Patents Examined by Allahyar Kasraian
  • Patent number: 11395197
    Abstract: The method includes determining a first type of a target network device for a first handover, the first type indicating whether a network device is a master network device or a secondary network device; transmitting a first message indicating the first type of the target network device for the first handover, so that the terminal device is disconnected with the first type of a source network device; and in response to the terminal device being connected with the first type of the target network device, a second message indicating that the first handover is completed, and the terminal device being connected with a second type of a target network device and disconnected with the second type of a source network device in a second handover, the second type being different from the first type and indicating whether a network device is a master network device or a secondary network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jing He, Tero Henttonen, Amaanat Ali, Jedrzej Stanczak
  • Patent number: 11388658
    Abstract: A device including a measurement unit configured to perform measurement of each of one or more frequency bands that are a part of a plurality of frequency bands that are not used by a terminal device. The measurement unit does not perform measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands or performs measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands at a frequency lower than a frequency of the measurements of each of the one or more frequency bands, which makes it possible to improve measurement performed by a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11388574
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of communication via a hand held device that includes receiving an indication at the device to initiate an emergency call via a wireless network; determining whether the device is configured with a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, wherein the SIM card includes a plurality of numbers; and sequentially calling the plurality of numbers stored on the SIM card based on the determination that the device is configured with the SIM card. Further, the method and apparatus include detecting an emergency indication; connecting to a wireless network; and establishing a communication with one or more emergency service providers based at least in part on detecting the emergency indication, wherein the communication is established via the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TBD SAFETY, LLC
    Inventor: Hing-Tack Chen
  • Patent number: 11378253
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor is disclosed. An embodiment according to an aspect of the present invention provides a display having a fingerprint recognition function. The display having a fingerprint recognition function may comprise: a display panel, which is disposed under a cover glass and allows rays to pass therethrough, the rays having various incident angles indicating ridges and troughs of a fingerprint that is in contact with the cover glass; and an image sensor layer, which is disposed under the display panel and detects a ray to be detected in the rays having the various incident angles to generate a fingerprint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ARCSOFT CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Kwang Sue Park, Dong Wook Nam, Byung Il Min
  • Patent number: 11375498
    Abstract: Disclosed in the embodiments of the present application are a resource pool switching method, a terminal device and a communication device, the method comprising: a first terminal device acquiring first indication information; and the first terminal device, according to the first indication information, switching a sidelink resource pool from a first resource pool to a second resource pool. The method, terminal device and communication device of the embodiments of the present application facilitate improvement in the performance of sidelink communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenshan Zhao, Huei-Ming Lin, Qianxi Lu
  • Patent number: 11375337
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitter and/or receiver units (transceivers), such as in particular motor vehicle transceivers. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods and devices for detecting changes in the positions of transceivers relative to each other. For example, a system may include: a distance determining device to measure a current distance value corresponding to a respective distance of two of the transceivers relative to each other; and a comparator to compare the at least one current distance value and with a stored reference distance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Reisinger, Ulrich Emmerling
  • Patent number: 11375419
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for prioritizing overlapping or near overlapping uplink and downlink transmissions for a source base station (BS) and a target BS during a make-before-break handover of a user equipment (UE) from the source BS to the target BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Hung Dinh Ly, Yan Zhou, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11368889
    Abstract: Disclosed are: a communication scheme for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system thereof. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligence services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daehee Park, Hanseok Kim, Daewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11336481
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an access point, a master communication apparatus, and a slave communication apparatus, and the master communication apparatus and the slave communication apparatus perform wireless communication through the access point. The master communication apparatus stores setting information necessary for accessing the access point; performs wireless communication through the access point using the stored setting information; and performs near field communication with the slave communication apparatus to transmit the stored setting information to the slave communication apparatus in response to a setting information request received from the slave communication apparatus via near field communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11330483
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless device includes transmitting, to a serving node, an indication of system information configurations stored by the wireless device, the indication including a plurality of indices each corresponding to a respective system information configuration stored by the wireless device. The wireless device receives a handover command instructing the wireless device to access a target cell, wherein the handover command indicates a selected one of the plurality of indices corresponding to the target cell, and accesses the target cell using a system information configuration corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jens Bergqvist, Janne Peisa, Icaro L. J. da Silva
  • Patent number: 11323931
    Abstract: This application discloses a method applied to a scenario in which a terminal device moves from a first AN node to a second AN node. The method includes: receiving identification information of a to-be-activated session from the terminal device via the second AN node; sending a context release command to the first AN node when a signaling connection of the terminal device exits between an AMF node and the first AN node; receiving a context release complete message carrying identification information of an active session of the terminal device from the first AN node; when the to-be-activated session and the active session have a same session, sending a first request message to request to deactivate the same session to an SMF node corresponding to the same session; and after the same session is deactivated, sending, to the SMF node, a second request message to request to activate the same session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiangwei Ying
