Patents Examined by Chuck Huynh
  • Patent number: 11963244
    Abstract: An information handling system operating a 5G network slice hub service system may comprise a wireless wide area network (WWAN) interface device transceiving data with a radio access network (RAN) within a RAN network slice, a wireless local area network (WLAN) interface device transceiving data with an endpoint computing device, a processor instructing a software defined network (SDN) controller to route data transceived within a set of RAN network slices at the WWAN interface device to be extended via a subset of radio frequencies designated for one or more endpoint device at the WLAN interface device by the SDN controller to the one or more endpoint devices, and routing data on the extended RAN network slice between the endpoint device and the WWAN interface device interfacing with the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Anantha K. Boyapalle, Liam B. Quinn, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 11956756
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a request processing method and a corresponding entity, to control a data notification and signaling that is used for triggering paging, thereby avoiding overload of a network element in a core network. The request processing method includes: determining, by an AMF, a first control plane function entity for a terminal device; determining, by the AMF, that the terminal device enters an idle state; obtaining, by the AMF, a first reachability service invocation request from the first control plane function entity; and rejecting, by the AMF, the first reachability service invocation request when the AMF determines, based on the first reachability service invocation request, that a reachability service invocation limitation condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qianghua Zhu, Zheng Zhou, Chunshan Xiong
  • Patent number: 11943677
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for beam recovery and radio link failure (RLF) in communications systems using beamforming and operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. An exemplary method that may be performed by a UE includes communicating using beamforming with a base station (BS) via a transmit beam and a receive beam of an active beam pair and obtaining an indication of one or more alternative beams for the UE to use to send a beam recovery message to the BS in the event the transmit beam and the receive beam of the active beam pair become misaligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11902863
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a message associated with a 5th Generation (5G) wireless service, the message containing: a first section including a service type identifier entry and a first timestamp that corresponds to the service type identifier entry; and a second section including a secondary radio access technology (RAT) entry, one or more data volume entries, and a second timestamp that corresponds to the secondary RAT entry and to the one or more data volume entries; matching the first timestamp and the second timestamp based upon a first value of the first timestamp equaling a second value of the second timestamp; and responsive to the matching of the first timestamp and the second timestamp, associating the service type identifier entry of the first section with the one or more data volume entries of the second section. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Mario Manuel Jardon
  • Patent number: 11792604
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing information associated with a location history of a mobile device to one or more applications are disclosed. A mobile device generates one or more location history records based on one or more locations of the mobile device, each location history record comprising one or more points of interest and a duration at the one or more points of interest, receives an information request from at least one application, determines a subset of the one or more location history records that meet criteria from the information request, determines a level of permission for the at least one application based on the information request and the subset of the one or more location history records, and provides information associated with the subset of the one or more location history records to the at least one application based on the level of permission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hui Chao, Saumitra Mohan Das, Yin Chen
  • Patent number: 11765648
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of communications. Disclosed are an access type selection method and device and a storage medium, for solving the problem in the prior art that the location service for a UE cannot be implemented under an access of a 3GPP access type and a non-3GPP access type when AMFs servicing the UE are different. The method comprises: a gateway mobile location center (GMLC) receives a second request sent from a location service (LCS) client; and the GMLC determines an access type for transmitting location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunjing Hou, Ming Ai
  • Patent number: 11706591
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing, by a user equipment, a short message service (SMS) message to initiate Wi-Fi onboarding to a mobile network, receiving, by the user equipment, a binary SMS message including a request for a certificate signing request by a server, generating, by the user equipment, the certificate signing request based on the request for the certificate signing request of the binary SMS message, providing, by the user equipment, the certificate signing request to the mobile network, and receiving, by the user equipment, a binary SMS message including Wi-Fi login data based on the certificate signing request provided to the mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Arun G. Khanna
