Patents Examined by Khawar Iqbal
  • Patent number: 11284254
    Abstract: Systems and methods that are particularly well-suited for service-based core network endpoint authentication are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a network node implementing a second network function in a core network of a cellular communications system comprises receiving, at a main service of the second network function, a request from a first network function for a desired service via Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Representational State Transfer (HTTP/REST) signaling. The request comprises information that identifies one or more delegate endpoints of the first network function that expose one or more delegate services, respectively, of the first network function for providing the desired service using one or more different communication styles. The method further comprises initiating the desired service using a selected delegate endpoint from the one or more delegate endpoints identified by the information comprised in the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Göran Rune, Jari Arkko, Jesus-Angel de-Gregorio-Rodriguez, Göran Eriksson, Magnus Westerlund
  • Patent number: 11275852
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to establish information to be provided to a base station device, before activation of a first encryption scheme, cause transmission of the information, in a form encrypted using a second encryption scheme, to the base station device, and begin, after causing the transmission of the information, using the first encryption scheme in communication between the apparatus and the base station device
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Esa Mikael Malkamaki, Tero Henttonen
  • Patent number: 11265674
    Abstract: A method and system of creating microlocation zones by defining virtual boundaries using a system of one or more transmitters and receivers with one or more spatially-correlated antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric John Smith, Raymond Michael Stitt, Warren Guthrie, Steven Petersen
  • Patent number: 11252542
    Abstract: The present invention utilizes an application which is loaded onto the mobile devices of attendees who will be attending festivals, concerts, etc, where the large crowds attending the event will create wireless and mobile network congestion. The application will enable the attendees and promoters to communicate without the need for a network connection. Communication and instructions are communicated between attendees and promoters using encoded network signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Glen Wheeler
  • Patent number: 11240664
    Abstract: The electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a housing structure; a user interface located in the housing structure; a network interface that can be connected by wire or wirelessly; a wireless communication circuit configured to communicate with an external device by using frequencies between 10 GHz and 100 GHz; a processor located in the housing structure and operatively connected to the user interface, the network interface, and the wireless communication circuit; and a memory located in the housing structure and operatively connected to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghun Lee, Chounjong Nam, Doosuk Kang, Sunkey Lee, Bokun Choi
  • Patent number: 11240366
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be used for providing a location of a device during an emergency communication. These systems and methods may include operations (e.g., performed by a processor), including detecting that an emergency service call has been started at the device, and initiating a digital assistant in response to detecting that the emergency service call has been started. The systems and methods may include operations including parsing audio during the emergency service call to determine a request for location information, and providing audio, by the digital assistant during the emergency service call, indicating a location based on location information determined at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Gareth L. E. Bridges, Frank Bruce Shearar
  • Patent number: 11234132
    Abstract: Examples include solutions to onboard and seamlessly grant access to a network device to connect to an enterprise network. A request including enterprise credentials is received to access the enterprise network. The enterprise credentials are verified with an enterprise authentication server. A mapping between the device and the verified enterprise credentials are stored at an entitlement configuration server. The entitlement configuration server passes the enterprise credentials to a wireless controller upon receiving a request from the wireless controller for the device to access the enterprise network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Jerome Sicard, Marta Vieyros Lorenzo
  • Patent number: 11229069
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of routing a call in a femtocell network are disclosed. In one example call routing method, a call is originated from the mobile station via a femtocell access point and the call is transmitted to a femtocell gateway, a mobile switching center and a carrier gateway server and onto an enterprise gateway server to obtain policy information. A routing policy is determined based on the obtained policy information and the call is routed to its destination based on the routing policy. The call may be routed via local media from a femtocell access point directly to the enterprise gateway server. The call routing procedures may implement the Iuh protocol and/or the session initiation protocol (SIP) for call signaling in the femtocell network. Call routing may be performed in a wireless cellular communications network or an enterprise network environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TANGO NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Patricia A. Landgren, Andrew Silver
  • Patent number: 11218592
    Abstract: An example electronic apparatus for providing voice recognition control includes a display; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to obtain a content including at least one object; distinguish the at least one object within the content; display an instruction text in correspondence with a non-text object among the at least one object; and select the non-text object corresponding to the instruction text if a voice command corresponding to the instruction text is inputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang-Youn Kim, Won-Nam Jang
  • Patent number: 11218866
    Abstract: A system for publishing digital content is described which, in one embodiment, includes a beacon device associated with a first user configured to transmit identification information and information indicating its current position. A browsing device includes a display configured and adapted to display to a second user a representation of a local geographical area, and to selectively display to the second user content information associated with the first user, based at least in part on whether the location of the beacon device is within the local geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intertrust Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Jarl A. Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11206580