  • Patent number: 11297493
    Abstract: A method includes sending, by an access network device, first indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information indicates a last packet in one or more first-type packets or a first packet in one or more second-type packets, where the first-type packet is enciphered using a first cipher key, and the second-type packet is enciphered using a second cipher key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuting Yao, Haibo Xu, Jian Wang, Aimin Justin Sang
  • Patent number: 11290928
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a user equipment, data relating to the user equipment, where the user equipment is communicatively coupled to a source network node, accessing a neighbor list that identifies a first pairing of first and second network nodes and a second pairing of third and fourth network nodes, and that associates a first weighting factor with the first pairing and a second weighting factor with the second pairing, selecting the first network node or the third network node as a target network node in a handover for the user equipment based on the data, the first weighting factor, and the second weighting factor, and causing the handover to be effected for the user equipment responsive to the selecting the first network node or the third network node as the target network node. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11284215
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for correlating one or more service areas of a network with one or more geolocation coordinates to determine available services for customers to the network. A service polygon may be generated that define an area in which a particular service offered by a communications network is available. The boundaries of the service polygons may be adjusted based on information corresponding to physical features of the initial area. The service polygons may aid a communications network in providing a list of available services to potential customers or devices connected to the network by determining one or more geolocation coordinate values of a potential connection site and comparing the values to the service polygons. A network management system may determine the available services, current or in the future, to offer such services to a customer to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Draper, Vamsi Kaza, Jerry Matthews, William Gray
  • Patent number: 11284312
    Abstract: A communication unit for implementing an operation for CIoT in 5GS and a communication unit for mapping a connection associated with the function for CIoT to an appropriate connection in a handover between the 5GS and EPS are provided. Even in the 5GS supporting a network slice, a communication unit for allowing the operation for CIoT to be used is provided. Furthermore, a communication unit for mapping a PDN connection associated with the operation for CIoT and established in the EPS to an appropriate PDU session in a handover of user equipment from the EPS to the 5GS is provided. Furthermore, a communication unit for mapping a PDU session established in the 5GS to an appropriate PDN connection in the handover of the user equipment from the 5GS to the EPS is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yudai Kawasaki, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 11272415
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for handover of a UE (100) from a source node (20, 30) connected to a first core network (50, 60) to a target node (20, 30) connected to a second core network (50, 60). The UE (100) receives, from the source node (20, 30), a mobility command including an indication of the radio access technology (RAT) used by the target node (20, 30) and a message container containing configuration information for the target node (20, 30). The UE (100) further determines, based on the indication of the RAT used by the target node (20, 30), whether to treat the handover as an inter-RAT handover or as an intra-RAT handover with a core network change, and performs a radio resource control procedure for one of an inter-RAT handover or an intra-RAT handover with a core network change based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Lian Araujo, Patrik Rugeland, Oumer Teyeb
  • Patent number: 11265771
    Abstract: A method of defining ATtention (AT) commands for supporting Service and Session Continuity (SSC) mode 2 and SSC mode 3 of 5G Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session operations is proposed. The AT command can be a notification of an unsolicited result code +CGEV: NW PDN DEACT, +CGEV: NW MODIFY, or +CGEV: ME PDN ACT, or a configuration command +CGDCONT with additional 5G parameters. Additional 5G parameters include an SSC, an old CID, a change reason and a PDU lifetime for the purpose of communicating information regarding the request of PDU session anchor relocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Huang-Fu, Tsung-Huan Cheng, Yu-Hsin Lin, Chi-Hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 11265770
    Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method can be performed by a first access network device. Under the method, first data transmission information sent by a terminal device can be received. The first data transmission information carries a first identifier and uplink data, and the first identifier includes an identifier identifying an anchor access network device and an identifier identifying the terminal device in the anchor access network device. First processing can be performed on the received uplink data based on channel configuration information of the terminal device. The first processing includes at least one of: physical layer processing, medium access control layer processing, or radio link control layer processing. The first processing includes no decryption and/or integrity check. Second data transmission information can be sent. The second data transmission information carries the first identifier and uplink data obtained after the first processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Wei Quan, Jian Zhang, Li Chai
  • Patent number: 11265843
    Abstract: There is provided a solution for proactively transferring downlink data addressed to a terminal device from a data routing network element of a cellular communication system. According to an embodiment, a location of the terminal device is determined and an identifier associated with the determined location is delivered to the data routing network element. Then, the data routing network element may forward the downlink data towards the terminal device even before one or more services for the delivery of the downlink data to the terminal device have been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Saily, Sofonias Hailu
  • Patent number: 11259140
    Abstract: Enhancements of and to cell phone operations are based in whole or in part on determining the location of the cell phone. Systems and methods select and determine locations or areas of importance or relevance, and based on that information and other programmed factors affect or alter the operations of the cell phone. While the systems and methods are illustrated by use of cell phone embodiments and applications, they are equally applicable to virtually any portable or mobile communication device, including for example, wireless laptop computers and PDAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ReSight, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Konicek, Steven G. Lisa