Patents Examined by German Viana Di Prisco
  • Patent number: 11374325
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna apparatus includes at least four first to Nth circularly polarized antennas in a planar shape; and phase adjustment circuitry adjusting phase relationship between first to Nth signals of the first to Nth circularly polarized antennas. The first to Mth circularly polarized antennas and the M+1th to Nth circularly polarized antennas are arranged at positions surface-symmetrical to each other. The first to Nth circularly polarized antennas are rotated in direction at first to Nth angles with respect to a first direction parallel to the first to Nth circularly polarized antennas. The phase adjustment circuitry is configured to set phases of the first to Mth signals to first to Mth phases corresponding to the first to Mth angles, and set phases of the M+1th to Nth signals to M+1th to Nth phases added by a first value to phases corresponding to the M+1th to Nth angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yukako Tsutsumi, Makoto Higaki
  • Patent number: 11368832
    Abstract: A method for a base station includes receiving a signal relating to a location of a user equipment (UE) from the UE, selecting a first exchange for the UE and sending the signal to the first exchange, and sending the signal to a second exchange based on subscription information of the UE provided by a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11363520
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay may identify an operator, of a wireless network, that provides service on a first frequency band, and may transmit, to a user equipment and using a second frequency band associated with the relay, a communication that includes information associated with the operator of the wireless network and information indicating that the relay is capable of providing a layer 1 relay function, associated with the first frequency band, to the user equipment. In some aspects, the first frequency band and the second frequency band are on different frequencies. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11356170
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of reducing interference caused by an aerial vehicle in a mobile communications system, the method comprising arranging for the aerial vehicle to steer radio transmissions when the aerial vehicle is airborne such that a direction of the transmissions is adjusted to be directed vertically downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans
  • Patent number: 11349980
    Abstract: In an aspect, a method of preventing tampering of a mobile device lock, wherein the method comprises: a client application executed in a mobile device monitoring the reception of presence messages transmitted, e.g. broadcast, by a user-detecting device in the vehicle, the user-detecting device comprising a radio interface configured to wirelessly transmit presence messages when the vehicle is moving, preferably the presence message comprising an identification code, preferably a MAC address, of the user detecting device. The client application repeatedly, for example periodically or regularly, wirelessly transmitting notification messages to a server in a network, the notification messages signaling the server that the client application is being executed on the mobile device. The client application determines if the user is inside the vehicle; monitors the velocity of the vehicle and locks the mobile device; and monitors user interaction with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SafeDrivePod International B.V.
    Inventor: Erik Petrus Nicolaas Damen
  • Patent number: 11304030
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing, by a tracking system, an application associated with the tracking system configured to cause a computing device to determine and send a location associated with a tracking device and an identity of the tracking device in response to the computing device receiving a signal from the tracking device. The method includes receiving, by a tracking system server, from a first computing device executing the application associated with the tracking system, a location associated with the tracking device and the identity of the tracking device. The method includes receiving, by the tracking system server from a second computing device, a request to locate the tracking device. The method includes providing, by the tracking system server to the second computing device, the location associated with the tracking device received from the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas George Evans, Michael George Farley
  • Patent number: 11294465
    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: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: James Malcolm Spears, John David Clark, Lisa Horgan, John David Windham
  • Patent number: 11297594
    Abstract: Locations of cells of a communication network can be estimated, determined, and validated. Cell location component (CLC) can analyze timing advance (TA) measurement data and/or location data associated with devices associated with a base station associated with one or more cells. CLC can estimate a first location of the base station, based on the TA measurement data and/or location data, to facilitate estimating the location of an associated cell. CLC can validate the estimated cell location or recorded cell location of the cell (recorded in a cell location pool) based on analysis of estimated cell location, recorded cell location, TA measurement data, and/or location data, and, based on the validation, can tag the cell location determination as accurate, acceptable, bad, or uncertain. CLC can request additional monitoring of a cell location determination tagged as uncertain, or investigation of a cell location determination tagged as bad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Ye Ge, Abraham George, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11290882
    Abstract: A method for a re-authentication of user equipment (UE), by at least a portion of a core network (CN), for steering of roaming (SoR) data delivery, includes receiving, through next generation radio access network (NG-RAN) and/or 5G system (5GS), a subscriber data management (SDM) data request for a UE. The method includes determining that re-authentication of the UE be requested. The method includes encoding a response for transmission to the UE responsive to the SDM data request. Determining that re-authentication be requested can include determining that SoR data is being sent to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Zaus, Abhijeet Kolekar, Ahmed Soliman, Sameer S. Sharma
  • Patent number: 11265040
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a cooperative spectrum sharing model that jointly optimizes primary user equipment parameters for improved frequency agility and performance while mitigating mutual interference between the primary user equipment and secondary user equipment. Spectrum sensing is implemented to form a power spectral estimate of the electromagnetic environment (EME) and apply multi-objective optimization to adjust the operational parameters of the primary user equipment to mitigate interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Anthony F. Martone, Kyle A. Gallagher, Kelly D. Sherbondy
  • Patent number: 11265698
