Patents Examined by Kevin Kim
  • Patent number: 11978349
    Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11979435
    Abstract: A relay server 31 includes: a detection unit 31A that detects a failure of a subscriber server 21; and a relay unit 31B that relays call connection requests 51, 52, and 53 to another network in which corresponding subscribers may possibly be accommodated according to connection attempt network information indicating networks to attempt a call connection, when a failure of the subscriber server 21 is detected by the detection unit 31A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kurita
  • Patent number: 11979849
    Abstract: A mobile device supports positioning with positioning reference signals (PRS) on multiple beam by dividing the PRS processing into two separate modes, an acquisition mode and a tracking mode. In acquisition mode, the mobile device performs a fast scan of all of the beams from a base station transmitting PRS using less than the full set of resources for the PRS, i.e., less than the full bandwidth and/or less than the full number of repetitions of the PRS. The mobile device may select the best beams to use for positioning, e.g., based on signal strength metric. In tracking mode, the mobile device tracks the PRS from only the selected beams using the full set of resources for the PRS. The mobile device may return to acquisition mode after a predetermined number of positioning occasions or if the selected beams are no longer valid due to movement or change in conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mukesh Kumar, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Siddhant
  • Patent number: 11979177
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a data signal comprises a processing circuit configured to generate the data signal, the data signal comprising a sequence of a first signal edge of a first type, a second signal edge of a second type, and a third signal edge of the first type, the first signal edge and the second signal edge being separated by a first time period corresponding to first data to be transmitted, and the second signal edge and the third signal edge being separated by a second time period corresponding to second data to be transmitted. An output interface circuit is configured to output the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elan Banin, Eytan Mann, Rotem Banin, Ronen Gernizky, Ofir Degani, Igal Kushnir, Shahar Porat, Amir Rubin, Vladimir Volokitin, Elinor Kashani, Dmitry Felsenstein, Ayal Eshkoli, Tal Davidson, Eng Hun Ooi, Yossi Tsfati, Ran Shimon
  • Patent number: 11974213
    Abstract: During integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node setup, a distributed unit (DU) is configured to transmit synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for inter-IAB-node discovery and measurement. In parallel to SSB transmission by the DU, user equipment (UEs) and IAB-mobile terminations may be configured to search for and measure on SSBs at specific time instance. In the IAB case, the DU and MT configuration are coordinated to enable inter-node SSB measurements subject to the half-duplex constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11956755
    Abstract: A method for transmitting paging signaling includes: detecting whether a channel in which a paging signaling to be sent is located is idle; when the described channel is not idle, abandoning sending the paging signaling on a preferred time domain location, and determining an alternative time domain location; and sending the paging signaling on time frequency resources of the alternative time domain location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11950112
    Abstract: A UE for beam failure detection is provided. The RF signal processing device of the UE assesses a first radio link quality according to a first BFD-reference signal (BFD-RS) set including at least one reference signal, communicating with a plurality of transmission/reception points (TRPs) which include at least a first TRP and a second TRP. The processor of the UE is coupled to the RF signal processing device. When the first radio link quality is below a threshold, the processor generates a first indication, wherein the first indication is a first beam failure instance (BFI) or the first BFD-RS set. The processor enables a first timer and a first counter according to the first indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Li-Chung Lo, Chien-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11949583
    Abstract: A process includes enforcing compliance of a compute appliance to a reference operating state for the compute appliance. The compute appliance is part of a cloud-based computing system. Enforcing compliance with the reference operating state includes, responsive to a startup of the compute appliance, the compute appliance determining an actual compute state of the compute appliance. The actual compute state includes an actual physical topology placement of a hardware component of the compute appliance. Determining the actual compute state includes determining the physical topology placement of the hardware component. Enforcing compliance with the reference operating state includes verifying whether the actual compute state complies with the reference compute state. The verification includes comparing the actual compute state to the reference compute state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Dwight D. Riley, Robert W. Noller
  • Patent number: 11950177
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an blocking delivery service is provided. The service may use an identifier of a source end device, destination address information associated with a destination end device, and configurable criteria as a basis to block delivery of application service layer data. The service may be configured to apply to end devices based on an addressing scheme of the service. The service may be configured on a network device that provides an application service. The service may block delivery without the use of class of service or subscriber provisioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lim, Craig Barth, Brian Olson, Ye Huang, Joseph Lee, Tony Ferreira
  • Patent number: 11939859
    Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing performance based condition monitoring to determine health condition of wellsite equipment. A method may include operating a piece of equipment at an oil and gas wellsite by performing a plurality actions by a component of the piece of equipment, and generating a plurality of sensor measurements, wherein each sensor measurement is indicative of a corresponding action. The method may further include receiving the plurality of sensor measurements by a processing system, calculating a condition indicator for each component based on a corresponding sensor measurement, recording each condition indicator over a period of time, and determining condition of the piece of equipment based on at least one of the condition indicators recorded over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geir Kroslid, Johan Lindal Haug
  • Patent number: 11936542