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus, the method including obtaining, by a session management function entity, parameter information, determining, by the session management function entity, an access technology type for a protocol data unit (PDU) session of a terminal device according to the parameter information, and sending, by the session management function entity, indication information to an access and mobility management function entity, where the indication information indicates the access technology type of the PDU session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiangwei Ying, Yanmei Yang, Zhenglei Huang, Hui Ni
  • Patent number: 11206640
    Abstract: Access and user association can be enabled for private and hybrid public/private 5G new radio (NR) networks. More specifically, this disclosure discloses how to perform initial access, user authentication and association, Internet protocol (IP) address assignment for routing, and/or mobility management. The aforementioned process can facilitate the user equipment (UE) to engage in peer-to-peer, local breakout, and private/public network communication, via a local manager (LM) access point, without requiring connectivity to a public radio access network (RAN) or core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Salam Akoum, Milap Majmundar, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11190474
    Abstract: Among other disclosures, a method may include collecting historical communication data and personal data relating to a portion of a plurality of communications, a sender of one or more of the communications or one or more recipients of the communications. The method may include depositing the collected data into a repository of historical communication data and personal data. The method may include presenting one or more items in the repository on a mobile device, in response to user behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Brezina, Adam Smith, Jeffrey Bonforte
  • Patent number: 11184751
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to device-to-device (D2D) and, more particularly, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in which an efficient ranging protocol allows efficient ranging-assisted vehicle positioning. A vehicle transmits a first slot ID in a first control period, to indicate a first time slot for transmitting a first ranging signal in a ranging cycle including a plurality of time slots. The vehicle transmits the first ranging signal in the first time slot in the ranging cycle. From a second vehicle, the first vehicle receives a second ranging signal in a second time slot that is different from the first time slot in the ranging cycle. The first vehicle determines a first time-of-arrival (ToA) of the second ranging signal when received by the first vehicle, and transmits the first ToA in a second control period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Libin Jiang, Junyi Li, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Shailesh Patil
  • Patent number: 11178509
    Abstract: Determining qualified devices using zone information is disclosed. Traffic data associated with the presence of a set of devices at a location is received. At least some of the devices included in the set are qualified as qualified devices. A set of sessions associated with at least some of the qualified devices is crated. Information associated with the set of sessions is provided as output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: WeWork Companies Inc.
    Inventors: Dexin Wang, Patrick B. Philips, Michael A. Minar
  • Patent number: 11172422
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for the intelligent, automated, and dynamic selection of anchor evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”) for Next Generation Node Bs (“gNBs”) in a Non-Standalone (“NSA”) wireless network environment. An eNB may be selected as an anchor eNB based on distance to a particular gNB, and one or more sectors of the anchor eNB may be selected as anchors based on coverage areas associated with the sectors. Sectors of additional eNBs may be identified based on frequent handovers between the identified sectors of the anchor eNB and sectors of the additional eNBs. Selected eNBs and/or sectors may be notified of the designation as an anchor, and may thus provide gNB carrier information to connected User Equipment (“UE”), which may facilitate the connection of such UEs to the gNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Yasir Nazir Bhatti, Shaun Robert Pola, Gunjan Thakkar
  • Patent number: 11153708
    Abstract: A method and system of creating microlocation zones by defining virtual boundaries using a system of one or more transmitters and receivers with one or more spatially-correlated antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric John Smith, Raymond Michael Stitt, Warren Guthrie, Steven Petersen
  • Patent number: 11140733
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system and a system thereof. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart, car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A communication method and device in a V2X communication system are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngjoong Mok, Hyunjeong Kang
  • Patent number: 11140515
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a user interface for relative device positioning. The program and method provide for receiving a first location of a first device associated with a first user, and a second location of a second device associated with a second user, the first and second users corresponding to contacts in a messaging application; providing an indication of the second location to the first device, and an indication of the first location to the second device; determining that a direction in which the first device is pointing corresponds to the second location, and that a direction in which the second device is pointing corresponds to the first location; providing, in response to the determining, a notification to at least one of the first device or the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Voss, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Daniel Rakhamimov, Laurent Desserrey, Susan Marie Territo, Edward Koai
  • Patent number: 11134148
    Abstract: A method is proposed for operating a mobile computing device. A potentially dangerous condition for a user of the mobile computing device is detected according to its position. A responsiveness level of the user (to recognize the potentially dangerous condition) is determined according to one or more operative parameters of the mobile computing device. One or more interactive functionalities of the mobile computing device are controlled in response to the potentially dangerous condition according to the responsiveness level. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a mobile computing device for implementing the method is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alessandro Luigi Chiantera, Gianluca Bernardini, Andrea Tortosa, Damiano Bassani, Paolo Ottaviano, Marco Mulas, Elisabetta Rinaldi