Patents Examined by Joshua L Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11674891
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure include at least one building component detection sensor device configured to be deployed within (or proximate to) a building comprised of a plurality of building components. The at least one building component detection sensor device is configured to detect data relating to at least one building component of the plurality of building components. In addition, a building component property determination system includes a processor configured to execute instructions stored in memory to determine one or more properties of the at least one building component based at least in part on the data detected by the at least one building component detection sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F. Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
  • Patent number: 11669989
    Abstract: Remaining material on a material package and its location may be determined. First, image data associated with a material package may be received by a server. Next, material package data associated with the material package may be received. A Machine Learning (ML) model may then be used to determine an estimated remaining amount of material associated with the material package based upon input derived from the image data and the material package data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Spruell
  • Patent number: 11671789
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an automatic explanation method, comprising: establishing communication with a presentation terminal and acquiring a terminal identifier of the presentation terminal; uploading the terminal identifier to a server and receiving returned explanation content information comprising an explanation content which matches a presentation content of the presentation terminal; and outputting the explanation content. The present disclosure further discloses an explanation terminal, a server, a presentation terminal, a system, an electronic device, and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinyi Cheng
  • Patent number: 11671953
    Abstract: A media rendering device and method for scan of channels on the media rendering device is provided. The media rendering device determines a first geographical region associated with a location of the media rendering device. A first set of over-the-air (OTA) channels may be communicated in the first geographical region. The media rendering device determines a second geographical region within a threshold distance from the location of the media rendering device. A second set of OTA channels may be communicated in the second geographical region. The media rendering device receives a first user input to scan the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels, and configures the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels on the media rendering device, based on the scan of the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Loren Pineda, Max Wu, Tanmay Agnihotri, Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11665665
    Abstract: One or more location-based clients can be activated on a mobile device for providing location-based services. The location-based clients can be provided with information (e.g., presets, defaults) related to the current location and/or mode of the mobile device. The information can be obtained from one or more network resources. In some implementations, a location-based client can concurrently display map and vehicle information related to a location of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie, Robert E. Borchers, Imran A. Chaudhri, Peter Henry Mahowald
  • Patent number: 11665731
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an apparatus and a method for managing coexistence of multiple communication schemes by an electronic device. The electronic device may include: a first communication circuit configured to support a first frequency band; a second communication circuit configured to support at least a part of the first frequency band and a second frequency band; a first switch connected to the first communication circuit; a second switch connected to the second communication circuit and the first switch; a first antenna connected to the first switch and configured to support the first frequency band; and a second antenna connected to the second switch and configured to support the second frequency band, wherein based on the second communication circuit using the first frequency band, the second communication circuit is configured to control the first switch and the second switch to selectively connect the first antenna to one of the first communication circuit or the second communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geonwoo Kim, Sehwan Choi
  • Patent number: 11665676
    Abstract: The invention relates to improve use of resource units in MU transmissions of an 802.11ax network. An un-associated station may receive data frames over a downlink resource unit, RU, assigned to an AID, e.g. 2045, reserved for stations not associated with the AP, The AP may use a downlink RU sharing an allocation scheme feature of an uplink RU previously used by the un-associated station. The AP may also aggregated data frames addressed to several stations within the same downlink RU, for instance to acknowledge frames previously received from the stations. The aggregated data frames may signal which respective response RUs the addressee stations should use for a next multi-user uplink transmission to respond to the AP. These approaches particularly applies to the exchange of management frames for instance to speed up the association procedure of un-associated stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Patrice Nezou, Pascal Viger, Stéphane Baron, Julien Sevin
  • Patent number: 11663725
