Patents Examined by German Viana Di Prisco
  • Patent number: 11985587
    Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment, a location server, a contents server and the communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry. The transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry are configured in combination to receive assistance information comprising a communication trigger from the location server via the infrastructure equipment, to estimate a current geographical location of the communications device, and to select, dependent on the current geographical location of the communications device and/or on the communication trigger, one of a plurality of wireless communications technologies to be used by the communications device for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11985546
    Abstract: A method performed by a wireless communications device for accessing an unlicensed radio frequency band. The wireless communications device is configured to operate in the unlicensed radio frequency band. The unlicensed radio frequency band comprises a plurality of radio frequency bandwidth parts and is used by a wireless communications network comprising a network node. The wireless communications device receives, from the network node, an indication enabling the wireless communications device to make a prioritization among the plurality of radio frequency bandwidth parts. The wireless communications device accesses the unlicensed radio frequency band in accordance with the prioritization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 11985731
    Abstract: A device, located in a core network associated with a radio access network (RAN), may include a processor configured to expose services or capabilities to application servers outside the core network, wherein the device is located in a core network associated with a radio access network (RAN). The processor may be further configured to receive a subscriber identifier message from a gateway device that established a connection to a user equipment (UE) device via the RAN, wherein the subscriber identifier message includes information identifying the UE device; receive a request from an application server associated with the connection for the information identifying the UE device; and provide the requested information identifying the UE device to the application server, in response to receiving the request from the application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Huang, Jason Logan Anderson, Om Prakash, Michael R. Waters, Shannon A. Donaghey, Carlos A Cazanas, Brendan Major, Miguel A Carames, Alexander Fadeev
  • Patent number: 11979850
    Abstract: A respective preferred installation height above ground level is determined for each of a plurality of locations for a subscriber module for receiving a radio link from an access point in a wireless network, the access point having a given height above ground level and a specified location, and the subscriber module being situated within a given geographical area including the location of the access point. The method comprises accessing elevation data for the given geographical area, processing the elevation data to generate a preferred height data file representing a preferred height for a subscriber module to be wirelessly visible by the access point at each of the plurality of locations and processing the required height data file to provide output data indicating the preferred height of the subscriber module as a function of location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Cambium Networks Ltd
    Inventors: Michael Ryabko, Matthew Rawcliffe, Andrew Haywood, Benjamin Poche, Daniel Canty Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11956687
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE moves from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAT to maintain continuity of a call and takes one or more actions involving a third RAT to speed a return to the first RAT after the call has ended in the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi, Lingaiah Anugula, Srikanth Reddy Dolu Surabhi
  • Patent number: 11950185
    Abstract: Systems and methods for configuring wake-up signals are provided. A network node allocates a first wake-up signal (WUS) at a first frequency location and one or more second WUSs at second frequency location(s). Responsive to receiving a page associated with a wireless device, the network node transmits the appropriate first or second WUS on the configured frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Magnus Åström, Anders Wallén, Andreas Höglund
  • Patent number: 11937146
    Abstract: Techniques are described for filtering location data in a dataset based at least on its representation of the actual location of a user device. In some embodiments, sensor data including location data associated with a user device located in an environment may be used to identify one or more prediction factors. The one or more prediction factors may be associated to embed a user behavior vector of a user based at least on the associations. The user behavior vector may be a representation of an environment class in which the environment may be classified. The location data is associated with the environment class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Antoine Tran, Doru Culiac, Jie Hui
  • Patent number: 11930441
    Abstract: Aspects described herein may relate to systems and methods for automatically adjusting user device settings when a user attends an event or otherwise brings a user device into a context in which an automatic adjustment of settings is appropriate. By providing for automatic adjusting of user device settings, the systems and methods may achieve greater compliance with rules and other policies of airlines, performance venues, schools, and/or other entities associated with events and/or contexts in which user device settings should be adjusted. Aspects described herein may allow for automatic adjustment of user device settings without compromising a user's privacy, security, or control of a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Goodsitt, Vincent Pham, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11917508
    Abstract: A method of provisioning an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) to a wireless communication device. The method comprises provisioning an eSIM profile into an eSIM of a virtual eSIM provisioning platform provided by a computer system and where the eSIM profile comprises wireless communication service provider data and wireless communication service subscriber data, partitioning by an eSIM provisioning application a process of writing the eSIM profile to an eSIM of a wireless communication device into a plurality of messages, whereby the complexity of provisioning the eSIM profile to the eSIM of the wireless communication device is handled by the intelligence of the eSIM provisioning application, establishing wireless communication by the eSIM provisioning application with a wireless communication device having an eSIM, and sending the messages by the eSIM provisioning application to the eSIM of the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: David William James Holmes
  • Patent number: 11917478
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system disclosed herein are directed to a user equipment (UE) capable of dynamically selecting a telecommunication network for running an application using edge-computing capability of the telecommunication network. A subscriber identity module (SIM), such as an eSIM, may be provisioned for a plurality of preferred telecommunication networks of a multi-network mobile edge computing (MEC) system where each network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks meets an edge-computing requirement of the application. A workload associated with the application may be distributed among edge-computing nodes of a first network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Bongaarts, Andrew Gapin, Gunjan Nimbavikar
  • Patent number: 11917704
