Patents Examined by Charles N. Appiah
  • Patent number: 11647479
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for measuring signal strength emitted by a wireless portable device to determine the location of the wireless portable device. The wireless portable device may be located within a designated geographical location, premise or facility. The measurement involves two levels of transmissions. A first level involves a user's wireless portable device receiving signals from a plurality of beacons in the vicinity. The second level involves transmission of repeater signals from a mesh network. The payload of these signals, which may include a duress signal, includes the strength of the received beacon signals, so that when the duress signal is received by a controller, the signal strengths of both levels/types of transmissions can be determined. This two-level collection of signals is then processed by a neural network which have been previously trained to classify the signal collections into precise locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CAUZWAY, LLC
    Inventors: David L. Nelson, Richard H. Spellman
  • Patent number: 11627511
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate data stream routing and entitlement for Internet of Things (IoT) data streams. In one example, a method is provided that may include causing an IoT device to connect to a plurality of access networks based on a data stream policy; directing, based on the data stream policy, an IoT gateway to transmit a plurality of output data streams to a plurality of destinations in which the plurality of output data streams are based on a source data stream obtained by the IoT gateway from the IoT device via one or more of the plurality of access networks. The method may further include determining a degradation for at least one access network and, upon determining the degradation, causing a remediation action to be performed by at least one of the IoT device and the IoT gateway based on the data stream policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Timothy Peter Stammers
  • Patent number: 11620877
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention comprise skill-based wagering games, systems and devices. In one embodiment of the invention, the configuration of a skill-based game is dependent upon the skill level of the player or players. In one embodiment, the game is configured so that the odds of winning the game, and thus the payout for a winning outcome, depends upon the player's skill level. In other embodiments, the payouts or awards offered to players are fixed and the difficultly level for achieving a winning outcome is adjusted based upon the skill levels of the players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Super Money Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Mohan Gupta, Ofir Ventura, Seth Schorr, Andrew M. Costello, Bryan O'Reilly
  • Patent number: 11601786
    Abstract: A posting right giving device acquires region information indicating a region designated by an establisher requesting creation of a community. The posting right giving device stores the acquired region information and community identification information for identifying the community in association with each other in a storage. The posting right giving device acquires positional information indicating a position of a terminal device used by a user different from the establisher. The posting right giving device executes, when the position indicated by the acquired positional information is included in the region indicated by the stored region information, processing for giving the user a right to post information to the community identified with the community identification information stored in association with the region information. The right to post information allows the user to post the information regardless of whether the terminal device is located within the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Raukten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hirata, Yasuaki Shirogane, Takashi Shirota, Yutaka Tachi, Kenji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11595791
    Abstract: A method and system for the leveraging a reserved relationship number by an SLS platform and/or SLS phone module for the purpose of performing special operations other than making an SLS call available for termination at a subscriber TD and/or a third party TD involve associating the SLS phone number of the subscriber, the primary number of the subscriber and a next set of instructions via a common reserved relationship number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventors: George Backhaus, Jignesh Gandhi, Julio Gonzalez, John Green, Philip Lowman, Paul Rubenstein, Mike Speanburg
  • Patent number: 11589302
    Abstract: There are provided measures for configuration of power saving groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Stephen Mwanje, Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa
  • Patent number: 11589194
    Abstract: A method, a structure, and a computer system for location-driven social network boosting. The exemplary embodiments may include generating a network graph corresponding to a user of a social network and identifying a destined location of the user that differs from a current location of the user. The exemplary embodiments may further include identifying one or more gaps in the social network of the user at the destined location and augmenting the social network to fill the one or more gaps at the destined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Sathyanarayanan Srinivasan, Fang Lu, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 11576100
    Abstract: Provided in the present specification is a method by which a user device performs a handover in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method by which a user device performs a handover comprises the steps of: connecting by Bluetooth with a first target device on the basis of first authentication information; measuring a first link state between the user device and the first target device; measuring a second link state between the user device and the second target device; determining whether to perform a handover for the second target device on the basis of the first link state and the second link state; and performing a Bluetooth connection procedure with the second target device when performance of the handover for the second target device is determined, wherein second authentication information for the Bluetooth connection procedure with the second target device is the same as the first authentication information for the Bluetooth connection with the first target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jingu Choi, Taeyoung Song, Hyeonjae Lee
  • Patent number: 11570677
    Abstract: A wireless User Equipment (UE) is configured to hand over to a roaming network. The wireless UE comprises a radio and processing circuitry. The radio wirelessly transfers UE capabilities to a home wireless network and receives performance information for the wireless networks from the home wireless network. The radio measures signal strengths for the roaming wireless networks. The radio transfers the performance information and signal strengths to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines candidate roaming networks based on the signal strengths. The processing circuitry determines performance differentials between the home network and the candidate roaming networks based on the performance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11570679
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for EPS fallback status report by the modem to the upper layers. In one embodiment, the mobile terminal (MT) initiates a 5G voice call, detects an EPSFB triggered by the wireless network, identifies one or more EPSFB status and sends one or more EPSFB status indicators to at least one upper layer based on the identified one or more EPSFB status. In one embodiment, the EPS fall back is a redirection procedure. In another embodiment, the EPS fallback is a handover procedure. In yet another embodiment, the one or more EPSFB status indictors comprising a redirection to EPS started indicator, a handover to EPS started indicator, a redirection to EPS failed indicator, a handover to EPS failed indicator, a redirection to EPS success indicator, and a handover to EPS success indicator. In one embodiment, the MT sends EPSFB status indicators using AT command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yucheng Huang, Chun Hsu, Cheng-Yu Chen, Marko Niemi