    Abstract: One example of a method includes receiving a plurality of video streams depicting a scene, wherein the plurality of video streams provides images of the scene from a plurality of different viewpoints, identifying a target that is present in the scene, wherein the target is identified based on a determination of a likelihood of being of interest to a viewer of the scene, determining a trajectory of the target through the plurality of video streams, wherein the determining is based in part on an automated visual analysis of the plurality of video streams, wherein the determining is based in part on a visual analysis of the plurality of video streams, rendering a volumetric video traversal that follows the target through the scene, wherein the rendering comprises compositing the plurality of video streams, receiving viewer feedback regarding the volumetric video traversal, and adjusting the rendering in response to the viewer feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Crawford Gibbon, Tan Xu, Lee Begeja, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray, Raghuraman Gopalan, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11659405
    Abstract: Cloud-based systems and methods are provided for assigning shared spectrum resources to secondary users. The methods may comprise receiving, by a central block entity, a request for channel availability from a secondary user to access a shared spectrum in a wireless network, authenticating the secondary user, validating the secondary user, routing the request for channel availability to a managing block entity, receiving available frequency information from the managing block entity, assigning a frequency and an effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) to the secondary user based on the available frequency information from the managing block entity, and transmitting, to the secondary user, a channel availability response based on the assigned EIRP. The managing block entity may be configured to determine available frequency information based on one or more parameters associated with the secondary user. The channel availability response may comprise a frequency on which the secondary user can transmit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: FEDERATED WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel Jay Macmullan, Sepehr Mehrabanzad
  • Patent number: 11647449
    Abstract: A method within a network of facilitating identification and usage of alternative communication channels by a wireless device operating using a first communication channel is described. The method enables use of as secondary channel by non-primary users of that channel for prescribed times and within prescribed geographic locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Patent number: 11637890
    Abstract: Method of dynamically assigning storage locations starts with the processor receiving a signal from a first client device associated with a first user. Processor stores a current location of the first client device in a historical database and determines whether a home location data associated with the first user matches the current location. In response to determining that the home location data associated with the first user does not match the current location, processor determines whether the first user has been associated with the current location at a greater frequency than the home location data based on the historical database. In response to determining that the first user has been associated with the current location at a greater frequency, processor updates the home location data associated with the first user to the current location. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Baron, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Samuel Young, John Krzemien
  • Patent number: 11638254
    Abstract: A multi-subscriber identification module (multi-SIM) device includes plural SIMs, plural radio frequency (RF) resources, and a baseband processor. The plural RF resources are assigned to the plural SIMs, a first portion of the RF resources supporting use of a non-limited channel configuration and a second portion of the RF resources supporting use of a limited channel configuration according to a radio resource control (RRC) protocol. The baseband processor, in response to RF resource use request intervals of two or more target SIMs among the plural SIMs overlapping each other, control the RF resources to support the use of the non-limited channel configuration for one of the two or more target SIMs and to support the use of the limited channel configuration for the other of the two or more target SIMs, based on information regarding networks respectively corresponding to the two or more target SIMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-kyoung Lee, Chul-kyung Kim, Jong-wook Nam, Young-yong Lee
  • Patent number: 11638322
    Abstract: A method for setting a value of an inactivity timer for transitioning between states of a data session in a network comprising a first entity and a second entity providing network analytics is provided. The method includes obtaining, by the second entity, input data comprising communication description information for at least one user equipment (UE), and providing, by the second entity to the first entity, output analytics generated based on the input data, the output analytics comprising UE communications analytics for each data session where the output analytics are used to determining whether to update a value of an inactivity timer for a data session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Gutierrez Estevez, Kisuk Kweon, Joan Pujol Roig, Sangsoo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11632678
    Abstract: Improved techniques are provided for managing and optimizing network resources and spectrum access in a Self-Organizing Network (SON). A Spectrum Access System (SAS) collects network-related information from a plurality of network sources, such as base stations and user equipments (UEs), to perform optimization and organization across different networks, network operators, and network technologies. In some embodiments, the SAS may use the network information and a Radio Environment Map to optimize TDD synchronization in the SON. In other embodiments, the SAS may use the network information to populate a global Neighbor Relation Table. The SAS also may use the network information to optimize one or more network parameters, such as Physical Cell Identities or Root Sequence Indexes, antenna parameters, transmit power levels, handover thresholds, channel assignments, and so on, for use in the SON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FEDERATED WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel Jay MacMullan, Deepak Das, Osama Tarraf, Pirouz Zarrinkhat