  • Patent number: 11706703
    Abstract: In a method for configuring a Software Defined Radio (SDR) capable user equipment, the SDR capable user equipment wirelessly loads an SDR program from a radio access network. The SDR capable user equipment executes the loaded SDR program, the SDR program on execution configuring the SDR capable user equipment to support a desired wireless communication technology. The SDR capable user equipment loads the SDR program using a dedicated SDR configuration channel, the dedicated SDR configuration channel being disjoint with any communication channel defined by the desired wireless communication technology. The SDR capable user equipment scans a predetermined frequency spectrum searching a broadcasted beacon. The SDR capable user equipment receives the broadcasted beacon and tunes to the dedicated SDR configuration channel or a subchannel thereof pointed to by a pointer for loading the SDR program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Axel Klatt, Raimund Walsdorf
  • Patent number: 11700571
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for recovering an RRC connection, and a computer storage medium. The method includes a target base station receiving an RRC connection recovery request message sent by a terminal. The method also includes the target base station determining, according to a UE identifier in the RRC connection recovery request message, a first node served by the terminal, and acquiring a UE context from the first node. The UE context includes a first UE context at a first node side and a second UE context at a second node side. The method further includes the target base station sending an RRC connection recovery message to the terminal, so that the terminal recovers an RRC connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11647398
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure is to generate environment information for a network design, and a method for generating environment information may include determining a location difference value of a building between first information based on photographing and second information based on measurement, and correcting a location of an obstacle determined using the first information using the location difference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonkyun Park, Soonyoung Lee, Sungbum Park
  • Patent number: 11638190
    Abstract: Various types of communication may switch from an unlicensed spectrum to a licensed spectrum. MiCr communication may be synchronized based on transmission time intervals (TTIs), which may improve the duration required to switch between bands. A MiCr system may transmit a signal to temporarily suspend other traffic in a licensed band so that MiCr communication may occur. For example, an apparatus may be configured to determine synchronization between a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT based on transmission time intervals associated with the first RAT and transmission time intervals associated with the second RAT, switch from the first RAT to the second RAT after the determined synchronization between the first RAT the second RAT; and transmit, during a TTI associated with the second RAT, a first packet using the second RAT based on the switch from the first RAT to the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Chong Li, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11632377
    Abstract: Methods and devices for determining whether a mobile device has been compromised. File tree structure information for the mobile device is obtained that details at least a portion of a tree-based structure of folders and files in a portion of memory. The file tree structure information is analyzed to determine that the mobile device has been compromised, has not been compromised, or might be compromised. Based on determining that the mobile device might be compromised, the mobile device is instructed to execute a restricted action. If the restricted action occurs on the mobile device then it is determined that the mobile device has been compromised. Based on that determination, an action is taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chang Fung Yang, Robert Joseph Lombardi, Chi Hing Ng, Johnathan George White
  • Patent number: 11570684
    Abstract: A method is performed by a destination node connected to wireless mesh routers configured to implement a source routing protocol in which the mesh routers propagate route request packets broadcasted by a source node to the destination node, the mesh routers add their addresses to accumulated paths in the route request packets, and add to the accumulated paths trust indicators that indicate whether mesh routers among the mesh routers from previous hops along the accumulated paths are trusted or compromised. The destination node receives the route request packets which convey the accumulated paths. The destination node determines trusted paths among the accumulated paths for which all of the mesh routers along the accumulated paths are trusted based on the trust indicators for the accumulated paths. The destination node determines a preferred path among the trusted paths, and forwards an indication of the preferred path to the source node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Niranjan M M, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
  • Patent number: 11568032