  • Patent number: 11564061
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from the appropriate provision of location information. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from the transmission of location information to devices along with wireless emergency alert messages using cell broadcast. A method can include receiving, at a user equipment, coordinates for an alert area for a wireless emergency alert. The method can also include determining, at the user equipment, whether the user equipment is within the alert area based on the coordinates. The method can further include processing the wireless emergency alert at the user equipment in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Nagaraja Rao
  • Patent number: 11564149
    Abstract: An architecture to avoid handover ping-pong for aerial user equipment (UE) operational in terrestrial fourth generation (4G) and/or fifth generation (5G) long term evolution (LTE) networks. A method can comprise receiving a request to connect to the network equipment from aerial user equipment; based on the request to connect, retrieving subscription data; based on the subscription data, determining that the aerial user equipment is aerial equipment; determining that the aerial user equipment is engaged in a ping-pong handover event with terrestrial based network equipment situated within a defined geographic area; and transmitting instructions to the aerial user equipment to confirm the ping-pong handover event, wherein the instruction comprises a delay value representing a back off time value for the aerial user equipment to refrain from gathering measurement data within the defined geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Beppler, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11558894
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to an apparatus, system, and method for providing aperiodic uplink grants to a UE for aperiodic communications from the UE to a base station. In some embodiments, the UE may be configured to communicate information to the base station, which may be useable by the base station to determine an uplink grant schedule for subsequent communications between the base station and the UE. This uplink grant schedule may be aperiodic, i.e., the uplink grants may be issued at non-uniform intervals of time. The UE may receive the uplink grants from the base station according to the uplink grant schedule. The UE may transmit uplink communications to the base station in response to the received uplink grants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto, Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Samy Khay-Ibbat
  • Patent number: 11558928
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards proactive content placement for low latency mobile access. Digital content requested by a mobile device can be sent to network nodes proactively, so that the network nodes have the digital content before it is requested by the mobile device. Mobile device travel predictions can be made to predict future locations of the mobile device. The future locations can be used to determine network nodes for proactive digital content delivery. The digital content for delivery to a network node can also be predicted based on current digital content in use at the mobile device and estimated arrival times of the mobile device into service areas of next network nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Deva-Datta Sharma, John Oetting, Vishwa M. Prasad
  • Patent number: 11553412
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network communication device that includes a backhaul link circuit and a Wi-Fi access point to provide broadband services to a service provider's broadband customers and to provide mobility services to the service provider's mobility customers. This network communication device is installed outside of a dwelling unit in order to simplify the installation procedure and avoid property disruption. An extender device registered to a broadband customer user account may associate to the access point for seamless service. User equipment (UE) of the service provider's mobility customers may associate to the access point to receive Wi-Fi roaming services. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bhushan Padhiar, Stewart Barker, Abdellah Tazi, Lujing Cai
  • Patent number: 11546802
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and a system for supporting flexible user equipment (UE) bandwidth by the UE during a random access are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Youngbin Chang
  • Patent number: 11546821
    Abstract: A method for selecting a gateway node to support handover when a user equipment (UE) attaches to a 4G long-term evolution (LTE) network may include receiving a prediction from a machine learning engine predicting whether the UE is more likely to handover between the 4G LTE network and a 3G network or between the 4G LTE network and a 5G network based on handover data in the UE's location area. The method may further include selecting a first gateway node if the prediction indicates that the UE is more likely to handover between the 4G LTE network and the 3G network, and selecting a second gateway node if the prediction indicates that the UE is more likely to handover between the 4G LTE network and a 5G network. The first gateway node may support 4G and 3G sessions, and the second gateway node may support 4G and 5G sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Suliman Albasheir, Muhammad Waqar Afzal
  • Patent number: 11543262
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing information about fuel stations. A system includes an imaging system and a profile management system. The imaging system is used for generating imaging data for a fuel station onboard a vehicle. The profile management system receives the imaging data. The profile management system identifies selected information for the fuel station based on the imaging data received. The selected information includes an identification of the fuel station, pricing information, and at least one of fuel inventory information, or business hours information for the fuel station. The profile management system updates a profile for the fuel station based on the selected information. The profile management system sends at least a portion of the profile for the fuel station to a target system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Mark McClung, Gopal Kalaimani Senthilkumar, Emily Lerner
  • Patent number: 11546207
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing automatic access point registration. In some implementations, a method includes receiving an indication of automatic device on-boarding activation. The method further includes receiving a selection of one or includes identification more reference devices. The method further includes determining one or more detectable devices of the one or more candidate devices to be onboarded that are detectable by at least one of the one or more reference devices. The method further includes obtaining one or more automatic configuration parameters from one or more of the reference devices. The method further includes configuring one or more of the detectable devices to be onboarded with the one or more automatic configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Balthasar Biedermann, Dirk Bolte, Ye Huang
  • Patent number: 11533604
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of network communication, in particular to a method and system for controlling ID identifier network mobility based on a programmable switch. The system includes mobile terminal nodes, mobile access points, programmable switching nodes and control nodes, wherein the control nodes include local control nodes and a global control node, the mobile terminal nodes are connected and communicated with the mobile access points through wireless data links, the mobile access points are connected and communicated with the programmable switching nodes through wired data links, and the programmable switching nodes, the local control nodes and the global control node are connected and communicated in order through control links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Zhejiang Lab
    Inventors: Qi Xu, Ruyun Zhang, Tao Zou, Hanguang Luo