    Abstract: A method of solving a problem of a network and an electronic device for performing the method are provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor. The processor may determine a representative cause representing a cause of each of anomaly samples of a quality indicator indicating a quality of the network. The processor may perform a time-series analysis on an indicator associated with the representative cause. The processor may propose a solution corresponding to the representative cause and a result of the time-series analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangkyu Park, Jonghwa Park, Youngsuk Sun, Yunju Lee, Panhyung Lee, Hakyung Jung
  • Patent number: 11930422
    Abstract: A method performed by a mobile terminal is provided for supporting positioning of the mobile terminal. The method includes receiving a defined filter pattern from a network node in a communications network or another node of the communications network, discovering identities of a plurality of reference devices based on signals received from the plurality of reference devices, filtering the identities of the plurality of reference devices to obtain a subset of identities of the plurality of reference devices that each satisfy the defined filter pattern, and reporting information on the subset of the identities of the plurality of reference devices to the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Åke Busin, Fredrik Gunnarsson
  • Patent number: 11930354
    Abstract: Methods and systems for anonymously tracking and/or analyzing flow or movement of individual subjects and/or objects using mobile identifying information. In particular, there is provided a computer-implemented method for enabling anonymous estimation of the amount and/or flow of individual subjects and/or objects, referred to as individuals, in a population moving and/or coinciding between two or more tempo-spatial locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MOBITRAX AB
    Inventor: Leonard Kåberg Johard
  • Patent number: 11919447
    Abstract: The invention disclosed in this application is design to detect and alarm if any of the vehicles being transported on a vehicle carrier shift in such a manner that the vehicle on the carrier might impact the underside of a highway overpass. The invention also includes a continuous measurement of the carrier height relative to the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Barton Edward Viers
  • Patent number: 11916714
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for control signaling. The communication apparatus comprises circuitry, which, in operation, generates a transmission signal comprising a first signal field which comprises a first part and a second part, each comprising an equal number of data bits, wherein the data bits of the second part of the first signal field does not comprise version independent bits; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmit the generated transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11916814
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data in a power line communication network, the method being executed in a network node device configured so as to communicate in a plurality of separate frequency bands with a second network node device, the method comprising steps for selecting a transmission mode for transmitting in a frequency band called “extended frequency band” comprising at least two separate frequency bands chosen from among the plurality of separate frequency bands; distributing data to be transmitted in the extended frequency band into a plurality of groups of data, each group being assigned to just one of the at least two separate frequency bands; and transmitting the data in each of the plurality of groups of data in the separate frequency band to which the group is assigned, the step for distributing the data being carried out by a data interleaver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS
    Inventors: Jérôme Barois, Julien Barthes, Clément Terrien
  • Patent number: 11917602
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) are provided. The UE may receive, from a base station, an indication of an emission specification for each of one or more beams, the emission specification for each of the one or more beams being associated with an NTN. The UE may communicate, with the base station via the one of the one or more beams, based on the emission specification for the one or more beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Liangping Ma, Xiao Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 11916752
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains an indication of a network event predicted by a routing engine for a network. The device initiates monitoring of one or more network paths associated with the network event, to determine one or more states of the network. The device makes a comparison between the one or more states of the network and a set of one or more constraints. The device provides a prediction cancelation notification to the routing engine, based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Grégory Mermoud, Vinay Kumar Kolar, Pierre-André Savalle
  • Patent number: 11917513
    Abstract: A load control system may include one or more wireless control devices that may be associated via a programming device. An identifier for a first wireless control device may be determined in response to an actuation of a button on the first wireless control device. An association between the first wireless control device and a second wireless control device may be defined at the programming device. The identifier for the first wireless control device may be transmitted to the second wireless control device, which may cause the first wireless control device to enter a sleep mode. The first wireless control device may enter the sleep mode after an actuation of a button on the first wireless control device. The identifier may be determined in response to the actuation of the button on the first wireless control device and/or prior to the first wireless control device entering the sleep mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Timothy Mann
  • Patent number: 11910350
    Abstract: Improved positioning resolution and latency may be achieved via physical layer signaling between a mobile device (UE) and a base station. The physical layer procedures may aid target UEs in enhancing their positioning accuracy and latency, and/or reducing network overhead while boosting UE power efficiency. Accordingly, a base station may receive, via physical layer signaling from a UE, a request for positioning-resources, for example in response to a determination that current positioning-resources of the UE need to be adjusted. The base station may responsively transmit, via physical layer signaling to the UE, an indication of adjusted positioning-resources, and may optionally transmit an indication of corresponding allocated grant-resources. The base station may receive, via physical layer signaling from the UE, positioning information resulting from positioning measurements performed by the UE according to the adjusted positioning-resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang