Patents Examined by Gary Lafontant
  • Patent number: 11470534
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides a system and method for evaluating candidate wireless sites within path search rings around centerpoints or new potential sites based on a portfolio of centerpoints, a portfolio of candidate sites, a variable radius of the path search rings, and a variable number of target candidates or paths sought within each path search ring, where the system and method computes radio path properties between the centerpoints and candidate sites and visually depicts bounding rings around centerpoints based on whether the target number of viable candidates or paths exist within the path search ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Wireless Applications Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Wills, Abdelelah M. Salama, Matthew R. Parzyk
  • Patent number: 11470464
    Abstract: A communication apparatus extracts a wireless network identifier from a received notification signal; based on the extracted wireless network identifier, confirms whether or not there is present a second communication operator, among communication operators other than a first communication operator of a wireless network currently being used, that is currently usable and satisfies a predetermined condition; and in the case where its presence is confirmed, makes a request for a communication profile to a subscription management apparatus that manages a communication profile for the second communication operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masashi Hamada
  • Patent number: 11463921
    Abstract: A policy control method includes receiving, by a policy control network element, an update request message carrying information about a first mobility management network element from the first mobility management network element, updating, by the policy control network element according to the update request message, information about a second mobility management network element in information of a policy association corresponding to a terminal that is stored in the policy control network element to information about the first mobility management network element. The policy control network updates the information about the second mobility management network element in the information of the policy association to the information about the first mobility management network element instead of deleting the policy association and re-establishing a policy association with the first mobility management network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zaifeng Zong, Shufeng Shi
  • Patent number: 11457348
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, arrangements and computer program products for remote subscriber identification module (SIM) provisioning. When performed in a telematics control arrangement, the SIM provisioning method comprises establishing a wireless connection with one or more SIM profile management arrangement and obtaining a plurality of SIM profiles from at least one of the one or more SIM profile management arrangements based on location information for the telematics control arrangement and/or on capabilities of wireless communication resources accessible to the telematics control arrangement. Each SIM profile comprises personalized SIM information for communication in at least one wireless communication network of a respective service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jari Vikberg, Kjell Gustafsson, Tomas Hedberg
  • Patent number: 11457492
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a first mobile equipment and a second mobile equipment sharing a single subscriber identity module. The wireless device sends a first attach request as part of a first attach procedure to a cellular network using the first mobile equipment via a first base station to establish a first communication channel to the cellular network, and sends a second attach request as part of a second attach procedure to the cellular network using the second mobile equipment via a second base station to establish a second communication channel to the cellular network. The first and second attach procedures are performed using a same subscriber identity provided by the single subscriber identity module. Upon completion of the first and second attach procedures, data communicated between the wireless device and the cellular network is transferred redundantly over the first communication channel and the second communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dhruvin Patel, Patrik Salmela
  • Patent number: 11445359
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide a method for providing voice call and data service simultaneously on plurality of SIM in EN-DC capable UE. The method includes registering a first SIM to a first network in a DCNR supported mode using a T1 and registering a second SIM to a second network in the DCNR not supported mode using a T2. The method also includes determining a 4G bearer is established on the T1 and a 5G bearer is established on the T2 by the first network using the first SIM. Further, the method also includes determining the voice call is being initiated on the second SIM when the data service is active on the first SIM through the T1 and the T2; and configuring the second SIM to provide the voice call over the T2 and the first SIM to provide the data services over the T1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kailash Kumar Jha, Alok Kumar Jangid, Aman Agarwal, Govind Irappa Uttur, Mudit Goel
  • Patent number: 11445558
    Abstract: A wireless communication device for establishing two different user equipment (UE) radio access network (RAN) attachments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Zheng Cai, Zheng Fang, David Zhijun Sun, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 11438961
    Abstract: Procedures are disclosed for alerting user devices in a 5G/6G network that they have an incoming message, and for enabling those user devices to request their messages in a low-complexity, resource-conserving manner. A user device that uses DRX (discontinuous reception) may be unavailable when a message arrives, in which case the base station may store the message. Periodically, the base station can transmit a polling message that indicates which of the user devices currently has a message on hold. In addition, the base station can allocate an uplink reply region in which those user devices can request their messages without contention. Various versions are disclosed, involving cascaded addressing, sectioning, modulation, and/or identification using network-assigned codes. The compact polling format may enable both small and large networks to accommodate DRX users, with minimal resource usage, according to some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11432231
    Abstract: An Access Class (AC) barring method can be applied to a terminal and include: detecting that at least one of a non-access stratum (NAS) triggered event and an access stratum (AS) triggered event; and performing AC barring check on at least one of the NAS triggered event and the AS triggered event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanhua Li, Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11432154