  • Patent number: 11627544
    Abstract: Devices including a wireless receiver, e.g., indoor CBSDs, in a local network, e.g. a campus network, monitor for wireless signals conveying synchronization information. Different devices in the local area network may detect wireless signals conveying synchronization information from one or more different sources. A device detecting a source of synchronization information generates and sends a timing signal accuracy report to a switch, e.g. an intelligent IDF switch, included in the local network. The switch receives multiple timing signal accuracy reports, selects a “best” sync source and designates the particular device, e.g., particular CBSD, which reported the best sync source, to be the current master timing device for the local network. The switch communicates the address, e.g., IP address, of the selected master to the devices within the local network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Patent number: 11627433
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain functionality of the vehicle. A device may include both RF antenna(s) and magnetic antenna(s) for determining a location of a mobile device relative to the vehicle. Such a hybrid approach can provide various advantages. Existing magnetic coils on a mobile device (e.g., for charging or communication) may be re-used for distance measurements that are supplemented by the RF measurements. Any device antenna may provide measurements to a machine learning model that determines a region in which the mobile device resides, based on training measurements in the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brent M. Ledvina, Robert W. Brumley, Robert William Mayor, William J. Bencze, Alejandro J. Marquez, Shang-Te Yang, Xu Chen, Indranil S. Sen, Mohit Narang
  • Patent number: 11622238
    Abstract: A mobile device may be configured to perform concurrent Satellite Positioning System (SPS) operation and wireless communications when uplink signals transmitted by the mobile device interferes with the reception of SPS signals in one or more frequency bands. The mobile device may determine if the SPS receiver has already acquired SPS signals and is in a tracking state. If the SPS receiver is not in a tracking state, an SPS acquisition procedure is initiated before the wireless communication session is initiated. The SPS acquisition procedure is performed until the SPS receiver reaches a tracking state, or until a timeout is reached. Once the SPS receiver is in a tracking state, the wireless communication session may be initiated, during which the SPS receiver is controlled, e.g., to perform signal blanking, measurement exclusion, or disable SPS reception, to mitigate interference with SPS signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jordan Cookman, Liang Zhao, Angelica Wong, Krishnaranjan Rao, Chang Row
  • Patent number: 11617090
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for performing dynamic spectrum allocation and state shifting in order to provide high quality stateful services to user equipment (“UE”) that access the stateful services from different network locations. The dynamic spectrum allocation and state shifting may include tracking mobility of a UE accessing a stateful service using a first allocation of spectrum from a first Radio Access Network (“RAN”), predicting continued stateful service access via a second RAN, determining latency requirements of the stateful service, selecting a second allocation of spectrum at the second RAN with a frequency range that provides a first amount of latency, transferring the stateful service state to a Multi-Access Edge Computing (“MEC”) location that provides a second amount of latency for services accessed via the second RAN such that the first and second amounts of latency satisfy the performance requirements of the stateful service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bhumip Khasnabish, Rohit Shirish Saraf
  • Patent number: 11611893
    Abstract: An intelligent distributed antenna system is disclosed which improves upon known distributed antenna systems particularly with respect to identifying failures or anomalies in the system. The disclosed system includes a signal source, a master unit, and one or more remote units each connected to antennas for transmitting radio frequency signals to terminal units and each connected to the master unit through fiber. The remote units, the master unit, or both may include power signal readers. The remote units may be configured to determine a point of failure in the system based on the power measured from reflected signals. The master unit can be in communication with the remote units to generate alarms and reports as well as to control the system in response to detection of a failure or anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fiplex Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Ricardo Matias de Goycoechea
  • Patent number: 11611382
    Abstract: Technologies for attestation techniques, systems, and methods for determining an individual's movement are provided. The individual's movement is determined by passive indoor positioning technology using channel state information (CSI). A first set of data associated with an impulse or frequency response determined using channel state information (CSI) may be received from a Wireless access point located in proximity to a monitored space. A second set of data may also be received from an Internet of Things (IoT) device located in proximity to the monitored space. The first set of data may be compared to the second set of data. A profile database may be updated to replace the first set of data with the second set of data when the first and second sets of data are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: AERIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Michel Allegue Martinez, Negar Ghourchian, David Grant, Francois Morel, Pascal Paradis-Theberge