    Abstract: A system and method may improve latency for user equipment (UE) registration in cellular networks. UE registration may retrieve the UE's configuration and subscription data locally rather than from a network or cloud-based unified data management (UDM) entity that manages a unified data repository (UDR). For example, the UE may send a unique identification (e.g., a UE ID) for the UE to a registering entity of a cellular network system. The UE ID may then be used to identify a UE Group Identification for the UE at the UDM. The UE Group Identification may be a pointer to the locally-stored configuration and subscription data for the UE. The entity requesting registration may then use the pointer to retrieve the configuration and subscription data locally rather than a remote entity such as the UDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Jhon Nelson Sihotang
  • Patent number: 11259342
    Abstract: Systems and methods of signaling RDS and PS Data Off in a UE and to a network are described. A UE includes TE and a MT. The TE determines whether RDS and PSDO are to be used for a PDN connection, and generates an AT command for communication to the MT to indicate an RDS status and a PSDO status of the PDN connection. The MT indicates to the network, based on the AT command, the RDS status and PSDO status of the PDN connection at the ME. The AT command enables the TE and allows the ME to communicate support for, and the status of RDS and PSDO, to the MT and enables usage, testing and status reporting of the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Vivek G. Gupta
  • Patent number: 11252556
    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: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Waqar Afzal, Suliman Albasheir
  • Patent number: 11234131
    Abstract: An information verification method and a related device. The method includes: receiving, by a first profile server, a remote profile management request sent by a remote profile management server, where the remote profile management request includes a first profile owner identifier; obtaining a second profile owner identifier in profile information; determining whether the first profile owner identifier is the same as the second profile owner identifier; and sending a remote profile management command to user equipment when the first profile owner identifier is the same as the second profile owner identifier. In this way, a loss caused to an operator or a profile owner due to a user's access to an invalid network or random profile unlocking is avoided, network security is improved, and waste of network resources is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunan Fan, Shuiping Long, Linyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11229002
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using ranging signals with cellular devices. The ranging signals may utilize ranging slots and resources at least partially allocated by a cellular network. The resources may include frequencies used for uplink or downlink communications between the cellular network and the cellular devices. Alternatively, the resources may include frequencies outside of a spectrum used for communication between the cellular network and the cellular devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Rohit U. Nabar, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 11223717
    Abstract: A retrieving component connects to a server to download a cue stack for the interactive event with the cue stack having a series of cues for a plurality of effects, including at least one of a screen color effect, a screen image effect, and a flashing effect, arranged in a predetermined order. A receiving component receives at least one cue trigger from a localized trigger generator. A rendering component matches the cue trigger to a cue within the cue stack. The rendering component can activate the screen to display a color in response to a cue for a screen color effect, can activate the screen to display an image in response to a cue for a screen image effect, and can activate the flashing device in response to a cue for a flashing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nymbus, LLC
    Inventors: David Wright, Nicholas Amoscato, Matthew Beck
  • Patent number: 11212771
    Abstract: Method, device, base station and user equipment for implementing paging monitoring are described. At a base station side, the method includes: grouping a user equipment in a cell controlled by the base station, and allocating a group identifier to each group; for each user equipment, transmitting the group identifier corresponding to the user equipment and a paging indicator monitoring occasion to the user equipment; transmitting a paging indicator to the user equipment currently required to be paged or scheduled. At a user equipment side, the method includes: receiving a group identifier and a paging indicator monitoring occasion transmitted from a base station; monitoring a paging indicator at the paging indicator monitoring occasion; starting to monitor paging control information, when it is monitored that the paging indicator contains the group identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huayu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11206595
    Abstract: A RAN location server function (e.g. for 5G New Radio), referred to as Location Management Component (LMC), may be included in a gNB and connected to a gNB Central Unit (gNB-CU). The gNB-CU may receive a location request for a UE (e.g. from an AMF) and may initiate a location session for the UE, including selecting an LMC for the location session. The gNB-CU may handover the UE to a new serving gNB during the location session. The LMC for the location session may then remain unchanged after the handover or may be changed to a new LMC to suit the new serving gNB. The location session may then continue using the original LMC if not changed or the new LMC if changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 11202168
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a first computing device from a tracking system server, a request to locate a tracking device, the request comprising an identifier for the tracking device. The method includes receiving a signal from a tracking device in an environment of the first computing device, the signal including an identifier for the tracking device in the environment of the first computing device. The method includes determining that the tracking device in the environment of the first computing device is the tracking device of the request to locate the tracking device by comparing the identifier for the tracking device received from the tracking system server and the identifier for the tracking device in the environment of the first computing device. The method includes providing, to the tracking system server, the location associated with the tracking device and the identifier for the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas George Evans, Michael George Farley
  • Patent number: 11153742
    Abstract: A system for providing locations of emergency callers receives call data related to emergency calls received at a public safety answering point (PSAP) and a supplemental data signal that includes a location of an emergency. A signal correlation engine determines whether the supplemental data signal corresponds to one of the emergency calls received at the PSAP. A web server provides a user interface that includes a map and a supplemental signal indicator corresponding to the supplemental data signal. The supplemental signal indicator is positioned on the map at the location of the emergency, and the supplemental signal indicator has a visual characteristic indicating whether or not the supplemental data signal corresponds to an emergency call received at the PSAP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: RapidDeploy, Inc.
    Inventors: Reinhard Ekl, Brooks Thomas Shannon