; responsive to receiving the request, creating a new deduction plan document including a header and at least one data item, the header including a category data field, the at least one data item including item category and deduction amount data fields; populating the data field of the header by displaying a first graphic user interface (GUI) page through which the user enters a value to the category data field of the header; populating the data fields of the at least one data item by displaying a second GUI page through which the user enters values to the data fields of the at least one data item; responsive to the populating the deduction plan document, simulating the deduction plan document being executed in a subsequent net calculation process; and responsive to receiving a simulation result from the net calculation process, determining whether the simulation result is satisfactory; if not, displaying a third GUI page to the user for adjusting the deduction amount; and if so, displaying a third GUI page for the user to approve and activate the deduction plan document. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011038 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROSS PAYMENT ITEM DETERMINATION IN PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES - Disclosed are embodiments that provide a system, computer readable medium and a computer-implemented method for calculating gross payment items (GPIs) to provide monetary benefits to a recipient. The disclosed embodiment may use a computer processor of a back end of the computer system to generate an entitlement document for a benefit plan. The entitlement document may include a plurality of entitlement items, each including an entitlement amount for an entitlement period. The entitlement frequencies may be mapped to payment frequencies that each GPI has a corresponding entitlement item. Moreover, a due date for each GPI may be calculated and compared to a reference date to determine whether each GPI is due. Further, for each GPI, an existing overlapping GPI is checked and gross payment amounts are set by taking the existing overlapping GPI into account. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICES MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of a system, machine readable storage medium and a computer-implemented method for implementing a services management system for providing services to a recipient are disclosed. The system may include a computer application controller operating on a back end server accessible by a user application operating on a front end server. The back end server may generate a computer object in response to remote function calls performed by the user application operating on the front end server. Data in the remote function calls may contain data related to services approved for a particular recipient. The generated computer objects may be operated upon by processes executing on the back end server that calculate a gross entitlement amount of benefits for the recipient. The calculated amounts may be passed to a gross payment calculation object and a net calculation objects. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING NET PAYMENT IN SOCIAL SERVICES - A method and system of generating net calculation documents for issuing benefits to a recipient. The method and system may include receiving gross payment documents (GPDs) each including a plurality of gross payment items (GPIs) each including a benefit amount the recipient is entitled to and deduction plan documents (DPDs) each including a plurality of deduction plan items (DPIs) each including a deduction amount from a corresponding GPI. Responsive to receiving one of an update to at least one of the GPIs and at least one new GPIs, the method and system may further include grouping all GPIs into groups based on pre-determined criteria, determining a time period that extends over all GPIs that are affected by the updated/new GPIs and need recalculation, determining net calculation units (NCUs) each unit having an identical payment frequency, dividing the NCUs into homogeneous time slices based on benefit payment dates, and for each time slice, generating a NCD including a header, a plurality of GPIs and DPIs for the time slice. | 01-12-2012 |
20130166310 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO SOCIAL BENEFIT DETERMINATIONS - In one general aspect, a computer system can include an input data parser configured to receive a plurality of input values from an application for a social benefit, and a first phase module configured to determine a first result based on a first phase of benefit decision processing using a first input value from the plurality of input values, and configured to trigger processing associated with a second phase of benefit decision processing based on the first input value from the plurality of input values satisfying a phase triggering condition. The computer system can include a second phase module configured to receive the first result from the first phase module, and configured to determine a second result based on the second phase of benefit decision processing using the first result and a second input value from the plurality of input values. | 06-27-2013 |
20150019451 | DECISION BASIS FOR BENEFITS PROGRAM - A computer implemented method including populating a data structure, stored on a computer readable storage device, with data for use in determining eligibility for benefits from a benefits program, performing a verification check on the data using evidence related to the data, making a decision regarding eligibility for benefits based on the verified data and rules for the benefits program, and storing the data utilized in the decision, including the evidence used in the verification check. | 01-15-2015 |