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to an exemplary system, including: an access controlling platform, executing software instructions that instruct to record an expectation data record as an access control mechanism to access an access-restricted digital resource, the expectation data record including: access code and identity linked to a computing device; where the access code is associated with the access-restricted digital resource; receive, while the access controller interface element is displayed, a mobile originating communication having data that includes the access code and the identity; perform a confirmation of the expectation data record with the mobile originating communication; instruct a cellular communications network to perform, based on at least one part of the data, at least one action with the cellular network hosted access controlling schema to generate a session record associated with the identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventor: Ari Kahn
  • Patent number: 11419051
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for power saving through discontinuous reception (DRX) in multiple subscriber identity module (multi-SIM) user equipment (UE). A method that may be performed by a UE includes determining a first DRX configuration associated with a first SIM and a second DRX configuration associated with a second SIM are asynchronous, generating, based on the first DRX configuration and the second DRX configuration, a synchronous DRX configuration for communicating with the first SIM and the second SIM, transmitting, to a first base station (BS) associated with the first SIM and to a second BS associated with the second SIM, an indication of the synchronous DRX configuration, and communicating with the first BS using the first SIM and the second BS using the second SIM in accordance with the synchronous DRX configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sudeepta Kumar Nath, Ashok Kumar Tripathi, Anil Kumar Devpura, Tushar Singh, Gagana Sindhu Sabbavarapu, Sowmya Penta
  • Patent number: 11405979
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, when it perform data communication using a master base station and a secondary base station, stops communication with the secondary base station, confirms with a user whether or not the data communication is to continue in a case where communication with the secondary base station is stopped, and in a case where it was confirmed that the data communication is not continue, stops communication with the master base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11399273
    Abstract: An electronic device discussed herein may communicatively couple to a base station. The base station may receive a first paging cycle assignment corresponding to a first subscriber identification module (SIM) card and determine a second paging cycle assignment for use with a second SIM card. The second paging cycle assignment may be generated based on the first paging cycle assignment. The base station may communicate with the electronic device using the second paging cycle assignment. The second paging cycle assignment may guide the base station to transmit data to the electronic device without interrupting a transmission made according to the first paging cycle assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Alexander Sayenko, Elmar Wagner
  • Patent number: 11395256
    Abstract: A communication method, a device, and a communications system to improve flexibility of communication management is provided. The communication method includes: sending, by an access network device, a request message to a core network device, where the request message is used to request to set up a communication connection between the access network device and the core network device, and the communication connection corresponds to a first category; and receiving, by the access network device, a response message sent by the core network device, where the response message includes transport layer information, for uplink transmission, that corresponds to the first category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Han, Yinghao Jin, Hong Li, Wei Tan, Hang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11395130
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. A method comprises: maintaining in a terminal more than one subscription identities and controlling by the user terminal transmission of a message comprising information that the terminal maintains more than one subscription identities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani, Frank Frederiksen, Kishore Krishne Gowda, Nandagopal Peethambaran Nair Rajalakshmi, Jitendra Kumar Saini, Nanda Kumar, Sambhram Kanavalli, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas
  • Patent number: 11388692
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and apparatus for supporting general registration of user equipment to facilitate MO only mode preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xu Li, Hang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11375458
    Abstract: A device and method for altitude-based interference mitigation in an aerial vehicle. The device includes a transceiver, an altimeter, and an electronic processor coupled to the transceiver and the altimeter. The electronic processor is configured to determine, via the altimeter, an altitude level of the aerial vehicle, compare the altitude level to an altitude threshold, and, in response to the altitude level exceeding the altitude threshold, control a radio frequency characteristic of the transceiver to mitigate signal interference based the altitude level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Elizabeth M. Stephens, Kenneth E. Luippold, Christopher J. Falvai, Richard L. Blanchett
  • Patent number: 11375517
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a computer program for providing end-to-end slicing in wireless communications systems. Profiles of a plurality of network slices of a wireless communications system are determined. Each network slice in the plurality of network slices has one or more communication components logically isolated from one or more communication components of another network slice in the plurality of network slices. Based on the determined profiles and a request received from the user device, a network slice in the plurality of network slices is selected for transmission of data associated with the user device. Using the selected network slice, data associated with the user device is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ALTIOSTAR NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Sridhar Bhaskaran, Anil Kumar Bhandari
  • Patent number: 11368894
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for triggering a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure of a multibeam system by means of the steps of: detecting a beam failure by monitoring a wireless link connected with a base station; identifying a candidate transmission beam of the base station; and transmitting a BFR request to the base station when the candidate transmission beam of the base station is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Bing Hui, Il Gyu Kim, Junhyeong Kim, Gosan Noh, Hee Sang Chung, Sung Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 11368834
    Abstract: An in-vehicle mobile station is presented. When a user purchases vehicle including in-vehicle mobile station, s/he operates his/her communication device and in-vehicle mobile station to write a profile in a SIM of in-vehicle mobile station and to activate the SIM. Specifically, the user initially operates communication device to register a profile to be written in the SIM of in-vehicle mobile station, in contract information management device. Subsequently, the user operates in-vehicle mobile station to write the profile registered in contract information management device, in in-vehicle mobile station, and to activate the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Aoki, Toshio Kaneda, Yuji Tamai, Naoya Noguchi, Ayumi Yamashita