    Abstract: A mobile device is configured to wirelessly authenticate with a reader device. The mobile device may receive an acoustic signal from a user, and a command may be determined based on the acoustic signal. The mobile device may transmit the command to the reader device if the mobile device and the reader device are authenticated. The reader device may receive the command, and may analyze the command to determine an action to be performed. The reader device may then perform the action if the mobile device is authorized to request the command to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Raymond F. Rettig, Michelle Vickrey
  • Patent number: 11558738
    Abstract: A privacy protection method and apparatus for a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes specifying basic information, privacy protection indication, and fictitious information of a contact item to be recorded in a contact list, determining, when a contact is received from an external terminal, whether a privacy protection function is activated for the external terminal, and outputting, when the privacy protection function is activated for the external terminal, a contact reception screen and a contact handling screen that include pre-specified fictitious information of the external terminal and exclude pre-specified basic information thereon. As a result, when a contact is received from a counterpart, information on the counterpart can be prevented from being displayed on the screen. Hence, it is possible to prevent inadvertent disclosure of counterpart information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Ho Park
  • Patent number: 11550068
    Abstract: A method of modeling mutable environmental structures includes receiving an estimated location of a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receiver in an environment and a plurality of GNSS-related features corresponding to a GNSS signal received at the GNSS receiver. The method also includes determining a plurality of candidate positions about the estimated location for the GNSS receiver. Each candidate position corresponds to a possible actual location of the GNSS receiver in the environment. For each candidate position, the method further includes generating, as an output from a GNSS localization model configured to receive the plurality of GNSS-related features as input, a respective probability that the respective candidate position includes the actual location of the GNSS receiver. The method also includes selecting from the plurality of candidate positions, the respective candidate position having a greatest probability as the actual location of the GNSS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Maggiolo, Imad Jean Fattouch, Andrea Marchesini, Zixuan Qu, Zifei Tong
  • Patent number: 11533092
    Abstract: In a case where an A-BFT period is not present in a BI, a PCP/AP uses a format that includes an Unsolicited RSS Enabled sub-field for indicating support for responding to unsolicited RSSs within a CBAP, for a Beacon Interval Control field of a DMG beacon frame used for executing a BTI-ISS. For example, in a case where it is indicated that responding to unsolicited RSSs within a CBAP is supported, the PCP/AP sets the value of the Unsolicited RSS Enabled sub-field to 1. In a case where the value of the Unsolicited RSS Enabled sub-field included in a received DMG beacon frame is 1, a STA responds with an unsolicited CBAP-RSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie
  • Patent number: 11490322
    Abstract: A network provider implements network slicing. Network instances are instantiated on a communication network that are configured to provide a configured set of services that are accessible to a controlled set of devices. When a first device is either registered or authenticated with the communication network or has entered a service area, a service profile is identified and analyzed. In response to determining that the service profile matches a configured set of services for one of the instantiated network instances, the first device is enabled to access the matching instantiated network instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmad Arash Obaidi, Christopher Joul, Jean-Luc Bouthemy
  • Patent number: 11445468
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that may include: an ultra wide band (UWB) communication module; a plurality of antennas; and a processor operatively connected to the UWB communication module. The UWB communication module may be configured to: receive first data of an UWB data frame from an external electronic device by using a first antenna set including at least two antennas among the plurality of antennas to measure a first angle of arrival (AOA); receive second data of the UWB data frame by using a second antenna set including at least two antennas among the plurality of antennas to measure a second AOA, where the second antenna set is configured during a section of the UWB data frame that does not include data; and measure the direction of the external electronic device by using the first AOA and the second AOA. It is possible to provide various other embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Yang, Moonseok Kang, Hyunchul Kim, Jonghoon Jang, Sehwan Choi, Sukgi Hong
  • Patent number: 11425634
    Abstract: This application provides a slice information update method and an apparatus. The method includes: when determining that a network slice that was not supported by a PLMN is updated to be supported by the PLMN, sending, by a network slice selection network element, a notification message to a communications network element, where the notification message is used to indicate that the PLMN supports the network slice; and notifying, by the communications network element, a terminal that the PLMN currently supports the network slice. In this way, the corresponding terminal learns that the PLMN currently supports the network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangyuan Zhu, Yan Li