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for receiving only complete information on other access points (APs) in a transmitting multi-link device (MLD) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Specifically, a receiving MLD transmits a probe request frame to the transmitting MLD through a first link. The receiving MLD receives a probe response frame from the transmitting MLD through the first link. The probe request frame includes a frame body and a profile field of a second receiving station (STA). When a first receiving STA does not request complete information on the first link and requests complete information on the second link, the complete information on the second link is requested based on the profile field of the second receiving STA. The probe response frame does not include the complete information on the first link, and includes only the complete information on the second link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Namyeong Kim, Jeongki Kim, Jinsoo Choi, Insun Jang
  • Patent number: 11914774
    Abstract: Techniques are described for dynamically determining the flow of screens to be presented in a user interface (UI) of an application executing on a computing device, based at least partly on a detected presence of a user device (e.g., a portable computing device) in a particular geographic area. Area designation data is transmitted to, and stored on, a user device. The area designation data can describe a geofenced area and/or beacon signals. In response to determining that the user device is in the geographic area indicated by the area designation data, the user device may transmit an alert signal that causes an interface flow to be dynamically determined and executed for an application executing on the computing device that is separate from the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: James Malcolm Spears, John David Clark, Lisa Horgan, John David Windham
  • Patent number: 11910268
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a first computing device from a user of the first computing device, a request to locate a tracking device associated with the first computing device. The method includes sending, by the first computing device to a tracking system server in response to receiving the request to locate the tracking device from the user of the first computing device, a request for a location of the tracking device. The method includes receiving, by the first computing device from the tracking system server, a location of the tracking device, the location of the tracking device being a location associated with the tracking device determined by a second computing device of the plurality of computing devices and provided by the second computing device in response to the second computing device receiving a signal from the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas George Evans, Michael George Farley
  • Patent number: 11902865
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE), e.g., such as a pedestrian UE (PUE), may detect, during a first transmission period of a discontinuous transmission cycle, a transmission over a sidelink channel from a second UE that is located within a threshold distance from the first UE, the first UE associated with a first identifier. The first UE may determine, based at least in part on the transmission, a second identifier associated with the second UE, the second identifier being different from the first identifier. The first UE may use, based at least in part on the second UE being within the threshold distance, the first identifier and the second identifier during one or more subsequent transmission periods of the discontinuous transmission cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Shailesh Patil
  • Patent number: 11892538
    Abstract: An electronic device and an operation method of the electronic device for transceiving data through ultra-wideband (UWB) in a wireless communication system are provided. The operation method includes broadcasting or multicasting, by the electronic device, a ranging start message including first data; receiving, by the electronic device from another electronic device, a ranging response message including second data; and broadcasting or multicasting, by the electronic device, a ranging final message including third data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Yi Yang, Seongah Jeong, Moonseok Kang, Sejong Yoon, Jonghyo Lee, Jonghoon Jang, Sehwan Choi
  • Patent number: 11889460
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses include an endpoint structured to be coupled to an outdoor power equipment and including an operation sensor structured to provide operational information indicative of an operational status of the outdoor power equipment, and a transmitter structured to wirelessly transmit the operational information; and a gateway including a receiver structured to receive the operational information from the endpoint, and one or more processing circuits comprising one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors, the one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: associate the operational information with a timestamp, record a history of operational information and associated timestamps, and transmit the history to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Bernier, Mario Divis, Peter Douglas Shears
  • Patent number: 11877343
    Abstract: Methods and systems for cellular device detection are presented. A signal processing receiver operable to determine a plurality of uplink parameters according to a downlink broadcast message. The signal processing receiver is also configurable to receive an uplink message according to the plurality of uplink parameters, thereby determining a presence and/or an identity of a cellular device by decoding the uplink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Epiq Solutions
    Inventors: Keith Blankenship, John Orlando, Aaron Madsen, Michael Johnson
  • Patent number: 11871481
    Abstract: A method and system for content filtering. A network repository function unit registers a session management function unit. The session management function unit initiates a session in response to a session request from a user equipment. The session management function unit accesses a subscriber profile stored by a data management unit, and the subscriber profile includes one or more content filtering settings. In response to the session being established, the session management function unit is configured to determine data packets for the user equipment to be filtered based on the one or more content filtering settings. Absent triggering an instruction to be sent via a Gx interface, an access and mobility management function (AMF) unit is configured to select the session management function unit in compliance with the one or more content filtering settings for filtering the data packets for the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Waqar Afzal, Suliman Albasheir
  • Patent number: 11856622
    Abstract: Devices are dynamically paired at a new location based on historical context with respect to previous device pairing and a pairing environment. A request is received at a computer to pair a user device to a device at a new location. Historical context of the user device paired at a previous location to one or more devices at the previous location is analyzed. Pairing of the user device to the device at the new location is automatically initiated based on the analysis of the historical context, and the automatic initiation includes adjusting settings on the user device based on the historical context. Pairing the user device to the device at the new location automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Dilip Kumar Ronanki
  • Patent number: 11856627
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and an apparatus. UE establishes a connection to a home access gateway by using CPE, the home access gateway sends configuration information of a first link and configuration information of a second link to the CPE, and sends the configuration information of the second link to the UE. The first link is a link between the CPE and the home access gateway, the second link is a link between the CPE and the UE, the configuration information of the first link is used to indicate quality of service QoS information of the first link, and the configuration information of the second link is used to indicate QoS information of the second link. The UE and the CPE ensure, based on respective configuration information, QoS of UE service data transmitted on the first link and the second link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanping Zhu, Yada Huang